Guest commentary: Big promises mean nothing when one of the state’s major climate policies acts against its own stated goals. 📝 María Arévalo & Katherine Lee
, giving them an opportunity to expand their operations at a time when we need to be building a future beyond oil.and limited access to high-paying jobs and healthy food, pollution from the refinery is making people sick. Chevron continues to put their profits over people and health through dangerous flaring, oil spills and pollution.
Pixley is surrounded by nearly 30 dairies with about 140,000 cows, outnumbering residents 32 to 1. Under the LCFS program, the dairies are paid to produce “biomethane” – in other words, they receive government funds to capture methane, a combustion fuel that still produces greenhouse gases, while also adding more cows to factory farms that further pollute nearby areas.
Technology promoted by corporations as a “solution” to these problems has only added to our concerns. The state’s heralded fuel standards policy may make dollars for big dairies, but it does not make sense for California communities.
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