Kettleman Hills Facility

The farmworker town of Kettleman City is a violation of environmental justice and the civil rights of the people of color and Spanish-speaking residents of Kettleman City. The residents of Kettleman City continue to suffer high rates of unexplained birth defects, infant deaths and childhood cancer, yet the expansion of the landfill would expose residents to decades of increased toxic pollution including breathing the emissions from hundreds of toxic waste trucks every day.
DTSC issue a draft permit to expand the hazardous waste landfill in the farmworker town of Kettleman City despite of the many violation this polluter has been fine.Kettleman City Fighting to stop Expansion of Chemical Waste management hazardous Landfill