News reports are now coming in about our 10th Anniversary of the Explosion Event last weekend, and they highlight the amazing amount of work that TRAA had done during that time. Both articles here discuss the bill by Rep. Maxine Waters (HR 10441) and the petition by the NRDC, CBE and CAC to the EPA to demand that the HF be removed from refineries nationwide.
From the South Bay Daily Breeze: 10 years after Torrance Refinery explosion, pressure for a ban on MHF builds
As the South Bay community marks the 10th anniversary of an explosion at Torrance Refinery, advocates and elected officials are renewing their efforts to ban modified hydrofluoric acid at the facility — including via federal legislation.
Also reporting on our event last weekend, LegalPlanet asks Why Isn’t Hydrofluoric Acid Banned at Oil Refineries? In it, author Brennon Mendez reports This past Saturday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced that she would re-introduce and seek additional co-sponsors for her 2024 bill, HR 10441, banning the use of hydrofluoric acid (HF) at new oil refineries and requiring existing refineries to stop using HF within 5 years of the bill’s passage. Rep. Waters (CA-43) made that announcement to an adoring crowd of environmental justice advocates from the South Bay, gathered by the Torrance Refinery Action Alliance to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the February 2015 explosion that nearly released tons of deadly HF into neighboring communities, which would’ve caused mass casualties.
Also see this report from KTLA 5 News about our event.
Torrance Refinery Action Alliance 