California mom, 30, accused of stabbing her three children to death appears in court to plead not guilty to carjacking a truck during her attempted escape
Liliana Carrillo, 30, appeared in a Kern County courtroom wearing a blue jail uniform with a cast on her left arm for a hearing that lasted less than a minute
She entered the pleas to four charges: two of taking a vehicle without the owner s consent, one of carjacking, and one of attempted carjacking
Her bail was set at $2 million and she is scheduled to appear in court again there on May 7
Carrillo s three children were found dead on Saturday by their maternal grandmother in her apartment in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles
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Bakersfield, California, Kern County seat and heart of the Kern School District. (Photo by AAARoads via Wikipedia)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to reinstate a streamlined process for obtaining local oil drilling permits, angering environmentalists and prompting concerns about the health impact on nearby minority communities.
The new process amends an existing county ordinance approving new oil and gas exploration and the drilling of 2,697 new oil wells in a 3,700 square mile section of the county. The area in question is predominately used by farmers for agriculture and under the newly approved process, no further environmental reviews would be required for projects going forward.
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A coalition of community and environmental groups on Wednesday sued Kern County over its adoption of an ordinance to fast-track permitting for more than 40,000 new oil and gas wells over the next 15 years.
On Monday, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a single environmental impact report and other conditions that they say satisfy legally required environmental reviews and public comments. It affords companies a seven-day turnaround time for new permits, rather than a process that can take years.
“This ordinance is a disaster for public health in Kern County, particularly for low-income communities and . communities of color that live next to oil wells and are already harmed daily by fossil fuel pollution,” said Chelsea Tu, senior attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, which represents three groups from towns in Kern County the Committee for a Better Arvin, Committee for a Better Shafter, and Comité Progreso de Lamont in the lawsuit.