California Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Bakersfield

The Tricor oil refinery in Oildale, California is visible as people walk near Panorama Drive, at the edge of a hilltop residential neighborhood in Bakerfield, California. Fossil fuel infrastructure in Arvin, California. Kern County, whose population is over half Latinx, is home to a bulk of California's oil production and agriculture. Facing the simultaneous challenges of fossil fuel racism and being in the center of the climate crisis, Kern County farmworker communities face interconnected and deliberate capitalist crises on all fronts.