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The decision reversed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of Oakland, who had dismissed the women’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges said the city forced the women to “choose between their religious beliefs and their careers,” which made them feel “distraught” and “depressed,” according to the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorit Reiss, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982354/student-workers-file-to-unionize-at-uc-law-san-francisco\">UC Law San Francisco\u003c/a> professor, said the panel’s decision will make it harder for employers to remove workers if they choose to fight their termination in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much every employee that’s dismissed for violating a workplace rule is going to be distraught,” she told KQED. “In saying that that’s irreparable harm, you’re going to make it really hard for employers to dismiss employees where litigation is going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss said that the move follows other legal decisions since 2020 that have strengthened religious freedom for workers. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, she said some courts had required employers to accept what she called more “problematic” religious objections to vaccines and, in some cases, testing and masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Supreme Court also raised the bar for employers to deny employees religious exemption requests, deciding that employees must be accommodated unless doing so “would result in substantial increased costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be thought that if you have even minimal costs, you don’t have to give religious exemptions,” Reiss said. “Now it’s harder not to give accommodations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on that case, \u003cem>Groff v. DeJoy\u003c/em>, 9th Circuit Judges Consuelo Callahan and Patrick Bumatay, along with U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, wrote that San Francisco failed to demonstrate that allowing Keene and Fountila to work remotely or in person with proper protective equipment would significantly burden the city. The women had requested medical exemptions because they claimed the COVID vaccines “were derived from stem cells from aborted fetuses,” which was in contradiction to their Christian faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While human fetal cell lines were used by drug manufacturers to develop and test vaccine safety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uclahealth.org/treatment-options/covid-19-info/covid-19-vaccine-addressing-concerns\">scientists have said the vaccines do not contain fetal cells\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The record does not reflect that [San Francisco] seriously considered any religious accommodation,” the decision reads. The city “has failed to show these proposed measures imposed an ‘undue hardship’ given their minimal cost and considering that during the relevant time period, [Keene and Fountila’s] worksite hosted thousands of appointments with members of the public, regardless of their vaccination status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009848\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1740\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-2048x1392.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2168147137-1920x1305.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man receives both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS in August 2024. \u003ccite>(Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office said it was disappointed by the ruling and would be “evaluating any potential next steps” in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss said that the city has three options: to let the decision stand and continue litigation, hoping to win the case on its merits; request a full 9th Circuit review; or appeal to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appealing to the Supreme Court seems unlikely, given its shift to place more of a burden on employers to deny religious exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case could also be made more difficult because the city repealed its vaccine mandate in August 2023. The panel of judges said that without any requirement in place, Keene and Fountila’s decision not to be vaccinated poses no burden if they return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11950643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/013_KQED_LongCOVIDCharlieMcCone_05182023-qut.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiss also said that looking at the pandemic after the fact offers a perspective to the judges that San Francisco didn’t have when making its decision to not grant vaccine exceptions to hundreds of city employees in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both federal law and California law protect the religious freedom of workers and the right to get accommodation if they have religious objection to a workplace rule, but it’s always a balancing act,” Reiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is being done in hindsight,” she continued. “The City of San Francisco had to make the decision in the middle of a pandemic, and I think the court didn’t give a lot of weight to the fact that during the pandemic, the weight of allowing unvaccinated employees to continue working was pretty high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">Samantha Kennedy\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> code inspectors discovered a large illegal indoor cannabis operation on the property of former Rohnert Park Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum last year, according to records recently obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum is free on a $100,000 bond while awaiting sentencing for federal extortion, tax evasion and conspiracy charges connected to a string of marijuana seizures he conducted as a police officer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported by KQED in 2018\u003c/a>. Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2021 and is expected to testify at the trial of Joseph Huffaker, his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This looks bad, especially with my case being for the same issue,” Tatum told officials during the March 27, 2024, inspection, internal documents obtained by KQED show. “I made a mistake, I know. I’m just trying to make some money and get things squared away for my family before I go to prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s defense attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said his client was renting out a large barn on his multi-acre Santa Rosa property, but “he did not know they were growing pot.” According to Hanlon, Tatum “immediately reported” the enforcement action to his pretrial services officer, Josh Libby. In a phone call with a KQED reporter, Libby said he could not speak to the media. The United States Attorney’s office declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county cited both Tatum and his tenant, Kylie Bradley Hargis, for cannabis violations, documents show. Hargis could not immediately be reached for comment. Neither Hargis nor Tatum faced criminal action or further investigation, according to Sonoma County officials. Tatum paid a $7,500 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendan “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I personally know Tatum to have ruined the lives of dozens and dozens and dozens of marijuana farmers out there,” said defense and civil rights attorney Izaak Schwaiger, who represented many of Tatum’s victims. He said it is hard to see the lack of consequences as anything other than preferential treatment. “ At some point, the system has zero integrity if they refuse to follow through and put the hammer on this guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the latest twist in a legal saga that’s dragged on for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2013, Tatum was on Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction and civil asset forfeiture task force, which seized around $3.6 million and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana over five years. He was promoted to sergeant and honored as the “officer of the year” by Rohnert Park city leaders, even as whispers that Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">didn’t play by the rules\u003c/a> began to mount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11889861 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED reported on the allegations of eight motorists who claimed Tatum and his partners had unlawfully seized marijuana and cash from them during pretextual traffic stops. The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. Hoffman cited Tatum’s federal conviction related to “a series of traffic stops and marijuana robberies” and attached Tatum’s federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Shelly J. Averill signed the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-WARRANT.PDF.pdf\">inspection warrant (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement officials were accompanied by a Sonoma County deputy sheriff to search Tatum’s Santa Rosa property. Tatum told inspectors that “the front barn was being rented out to an acquaintance for the purpose of growing cannabis,” according to documents, and that he did not have the key. The barn’s electricity was supplied through an unpermitted trench running from Tatum’s 6,000-square-foot agricultural structure.[aside postID=news_11802870 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Rohnert-Park-Jacy-Tatum-Questionable-Marijaua-Cash-Seizures-Highway-101.jpg']“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. Hoffman cited Tatum’s federal conviction related to “a series of traffic stops and marijuana robberies” and attached Tatum’s federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Shelly J. Averill signed the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-WARRANT.PDF.pdf\">inspection warrant (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement officials were accompanied by a Sonoma County deputy sheriff to search Tatum’s Santa Rosa property. Tatum told inspectors that “the front barn was being rented out to an acquaintance for the purpose of growing cannabis,” according to documents, and that he did not have the key. The barn’s electricity was supplied through an unpermitted trench running from Tatum’s 6,000-square-foot agricultural structure.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve used ChatGPT to write a breakup text or figure out how to not burn the Christmas roast, you might’ve actually helped create jobs and profits in California, where the artificial intelligence tool was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, you’ve probably also contributed to climate change. Artificial intelligence is an energy hog, and every query to ChatGPT is like running a lightbulb for 20 minutes, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity\">research scientist recently told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is so wasteful, in fact, that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">flooding the state treasury with tax revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='nuclear-power']Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1995286,news_12020857,news_11987803\"]Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. Hoover said tech’s nascent nuclear interest may “allow for new conversations to happen,” while Wiener characterized the industry’s involvement as a “positive thing,” so long as companies participate in expanded clean energy initiatives that aren’t exclusively nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern, for his part, posited that tech’s interest “certainly doesn’t hurt the zeitgeist around nuclear being a less toxic and scary thing.” He added: “There’s some other incredible tech that, in a lot of cases, beats nuclear from a cost perspective. But it doesn’t quite make sense to me anymore that we don’t let nuclear compete in that contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve used ChatGPT to write a breakup text or figure out how to not burn the Christmas roast, you might’ve actually helped create jobs and profits in California, where the artificial intelligence tool was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, you’ve probably also contributed to climate change. Artificial intelligence is an energy hog, and every query to ChatGPT is like running a lightbulb for 20 minutes, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity\">research scientist recently told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is so wasteful, in fact, that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">flooding the state treasury with tax revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. 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Transgender youth are also barred from bathrooms and sports teams that do not align with their biological sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">several anti-transgender and “anti-woke”\u003c/a> orders signed by Trump that have received backlash from state officials and residents who feel that the directives malign public schools and expose transgender youth to harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s most recent order instructs the U.S. Attorney General to partner with state attorneys general and local district attorneys to identify K–12 teachers who continue to advocate for transgender recognition and inclusive policies. 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Supportive schools and educators are vital to a child’s well-being, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump has chosen to target these children, including my wonderful child, with executive orders filled with ignorance, misinformation, bigotry and hatred,” Murphy said. “As a result of these executive orders, President Trump will be killing children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Trump’s directive, schools will also be required to teach a “patriotic” curriculum that celebrates United States history and the country’s founding principles. Nicholas Hite, an attorney at the nonprofit Lambda Legal, said the federal government has no jurisdiction over what educators teach their students, especially when it comes to revisionist versions of the country’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hite added that while public schools do receive some funding from the federal government, Trump’s administration has no legal authority to place restrictions or stipulations on money that’s already been earmarked for specific purposes, such as books or buses. He said courts that correctly apply the law will consider the order unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators and attorneys are preparing to challenge the order if federal agencies move to enforce it. 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But following the closed-door discussion, no vote was held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said that Democrats chose to revisit the bills before bringing them to the floor for a vote but did not say what, if any, changes would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The actions by Republicans in Washington this week jeopardize the programs and services Californians rely on most, from senior care to funding for veterans programs,” Rivas’s spokesperson said. “In the Assembly, we are going to look closely at the special session legal defense bills to ensure they are airtight and protect all Californians from these threats, and we will pass them soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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He said he wouldn’t speak for the assembly but that the agreement between the legislature and governor has “a lot of support in the assembly to make sure that we’re stepping up for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing glasses and a business suit stands by a microphone inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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I think a lot of the programs that are in place now and a lot of the things that we saw from some of the community-based organizations that they wanted from a D.A., Nancy was already engaging in,” said Jones Dickson, who county supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">selected Tuesday\u003c/a> as Alameda County’s next district attorney. “So I think we’ll continue that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson plans to leverage her experience as she takes charge following months of controversy under Pamela Price, the office’s former leader who was recalled in November’s election. 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Similar incentives have helped revive \u003ca href=\"https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29847\">Bay Area landmarks\u003c/a> such as Oakland’s Fox Theater and Richmond’s Ford Assembly Plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024827 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/004_KQED_16thStreetStationOakland_02162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weeds grow through cracks in the pavement near the 16th Street Station Signal Tower in West Oakland on Feb.16, 2022. From its website: The Signal Tower, which is still on site, served as the train traffic controller. It was built in 1913 and was twice the size of most signal towers of its age. The base is made of concrete rather than wood, another unusual feature. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ The bottom line of the tax credit is it just makes things much more financially feasible and attractive for developers,” said Kara Brunzell, an architectural historian who worked on the nomination for the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although this is a moment to celebrate, Favroth acknowledges the challenge remains: securing funding for the station’s $50 million seismic retrofit and restoration costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Just because we’re on the registry doesn’t mean the station is saved,” Favroth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11910890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/16thStreetStationOakland_02162022-qut-672x372.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite multiple owners over the decades, none have secured the funds necessary to restore the station. The current owner, City Ventures, has a pending application with the city of Oakland to build a 77-unit townhome-style development, “Signal House,” around the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under review since May 2023, the proposal excludes station rehabilitation. City Ventures has hired OE Consulting firm to explore fundraising for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous interviews, OE Consulting told KQED it was searching for an “anchor funder,” someone to underwrite a starter amount of money to jumpstart the station’s rehabilitation, who would also agree on letting the community decide what the use case for a reimagined 16th Street Station would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favroth said the Oakland Heritage Alliance is now focused on securing funding for a feasibility study on the station’s potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ So you have to do something that’s financially viable because that’s the big thing nowadays with historical preservation. ‘Can the asset financially sustain itself?’” Favroth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11911066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/58195sp-2-scaled-e1738284345467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1470\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1915 photo shows the elevated tracks at the rear of the 16th Street Station. \u003ccite>(Western Railway Museum Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposed ideas include an event venue, offices, a technology hub and a business incubator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brunzell said the station is of “the highest level of architectural and historical significance,” adding that it’s rare to have one structure that encompasses so many different kinds of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s akin to Grand Central Station in its grandeur and its solidity,” Brunzell said of the structure, which opened in 1912 and was designed in the Beaux Arts style by renowned architect Jarvis Hunt. “ I don’t think you have to be an architectural historian to just observe the beauty of that building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024586 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240823-VALENCIATELEGRAPHBIKELANES-36-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brunzell noted the station’s significance as a key hub for both local and long-distance trains at a time when rail travel was the primary means of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ You could come into the station from distant parts on the Southern Pacific, get off on the ground floor, walk upstairs and get on a local streetcar to take you to your hotel. That was really important and unusual for the time,” Brunzell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station is also one of the first to be designated under a new category that recognizes the history of African Americans in California. Favroth said she was inspired to work on the campaign to save the 16th Street Station because of its importance to her family and the local Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favroth added like many African Americans, her aunts passed through the station when they migrated to Oakland from Louisiana in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I wanted to be able to honor their history and their memory,” Favroth said. “And this station has a strong tie to our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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