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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> is planning to review and potentially modify or suspend programs focused on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion a few days after President Trump signed an executive order\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5271588/trump-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-federal-workers-government\"> targeting DEI initiatives\u003c/a> in universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need to review programs on campus that fall under the DEI heading, and it’s likely that some will need to be modified or sunsetted,” Stanford President Jonathan Levin said during a Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday, according to the university’s official news site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">Trump’s order\u003c/a> calls on federal agencies to investigate schools that allegedly promote “illegal DEI discrimination” and directs officials to look specifically into universities with endowments of over $1 billion — Stanford’s endowment in 2023 was over $36 billion. The order also calls on the attorney general and the secretary of education to provide universities with guidance on how to comply with the regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophie Walton, a graduate student who is involved in DEI initiatives on campus, said Stanford’s announcement has resulted in a lot of confusion and anxiety in students. Walton said some of her peers are worried about federal funding cuts and whether their programs or research could be jeopardized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton said she doesn’t know why Stanford decided to make a statement so soon. Some of Trump’s executive orders have already been challenged in court, and no enforcement mechanisms have been introduced for the ones that have not been, Walton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very disappointing to see that Stanford is already acting to comply with the executive order instead of waiting until we get more information about what’s going on,” Walton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An ornate sandstone colored building with a series of arches sitting on a brick plaza.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230719-STANFORD-GETTY-DM-KQED-1920x1267.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The arches of the Main Quadrangle buildings on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto on Oct. 2, 2021. \u003ccite>(David Madison/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DEI initiatives have come under fire in the past, Walton said in reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966391/how-the-end-of-affirmative-action-is-changing-college-admissions\">the crackdown on affirmative action\u003c/a> in 2023 that prohibited schools from making race-based considerations during admissions. Students of color and women still face barriers to success at Stanford, and programs that foster inclusive environments are critical to combatting those obstacles, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton, who works with the graduate student union to address issues of discrimination, said programs that uphold DEI practices make the campus environment more welcoming and safe for everyone. She said some of these practices include providing students and faculty with recourse in the case of discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other policies are more geared toward ensuring that every student has the opportunity to excel in the field of their choice regardless of background, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024188 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-40-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s language often focuses on meritocracy, this magical vision of meritocracy, and that is often coded for racism and misogyny,” Walton continued. “It’s the opposite of meritocracy when you eliminate DEI programs. … The point of many of these programs is to make sure that people are able to experience Stanford to the full extent of their abilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the initiative that Walton is involved in has not yet been affected by the order, she said the possibility is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has not made any official statements on which programs will be under consideration, but a review group is being convened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is not meant to be a small ship tacking wildly because of the changes in the political winds,” Levin said during the Faculty Senate meeting. “The university has an enduring purpose to foster knowledge and to educate students, and that purpose is not fundamentally political. 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After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. 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A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ivano Aiello, the chair of San José State’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, said that after the fire, his lab tested the soil in a 2-mile radius of the plant, which is near the Elkhorn Slough estuary. After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It required 40% of the benefits from certain environmental programs go to hard-hit communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the government reviews new facilities now, experts say officials are likely to ignore how any pollution they create may exacerbate what communities already experience. Trump’s actions will likely halt funds from the Biden administration’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, for climate programs and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In making the decision this week, Trump eliminated federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/\">policy dating back to the Clinton era\u003c/a>, which had established a government priority of addressing environmental health problems for low-income and minority groups. He also withdrew \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0\">the nation from the Paris\u003c/a> Agreement aimed at combatting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new administration’s moves combine two goals: clawing back what Trump officials say are onerous environmental policies that constrain development and fighting \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-orders-dei-7ef0bf4ce1d465f6b61f3fcfde544593\">diversity, equity and inclusion\u003c/a>, according to Joe Luppino-Esposito, federal policy chief with the free-market law firm Pacific Legal Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had this discussion at the Supreme Court and otherwise for many years, past discrimination is not an excuse for future discrimination,” he said, adding that Trump’s executive orders allow the law to be enforced “without a specific racial tinge to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say Biden accomplished more than any previous administration in this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An EPA-funded study found, for example, that Black people at all income levels are more likely to breathe pollution that causes heart and lung problems. Under Biden, regulators wrote public health rules, tighter air pollution standards and proposed mandates for harmful lead pipes. The EPA issued the largest-ever fine under the federal Clean Air Act and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/epa-enforcement-inspections-environmental-justice-75c7997b101632d4666d879772261fd8\">said it slashed more than 225 million pounds of pollution\u003c/a> in overburdened communities. Federal grants went to communities to clean up Superfund sites or buy low-emissions school buses. The EPA set up an office to facilitate its substantial environmental justice work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m grappling right now with is both the grief of these losses and the fact that we were on an upward swing, if you will, just weeks ago,” said Jade Begay, an Indigenous rights and climate organizer in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, government support for grassroots environmental justice efforts rose and fell depending on who occupied the White House. Scrappy, local groups found ways, sometimes with help from foundations, to get their work done regardless. The Biden administration spent time, attention and resources on the issue, making it higher profile — and a bigger target, according to Christophe Courchesne, a law professor and interim director of the Environmental Law Center at the Vermont Law and Graduate School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice got swept up into “this pitched battle over diversity, equity and inclusion,” Courchesne said. “This developed over time into a target of conservative activism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Gall, an EPA spokesman, said the agency under Trump would work for clean air, land and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EPA is working to diligently implement President Trump’s executive orders,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy changes diverge from the last time Trump was president. Scott Pruitt, who headed the EPA for part of Trump’s first term, once called environmental justice conversations “critical to improving environmental and public health outcomes.” Trump’s new orders are more sweeping; moves that Rena Payan, chief program officer at the Oakland, California nonprofit Justice Outside, called “rolling back decades of progress in addressing environmental discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is not only ditching long-standing policies, it is directing agencies to eliminate jobs dedicated to environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion issues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opm.gov/media/0gpnja24/opm-memo-guidance-regarding-rifs-of-deia-offices-1-24-2025.pdf\">according to a recent memo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are not limited to the public sphere. The new administration is also looking to remove diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the private sector — a step that goes further than some anticipated, according to Julius Redd, an environmental attorney at Beveridge & Diamond P.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which helps communities in the heart of the petrochemical industry, echoed other advocates and said the Biden administration did some great things but didn’t do nearly enough to enforce the law, allowing polluters too much free reign in heavily industrialized Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’ll get worse, and an already industry-friendly state is likely to let polluters build even more quickly. “We just have to buckle up and get ready,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='environmental-justice']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change feels disheartening to Ash LaMont, national campaigns director for Honor The Earth, a nonprofit focused on raising awareness and support for environmental issues in Native American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been spending a lot of time really figuring out what is our next step, what are the things that we can do that will last, despite the administration, and what are the very apparent needs of our community members,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s decision to cut off support will hurt, but many of these local organizations will return to operating without federal support, said Peggy Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy will shift to the state and local level. 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"content": "\u003cp>As climate disasters grow more frequent and costlier, a bill introduced Monday by two California state senators in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023814/california-approves-2-5-billion-fire-relief-plan-ahead-of-trumps-pacific-palisades-visit\">devastating Los Angeles fires\u003c/a> seeks to make the industry driving climate change start to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 222, by Sens. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) and Sasha Renée Pérez (D–Pasadena), would allow people who’ve suffered losses in climate disasters to seek damages in court from fossil fuel companies that have done business in California and accuses them of suppressing climate science for decades. It would also allow insurance companies to seek damages from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim, Wiener said, is to allow insurers to recoup losses from climate disasters without having to rely solely on raising rates. “So that those increased costs that insurance companies are facing aren’t only passed along to policyholders,” Wiener said, “but that the fossil fuel companies are also helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers and governments generally bear the expense of climate disasters. Fossil fuel giants such as ExxonMobil, meanwhile, have been accused of casting doubt on the effects of human-caused climate change despite having internal research that showed otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an industry that has known that its product was fueling climate change and was going to lead to these disasters,” Wiener said at a Monday press conference. “They sat on that science, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148376084/exxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt%5d\">they suppressed it\u003c/a>. And then the fossil fuel industry for decades has played a huge role in incapacitating government policymakers from taking the steps that need to be taken to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a clean energy economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The third aspect of the bill is that it opens the possibility that the California FAIR plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, could also sue for damages. The bill calls for an evaluation of whether it makes financial sense for the FAIR plan to do so. If it does, the state’s insurer of last resort will be required to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR plan, which will be especially strained by its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">financial exposure in the area of the Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, is in danger of running out of money. If it does, California policyholders will be chipping in to replenish it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oil industry should be part of that solution as well,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry currently in courts, but they have been so far typically brought by state officials, including officials from Hawaii suing over increased fire risk. Allowing citizens and businesses to seek damages would be a new step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-30-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gives consumers a fair shot at getting true accountability for these crises. To improve insurance affordability and availability, we must make fossil fuel companies pay their fair share,” said Consumer Federation of California executive director Robert Herrell, who supports the bill. “This will help level the playing field between consumers and the raw exercise of corporate power that they’re facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While insurance companies are accustomed to being able to sue utility companies whose equipment causes wildfires, such as the more than $10 billion PG&E paid to settle claims from the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, they have yet to go after fossil fuel companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies, including State Farm, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/the-two-big-insurers-still-betting-on-fossil-fuels-fa31bb15\">many billions of dollars\u003c/a> invested in fossil fuels (collectively, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/insurers-still-have-over-half-a-trillion-invested-in-fossil-fuels-458310.aspx\">half a trillion\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry is slamming the proposed bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a shame that Sen. Scott Wiener and Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez see the Los Angeles fires as nothing more than a political opportunity. We need real solutions to help victims in the wake of this tragedy, not theatrics,” Western States Petroleum Association CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, consumers, including Sen. Wiener, rely on and choose to use gasoline-powered cars and purchase products made from fossil fuels. Our economy depends on oil and gas even as California looks to reduce its carbon footprint,” Reheis-Boyd said. “The vulnerabilities in the existing oil and gas infrastructure must be addressed. 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The next day, a group of us got together and said, ‘We’re going to fight this and at least make sure there’s transparency to everything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group announced Saturday that it had filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that eliminating athletics would have a disproportionate effect on underrepresented students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma State baseball team practices at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Sonoma State is cutting its entire Athletic Department to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our athletic student body is a majority-minority student population,” Ziemer told KQED.”It is clear to us that this has a disparate impact on that population. The university touts its commitment to diversity, to social justice, and so we believe that where they fall short in honoring that and in treating students with the language and the mission that they espouse, we’re going to call them out on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said one soccer player, who is the first in his family to attend college, transferred to Sonoma State from Sacramento State for financial reasons. He also needed to be closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are students that have come in, already paid their deposit for a year for their apartment, they paid their tuition, they passed up on other opportunities,” Ziemer said. “They’ve been harmed by this sudden and abrupt decision, not only financially, emotionally, but also their academics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023999 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-51-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement has also joined a call by Sonoma State educators for the California Faculty Association, the union representing its teachers and coaches, to request an injunction to temporarily block the university from carrying out the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said the group’s goal is to “stop any further action on all the cuts across campus until meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders can occur — something that we do not believe has happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Save Seawolves Athletics is also prepared to file a second complaint with the Department of Education on behalf of faculty of color, he said and is looking at the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said he was waiting until a town hall meeting on Thursday to explore these options further\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academic departments \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\">also face cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, the group will be focused on advocating against the cuts at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting, which runs Monday through Wednesday in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided to have a massive movement through every sport to get any Southern California alumni to show up in person. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gathered with alumni and current coaches, and we had a beer,” said Benjamin Ziemer, an assistant soccer coach who helped form the Save Seawolves Athletics movement. “We were just shocked and outraged, and that fell way to a determination. The next day, a group of us got together and said, ‘We’re going to fight this and at least make sure there’s transparency to everything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group announced Saturday that it had filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that eliminating athletics would have a disproportionate effect on underrepresented students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250123_SonomaStateFile_GC-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma State baseball team practices at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park on Jan. 23, 2025. Sonoma State is cutting its entire Athletic Department to address a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our athletic student body is a majority-minority student population,” Ziemer told KQED.”It is clear to us that this has a disparate impact on that population. The university touts its commitment to diversity, to social justice, and so we believe that where they fall short in honoring that and in treating students with the language and the mission that they espouse, we’re going to call them out on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said one soccer player, who is the first in his family to attend college, transferred to Sonoma State from Sacramento State for financial reasons. He also needed to be closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are students that have come in, already paid their deposit for a year for their apartment, they paid their tuition, they passed up on other opportunities,” Ziemer said. “They’ve been harmed by this sudden and abrupt decision, not only financially, emotionally, but also their academics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement has also joined a call by Sonoma State educators for the California Faculty Association, the union representing its teachers and coaches, to request an injunction to temporarily block the university from carrying out the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said the group’s goal is to “stop any further action on all the cuts across campus until meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders can occur — something that we do not believe has happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Save Seawolves Athletics is also prepared to file a second complaint with the Department of Education on behalf of faculty of color, he said and is looking at the possibility of a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziemer said he was waiting until a town hall meeting on Thursday to explore these options further\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academic departments \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023790/sonoma-state-is-reeling-after-huge-cuts-where-does-the-school-go-from-here\">also face cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, the group will be focused on advocating against the cuts at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting, which runs Monday through Wednesday in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided to have a massive movement through every sport to get any Southern California alumni to show up in person. We have some athletic faculty members who are planning on going down,” Ziemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes, staff and alumni are also registering to speak via Zoom beginning Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of alumni, we’ve got a lot of people, we’re going to fight,” said Marcus Ziemer, who has coached men’s soccer at Sonoma State since 1989. “At the very least, we want transparency — how they arrived at this decision, when did they arrive at this decision? But we want to fight to keep athletics because I don’t think it makes sense for the university to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/emergency-measures-to-provide-water-resources-in-california-and-improve-disaster-response-in-certain-areas/\">a sweeping executive order\u003c/a> on Sunday that told federal agencies to “immediately take action” to deliver more Central Valley water and eliminate rules that stand in the way, including endangered species protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the new order, Trump cited the Los Angeles fires, even though the actions he is ordering — delivering more water from the federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/about-cvp.html\">Central Valley Project\u003c/a> — would primarily serve farms. About 75% of Central Valley Project water \u003ca href=\"https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/central-valley-project#:~:text=The%20CVP%20features%20a%20combined,supplies%20several%20cities%2C%20including%20Fresno.\">is used for agriculture\u003c/a>, while much of the rest goes to cities and towns in the San Joaquin Valley, including Sacramento and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In particular, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce shall immediately take actions to override existing activities that unduly burden efforts to maximize water deliveries,” Trump’s order reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake are the rules that guide two massive Delta water systems: the federal Central Valley Project and a state-operated system, the State Water Project. These networks of reservoirs, pumps and canals deliver water to millions of acres of farmland and 30 million people. They draw water from rivers that flow into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay, which imperils Chinook salmon, smelt and sturgeon that are protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump ordered federal agencies to “expedite action related to any exemption under the Endangered Species Act…for the long-term operation” of the water delivery systems. In addition, he directed the federal Bureau of Reclamation to “take all available measures to ensure that State agencies — including the California Department of Water Resources — do not interfere.” He entitled a section, “Overriding Disastrous California Policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups are likely to sue if federal agencies override the Endangered Species Act when setting rules that control how much water is delivered via the Central Valley Project or State Water Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not be fooled by Trump’s lies: none of the policies in this executive order will move even a single drop of extra water to communities devastated by these wildfires. This administration is presenting us with a false choice,” U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, a California Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement on Sunday. “Fishers, farmers, treasured species, and every water user all depend on our water resources – we do not have to pick winners or losers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several community watchdog and environmental groups, including Restore the Delta and San Francisco Baykeeper, warned that Trump’s actions “will have devastating consequences for California’s water future, public health, and environmental protections, threatening a federal takeover of California’s right to manage its land and waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that the actions would benefit farmers, San Francisco Baykeeper Science Director Jon Rosenfield called the administration “a lawless regime that uses extortion to enrich their political supporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The powerful \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/about-westlands/\">Westlands Water District\u003c/a>, representing farmers in parts of Kings and Fresno counties, said Sunday that they welcome Trump’s order. “The challenges that he highlights are real, and his leadership in addressing the barriers to water delivery are welcomed,” the district said in a statement. “It’s clear that what we’ve been doing for the past few decades has not been working; not for the people, for agriculture, or for the fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order said, “It is in the Nation’s interest to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future. Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California with necessary water resources, notwithstanding actively harmful State or local policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental groups said Trump’s directives “conflate fire prevention needs with water operations in California all based on the myth that water operations for environmental protections had any impact on water infrastructure used in the Los Angeles fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Los Angeles fire hydrants ran out of water fighting the fires, but city fire and utility officials say\u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/pacific-palisades-fire-correcting-misinformation-about-ladwps-water-system/\"> it was caused by a sudden surge in demand and limited capacity of city pipelines\u003c/a>, not lack of water supply. In addition, the city’s water comes mostly from the Owens Valley, the Colorado River and groundwater, not the Delta or the Central Valley, and Southern California cities say they have ample supply after two wet winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The premise of this executive order is false,” said Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos. “Attempts to connect water management in Northern California to local wildfire fighting in Los Angeles have zero factual basis. California continues to pump as much water as it did under the Trump administration’s policies, and water operations to move water south through the Delta have absolutely nothing to do with the local fire response in Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State water \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/\">reservoirs in Southern California\u003c/a> are at above-average levels. “There is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/california-rain-drought-north-south/\">no shortage of water in Southern California\u003c/a>, which is why the Governor has\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877823208273178995\"> called for an investigation into the local response\u003c/a>,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield said the State Water Project ensures, even in the worst of droughts, that communities have a minimum share of water designated for purposes of “human health and safety,” which includes firefighting needs. “They always deliver that human health and safety water, always — it’s never interrupted,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley Project provides about 5 million acres feet of water to farms, enough to irrigate about a third of the agricultural land in California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. It also delivers about 600,000 acre-feet for municipal and industrial use in the San Joaquin Valley and some Bay Area cities, enough to supply about 1 million households with water each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called on the Bureau of Reclamation to operate the Central Valley Project with rules that his first administration implemented in 2020. Reverting to those rules could override rules signed into law in December by Biden administration officials and endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom administration officials. The Biden rules would reduce Central Valley Project farm deliveries, but the State Water Project — which serves Southern California cities as well as San Joaquin Valley farms — would receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/trump-california-water-delta-rules/\">more water\u003c/a> compared to Trump’s 2020 rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directors of the state’s water and resources agencies could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Endean, a public information officer with the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement last week that his agency stands by its new Delta water management rules. Under those rules, Endean said, “farms and cities have the potential to gain additional water supply, while endangered species are protected. To abandon these new frameworks would harm California water users and protection of native fish species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the Bay-Delta ecosystem is collapsing, and salmon populations have declined so severely that commercial and recreational salmon fishing have been banned in California for two straight years — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/10/salmon-fishing-california/\">with a third year expected, too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order follows a series of remarks in recent weeks by the President that reflect a profound misunderstanding of California’s water supply, weaving between inaccurate and fantastical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pacific Palisades on Friday, while visiting with local leaders in the aftermath of the region’s wildfires, Trump said, “We have to have that water … You’re talking about unlimited water coming down from the Pacific Northwest, even coming up from parts of Canada, and it pours down naturally … you’ll never run out, you’ll never have shortages and you won’t have things like this, and when you do you’ll have a lot of water to put it out.” Water does not flow into California from Canada, and the Pacific Northwest does not feed into Central Valley rivers. 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Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide Southern California with necessary water resources, notwithstanding actively harmful State or local policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental groups said Trump’s directives “conflate fire prevention needs with water operations in California all based on the myth that water operations for environmental protections had any impact on water infrastructure used in the Los Angeles fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Los Angeles fire hydrants ran out of water fighting the fires, but city fire and utility officials say\u003ca href=\"https://www.ladwpnews.com/pacific-palisades-fire-correcting-misinformation-about-ladwps-water-system/\"> it was caused by a sudden surge in demand and limited capacity of city pipelines\u003c/a>, not lack of water supply. In addition, the city’s water comes mostly from the Owens Valley, the Colorado River and groundwater, not the Delta or the Central Valley, and Southern California cities say they have ample supply after two wet winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The premise of this executive order is false,” said Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos. “Attempts to connect water management in Northern California to local wildfire fighting in Los Angeles have zero factual basis. California continues to pump as much water as it did under the Trump administration’s policies, and water operations to move water south through the Delta have absolutely nothing to do with the local fire response in Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State water \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/\">reservoirs in Southern California\u003c/a> are at above-average levels. “There is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/california-rain-drought-north-south/\">no shortage of water in Southern California\u003c/a>, which is why the Governor has\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877823208273178995\"> called for an investigation into the local response\u003c/a>,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield said the State Water Project ensures, even in the worst of droughts, that communities have a minimum share of water designated for purposes of “human health and safety,” which includes firefighting needs. “They always deliver that human health and safety water, always — it’s never interrupted,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley Project provides about 5 million acres feet of water to farms, enough to irrigate about a third of the agricultural land in California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. It also delivers about 600,000 acre-feet for municipal and industrial use in the San Joaquin Valley and some Bay Area cities, enough to supply about 1 million households with water each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called on the Bureau of Reclamation to operate the Central Valley Project with rules that his first administration implemented in 2020. Reverting to those rules could override rules signed into law in December by Biden administration officials and endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom administration officials. The Biden rules would reduce Central Valley Project farm deliveries, but the State Water Project — which serves Southern California cities as well as San Joaquin Valley farms — would receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/trump-california-water-delta-rules/\">more water\u003c/a> compared to Trump’s 2020 rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directors of the state’s water and resources agencies could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Endean, a public information officer with the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement last week that his agency stands by its new Delta water management rules. Under those rules, Endean said, “farms and cities have the potential to gain additional water supply, while endangered species are protected. To abandon these new frameworks would harm California water users and protection of native fish species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the Bay-Delta ecosystem is collapsing, and salmon populations have declined so severely that commercial and recreational salmon fishing have been banned in California for two straight years — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2024/10/salmon-fishing-california/\">with a third year expected, too\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order follows a series of remarks in recent weeks by the President that reflect a profound misunderstanding of California’s water supply, weaving between inaccurate and fantastical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pacific Palisades on Friday, while visiting with local leaders in the aftermath of the region’s wildfires, Trump said, “We have to have that water … You’re talking about unlimited water coming down from the Pacific Northwest, even coming up from parts of Canada, and it pours down naturally … you’ll never run out, you’ll never have shortages and you won’t have things like this, and when you do you’ll have a lot of water to put it out.” Water does not flow into California from Canada, and the Pacific Northwest does not feed into Central Valley rivers. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">San Francisco’s Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> has been cautious on matters relating to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>, diverging from his predecessor and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">Democrats, leading opposition\u003c/a> to federal attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">immigrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023124/trump-says-us-will-honor-only-two-genders-after-anti-trans-campaign-rhetoric\">transgender rights\u003c/a> and other issues close to many San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has left local government officials like City Attorney David Chiu to lead legal challenges against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to target our immigrant communities, which is tragic on many, many levels and will not only end up ripping apart families but will be detrimental to our local economy,” Chiu said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023333/san-francisco-takes-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship-ban\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “This is very personal to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the first kid in my family born to my immigrant parents. I know how personal it is to so many San Franciscans and Californians who are immigrants or the kids of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump issued a slew of executive orders immediately after his inauguration on Monday, including attempting to end birthright citizenship, erasing transgender identity and pulling the country out of international collaborations such as the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has repeatedly stated that he supports the city’s sanctuary policy and has vowed to protect immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights and other issues Trump has targeted. But Lurie has barely uttered Trump’s name, whether at his mayoral inauguration speech or during his address on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which coincided with Trump’s inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several San Francisco representatives have decried Trump’s orders. On Tuesday, Chiu announced that the city would join California State Attorney General Rob Bonta and 17 other states in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">lawsuit to block Trump’s order\u003c/a> to stop recognizing birthright citizenship. That’s in addition to work at the state level, where lawmakers are seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">to allocate more funding for legal services for Californians\u003c/a> who the new policies may target.[aside postID=news_12024013 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Trump) is immediately taking action to strip U.S. citizens of their citizenship to increase pumping of oil and get rid of electric vehicles,” state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) told KQED. “He pronounced, once again, that trans people don’t exist. And he is just really a disaster for this country… We need to protect California and our democracy from this oligarchy that he is setting up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JackieFielder_/status/1879353214170181791\">introduced a resolution\u003c/a> reaffirming San Francisco’s sanctuary status, which prohibits the city from allocating local resources and personnel to assist federal immigration officials with deporting people. (The ordinance does not prevent the federal government from conducting legal enforcement.) All 11 members of the Board of Supervisors have said they intend to support the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906012/latinos-in-la-mision-a-story-of-resistance-and-community\">represents the Mission District\u003c/a> where many Latinx residents live, said she’s heard from constituents who are fearful of their status under Trump’s administration. But she’s not looking to the mayor for proclamations denouncing the president. Fielder said the primary thing Lurie can do is support community groups that work directly with targeted communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest desire from his administration is to have actual resources committed to immigration legal defense so that we can get the 1,200 people off the waitlist for processing their cases,” Fielder told KQED. “This also will allow people who are seeking asylum to get work permits, and that will only help our local economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/justice-department-immigration-enforcement.html\">issued a memo\u003c/a> stating that state and local government officials must cooperate with federal law enforcement carrying out Trump’s executive orders on immigration or face criminal or civil penalties. Lurie responded that San Francisco would both comply with federal law while maintaining its sanctuary city policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand with local law enforcement in upholding our policies. Their purpose is not to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement,” Lurie said in a statement. “San Francisco is in full compliance with federal law and residents should feel safe interacting with local law enforcement and other city agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has not signaled whether he will support Fielder’s resolution, and a spokesperson for his office said he would not comment on proposed resolutions. Rather, Lurie has emphasized that his priorities are improving the city’s streets, closing down drug markets and building shelter and housing to address local issues.[aside postID=news_12023560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged that Lurie has taken a different approach than himself or other high-profile Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom when it comes to responding to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor has a big task ahead in terms of taking San Francisco into the future, and he needs to be focused like a laser on the huge problems we have here,” Wiener said. “I know that he will do that, but I know he’s going to be with us when we need to defend our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant David Ho said Lurie’s softer approach reminds him of the late Mayor Ed Lee, who led the city during Trump’s first term. However, it contrasts starkly with former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">Mayor London Breed,\u003c/a> who often took a stronger position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d be surprised if Lurie’s administration doesn’t carve out a louder response” to Trump’s orders on immigration, Ho said, noting that it would deeply affect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003096/public-safety-takes-center-stage-as-sf-mayoral-hopefuls-court-chinese-american-voters\">Chinese American community\u003c/a> that Lurie fought hard to win votes from on the campaign trail. “People forget the first federal law to target an entire ethnicity was the Chinese Exclusion Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with the city facing a nearly billion-dollar deficit, Lurie is walking a fine line to ensure San Francisco receives federal funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if HUD withheld funding from San Francisco? That would be a housing catastrophe,” Ho said. “We’re talking about bread and butter issues here. Politicians and communities will have to band together and figure out which core issues they want to go to war over with the new administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a progressive political consultant, said Lurie’s position — or lack thereof — opens space for other politicians to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creates an opportunity for Chiu or Wiener and others to make a name for themselves,” Ross said. “It gives them an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and that they’re going to protect these communities that are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “But it also does create a real contrast with the mayor’s silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cesar Padilla was operating a clamp forklift, moving merchandise pallets at a Safeway warehouse dock, when he collided with another forklift. The collision flung Padilla into the air, and he fell hard on the ground, injuring his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was out of work for a month, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the three years since Padilla’s accident, which resulted in a pinched nerve in his lower back, he said he still suffers from leg numbness and throbbing pain in his neck and shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pain is every day. It’s hard,” said Padilla, who has worked for 19 years at Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy, about an hour’s drive from San Francisco. “Emotionally, physically, it has taken a burden on my life and my family’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s injury is one of hundreds employees sustained in recent years at the warehouse complex, the supermarket chain’s largest. The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amazon is the county’s largest employer. Walmart, Target, Costco and other companies have built sprawling warehouse operations in Tracy due its proximity to larger markets and relatively more affordable land prices and workforce costs, according to Thomas Pogue, who directs the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That locational advantage has been key,” Pogue said. “With any sector growing, you need to make sure that there are good jobs being created and not increasing hazardous employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, semi-trailer trucks drove in and out of the fenced Safeway facility, which has several buildings. The property’s largest warehouse is the size of about 18 football fields, more than 1 million square feet, according to San Joaquin County Assessor’s Office records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DishesRestaurantGetty-1020x602.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway workers have suffered debilitating strains and sprains from manually lifting and throwing loads of up to 80 pounds or pulling hundreds of cases an hour, according to one current and one former employee interviewed by KQED. They recalled seeing men breaking bones, cutting their hands and forearms on equipment, and hitting their heads on sharp metal rack edges in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are injured while rushing to meet Safeway’s increasingly demanding production standards, but the company has refused to prevent serious injuries, said Phil Creamer, who worked nearly 30 years at the Tracy facility until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to go as fast as they can just to try to keep from getting fired, and that’s when they get injured,” said Creamer, now a Teamsters Local 439 business agent representing most drivers, selectors, loaders and other warehouse workers at the Safeway distribution center. “The shocking thing is, how do you own a facility like this and just ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we try to talk to [Safeway] about safety, they just brush us off. We keep telling them that we got massive injuries here at the facility,” he added. “It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safeway declined an interview with KQED. In a statement, a spokesperson said the company is committed to ensuring safety across all its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking this matter very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “While we disagree with the investigation’s outcome, we are collaborating with OSHA to address their concerns, including conducting a comprehensive review at our Tracy Distribution Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to comment on the facility’s injury rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators, Cal/OSHA, recently determined that Safeway’s work pace poses a danger, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-02.html#:~:text=Oakland%E2%80%94The%20Department%20of%20Industrial,company's%20warehouse%20in%20Tracy%2C%20their\">issuing $182,000 in proposed penalties\u003c/a> for dozens of safety violations at the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A months-long Cal/OSHA inspection found Safeway failed to correct hazards for warehouse workers and truck drivers and did not effectively train managers, supervisors and other employees on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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There has to be a very serious change of corporate culture,” Widess told KQED. “It just looks like there is not adequate attention to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022402 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway, a division of Albertsons Companies, operates 290 stores across Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii under banners including Andronico’s, Safeway, Pak N’ Save and Vons. 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Safeway filed an intent to appeal the citation on Jan. 17, which would delay the deadlines until the case is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creamer and Padilla said they have not seen any recent changes to improve safety for the facility’s mostly Latino workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safeway just don’t care about you,” said Padilla, who takes pain medicine almost daily to manage his workday. “Safeway, all they care about is their money and their numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of two children, ages 9 and 4, said he struggles to push a lawnmower at home or help his wife lift grocery bags. He wishes to be more active in his kids’ basketball and softball teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m limited as far as what I can actually do,” Padilla said. “It’s really sad that this company knows what they’ve done and what they’re doing and treats their employees the way they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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They recalled seeing men breaking bones, cutting their hands and forearms on equipment, and hitting their heads on sharp metal rack edges in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are injured while rushing to meet Safeway’s increasingly demanding production standards, but the company has refused to prevent serious injuries, said Phil Creamer, who worked nearly 30 years at the Tracy facility until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to go as fast as they can just to try to keep from getting fired, and that’s when they get injured,” said Creamer, now a Teamsters Local 439 business agent representing most drivers, selectors, loaders and other warehouse workers at the Safeway distribution center. “The shocking thing is, how do you own a facility like this and just ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we try to talk to [Safeway] about safety, they just brush us off. We keep telling them that we got massive injuries here at the facility,” he added. “It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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In a statement, a spokesperson said the company is committed to ensuring safety across all its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking this matter very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “While we disagree with the investigation’s outcome, we are collaborating with OSHA to address their concerns, including conducting a comprehensive review at our Tracy Distribution Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to comment on the facility’s injury rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators, Cal/OSHA, recently determined that Safeway’s work pace poses a danger, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-02.html#:~:text=Oakland%E2%80%94The%20Department%20of%20Industrial,company's%20warehouse%20in%20Tracy%2C%20their\">issuing $182,000 in proposed penalties\u003c/a> for dozens of safety violations at the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A months-long Cal/OSHA inspection found Safeway failed to correct hazards for warehouse workers and truck drivers and did not effectively train managers, supervisors and other employees on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’ll be a while before Los Angeles can fully assess the damage to its schools from this recent spate of fires, but a few things already seem certain: rebuilding will take a long time, it will be expensive, and it may sap the statewide fund for school repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a dozen schools in the Los Angeles area have been damaged in the fires, including at least five that were destroyed completely. Thousands of students and school staff have lost their homes, and countless families are grappling with major disruptions to their day-to-day lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pain of being evacuated, losing your home, or having family and friends who have been impacted. … it’s just so devastating,” said Debra Duardo, Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. “At so many districts in our county, the superintendent themselves has been evacuated, or 50% of the staff has been evacuated. And meanwhile they’re all trying to help their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pacific Palisades, fires destroyed two elementary schools and extensively damaged Palisades Charter High School. Fires in Pasadena and Altadena destroyed three elementary schools. Several others in greater Los Angeles remain closed because they’re in evacuation zones or have been damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students at those schools have been reassigned to other campuses, are learning online or are waiting for conditions to improve so they can return to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many students, it will be a long wait. Even with loosened regulations, rebuilding a school could take years as officials piece together a hodgepodge of funding sources: insurance money, private grants and donations, local bonds, lawsuit settlement money and state and federal funds. Some districts will have plenty of funding options, while others will struggle to find enough revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, some will have immediate expenses such as procuring portable classrooms and hiring mental health counselors to help students, staff and families cope with trauma. Large districts such as Los Angeles Unified can reallocate resources quickly, but smaller districts and charter and private schools face more obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big demand for Proposition 2 \u003cstrong>funds\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 2, the $10 billion school construction bond approved by voters in November, will be a big help for schools that need to rebuild or make costly repairs, or even buy portables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocates the money to schools with the highest need, and then on a first-come, first-served basis. There’s already a big backlog of schools that have applied for money, and it’s likely that schools gutted by fire will get priority over those with less urgent needs, said Rebekah Kalleen, a legislative advocate for the Coalition for Adequate School Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means some schools will miss out. Because California’s fund for school repairs had been empty for a while, there’s a long list of schools with critical repair needs. Throughout the state, students are attending schools with leaky roofs, lead pipes, unsafe electrical systems and broken air conditioning. Schools in lower-income and rural areas are most affected, because they have less ability to raise money through local bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helio Brasil, superintendent of Keyes Union School District south of Modesto, said he has empathy for those dealing with buildings destroyed or damaged by the fires in Los Angeles, but he worries about \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/11/school-construction-2/\">his own district’s needs\u003c/a>. The 1,000-student district, which primarily serves lower-income students whose parents work in the nearby agricultural fields, desperately needs money to replace the 40-year-old roof, upgrade the electric wiring and make other safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing concern that Prop. 2 funds will be quickly depleted, leaving smaller districts like Keyes struggling to address our own long-term facility needs,” Brasil wrote in an email. “We understand the moral imperative to support the devastated districts first, but the reality is that districts like ours cannot be left behind in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brasil and other superintendents are asking for the state to balance the needs of schools affected by fires with those that aren’t, and provide extra money if possible. Gov. Gavin Newsom last week promised to chip in an extra $1 million from the state’s general fund for schools damaged by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Like a bomb had gone off’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The post-fire experience in Sonoma and Butte counties provides a preview of what lies ahead in Los Angeles. Thousands of homes and numerous schools were destroyed in a spate of fires from 2017–20, leaving residents to resurrect entire communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those first few weeks were surreal, almost primordial. It was like a bomb had gone off,” said Andrew Bailey, head of Anova Center for Education, a private school in Sonoma County that serves special education students enrolled in public schools. Anova was destroyed in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, leaving its 125 students without a campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no school at all for three weeks while staff hunted for classroom space at other locations. Eventually they brought in portables and launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to pay for a new school. Last week, the new school finally opened — more than seven years after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was miraculous that we were able to do this,” Bailey said. “It was incredibly hard work, but now the headwinds have dissipated and our kids now have a great new school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attending school at a hardware store\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Paradise, a Butte County town which was nearly entirely destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire, the school district is still recovering. Four school sites were destroyed and nine were extensively damaged. A big obstacle in rebuilding, school officials said, was not knowing how many students to expect. More than 80% of the town burned down, and it was unclear how many residents planned to move back. Enrollment in Paradise Unified dropped from 3,500 before the fire to 1,500 in 2019. It’s now up to 1,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the state was helpful, the paperwork and funding process took time, Superintendent Tom Taylor said. Meanwhile, students attended school any place officials could find space: other school districts, some 20 miles away; warehouses; even a hardware store. (The store was cleared of merchandise. Students ate lunch at the check-out counter.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has so far spent $155 million to rebuild campuses, but needs $150 million more to fix everything that needs fixing, Taylor said. The district is hoping to break ground on Paradise Elementary School, one of the schools that was completely destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a few years where all staff worked harder than we ever have. Long days, seven days a week, no time off,” Taylor said. “We’re still not done. … But our staff understands that schools are the center of a community, and we want our schools to help lead the return of the town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prioritizing mental health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Los Angeles schools will have it a bit easier than those in Sonoma and Butte. The state now has well-established disaster relief protocols, and there are plenty of experts who can advise. Because of COVID-19, most schools already have distance learning systems in place and robust social-emotional support for students.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12023695,news_12022439,news_12021941\"]Support for mental health — for staff as well as students — is a crucial piece of recovery, school officials in Sonoma and Butte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, schools learned early on how to screen students for anxiety. They also created partnerships with local nonprofits and health clinics, and the County Office of Education trained teachers to lead class discussions and otherwise support students who felt traumatized by the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In situations like this, you’re never going to have enough money for one-to-one counseling for everyone who needs it,” said Mary Champion, a school psychologist with the Sonoma County Office of Education. “That’s why it’s so important to train educators, to take some of the pressure off clinicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson Dickinson, director of the office’s Department of Behavioral Health and Well-Being, said districts in Los Angeles should expect the recovery process — beyond the replacement of buildings — to take a long time. Sonoma County’s last major fire was in 2020, and it’s still never far from residents’ minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time it’s windy, warm and dry, any time there’s smoke, you can see the stress building,” Dickinson said. “From August through January everyone is on edge. It’s just a different world now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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While the White House did ultimately confirm, a few hours before Trump’s arrival, that Newsom could greet him at the airport, the governor was not included in a tour of Pacific Palisades where Trump met first responders and residents who lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Trump later hosted a televised roundtable discussion with local officials such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and selected members of California’s congressional delegation, he kept Newsom — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/newsom-desantis-debate/\">a vigorous would-be debater\u003c/a> — out of the room and off TV. That left the president free to attack the state’s environmental policies largely unchallenged, vowing “to override the Coastal Commission. 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That’s the spirit to which we welcome him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘More delicate under this president’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s common for presidents and governors of opposing political parties to do battle on policy differences and then come together when natural disasters strike, said state Sen. 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After the president erroneously complained in Monday’s inauguration speech that the fires were burning “without even a token of defense,” Newsom issued a gentle statement that emphasized “finding common ground and striving toward shared goals” with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of one of the worst natural disasters in America’s history, this moment underscores the critical need for partnership, a shared commitment to facts, and mutual respect,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he also, on social media, slammed several of Trump’s early executive orders on immigration and climate change, then sent an email to supporters deriding the passage from Trump’s inaugural speech as “nonsense” and “insulting” to firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the governor’s special session to “safeguard California values” from the Trump administration continues on, with Democrats in the state Senate voting Thursday to advance $25 million for legal fees. Republican lawmakers have lambasted the session as a distraction from wildfire response and an unnecessary poke at the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, the senator from Santa Monica, said he understood that Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises to the Americans who supported him, but that California politicians would be derelict if they didn’t push back, because voters had elected them with a different vision for how to run the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want, and our constituents want us, to cooperate with the federal government to help on the areas of mutual agreement and need,” he said. “The flip side is, we are also part of the loyal opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom told reporters Thursday that it was important for the state to prepare to fight Trump at the same time that he is courting the president’s help, noting that Trump “already assaulted the Fourteenth Amendment” with his day one executive order challenging birthright citizenship, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-lawsuit-birthright-citizenship/\">California immediately sued to stop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor evoked the “great relationship” he had with Trump during the COVID pandemic, when they spoke nearly every week, and said he did not expect the special session to affect that because it was “nothing personal,” but rather based on “fundamental policy disagreements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is situational. 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While he initially positioned California at the forefront of a renewed resistance after Trump won a second term in November, even calling a special session to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">fund litigation against the incoming administration\u003c/a>, Newsom now finds himself dependent on the goodwill of a federal government almost fully under the sway of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how forthcoming federal assistance will be. Since the outbreak of the Los Angeles fires more than two weeks ago, Trump has continued to inaccurately claim \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">that Los Angeles lacked water\u003c/a> to fight these fires because the state does not send enough water south from Northern California. He has depicted them as Newsom’s fault and even demanded that he resign, although fire and climate experts have repeatedly attributed the blazes to off-the-charts \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/\">dry conditions in the face of ferocious Santa Ana winds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, with the support of many congressional Republicans, the president has threatened to withhold or condition disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s interest in voter ID goes back to at least 2016, when he began insisting, without any evidence, that he failed to win the deep blue state of California because \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/23/yet-again-trump-falsely-blames-illegal-voting-getting-walloped-california/\">people who aren’t citizens participated in the presidential election\u003c/a>. 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