How a California Clean Energy Program Became a Boon for Big Dairies

How a California Clean Energy Program Became a Boon for Big Dairies

Maria Arevalo remembers Pixley as a lovely town in California with clean air and water when she moved there in 1967. “It was very peaceful,” the 76-year-old grandmother tells Sentient in Spanish. But starting in the 2000s, dairies set up operations, bringing in a stench of manure and swarms of flies. According to Arevalo, she also noticed more people experiencing asthma and other respiratory illnesses, which she believes are linked to pollution …