Industry, with help from the state, has chosen to downplay or ignore risks to both workers in the fracking industry and locals who live near oil and gas sites, treatment plants, and sewage systems.
Heat waves, drought and wildfires – abnormal is the new normal in California. Weaning the state off fossil fuels will help tackle the interlinked threats.
An issue that has always been on the sidelines in presidential campaigns may be coming to the forefront as Joseph Biden seeks to cast climate change, not violence, as the real and immediate threat to the suburbs.
The state is one of four to pass bills amidst the pandemic imposing harsh penalties for trespassing on oil pipelines or other “critical infrastructure.”
Washington County residents say their neighbor is noisy, disruptive and a polluter. Their neighbor is a compressor station, and it's a quarter-mile away.
