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P.S. This marks the start of my Wednesday columns. So I'll be trying to write for Wednesday AND Sunday. Shwew! The ground beneath the Rosedale refinery is shifting.   And I’m not just talking about the toxic soup pooling dangerously close to drinking supplies. There’s a new sheriff in town, so to speak, and pollution is Public Enemy No. 1. That’s too bad for refinery owner Big West of California, now seeking to expand. While state regulators, in a kind of Rip Van Winkle haze, have (until recently) all but ignored millions of gallons of MTBE, benzene, gasoline and diesel spilled or leaked at the refinery, Kern County regulators are now wide awake. Kern County planners are reviewing Big West’s environmental study on its expansion and have become keenly interested in The Californian’s recent revelations of past spills and lackadaisical cleanup and enforcement efforts, said Planning Department head Ted James. That includes...
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