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Not everyone is happy about the state’s new climate change laws. Governor Jerry Brown signed two climate change bills into law last month, renewing…

Reporter Robert Rogers has been covering Richmond for years, first for the blog Richmond Confidential and now for the Contra Costa Times. That means he…

All week long we've been playing this sound, and asking you to guess what exactly it is and where exactly in the Bay Area we recorded it.This auditory…

August 6 marks the one year anniversary of the Chevron refinery fire in Richmond. The fire, caused by a leak in a 40-year old pipe, sent a plume of smoke…

Last month’s explosion at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond had the East Bay in shock.One of the questions on peoples’ minds was: how could this…

If you saw the lead story of today's San Francisco Chronicle, you would have seen a photo of a long line of people outside a lawyer's office in Richmond,…