EcoWatch: Two thousand eight hundred high-spirited and sunflower-carrying demonstrators--numbers estimated by the Richmond Police Department (RPD)--converged in front of the main gate to Chevrons refinery in Richmond Saturday to demand that the oil giant address ongoing health and safety concerns, stop processing extreme crude like tar sands, and cease its political and taxation manipulations.
The sweeping, colorful protest commemorated the explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery last year on August...