![]() Hanford, Avenal and Armona are separated by about 30 miles each. Most of the plantiffs were PG&E employees. In 2006, 1,500 plaintiffs split a $295 million settlement with PG&E over chrom-6 groundwater contamination. The Kettleman City waste site has been hammered with multiple violations. California recently proposed the nation’s first drinking water limits on chromium-6, which is likely to be carcinogenic to humans. It was often used to reduce rate of rust in the water tanks used to cool the natural gas that was traveling from Texas to California for PG&E. There are reports that hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium-6, made famous by Erin Brockovich and the town of Hinkley, CA) has seeped into the water supply. All three have had significant environmental issues. ![]() So yesterday I drove west from Fresno down the 41 to Avenal – a town of 9,000 that sits less than 5 miles away from the 15 th largest oil field in the state (Chevron Kettleman Oil Field), the Waste Management hazardous waste site and a PG&E gas compressor station. They suggested I head west if I wanted to talk to people affected by challenges such as contaminated water. ![]() Learn more from KQED’s Quest program, “The Heat is on for California Wines.” Of course, that could change: global warming is already having an impact on the wine industry in California, including where different varietals of grapes will thrive. On the east side of Fresno, they said they faced relatively few environmental challenges. Owned by Bret and Eliana, who inherited their land from Bret’s raisin farming father, it is now a 200-acre winery. Today Jena blogs from Fresno and Avenal.Īfter meeting with Assemblymember Perea, I headed to Engelmann Winery on his recommendation. Editor’s note: Jena Price, CLCV Legislative Affairs Manager, is spending a few weeks on the road meeting with lawmakers in Central and Southern California in their districts to learn more about the environmental issues that are most important to them and their constituents.
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