I'm never moving again. It feels so good to say that! I was born in New York, and since then I've lived all over the country-in Atlanta, Montana, New Mexico-and that doesn't include all the places I've lived temporarily on movie sets in the U.S. and around the world. But after I bought my current house in Los Angeles a few years ago, I made the choice to put down roots here and was surprised to find a real comfort in the idea that this is where I am going to live until I die. California is my home.
California is an incredibly diverse and culturally rich place, but one that has already been impacted profoundly by the climate crisis, with the unprecedented (and near-apocalyptic) fires, floods, storms, and weather we've experienced in recent years. It is also among the top oil-producing states in the country. Because of the amount of drilling that happens here, almost three million Californians live near oil wells-a disproportionate number of them people of color. The pollution created by those wells affects air quality and can cause birth defects, heart disease, respiratory illnesses, and aggressive cancers. The oil industry refers to the areas near wells as "sacrifice zones"-as if there were an acceptable human or environmental cost associated with drilling for oil.
The people in these communities have been fighting back, though, by seeking restrictions on drilling and pushing for legislation to safeguard their health and well-being. In 2022, California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1137, which demanded that the wells inside or near areas where people live be made safe and issued a ban on new wells being drilled within 3,200 feet of communities. It created the single largest health and safety buffer against Big Oil in any oil-producing state in the country.
This story is from the May 2024 edition of Harper's BAZAAR - US.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the May 2024 edition of Harper's BAZAAR - US.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
Tipping POINT
When the PROGRESSIVE A-LIST CLIENTELE of the fashionable workout BALLET BEAUTIFUL learned that its FOUNDER was MARRIED to an ARCHITECT of the MAGA BLUEPRINT to impose an ultraconservative social agenda, PROJECT 2025, many felt SHOCKED and even BETRAYED
SABATO's Way
hor GUCCI creative director SABATO DE SARNO, remaking the storied Italian HOUSE for a NEW ERA isnt about OUTRUNNING its PAST. ts about MAKING some HISTORY ofhis OWN.
Inner DRIVE
KENDRICK LAMAR has consistently PUSHED the ART of HIP-HOP to NEW HEIGHTS. In advance of his SUPER BOWL performance, he gets PERSONAL with friend and fellow artist SZA
NECK Tech
When it comes to COSMETIC TREATMENTS, the face may get all the attention, but the NECK deserves love too. Novel TECHNOLOGIES that go beyond creams deliver LIFTED, SCULPTED necks—WITHOUT SURGERY.
PLAN de PARIS
EXPLORE the CITY of LIGHT through the eyes of our FASHION EDITORS
FREE Spirits
BOHO is BACK in a big way. We tapped some of the ARCHITECTS of the STYLE's REVIVAL over the past three decades to tell us HOW WE GOT HERE.
Like a VIRGO
This month, our columnist DEREK C. BLASBERG talks to poet CLEO WADE and reality icon NICOLE RICHIE about the mysteries of the ZODIAC, the power of the INVISIBLE, and why having a VOICE starts with being a good LISTENER
This Is HOW YOU #WINWITHBLACKWOMEN
The BLACK WOMEN who organized the HISTORIC 44,000-person fundraising Zoom for KAMALA HARRIS explain how COMMUNITY, FRIENDSHIP, and a SHARED SENSE of UPLIFT got the job done
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND
Channel the boldness and dynamism of the city that never sleeps with the Twilight high jewelry suite by MARLI New York.
PLAYLIST
“I have a 10-HOUR PLAYLIST of all the songs that have ever INSPIRED me,” says SZA, “that over TIME have SHAPED me and played a part in BUILDING my IDENTITY.”
