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DESCRIPTION:9/9 Richmond Forum-Our Polluted Air, BAAQMD Whistleblower Workpace Bullying 
 Firings, Indpendent Monitoring And Corruption\nEducational Forum\nSaturday 
 September 9, 2017 1:00 PM\nRichmond Public Library Community Room\n325 
 Civic Center Plaza\nRichmond\n\nThe Bay Area Air Quality Management Board 
 is supposed to be doing oversight of or air and regulatory control of toxic 
 chemical and radioactive  polluters in \nthe bay area. The rising epidemic 
 of cancers and other respiratory illnesses continue to climb at the same 
 time that oil refineries have one dangerous toxic release after another. 
 The agency continues to allow the polluters to monitor themselves and when 
 there have been major fires such as the Chevron refinery explosion and fire 
 that forced evacuation of over 20,000 people Chevon said it had no real 
 information on what was released and the executives of the BAAQMD accepted 
 the fact that there was not proper monitoring of the deadly toxic 
 releases.\nAt the same time the Executives also have targeted staff workers 
 who were trying to protect the critical documentary records of fines and 
 violation of pollution releases. These documents were being destroyed and 
 when Michael Bachmann the manager of Documents and his assistant Sarah 
 Steele sought to protect these documents there were harassed, bullied and 
 terminated by BAAQM executives. There is now a lawsuit to re-intstate 
 them.\nNone of the members of the BAAQMD board who are all elected 
 officials  have publicly called for California Attorney General Xavier 
 Becerra to conduct an independent investigation and prosecute these 
 executives for criminal collusion to destroy protected documents. \nThis 
 corruption and capture of the agency was also reflected in the BAAQMD 
 executive putting off limits of pollutants and instead proposing a 25% 
 increase at a past meeting. The brazen and arrogant contempt for the the 
 public and the health and safety of the residents must be called to 
 halt.\nWe will also hear about the fired Tetra Tech whistleblowers who 
 exposed serious health and safety problems at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard 
 and Treasure Island.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr. Larry Rose, former Chief Medical 
 Officer Cal-OSHA\nSteve Ingraham, long time environmental activist\nSteve 
 Zeltzer, KPFA WorkWeek Radio\nDavid Anders, Lawyer for Hunters 
 Point/Bayview/Treasure Island Health and Safety Whistleblowers\n\nSponsored 
 by\nUnited Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/08/18801315.php
SUMMARY:Our Polluted Air, BAAQMD Whistleblower Workpace Bullying Firings & Indpendent Monitoring
LOCATION:Richmond Public Library Community Room\n325 Civic Center Plaza\nRichmond
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/08/18801315.php
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