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Focuses on a Chemical Accident Investigation Report by the United States Environmental Protection Agency which details the causes of an incident at Tosco Refining and Marketing Co.'s refinery in Martinez, California in 1997. Causes of the industrial accident outlined in the report; Availability of the report.

Reports that the California Air Resources' (CARB) move to crack down on emissions from sport utility vehicles (SUV) could influence the United States Environmental Protection Agency's next round of clean-air proposals. Reduction of the SUV emissions to passenger car levels; Reaction of the automobile industry to the CARB plan.

States that the San Francisco Bay Area in California has to clean up its air quality, after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found it guilty of violations of the federal health standard for ozone in 1996 and 1997. Comments from Randy Wittorp of the EPA's Region 9 Office; When the EPA adopted a stricter ozone standard.