More than a dozen groups push the lead agency to provide better protections for clean air in Stockton, California.
The Golden State Natural Resources’ proposed wood pellet project, sprawling across numerous counties in California, Nevada, and Oregon, aims to log large areas of California’s forests and construct two of the nation’s largest wood pellet mills to ship pellets out of the Port of Stockton to be burned for fuel overseas.
This project is opposed by more than 185 groups because of its serious health and safety risks to the environmental justice community of South Stockton, its significant climate and air pollution, and its threats to forest wildlife and forest carbon storage. This purely commercial wood pellet venture is being sold to the public — falsely — as a wildfire protection tool…