Residents urge council to reject fuel transfer project, raise records and health concerns over Sweetwater Road site

Dozens of public speakers used the council’s public-comment period to press elected officials to oppose a planned fuel transfer station and to demand production of public records tied to a controversial Sweetwater Road gas station project.

Multiple speakers representing neighborhood groups, environmental health coalitions and residents said the proposed USDG fuels transfer facility — described in public comments as a rail-to-truck transfer station on West 18th Street — would concentrate diesel particulate emissions near homes and schools. “This Texas based company's project would concentrate diesel particulate matter emissions from truck trips in Westside National City, where there is already a significant pollution burden,” Claire Gubner, associate director at Olive Gardens and…