Restoring Richmond’s Tree Canopy
W hat is the solution to Richmond’s environmental woes? Trees, some say. More than one hundred trees have been planted in Richmond soil in the last month and last weekend nearly 60 volunteers transplanted 30...
Tag Archives: Environment
Unwrapped: Mixed reactions to new lunch
On July 1, new U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations kicked in changing what kids eat nationwide. The federal regulations, spearheaded by first lady Michelle Obama as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010,...
County seeks tighter safety measures in wake of new findings
As Richmond Fire Department and Chevron firefighters complete joint search-and-rescue training operations at the Chevron refinery this week — a sign of cooperation between the two agencies at a time when residents and regulators are...
Green Drive Expo brings clean energy cars to Richmond
Environmentally conscious car owners showed off their wheels at Saturday's Green Drive Expo in Richmond.
Teens help Richmond break coastal cleanup volunteer records
More than 800 volunteers, many of them teenagers, broke coastal cleanup records in Shimada Park Saturday.
New fire, now out, flares at Chevron plant as residents are treated for respiratory ailments
A new, smaller, fire flared up Wednesday afternoon near the location of the leak that sparked an inferno at Chevron’s 2,900-acre refinery Monday evening, as hundreds of locals sought medical treatment for eye and respiratory...
Volunteers help restore native species to the Richmond Bay Trail
It’s the first Saturday in July, and like every first Saturday of the month, Tom and Jane Kelly are out on the Bay Trail down Rydin Road, off Central Avenue in Richmond, working with volunteers...
Richmond packaging company confronts Styrofoam head on
In the food packaging business, polystyrene has become a four-letter word, but the food industry simply doesn’t have a cost-effective, eco-friendly answer to the plastic that Dow Chemical introduced to Americans in the early 1940s....
Funding priorities for mitigation fee revenue to remain largely unchanged
North Richmond’s share of landfill mitigation funding for 2012-2013 is likely to be doled out in proportions roughly similar to previous years, the mitigation committee suggested in a meeting last Friday. County leaders offered an...
Coastal cleanup in Richmond next weekend
Last year, on California’s annual coastal cleanup day, about 600 volunteers picked up 75,000 pounds of trash off of the Contra Costa coastline, said Linda Hunter, executive director of The Watershed Project. On Saturday, Sept....
Retail plastic bag ban discussed at community meeting
The city of Richmond is considering an ordinance that will prohibit the distribution of plastic bags and allow retail establishments to charge customers a fee for paper bags. The city’s Environmental Initiatives department, which is...
City may owe Chevron $26 million
The oil company filed a lawsuit to reduce the property tax paid over three years.
Trashing the trash
Thirteen hundred volunteers pitched in around Contra Costa County Saturday to collect more than 3,700 pounds of garbage at the annual California Coastal Cleanup.
