Corrupt BAAQMD Executives Stall Caps On Bay Area Air Pollution With Last Minute Proposal

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District BAAQMD which is responsible for regulating air quality in the bay area had a meeting on June 21, 2017 of the board which represents elected officials in the district to vote on a cap of pollutants from the oil refineries and other polluters. In order to stall the vote on the cap the management of the BAAQMD released a last minute new proposal to increase pollutants by 25%. This would be enough to build another refinery in the district as speakers pointed out.The management executives also did not even inform the members of the board of the proposed changes until the same day. The executives of the BAAQMD have previously bullied and fired staff whistleblowers Michael Bachmann and Sarah Steele who were trying to prevent the illegal destruction of pollution control documents by the top managers.

The BAAQMD bosses have also colluded with developers to prevent the proper protection in areas like Hunters Point Bay View and Treasure Island where the Navy, CCSF and California have allowed the falsification of tests on the enviromental dangers and where health and safety inspectors and whistleblowers have been fired.

The district bosses also allow Chevron, Shell, Tesoro and other polluters to self monitor the air quality of the pollutants and this has been challenged by Dr. Larry Rose who is the former Medical Director of Cal-OSHA.

Community and labor people spoke out about the issue of caps and the increasing health and safety problems and climate dangers by the use of fossil fuels.

Using the management's last minute proposed changes to increase the level of pollutants that would amount to the construction of another refinery in the bay area the board voted to postpone the vote on caps until the September meeting. The United Steel Workers Local 5 which represents the refinery workers at the affected plants was in favor of the caps that had originally been proposed.

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http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Workers-Union-Local-5-Support-Letter.pdf

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https://youtu.be/YEb7zex3b6k

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https://youtu.be/QuMHn1FqDAE

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https://youtu.be/W9cbCtKBlkQ

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