Bay Area air quality regulators announced this week that Chevron was hit with a $900,000 fine for air pollution monitoring failures at its Richmond refinery.

Bay Area Air District officials said that portions of Chevron’s air monitoring system weren’t “configured to detect the full range of potential emissions and were limited in how much emissions they could measure.”

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.