Air monitoring

• West Berkeley Community Monitoring Project - WBCMP

Editorial Comment

• Cancer Risk in West Berkeley
  L A Wood, Berkeley Daily Planet, January 29, 2008
• West Berkeley's Air Quality: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
  L A Wood, Berkeley Daily Planet August 28, 2007
• Berkeley's Odious Burnt Pot Handle Smell
  L A Wood Berkeley Daily Planet March 29, 2005
• Pacific Steel Casting: At What Cost?
  L A Wood, Berkeley Daily Planet June 20, 2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: ZAB ’em!
  L A Wood, Berkeley Daily Planet, May 9, 2006
• Shut Down Incinerator
  L A Wood,  Berkeley Voice, June 10, 1999
• After 25 years, a Berkeley polluter gets its wrist slapped
  By Heather Staley, Published in Terrain Magazine, Summer 2005

Pacific Steel Casting Protest March VIDEO
Feb, 21, 2009

Foundry Odor Nuisance Issues

• Pacific Steel Casting Odor Nuisance
  L A Wood, February 12, 2008
• Council Considers Whether Pacific Steel Constitutes a ‘Nuisance’
  By Riya Bhattacharjee, Berkeley Daily Planet, February 12, 2008
• Odor Taskforce Recommendation
  Supplemental Agenda Berkeley City Council Regular Meeting, February 12, 2008
• Pacific Steel Workers Urge City to Defend Plant’s Presence in Berkeley
  Riya Bhattacharjee February 15, 2008
• Pacific Steel to reduce odors: Berkeley council withdraws plan to dub firm public nuisance
  Doug Oakley / Daily News Staff Writer
• Community Questions Berkeley Mayor About Pacific Steel Agreement
  Riya Bhattacharjee, Berkeley Daily Planet, July 11, 2008
• PSC stink: Pacific Steel Cited For Noxious Odor After Neighbors Complain
  MATTHEW ARTZ, Berkeley Daily Planet, April 1, 2005
• Activist Demands Scrutiny of Foundry
  Marc Albert,  Berkeley Voice, May 27, 1999
• Neighbors Raise Stink over Odors: Air Quality Officials Downplay Dispute over Pacific Steel Castings Berkeley Judith Scherr,  Daily Planet, June 13, 1999
• City Council Calls for Inquiry into Local Steel Plant's Emissions
  Christine Fu,  Daily Californian, September 16, 1999
• Pacific Steel Casting Remains Under Scrutiny
  Judith Scherr,  Berkeley Daily Planet, September 22, 1999
• Draft Report Not Released to Public
  Judith Scherr,  Berkeley Daily Planet, January 5, 2000
• Odorous Order: Air Quality Board Places New Conditions on Foundry
  Judith Scherr, Berkeley Daily Planet, January 10, 2000
• Foundry continues to concern neighbors
  Judith Scherr , March 17, 2000
• Berkeley Children Deserve Clean Air (Community March)
  Berkeley, CA, February 21, 2009

Use Permit - Zoning

• Modification to the Use Permit (8957) UP # 06 10000045 for Pacific Steel Castings, 1421 Second Street, Berkeley. L A Wood, Zoning Adjustments Board, City of Berkeley May 10, 2006
• Zoning Adjustments Board Question and motion to hold over Pacific Steel Castings
• Re: Appeal to the request for modification to the Use Permit (8957) UP #06 10000045 for Pacific Steel Casting located at 1421 Second Street in Berkeley.Dear City Council: L A Wood Appeal to Berkeley City Council. May 29, 2006

Misc:

• "Waiving the Rules" Air quality board lets Bay Area Companies poison the sky
  By A.C. Thompson, September 21, 2001
• Brown Act, California Public Records Act and misconduct charges regarding the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Hearing Board
• Motion to Terminate UnConditional Order of Abatement for PSC - Dissenting Argument
  Antoinette W. Stein, DATED: 11-30 2000
• Pacific Steel Records Request
• Pacific Steel Casting Floor Plan 1990
• Pacific Steel Casting Floor Plan 2006
• Pacific Steel Castings Sand Reclaimer diagram
• Pacific Steel Health Hearing Packs Center
  Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet, January 11, 2008

Lawsuit History

• CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT by PACIFIC STEEL CASTING WORKERS for UNPAID WAGES
  Law Offices of Timothy P. RumbergerDecember 23, 2011
• Lawsuit filed against Pacific Steel Castings, April 21, 2008
  
• Pacific Steel Appeal of Court Decision Begins
  Riya Bhattacharjee, Berkeley Daily Planet, April 18, 2008
• Berkeley Lawyer Files Class-Action Suit against Pacific Steel
  Riya Bhattacharjee, Berkeley Daily Planet, April 25, 2008
• What's that smell? Class action seeks answer
• West Berkeley residents demand end to toxic emissions from Pacific Steel facilities
  Doug Oakley, Contra Costa Times April 30, 2008
• Steel plant settles suit... Pacific Steel agrees to pay $150,000 in fines
  Doug Oakley / Daily News May 2007
  
• Pacific Steel Settles with Air Quality District
  Riya Bhattacharjee May 4, 2007 Berkeley Daily Planet

Health Issues

• Continuing Assessment of Pacific Steel Casting, Berkeley, California
  Michael P. Wilson, Ph.D, MPH Assistant Research Scientist Center for Occupational and Environmental Health School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley, California October 18, 2006
• Toxicological Analysis of Chemicals Used at PACIFIC STEEL CASTING COMPANY Selina Bendix, Ph.D. R.E.A. Prepared for Department of Health & Human Services City of Berkeley 9 November 1990
• Pacific Steel Prepares Health Risk Report
  Riya Bhattacharjee July 17, 2007