Take the Bay Area city of Richmond, where Chevron maintains an oil refinery. Under the “Incidents” section for the refinery’s Wikipedia page: “1989 explosion and fire,” “1999 explosion and fire,” “2012 fire,” “2014 incident,” “2016 incident.” In the wake of the 2014 incident, Chevron brought something else to the town: a news outlet, called the Richmond Standard. In 2022 they launched Permian Proud, a news outlet for the area between Texas and New Mexico around Lubbock, Midland and Odessa.

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