
Residents of Fuller Acres and Lamont plan to continue challenging an air permit for Kern Energy’s proposed hydrogen project after a regional hearing board narrowed the scope of their petition last week, leaving a more technical dispute over how the project’s emissions were calculated, which will be heard in October.

Residents from Fuller Acres and Lamont urged the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District’s Southern Region Hearing Board on August 12 to consider their decades of experience living near the Kern Energy refinery as it weighs an appeal to the company’s proposed hydrogen project.

Bakersfield’s proposed RISE General Plan lays out a vision for a greener, more connected and more equitable city by 2045.