Small towns get ready to fight big oil over air quality in Central Valley
Small towns get ready to fight big oil over air quality in Central Valley By Ingrid Lobet Replay Video UP NEXT Oil and gas producers could find themselves increasingly on the defensive in California now that two communities near the heart of the state’s largest concentration of oilfields have won inclusion under its community air protection law on Thursday. Residents of Arvin and unincorporated Lamont, both in rural Kern County, have been organizing for three years with the goal of gaining status under Assembly Bill 617, a law intended to force California’s regional air ...
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