Criminal investigation at Chevron refinery, Pollutants allegedly routed around monitoring devices

Criminal investigation at Chevron refinery, Pollutants allegedly routed around monitoring devices by Jaxon Van Derbeken, September 22, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal enforcement unit opened an investigation in early 2012, more than two years after the local inspectors made their discovery, according to air-quality officials and others familiar with the probe. The investigation is still open, and Chevron employees have been interviewed. … The chairman of the Bay Area air-quality district’s board, Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, said that if Chevron intended to deceive regulators, its actions raised “extremely serious” questions about the company’s credibility. “That’s a criminal act, intentionally bypassing the monitoring,” Gioia said.

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