
Kathleen RonayneThe Associated PressThree members of an advisory group tasked with helping a Central Valley air district reform a flawed pollution credit program resigned Thursday, July 14, saying not enough was being done to right past harms to public health.“We can no longer be party to a sham process that gives the appearance of addressing systemic problems while sidestepping accountability, sweeping historical failures under the rug and focusing only on how to generate more credits within a broken system,” they said in a resignation letter to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.The district oversees air quality and pollution in an eight-county region in California’s Central Valley, a hub for oil and gas drilling that has some of the worst air qua