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  • Permit OK'd after donation to Gov. Davis

    07/30/2002 7:02:34 AM PDT · by Battle Hymn of the Republic · 57 replies · 652+ views
    Mercury News ^ | 07/30/02 | By Paul Rogers
    <p>State officials allowed one of California's largest polluters to increase toxic discharges into San Francisco Bay shortly after the company donated $70,500 to Gov. Gray Davis, a Mercury News investigation has found.</p> <p>The decision by a key state water board in June 2000 came just four months after the board had refused to relax the pollution permit at Tosco's Avon refinery east of Martinez -- and after the company had tried unsuccessfully to get the rules eased for seven years.</p>