” Many residents there suffer from disproportionately high rates of cancer, asthma and other health problems.”
Of course there is no evidence that a powerplant has anything to do with this.
I was going to post the obvious Liberal slant in the article that makes the casual reader say, “See, it was hurting those poor, poor people, it’s good we shut it down. The paper says it was making people sick (see Harry Reid) and it’s bad for the environment.”
The premise is a lie, the reason is faulty and the outcomes are uncertain, at best, but keep repeating the same obvious falsehoods, it becomes truth. Goebbels is here.
It's traditionally a heavy industry area. I grew up in SF on Bernal Heights, a hill near Potrero Hill. On top of my hill, I could see all the smokestacks churning out smoke from the industrial area to the east. One seemed to be the powerplant, which sometimes was belching flames perhaps to burn off gases. Not only were there industrial plants forging metals and plating stuff, there were the shipyards that heavily polluted the soil and air. Me and my friends used to wander through the area, seeing the insides of slaughter-houses and factories for fun. A lot of the industry disappeared from SF over the last 50 years and went elsewhere.