Hear from Cesar Aguirre, the 2024 Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism. Living in Bakersfield, Aguirre works to protect frontline communities from oil and gas pollution. As the oil and gas director at the Central California Environmental Justice Network and a co-founder of California Youth vs. Big Oil, Aguirre was instrumental in getting lifesaving oil and gas policies signed into law. These include 3,200-foot setbacks between communities and oil and gas wells and speeding cleanup of idle oil and gas wells.