#richmond-ca — Public Fediverse posts

📣 Attention Richmond! Developers are proposing a dangerous carbon waste dumping scheme that would extend across the Bay Area, affecting communities and ecosystems along the way.

If you live in Richmond, help us urge the city to reject the proposed project and its infrastructure: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/urge-richmond-city-council-to-say-no-to-bay-area-carbon-dumping-scheme?source=direct_link&referrer=group-san-francisco-baykeeper

#richmond #richmondca #richmodncalifornia #carboncapture #carbonpipeline #pollution #fossilfuels #bayarea

Pictured: A carbon pipeline rupture from the documentary Chasing Chimeras (used with permission)

Attention, Richmond! The final United Heckathorn Superfund site community meeting is coming up on Wednesday, 1/28.

The discussion will focus on long-term cleanup plans & climate vulnerability. Come with questions for the experts!

Learn more & register: https://usepa.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/G-XAq38nSv2yRZKIC53KPg#/registration

#richmondca #richmond #unitedheckathorn #superfund #superfundsite #superfundcleanup #toxicwaste #bayarea #pollution #climatechange

I completely fail to understand the rationale behind when they use Avenir and when they use Frutiger on this sign.

*This* is the kind of sign issue we need an executive order to fix.

#nps #nationalparks #typography #RosieTheRiveterWWIIHomeFrontNationalHistoricalPark #richmondCA #sfba

As the Richmond Shoreline Alliance has pointed out, a full cleanup of the United Heckathorn Superfund site is needed to resolve the problem at its source--and avoid compounding consequences later https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/05/cleanup-of-toxic-richmond-waterway-creates-divisions/
#richmondca #richmond #pollution #superfund #superfundsite #epa

The United Heckathorn Superfund site in Richmond continues to house dangerous pollutants, including DDT, right along #SFBay shoreline. It's time to clean it up!

This Thursday, join us at EPA's latest community discussion on Zoom. The meeting will focus on the health & ecological risk assessments of the site.

We encourage all Richmond residents to join the meeting and put pressure on EPA officials to properly clean up the pollution!

Register here: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0902440

#sanfrancisocbay #richmond #richmondca #richmondcalifornia #pollution #superfund #bayarea

Residents of Richmond, a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, are growing increasingly concerned about a string of mysterious
—and often violent—bird deaths that seem to have no obvious explanation.

The deaths all seem to follow a similar pattern:
After a bird lands on a specific stretch of power line,
residents hear a loud popping sound, akin to a firecracker, reports KGO-TV’s Dion Lim.

Then, they see the creature’s body fall to the pavement.

A doorbell camera captured one of the strange fatalities on video, too.

The inexplicable incidents have killed mourning doves, European starlings, crows and other common backyard species.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj6Lc1nNrM

#RichmondCA
#BirdDeaths

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-are-dying-mysterious-violent-deaths-in-this-northern-california-neighborhood-and-no-one-can-explain-why-180986623/

Attention, Richmonders! The United Heckathorn Superfund site is a major source of pollutants contaminating #SFBay & the Richmond shoreline. The site was supposed to be cleaned up in the 90s, but that effort failed.

The EPA is working on a plan to get the site cleaned up and is holding a series of meetings to raise awareness and hear community concerns.

The next meeting will be held on Zoom on Wednesday, 5/21 from 6:30-8:00pm. The discussion will focus on why the first cleanup was ineffective.

Visit the link below to learn more and to register!

#richmondca #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #bayarea #pollution #superfund #superfundsite

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0902440

Attention #Richmond residents! A Superfund site known as #UnitedHeckathorn is a major source of DDT and other pollutants contaminating the Bay and shoreline. The site was supposed to be cleaned up in the 90s, but that effort failed. We want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

On 4/23 the #EPA will host a Zoom call to engage with the community where they will describe why the last cleanup failed and the plan to move forward.

Please bring your questions for EPA and state officials! https://usepa.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/8SlhuBdVTZ-xuoEGnusbZA#/registration

#richmondca #superfund #superfundsite #bayarea #sfbay #sanfranciscobay

Another #oilspill in the Bay courtesy of Chevron in #RichmondCA -- the refinery's latest addition to a long list of pollution violations 😡 https://richmondconfidential.org/2024/11/15/richmond-chevron-diesel-oil-spill-three-barrells/ #fossilfuels #bayarea #richmond #chevron

Point Molate has been called "the most beautiful part of SF Bay no one's ever heard of" -- and now it's going to be a park!

Spread the word; we want more people to visit this special place:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/point-molate-richmond-park-19579585.php

#pointmolate #richmondca #eastbayparks
#sfbay #bayarea

After last Sunday''s show, a member of our extended #SonsOfTheDesert family mentioned (over pizza at Bronco Billy's) Tepco Beach in #RichmondCA. Way back before environmental laws, a ceramics manufacturer dumped extra or non-QA-passing pottery into the bay, and now there's a whole beach of broken and sea-worn old plates and mugs. We went and checked it out. It makes a very nice sound when you walk on it.

If you want to find it, it's basically next to the Richmond Costco.

It's written up in Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tepco-beach

Absolutely appalling report about possible radioactive dumping at the #AlbanyBulb, César Chávez Park, and other shoreline locations:
“The fact that DTSC has sat on these documents for 44 years — shameful doesn’t begin to describe it,” said Janet Johnson, co-chair of the Richmond Shoreline Alliance.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-14/bay-area-radioactive-waste #dtsc #cesarchavezpark #berkeleyca #richmondca #stauffer

My friend Jeff who teaches art in a public school in Richmond, CA asking the important questions.

#sfbayarea #teachers #RichmondCA

Hey #RichmondCA #Oakland #BikeTooter people -- does the RSR bridge 8am closure right now mean you have to get ON to the bridge by 8 or OFF of the bridge by 8? Considering a long-way bike commute to SF sometime

Across the SF Bay, and with a 1956 #ShellOil base map, is Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond.

East Bay Petrofuture--66m sea level rise on a vintage gas station map.

More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com

Base map courtesy of Rumsey Map Center

#sanFrancisco #OaklandCA #BerkeleyCA #AlamedaCA #ucberkeley #RichmondCA #SFBayBridge #SFBay #petrofuture #climatearson #solarpunk #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers

A contractor's review of #Chevron Richmond's spill investigation raised skepticism at Monday's meeting: "When the fox is watching the henhouse, it's not a terribly big surprise that they're cleared of all wrongdoing,” said Baykeeper attorney Ben Eichenberg: https://richmondconfidential.org/2023/07/18/richmond-chevron-diesel-spill-public-skeptical-investigation/ #richmondca #oilspill #chevronrichmond

Cool photos of an #osprey nest in Richmond from our amazing volunteer photographer Robb Most

#wildlife #birding #richmondca #sfbay #sanfraniscobay #eastbay

The Petrofuture map of the East Bay...a vintage Shell Oil map base with 66m sea level rise...the highest level of rise estimated by the IPCC.
1956 base map from the David Rumsey Map Center 
#oakland #berkeley #alamedaCA #EastBay #RichmondCA #AlbanyCA #SanFrancisco #sfBayBridge #SFbay #sfBayArea #MapsAsArt #mapart #VintageMaps #retrofuture #petrofuture #climateArson #solarpunk #SeaLevelRise #seaLevelRiseMaps #climateChange #maps #cartography #clifi #ClimateArt #conspiracyofcartographers

Richmond is planning to build housing on a site that UC Berkeley's Dr Kristina Hill describes as a "world-class scary cornucopia of #chemicals, many of which will never degrade... It just seems to me on its face to be an injustice and, frankly, stupid to put housing on a #contaminated site."

But communities and regulators are pushing back!

Check out the full story from @kqednews ⤵️ https://www.kqed.org/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development

#richmond #richmondca #toxicsite #campusbay #environmentaljustice

Power is now out in #Richmond. It’s not really raining, it’s relatively calm outside, and there are only occasional wind gusts. It was way worse last week. No update from PG&E yet other than that between 500 and 4999 people are affected.

#RichmondCA #BayArea #BayAreaWX #Storm #AtmosphericRiver #WX #SFBA

Winner’s name pulled out of a bag after Bay Area city council race ends in a tie

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Winner-declared-in-tied-Richmond-city-council-17635599.php

Not my council seat, but my city. #RichmondCA #SFBA