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"content": "\u003cp>Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, California became the first state to pass a plastic bag ban. It’s one of at least 12 states that now have some form of ban on single-use plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of a loophole in its initial ban that allowed grocers to charge for thicker plastic bags, California still dumped 231,072 tons of plastic grocery and merchandise bags in landfills in 2021, according to the state’s recycling agency, CalRecycle. That was a sharp increase from the year the ban took effect — and nearly 100,000 more tons than in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials are saying that there’s a perception that plastics — especially plastic bags — can be easily recycled. But they say that this is not the reality and that consumers have been deceived for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalRecycle has not identified facilities that recycle plastic bags in the state of California,” the agency told NPR this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123619/california-sues-exxonmobil-for-misleading-public-on-plastic-recycling\">filed a suit \u003c/a>on Sunday alleging that ExxonMobil promoted recycling while knowing that it was technically and economically challenging and wouldn’t make much of a dent in the plastic waste problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of California’s new ban and similar measures:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why did California’s initial bag ban backfire?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s ban on thin single-use bags had a loophole that let grocers sell shoppers thicker plastic bags for a small fee: just 10 cents. In theory, the heavier bags were reusable. But in practice, they became a more substantial form of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A plastic bag has an average lifespan of 12 minutes and then it is discarded, afflicting our environment with toxic microplastics that fester in our oceans and landfills for up to 1,000 years,” Sen. Catherine Blakespear, an author of the new ban, said in \u003ca href=\"https://sd38.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-signs-legislation-ban-plastic-bags-grocery-store-checkouts\">a news release\u003c/a> issued after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ban into law on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial ban was also undermined by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it was still unknown how the coronavirus spread, shoppers were barred from bringing reusable bags into grocery stores out of fear that their bags might be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California kind of took one for the team as the first to pass a statewide ban on plastic bags,” Melissa Valliant, communications director for the advocacy group Beyond Plastics, told NPR. “It ended up providing a lesson for other state and even local governments to learn from and to not allow loopholes like thicker plastic bags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the new California law do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting on Jan. 1, 2026, customers at most grocery stores, convenience stores, and other retailers will have three main options: Pay at least 10 cents for a paper bag; use a reusable bag; or hand-carry their purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can also sell the canvas-style reusable bags in other areas of the store,” Nate Rose of the California Grocers Association, which supports the new ban, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the bags many shoppers are already accustomed to bringing with them to carry their groceries,” Rose added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And starting in 2028, stores’ paper bags will be required to be composed of at least 50% postconsumer recycled materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 70 organizations supported the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/these-are-the-2024-california-bills-gavin-newsom-has-signed-into-law-and-the-ones-he-has-vetoed\">member station LAist reports\u003c/a>, saying it “would prevent plastic waste, which releases toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1536x951.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, has filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, alleging that the oil and gas corporation misled consumers by telling them that recycling was a viable solution for plastic waste. In 2021, some 231,072 tons of plastic grocery and merchandise bags went to landfills, according to the state’s recycling agency, CalRecycle. \u003ccite>(Muhammad Owais Khan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s so bad about plastic bags?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite industry claims about their recyclability, the thin bags are notoriously difficult and expensive to process and recycle. Instead, they often wind up in landfills, where they will persist for centuries, or in incinerators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a sense of the scale of the problem, consider Philadelphia. An evaluation commissioned by the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.phila.gov/media/20230428110156/PlasticBagBanReportApril2023.pdf\">said last year (PDF)\u003c/a> that in Philadelphia, “an estimated 1 billion single-use disposable plastic bags are used annually,” adding to waste, litter and emissions challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipal systems, the evaluation stated, “are unable to recycle plastic bags and the soft material causes equipment jamming at recycling centers, leading to dangerous and costly repairs that account for 150 hours of lost staff time and $300,000 in city costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, restrictions like bag bans “can be expected to eliminate almost 300 single-use plastic bags per person per year, on average,” according to an analysis by Environment America and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund that was \u003ca href=\"https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Plastic-Bag-Bans-Work-January-2024.pdf\">published in January (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the plastic industry say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bag manufacturers are against bans on their products and they insist that the thin plastic film bag, made of polyethylene, makes more sense than the alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A polyethylene bag is 100% recyclable and can be recycled into itself, is produced with low carbon emissions, and the PE is made domestically from natural gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly \u003ca href=\"https://bagalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FCR-NJ-Plastic-Retail-Bag-Demand-1.pdf\">said in a 2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conversely, PP [polypropylene] bags are produced overseas and imported, produce higher emissions than film bags, and are not recyclable. In fact, 99% of PP is virgin and does not contain post-consumer recycled material,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: While single-use bags can technically be recycled, it’s not an easy or cost-effective process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent they get recycled, a lot of polyethylene plastics get turned into low-grade materials. You can’t take a plastic bag and then make another plastic bag with the same properties out of it,” chemistry researcher John Hartwig of the University of California, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5123535/as%20John%20Hartwig,%20UC%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20Henry%20Rapoport%20Chair%20in%20Organic%20Chemistry.\">said in 2022\u003c/a>, as he worked on ways to reuse the ubiquitous material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance and another industry group, the Plastics Industry Association, did not respond to NPR’s request for comment on the new California ban before this story was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006492\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006492\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman loads groceries in plastic bags into her car at a Safeway store on March 28, 2007 in San Francisco. The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco approved groundbreaking legislation to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets in about 6 months and large chain pharmacies in about a year. The ordinance is the first such law in any city in the US and has been drawing global scrutiny this week. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Should people just use paper bags?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When bans on single-use plastic bags haven’t also included a fee on paper bags, their use has soared. In Portland, Ore., for instance, paper bag use \u003ca href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2012/10/portland_needs_to_expand_the_p.html\">shot up by nearly 500%\u003c/a> after the city enacted a ban (and before the state imposed its own ban with a fee for paper alternatives).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005945,science_1994014,news_11936511\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar dynamic has played out in Philadelphia, where the proportion of supermarket shoppers using at least one paper bag tripled after a plastic-bag ban took effect without a fee for paper. A recent bid to \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-plastic-bag-ban-paper-bag-fee-2024.html#:~:text=A%20month%20ago%2C%20Philadelphia%20City,imposed%20citywide%20plastic%20bag%20ban.\">tack on a 15-cent fee for paper bags\u003c/a> was axed by a pocket veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paper bags are easier to recycle than plastic, and more degradable. But environmental advocates want retailers and shoppers to move away from single-use bags of any type. They argue that a few minutes of convenience isn’t enough to justify cumbersome networks of bag collection, processing and production needed to recycle single-use bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole goal is to get people to switch from disposable options — especially plastic, but disposable options altogether — to reusable and refillable options,” Valliant said. “Because ultimately that is going to be the most sustainable and the best for both environment and human health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which 12 states have banned plastic bags?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2024, Colorado and Rhode Island enacted statewide bans on single-use plastic bags, joining 10 states that already had restrictions in place: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their core, such bans are attempts to shift responsibility for plastic waste from consumers upstream — to retailers and, by extension, plastic producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same week California’s new ban became law, the state opened another front in its battle with plastic waste by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123619/california-sues-exxonmobil-for-misleading-public-on-plastic-recycling\">filing a lawsuit against oil and gas giant ExxonMobil,\u003c/a> a leading producer of the polymers used to make single-use plastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123619/california-sues-exxonmobil-for-misleading-public-on-plastic-recycling\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta accused ExxonMobil of profiting from “convincing consumers that they were responsible for the proliferation of plastic waste through their own personal habits, rather than through Mobil’s and Exxon’s efforts to produce an increasing number of plastic products designed for single-use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials are saying that there’s a perception that plastics — especially plastic bags — can be easily recycled. But they say that this is not the reality and that consumers have been deceived for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalRecycle has not identified facilities that recycle plastic bags in the state of California,” the agency told NPR this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123619/california-sues-exxonmobil-for-misleading-public-on-plastic-recycling\">filed a suit \u003c/a>on Sunday alleging that ExxonMobil promoted recycling while knowing that it was technically and economically challenging and wouldn’t make much of a dent in the plastic waste problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of California’s new ban and similar measures:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why did California’s initial bag ban backfire?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s ban on thin single-use bags had a loophole that let grocers sell shoppers thicker plastic bags for a small fee: just 10 cents. In theory, the heavier bags were reusable. But in practice, they became a more substantial form of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A plastic bag has an average lifespan of 12 minutes and then it is discarded, afflicting our environment with toxic microplastics that fester in our oceans and landfills for up to 1,000 years,” Sen. Catherine Blakespear, an author of the new ban, said in \u003ca href=\"https://sd38.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-signs-legislation-ban-plastic-bags-grocery-store-checkouts\">a news release\u003c/a> issued after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the ban into law on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial ban was also undermined by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it was still unknown how the coronavirus spread, shoppers were barred from bringing reusable bags into grocery stores out of fear that their bags might be contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California kind of took one for the team as the first to pass a statewide ban on plastic bags,” Melissa Valliant, communications director for the advocacy group Beyond Plastics, told NPR. “It ended up providing a lesson for other state and even local governments to learn from and to not allow loopholes like thicker plastic bags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the new California law do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting on Jan. 1, 2026, customers at most grocery stores, convenience stores, and other retailers will have three main options: Pay at least 10 cents for a paper bag; use a reusable bag; or hand-carry their purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can also sell the canvas-style reusable bags in other areas of the store,” Nate Rose of the California Grocers Association, which supports the new ban, told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the bags many shoppers are already accustomed to bringing with them to carry their groceries,” Rose added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And starting in 2028, stores’ paper bags will be required to be composed of at least 50% postconsumer recycled materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 70 organizations supported the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/these-are-the-2024-california-bills-gavin-newsom-has-signed-into-law-and-the-ones-he-has-vetoed\">member station LAist reports\u003c/a>, saying it “would prevent plastic waste, which releases toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1536x951.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, has filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, alleging that the oil and gas corporation misled consumers by telling them that recycling was a viable solution for plastic waste. In 2021, some 231,072 tons of plastic grocery and merchandise bags went to landfills, according to the state’s recycling agency, CalRecycle. \u003ccite>(Muhammad Owais Khan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What’s so bad about plastic bags?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite industry claims about their recyclability, the thin bags are notoriously difficult and expensive to process and recycle. Instead, they often wind up in landfills, where they will persist for centuries, or in incinerators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a sense of the scale of the problem, consider Philadelphia. An evaluation commissioned by the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.phila.gov/media/20230428110156/PlasticBagBanReportApril2023.pdf\">said last year (PDF)\u003c/a> that in Philadelphia, “an estimated 1 billion single-use disposable plastic bags are used annually,” adding to waste, litter and emissions challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipal systems, the evaluation stated, “are unable to recycle plastic bags and the soft material causes equipment jamming at recycling centers, leading to dangerous and costly repairs that account for 150 hours of lost staff time and $300,000 in city costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, restrictions like bag bans “can be expected to eliminate almost 300 single-use plastic bags per person per year, on average,” according to an analysis by Environment America and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund that was \u003ca href=\"https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Plastic-Bag-Bans-Work-January-2024.pdf\">published in January (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does the plastic industry say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bag manufacturers are against bans on their products and they insist that the thin plastic film bag, made of polyethylene, makes more sense than the alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A polyethylene bag is 100% recyclable and can be recycled into itself, is produced with low carbon emissions, and the PE is made domestically from natural gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly \u003ca href=\"https://bagalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FCR-NJ-Plastic-Retail-Bag-Demand-1.pdf\">said in a 2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conversely, PP [polypropylene] bags are produced overseas and imported, produce higher emissions than film bags, and are not recyclable. In fact, 99% of PP is virgin and does not contain post-consumer recycled material,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: While single-use bags can technically be recycled, it’s not an easy or cost-effective process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent they get recycled, a lot of polyethylene plastics get turned into low-grade materials. 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They made multiple trips to Puerto Rico, where Antonia suspected her son had been taken, but turned up nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a rare situation when a boy disappears and doesn’t eventually show up — alive or dead,” Oakland police Lt. Dominic DiFraia told \u003cem>The Oakland Tribune \u003c/em>in 1966. “I’d give an awful lot to find out why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has taken seven decades to begin to unravel that mystery. Earlier this year, long after his mother had died and his case had grown cold, it was Albino’s niece who finally tracked him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>DNA tests and newspaper clippings led investigators out east\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alida Alequin, 63, knew she had a missing uncle because her family talked about it. Her late grandmother always kept a newspaper clipping about his abduction in her wallet and displayed his photo at their family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin decided to take an online DNA test in 2020 “just for fun,” as she told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the results was a 22% match with a man she had never met. The Oakland resident reached out to him but didn’t hear back or pursue it further — until earlier this year when she watched a documentary that inspired her to renew her search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alequin and her daughters searched the man’s name online, pored over microfilm of old \u003cem>Oakland Tribune \u003c/em>articles at the public library and became increasingly convinced that the man from the DNA database was their long-lost relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD says she contacted their missing persons unit in March to alert them about the DNA test results and her uncle’s possible identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with new leads and technology, police reopened Albino’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched through public records of the potential match and collected DNA samples from Albino’s living siblings, with help from the California Department of Justice and the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said investigators were unsuccessful in their multiple attempts to contact Albino and his family, and eventually were able to get FBI special agents dispatched to contact him at his residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed to NPR that it assisted Oakland police “by our ability to access … resources across state lines.” Authorities have not specified where Albino had been living on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agents were eventually able to interview Albino and take a DNA sample.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His statements and genetics confirmed what police call “the best possible outcome”: He was indeed the boy who’d been snatched from the park 73 years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t start crying until after the investigators left,” Alequin told \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>. “I grabbed my mom’s hands and said, ‘We found him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A “family reunion over 70 years in the making”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Details about Albino’s life on the East Coast are relatively scarce, and police say his case remains under investigation. They are asking anyone with information to contact the OPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/missing-persons\">Missing Persons Unit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> says Albino is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served two tours of duty in Vietnam. He spent most of his life believing he was the “son of another couple,” according to \u003cem>SFGate\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Albino flew to California to meet Alequin and his other relatives. 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"content": "\u003cp>The next time you shop for a cooking stove, the gas versions might show a health warning label similar to those on tobacco products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because a stove’s blue flame releases air pollution into your kitchen, California lawmakers have passed a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2513\">bill that would require such warning labels\u003c/a> on gas stoves for sale in stores and online. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until the end of September to sign the bill into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation comes after a series of lawsuits were filed against stove manufacturers, claiming they should have warned customers about potential health risks. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Environmental activists are encouraging people to switch to electric stoves as \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YBopt6do1M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of a broader campaign\u003c/a> to cut climate pollution from buildings.\u003c/span> Now, there’s an effort to put health warning labels on stoves nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A chef replaces her gas stove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State%20Appliances.pdf\">38% of U.S. homes\u003c/a> cook with natural gas, and utilities have preserved that market share with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1183551603/gas-stove-utility-tobacco\">tobacco-style tactics\u003c/a> to avoid regulations on gas stoves. Part of that is a decades-old “cooking with gas” campaign that has helped gas stoves remain popular with cooks, including famous ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will say, historically, I’ve been really a snob about that,” says Samin Nosrat, who wrote the 2017 award-winning cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/\">\u003cem>Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She learned to cook with gas. “I just never accepted an alternative in my imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few years back, she bought a house with a gas stove, and her carbon monoxide alarm kept going off when she cooked. At first, she assumed the alarm was broken and installed a new one. Finally, she called the gas company. A utility worker says that levels of the poisonous gas were “off the charts high” and that she should get checked for carbon monoxide poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-1536x1159.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign above the Standard Gas Light Co. promotes cooking with gas. \u003ccite>(Schenectady Museum Association/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nosrat was fine but says, “I really didn’t feel safe. I just always had this feeling of like, ‘Is my oven going to kill me?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her to switch from a gas to an electric range could have required expensive electrical upgrades and construction that would inconvenience her neighbors. So Nosrat opted for a new style of electric induction stove with a battery that doesn’t need a special outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her installation, the \u003ca href=\"https://copperhome.com/\">California company Copper\u003c/a> measured pollutants in Nosrat’s home before and after. It found that both nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide levels dropped dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Nosrat still uses a gas stove in her studio for work, she says it’s a relief to know her home range is no longer sending fossil fuel pollutants into her living space. And she found another benefit to using an induction stove with a smooth cooktop: “Cleaning it rules — like, you just spray it down and wipe it off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A California law to warn stove buyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Californian has been learning about indoor air pollution from gas stoves, and as a state lawmaker, she sponsored legislation to warn other stove buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, a Democrat from Santa Cruz, says she knew to turn on the vent hood when using the cooktop, but she hadn’t thought about her gas oven. “So if I’ve got a lasagna in the oven, I have never put the vent on because you’re not seeing the smoke and everything,” Pellerin told NPR. “So I was emitting horrible gases into my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical experts say nitrogen dioxide is the biggest concern. It’s a reddish-brown gas and is a key element of smog outdoors. It can irritate airways and may contribute to the development of asthma, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/no2-pollution/basic-information-about-no2\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://apha.org/Policies-and-Advocacy/Public-Health-Policy-Statements/Policy-Database/2023/01/18/Gas-Stove-Emissions\">American Public Health Association\u003c/a> has labeled gas cooking stoves “a public health concern,” and the \u003ca href=\"https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gas%20stove?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-D-135.964.xml\">American Medical Association\u003c/a> warns that cooking with gas increases the risk of childhood asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas stoves can also leak methane, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075874473/gas-stoves-climate-change-leak-methane\">even when they’re off\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1181299405/gas-stoves-pollute-homes-with-benzene-which-is-linked-to-cancer\">stoves emit benzene\u003c/a>, which is linked to cancer. While stove manufacturers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1149736969/gas-stove-makers-have-a-pollution-solution-theyre-just-not-using-it\">developed cleaner and more efficient burners\u003c/a>, they aren’t widely available to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004684\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas-lit flames burn on a natural gas stove. California’s Legislature passed a bill requiring health warning labels on new gas stoves. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2513\">Pellerin’s legislation\u003c/a> becomes law, it will require a label on gas stoves for sale in stores and online that says, “Gas stoves can release nitrogen dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and other harmful pollutants into the air, which can be toxic to people and pets.” The label would also mention associated risks for breathing problems, suggest using a vent hood and say, “Young children, people with asthma, and people with heart or lung disease are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of combustion pollutants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is just important for us to have transparency and inform consumers so they can make the decision that’s right for their family,” Pellerin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar bills were introduced in Illinois and New York, but unlike California’s version, lawmakers did not pass them out of the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign for warning labels is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YBopt6do1M\">larger climate effort\u003c/a> to get consumers to switch to electric appliances that don’t burn fossil fuels. Commercial and residential buildings account for about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">13% of heat-trapping emissions\u003c/a>, mainly from the use of gas appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-1536x862.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The natural gas production and supply system leaks the powerful greenhouse gas methane during drilling, fracking, processing and transport. \u003ccite>(Meredith Miotke/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) opposed California’s health warning legislation and suggested a different label that does not focus on fossil fuel combustion pollution. The trade group echoes gas industry arguments that smoke and fumes from cooking food are a bigger problem than pollution from burning gas and that two separate issues are being conflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to talk about people’s health and indoor air quality, then let’s talk about that. If we want to talk about fossil fuel versus electrification, then we need to talk about that,” says Kevin Messner, AHAM’s executive vice president and chief policy officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messner says all pollution from stoves — electric or gas — requires proper ventilation to prevent pollution from accumulating in homes. With warning labels only on gas stoves, Messner argues that this sends the wrong message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you go to, let’s say, a retailer and you see a gas cooking product with a warning or information that says you should use ventilation. Then right next to it, you have an electric appliance or an induction [stove] that does not have that warning — this is common sense that you’re going to think, ‘I don’t need to use ventilation for the electric appliance,'” Messner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHAM says it’s disappointed California lawmakers passed the health warning label only for gas stoves. But that has energized activists, who hope they can get similar labels on gas stoves for sale nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national campaign for gas stove health warnings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of gas stoves has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1150397853/gas-stoves-became-part-of-the-culture-war-in-less-than-a-week-heres-why\">flash point in the culture wars\u003c/a>. One of the groups pushing for health warning labels has turned to humor to spread its message. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gasleaks.org/\">Gas Leaks Project\u003c/a> released a parody trailer this year for a \u003ca href=\"https://hotandtoxic.com/\">reality show it calls \u003cem>Hot & Toxic\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The premise is an “unsuspecting homeowner” who loves her new gas stove but later learns it comes with some of “the hottest, most toxic housemates imaginable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each character represents a pollutant created from burning gas, including carbon monoxide, or “C.MO,” which echoes a line that reality show fans will recognize but with a twist. “I did not come here to make friends,” she says. “I came here to cause chest pain, nausea and vomiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AskIzThmK4U&t=4s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A campaign associated with the parody encourages people to sign a petition to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), telling it to put warning labels on gas stoves nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC was at the center of a 2023 culture war campaign led by conservatives, who falsely claimed the Biden administration wanted to take away Americans’ gas stoves. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1612839703018934274\">wrote on social media\u003c/a>, “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outrage was prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears?sref=h2AwP2mF\">a story\u003c/a> in which CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested that the CPSC might consider stricter regulations on new gas stoves in response to health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11938934,science_1992085,science_1991664\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trumka and the CPSC did not respond to NPR’s requests for interviews. Even before that kerfuffle, the CPSC had launched a task force about gas stoves and indoor air quality. It included industry, environmental and consumer groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met at least monthly for a year and a half,” AHAM’s Messner says, adding that participants leaned toward regulating cooking fumes instead of fossil fuel combustion pollution. “The enthusiasm for having CPSC’s task force trailed off by some who didn’t see it going in the direction where they wanted it to go, politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Public Interest Research Group disputes that conclusion and says the staff member directing the group was reassigned. Still, U.S. PIRG has redirected its campaign and launched a new effort to get health warning labels on gas stoves sold in Washington, D.C., by suing one of the biggest stove manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Suing gas stove companies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. PIRG \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4975635/lawsuit-gas-stoves-air-pollution-nitrogen-dioxide-health-risks\">filed a lawsuit in May\u003c/a> against the Chinese company Haier, which owns GE Appliances. U.S. PIRG says the manufacturer violates the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.dc.gov/consumer-protection/other-consumer-help-agencies-and-websites/submit-consumer-complaint/district-columbia-consumer-protection-laws\">District of Columbia’s consumer protection law\u003c/a>, which “prohibits a wide variety of deceptive and unconscionable business practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re saying that it’s a deceptive practice for GE Appliances to sell gas stoves in the District without warning consumers about the well-documented health risks associated with cooking with gas,” says Abe Scarr, U.S. PIRG’s energy and utilities program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group isn’t asking for money, aside from paying U.S. PIRG’s attorney fees and costs. Instead, it wants the court to require GE Appliances to put health warning labels on gas stoves sold in the District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for GE Appliances says the company won’t comment on the litigation but says: “All our ranges and cooktops meet or exceed applicable safety standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1992 analysis by Duke University and Environmental Protection Agency researchers found that children in a home with a gas stove have about a 20% increased risk of developing respiratory illness. A 2022 analysis showed that 12.7% of childhood asthma cases in the US can be attributed to the use of gas stoves in homes. \u003ccite>(Jeff Brady/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other gas stove manufacturers face \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gas-stove-makers-fail-to-defeat-class-actions-over-emissions\">potential class action lawsuits\u003c/a> in California and Wisconsin that claim companies should disclose the risk of pollutants to consumers. Attorneys in Massachusetts have filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/eversource-faces-class-action-lawsuit-for-advertising-gas-use-as-safe-clean-81992643\">similar case\u003c/a> against the local gas utility Eversource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scarr says the legal cases are needed because stove buyers aren’t getting the message that pollution from gas stoves can lead to health problems. His group \u003ca href=\"https://pirg.org/edfund/media-center/new-report-top-retailers-fail-to-warn-shoppers-about-health-risks-of-gas-stove-pollution/\">surveyed 62 Lowe’s, Home Depot and Best Buy locations in 11 states\u003c/a>. Secret shoppers were dispatched to ask about health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. PIRG found that most salespeople “flatly denied or expressed ignorance about the health risks of gas stoves” and that 15% of them “recommended gas stoves over electric ranges or induction cooktops, even when the secret shopper voiced concerns about pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowe’s and Best Buy did not respond to NPR’s interview requests. A Home Depot spokesperson says, “Most customers choose a gas, electric or induction range based on which fuel their home is equipped for” and also says that the retailer sells range hoods and that a stove’s instruction manual “speaks to the importance of ventilation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Scarr’s group pursues its D.C. lawsuit, he says they plan to again pressure the CPSC to require health warning labels for the entire country, possibly as soon as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A chef replaces her gas stove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State%20Appliances.pdf\">38% of U.S. homes\u003c/a> cook with natural gas, and utilities have preserved that market share with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1183551603/gas-stove-utility-tobacco\">tobacco-style tactics\u003c/a> to avoid regulations on gas stoves. Part of that is a decades-old “cooking with gas” campaign that has helped gas stoves remain popular with cooks, including famous ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will say, historically, I’ve been really a snob about that,” says Samin Nosrat, who wrote the 2017 award-winning cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/\">\u003cem>Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She learned to cook with gas. “I just never accepted an alternative in my imagination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a few years back, she bought a house with a gas stove, and her carbon monoxide alarm kept going off when she cooked. At first, she assumed the alarm was broken and installed a new one. Finally, she called the gas company. A utility worker says that levels of the poisonous gas were “off the charts high” and that she should get checked for carbon monoxide poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/gettyimages-529494904_custom-c41e11c5a1b38219f93dac6a4e3a6a56cd3be838-copy-1536x1159.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign above the Standard Gas Light Co. promotes cooking with gas. \u003ccite>(Schenectady Museum Association/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nosrat was fine but says, “I really didn’t feel safe. I just always had this feeling of like, ‘Is my oven going to kill me?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her to switch from a gas to an electric range could have required expensive electrical upgrades and construction that would inconvenience her neighbors. So Nosrat opted for a new style of electric induction stove with a battery that doesn’t need a special outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her installation, the \u003ca href=\"https://copperhome.com/\">California company Copper\u003c/a> measured pollutants in Nosrat’s home before and after. It found that both nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide levels dropped dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Nosrat still uses a gas stove in her studio for work, she says it’s a relief to know her home range is no longer sending fossil fuel pollutants into her living space. And she found another benefit to using an induction stove with a smooth cooktop: “Cleaning it rules — like, you just spray it down and wipe it off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A California law to warn stove buyers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Californian has been learning about indoor air pollution from gas stoves, and as a state lawmaker, she sponsored legislation to warn other stove buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, a Democrat from Santa Cruz, says she knew to turn on the vent hood when using the cooktop, but she hadn’t thought about her gas oven. “So if I’ve got a lasagna in the oven, I have never put the vent on because you’re not seeing the smoke and everything,” Pellerin told NPR. “So I was emitting horrible gases into my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical experts say nitrogen dioxide is the biggest concern. It’s a reddish-brown gas and is a key element of smog outdoors. It can irritate airways and may contribute to the development of asthma, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/no2-pollution/basic-information-about-no2\">Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://apha.org/Policies-and-Advocacy/Public-Health-Policy-Statements/Policy-Database/2023/01/18/Gas-Stove-Emissions\">American Public Health Association\u003c/a> has labeled gas cooking stoves “a public health concern,” and the \u003ca href=\"https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gas%20stove?uri=%2FAMADoc%2Fdirectives.xml-D-135.964.xml\">American Medical Association\u003c/a> warns that cooking with gas increases the risk of childhood asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas stoves can also leak methane, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075874473/gas-stoves-climate-change-leak-methane\">even when they’re off\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1181299405/gas-stoves-pollute-homes-with-benzene-which-is-linked-to-cancer\">stoves emit benzene\u003c/a>, which is linked to cancer. While stove manufacturers have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1149736969/gas-stove-makers-have-a-pollution-solution-theyre-just-not-using-it\">developed cleaner and more efficient burners\u003c/a>, they aren’t widely available to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004684\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas-lit flames burn on a natural gas stove. California’s Legislature passed a bill requiring health warning labels on new gas stoves. \u003ccite>(Richard Vogel/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2513\">Pellerin’s legislation\u003c/a> becomes law, it will require a label on gas stoves for sale in stores and online that says, “Gas stoves can release nitrogen dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and other harmful pollutants into the air, which can be toxic to people and pets.” The label would also mention associated risks for breathing problems, suggest using a vent hood and say, “Young children, people with asthma, and people with heart or lung disease are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of combustion pollutants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is just important for us to have transparency and inform consumers so they can make the decision that’s right for their family,” Pellerin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar bills were introduced in Illinois and New York, but unlike California’s version, lawmakers did not pass them out of the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign for warning labels is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YBopt6do1M\">larger climate effort\u003c/a> to get consumers to switch to electric appliances that don’t burn fossil fuels. Commercial and residential buildings account for about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">13% of heat-trapping emissions\u003c/a>, mainly from the use of gas appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/miotke_npr_emissions_final-edit_custom-9285ff5026575f5d075aa3acaae4ba3c20c9c14a-copy-1536x862.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The natural gas production and supply system leaks the powerful greenhouse gas methane during drilling, fracking, processing and transport. \u003ccite>(Meredith Miotke/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) opposed California’s health warning legislation and suggested a different label that does not focus on fossil fuel combustion pollution. The trade group echoes gas industry arguments that smoke and fumes from cooking food are a bigger problem than pollution from burning gas and that two separate issues are being conflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to talk about people’s health and indoor air quality, then let’s talk about that. If we want to talk about fossil fuel versus electrification, then we need to talk about that,” says Kevin Messner, AHAM’s executive vice president and chief policy officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messner says all pollution from stoves — electric or gas — requires proper ventilation to prevent pollution from accumulating in homes. With warning labels only on gas stoves, Messner argues that this sends the wrong message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you go to, let’s say, a retailer and you see a gas cooking product with a warning or information that says you should use ventilation. Then right next to it, you have an electric appliance or an induction [stove] that does not have that warning — this is common sense that you’re going to think, ‘I don’t need to use ventilation for the electric appliance,'” Messner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AHAM says it’s disappointed California lawmakers passed the health warning label only for gas stoves. But that has energized activists, who hope they can get similar labels on gas stoves for sale nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A national campaign for gas stove health warnings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of gas stoves has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1150397853/gas-stoves-became-part-of-the-culture-war-in-less-than-a-week-heres-why\">flash point in the culture wars\u003c/a>. One of the groups pushing for health warning labels has turned to humor to spread its message. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gasleaks.org/\">Gas Leaks Project\u003c/a> released a parody trailer this year for a \u003ca href=\"https://hotandtoxic.com/\">reality show it calls \u003cem>Hot & Toxic\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The premise is an “unsuspecting homeowner” who loves her new gas stove but later learns it comes with some of “the hottest, most toxic housemates imaginable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each character represents a pollutant created from burning gas, including carbon monoxide, or “C.MO,” which echoes a line that reality show fans will recognize but with a twist. “I did not come here to make friends,” she says. “I came here to cause chest pain, nausea and vomiting.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/AskIzThmK4U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AskIzThmK4U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>A campaign associated with the parody encourages people to sign a petition to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), telling it to put warning labels on gas stoves nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC was at the center of a 2023 culture war campaign led by conservatives, who falsely claimed the Biden administration wanted to take away Americans’ gas stoves. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1612839703018934274\">wrote on social media\u003c/a>, “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outrage was prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears?sref=h2AwP2mF\">a story\u003c/a> in which CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. suggested that the CPSC might consider stricter regulations on new gas stoves in response to health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trumka and the CPSC did not respond to NPR’s requests for interviews. Even before that kerfuffle, the CPSC had launched a task force about gas stoves and indoor air quality. It included industry, environmental and consumer groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met at least monthly for a year and a half,” AHAM’s Messner says, adding that participants leaned toward regulating cooking fumes instead of fossil fuel combustion pollution. “The enthusiasm for having CPSC’s task force trailed off by some who didn’t see it going in the direction where they wanted it to go, politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Public Interest Research Group disputes that conclusion and says the staff member directing the group was reassigned. Still, U.S. PIRG has redirected its campaign and launched a new effort to get health warning labels on gas stoves sold in Washington, D.C., by suing one of the biggest stove manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Suing gas stove companies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. PIRG \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4975635/lawsuit-gas-stoves-air-pollution-nitrogen-dioxide-health-risks\">filed a lawsuit in May\u003c/a> against the Chinese company Haier, which owns GE Appliances. U.S. PIRG says the manufacturer violates the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.dc.gov/consumer-protection/other-consumer-help-agencies-and-websites/submit-consumer-complaint/district-columbia-consumer-protection-laws\">District of Columbia’s consumer protection law\u003c/a>, which “prohibits a wide variety of deceptive and unconscionable business practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re saying that it’s a deceptive practice for GE Appliances to sell gas stoves in the District without warning consumers about the well-documented health risks associated with cooking with gas,” says Abe Scarr, U.S. PIRG’s energy and utilities program director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group isn’t asking for money, aside from paying U.S. PIRG’s attorney fees and costs. Instead, it wants the court to require GE Appliances to put health warning labels on gas stoves sold in the District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for GE Appliances says the company won’t comment on the litigation but says: “All our ranges and cooktops meet or exceed applicable safety standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004690\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1992 analysis by Duke University and Environmental Protection Agency researchers found that children in a home with a gas stove have about a 20% increased risk of developing respiratory illness. A 2022 analysis showed that 12.7% of childhood asthma cases in the US can be attributed to the use of gas stoves in homes. \u003ccite>(Jeff Brady/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other gas stove manufacturers face \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/gas-stove-makers-fail-to-defeat-class-actions-over-emissions\">potential class action lawsuits\u003c/a> in California and Wisconsin that claim companies should disclose the risk of pollutants to consumers. Attorneys in Massachusetts have filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/eversource-faces-class-action-lawsuit-for-advertising-gas-use-as-safe-clean-81992643\">similar case\u003c/a> against the local gas utility Eversource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scarr says the legal cases are needed because stove buyers aren’t getting the message that pollution from gas stoves can lead to health problems. His group \u003ca href=\"https://pirg.org/edfund/media-center/new-report-top-retailers-fail-to-warn-shoppers-about-health-risks-of-gas-stove-pollution/\">surveyed 62 Lowe’s, Home Depot and Best Buy locations in 11 states\u003c/a>. Secret shoppers were dispatched to ask about health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. PIRG found that most salespeople “flatly denied or expressed ignorance about the health risks of gas stoves” and that 15% of them “recommended gas stoves over electric ranges or induction cooktops, even when the secret shopper voiced concerns about pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowe’s and Best Buy did not respond to NPR’s interview requests. A Home Depot spokesperson says, “Most customers choose a gas, electric or induction range based on which fuel their home is equipped for” and also says that the retailer sells range hoods and that a stove’s instruction manual “speaks to the importance of ventilation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Scarr’s group pursues its D.C. lawsuit, he says they plan to again pressure the CPSC to require health warning labels for the entire country, possibly as soon as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles. It’s perhaps best known for being the birthplace of President Richard Nixon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the past few years, Yorba Linda has picked up another distinction: It’s home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ylwd.com/services/your-water/water-quality/pfas-water-treatment-plant/\">the nation’s largest\u003c/a> per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) water treatment plant of its kind, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This December will be [three] years we’ve been running, and we’re the largest PFAS treatment plant using resin,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.ylwd.com/services/your-water/water-quality/pfas-water-treatment-plant/\">J. Wayne Miller\u003c/a>, former board president at the Yorba Linda Water District, for whom the plant is named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are thousands of water systems, serving around 100 million people, that have harmful levels of PFAS in their drinking water. Under an EPA rule \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/10/1243775736/epa-pfas-forever-chemicals-drinking-water-limits\">finalized in April\u003c/a>, affected water districts will have to take action to clean their water supplies. In Orange County, Calif., the Yorba Linda treatment plant and others around it provide examples of how it can be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yorba Linda PFAS treatment plant took over a long, narrow strip of the water district’s parking lot, not quite the length of a football field. A series of giant tanks sit atop a concrete platform. “Honestly, they look like large propane cylinders,” says Todd Colvin, chief water system operator for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanks to remove PFAS from drinking water at the Yorba Linda Water District’s treatment plant have taken over a strip of the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Pien Huang/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each tank looms about 10 feet tall and can hold around 4,500 gallons. There are 22 of them, arranged in a double row, painted pristine ivory white. The tanks are packed half-full with a kind of resin — special polymer beads — that pull PFAS out of the water. Every gallon of water pumped from the district’s wells now passes through a few of these tanks for treatment, before going to the homes and businesses of 80,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yorba Linda Water District built the largest PFAS water treatment plant of its kind because it had a big PFAS problem. In February 2020, the water district had to take all of its wells offline because they were drawing groundwater contaminated with PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS refers to a large class of man-made chemicals used to waterproof and stainproof manufactured products. 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Water providers in the state that exceeded those limits \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/pfas.html\">had to stop using\u003c/a> contaminated water or notify the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those state limits, established four years before the EPA set national limits, put California’s cities ahead of the curve. “I thank my lucky stars we were on the front end of that,” says Mark Toy, general manager of the Yorba Linda Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Filtration plants are expensive but cost less than imported water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The next city over is Anaheim, home to Disneyland. A few miles from Space Mountain, a paved industrial lot houses the second-largest PFAS water treatment plant of its kind. “This would be a little bit larger than a basketball court,” says Mike Lyster, spokesman for the city, estimating the footprint of the 20 filtration tanks at this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyster says there was a brief time when Anaheim had the largest PFAS treatment plant. “Kudos to Yorba Linda,” he says, “We’re glad to see somebody else beat it because that means somebody else is addressing the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaheim is a larger city, and the public water utility there can provide water for upwards of 500,000 people a day. Back in 2020, when California’s PFAS rules came into effect, Anaheim took 14 of its 19 wells offline for excess PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If high levels of PFAS are found in drinking water, a water provider can switch to a source without the chemicals in it or filter them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, both Anaheim and Yorba Linda swapped mostly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mwdh2o.com/\">water imported\u003c/a> from northern California and the Colorado River that met the state standards. But water from those sources can cost twice as much as local groundwater. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are thousands of water systems, serving around 100 million people, that have harmful levels of PFAS in their drinking water. Under an EPA rule \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/10/1243775736/epa-pfas-forever-chemicals-drinking-water-limits\">finalized in April\u003c/a>, affected water districts will have to take action to clean their water supplies. In Orange County, Calif., the Yorba Linda treatment plant and others around it provide examples of how it can be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yorba Linda PFAS treatment plant took over a long, narrow strip of the water district’s parking lot, not quite the length of a football field. A series of giant tanks sit atop a concrete platform. “Honestly, they look like large propane cylinders,” says Todd Colvin, chief water system operator for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanks to remove PFAS from drinking water at the Yorba Linda Water District’s treatment plant have taken over a strip of the parking lot. \u003ccite>(Pien Huang/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each tank looms about 10 feet tall and can hold around 4,500 gallons. There are 22 of them, arranged in a double row, painted pristine ivory white. The tanks are packed half-full with a kind of resin — special polymer beads — that pull PFAS out of the water. Every gallon of water pumped from the district’s wells now passes through a few of these tanks for treatment, before going to the homes and businesses of 80,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yorba Linda Water District built the largest PFAS water treatment plant of its kind because it had a big PFAS problem. In February 2020, the water district had to take all of its wells offline because they were drawing groundwater contaminated with PFAS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS refers to a large class of man-made chemicals used to waterproof and stainproof manufactured products. Some PFAS chemicals have been linked with various health problems, such as weakened immune systems, high cholesterol and certain cancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Yorba Linda, all 10 of the district’s groundwater wells exceeded California’s recommended PFAS levels, which took effect in 2020 – 40 parts per trillion for PFOS and 10 parts per trillion for PFOA, two common PFAS chemicals. Water providers in the state that exceeded those limits \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/pfas.html\">had to stop using\u003c/a> contaminated water or notify the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those state limits, established four years before the EPA set national limits, put California’s cities ahead of the curve. “I thank my lucky stars we were on the front end of that,” says Mark Toy, general manager of the Yorba Linda Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Filtration plants are expensive but cost less than imported water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The next city over is Anaheim, home to Disneyland. A few miles from Space Mountain, a paved industrial lot houses the second-largest PFAS water treatment plant of its kind. “This would be a little bit larger than a basketball court,” says Mike Lyster, spokesman for the city, estimating the footprint of the 20 filtration tanks at this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyster says there was a brief time when Anaheim had the largest PFAS treatment plant. “Kudos to Yorba Linda,” he says, “We’re glad to see somebody else beat it because that means somebody else is addressing the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaheim is a larger city, and the public water utility there can provide water for upwards of 500,000 people a day. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. settled for silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 when Biles withdrew partway through the team final after experiencing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/29/1022151827/simone-biles-got-the-twisties-at-the-tokyo-olympics-heres-what-that-means\">the “twisties”\u003c/a> on her vault routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of this summer’s Games, Biles and her teammates said they were seeking “redemption” for that disappointment. “I feel like we all have more to give. Our Tokyo performances weren’t the best,” Biles said \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/g-s1-7388/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa-olympic-team\">after the U.S. Olympic Team Trials last month\u003c/a>. “We weren’t under the best circumstances, either, but I feel like we have a lot of weight on our shoulders to go out there and prove we’re better athletes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Italy took silver and Brazil won bronze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about Biles’s physical health had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/28/g-s1-13953/simone-biles-calf-injury-olympics\">appeared Sunday after she tweaked her calf\u003c/a> during the qualifying round. Afterward, coaches downplayed the injury’s severity and said she would compete in the team final. Ultimately, Biles performed as usual, with her left calf wrapped in athletic tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gold is the first medal of the 2024 Olympic Games for Biles, who was already the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1204379375/simone-biles-most-decorated-gymnast-history\">most decorated gymnast\u003c/a> in history. It is her eighth Olympic medal overall and her fifth gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she could win as many as four more. Biles is set to compete again Thursday in the individual all-around final. Among her top competitors in that event will be her U.S. teammate Suni Lee, who won the gold in Tokyo, and the Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade. Biles also qualified to compete in three of the four event finals: vault, balance beam and floor exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the crack of dawn in California’s Central Valley, birds sing their morning songs and critters chirp unabashedly. In a shady grove next to a river, an owl swoops down from the spindling branches of an oak tree that has stood its ground for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few feet above the tree’s base, its massive trunk is lined with a white ring, indicating how high the San Joaquin River rose during a flood last year. Dos Rios is \u003cem>supposed\u003c/em> to flood — it’s a floodplain, recently transformed into California’s newest state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park opened this summer, emerging among the never-ending rows of agriculture the valley is known for. It’s a lush 2.5 square miles now bursting with hundreds of thousands of native trees, bushes and animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dos Rios, named for the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers that meet at the edge of the park, is the first new California state park in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it isn’t like most state parks. In addition to bringing much-needed green space to an underserved area, its unusual design uses nature-based climate solutions that reinvigorate native wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By restoring the natural floodplain, the park will also help mitigate flooding that threatens residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Sunflowers in an oak grove.\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM.png 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-1536x1148.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunflowers flourish near a Dos Rios oak grove. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transforming farm fields back to a floodplain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dos Rios is like a time machine. Just 15 years ago, this plot of land looked much like its surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These floodplains were once laser-leveled fields that grew alfalfa, or a rotation of corn and winter wheat, which would be harvested and moved over to where the dairies are to feed the cows,” conservationist Julie Rentner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the land looks more like it did hundreds of years ago before farms and towns cropped up before the Central Valley became an agricultural hub of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='A woman stands outside wearing a vest that says \"River Partners.\"' width=\"1290\" height=\"1558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-800x966.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-1020x1232.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-160x193.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-1272x1536.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Rentner has had a hand in the formation of Dos Rios since its conception. She’s thrilled to see the park finally open to the public. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rentner is president of the nonprofit organization River Partners, which began the process of purchasing the plot from a farming family back in 2008. Since then, her team has been transforming the land to return it to some semblance of the floodplain it naturally was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the critters here, the willows, the cottonwoods, the mugwort and the gum plants are actually stimulated by occasional flooding,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer months, the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers flow lazily around the edges of this park, but in the spring and early summer, when snow melts in the Sierras, the rivers take on a forceful character, rampaging through this land, swelling above their banks and flooding this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the rivers rose about 20 feet higher than they are now. At the time, River Partners was giving boat tours through the area as floodwaters brought back animals like river otters, beavers and waterfowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A view from an oak grove.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the Oak Tree Grove, photographed on June 28, 2024, in Dos Rios, located in Modesto. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Working with nature to tame floodwater risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While flooding is now welcome at Dos Rios, for Central Valley farmers and residents, it has long been a demon. It destroys crops and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/lower_sj_river/final_eis-eir/01_San%20Joaquin%20River%20Basin%20Lower%20San%20Joaquin%20River_CA%20FINAL%20IIFR_EIS_EIR.pdf?ver=2018-02-01-184425-453\">2018 report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u003c/a> and its state partners says that Stockton, a large metropolitan city about 30 miles north of Dos Rios, faced an “unacceptably high risk of flooding from levee failure.” Dos Rios is meant to be an escape valve before torrents of water threaten levees in nearby places like Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is reducing flood risk for downstream communities by absorbing floodwaters as they pour out of the Sierra Nevadas,” Rentner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reengineering Dos Rios involved cutting holes into berms and levees and allowing the rivers to flood instead of attempting to constrain them. The floodwaters then soak into the ground, sparing nearby communities and recharging groundwater. Rentner says these solutions are designed to work \u003cem>with\u003c/em> nature instead of against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses looks out a window.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-800x983.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-1020x1253.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-160x197.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-1251x1536.png 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilia Lomeli-Gil has lived in Grayson for most of her life. She runs the community center there but wants more recreational spaces for the people of Grayson. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another community that could benefit from Dos Rios is Grayson, a small, unincorporated area just a few miles west of the park. Lilia Lomeli-Gil, a community leader there, remembers suffering from the devastating floods of 1997. At the time, she lived in Modesto, just east of Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still brings tears to my eyes,” she says, recalling her house swamped with 3 to 4 feet of water. “We had to start over, we were homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Lomeli-Gil and her husband were able to relocate back to Grayson, where she had spent most of her life. Now she says she is relieved that Dos Rios is in Grayson’s backyard — not only because of flood-risk mitigation but also because it’s a new place to recreate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place to go barbecue, join other family members,” and it’s a place to appreciate nature for local community members, she says. “I think that emotionally, it’s going to be very good for their mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson is a tiny, 4-by-5-block farming community. Most of the residents are agricultural workers. The community center Lomeli-Gil runs is the only gathering place in town for residents, other than the gas station market next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more; we need a variety, not just one place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1738px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='Two people look at sign and image of a river that says \"Dos Rios.\"' width=\"1738\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM.png 1738w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-1536x1016.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1738px) 100vw, 1738px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grayson muralist Jose Muñóz hand-painted this sign welcoming visitors to Dos Rios. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A new place to enjoy nature\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 8:30 on a recent Friday morning, Lomeli-Gil had gathered a group of parents, teenagers and young children from Grayson around picnic benches on the edge of an old riverbank at Dos Rios. Like most of the surrounding community, everyone in the group speaks Spanish, so their tour guides, Eduardo Gonzalez and Julian Morin, led the group through a portion of the park in English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to continue to increase accessibility to parks; they’re out here for everybody,” Morin says. “Language barriers shouldn’t be why people can’t get out and enjoy state parks and experience everything they have to offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leads the group on a walking path that, in a way, divides the past and future of this park: An old almond orchard is on one side, and a lush landscape of bushes, trees, birds and animals on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Several people walk outside near a river.\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM.png 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Gonzalez and Julian Morin lead Grayson community members on a tour of Dos Rios in late June. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Spanish, Gonzalez says, “Twelve years ago, this was \u003cem>all \u003c/em>pure orchard, and [River Partners] removed them.” Pointing to the other side of the path, where birds are chirping loudly, he says, “And they began to plant more native plants that were here before agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells the group that, like the rest of the park, that almond orchard will eventually become a campground or a place for families to gather. The park will also offer family events like group campfires and stargazing nights. When school is in session, the park plans to organize educational visits for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opening up the land to Indigenous people as a place to gather plants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Dos Rios team has also consulted with Indigenous tribes about how this new park can benefit their communities. Austin Stevenot, the San Joaquin field manager for River Partners, first came across the organization a few years ago when they invited his extended family to visit the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenot and his family are members of the Northern Sierra Miwok tribe. Stevenot consulted his mother and aunts, founding members of the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association. They put together planting palettes of native plants — like a mood board for plants — that would be beneficial to the habitat but also for Indigenous medicinal and cultural practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the things we were like, ‘It would be great to gather this here!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1282px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A headshot of a man wearing a dark colored hat and shirt.\" width=\"1282\" height=\"1608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM.png 1282w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-800x1003.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-1020x1279.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-1225x1536.png 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Stevenot helped design the Native Use Garden at Dos Rios. He hopes the entire park will one day be a place where tribal members can go to gather plants for cultural practices. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stevenot brought members of local tribes to plant native shrubs like Valley Sedge, which is used for basket weaving or mugwort, used as a natural bug repellent. Now, a 3-acre Native Use Garden is blooming at Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, he says, his people were forcibly removed from their ancestral village, about 60 miles from here. So it means a lot to him to have a piece of this land his family and other Indigenous people can use as their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a big weed patch right now. But there’s a lot here. There’s a lot of meaning here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though removing plants from public lands is typically illegal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/36/2.6\">a 2016 rule\u003c/a> permits parks to enter into plant-gathering agreements with Native American tribes. Stevenot says tribal members can reach out to the park to inquire about accessing the Native Use Garden now. Still, their goal is for the park to eventually implement a formal permitting process for tribal members to gather anywhere in Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need thousands more acres just like this,” he says. “Not just not for just water, not for habitat, but for the people of the land, for the people that were here long before anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1736px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Plants in a field.\" width=\"1736\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM.png 1736w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1736px) 100vw, 1736px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Native Use Garden is a place where tribal members can gather native plants for ceremonial use and other cultural practices with permission from Dos Rios staff. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>’10 more Dos Rioses’ in the next 10 years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dos Rios holds great promise for the Central Valley — it provides new recreational space, restores native habitat, protects against flood damage and recharges dwindling groundwater in the Central Valley. But it’s only about 2 1/2 square miles in a vast region dominated by agricultural farms, and even restoring that much land has been no easy task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in the Central Valley, we have a history of fighting over water, really being at odds with the environmental movement,” Julie Rentner says. But she adds that over the years, the community surrounding Dos Rios has shown great excitement about its multiple benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1736px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A man holds a plant outside.\" width=\"1736\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM.png 1736w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-800x595.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-1020x759.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-1536x1143.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1736px) 100vw, 1736px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevenot rubs the leaves of a mugwort plant, which he explains has ceremonial uses and also works as a mosquito repellant. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You talk to anybody in this neighborhood, and you realize, oh my gosh, we all want the same things,” she says. “We want clean, healthy communities to live in. We want beautiful places to be able to take our kids and grandkids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says California’s state government is on board with more projects like Dos Rios, as evidenced by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order, which has been dubbed the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.californianature.ca.gov/\">30 x 30\u003c/a>” initiative because it aims to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by the year 2030. “And that encouraged us to think, how do you scale all of this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rentner is optimistic. “We’ve done the planning, we’ve done the mapping,” she says, “We’re thinking about doing 10 more Dos Rioses just in the next decade. Maybe more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1286px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997412\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"An oak tree.\" width=\"1286\" height=\"1614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08 AM.png 1286w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08 AM-800x1004.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08 AM-1020x1280.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08 AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.15.08 AM-1224x1536.png 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A centuries-old oak tree bears white rings that indicate how high floodwaters rose last spring. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By restoring the natural floodplain, the park will also help mitigate flooding that threatens residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Sunflowers in an oak grove.\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM.png 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.15 AM-1536x1148.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunflowers flourish near a Dos Rios oak grove. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Transforming farm fields back to a floodplain\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dos Rios is like a time machine. Just 15 years ago, this plot of land looked much like its surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These floodplains were once laser-leveled fields that grew alfalfa, or a rotation of corn and winter wheat, which would be harvested and moved over to where the dairies are to feed the cows,” conservationist Julie Rentner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the land looks more like it did hundreds of years ago before farms and towns cropped up before the Central Valley became an agricultural hub of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='A woman stands outside wearing a vest that says \"River Partners.\"' width=\"1290\" height=\"1558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM.png 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-800x966.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-1020x1232.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-160x193.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.33 AM-1272x1536.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Rentner has had a hand in the formation of Dos Rios since its conception. She’s thrilled to see the park finally open to the public. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rentner is president of the nonprofit organization River Partners, which began the process of purchasing the plot from a farming family back in 2008. Since then, her team has been transforming the land to return it to some semblance of the floodplain it naturally was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the critters here, the willows, the cottonwoods, the mugwort and the gum plants are actually stimulated by occasional flooding,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer months, the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers flow lazily around the edges of this park, but in the spring and early summer, when snow melts in the Sierras, the rivers take on a forceful character, rampaging through this land, swelling above their banks and flooding this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the rivers rose about 20 feet higher than they are now. At the time, River Partners was giving boat tours through the area as floodwaters brought back animals like river otters, beavers and waterfowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A view from an oak grove.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/dosrios-gconcepcion-23-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the Oak Tree Grove, photographed on June 28, 2024, in Dos Rios, located in Modesto. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Working with nature to tame floodwater risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While flooding is now welcome at Dos Rios, for Central Valley farmers and residents, it has long been a demon. It destroys crops and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/lower_sj_river/final_eis-eir/01_San%20Joaquin%20River%20Basin%20Lower%20San%20Joaquin%20River_CA%20FINAL%20IIFR_EIS_EIR.pdf?ver=2018-02-01-184425-453\">2018 report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u003c/a> and its state partners says that Stockton, a large metropolitan city about 30 miles north of Dos Rios, faced an “unacceptably high risk of flooding from levee failure.” Dos Rios is meant to be an escape valve before torrents of water threaten levees in nearby places like Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is reducing flood risk for downstream communities by absorbing floodwaters as they pour out of the Sierra Nevadas,” Rentner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reengineering Dos Rios involved cutting holes into berms and levees and allowing the rivers to flood instead of attempting to constrain them. The floodwaters then soak into the ground, sparing nearby communities and recharging groundwater. Rentner says these solutions are designed to work \u003cem>with\u003c/em> nature instead of against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses looks out a window.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM.png 1288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-800x983.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-1020x1253.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-160x197.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.13.58 AM-1251x1536.png 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilia Lomeli-Gil has lived in Grayson for most of her life. She runs the community center there but wants more recreational spaces for the people of Grayson. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another community that could benefit from Dos Rios is Grayson, a small, unincorporated area just a few miles west of the park. Lilia Lomeli-Gil, a community leader there, remembers suffering from the devastating floods of 1997. At the time, she lived in Modesto, just east of Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still brings tears to my eyes,” she says, recalling her house swamped with 3 to 4 feet of water. “We had to start over, we were homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Lomeli-Gil and her husband were able to relocate back to Grayson, where she had spent most of her life. Now she says she is relieved that Dos Rios is in Grayson’s backyard — not only because of flood-risk mitigation but also because it’s a new place to recreate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place to go barbecue, join other family members,” and it’s a place to appreciate nature for local community members, she says. “I think that emotionally, it’s going to be very good for their mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson is a tiny, 4-by-5-block farming community. Most of the residents are agricultural workers. The community center Lomeli-Gil runs is the only gathering place in town for residents, other than the gas station market next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more; we need a variety, not just one place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1738px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt='Two people look at sign and image of a river that says \"Dos Rios.\"' width=\"1738\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM.png 1738w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.07 AM-1536x1016.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1738px) 100vw, 1738px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grayson muralist Jose Muñóz hand-painted this sign welcoming visitors to Dos Rios. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A new place to enjoy nature\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At 8:30 on a recent Friday morning, Lomeli-Gil had gathered a group of parents, teenagers and young children from Grayson around picnic benches on the edge of an old riverbank at Dos Rios. Like most of the surrounding community, everyone in the group speaks Spanish, so their tour guides, Eduardo Gonzalez and Julian Morin, led the group through a portion of the park in English and Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to continue to increase accessibility to parks; they’re out here for everybody,” Morin says. “Language barriers shouldn’t be why people can’t get out and enjoy state parks and experience everything they have to offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez leads the group on a walking path that, in a way, divides the past and future of this park: An old almond orchard is on one side, and a lush landscape of bushes, trees, birds and animals on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Several people walk outside near a river.\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1158\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM.png 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.18 AM-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Gonzalez and Julian Morin lead Grayson community members on a tour of Dos Rios in late June. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Spanish, Gonzalez says, “Twelve years ago, this was \u003cem>all \u003c/em>pure orchard, and [River Partners] removed them.” Pointing to the other side of the path, where birds are chirping loudly, he says, “And they began to plant more native plants that were here before agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells the group that, like the rest of the park, that almond orchard will eventually become a campground or a place for families to gather. The park will also offer family events like group campfires and stargazing nights. When school is in session, the park plans to organize educational visits for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opening up the land to Indigenous people as a place to gather plants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Dos Rios team has also consulted with Indigenous tribes about how this new park can benefit their communities. Austin Stevenot, the San Joaquin field manager for River Partners, first came across the organization a few years ago when they invited his extended family to visit the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenot and his family are members of the Northern Sierra Miwok tribe. Stevenot consulted his mother and aunts, founding members of the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association. They put together planting palettes of native plants — like a mood board for plants — that would be beneficial to the habitat but also for Indigenous medicinal and cultural practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the things we were like, ‘It would be great to gather this here!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1282px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A headshot of a man wearing a dark colored hat and shirt.\" width=\"1282\" height=\"1608\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM.png 1282w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-800x1003.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-1020x1279.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.30 AM-1225x1536.png 1225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Stevenot helped design the Native Use Garden at Dos Rios. He hopes the entire park will one day be a place where tribal members can go to gather plants for cultural practices. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stevenot brought members of local tribes to plant native shrubs like Valley Sedge, which is used for basket weaving or mugwort, used as a natural bug repellent. Now, a 3-acre Native Use Garden is blooming at Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century ago, he says, his people were forcibly removed from their ancestral village, about 60 miles from here. So it means a lot to him to have a piece of this land his family and other Indigenous people can use as their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a big weed patch right now. But there’s a lot here. There’s a lot of meaning here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though removing plants from public lands is typically illegal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/36/2.6\">a 2016 rule\u003c/a> permits parks to enter into plant-gathering agreements with Native American tribes. Stevenot says tribal members can reach out to the park to inquire about accessing the Native Use Garden now. Still, their goal is for the park to eventually implement a formal permitting process for tribal members to gather anywhere in Dos Rios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need thousands more acres just like this,” he says. “Not just not for just water, not for habitat, but for the people of the land, for the people that were here long before anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1736px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"Plants in a field.\" width=\"1736\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM.png 1736w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.37 AM-1536x1152.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1736px) 100vw, 1736px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Native Use Garden is a place where tribal members can gather native plants for ceremonial use and other cultural practices with permission from Dos Rios staff. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>’10 more Dos Rioses’ in the next 10 years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dos Rios holds great promise for the Central Valley — it provides new recreational space, restores native habitat, protects against flood damage and recharges dwindling groundwater in the Central Valley. But it’s only about 2 1/2 square miles in a vast region dominated by agricultural farms, and even restoring that much land has been no easy task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in the Central Valley, we have a history of fighting over water, really being at odds with the environmental movement,” Julie Rentner says. But she adds that over the years, the community surrounding Dos Rios has shown great excitement about its multiple benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1736px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48%E2%80%AFAM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"A man holds a plant outside.\" width=\"1736\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM.png 1736w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-800x595.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-1020x759.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-11.14.48 AM-1536x1143.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1736px) 100vw, 1736px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevenot rubs the leaves of a mugwort plant, which he explains has ceremonial uses and also works as a mosquito repellant. \u003ccite>(Geloy Concepcion/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You talk to anybody in this neighborhood, and you realize, oh my gosh, we all want the same things,” she says. “We want clean, healthy communities to live in. We want beautiful places to be able to take our kids and grandkids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says California’s state government is on board with more projects like Dos Rios, as evidenced by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order, which has been dubbed the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.californianature.ca.gov/\">30 x 30\u003c/a>” initiative because it aims to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by the year 2030. “And that encouraged us to think, how do you scale all of this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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