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Studies in \u003ca href=\"https://finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/articles/predominantly-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/\">Washington, D.C.\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/report/Red_Light_and_Speed_Cameras_Analyzing_the_Equity_and_Efficacy_of_Chicago_s_Automated_Camera_Enforcement_Program/22184059\">Chicago \u003c/a>show that tickets from automated enforcement are paid disproportionately by people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Automated enforcement has become a significant revenue driver for the city,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.equiticity.com/oboi\">Olatunji Oboi Reed\u003c/a>, who runs a nonprofit in Chicago called Equiticity. “And it’s financially harmful to Black and brown people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Reed says, Chicago has failed to fix some of the most dangerous intersections or to redesign roads to discourage speeding and encourage biking or public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only solution we get is automated enforcement,” Reed says. “That’s not a failure of Black people who speed and run red lights. 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And all of them, if they’ve changed their policies over the last couple of years, are actually moving towards having people in more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain return to the office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The debate around return-to-office policies has been playing out for well over a year now as bosses and workers navigate what a post-pandemic world should look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the private sector, in-office requirements were becoming stricter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1196731284/return-to-office-rto-hybrid-remote-work-from-home-zoom\">NPR’s Andrea Hsu reported in September\u003c/a>, echoing what Smith’s policy tracking has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11955554 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230630100-Van-Ness-MB-KQED-1020x453.jpg']“What we’ve found is, people have enjoyed coming back to the office,” Zoom’s chief people officer, Matthew Saxon, said last year. “There is a buzz. There’s something about being able to go have lunch with your teammates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoom is just one company on a growing list that is veering away from remote work by bumping up weekly mandatory days in the office for employees. Some other companies have started requiring employees to move near office hubs and have begun eliminating fully remote positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is despite some workers reporting higher levels of job satisfaction, work-life balance and productivity when given the choice between working remotely or in the office, and some researchers saying that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227828564/has-remote-work-really-been-tragic-for-big-companies-bottom-lines\">in-office presence has not helped big companies make more money\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A possible pivot away from office space altogether\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/24/1221480443/most-homes-for-sale-in-2023-were-not-affordable-for-a-typical-u-s-household\">well-documented housing problem\u003c/a> and as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1174938708/commercial-real-estate-property-offices-work-from-home-remote-work\">office-building landlords face a vacancy crisis\u003c/a>, some people have begun exploring whether there could be a mutually beneficial resolution for the two groups — converting empty buildings into residential housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976145\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1020x336.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1536x506.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-2048x675.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-100-Van-Ness-DIPTYCH-MD-01-1920x633.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The 100 Van Ness building in San Francisco, which was built in 1974, was converted from office space to residential apartment units in 2012. 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"content": "\u003cp>A little over a month ago, the small California community of Jacumba, on the U.S.-Mexico border, was a scene of chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds — sometimes as many as a thousand — migrants, including children, were stuck in open-air camps for hours and even days on end to await processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They had little access to water, food, shelter or even bathrooms. Local townspeople told NPR they felt overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing seizures, diabetic emergencies, broken bones, burns, lots of burns,” said local resident and volunteer Karen Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sam Schultz, volunteer and local resident\"]‘Up until a week ago we were having people dropped off in the camps all during the day and night. At this point the numbers are just 10% of what they were before.’[/pullquote]Just a few weeks later, the situation in Jacumba has changed dramatically. The camp is still there, and those inside are no less desperate. But the numbers are down sharply, and local residents say that is just part of the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When NPR returned to Jacumba earlier this month following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/21/1213597119/border-patrol-migrants-unofficial-camps-jacumba-california-desert\">an investigation last year into unofficial migrant detention camps\u003c/a>, it was much colder. In one of the camps, a few feet away from the U.S.-Mexico border wall, amidst piles of trash, several dozen families, including small children, huddled around crackling makeshift bonfires. Kurdish, Mexican, Bangladeshi, Colombian and Dominican families spoke about how they had crossed the border a few hours earlier and were waiting to be taken by border agents for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she tried to warm up by the fire, a woman named Eli sobbed while remembering her son, who she said was killed recently by a drug cartel in Zacatecas, Mexico, where she’s from. She fled with six family members. They asked that we withhold their last name, for fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want is to stay together, and stay alive,” Eli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4778_small_custom-f40f92a2ab0abb4939270c9d7f6a30dc3addeda6-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Open Air Detention Camps had as many as 1000 people at a time waiting for processing back in December 2023, but recently there’s been a significant decrease. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At sunrise, Border Patrol arrived. An agent instructed everyone to put out their bonfires. And a bus took everyone for processing. Once they left, the camp was deserted, just piles of trash, empty makeshift tents and some smoldering fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eli, would-be asylum seeker\"]‘All we want is to stay together, and stay alive.’[/pullquote]CBP declined to address specific questions about the Jacumba camp, but following NPR’s investigation in November the agency provided a statement saying that its “officers and agents prioritize the health and safety of all those they encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locals say the decrease in border crossings and people being held at the camps, started around early January, and came practically overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until a week ago we were having people dropped off in the camps all during the day and night,” said volunteer and local resident Sam Schultz. “At this point the numbers are just 10% of what they were before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"res1227143164\" class=\"bucketwrap image x-large\">\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973991\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would-be asylum seekers await processing by Border Patrol agents. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">What Schultz described has happened along the border. A spike in unauthorized crossings in December, followed, government sources say, by a dip in January.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\n\u003cp>U.S. officials have told NPR that the dip is related to a series of meetings in late December between the Mexican government and White House officials regarding immigration enforcement. Nothing official was announced following the meetings — in fact Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly criticized U.S. immigration policy after the meetings, saying that only addressing the root causes of migration (poverty, violence, repression) can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sam Schultz, volunteer and local resident\"]‘I’ve seen them actually arresting people on the side, and taking them away. Yeah. They’re there.’[/pullquote]But, official sources have told NPR that the Mexican National Guard is ramping up its enforcement. Suddenly, you can see them from Jacumba on the other side of the border fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen them now very often,” said Schultz. “I’ve seen them actually arresting people on the side, and taking them away. Yeah. They’re there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would hardly be the first time that Mexico has increased immigration enforcement following pressure from the U.S. It was a strategy during both the Trump and Obama administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say historically, it’s a strategy that simply pushes desperate people to cross through more dangerous routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973995\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973995\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-5098_small_custom-98a2e944e7b20460647ac132d9e617b3960c4a09-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Customs and Border Patrol take face scans of each migrant in the field. This info is input into facial recognition systems that are used with the extensive camera arrays along the border. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day after visiting the camps in Jacumba, NPR headed west to Otay, a 3,500-foot mountain that separates Mexico from San Diego. We were tagging along with a group called the\u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/borderlandsreliefcollective\"> Borderlands Relief Collective\u003c/a>, a humanitarian group that leaves water and first aid for migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landscape in Otay is distinctly different from Jacumba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Hauser, volunteer\"]‘It is an arduous, dangerous trek. Where we’re gonna go is a path typically taken by people who are not looking to be found.’[/pullquote]“It is an arduous, dangerous trek,” explained volunteer Joseph Hauser. “Where we’re gonna go is a path typically taken by people who are not looking to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauser has been doing this work for about a year, but said “I’ve only really started running into people when we come out here in the last month, month and a half.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was still dark out when we started driving up the mountain, but we barely made it a few miles before being intercepted by two women and a toddler. They were from Nigeria and Guinea and had been hiking for around five hours. The mother was sobbing — her feet were starting to give out. The 3-year-old was quiet. 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They were from Ecuador and had a 6-year-old. They too had crossed overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwin didn’t want to provide his last name because his family was crossing without papers. “Look,” he said, “I’m scared. I’m scared that if I get caught, who will take care of them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973998\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-9919_small_custom-6d67c9d2d66a53740a9145de55278eeac8eb6029-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of humanitarian group Borderlands Relief Collective attend to the wounds, hypothermia and hunger of migrants after the migrants have walked for roughly 7 hours through rugged terrain in the Otay Mountains on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said throughout his journey up north through Mexico there were forces from the Mexican National Guard. He said they just wanted bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Edwin, would-be asylum-seeker\"]‘We kept hearing about how hard the border is getting. You could get deported. Too many people. So, we did this instead, and turned ourselves over to the will of God.’[/pullquote]Edwin said he was warned about the rough terrain that he and his family would have to endure, but that he felt an urgency to attempt the journey anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kept hearing about how hard the border is getting. You could get deported. Too many people. So, we did this instead, and turned ourselves over to the will of God,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After volunteers tended to the migrants, we continued up the Otay mountain. The terrain got steeper and more slippery. About an hour later, in a crevice on the side of the mountain, there was an altar. It was filled with candles, rosaries, a bible, money offerings in foreign coinage and images of Saint Toribio Romo, patron saint of migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the images contained this text: \u003cem>“Protect my family, now that I have had to leave them behind … allow me to come back home soon.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973999\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-0170_small_custom-34f696fad579f4ef2a75f9083426daba135c83eb-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants, having walked for roughly 7 hours through rugged terrain in the Otay Mountains, celebrate their first taste of America south of Dulzura, San Diego County, on Jan. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CBP declined to address specific questions about the Jacumba camp, but following NPR’s investigation in November the agency provided a statement saying that its “officers and agents prioritize the health and safety of all those they encounter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locals say the decrease in border crossings and people being held at the camps, started around early January, and came practically overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until a week ago we were having people dropped off in the camps all during the day and night,” said volunteer and local resident Sam Schultz. “At this point the numbers are just 10% of what they were before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"res1227143164\" class=\"bucketwrap image x-large\">\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973991\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/ponders-npr-campo-4910_small_custom-a9277699b53a00f6f37d3c41cc01509c8b04d404-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would-be asylum seekers await processing by Border Patrol agents. \u003ccite>(Ash Ponders for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">What Schultz described has happened along the border. A spike in unauthorized crossings in December, followed, government sources say, by a dip in January.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv data-crop-type=\"\">\n\u003cp>U.S. officials have told NPR that the dip is related to a series of meetings in late December between the Mexican government and White House officials regarding immigration enforcement. Nothing official was announced following the meetings — in fact Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly criticized U.S. immigration policy after the meetings, saying that only addressing the root causes of migration (poverty, violence, repression) can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A New York jury on Friday ordered former President Donald Trump to pay a total of $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for ruining her credibility as an advice columnist when he called her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury awarded Carroll $65 million in punitive damages, $11 million for the damage to her reputation and another $7.3 million. Trump is almost certain to appeal the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the size of the penalty, the verdict was not unexpected. Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled even before the trial that Trump had, in fact, defamed Carroll. The jury only had to decide how much Trump owed her — not if he was liable. This is the second time Trump has been ordered to pay Carroll; last year, he was mandated by a jury to pay $5 million for a separate instance of defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"E. 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I fully disagree with both verdicts and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party.’[/pullquote]Carroll then sued Trump for defamation, arguing that his comments ruined her reputation as a trusted source in the media and resulted in a slew of insults and threatening messages, emails and comments to her social media accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr blocked the lawsuit, arguing Trump had made the comments in his official capacity as president. This caused the lawsuit to be stuck in court for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Biden’s Justice Department reversed course and allowed the first lawsuit on defamation to move forward. In part because of the 2023 decision that had found Trump liable for assault, Judge Kaplan ruled that Trump had defamed Carroll in 2019 and that the former president was also liable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What testimony showed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carroll herself was the first witness to take the stand — putting her face to face with Trump, who attended the first few days of the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll testified that she felt as if Trump calling her a liar “ended the world I had been living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101895225 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/12/iStock-535518816-1-1020x574.jpg']While she used to receive hundreds of emails asking for advice to her column email, she said, she now received fewer than 10 a month. Instead, she said, she received threats and insults. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>We regularly answer frequently asked questions about the coronavirus. If you have a question you’d like us to consider for a future post, email us at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"mailto:goatsandsoda@npr.org\">\u003cem>goatsandsoda@npr.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> with the subject line: “Weekly Coronavirus Questions.” See an archive of our FAQs \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/926361810/coronavirus-faqs\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a physician and infectious disease epidemiologist, I’ve seen a lot of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, and there’s a question I hear over and over:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How is it possible that my partner — or child or sibling or roommate — tested positive for COVID-19, and even though I slept in the same room or lived in the same house, I didn’t come down with the virus?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weren’t they breathing out infectious particles for days on end? And I assume I was breathing them in. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is an answer to this question. But it’s a bit complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, let’s review how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads. While some viruses are primarily passed through contact with the bodily fluids (Ebola) or skin (mpox) of someone who’s infected, SARS-CoV-2 is easier to catch. It’s spread \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/about-covid-19.html\">mainly\u003c/a> through the air in invisible aerosols (and to a lesser extent in large droplets) that the infected person emits while breathing, talking, sneezing, coughing, laughing or snoring. The aerosols can hang around in the air for hours, and others can inhale them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So yes, if someone in your house is exhaling SARS-CoV-2-viral particles, you could breathe them in and become infected. But … here’s why that does not always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two points to ponder. One: The person with COVID is not contagious at all times. Two: Different factors can reduce the risk of getting infected by a housemate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The incubation period\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For starters, someone who is sick with COVID-19 is not infectious from the moment they catch the virus to the moment they test negative (or their symptoms go away). Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 have different stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all starts when you’re first exposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you breathe in enough viral particles and your immune system doesn’t vanquish the pathogens you’ve inhaled, the timer starts for your case of COVID. The virus will incubate in your body until symptoms begin to appear. 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You would not necessarily know when you were exposed to someone contagious because they may have been “pre-symptomatic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things have changed since 2020. Now, most of our immune systems can recognize the virus — as a result of previous exposures and/or being vaccinated. The immune system’s reaction to even a small amount of virus could be symptoms like coughing, sore throat, running nose or a fever. With our immune systems primed, the body’s response comes much more quickly than it would have back in 2020 when SARS-CoV-2 was a novel pathogen. So those symptoms could appear early on after exposure — even before we’re infectious. This was shown \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad582/7285011\">in a study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Clinical Infectious Disease\u003c/em> that examined people’s symptoms compared to how much virus they were carrying across the days of their infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The infectious window\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The infectious window — the period during which you’re contagious — varies from person to person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, it may only be a couple of days, whereas, for others, it can be a week or even longer (especially in people who are immunocompromised and can’t easily clear the virus).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re lucky, your housemate will have a short window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the matter of quantity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, if not most, people will transmit only small amounts of SARS-CoV-2 after getting infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 happens from a relatively small number of highly infectious people — called superspreaders. Research on transmission has shown a \u003ca href=\"https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-15915-1\">wide variation\u003c/a> in how many people get infected by one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some superspreaders are just biologically capable of shedding a lot of viruses. One study published in November 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad701/7424866?login=true#432788078\">found an association\u003c/a> between higher BMI in men and higher viral loads. Other superspreaders could have a big network of people they come into contact with — for example, infecting \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770172\">on a bus\u003c/a> or in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm\">choir\u003c/a> setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You can reduce the amount of pathogens you’re exposed to\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just breathing in a pathogen doesn’t mean you’ll get sick. This is the difference between exposure versus actual infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a pathogen to cause disease, you must be exposed to enough of it — the minimum infectious dose — so it can overcome your immune defenses. Some pathogens can do their work with a tiny infectious dose, meaning even just a few microbes or viral particles are sufficient to infect you, while others require a much heftier exposure. [aside label='More Stories on Public Health' tag='public-health']That’s why you’re unlikely to catch COVID from, say, dashing into a grocery store for a quick shop and perhaps breathing in a very small amount of virus. The \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ChristoPhraser/status/1737513787563868270?s=20\">duration of exposure\u003c/a> and the concentration of the pathogen in its preferred route (air, for this virus) affect your chance of getting sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are exposed to small amounts of pathogens all the time, but usually, it is not enough to cause disease. Sometimes, however, it is. A more sinister example of these principles is Coxiella burnetii, the bacteria that causes “Q Fever.” It can spread to people from animals, including farm animals, and is on the list of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.selectagents.gov/sat/list.htm\">select agents\u003c/a>” for bioterrorism concerns. The bacteria has a very low infectious dose, is stable in the environment and can spread so effectively that even living miles downwind of a farm is a risk factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing the dose you are exposed to is one way to avoid infection. For SARS-CoV-2, opening windows can dilute the cloud of aerosols by bringing in fresh air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your home has a fan with an air filter or you’re using a HEPA air purifier, the infectious aerosol particles \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2023/02/03/diy-filtration/\">can become trapped in the filter\u003c/a> rather than in your lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reiterate, the cumulative dose you inhale depends on the time you spend in a place and the concentration of viral particles there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masks that are worn correctly and consistently will also reduce that dose. If your housemate is infected and you wear an effective mask (a well-fitting N95, for example), the mask will trap most of the viral particles, reducing the amount you inhale. If the person with COVID masks up, that will decrease the quantity of pathogens they’re emitting into the air as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Your immune system (or medications) could save you\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been vaccinated or had a prior infection, your immune system could be able to knock out the pathogen. The older you get, the less effective your immune system will be. And if you have a medical condition that makes your immune system weaker — like cancer or chronic diseases like diabetes — that could also play a role in whether exposure to viral particles will lead to infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For healthy people exposed to a sick person, antiviral drugs (or antibiotics for bacteria) can often avert infection after exposure — this is called post-exposure prophylaxis and is used for many infections already, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/hiv-prevention/using-hiv-medication-to-reduce-risk/post-exposure-prophylaxis/\">HIV\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211934\">gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis\u003c/a>. [aside postID=news_11966797 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1387450682-672x372.jpg']In one study, researchers looked at whether those living at home with someone infected with COVID-19 were less likely to get sick if they used the antiviral Paxlovid. The study found a signal — \u003ca href=\"https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-shares-top-line-results-phase-23-epic-pep-study\">a 32% reduced risk\u003c/a> of getting sick compared to placebo — but did not meet statistical significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in conclusion, yes, you can live with someone with COVID and not catch it. Because infectious disease transmission is complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, we do see weird things happening with infectious diseases every single day. So yes, in theory, you could catch, say, mpox from dust particles on a patient’s blanket. This happened in a \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32023204/\">famous case\u003c/a> from the U.K., but it is exceedingly rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t fall for the trap of thinking that your single example represents the general trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to COVID, let me assure you: It is contagious — but remember, that doesn’t mean everyone who is in contact with someone infected will catch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was infected a few weeks ago. My mother and sister were both in the car with me hours before I felt sick and tested positive. My sister got COVID days later. But my mother never got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">\u003cem>Abraar Karan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is an infectious disease physician and researcher at Stanford University. He worked on the COVID-19 pandemic for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the mpox outbreak for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And when do you become contagious – marking the transition from the “latent” stage to the “infectious” stage? There’s no way to know the exact moment this happens. It’s a complex biological process, and for everyone, it will be a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we can make certain inferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, many people wonder: Can you be contagious before symptoms of COVID appear?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on in the pandemic, the answer was definitely yes – and that’s one reason why it was so hard to control COVID. We knew this from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2008457\">studies\u003c/a> that showed transmission happening before the sick person had any symptoms. You would not necessarily know when you were exposed to someone contagious because they may have been “pre-symptomatic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things have changed since 2020. Now, most of our immune systems can recognize the virus — as a result of previous exposures and/or being vaccinated. The immune system’s reaction to even a small amount of virus could be symptoms like coughing, sore throat, running nose or a fever. With our immune systems primed, the body’s response comes much more quickly than it would have back in 2020 when SARS-CoV-2 was a novel pathogen. So those symptoms could appear early on after exposure — even before we’re infectious. This was shown \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad582/7285011\">in a study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Clinical Infectious Disease\u003c/em> that examined people’s symptoms compared to how much virus they were carrying across the days of their infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The infectious window\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The infectious window — the period during which you’re contagious — varies from person to person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, it may only be a couple of days, whereas, for others, it can be a week or even longer (especially in people who are immunocompromised and can’t easily clear the virus).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re lucky, your housemate will have a short window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the matter of quantity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, if not most, people will transmit only small amounts of SARS-CoV-2 after getting infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 happens from a relatively small number of highly infectious people — called superspreaders. Research on transmission has shown a \u003ca href=\"https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-15915-1\">wide variation\u003c/a> in how many people get infected by one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some superspreaders are just biologically capable of shedding a lot of viruses. One study published in November 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad701/7424866?login=true#432788078\">found an association\u003c/a> between higher BMI in men and higher viral loads. Other superspreaders could have a big network of people they come into contact with — for example, infecting \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770172\">on a bus\u003c/a> or in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e6.htm\">choir\u003c/a> setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You can reduce the amount of pathogens you’re exposed to\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just breathing in a pathogen doesn’t mean you’ll get sick. This is the difference between exposure versus actual infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a pathogen to cause disease, you must be exposed to enough of it — the minimum infectious dose — so it can overcome your immune defenses. Some pathogens can do their work with a tiny infectious dose, meaning even just a few microbes or viral particles are sufficient to infect you, while others require a much heftier exposure. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lots of industries have embraced artificial intelligence as a tool this past year, including climate solutions companies. From detecting pollution to wildfires, companies are finding AI can help translate vast amounts of climate-related data faster and more efficiently, says Sasha Luccioni, climate lead for AI company Hugging Face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luccioni notes it’s important to be cautious about whether AI is always necessary. Generative AI, which makes new content, can use large amounts of energy and have a big carbon footprint. But she says there are many applications for AI in the green transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four ways companies, researchers and governments use AI for climate solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to detect planet-heating methane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane emissions, the second biggest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, are climbing. The highly potent pollutant — the main ingredient in natural gas — gets released by the energy sector, as well as agriculture and decomposing material in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-11-23-ai-automatically-detects-methane-plumes-space-could-be-powerful-tool-combating\"> researchers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.accenture.com/us-en/case-studies/utilities/duke-energy-powers-ai-platform\">companies\u003c/a> are using AI to interpret huge quantities of satellite images to track global methane emissions on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we could mine satellite information with AI, we had no idea where methane was coming from,” says Antoine Halff, co-founder and chief analyst at Kayrros, a climate analytics firm. “We understood the climate risk that this represented. But there was no understanding of the sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kayrros began in 2016, Halff says the world knew about only a handful of occurrences of large methane leaks and other releases. He says his team can now detect dozens of them every week and thousands yearly. “For methane,” Halff says, “AI really reveals things that could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations uses Kayrros’s AI-fueled data to verify that companies’ reports on methane emissions are accurate. Other governments are gearing up for more methane monitoring:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216401828/epa-aims-to-slash-the-oil-industrys-climate-warming-methane-pollution\"> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/eu-methane-emissions-law-pollution-0c7e15ee81a05aad88e56935ae24216f\"> the European Union\u003c/a> recently passed new methane regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because methane is so potent, targeting it through AI makes strategic sense, Halff says. “If you eliminate methane emissions today,” he says, “you can very quickly have an impact on the curve of global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971401\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"a field of gas and oil drills\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI for early detection of forest fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, and those burns are making up an\u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2023/03/02/wildfires-in-2021-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-carbon-dioxide/\"> increasing share\u003c/a> of planet-heating pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a Berlin-based startup uses AI with sensors in forests to find small burns before they spread into megafires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryad.net/team\">Carsten Brinkschulte\u003c/a>, CEO of Dryad, uses AI to train sensors to detect the specific gasses that get released when organic material burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically like an electronic nose that we embed in the forest,” Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nose-like sensors can detect the fires early in the smoldering stage, “when it’s still easy or relatively easy to extinguish the fire,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has 50 sensor installations from the Middle East to California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/18/2797950/0/en/Dryad-s-Silvanet-Detects-Unauthorized-Wildfire-in-Lebanon-in-30-Minutes-Prompting-Timely-Response-and-Resolution.html\">Last month in Lebanon\u003c/a>, sensors reacted to a small fire within 30 minutes, Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to prevent new wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another way to stop megafires is to set “controlled burns” outside of fire season to remove the excess brush and vegetation that become fuel for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, so-called burn managers — who are people from utilities, the federal forest service or other entities — deploy teams to designated areas to set controlled burns. (Native tribes have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">long history of making these controlled burns\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do the work safely, burn managers need lots of information to know how the fire might behave so it doesn’t spin out of control. They need to know things like the wind conditions and amount of moisture in the vegetation, says Yolanda Gil, director for strategic AI and data science initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After interviewing fire scientists, Gil and their team used AI to create a so-called intelligent or smart assistant —like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa —that can access vast data sets and complex models. Burn managers can use these Siri-like assistants to decide where and when to make controlled burns. “It’s kind of like Siri, but for burn managers,” Gil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil says burn managers can ask the smart assistant about a particular area. The assistant can take information about the topography, the vegetation, weather patterns and recommend a potential burn model —a way to make a safe controlled burn, Gil says. 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These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI in green tech mining\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate solutions from solar panels to electric vehicles require immense amounts of minerals like cobalt, lithium and copper. But current supplies are not enough to meet growing demand. By 2030, projected lithium demand will be five times the current global supply, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.iea.org/\"> International Energy Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, governments, researchers, and companies are using AI to explore critical minerals. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lots of industries have embraced artificial intelligence as a tool this past year, including climate solutions companies. From detecting pollution to wildfires, companies are finding AI can help translate vast amounts of climate-related data faster and more efficiently, says Sasha Luccioni, climate lead for AI company Hugging Face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luccioni notes it’s important to be cautious about whether AI is always necessary. Generative AI, which makes new content, can use large amounts of energy and have a big carbon footprint. But she says there are many applications for AI in the green transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four ways companies, researchers and governments use AI for climate solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to detect planet-heating methane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane emissions, the second biggest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, are climbing. The highly potent pollutant — the main ingredient in natural gas — gets released by the energy sector, as well as agriculture and decomposing material in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-11-23-ai-automatically-detects-methane-plumes-space-could-be-powerful-tool-combating\"> researchers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.accenture.com/us-en/case-studies/utilities/duke-energy-powers-ai-platform\">companies\u003c/a> are using AI to interpret huge quantities of satellite images to track global methane emissions on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we could mine satellite information with AI, we had no idea where methane was coming from,” says Antoine Halff, co-founder and chief analyst at Kayrros, a climate analytics firm. “We understood the climate risk that this represented. But there was no understanding of the sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kayrros began in 2016, Halff says the world knew about only a handful of occurrences of large methane leaks and other releases. He says his team can now detect dozens of them every week and thousands yearly. “For methane,” Halff says, “AI really reveals things that could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations uses Kayrros’s AI-fueled data to verify that companies’ reports on methane emissions are accurate. Other governments are gearing up for more methane monitoring:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216401828/epa-aims-to-slash-the-oil-industrys-climate-warming-methane-pollution\"> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/eu-methane-emissions-law-pollution-0c7e15ee81a05aad88e56935ae24216f\"> the European Union\u003c/a> recently passed new methane regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because methane is so potent, targeting it through AI makes strategic sense, Halff says. “If you eliminate methane emissions today,” he says, “you can very quickly have an impact on the curve of global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971401\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"a field of gas and oil drills\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI for early detection of forest fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, and those burns are making up an\u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2023/03/02/wildfires-in-2021-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-carbon-dioxide/\"> increasing share\u003c/a> of planet-heating pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a Berlin-based startup uses AI with sensors in forests to find small burns before they spread into megafires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryad.net/team\">Carsten Brinkschulte\u003c/a>, CEO of Dryad, uses AI to train sensors to detect the specific gasses that get released when organic material burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically like an electronic nose that we embed in the forest,” Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nose-like sensors can detect the fires early in the smoldering stage, “when it’s still easy or relatively easy to extinguish the fire,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has 50 sensor installations from the Middle East to California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/18/2797950/0/en/Dryad-s-Silvanet-Detects-Unauthorized-Wildfire-in-Lebanon-in-30-Minutes-Prompting-Timely-Response-and-Resolution.html\">Last month in Lebanon\u003c/a>, sensors reacted to a small fire within 30 minutes, Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to prevent new wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another way to stop megafires is to set “controlled burns” outside of fire season to remove the excess brush and vegetation that become fuel for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, so-called burn managers — who are people from utilities, the federal forest service or other entities — deploy teams to designated areas to set controlled burns. (Native tribes have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">long history of making these controlled burns\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do the work safely, burn managers need lots of information to know how the fire might behave so it doesn’t spin out of control. They need to know things like the wind conditions and amount of moisture in the vegetation, says Yolanda Gil, director for strategic AI and data science initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After interviewing fire scientists, Gil and their team used AI to create a so-called intelligent or smart assistant —like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa —that can access vast data sets and complex models. Burn managers can use these Siri-like assistants to decide where and when to make controlled burns. “It’s kind of like Siri, but for burn managers,” Gil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil says burn managers can ask the smart assistant about a particular area. The assistant can take information about the topography, the vegetation, weather patterns and recommend a potential burn model —a way to make a safe controlled burn, Gil says. The goal, they say, is to make these assistants widely available for utilities, the forest service, and others doing controlled burns to make them safer and plentiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to send out the first prototypes of the smart assistants in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2542px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/companies-like-kobold-metals-and-earth-ai-are-using-ai-to-speed-up-the-search-for-critical-minerals-like-lithium-cobalt-and-copper-these-minerals-are-key-for-climate-solutions-like-solar-panels-and/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971385\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292.jpg\" alt=\"a dump truck mining a field of minerals\" width=\"2542\" height=\"1907\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292.jpg 2542w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2542px) 100vw, 2542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI in green tech mining\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate solutions from solar panels to electric vehicles require immense amounts of minerals like cobalt, lithium and copper. But current supplies are not enough to meet growing demand. By 2030, projected lithium demand will be five times the current global supply, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.iea.org/\"> International Energy Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, governments, researchers, and companies are using AI to explore critical minerals. Colin Williams, mineral resources program coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, writes in an email that his team\u003ca href=\"https://criticalminerals.darpa.mil/\"> uses AI\u003c/a> to analyze data to determine which areas in the U.S. have the best potential for mining critical metals. He adds that using AI means “dramatic time savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a lot of data out there about what it looks like under the earth’s surface. Using AI to sift through all this data helps minimize uncertainty, Williams says. 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"title": "Thinking of Getting an EV in 2024? Here's What to Know About Changes to the $7,500 Tax Credit",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you are considering buying an electric car in 2024, there’s good news — and bad news: A hefty federal tax credit for electric vehicles is going to get easier to access next year, but fewer vehicles will likely qualify for the full $7,500 credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax credits are a key part of the Biden administration’s plan to speed up the shift to electric vehicles and slash carbon emissions from transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the government is also trying to push companies to bring more jobs to the U.S. by requiring a domestic supply chain. Those two goals can be in tension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For car shoppers, the result can be confusing. We’ll do our best to help you navigate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a practical, plain English guide to how the electric vehicle tax credit will work in 2024 — including why you may also consider leasing a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s new for 2024: instant rebate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting in January, EV buyers won’t have to wait until the following year’s tax season to claim — and pocket — the clean vehicle tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, there’s a new option to take the credit as a rebate right when you purchase the vehicle. This means that after a bit of paperwork at the dealership, the credit will be available as essentially cash in hand (or, more likely, knocked off the cost of the vehicle) on the day of purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will work like this: First, after confirming the sale is eligible for the tax credit, the dealer basically fronts you the money. If you’re eligible for $7,500, the dealer credits you for that money as though you’d brought it in as cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the dealer submits documentation to the IRS, and the IRS pays back the dealer that $7,500 — effectively meaning the tax credit is being handled through the dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You, the buyer, still need to be under an income cap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An important part of this process is that as the buyer, you need to attest that you are under the income cap, that you’re buying the vehicle for your own use, and that you’re buying it to use in the United States. These \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/credits-for-new-clean-vehicles-purchased-in-2023-or-after\">requirements \u003c/a>have not changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That income cap is based on “modified adjusted gross income” — your income after certain deductions (like retirement contributions). It’s generally Line 11 on your \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf\">1040 form\u003c/a>, but you’ll need to add those back in if you have foreign income or income from Guam or Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The income caps for new vehicles are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$300,000 for married couples filing jointly\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$225,000 for heads of households\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$150,000 for all other filers\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note that adjusted gross income (AGI) is not the same as total income (your salary before any deductions) or taxable income (which is AGI minus standard or itemized deductions).[aside label=\"more EV coverage\" tag=\"electric-vehicles\"]“It’s definitely confusing,” says Alison Flores, a manager with the Tax Institute at H&R Block. “Let’s say you’re single. Your salary is $160,000 a year. You may say, ‘Oh, I don’t qualify because I’m over $150,000,'” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But contributions to a 401(k), for instance, could easily mean your AGI is actually under the limit, she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you aren’t sure how much money you’ll make in 2024? You can use the previous year’s income to qualify — as long as you are under that cap in either 2023 or 2024, you’re eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you make more than you expected? If you tell the dealer you are sure you met the income cap requirement, and it turns out you were over the cap in both 2023 and 2024, then you will need to repay the IRS the $7,500 tax credit when you file your 2024 taxes. (The dealer is not involved; that’s between you and the IRS to work out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It no longer matters how much you owe in taxes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is another big benefit to taking the credit as a rebate: You get the full credit, regardless of your tax liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, a buyer would need a tax liability of at least $7,500 in a given year to get the full benefit of the credit. That’s because the credit could reduce your tax bill to zero, but it would never result in the IRS actually paying you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That functioned like an income \u003cem>minimum\u003c/em> since many low- and middle-income families owe less than that in taxes. It was also just another headache for people trying to figure out how much the credit was actually worth to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, even families with no tax liability at all can get the tax credit, effectively as a cash discount for the vehicle purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don’t need to calculate your taxes in advance to be confident in the amount you’ll get.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vehicles need to be made in America and under a price cap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles can both qualify for the tax credit. To be eligible, vehicles must meet battery size and vehicle weight requirements and, more significantly, meet these two requirements:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Be assembled in North America\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have a sticker price (MSRP) of less than $55,000 for cars and $80,000 for SUVs and trucks\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s not always obvious which vehicles get the $55,000 cap and which get the $80,000 cap; you can confirm on \u003ca href=\"https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax2023.shtml#requirements\">fueleconomy.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Features can push up the sticker price, and some vehicles are assembled in multiple locations. Dealers can verify whether those requirements are met for any individual car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Battery-sourcing requirements\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The number of vehicles that \u003ca href=\"https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax2023.shtml\">qualify as of now\u003c/a> is frequently changing. Here’s why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $7,500 tax credit is actually two separate credits, each worth $3,750. Vehicles can qualify for both, one or neither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify, in addition to the basic criteria above, the batteries in vehicles matter. That’s because the materials that go into those batteries also need to meet sourcing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These requirements are designed to encourage the auto industry to rely less on China and more on the U.S. for these components in the name of supply chain security and U.S. jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the $3,750 credits focuses on the raw materials inside batteries, meaning a certain percentage of critical minerals, like lithium, graphite and cobalt, need to be mined or processed in the U.S. or a trade partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other $3,750 credit is about battery manufacturing: A certain percentage of the battery’s components, like anodes, cathodes and electrolytes, need to be manufactured or assembled in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, the percentages go up, and the requirements get a little harder to meet. Also, starting next year, battery components can’t come from companies controlled by China.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The list of qualifying cars is shifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So which cars will qualify next year? Good question. Again, you can check \u003ca href=\"https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax2023.shtml#requirements\">fueleconomy.gov\u003c/a> for a list of eligible vehicles, but as of late December, the site hasn’t been updated for 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some changes are likely. Tesla is warning buyers that some versions of the Model 3 will see their tax credit eligibility end after Dec. 31, and Ford believes the same is true for the Mustang Mach-E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Volkswagen is “cautiously optimistic” that the Chattanooga, Tennessee-built ID.4 will remain eligible, and General Motors says it expects to keep the credit for “many” of its EVs. Nissan is still assessing the status of its Leaf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worth noting: It’s when a vehicle is \u003cem>delivered\u003c/em>, not when it’s ordered or paid for, that affects which year’s requirements apply. That means if the Mach-E does drop out of eligibility in 2024, a buyer who ordered the vehicle in December but picks it up on Jan. 1 will be out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Leasing a car could lead to far fewer restrictions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want to lease a vehicle, you can forget everything you just read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicles that are leased to consumers can be eligible for a version of the tax credit that is much easier to qualify for. It has no requirement that vehicles be made in America, no price cap for vehicles and no income caps. So if you want to lease a Kia EV6 from South Korea or a six-figure luxury sedan? Go to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit goes to the company leasing out the vehicle — not the person driving it — and companies aren’t required to pass the savings on to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, companies typically do pass along the discount in the form of a bonus applied at the start of the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, with a lease, you have caps on mileage per year, and you’re not paying off a vehicle that you’ll eventually own free and clear. Be sure to consider whether a lease meets your needs. Make sure the discount is actually passed along to you, and read your entire contract carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EV leases have \u003ca href=\"https://www.autonews.com/finance-insurance/ev-leasing-gets-boost-us-tax-credit-workaround\">increased dramatically\u003c/a> since April 2023, when many vehicles became ineligible for the purchase tax credit as the battery-sourcing restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1169763545/electric-cars-vehicles-tax-credit-climate-bill\">kicked in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget: There is also a credit for buying a used EV\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Do the prices for new electric vehicles make you feel faint?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, if they do, consider used ones. That’s because if you buy a used electric vehicle in 2024, from model year 2022 or earlier, there’s a tax credit for you, too. It’s worth 30% of the sales price, up to $4,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tax credit has a much lower income cap: $150,000 for a household and $75,000 for a single person. Again, that’s adjusted gross income, meaning an individual’s salary may be higher than that, and the person could still qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lower price cap, too: Vehicles must cost less than $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Used-EV prices have been falling rapidly lately, so while availability is still pretty tight, a qualifying vehicle is easier to find now than it used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of other requirements: This needs to be the first time the car was sold as a used vehicle since mid-2022. (That way, the IRS knows the used-vehicle credit gets applied only once.) You also have to buy the used vehicle from a dealership, not from an individual, and that dealership has to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/register-your-dealership-to-enable-credits-for-clean-vehicle-buyers\">registered with the IRS\u003c/a> to be able to report the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some buyers may be getting creative to meet that last requirement. The app Caramel, which is designed to facilitate private-party vehicle sales, is technically a licensed dealership. The company reports that EVs, and specifically used EVs potentially eligible for the tax credit, make up a surprisingly high percentage of transactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caramel says it plans to offer the tax credit for 2024 as an upfront discount, just like a brick-and-mortar dealership would.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finally, you can get a very hefty credit for a business vehicle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you run a business, you may be interested in the separate commercial tax credit for EVs, which provides up to $7,500 for a light vehicle and up to $40,000 for a larger vehicle, like a delivery truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are far fewer restrictions on the commercial tax credit in terms of price cap or sourcing requirements. 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Also, starting next year, battery components can’t come from companies controlled by China.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The list of qualifying cars is shifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So which cars will qualify next year? Good question. Again, you can check \u003ca href=\"https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax2023.shtml#requirements\">fueleconomy.gov\u003c/a> for a list of eligible vehicles, but as of late December, the site hasn’t been updated for 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some changes are likely. Tesla is warning buyers that some versions of the Model 3 will see their tax credit eligibility end after Dec. 31, and Ford believes the same is true for the Mustang Mach-E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Volkswagen is “cautiously optimistic” that the Chattanooga, Tennessee-built ID.4 will remain eligible, and General Motors says it expects to keep the credit for “many” of its EVs. 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