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Environmental

Mar. 17, 2015

As oil boom hits North America, proposed Bay Area refinery upgrade under attack

Environmentalists sue Contra Costa County claiming it failed to analyze the environmental impacts of a Phillips 66 refinery project , including claims it's tied to a bigger plan to use more trains to bring oil into the state.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


On the surface, a project to upgrade a Phillips 66 Co. refinery in the small Bay Area community of Rodeo doesn't involve using trains to bring in oil - a mounting controversy in California that has spawned several lawsuits around the state.


But environmental and labor groups are suing Contra Costa County, which recently approved the refinery upgrade, claiming it ignored the project's role in t...

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