Bay Area leaders hold onto renewable energy dreams

Bay Area leaders hold onto renewable energy dreams

RICHMOND — For more than 100 years, the Chevron refinery has operated off the San Francisco Bay in Richmond. Now, city officials are looking to evolve their city’s business footprint toward greener power. They’re not alone. Opened in 1902, the refinery has led some to make concerted efforts to distance the city of more than 100,000 people from the fossil fuel industry, most recently through a short-lived ballot measure supported by activists who…