This town is the first in America to ban new gas stations – is the tide turning?
by Dominic Rushe in Petaluma, California from Environment | The Guardian on (#5NE1E)
A movement in California seeks a moratorium on new pumps - and a transformation of the US transportation system
Emily Bit remembers a time when she didn't feel the constant threat of climate change. Her family lives in American Canyon, in southern Napa county, California, a state now being hit by record high temperatures and devastating wildfires. It didn't used to be this bad," she said.
These days her family has to evacuate their home every summer. Two of her friends lost their homes in Paradise, the town consumed by the 2018 Camp fire disaster, the deadliest in California history. Last year, a wildfire burned the nature reserve behind her local school until it was entirely black. It was like something from a dystopian novel".
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