The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Favors More Energy Costs for All Californians
July 23, 2021
By Ronald Stein, P.E.
BAAQMD actions on Rule 6-5 would increase energy imports, generate higher worldwide emissions, and increase energy costs, for all Californians.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) voted overwhelmingly on July 21, 2021, to require refineries including the Chevron and PBF facilities in the East Bay to reduce the amount of air pollution they emit by installing expensive particulate scrubbers.
The proposed version of BAAQMD Rule 6-5 will barely reduce particulate emission reductions while raising the nation’s highest energy prices even higher, showing racial bias by impacting lower income African American and Hispanic residents the most.
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