Ten years after a disastrous refinery explosion in Richmond, California, a group of organizers envisions a just transition from fossil fuels.
] home and seeing a cloud of dark smoke above our house. My mom comes outside, and she’s looking up and we’re likeBrandy Khansouvong. Courtesy: Asian Pacific Environmental NetworkMy mom and auntie don’t speak much English — their first language is Laotian. So it was hard for me to explain to them what was going on. I told my mom to close all the windows because Chevron’s burning.
at some point in their lives. My sister and I have had asthma our entire lives. I can’t even quantify how many hours I spent in the hospital as a kid with asthma complications.My parents came to Richmond to escape the war in Laos. They wanted to find a safe place to raise their kids, to live a better life.
A few people in my family have respiratory issues. The elderly people in my family, my mom and my auntie, can’t breathe and they’re always sick. They depend on me to take care of them and take them to the doctors. Now I have a 7½-year-old son. He’s in summer school near the refinery and I worry about him breathing in that air.There was even a study done by a team at UC Berkeley demonstrating that pollution from Chevron alsoAngulo:[through tax revenue]. We are toxically dependent on Chevron.
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