What are Community Emissions Reduction Programs (CERP) – and why are environmental justice advocates working to reform them?
The city of Shafter, California sits between pistachio, almond, potato and cotton fields – and fields of bobbying pumpjacks. A community of 18,000, Shafter residents face a combination of pesticide exposure and bad air quality due to the industrial agriculture and oil and gas fields that surround their homes. “Emissions from vehicles and semi trucks…