This year’s Hispanic Heritage Month theme is Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together, and one local environmental justice advocate is supporting people living near potential pollutants.
- Video shows Cesar Aguirre testing the oil well at Truxtun Park for methane leaks
- Cesar Aguirre, a community advocate, raises awareness about environmental violations in Bakersfield.
- Aguirre works with IVAN or Identifying Violations Affecting Neighborhoods to connect local leaders and agencies with community members with concerns about environmental issues in their neighborhood.
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If you live in Kern County, seeing an oil well is not uncommon, but what you might not realize is these wells release a gas called methane, and one local community advocate works in low-income communities to make sure those gases don’t reach unhealthy levels.