Background
Communities of color are disproportionately zoned and selected as sites for fossil fuel infrastructure projects given how dangerous and unhealthy constant exposure is (Pellow, 2020). This is particularly evident in the cluster of refineries along the Bay Area coast, which are located near frontline communities and have been active as early as 1896–such as the Phillips 66 San Francisco Refinery–and can process up to 120,200 barrels of crude oil per day (California Energy Commission, 2023).
