Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
Feb. 19, 2021
Bay Area herring fishers sue Chevron over oil spill
The lawsuit alleges some 700 gallons of oil spilled into the waters of San Pablo Bay on Feb. 9, directly into some of the Bay’s best herring spawning grounds, affecting the fishermen’s livelihood for years to come.
San Francisco fishers filed a proposed class action against Chevron Corp. saying hundreds of gallons of oil spilled from a refinery into San Francisco Bay this month.
Filed Tuesday in Contra Costa County by a nonprofit group of commercial fishers known as the San Francisco Herring Association, the lawsuit accuses the operators of the Chevron refinery in Richmond of putting "profits over safety and environmental protection" and negl...
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