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"content": "\u003cp>When California’s flagship climate program was last \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573588/california-lawmakers-approve-plan-to-extend-cap-and-trade-system\">reauthorized\u003c/a> in 2017, the biggest champions of cap-and-trade were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11593491/brown-schwarzenegger-celebrate-extension-of-cap-and-trade\">looking to\u003c/a> the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t for me, I’ll be dead,” then-Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11566229/governor-brown-on-cap-and-trade-its-for-you-and-its-damn-real\">thundered\u003c/a> at a panel of state senators, as negotiations intensified that summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s goal was to forge a bipartisan coalition to limit planet-warming emissions, balancing the concerns of environmentalists and industry to solidify California’s global leadership and avoid the worst climate damages he foresaw: vector disease, mass migrations, and “Southern California burning up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, the costs of climate change have arrived. Intense wildfires are driving up the price of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051850/as-californias-electricity-rates-rise-parents-struggle-to-pay-their-bills\">electricity\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">home insurance\u003c/a> for Californians already struggling with affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023129/how-climate-change-complicating-california-democrats-affordability-agenda\">Climate-fueled costs\u003c/a> have injected a new dynamic into negotiations over extending cap-and-trade before the legislative session ends Sept. 12. The program raises billions of dollars every year from polluters, and Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are debating ways to use that money to lower the costs of a warming state and follow through on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016294/california-democrats-prepare-for-trump-vow-renewed-focus-affordability\">post-election promises\u003c/a> to prioritize affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a policy that has driven down greenhouse gas emissions, but really for Californians to really experience it, they want to see something that is much more readily salient in their everyday lives,” said Kyle Meng, an economics professor at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade, first authorized in 2006 under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, sets a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions for refineries, power plants and various manufacturers covered by the program. Companies must stay under the cap either by reducing emissions, purchasing pollution allowances at quarterly auctions or using free allowances, which the state grants to prevent job loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2017, Brown signed legislation extending the program until 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three months later, dozens of fires broke out across the North Bay, eventually killing 44 people and burning more than 21,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay fires marked the start of a new era: wildfires no longer smoldered in rural forestland but tore through neighborhoods from Santa Rosa to Paradise, claiming lives and homes. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997904/californians-are-worried-about-wildfire-and-growing-costs-of-climate-change\">costs\u003c/a> of those blazes are piling up even outside fire zones. Home insurers are raising premiums on all policyholders as the market teeters under the weight of massive fire payouts. Electric utilities, found guilty of starting some fires and desperate to avoid future ignitions, are passing liability and safety costs to ratepayers, driving up energy bills.[aside postID=news_12040286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250203_MartinezRefineryFolo_GC-26_qed-1020x680.jpg']An \u003ca href=\"https://seuc.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2025-02/02-19-25-cec-presentation.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> from the California Energy Commission found that average residential electricity rates spiked in the years after the 2017 wildfires. California now has the second-highest electricity rates in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auctions for pollution allowances have brought in $31.4 billion since they began in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers are now eyeing that money to pay for wildfire prevention or to offset the costs those blazes are adding to Californians’ pocketbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re facing not just the need to mitigate climate change but also very large climate change adaptation costs called ‘wildfire,’ you might be tempted to say we need to invest the money,” said Michael Wara, director of Stanford’s climate and energy policy program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, if you’re concerned about electricity affordability, or energy affordability — or just affordability full stop — you might say the best thing is to give people money in one way or another to help them afford the energy services that they need in California, be it transportation or electricity,” he added. “It’s a big decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations to extend cap-and-trade to 2045 have moved slowly behind closed doors for much of the year. The program is complex, and just 21 of the state’s 120 legislators were in office for the last reauthorization vote. But the talks have become more urgent as auction returns earlier this year faltered, reflecting uncertainty about the future of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, a Democrat from Ventura County, introduced a plan from Assembly Democrats to extend the program. To make electricity more affordable, Irwin is proposing a revamp of the California Climate Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit is currently paid to utility ratepayers twice a year, typically in April and October. PG&E customers, for example, receive two credits of $58.23 this year, regardless of power usage. Utilities pay for the program by auctioning off free cap-and-trade allowances granted by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irwin’s plan would shift the credit to the hotter summer months, when Californians run air conditioning. The proposal would also integrate the credit directly into bills based on usage rather than providing lump-sum payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People that have the highest utility bills, people that are in hot areas that don’t necessarily have solar or battery backup, people that have lower incomes are going to see the biggest decrease in their bills during those summer months,” Irwin said.[aside postID=news_12023129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-30-1020x680.jpg']The expansion would be funded by reducing the allowances the state currently grants to natural gas providers and giving them instead to electric utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordability concerns are also informing the debate over how to spend the $4 billion to $5 billion raised annually in the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irwin said her bill would set up “baskets” of funding priorities, such as transportation, clean air and wildfire prevention — and create a more rigorous process of evaluating programs for their effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be spent to reduce emissions at the lowest cost, but we also need to look at vulnerable communities that have suffered the most because of climate change, and we need to invest in those communities too,” Irwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, 25% of the fund has gone toward constructing the state’s high-speed rail system. Another 20% has been earmarked for building housing near transit, while 15% funds local buses and rail operations — all projects aimed at reducing future vehicle emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was this notion for a long time that, well, what do you do with the money from the cap-and-trade? You use it to drive down greenhouse gas emissions,” said Meng, who previously served on the White House Council of Economic Advisors during the Biden administration. “And my view of that as an economist is like — that’s not quite right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The carbon cap and auction price, Meng argued, already exists as a forcing function for businesses to drive down emissions in a cost-effective manner. As companies make investments and adaptations to get below the cap, revenue from the auctions could be spent on other problems, such as reducing the cost of residential energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Chevron032714-JoshC-5177_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Chevron032714-JoshC-5177_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Chevron032714-JoshC-5177_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Chevron032714-JoshC-5177_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California, on March 27, 2014. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Lowering] electricity prices is certainly one of those big items that could make it much more visible and maybe allow the program to endure,” Meng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the cost of living still a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-june-2025/survey-0625-key-findings-figure2-top-issues-chosen-california/\">top\u003c/a> concern for California voters, many lawmakers believe cap-and-trade’s long-term political survival hinges on whether residents see tangible benefits from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Josh Becker, a Peninsula Democrat, pointed to the example of Washington state, where voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kuow.org/stories/will-washington-do-away-with-cap-and-trade-voices-for-and-against-initiative-2117\">repeal\u003c/a> its cap-and-trade program last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They made sure that the revenues from the program helped people every day — things like free transit for people under 18,” Becker said. “So when they had a ballot measure to challenge their cap-and-trade program, the cap-and-trade program won with over 60%, because people could feel the impact.”[aside postID=news_12050096 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CAP-AND-TRADE-ENVIRO-JUSTICE-MD-04-KQED.jpg']Becker has written Senate Bill 254, which would not only shift the credit to warmer summer months but also increase the payment to low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making that clear, getting to the times when they need it most, increasing it, that’s one of the things that will make people say: ‘Oh okay, this is the benefit of this program,’” Becker added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has his own ideas for spending cap-and-trade revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and a handful of legislators want to set aside $1 billion every year from the cap-and-trade fund for high-speed rail. Newsom also convinced lawmakers this year to allocate another $1 billion from the fund for CAL FIRE, the state’s firefighting force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade Crowfoot, Newsom’s secretary of natural resources, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910935/balancing-need-for-growth-with-environmental-protection-how-will-california-set-environmental-agenda\">\u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that protecting communities from catastrophic wildfires is crucial for addressing the costs of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a really strong argument that some of that funding for cap-and-trade can go to things that will limit our pollution — but also protect our people,” Crowfoot said. “Wildfire resilience is a great example, because the fact is, catastrophic wildfire not only threatens our communities and is really scary and dangerous — it’s a huge source of emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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And with two refinery closure announcements in the last year, one in Los Angeles and another in Benicia, industry leaders are warning that the costs of complying with an even stricter cap could drive more refineries out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think cap-and-trade…[has] to be paused for a minimum of 10 or 15 or 20 years,” Andy Walz, Chevron’s president of downstream, midstream and chemicals, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2025/08/01/chevrons-andy-walz-isnt-satisfied-00490144\">POLITICO\u003c/a>. “They need to just pause it and see what happens to the market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irwin said Walz is going “completely down the wrong track,” but she acknowledged it would be difficult to completely eliminate free allowances granted to oil and gas companies. Her bill would increase the use of offsets, letting polluters pay for climate investments to compensate for emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really cannot afford to lose more refineries in California,” Irwin said. “Because in the end, we could work very hard on affordability on our utility bills, and if we see that people’s gas bills are going up…every time they fill their car, that is really problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the price at the pump could be dwarfed by the mounting climate costs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://seuc.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2025-02/02-19-25-cec-presentation.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a> from the California Energy Commission found that average residential electricity rates spiked in the years after the 2017 wildfires. California now has the second-highest electricity rates in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auctions for pollution allowances have brought in $31.4 billion since they began in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers are now eyeing that money to pay for wildfire prevention or to offset the costs those blazes are adding to Californians’ pocketbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re facing not just the need to mitigate climate change but also very large climate change adaptation costs called ‘wildfire,’ you might be tempted to say we need to invest the money,” said Michael Wara, director of Stanford’s climate and energy policy program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, if you’re concerned about electricity affordability, or energy affordability — or just affordability full stop — you might say the best thing is to give people money in one way or another to help them afford the energy services that they need in California, be it transportation or electricity,” he added. “It’s a big decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations to extend cap-and-trade to 2045 have moved slowly behind closed doors for much of the year. The program is complex, and just 21 of the state’s 120 legislators were in office for the last reauthorization vote. But the talks have become more urgent as auction returns earlier this year faltered, reflecting uncertainty about the future of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blue trucks with 'pg and e' logo on them sit parked in a lot with the white and black blurry pattern of a fence in the foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS34908_P1100952-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E trucks sit inside a Mission District facility owned by the utility. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, a Democrat from Ventura County, introduced a plan from Assembly Democrats to extend the program. To make electricity more affordable, Irwin is proposing a revamp of the California Climate Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit is currently paid to utility ratepayers twice a year, typically in April and October. PG&E customers, for example, receive two credits of $58.23 this year, regardless of power usage. Utilities pay for the program by auctioning off free cap-and-trade allowances granted by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irwin’s plan would shift the credit to the hotter summer months, when Californians run air conditioning. The proposal would also integrate the credit directly into bills based on usage rather than providing lump-sum payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People that have the highest utility bills, people that are in hot areas that don’t necessarily have solar or battery backup, people that have lower incomes are going to see the biggest decrease in their bills during those summer months,” Irwin said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The agency failed to conduct some on-site inspections and levy appropriate fines, even when doing so would have better protected workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-115/\">the report \u003c/a>published July 17 said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Auditor identified severe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049005/california-osha-inspectors-dont-visit-worksites-even-when-workers-are-injured\">staffing shortages\u003c/a> and outdated policies and practices as “root causes,” including handling investigations primarily on paper, which makes it difficult to track more than 12,000 complaints Cal/OSHA receives annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employers who put workers in danger are not being held accountable,” Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, told Cal/OSHA officials at the hearing, including agency Chief Debra Lee. “What I really hope my colleagues and the public understand is the severity of Cal/OSHA’s failure to protect workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the nation’s strongest workplace safety laws, but advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875988/minimal-to-non-existent-safety-inspector-shortage-worsened-in-pandemic-leaving-california-workers-vulnerable\">long complained\u003c/a> that weak enforcement leaves \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932758/health-and-safety-are-at-risk-only-1-california-safety-inspector-is-bilingual-in-chinese-or-vietnamese\">employees at risk\u003c/a>, especially in construction, manufacturing and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DSC3491_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, speaks at a rally in front of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on Sept. 6, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA, also known as the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, is generally supposed to send inspectors to a workplace soon after receiving a report of a fatality, serious injury or danger. On-site inspections can result in fines for the employer if violations are found. Less serious hazards are often addressed through letters asking employers to self-investigate and correct issues, without monetary penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor found Cal/OSHA closed complaints and accident reports without verifying employers had fixed safety hazards and declined to conduct on-site inspections even when state law likely required them. Some cases involved serious injuries, including a chainsaw laceration resulting in surgery and weeks of recovery, and a skull fracture rendering a worker unconscious for several minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also reduced penalties without documenting a rationale. In one case, a forklift accident that caused a worker’s death resulted in a $21,000 fine, though penalties could have been twice as high, according to the audit, which reviewed 60 complaints and accident files handled by Cal/OSHA between 2019 and 2024.[aside postID=news_12049005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/070125-Farmworker-Harvest-LV-CM-54-copy.jpg']Staffing was another major issue. The agency had 32% of its positions unfilled last year, but vacancies were more severe in enforcement, where critical industrial hygienist positions were 81% unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Auditor Grant Parks told lawmakers that the agency needs enough staff, clear policies and systems to monitor employee performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems that Cal-OSHA is facing is really a sort of a three-legged stool,” Parks said. “And currently, we don’t have any of those three legs fully fleshed out, in our opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, said lawmakers must ensure Cal/OSHA implements needed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredible that an agency that has been around for decades doesn’t have any legs to its stool,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a 30-year employee at Cal/OSHA before she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to head the agency in 2024, seemed at times nervous and tepid in her responses. At one point, she referred to a manual before responding to a question by Ortega about when the agency refers cases for criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega repeatedly cited three workers who died after being crushed by machinery at a metal manufacturing and recycling plant in her district, without sufficient consequences for the employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on Aug. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When do you decide that it’s time to hold an employer accountable? Is it after the first death? Is it the second death? Is it after the third death?” Ortega asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee quoted related labor codes but acknowledged that the agency does not yet have a clear policy for referring cases to district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge the audit’s findings and their recommendations, which makes it clear and certain that improvements are needed at Cal/OSHA,” Lee said. “My priority is to improve the lives of California workers and empower employers to provide a safe workplace. In fact, under my leadership, Cal/OSHA was already working to fix issues identified by the state auditor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the agency issued progressively stiffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Alco+Iron&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=26&startyear=2015&endmonth=08&endday=26&endyear=2025\">penalties\u003c/a> against San Leandro-based Alco Iron & Metal Co., the workplace Ortega referred to: $7,000 for a 2017 worker fatality, $18,185 for a second death in 2022, and $95,500 for a third earlier this year. It is unclear whether the company has paid the fines. Cal/OSHA did not immediately respond to requests for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Michael Bercovic, chief operating officer at Alco Iron & Metal, declined to comment on the two most recent fatalities, which remain under investigation and in legal proceedings. He said that the 2017 accident was caused by a manufacturer’s design flaw in the equipment that crushed the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employee’s family filed a lawsuit against the equipment manufacturer, and they reached a settlement prior to trial,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA has prioritized hiring, reducing its overall vacancy rate to 12% this year after eliminating 66 positions due to budget cuts, according to Lee. Vacancies remain higher in enforcement, with 30% of field staff positions unfilled, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is modernizing operations with a new electronic data management system that spokesperson Daniel Lopez called the “biggest technology project” in Cal/OSHA’s history. Officials said it will help collect and standardize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor’s office plans to follow up on Cal/OSHA’s progress next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Staffing was another major issue. The agency had 32% of its positions unfilled last year, but vacancies were more severe in enforcement, where critical industrial hygienist positions were 81% unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Auditor Grant Parks told lawmakers that the agency needs enough staff, clear policies and systems to monitor employee performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problems that Cal-OSHA is facing is really a sort of a three-legged stool,” Parks said. “And currently, we don’t have any of those three legs fully fleshed out, in our opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, said lawmakers must ensure Cal/OSHA implements needed changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredible that an agency that has been around for decades doesn’t have any legs to its stool,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a 30-year employee at Cal/OSHA before she was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to head the agency in 2024, seemed at times nervous and tepid in her responses. At one point, she referred to a manual before responding to a question by Ortega about when the agency refers cases for criminal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega repeatedly cited three workers who died after being crushed by machinery at a metal manufacturing and recycling plant in her district, without sufficient consequences for the employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley on Aug. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When do you decide that it’s time to hold an employer accountable? Is it after the first death? Is it the second death? Is it after the third death?” Ortega asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee quoted related labor codes but acknowledged that the agency does not yet have a clear policy for referring cases to district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I acknowledge the audit’s findings and their recommendations, which makes it clear and certain that improvements are needed at Cal/OSHA,” Lee said. “My priority is to improve the lives of California workers and empower employers to provide a safe workplace. In fact, under my leadership, Cal/OSHA was already working to fix issues identified by the state auditor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show the agency issued progressively stiffer \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Alco+Iron&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&sitezip=&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=26&startyear=2015&endmonth=08&endday=26&endyear=2025\">penalties\u003c/a> against San Leandro-based Alco Iron & Metal Co., the workplace Ortega referred to: $7,000 for a 2017 worker fatality, $18,185 for a second death in 2022, and $95,500 for a third earlier this year. It is unclear whether the company has paid the fines. Cal/OSHA did not immediately respond to requests for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Michael Bercovic, chief operating officer at Alco Iron & Metal, declined to comment on the two most recent fatalities, which remain under investigation and in legal proceedings. He said that the 2017 accident was caused by a manufacturer’s design flaw in the equipment that crushed the worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The employee’s family filed a lawsuit against the equipment manufacturer, and they reached a settlement prior to trial,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA has prioritized hiring, reducing its overall vacancy rate to 12% this year after eliminating 66 positions due to budget cuts, according to Lee. Vacancies remain higher in enforcement, with 30% of field staff positions unfilled, a spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is modernizing operations with a new electronic data management system that spokesperson Daniel Lopez called the “biggest technology project” in Cal/OSHA’s history. Officials said it will help collect and standardize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state auditor’s office plans to follow up on Cal/OSHA’s progress next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Palestinian activists are calling on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> officials to halt military cargo shipments through the city’s airport to Israel, saying the shipments have supported Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://armsembargonow.com/report\">report released Thursday\u003c/a>, the Palestinian Youth Movement said it documented at least 280 shipments of military equipment this year routed through Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, often via FedEx, to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shipping documents obtained by PYM and viewed by KQED show shipments appear to include replacement parts for the U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets, which Israel has used in aerial bombardments of Gaza. Nearly all were bound for Nevatim Airbase, where Israel stations its F-35 fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report calls these shipments “a striking example of civilian infrastructure being used to sustain and enable a military campaign that leading human rights organizations have described as genocide under the Genocide Convention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is happening at an alarming frequency, multiple days per week. Every single week,” said Aisha Nizar, a Palestinian Youth Movement organizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-011_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Palestinian Youth Movement press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers at Malcolm X Plaza on campus in San Francisco on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaley Skantz, OAK’s public information officer, said in a statement to KQED that the airport has no information about the contents of shipments by cargo carrier tenants and that all of FedEx’s flight and loading operations are carried out directly by FedEx employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that FedEx — which has recently faced criticism for its role in shipping military cargo — is the airport’s largest cargo carrier and accounts for most of the 1.1 billion pounds of air freight passing through annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most notable items listed in the shipping documents is the BRU-68, a bomb release unit made for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/pneumatic-single-carriage-and-release-systems\">F-35 Lightning II\u003c/a> and capable of dropping \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2020-08/l3harris-release-systems-product-catalog-sas.pdf\">2,000-pound bombs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the same bombs that we have seen destroy hospitals, churches, mosques. They have leveled entire refugee camps over these past two years,” Nizar said. “And it’s concerning to us because this is being flown out of a civilian airport in a city that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">one of the first cities to call for a ceasefire\u003c/a>.”[aside postID=news_12047968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-13-BL-KQED.jpg']On July 13, 2024, \u003ca href=\"http://aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/13/israeli-air-raid-on-al-mawasi-kills-90-people-what-we-know-so-far\">Israel bombed the al-Mawasi camp\u003c/a> in southern Gaza, where officials said two senior Hamas members were hiding. The local health ministry said the strike killed at least 90 people and injured hundreds of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the strike, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Minister of Defense at the time, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/yoavgallant/status/1812505691652808883\">posted to social media\u003c/a> a photo with fighter pilots, seated in front of what appeared to be an F-35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other F-35 parts in the shipments included components used to “guide weapons, power surveillance and targeting systems, and support critical flight operations — all essential to sustaining the combat readiness of Israel’s Air Force,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are able to conclude, beyond reasonable doubt, that military cargo being shipped out of OAK has been used by the Israeli Air Force to carry out airstrikes and commit genocide in Gaza,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International human rights groups have sharply criticized Israel for what some describe as indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A United Nations special committee investigating Israeli practices cited the use of heavy bombs in a report last year, concluding that Israel’s campaign in Gaza is consistent with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GazaHumanitarianCrisisJuly2025Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Palestinians struggling with hunger in Gaza flock to the Zakim area in the north of the region to receive aid on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Hamza Z. 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Israeli officials have also blamed Hamas for operating within population centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents reviewed by KQED, along with FedEx tracking data, show the cargo originated from the city of Tracy, home to a military equipment distribution depot operated by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dla.mil/Distribution/Locations/San-Joaquin/\">Defense Logistics Agency\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12052642 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GazaGetty.jpg']A 2021 post from the agency’s website said that, “Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, located in Tracy, California, was selected as the Wholesale Air Vehicle Storage and Distribution location for F-35 Lightning II aircraft parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers stressed that they were limited by information accessible through public or commercially available datasets and that the total number of shipments could be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation by Belgian news outlets \u003ca href=\"https://www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/f-35-componenten-via-belgie-naar-israel-vredesactie-dient-klacht-in-strafbare-medewerking-aan-oorlogsmisdaden~b57ad7c0/?ref=ontheditch.com&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontheditch.com%2Ffedex-under-criminal-investigation%2F\">\u003cem>De Morgen\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesoir.be/684075/article/2025-06-26/une-plainte-contre-fedex-pour-des-cargaisons-suspectes-destination-disrael?ref=ontheditch.com\">\u003cem>La Soir\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported in June that FedEx transported F-35 parts through Belgium on their way to Israel. They also list Tracy as the origin of some of those shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a matter of policy, FedEx does not disclose customer shipment details,” FedEx wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PYM also examined a sample of 500 shipments to Israel routed through FedEx’s Global Superhub in Memphis, Tennessee, between April and June. Oakland was the second most frequent U.S. transit point, accounting for 16% of Israel-bound shipments, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The frequency, consistency, and content of these shipments underscore Oakland’s role not as a peripheral transit point, but as a dependable conduit for critical military technologies,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling on Oakland officials to end these shipments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a history of standing against apartheid, standing against war. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bimonthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">beachside park\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s quiet Sunset neighborhood has kicked up a political sandstorm. Now, voters in the city’s westside district have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042017/recall-against-sf-supervisor-joel-engardio-heads-to-the-ballot\">answer the question\u003c/a>: Should Joel Engardio be removed from the Board of Supervisors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots have gone out to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">50,000 District 4 voters\u003c/a>. Preliminary results will be posted on election day, Sept. 16, with vote-counting continuing until the election is certified no later than Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio has pulled in significant cash, particularly from moderate Democrats, and support from both YIMBYs and environmentalists who argue the road was doomed anyway — it’s literally falling into the ocean due to coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, experts told me Engardio faces an uphill battle against local drivers furious over longer commute times and progressives targeting Engardio’s support from billionaire donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get on a recall ballot, the odds are against you,” said Jason McDaniel, a political science professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio won his seat in 2022. The recall only needs a simple majority to succeed. And in what will likely be a low-turnout special election, it’s often the angriest voters who show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SunsetDunesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors are seen during the grand opening of the Sunset Dunes Park along the former Upper Great Highway, in San Francisco, on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engardio’s supporters and opponents have mixed ideologies and motivations, unlike other recent recall elections like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977536/newsom-vows-to-take-latest-recall-effort-very-very-seriously\">targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>, who drew clear political lines between his detractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think (Engardio’s) recall breaks down on ideology lines very much at all,” McDaniel said. “This recall is about access to something that is popular citywide amongst a lot of people, but in this particular district, it is not.”[aside postID=news_12042017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250412_SUNSETDUNESGRANDOPENING_GC-11-KQED.jpg']If Engardio is recalled, Mayor Daniel Lurie will appoint a temporary replacement to represent District 4 until the next election in June 2026. If the recall fails, Engardio serves out his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio faced criticism for supporting Proposition K, a 2024 ballot measure that closed the upper portion of the Upper Great Highway to cars. The strip of highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard is now an oceanfront park, called Sunset Dunes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His stance has attracted donations from wealthy tech executives like Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman and Ripple chairman Chris Larsen. Bike and recreation enthusiasts across the city have also rallied in person to support the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his own district? Not so much. While many people across the city voted to approve Proposition K, the majority of residents in the Sunset opposed it. The pro-recall camp has raised only a fraction of money compared to Engardio’s campaign, but upset Sunset residents are still fighting the road closure in conversations with neighbors, online forums and in \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/\">court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people out there just kind of have the mentality, like ‘Leave me alone. I just want to live my lifestyle here,’” said political consultant David Ho, who grew up in the Sunset. “Most people have multiple cars, they have intergenerational households. But how do you balance that with the needs of an evolving urban city?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of Engardio’s supporters in the Sunset told KQED they like his positions on increased policing and clearing homeless encampments. He’s also nabbed endorsements from officials, including five of his fellow supervisors, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Engardio still hasn’t secured an endorsement from Lurie, who opposed Proposition K.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needed full-throated support from Mayor Lurie and others in leadership in San Francisco. And I don’t think he’s gotten it as much as he needs,” McDaniel said. “I think that reflects a political calculation; Lurie does not want to be connected to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio himself gained political prominence by supporting earlier recalls — against District Attorney Chesa Boudin and several school board members. He previously told KQED that while he stands by his decision to create the park, he also believes in residents’ right to recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, importantly, recalling Engardio will not immediately reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars. That would require a future ballot measure to undo Proposition K, Supervisor Connie Chan has said she might explore such a measure if the recall succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear who Lurie might appoint if Engardio is removed. But political observers say someone open to revisiting the highway closure is likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor is under a lot of pressure to appoint a moderate Chinese, or conservative Chinese American, who’s at least going to say, ‘I agree with Connie Chan. Let’s bring back the ballot measure and let the voters decide,’” Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal immigration agents are more routinely showing up at California medical facilities as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may come to the emergency room, bringing in someone who’s suffering a medical crisis while being detained. They may wait in the lobby, as agents did for two weeks\u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\"> at an L.A.-area hospital \u003c/a>waiting for a woman to be discharged. Or they may even chase people inside, as federal agents did at a Southern California surgical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sight of these agents — often armed and with covered faces — makes many wary and may keep people from seeking care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing hospital policies guide operations when law enforcement brings in a person under arrest, hospital officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new to hospitals,” said Lois Richardson, vice president and counsel at the California Hospital Association. “We get inmates, detainees, arrestees all the time, whether it’s police, sheriff, highway patrol, ICE, whatever it is.” The job for hospital workers remains to provide care, she added, and not to get involved in disputes over why a person is in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hospital employee enters Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Aug. 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigration attorneys, advocates and health workers have expressed concerns over the handling of some of these cases, both by immigration officers and by some administrators at medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, they’re worried about the application of protocols like visitation rules, about threats to patients’ legal and privacy rights, and about risks to hospital workers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a level of privacy that we owe to patients and their families, and that has just been completely demolished with all of the involvement of ICE coming into hospitals,” said Kate Mobeen, an ICU nurse at John Muir Medical Center in Concord. “It creates just a huge sense of fear, not only in our patient population, but in our employee population and our nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Patients’ rights, policies face new tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when ICE has shown up at medical facilities with a detained patient, the result has been conflicting messaging about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, ICE agents took a man to John Muir Medical Center in Concord because he suffered an unspecified medical emergency while being detained outside the Concord immigration court, according to Ali Saidi, an attorney and the director of Stand Together Contra Costa, a local rapid response and legal services organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Saidi arrived at the hospital as part of the response network, he said hospital staff told him that he was not allowed to see the detained patient, but that the man’s family would be allowed. Then, when the man’s wife arrived, “The rules had somehow changed, and they said no family visit,” Saidi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement shared by the Contra Costa Immigrants Rights Alliance, the detained man’s wife, who asked to be identified only by her middle name, Maria, said that when she later talked to her husband, he told her that he was so terrified that he passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family and I went to the emergency room and we asked to see him and talk to him to make sure he was OK,” Maria said in the statement. “The hospital staff would not let us see him, and they would not give us any information about what was happening to him. They wouldn’t even answer my questions.”[aside postID=news_12053380 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/75ACE4D9-068E-4167-9BD3-CFF3A0BE597B-2000x1335.jpg']John Muir officials would not comment on the incident, citing privacy laws. But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. Activists have condemned the ongoing presence of ICE agents or contractors in the hospital lobby where a woman was recovering from a medical emergency while detained. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/glendalememorial/about-us/press-center/statement-from-glendale-memorial-hospital-regarding-ice-july-7-2025\">statement\u003c/a>, officials from Dignity Memorial Hospital said they could not legally prohibit law enforcement from being in public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, say legal experts: Waiting rooms and lobbies are considered public spaces in hospitals. But agents cannot move through hospitals without limits. Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/healthcare-guidance.pdf\">guidance from the attorney general’s office\u003c/a>, health facilities should consider a patient’s immigration status confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some disclosures are required if law enforcement can prove lawful custody or show an appropriate warrant. A federal court warrant signed by a judge grants law enforcement immediate access to information or to search a particular area, while an ICE administrative warrant does not require immediate compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health workers in ‘precarious’ \u003cstrong>situations \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Health facilities generally direct frontline workers not to engage with immigration agents, but rather to immediately contact security or management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One particular incident at a Southern California surgery center stands out, in conversation with health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 8, federal agents targeted three landscapers who had parked outside of the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center. They chased one of the men inside on foot, according to a felony criminal complaint filed against two health care workers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In videos of the incident posted online, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PW6Bysinn0\">masked agent wearing a vest labeled “POLICE ICE” \u003c/a>on the back holds a weeping man by the shoulder inside the center while several workers in scrubs stand by. At multiple points in the video workers ask the officer for identification; one worker says, “this is a private business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two workers, Danielle Davila and Jose Ortega, tell the officer to leave. Davila moves between the officer and the man, saying “Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant.”[aside postID=news_12052815 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-91547950_slide-4d6100270cc91128d1beb27eca778a6dcd952acd-1020x680.jpg']Ortega puts an arm between Davila and the officer and says “You have no proper identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer says to both workers “You touched a federal agent.” Then Davila responds, “I’m not touching you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila and Ortega were later charged with two felony counts of assaulting a federal officer and conspiring to prevent a federal officer from performing their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the felony charges were dismissed and both Davila and Ortega pleaded not guilty to a subsequent misdemeanor assault charge. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila’s defense attorney Oliver Cleary said his client believed she was doing the right thing by asking for credentials and a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just come in where people are getting medical care and whisk them away,” Cleary said. “She didn’t know who these people were. They didn’t tell her who they were, and as far as she knew this was a patient of the clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Juárez, Ortega’s defense attorney, said arresting and charging health workers with crimes for asking to see a warrant and identification puts them in a “precarious” and “dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did what they needed to do and what they had a right to do,” Juárez said. “What I hope is it doesn’t have a chilling effect on other health care workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Workers say additional training can help\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the state, health workers say they’d like to see management provide additional guidance on how to respond to such scenarios if they were to play out in their workplace. Some workers are providing training themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adriana Rugeles-Ortiz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center, has been leading “Know Your Rights” sessions at her hospital and in her community as part of her union, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. She said some of her coworkers have expressed anxiety over some of the situations they’ve seen play out in other hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my involvement with all the training that we have done to the workers and to the community, personally, I do feel prepared. I am not that confident that we have been able to reach the entire workforce within Kaiser to get them to the level of confidence to deal with it,” Rugeles-Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Douglas Yoshida, an emergency room physician at Stanford Health Tri-Valley in Alameda County, said additional guidance and training for workers at medical facilities could be of great value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as health care providers, we need to deliver good health care to these patients, just like any other patient, and we need to protect their rights,” Yoshida said. “I mean, personally, if someone comes in in ICE custody, within the limits of the law, I want to do everything I can to help [patients.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital in Pleasanton that Yoshida works in is located near the county’s Santa Rita Jail; staff, he said, have been used to a law enforcement presence. But the recent incident at John Muir Medical Center, about 30 miles north, as well as the criminal charges filed against the southern California surgery center workers have set people on edge, Yoshida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, health care workers have no reason to fear law enforcement,” he added, “but we’re in uncharted territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">www.chcf.org\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/08/immigration-hospitals-workers-fear/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Existing hospital policies guide operations when law enforcement brings in a person under arrest, hospital officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new to hospitals,” said Lois Richardson, vice president and counsel at the California Hospital Association. “We get inmates, detainees, arrestees all the time, whether it’s police, sheriff, highway patrol, ICE, whatever it is.” The job for hospital workers remains to provide care, she added, and not to get involved in disputes over why a person is in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/082420_healthcareworkers_AW_sized_04-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hospital employee enters Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Aug. 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet immigration attorneys, advocates and health workers have expressed concerns over the handling of some of these cases, both by immigration officers and by some administrators at medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, they’re worried about the application of protocols like visitation rules, about threats to patients’ legal and privacy rights, and about risks to hospital workers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a level of privacy that we owe to patients and their families, and that has just been completely demolished with all of the involvement of ICE coming into hospitals,” said Kate Mobeen, an ICU nurse at John Muir Medical Center in Concord. “It creates just a huge sense of fear, not only in our patient population, but in our employee population and our nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Patients’ rights, policies face new tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when ICE has shown up at medical facilities with a detained patient, the result has been conflicting messaging about the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 29, ICE agents took a man to John Muir Medical Center in Concord because he suffered an unspecified medical emergency while being detained outside the Concord immigration court, according to Ali Saidi, an attorney and the director of Stand Together Contra Costa, a local rapid response and legal services organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Saidi arrived at the hospital as part of the response network, he said hospital staff told him that he was not allowed to see the detained patient, but that the man’s family would be allowed. Then, when the man’s wife arrived, “The rules had somehow changed, and they said no family visit,” Saidi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement shared by the Contra Costa Immigrants Rights Alliance, the detained man’s wife, who asked to be identified only by her middle name, Maria, said that when she later talked to her husband, he told her that he was so terrified that he passed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family and I went to the emergency room and we asked to see him and talk to him to make sure he was OK,” Maria said in the statement. “The hospital staff would not let us see him, and they would not give us any information about what was happening to him. They wouldn’t even answer my questions.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>John Muir officials would not comment on the incident, citing privacy laws. But in an email, Ben Drew, a spokesperson for the hospital, said general policy is that “If a law enforcement agency indicates that visitation presents a safety or security concern, [the hospital] may limit or deny visitation to protect our patients, staff, and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi said that when the wife insisted on getting information about the man’s condition, hospital security called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that emotions are high whenever a family member or friend is in the emergency department or hospital,” said Drew. “The hospital only involves local police in circumstances when a patient or visitor’s behavior becomes abusive, disruptive, or threatening, and cannot be resolved through our own security team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saidi denied that the family was being disruptive, saying that conversations with hospital staff and administration were respectful and no voices were raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The atmosphere in that emergency bay was something like I’ve never seen before in my career,” Saidi said. “There was a chilling effect. Everyone was averting their eyes. You could tell the staff felt bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple emergency department nurses told Mobeen, a local California Nurses Association leader at John Muir, that ICE officers were “very aggressive with staff” and staff were afterwards “emotionally and physically upset” by what happened, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying to not be able to tell patients’ family members how they are, what their status is,” Mobeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue, Mobeen added, is training. Staff were not given adequate training on how to respond to any kind of immigration enforcement action that may occur at the hospital, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drew, the spokesman for John Muir, countered that the hospital has given guidance on its longstanding law enforcement policy and answered multiple questions since January about what to do if ICE agents show up at their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits for ICE access, sometimes murky\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, immigration agents occupied the lobby of Dignity Health’s Glendale Memorial Hospital, even standing behind reception desks, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/ice-agents-glendale-hospital-waiting-to-arrest-a-patient/\">as photos that circulated online showed.\u003c/a> Protestors gathered outside the hospital, hosting rallies and press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were all there because agents had previously brought in \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-rally-presence-ice-contractors-glendale-hospital/17038487/\">Milagro Solis-Portillo\u003c/a>, an immigrant from El Salvador, for medical care following her detention. They spent 15 days in the hospital waiting for Solis-Portillo’s discharge before transferring her to another hospital and then taking her into custody, \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/woman-ice-stalked-at-two-socal-hospitals-is-now-in-federal-custody/\">according to local news reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HealthCareICECalMatters2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand on the stairs at an entrance of Dignity Health-Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, on July 17, 2025. Activists have condemned the ongoing presence of ICE agents or contractors in the hospital lobby where a woman was recovering from a medical emergency while detained. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/glendalememorial/about-us/press-center/statement-from-glendale-memorial-hospital-regarding-ice-july-7-2025\">statement\u003c/a>, officials from Dignity Memorial Hospital said they could not legally prohibit law enforcement from being in public areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true, say legal experts: Waiting rooms and lobbies are considered public spaces in hospitals. But agents cannot move through hospitals without limits. Law enforcement officials are not allowed to search for people in exam rooms or other private spaces without a federal court warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When agents bring in someone who is in their custody and needs medical care, the application of the law can be more murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Richardson at the hospital association, how far an agent can go into treatment areas with a detained patient may be decided on a case-by-case basis. In cases where a detained patient is struggling or resisting, that patient may need guarding, she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if law enforcement officers do go inside exam rooms, they may hear medical information while on guard. But that isn’t necessarily a privacy violation, according to federal rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, the law that sets privacy standards for medical information, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html\">has a provision\u003c/a> that allows for “incidental disclosures” of information as long as “reasonable safeguards” are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital will, and the doctor will make reasonable attempts to protect the patient’s privacy.” “What is reasonable is going to depend, again, on what’s wrong with the patient, how the patient is behaving, the nature of the circumstances,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HIPAA protects the disclosure of medical records, which include names, addresses and social security numbers along with health conditions. State law also requires health facilities to protect this information. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/healthcare-guidance.pdf\">guidance from the attorney general’s office\u003c/a>, health facilities should consider a patient’s immigration status confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, some disclosures are required if law enforcement can prove lawful custody or show an appropriate warrant. A federal court warrant signed by a judge grants law enforcement immediate access to information or to search a particular area, while an ICE administrative warrant does not require immediate compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health workers in ‘precarious’ \u003cstrong>situations \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Health facilities generally direct frontline workers not to engage with immigration agents, but rather to immediately contact security or management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One particular incident at a Southern California surgery center stands out, in conversation with health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 8, federal agents targeted three landscapers who had parked outside of the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center. They chased one of the men inside on foot, according to a felony criminal complaint filed against two health care workers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In videos of the incident posted online, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PW6Bysinn0\">masked agent wearing a vest labeled “POLICE ICE” \u003c/a>on the back holds a weeping man by the shoulder inside the center while several workers in scrubs stand by. At multiple points in the video workers ask the officer for identification; one worker says, “this is a private business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two workers, Danielle Davila and Jose Ortega, tell the officer to leave. Davila moves between the officer and the man, saying “Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ortega puts an arm between Davila and the officer and says “You have no proper identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer says to both workers “You touched a federal agent.” Then Davila responds, “I’m not touching you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila and Ortega were later charged with two felony counts of assaulting a federal officer and conspiring to prevent a federal officer from performing their duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the felony charges were dismissed and both Davila and Ortega pleaded not guilty to a subsequent misdemeanor assault charge. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davila’s defense attorney Oliver Cleary said his client believed she was doing the right thing by asking for credentials and a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t just come in where people are getting medical care and whisk them away,” Cleary said. “She didn’t know who these people were. They didn’t tell her who they were, and as far as she knew this was a patient of the clinic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Juárez, Ortega’s defense attorney, said arresting and charging health workers with crimes for asking to see a warrant and identification puts them in a “precarious” and “dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did what they needed to do and what they had a right to do,” Juárez said. “What I hope is it doesn’t have a chilling effect on other health care workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Workers say additional training can help\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around the state, health workers say they’d like to see management provide additional guidance on how to respond to such scenarios if they were to play out in their workplace. Some workers are providing training themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adriana Rugeles-Ortiz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center, has been leading “Know Your Rights” sessions at her hospital and in her community as part of her union, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West. She said some of her coworkers have expressed anxiety over some of the situations they’ve seen play out in other hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my involvement with all the training that we have done to the workers and to the community, personally, I do feel prepared. I am not that confident that we have been able to reach the entire workforce within Kaiser to get them to the level of confidence to deal with it,” Rugeles-Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Douglas Yoshida, an emergency room physician at Stanford Health Tri-Valley in Alameda County, said additional guidance and training for workers at medical facilities could be of great value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as health care providers, we need to deliver good health care to these patients, just like any other patient, and we need to protect their rights,” Yoshida said. “I mean, personally, if someone comes in in ICE custody, within the limits of the law, I want to do everything I can to help [patients.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital in Pleasanton that Yoshida works in is located near the county’s Santa Rita Jail; staff, he said, have been used to a law enforcement presence. But the recent incident at John Muir Medical Center, about 30 miles north, as well as the criminal charges filed against the southern California surgery center workers have set people on edge, Yoshida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, health care workers have no reason to fear law enforcement,” he added, “but we’re in uncharted territory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/\">www.chcf.org\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/08/immigration-hospitals-workers-fear/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve been wondering, “When will the 2025 COVID vaccine be widely available?” you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024\">2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines had already been approved\u003c/a> by the Food and Drug Administration, recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for everyone age 6 months and older and rolled out across the country for several weeks.[aside postID=news_12055165 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA approved updated COVID-19 shots on Aug. 27, but for the first time has limited their use for many Americans, recommending them only for people 65 and older or those younger with a health condition that puts them at higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacies including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/scheduling/patient-lookup?lob=rximz&flow=vaccine&icid=global-nav\">CVS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp?ban=immhub_covidinfo\">Walgreens\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.safeway.com/pharmacy/covid-19.html\">Safeway\u003c/a> have already begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055165/where-can-i-find-new-updated-2025-covid-vaccine-near-me-moderna-pfizer-cvs-walgreens-safeway-vaccinations-health-insurance-cost\">offering appointments online for eligible people\u003c/a>, despite the fact that the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel recommendation — which is usually what health insurers base their decisions on around which vaccines they’ll cover for patients — still isn’t here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whocanmakeanonlineCOVIDvaccineappointmentatCVS\">Who can make an online COVID vaccine appointment at a pharmacy already\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something else to know: On Sept. 3, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was joining the governors of Oregon and Washington in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/\">launching a new “West Coast Health Alliance”\u003c/a> that would form its own recommendations in the coming weeks around who should get the updated COVID-19 vaccine in California this year — in the light of what the officials called “the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045979\">COVID-19 cases keep rising in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, who \u003cem>can\u003c/em> even get a vaccine right now? How can you make an appointment, and how could California’s upcoming decisions on vaccines change eligibility?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about the FDA’s decision to limit COVID-19 vaccines this year, how it affects children, whether people who aren’t considered “high risk” might still be able to get a COVID-19 shot and how it could change health insurance covering these vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#can-i-still-get-covid-vaccine-fda-2025\">If I’m not on the FDA’s approvals list, can I still get a COVID shot this year?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">Will my insurance cover the updated COVID vaccine “off-label”?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Who can get an updated COVID shot this year, according to the FDA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Previously, the federal government recommended that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines-2024-2025\">everyone age 6 months and older should get a COVID-19 shot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Aug. 27, the FDA said that the updated COVID-19 shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are approved for people at higher risk from the disease, which is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Everyone age 65 and older\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Younger adults and children with at least one high-risk health condition (also called “comorbidities”), such as asthma or obesity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Novavax’s shot is only open to people 12 or older, under the same risk-based restrictions now in place for the Moderna and Pfizer options. It’s the nation’s only protein-based COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, said the FDA’s decision was “regrettable in the way that it sidelines some others who also have a disproportionate risk for getting serious disease, such as pregnant people, even if they have no comorbidities, and children under two in particular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician and researcher at Stanford University, also stressed the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination for otherwise healthy people that he sees every day when working urgent care shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will say that being able to basically be protected enough [to reduce] the chance that you have to miss work, where you have come in and be seen here to be evaluated? It is a big benefit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karan also flagged the ongoing risks of longer-term impacts from a COVID-19 infection. Even if a person doesn’t develop long COVID, he said, many still experience “several days or weeks of weakness, fatigue, mental fog,” he said — for days or even weeks after their infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what counts as ‘high risk’ from COVID?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While we still don’t know if this criteria will be changed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html\">the CDC’s current list of health conditions \u003c/a>that make a person at higher risk of severe illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19 includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Cancer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chronic lung, kidney and liver disease\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heart conditions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain disabilities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>HIV infection\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mental health conditions, including depression\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obesity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Being a current or former smoker.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html\">See the full list of who the CDC currently deems high risk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has the FDA said about COVID vaccines for kids?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The FDA’s approval said that anyone under 65 — including children — must have an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/communication/vaccines-children-teens.html\">all children aged 6 months and over were recommended \u003c/a>to get vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053911 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What do we know about who can get a COVID-19 vaccine in 2025? \u003ccite>(Matt Hunt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Pfizer’s vaccine will no longer be available for any child under 5, even if they have an underlying health condition, because the FDA has revoked the shot’s emergency authorization for that age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and caregivers will still be able to seek out shots from rival Moderna, the other drugmaker of mRNA vaccines, which has full FDA approval for children as young as 6 months. But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children with at least one serious health problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novavax’s shot is only open to people 12 or older, under the same risk-based restrictions as are now in place for the Moderna and Pfizer options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, in May, the CDC removed the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children from their recommended immunization schedule, but then updated the guidelines to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32332/CDC-to-allow-COVID-vaccination-for-children-after\">parents and caregivers to obtain the vaccine for their children only after consulting with their doctor, \u003c/a>known as “shared clinical decision-making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics offered its own recommendations for kids, saying \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/health/covid-vaccine-recommendation-aap\">annual shots are strongly recommended for children ages 6 months to 2 years\u003c/a> and advised for older children. The AAP acknowledged that their recommendation “differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happens next with COVID vaccines?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In June, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-health-chief-kennedy-names-new-members-vaccine-advisory-committee-2025-06-11/\">replaced its members with a number of doctors and researchers \u003c/a>who have repeatedly questioned the safety of commonly used vaccines and ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the panel that in previous years has met to offer annual recommendations for who should get that year’s updated COVID-19 shot, following the FDA approval — recommendations that health insurers then use to determine whose vaccines they’ll cover. After the CDC recommendations, in previous years, COVID-19 vaccines have typically been rolled out widely within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html\"> the new ACIP panel is expected to meet on Sept. 18 and 19.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will California’s new vaccine alliance impact who can get the new COVID shot this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 3, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was joining Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054491/in-rebuke-of-rfk-jr-the-west-coast-unites-on-vaccine-policy\">launching a new “West Coast Health Alliance”\u003c/a> that would form its own recommendations “in the coming weeks” around who should get the updated COVID-19 vaccine in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joint governors’ statement said that these states were forming the alliance in the light of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/\">“the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity,” \u003c/a>pointing particularly to Kennedy’s purge of the CDC’s vaccine panel in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear when exactly these localized recommendations will roll out, how they’ll expand on the FDA’s eligibility criteria and how any such expansion would impact how \u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">insurers might cover the updated COVID vaccines.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whocanmakeanonlineCOVIDvaccineappointmentatCVS\">\u003c/a>Why are online appointments already available at pharmacies for the new COVID-19 shots?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/scheduling/patient-lookup?lob=rximz&flow=vaccine&icid=global-nav\">CVS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp?ban=immhub_covidinfo\">Walgreens\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.safeway.com/pharmacy/covid-19.html\">Safeway\u003c/a> are already offering appointments online in California for eligible people to get the updated COVID-19 shot starting this week, despite the lack of the CDC recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can only make an appointment to get vaccinated at these pharmacies if you’re age 65 or older, or check the box saying you have a health condition that puts you at higher risk from COVID-19 (i.e., that you meet the requirements of the latest FDA approval.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous years, vaccine appointments at pharmacies have only rolled out once the CDC has weighed in. California is one of the 34 states in which pharmacies like \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Bloz0#SQ5KO4JY7RCZXDI6Y74FUN63RA-30\">CVS are permitted to offer the COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription\u003c/a> from a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055165/where-can-i-find-new-updated-2025-covid-vaccine-near-me-moderna-pfizer-cvs-walgreens-safeway-vaccinations-health-insurance-cost\">Read our full guide to finding a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will your vaccine at a pharmacy even be covered by health insurance if the CDC recommendation \u003cem>hasn’t\u003c/em> been issued by Sept. 4? In a statement last week, CVS said that “Our understanding is that the COVID-19 vaccine is covered by most insurance plans at no cost for eligible patients,” but that patients should still “check with their insurer to determine whether the updated COVID-19 vaccine is covered by their individual health plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue Shield and United Healthcare did not respond to KQED’s request for confirmation that they will indeed cover the shots for eligible patients before the CDC’s recommendation is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">if you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente or Sutter Health\u003c/a>, even if you’re eligible for the new COVID-19 shot according to the FDA you almost certainly \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be able to get the vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy (the way you can’t get your flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either.) Instead, you’ll have to wait until the vaccine is offered by Kaiser itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump to more about \u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">what we know about health insurance covering the new COVID-19 vaccines this year. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will I need to provide the pharmacy proof of any health conditions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CVS confirmed Friday that if someone has self-attested in the CVS appointment scheduling process that they have a health condition that puts them at higher risk from COVID-19, they \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be asked for documentation or proof of that condition by the pharmacist at their appointment in order to get their vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"can-i-still-get-covid-vaccine-fda-2025\">\u003c/a>So if I don’t fall under the FDA’s new limits, can I still get an updated COVID vaccine this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We just don’t know yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On social media platform X, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1960742897201872969\">Kennedy claimed that COVID-19 vaccines “are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors.”\u003c/a> While the updated COVID-19 vaccines — which target a newer version of the continuously evolving virus — were set to ship immediately after the FDA approval, access will still depend on decisions by federal health advisers, private health insurers, pharmacies and state authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all means it could be days or weeks before many Americans know for sure if they’ll be able to get a COVID-19 shot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just worry that having targeted recommendations will make it harder for the people who even are \u003cem>part\u003c/em> of the recommendations to get the vaccine,” said UCSF’s Chin-Hong. “Because of confusion and uncertainty amongst insurance companies and pharmacists, and professional bodies that represent clinicians.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what’s going to happen is that the people who need it the most are going to suffer the most,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about getting the shot “off label”?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA’s decision on Wednesday affects what’s called the vaccine’s “label.” It’s possible that someone who isn’t on the FDA’s list of groups approved for the COVID-19 shot could find a doctor or other health professional willing to give the shot “off label,” i.e., outside the use listed on the FDA label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors \u003cem>can\u003c/em> write these off-label prescriptions “as long as you go over the risks and benefits with the patients,” said Chin-Hong — but there are still issues inherent in this approach, he said. Not only would a patient need to have access to a doctor they feel comfortable talking to about this, but it also relies on the provider themselves feeling comfortable to actually write the prescription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the big question of whether your insurance will cover your vaccination if it’s off-label — i.e., if you’re not included in the FDA’s list of who can get the updated COVID-19 shot this year. For an insurer, it could be “low-hanging fruit for someone not to get covered, if it’s not officially authorized,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about getting the shot at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the CDC panel’s advice, Americans under 65 \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be required to provide documentation of a serious medical condition before they can get the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pharmacists, who administer most COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., typically aren’t expected to collect that kind of documentation. Case in point: If you \u003ca href=\"#cvs-appointments-updated-%20covid-vaccine\">make an appointment to get the new COVID-19 vaccine at CVS right now\u003c/a>, you’ll only be asked to self-attest that you have a health condition that puts you at high risk from COVID-19, and CVS has confirmed the pharmacist won’t ask you for proof at your appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws governing\u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Bloz0#SQ5KO4JY7RCZXDI6Y74FUN63RA-30\"> pharmacists’ ability to administer routine vaccinations vary by state\u003c/a>, where pharmacists are licensed. And most relevantly here, not only may pharmacists be reluctant to give vaccines off-label, but many states actually limit vaccinations by pharmacists to those recommended by the CDC panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945640 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long blond hair, wearing a white face mask, fills a syringe from a small, clear vile that contains a Pfizer booster.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previously, the federal government recommended COVID-19 vaccines for everyone age 6 months and older. That’s just changed. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">\u003c/a>If I can get an updated COVID shot, will it be covered by health insurance if I don’t fall under the FDA’s approval list?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 shots can cost $150 or more out of pocket if not covered by insurance. Right now \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">at CVS, the cost of a COVID-19 vaccine is $198.99.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers typically base their vaccine coverage decisions on the recommendations of the CDC’s panel of advisers. But some say they will also look to medical professional groups, including the American Medical Association — potentially leaving the door open for insurers to cover vaccinations for more groups than are included in the FDA’s narrow approvals list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Friday, a spokesperson for Kaiser Permanente told KQED that their clinical experts were “reviewing the details of the FDA’s approval of the 2025-26 COVID vaccine, and while they’d also be reviewing the CDC’s recommendations when they’re released, Kaiser would also be “evaluat[ing] other sources of clinical recommendations, including relevant medical societies, to ensure safe and effective administration of the COVID vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente is committed to making the 2025-26 COVID vaccine available at no cost to children and adults for protection from severe illness from COVID,” said the spokesperson — who did not give a timeframe on when Kaiser members could expect the shot to roll out within the health system. (Remember, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">if you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente or Sutter Health\u003c/a>, you almost certainly won’t be able to get the new COVID-19 vaccine for free — i.e., covered by insurance — at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, the way you can’t get your flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has reached out to other major California insurers about their plans to cover COVID-19 vaccination this year, but has not yet received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, leader of the Vaccine Integrity Project and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told KQED Forum on Aug. 21 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910992/leading-pediatric-group-splits-with-cdc-over-vaccine-recommendations\">his group had also been in discussions with health insurers \u003c/a>about the issue of who will get their COVID-19 vaccinations covered in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers, Osterholm said, “are looking at ways that they can cover more than what has been recommended by the CDC — think of that as kind of the basement to their recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they look at the ceiling, it may be that they will be able to justify paying for all of these vaccines as they did before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is access to COVID vaccines changing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The approach reflects the vaccine skepticism of President Donald Trump’s second administration. Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary have both been outspoken critics of wide-scale vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, when his Department of Health and Human Services canceled nearly half a billion dollars in contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933882/beyond-vaccines-biotech-is-booming-in-the-bay-area-despite-a-cooling-economy\">mRNA vaccine development\u003c/a>, Kennedy falsely claimed that the vaccines “don’t perform well against viruses that affect the upper respiratory tract,” like COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in May, Kennedy said he “couldn’t be more pleased” to announce that the CDC had removed the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women from their recommended immunization schedule. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413179/covid-vaccine-children-pregnant-rfk-cdc\">This decision makes it much harder for these groups to get the COVID-19 shot\u003c/a> because insurance companies would not be required to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard not to look at this [FDA] announcement within the framing of RFK Jnr.’s hesitancy, or pushback, against vaccines,” said Stanford’s Karan. “A lot of claims being made against mRNA vaccines that are sort of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051152/health-experts-alarmed-by-rfk-jr-s-frightening-cuts-to-mrna-vaccine-funding\">framing them in a light that is overly-critical or unjustified\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s hard not to think that this is also part of why these restrictions have been put in place,” said Karan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karan also flagged the point that despite his claims that mRNA COVID-19 “don’t perform well” against the virus, Kennedy has nonetheless overseen the FDA approving them, in his own words, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1960742897201872969\">“for those at higher risk” from COVID-19.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>You’re saying they’re not effective? But you’re actually saying ‘They are effective, we are approving them — we’re just going to nitpick on who gets them and who doesn’t get them,'” said Karan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all over the place.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why \u003cem>is \u003c/em>there a new version of the COVID vaccine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 vaccines do a good job preventing severe disease, hospitalization and death, which remain a bigger risk for seniors and people with underlying health factors, including heart disease, lung disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preliminary data from the CDC estimates 47,500 Americans died from COVID-related causes last year. In at least two-thirds of those cases, COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of death. For the rest, COVID-19 was a contributing factor.[aside postID=news_12045979 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1369841386-1020x680.jpg']The updated shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax target a coronavirus subtype named LP. 8.1, a recently dominant version of the virus that is closely related to some newly emerging cousins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three shots were initially made available under the FDA’s emergency use authorization, an expedited process to quickly review vaccines and other countermeasures during the pandemic. Pfizer had not yet sought full approval for its doses designed for children under 5, which is the reason that Moderna will be the only provider of shots for the youngest children this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to revoking emergency use of Pfizer’s vaccine in young children, Kennedy said Wednesday the government also pulled remaining authorizations for all other COVID-19 vaccines and convalescent plasma, a therapy used during the pandemic to treat hospitalized patients before the first antiviral drugs became available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve been wondering, “When will the 2025 COVID vaccine be widely available?” you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this time last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024\">2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines had already been approved\u003c/a> by the Food and Drug Administration, recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for everyone age 6 months and older and rolled out across the country for several weeks.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA approved updated COVID-19 shots on Aug. 27, but for the first time has limited their use for many Americans, recommending them only for people 65 and older or those younger with a health condition that puts them at higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacies including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/scheduling/patient-lookup?lob=rximz&flow=vaccine&icid=global-nav\">CVS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp?ban=immhub_covidinfo\">Walgreens\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.safeway.com/pharmacy/covid-19.html\">Safeway\u003c/a> have already begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055165/where-can-i-find-new-updated-2025-covid-vaccine-near-me-moderna-pfizer-cvs-walgreens-safeway-vaccinations-health-insurance-cost\">offering appointments online for eligible people\u003c/a>, despite the fact that the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel recommendation — which is usually what health insurers base their decisions on around which vaccines they’ll cover for patients — still isn’t here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whocanmakeanonlineCOVIDvaccineappointmentatCVS\">Who can make an online COVID vaccine appointment at a pharmacy already\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something else to know: On Sept. 3, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was joining the governors of Oregon and Washington in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/\">launching a new “West Coast Health Alliance”\u003c/a> that would form its own recommendations in the coming weeks around who should get the updated COVID-19 vaccine in California this year — in the light of what the officials called “the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045979\">COVID-19 cases keep rising in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, who \u003cem>can\u003c/em> even get a vaccine right now? How can you make an appointment, and how could California’s upcoming decisions on vaccines change eligibility?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about the FDA’s decision to limit COVID-19 vaccines this year, how it affects children, whether people who aren’t considered “high risk” might still be able to get a COVID-19 shot and how it could change health insurance covering these vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#can-i-still-get-covid-vaccine-fda-2025\">If I’m not on the FDA’s approvals list, can I still get a COVID shot this year?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">Will my insurance cover the updated COVID vaccine “off-label”?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Who can get an updated COVID shot this year, according to the FDA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Previously, the federal government recommended that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines-2024-2025\">everyone age 6 months and older should get a COVID-19 shot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Aug. 27, the FDA said that the updated COVID-19 shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are approved for people at higher risk from the disease, which is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Everyone age 65 and older\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Younger adults and children with at least one high-risk health condition (also called “comorbidities”), such as asthma or obesity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Novavax’s shot is only open to people 12 or older, under the same risk-based restrictions now in place for the Moderna and Pfizer options. It’s the nation’s only protein-based COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, said the FDA’s decision was “regrettable in the way that it sidelines some others who also have a disproportionate risk for getting serious disease, such as pregnant people, even if they have no comorbidities, and children under two in particular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician and researcher at Stanford University, also stressed the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination for otherwise healthy people that he sees every day when working urgent care shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will say that being able to basically be protected enough [to reduce] the chance that you have to miss work, where you have come in and be seen here to be evaluated? It is a big benefit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karan also flagged the ongoing risks of longer-term impacts from a COVID-19 infection. Even if a person doesn’t develop long COVID, he said, many still experience “several days or weeks of weakness, fatigue, mental fog,” he said — for days or even weeks after their infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what counts as ‘high risk’ from COVID?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While we still don’t know if this criteria will be changed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html\">the CDC’s current list of health conditions \u003c/a>that make a person at higher risk of severe illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19 includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Cancer\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chronic lung, kidney and liver disease\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Heart conditions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Certain disabilities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>HIV infection\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mental health conditions, including depression\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obesity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Being a current or former smoker.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html\">See the full list of who the CDC currently deems high risk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What has the FDA said about COVID vaccines for kids?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The FDA’s approval said that anyone under 65 — including children — must have an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/covid/communication/vaccines-children-teens.html\">all children aged 6 months and over were recommended \u003c/a>to get vaccinated against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053911 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What do we know about who can get a COVID-19 vaccine in 2025? \u003ccite>(Matt Hunt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, Pfizer’s vaccine will no longer be available for any child under 5, even if they have an underlying health condition, because the FDA has revoked the shot’s emergency authorization for that age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and caregivers will still be able to seek out shots from rival Moderna, the other drugmaker of mRNA vaccines, which has full FDA approval for children as young as 6 months. But the company’s Spikevax vaccine is only approved for children with at least one serious health problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novavax’s shot is only open to people 12 or older, under the same risk-based restrictions as are now in place for the Moderna and Pfizer options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, in May, the CDC removed the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children from their recommended immunization schedule, but then updated the guidelines to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/32332/CDC-to-allow-COVID-vaccination-for-children-after\">parents and caregivers to obtain the vaccine for their children only after consulting with their doctor, \u003c/a>known as “shared clinical decision-making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics offered its own recommendations for kids, saying \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/health/covid-vaccine-recommendation-aap\">annual shots are strongly recommended for children ages 6 months to 2 years\u003c/a> and advised for older children. The AAP acknowledged that their recommendation “differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happens next with COVID vaccines?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In June, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-health-chief-kennedy-names-new-members-vaccine-advisory-committee-2025-06-11/\">replaced its members with a number of doctors and researchers \u003c/a>who have repeatedly questioned the safety of commonly used vaccines and ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the panel that in previous years has met to offer annual recommendations for who should get that year’s updated COVID-19 shot, following the FDA approval — recommendations that health insurers then use to determine whose vaccines they’ll cover. After the CDC recommendations, in previous years, COVID-19 vaccines have typically been rolled out widely within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html\"> the new ACIP panel is expected to meet on Sept. 18 and 19.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will California’s new vaccine alliance impact who can get the new COVID shot this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 3, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was joining Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054491/in-rebuke-of-rfk-jr-the-west-coast-unites-on-vaccine-policy\">launching a new “West Coast Health Alliance”\u003c/a> that would form its own recommendations “in the coming weeks” around who should get the updated COVID-19 vaccine in California this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joint governors’ statement said that these states were forming the alliance in the light of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/california-oregon-and-washington-to-launch-new-west-coast-health-alliance-to-uphold-scientific-integrity-in-public-health-as-trump-destroys-cdcs-credibility/\">“the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity,” \u003c/a>pointing particularly to Kennedy’s purge of the CDC’s vaccine panel in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear when exactly these localized recommendations will roll out, how they’ll expand on the FDA’s eligibility criteria and how any such expansion would impact how \u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">insurers might cover the updated COVID vaccines.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whocanmakeanonlineCOVIDvaccineappointmentatCVS\">\u003c/a>Why are online appointments already available at pharmacies for the new COVID-19 shots?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/scheduling/patient-lookup?lob=rximz&flow=vaccine&icid=global-nav\">CVS\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp?ban=immhub_covidinfo\">Walgreens\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.safeway.com/pharmacy/covid-19.html\">Safeway\u003c/a> are already offering appointments online in California for eligible people to get the updated COVID-19 shot starting this week, despite the lack of the CDC recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can only make an appointment to get vaccinated at these pharmacies if you’re age 65 or older, or check the box saying you have a health condition that puts you at higher risk from COVID-19 (i.e., that you meet the requirements of the latest FDA approval.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous years, vaccine appointments at pharmacies have only rolled out once the CDC has weighed in. California is one of the 34 states in which pharmacies like \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Bloz0#SQ5KO4JY7RCZXDI6Y74FUN63RA-30\">CVS are permitted to offer the COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription\u003c/a> from a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055165/where-can-i-find-new-updated-2025-covid-vaccine-near-me-moderna-pfizer-cvs-walgreens-safeway-vaccinations-health-insurance-cost\">Read our full guide to finding a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will your vaccine at a pharmacy even be covered by health insurance if the CDC recommendation \u003cem>hasn’t\u003c/em> been issued by Sept. 4? In a statement last week, CVS said that “Our understanding is that the COVID-19 vaccine is covered by most insurance plans at no cost for eligible patients,” but that patients should still “check with their insurer to determine whether the updated COVID-19 vaccine is covered by their individual health plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue Shield and United Healthcare did not respond to KQED’s request for confirmation that they will indeed cover the shots for eligible patients before the CDC’s recommendation is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">if you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente or Sutter Health\u003c/a>, even if you’re eligible for the new COVID-19 shot according to the FDA you almost certainly \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be able to get the vaccine covered by insurance at a pharmacy (the way you can’t get your flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either.) Instead, you’ll have to wait until the vaccine is offered by Kaiser itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump to more about \u003ca href=\"#updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">what we know about health insurance covering the new COVID-19 vaccines this year. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will I need to provide the pharmacy proof of any health conditions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CVS confirmed Friday that if someone has self-attested in the CVS appointment scheduling process that they have a health condition that puts them at higher risk from COVID-19, they \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be asked for documentation or proof of that condition by the pharmacist at their appointment in order to get their vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"can-i-still-get-covid-vaccine-fda-2025\">\u003c/a>So if I don’t fall under the FDA’s new limits, can I still get an updated COVID vaccine this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We just don’t know yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On social media platform X, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1960742897201872969\">Kennedy claimed that COVID-19 vaccines “are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors.”\u003c/a> While the updated COVID-19 vaccines — which target a newer version of the continuously evolving virus — were set to ship immediately after the FDA approval, access will still depend on decisions by federal health advisers, private health insurers, pharmacies and state authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all means it could be days or weeks before many Americans know for sure if they’ll be able to get a COVID-19 shot this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just worry that having targeted recommendations will make it harder for the people who even are \u003cem>part\u003c/em> of the recommendations to get the vaccine,” said UCSF’s Chin-Hong. “Because of confusion and uncertainty amongst insurance companies and pharmacists, and professional bodies that represent clinicians.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, what’s going to happen is that the people who need it the most are going to suffer the most,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about getting the shot “off label”?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA’s decision on Wednesday affects what’s called the vaccine’s “label.” It’s possible that someone who isn’t on the FDA’s list of groups approved for the COVID-19 shot could find a doctor or other health professional willing to give the shot “off label,” i.e., outside the use listed on the FDA label.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors \u003cem>can\u003c/em> write these off-label prescriptions “as long as you go over the risks and benefits with the patients,” said Chin-Hong — but there are still issues inherent in this approach, he said. Not only would a patient need to have access to a doctor they feel comfortable talking to about this, but it also relies on the provider themselves feeling comfortable to actually write the prescription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the big question of whether your insurance will cover your vaccination if it’s off-label — i.e., if you’re not included in the FDA’s list of who can get the updated COVID-19 shot this year. For an insurer, it could be “low-hanging fruit for someone not to get covered, if it’s not officially authorized,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about getting the shot at a pharmacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the CDC panel’s advice, Americans under 65 \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be required to provide documentation of a serious medical condition before they can get the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pharmacists, who administer most COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., typically aren’t expected to collect that kind of documentation. Case in point: If you \u003ca href=\"#cvs-appointments-updated-%20covid-vaccine\">make an appointment to get the new COVID-19 vaccine at CVS right now\u003c/a>, you’ll only be asked to self-attest that you have a health condition that puts you at high risk from COVID-19, and CVS has confirmed the pharmacist won’t ask you for proof at your appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws governing\u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/Bloz0#SQ5KO4JY7RCZXDI6Y74FUN63RA-30\"> pharmacists’ ability to administer routine vaccinations vary by state\u003c/a>, where pharmacists are licensed. And most relevantly here, not only may pharmacists be reluctant to give vaccines off-label, but many states actually limit vaccinations by pharmacists to those recommended by the CDC panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945640 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long blond hair, wearing a white face mask, fills a syringe from a small, clear vile that contains a Pfizer booster.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS52115_GettyImages-1344323369-qut-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previously, the federal government recommended COVID-19 vaccines for everyone age 6 months and older. That’s just changed. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"updated-new-covid-vaccine-insurance-coverage-like-kaiser-blue-shield\">\u003c/a>If I can get an updated COVID shot, will it be covered by health insurance if I don’t fall under the FDA’s approval list?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 shots can cost $150 or more out of pocket if not covered by insurance. Right now \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">at CVS, the cost of a COVID-19 vaccine is $198.99.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers typically base their vaccine coverage decisions on the recommendations of the CDC’s panel of advisers. But some say they will also look to medical professional groups, including the American Medical Association — potentially leaving the door open for insurers to cover vaccinations for more groups than are included in the FDA’s narrow approvals list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Friday, a spokesperson for Kaiser Permanente told KQED that their clinical experts were “reviewing the details of the FDA’s approval of the 2025-26 COVID vaccine, and while they’d also be reviewing the CDC’s recommendations when they’re released, Kaiser would also be “evaluat[ing] other sources of clinical recommendations, including relevant medical societies, to ensure safe and effective administration of the COVID vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente is committed to making the 2025-26 COVID vaccine available at no cost to children and adults for protection from severe illness from COVID,” said the spokesperson — who did not give a timeframe on when Kaiser members could expect the shot to roll out within the health system. (Remember, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001396/where-can-i-get-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2024#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">if you get your health care through a health system like Kaiser Permanente or Sutter Health\u003c/a>, you almost certainly won’t be able to get the new COVID-19 vaccine for free — i.e., covered by insurance — at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens, the way you can’t get your flu shot covered by Kaiser at a pharmacy either.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has reached out to other major California insurers about their plans to cover COVID-19 vaccination this year, but has not yet received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, leader of the Vaccine Integrity Project and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told KQED Forum on Aug. 21 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910992/leading-pediatric-group-splits-with-cdc-over-vaccine-recommendations\">his group had also been in discussions with health insurers \u003c/a>about the issue of who will get their COVID-19 vaccinations covered in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers, Osterholm said, “are looking at ways that they can cover more than what has been recommended by the CDC — think of that as kind of the basement to their recommendations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they look at the ceiling, it may be that they will be able to justify paying for all of these vaccines as they did before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is access to COVID vaccines changing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The approach reflects the vaccine skepticism of President Donald Trump’s second administration. 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The protesters represent several causes, including the war in Gaza, women’s rights, targeting of undocumented people, minorities and more, part of a nationwide day of action protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, Health Initiatives for Youth was awarded $274,398 for services in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curricula used by CA PREP were previously reviewed and approved by the federal Administration for Children and Families, but the Trump administration is now revoking that approval. California is now about $5.8 million in federal funding for local organizations and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss will likely fall on the grantees who serve high-needs children, who are already struggling financially, Reis said.[aside postID=news_12050618 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_KaiserTransProtest_GC-7_qed.jpg']“I don’t know who’s going to make up the funding,” Reis said. “I think there’s just going to be a lack of services for our young people, and I think the burden will fall more on our state government to make up the funding or on schools … to make up the difference to either train teachers or hire outside folks to come in and teach a sex ed curriculum, or then they wouldn’t be in compliance with the Ed code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the California grantees losing funding, three are Planned Parenthood affiliates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby McMichael with the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California called the cuts an attack not only on reproductive health care, but also “a clear attack on California and its values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, these cuts will cause harm: unplanned teen pregnancies will go up, the STI crisis will worsen, and countless youth across the state will be deprived of the knowledge they need to make the decisions that are best for their health, relationships, and lives,” McMichael said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has 30 days to appeal, but CDPH has not confirmed whether or not it will do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the federal Administration for Children and Families before the funding cutoff, Matthew Green with the Center for Family Health at CDPH said the department would not change its curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-4-scaled-e1651632298608.jpg\" alt='A large crowed assembles in downtown San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>Harnesha Burks’ financial setback began with a high-risk pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, she was working as a mail handler for the U.S. Postal Service in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, and her doctor told her the heavy lifting she was doing at work wasn’t safe for her and the baby she was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor advised her to take time off, but the postal service doesn’t offer paid maternity leave, and she didn’t qualify for state benefits, so she started to fall behind on her monthly bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really, really stressful, really hard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks got help from local churches and public assistance programs to cover food and rent for the apartment she shared with her baby and teenage son in Antioch. But she didn’t always have enough money to pay her gas, electricity and cellphone bills. Eventually, she owed Pacific Gas & Electric $1,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her debt caught up to her when, a month after coming from the hospital with her newborn, the power was cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harnesha Burks plays with her son Zyon, 2, at a park near their home in Antioch on Aug. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I ended up going straight to rock bottom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks is among one in three California parents of young kids who struggle to afford their utility bills, \u003ca href=\"https://rapidsurveyproject.com/article/utility-costs-rise-leaving-california-parents-of-young-children-in-a-tough-spot/\">according to \u003c/a>a statewide survey, which found that when parents have trouble making ends meet, their children’s well-being and development suffer. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033386/pge-electricity-rates-have-jumped-nearly-70-since-2020\">electricity rates rise sharply\u003c/a> in California, parents told the survey they need to make tough choices between basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People pay for food and housing first and foremost but utilities are, I think, something that often falls between the cracks because if people can’t pay for basic things like the rent they get evicted, or if they don’t have enough food on their table, it constitutes an emergency,” said Philip Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, which surveyed as part of its multi-year RAPID project. [aside postID=news_12023805 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/P1100923_qed-1020x680.jpg']Fisher said when researchers followed up with these parents, they reported feeling elevated levels of anxiety, loneliness, depression and stress, and that their children were more fussy or defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parents also filled out \u003ca href=\"https://www.unmc.edu/publichealth/research/multidisciplinary-programs/kidsights/index\">an online survey\u003c/a> that measures the typical development of children under 5 years old. The results showed that when parents face economic hardships, their babies experience emotional distress and developmental delays, which affects their ability to learn in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous research has pointed to the impacts that financial strain has on parents and their children. Fisher cited a UC Berkeley study that found that caregivers with low socioeconomic status ran short on money, and they \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/desc.13151\">spoke less to their infants and toddlers at the end of the month\u003c/a>. The “word gap” is a concern for researchers because chatting with babies, even before they can talk, boosts their communication and social skills later on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re concerned about kids’ education and [their] readiness to attend school, then these economic hardship issues are really at the center of what we’re talking about,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her power was cut off, Burks said she spent several weeks couch surfing with relatives. Her older son, Bradley, went to her grandparents’ house to be closer to his high school. She felt guilty about being away from him while living out of bags with her baby, Zyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harnesha Burks holds her son Zyon, 2, near their home in Antioch on Aug. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We were ripped from our nests,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members helped Burks pay the PG&E bill to get the electricity flowing again. She returned home after six weeks to a refrigerator full of spoiled food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to pretty much start over with [restocking] the refrigerator and the freezer … so I had a setback on that,” she said. “It was so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get out of what she called a financial “black hole,” Burks returned to work. But going back meant working a graveyard shift and leaving Bradley to care for his brother by himself. She felt bad for making Bradley take on a huge responsibility and for leaving Zyon so soon.[aside postID=news_12052609 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-32-BL_qed.jpg']“We didn’t get the bonding time that I felt that we needed. A lot of nights, he had to go to sleep without me,” she said. “I was in an unstable place, but I had to go back to work because who’s going to keep the lights on? Who’s going to take care of me and my kids?”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she came home, she tried to make up for lost time with Zyon but sacrificed her own sleep. Relief came on the two days Zyon’s dad, with whom she shares custody, took him to his house, but she was still exhausted. Burks began to experience debilitating postpartum depression, which she had never had after giving birth to Bradley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I was supposed to be sleeping, cuddling, bonding with my baby. I didn’t have that. So that depression set heavy: I gained a lot of weight, my hair fell out, it was so stressful,” she said.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, she shut out her family members as she slid deeper into her depression, but eventually she turned to a sister who works for the advocacy group Parent Voices for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks applied for CalWORKS, the state welfare program, but was denied cash aid because, although she was on unpaid leave, she was technically employed. Her sister helped her sign up for a monthly discount on her energy bill, and when she fell behind again on her payments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/arrearage-management-plan-amp.html\">PG&E offered to enroll her in its debt forgiveness program\u003c/a> as long as she made on-time payments for 12 consecutive months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053523\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250822-ECONOMICINSTABILITYIMPACTONKIDS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harnesha Burks holds her son Zyon, 2, at a park near their home in Antioch on Aug. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The utility giant offers several \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance.html?vnt=billhelp\">financial assistance programs\u003c/a> to help lower-income customers cope with their bills. But almost one in three parents told the RAPID survey team they didn’t apply because they weren’t sure they would qualify, even though they were eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks said when she first tried to arrange a payment plan with a PG&E representative to prevent losing power, that person didn’t offer financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we met at her home in late Spring, Burks said she was starting to feel more stable as Bradley prepared to graduate and head to community college. She also planned to enroll Zyon in a local Head Start program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tot was energetic and chatty after waking up from a nap, but was willing to sit still to watch Ms. Rachel, his favorite YouTube personality, while his mom prepared chicken nuggets for dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks said even though caregiving has gotten easier now that Zyon is two years old, she thinks he’s still clingy whenever she leaves him for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s very joyful, but he has his moments. He has these tantrums I’ve never seen before,” Burks said. “It’s probably from my depression and my issues, you know, [kids] pick up what they see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burks said she’s come out of postpartum depression, but on certain days, she gets overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t go back into that deep depression, but just that feeling comes over me, like what am I going to do,” she said. “Not knowing if I can pay this bill or not knowing how much food is gonna last this month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But this threat from wildfire was new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No guidance or protocol existed for Santa Rosa’s water system to follow. Staff at Santa Rosa Water started reaching out to experts with experience responding to chemical spills, including a Purdue University engineering professor named Andrew Whelton. Whelton replied with exceptional interest, said Emma Walton, then a deputy director at the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, at least eight wildfires have contaminated public drinking water systems across the United States, and Whelton has become the de facto national authority on response and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters spray water onto a burning property in Altadena, California, during the L.A. wildfires earlier this year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brian Feinzimer/LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He has rushed from his home in Indiana to the side of utility managers from Colorado to Hawaii who were facing some of the most stressful infrastructure crises of their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has clashed with California regulators over specific protocol and recommended managers test for more contaminants than regulators there require. Last year, Whelton published a blueprint for how water utility staff can look for and decontaminate their systems. Utility managers say it provides a resource in an area where federal and state guidelines are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to describe how complex it was before we had this resource, because you were doing a lot of guessing on what was right and wrong,” said Kurt Kowar, a utility director who sought Whelton’s help in the aftermath of Colorado’s Marshall Fire in 2021. “And now, there’s no more guessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Leung, director of water quality at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said his staff referred to this playbook to make their recovery plan after the LA fires earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with this tool, LADWP was able to restore water service in two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He wrote back, I think within 30 minutes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The benzene found in Santa Rosa’s water is one of many VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, that can enter municipal water systems when the buildings they’re connected to are destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VOCs are a broad category of chemicals known for their ability to off-gas. They’re found in household and industrial products, including paints, pesticides, dry cleaning agents and petroleum fuels. They also form during natural processes such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue professor Andrew Whelton in his office on the school’s campus. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Thorp/APM Reports)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the Tubbs Fires, experts understood that wildfires can contaminate water sources through soil erosion and runoff. Events in Santa Rosa revealed that wildfires can also contaminate water systems at the pipes that bring treated drinking water to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say it works like this: damage to structures and excess demand for water cause depressurization. This creates a vacuum in the distribution system that can pull contaminants into service lines, water mains and connecting fixtures. Plastic pipes can also degrade at high temperatures, causing chemicals in the plastic to leach into the water. The contamination can be distributed unevenly in damaged areas, making it difficult to catch without sufficient sampling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Environmental Protection Agency regulates about 20 VOCs in drinking water that harm human health. Benzene, for example, has been linked to anemia, a decrease in blood platelets, and an increased risk of cancer. The agency limits benzene in drinking water to 5 micrograms per liter.[aside postID=news_12043312 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CLAIRE-SCHWARTZ-L-AND-NINA-RAJ-WITH-A-CHILD_S-DRAWING-RECOVERED-BY-RAJ-AFTER-THE-EATON-FIRE-KQED-1020x765.jpg']California has a lower allowable maximum at 1 microgram per liter. If a million people consumed contaminated drinking water at this concentration over a 70-year period, the chemical would cause between six and seven cases of cancer, according to California regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But national drinking water standards set by the EPA do not account for this newly understood mode of contamination from wildfires. Water utilities routinely monitor for VOCs as the water leaves the treatment plant, upstream of where wildfire contamination is likely to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, after the Camp Fire engulfed more than 90% of Paradise, California, Kevin Phillips needed answers to some pressing questions. The Paradise Irrigation District had just confirmed the presence of benzene in its water system and Phillips, the district manager, wanted to know if it would permanently contaminate the pipes. A contact at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested his team reach out to Whelton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Whelton] wrote back, I think within 30 minutes, a list of things we should look for and how we go about this,” Phillips said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his response, Whelton recommended that Paradise begin by flushing the distribution network to remove any contaminated water currently in the pipes. But, he cautioned, success depended on the types of materials the water came into contact with, the concentration of chemicals in the water, the water temperature and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/Paradise_DVenton-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debris left behind by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Plastics would be my biggest concern,” Whelton wrote. “Once you flush away the contaminated water, chemicals absorbed inside the plastic will then begin to leach out into the clean water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed at which the chemicals leach out of the plastic determines how long decontamination takes, regardless of flushing, Whelton added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, Phillips flew Whelton and a small team from Purdue to Paradise to assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that point on, he was really kind of our go-to expert when it came to water contamination,” Phillips said.[aside postID=news_12051854 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg']This would not be the last time Whelton would steer a besieged water utility through such a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years later, the Marshall Fire plowed through several neighborhoods in the town of Louisville, Colorado. Kurt Kowar, director of public works and utilities in Louisville, said state regulators told him their agency didn’t have the expertise to address this kind of contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they suggested that he call Whelton, whom Kowar then looked up on Twitter. Kowar said Whelton called within a half hour of receiving Kowar’s introductory email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of their conversation, Kowar said he knew what he needed to do next. “That’s when I said, ‘I’m gonna buy you a plane ticket. You’re gonna get on a plane. You’re gonna come here tomorrow, because we got to figure this out.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton, who had just returned home from a business trip, immediately headed to the airport, booking a redeye flight on his way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, Whelton, Louisville water system staff, state regulators and others Whelton had recommended met in a nondescript conference room to make a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his seat in the back of the room, Whelton noticed their questions were similar to the ones utility staff in Santa Rosa and Paradise had posed when they were going through their respective water contamination crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado’s Marshall Fire destroyed some homes while leaving others intact. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time, Whelton decided to take notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton had worked for the U.S. Army on water infrastructure security before going into academia. The experience left him a firm believer in establishing military decision-making frameworks to address emerging disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He decided to turn their questions into a similarly styled manual for water utility recovery in the aftermath of a wildfire.[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']He started putting together a concept of operations, or CONOPS, plan for water distribution system testing and recovery. The name was a nod to his military experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding from the Water Research Foundation, a nonprofit that serves water utilities, Whelton and two other Purdue researchers published the guide in 2024 to help utility managers “get from Point A to Point B with an evidence-based approach,” Whelton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines the responsibilities of different parties during disaster response, from water utility staff to public health officials to state drinking water regulators. It also helps utility managers determine their options after a system tests positive for contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the CONOPS, such information was spread out “on websites or in news articles or in people’s heads,” Kowar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA issued a seven-page document in 2021, but it reads like a “high-level guidance,” Kowar said. The CONOPS plan “is a much more thorough, vetted document” that takes the guesswork out of recovery efforts and reflects industry best practices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2023 wildfires in Maui, the CONOPS plan got its first test run with Whelton, Phillips and Kowar present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no interest in doing this for the next 10 to 20 years,” Whelton said. “We need to train these leaders, operators and engineers in communities to help themselves in times of crises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘If somebody would have shown me a draft’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2024, California law began requiring water utilities to test for benzene contamination whenever a wildfire of 300 or more acres damaged or destroyed structures connected to a water system. California appears to be the only state with mandated testing after wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Whelton, California’s law is not protective enough because it only requires water systems to test for benzene and not other VOCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053455\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VOC contamination tends to occur in areas where water systems lose pressure and structures connected to the water system are damaged. Photo from a flyover of neighborhoods affected by the Marshall Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea that a single chemical could be “the panacea for a complex issue is bonkers,” he said. “If somebody would have shown me a draft of what actually got promulgated, I would have made clear that the code as written is going to result in potentially unsafe water for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While benzene is the most common VOC found in water after wildfires, data from previous fires show that other VOCs can contaminate drinking water after wildfires, too. Sometimes those VOCs are present even when benzene isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened in about a quarter of the samples taken after the Marshall Fire, according to Corona Environmental Consulting, a local agency that worked on the response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Whelton holds a piece of fire-damaged water infrastructure in his lab. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Thorp/APM Reports)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the California State Water Resources Control Board who weighed in on the law have said benzene is an adequate indicator for VOC contamination, nevertheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the state water board’s drinking water division, acknowledged that other VOCs will sometimes show up in samples where benzene is not present. But he said that benzene has the highest signal of all the VOCs based on sampling data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that, what we believe is that if you can manage for benzene, you’re basically managing for all of them,” Polhemus said, chalking the differences in perspective up to risk perception. “We’re dealing with the practicalities of cost and time and how to manage that compared with getting people back to their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Whelton disagrees, he said he is glad that “California decided that it’s important that people have their drinking water tested after a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the ground in Los Angeles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the January wildfires, Leung, the director of water quality at LAWDP, said his team opted to test for a broad panel of VOCs even though state law only required them to test for benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 482 samples they took, Leung said, VOCs were detected without benzene present about 11 percent of the time, but “at levels far below the drinking water standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leung said his counterparts at the public water system in Oakland, California, sent him Whelton’s plan in the days after the fires. It was a document Leung said he found himself returning to as he began thinking about the water system’s next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screening for and removing wildfire contaminants is “not necessarily intuitive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, water utilities have thought their water systems were clean after analyzing samples taken immediately after flushing, only to have contaminants show up later as chemicals that had adhered to plastic pipes leached back into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung said he took care to make sure that the water sat in the pipes for 72 hours before collecting samples, even though the water system used mostly metal pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Whelton’s plan helped him understand how different pipe materials absorb, retain and release VOCs, which cleaning strategies to use, and which areas of the water system to prioritize. Since LADWP’s water system had mostly copper, steel and galvanized iron water lines, Leung realized there was less concern about chemicals adhering to pipes.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']This, to Whelton, is proof that the CONOPS plan is working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan empowered water utilities in Los Angeles County to address the threat of contamination head-on, Whelton said. “They actually read the plan, they used it, they called us on the telephone or webinar, and then they made decisions for themselves and were able to find their way out of that disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton said he worries that some people outside of California may see VOC contamination as “a California problem,” even though wildfires are increasingly intersecting with urban communities because of climate change. And outside of California, it is completely discretionary whether a water system tests for contamination after a wildfire, Whelton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective disaster response depends on who’s in the room making decisions and the information they have access to, Whelton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton takes heart in the fact that public servants such as Walton, Phillips and Kowar have “stepped up when they were not legally required to,” and in doing so helped create the CONOPS plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drove the effort, but it was because of everyone else coming together [that] we were able to deliver,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, state regulators support and guide how public water systems address contamination. But this threat from wildfire was new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No guidance or protocol existed for Santa Rosa’s water system to follow. Staff at Santa Rosa Water started reaching out to experts with experience responding to chemical spills, including a Purdue University engineering professor named Andrew Whelton. Whelton replied with exceptional interest, said Emma Walton, then a deputy director at the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, at least eight wildfires have contaminated public drinking water systems across the United States, and Whelton has become the de facto national authority on response and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/LA_BFeinzimer-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters spray water onto a burning property in Altadena, California, during the L.A. wildfires earlier this year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brian Feinzimer/LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He has rushed from his home in Indiana to the side of utility managers from Colorado to Hawaii who were facing some of the most stressful infrastructure crises of their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has clashed with California regulators over specific protocol and recommended managers test for more contaminants than regulators there require. Last year, Whelton published a blueprint for how water utility staff can look for and decontaminate their systems. Utility managers say it provides a resource in an area where federal and state guidelines are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to describe how complex it was before we had this resource, because you were doing a lot of guessing on what was right and wrong,” said Kurt Kowar, a utility director who sought Whelton’s help in the aftermath of Colorado’s Marshall Fire in 2021. “And now, there’s no more guessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Leung, director of water quality at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said his staff referred to this playbook to make their recovery plan after the LA fires earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with this tool, LADWP was able to restore water service in two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He wrote back, I think within 30 minutes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The benzene found in Santa Rosa’s water is one of many VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, that can enter municipal water systems when the buildings they’re connected to are destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VOCs are a broad category of chemicals known for their ability to off-gas. They’re found in household and industrial products, including paints, pesticides, dry cleaning agents and petroleum fuels. They also form during natural processes such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1452\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM2-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue professor Andrew Whelton in his office on the school’s campus. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Thorp/APM Reports)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the Tubbs Fires, experts understood that wildfires can contaminate water sources through soil erosion and runoff. Events in Santa Rosa revealed that wildfires can also contaminate water systems at the pipes that bring treated drinking water to buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say it works like this: damage to structures and excess demand for water cause depressurization. This creates a vacuum in the distribution system that can pull contaminants into service lines, water mains and connecting fixtures. Plastic pipes can also degrade at high temperatures, causing chemicals in the plastic to leach into the water. The contamination can be distributed unevenly in damaged areas, making it difficult to catch without sufficient sampling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Environmental Protection Agency regulates about 20 VOCs in drinking water that harm human health. Benzene, for example, has been linked to anemia, a decrease in blood platelets, and an increased risk of cancer. The agency limits benzene in drinking water to 5 micrograms per liter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This would not be the last time Whelton would steer a besieged water utility through such a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years later, the Marshall Fire plowed through several neighborhoods in the town of Louisville, Colorado. Kurt Kowar, director of public works and utilities in Louisville, said state regulators told him their agency didn’t have the expertise to address this kind of contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they suggested that he call Whelton, whom Kowar then looked up on Twitter. Kowar said Whelton called within a half hour of receiving Kowar’s introductory email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of their conversation, Kowar said he knew what he needed to do next. “That’s when I said, ‘I’m gonna buy you a plane ticket. You’re gonna get on a plane. You’re gonna come here tomorrow, because we got to figure this out.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton, who had just returned home from a business trip, immediately headed to the airport, booking a redeye flight on his way there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, Whelton, Louisville water system staff, state regulators and others Whelton had recommended met in a nondescript conference room to make a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his seat in the back of the room, Whelton noticed their questions were similar to the ones utility staff in Santa Rosa and Paradise had posed when they were going through their respective water contamination crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C1-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado’s Marshall Fire destroyed some homes while leaving others intact. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time, Whelton decided to take notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whelton had worked for the U.S. Army on water infrastructure security before going into academia. The experience left him a firm believer in establishing military decision-making frameworks to address emerging disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He decided to turn their questions into a similarly styled manual for water utility recovery in the aftermath of a wildfire.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He started putting together a concept of operations, or CONOPS, plan for water distribution system testing and recovery. The name was a nod to his military experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding from the Water Research Foundation, a nonprofit that serves water utilities, Whelton and two other Purdue researchers published the guide in 2024 to help utility managers “get from Point A to Point B with an evidence-based approach,” Whelton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report outlines the responsibilities of different parties during disaster response, from water utility staff to public health officials to state drinking water regulators. It also helps utility managers determine their options after a system tests positive for contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the CONOPS, such information was spread out “on websites or in news articles or in people’s heads,” Kowar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA issued a seven-page document in 2021, but it reads like a “high-level guidance,” Kowar said. The CONOPS plan “is a much more thorough, vetted document” that takes the guesswork out of recovery efforts and reflects industry best practices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2023 wildfires in Maui, the CONOPS plan got its first test run with Whelton, Phillips and Kowar present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no interest in doing this for the next 10 to 20 years,” Whelton said. “We need to train these leaders, operators and engineers in communities to help themselves in times of crises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘If somebody would have shown me a draft’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2024, California law began requiring water utilities to test for benzene contamination whenever a wildfire of 300 or more acres damaged or destroyed structures connected to a water system. California appears to be the only state with mandated testing after wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Whelton, California’s law is not protective enough because it only requires water systems to test for benzene and not other VOCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053455\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/C2-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VOC contamination tends to occur in areas where water systems lose pressure and structures connected to the water system are damaged. Photo from a flyover of neighborhoods affected by the Marshall Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea that a single chemical could be “the panacea for a complex issue is bonkers,” he said. “If somebody would have shown me a draft of what actually got promulgated, I would have made clear that the code as written is going to result in potentially unsafe water for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While benzene is the most common VOC found in water after wildfires, data from previous fires show that other VOCs can contaminate drinking water after wildfires, too. Sometimes those VOCs are present even when benzene isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened in about a quarter of the samples taken after the Marshall Fire, according to Corona Environmental Consulting, a local agency that worked on the response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053681\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WildfiresAPM3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Whelton holds a piece of fire-damaged water infrastructure in his lab. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Thorp/APM Reports)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the California State Water Resources Control Board who weighed in on the law have said benzene is an adequate indicator for VOC contamination, nevertheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the state water board’s drinking water division, acknowledged that other VOCs will sometimes show up in samples where benzene is not present. But he said that benzene has the highest signal of all the VOCs based on sampling data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that, what we believe is that if you can manage for benzene, you’re basically managing for all of them,” Polhemus said, chalking the differences in perspective up to risk perception. “We’re dealing with the practicalities of cost and time and how to manage that compared with getting people back to their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Whelton disagrees, he said he is glad that “California decided that it’s important that people have their drinking water tested after a wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the ground in Los Angeles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the January wildfires, Leung, the director of water quality at LAWDP, said his team opted to test for a broad panel of VOCs even though state law only required them to test for benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 482 samples they took, Leung said, VOCs were detected without benzene present about 11 percent of the time, but “at levels far below the drinking water standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leung said his counterparts at the public water system in Oakland, California, sent him Whelton’s plan in the days after the fires. It was a document Leung said he found himself returning to as he began thinking about the water system’s next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screening for and removing wildfire contaminants is “not necessarily intuitive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, water utilities have thought their water systems were clean after analyzing samples taken immediately after flushing, only to have contaminants show up later as chemicals that had adhered to plastic pipes leached back into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung said he took care to make sure that the water sat in the pipes for 72 hours before collecting samples, even though the water system used mostly metal pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Whelton’s plan helped him understand how different pipe materials absorb, retain and release VOCs, which cleaning strategies to use, and which areas of the water system to prioritize. Since LADWP’s water system had mostly copper, steel and galvanized iron water lines, Leung realized there was less concern about chemicals adhering to pipes.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4 p.m. Wednesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday morning, a large crowd gathered on the Richmond waterfront outside the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm\">Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park\u003c/a> visitor center — the same day that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNyKve1XM4T/\">National Park Service turned 109 \u003c/a>years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people assembled were there for a day of action called “Protect Our Parks, Save Our Histories,” in protest at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/08/nx-s1-5424547/trumps-efforts-to-cut-national-parks-budget-faces-bipartisan-pushback\">attempts by President Donald Trump’s second administration to defund national parks\u003c/a> — and what organizers called the White House’s effort to “erase inclusive narratives from public interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many held signs in support of the park service and its staff, while a chain of people held placards that spelled out “PROTECT OUR PARKS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For independent historian Donna Graves, who led the development of the Rosie the Riveter site a quarter of a century ago and organized Monday’s day of action outside the museum, the choice of this date was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rosie the Riveter is celebrating its 25th anniversary,” she said. “Ironically, as it hits that milestone, it is doing so in an atmosphere that would not have allowed this park to be born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as retired National Park Service employee and event co-organizer Naomi Torres said: “National parks are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That’s not American’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rally follows seven months of actions by the Trump administration that parks leaders say have eroded staffing levels, morale and public trust in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the February \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">firing of over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan to cut federal spending\u003c/a>. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberley Rodler attends the National Park Service’s 109th birthday celebration at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,”\u003c/a> aimed at the “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">directive for parks staff — and visitors — to flag any content \u003c/a>on display within national parks that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living”. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">According to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the Trump administration said it would finalize this review on Sept. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park was established in 2000. This site focuses not just on the local community’s role in supporting the war effort, but also the stories of those fighting for their freedom at home, like incarcerated Japanese Americans, the LGBTQ+ community and Black Americans facing housing discrimination — an educational focus that Graves and other advocates fear could put this park in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flora Ninomiya (left), whose Japanese American family lost their Richmond home and business during World War II incarceration, converses with an event attendant during the National Park Service’s 109th birthday event at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Richmondside\u003c/em>, a handful of staff members at the park \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">even briefly removed an exhibit \u003c/a>focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region back in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers at Monday’s event was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835709/its-horrifying-10-bay-area-artists-speak-out-on-child-detainment-at-the-border\">Flora Ninomiya, who was incarcerated\u003c/a> during World War II alongside her family and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025052/we-really-need-to-fight-japanese-americans-who-remember-internment-vow-to-resist-trump\">thousands of other Japanese Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her story is part of the fabric of history, she said, and is at risk of being lost if funding gets cut from national parks — and if certain narratives are erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really critical, especially at this time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">when our government is taking immigrants, many of them who are legally here\u003c/a>,” Ninomiya said. “That’s not American. That is certainly not what I want my government to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dismantling an institution’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jon Jarvis, who served as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/director-jonathan-jarvis.htm\">director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016\u003c/a> and spoke at Monday’s rally, said the second Trump administration’s attacks on parks are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in my now-almost-50 years of working in conservation have I seen such a direct attempt at essentially dismantling an institution that has served the American people for well over 100 years,” Jarvis told the crowd assembled on the Richmond waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Jarvis, who served as the 18th director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016, speaks during the agency’s 109th birthday celebration and Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis told KQED that the various orders from the administration have created an air of frustration and confusion among parks staff who are dedicated to carrying out their roles as educators and stewards of history. He described Trump’s executive order as counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science — it’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis said Rosie the Riveter is among \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-plan-could-offload-hundreds-of-national-park-sites-to-states/\">the many smaller national parks sites that some Republicans have proposed offloading to state or local jurisdiction\u003c/a>. For him, this place is “a microcosm of all the issues that are facing the National Park Service,” because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldwariimonuments.org/items/show/28\">its history as a community-led park\u003c/a> — making it “in many ways the perfect place” for Monday’s rally, he said.[aside postID=news_12053078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/YosemiteTransFlagGetty.jpg']“When the administration says, ‘We want you to shut the hell up,’ they’re basically telling the community to shut up,” Jarvis said. “And they’re telling this community … that they don’t count, their history is not relevant. It’s a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This air of defiance was on display among speakers and the assembled crowd at Monday’s event, as attendees held up signs with messages like “Resist” and “History is not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our parks must remain places where the real stories of our history are told and not changed for political convenience — and you’re not going to let that happen, right?” Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia asked the crowd, who echoed “Right!” in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberley Rodler, a former National Park Service employee and San Rafael resident who was in attendance wearing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10919734/watch-a-thousand-rosie-the-riveters-set-a-world-record-in-richmond\">Rosie the Riveter’s signature red lipstick and bandana\u003c/a>, said she is driven to act in defense of national parks by exactly those kinds of stories told at the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The little things add up,” Rodler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s speakers did not include any current parks staffers, and Torres informed the assembled crowd that staff had requested that anyone visiting the museum that day did not bring their signs or placards inside with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service told KQED the request was made “to protect the historic resources within the center and to ensure the safety of all park visitors,” in light of the park not having “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">a designated First Amendment area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The good, the bad and the shameful’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next few weeks, parks are expected to get the results of any submissions they’ve received about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans”\u003c/a> — and staff may then be asked to revise, remove or cover up any public-facing materials on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure how parks are going to handle that,” Graves said. “When I think about Rosie the Riveter, that kind of inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Torres, telling the multifaceted stories of American history, “the good and the bad and the shameful,” is the only way to avoid repeating them today. “We cannot move forward as a country unless we think critically about our past and our future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves agreed, saying that for parks staff, taking down or revising history would be akin to the “moral injury” soldiers face when they have to compromise their ethics in the line of battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to tell history accurately,” Graves said. “We want to get the facts straight and the stories correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about representing so many people who are American, who did build this country and who should be included in the way we tell the American story,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For independent historian Donna Graves, who led the development of the Rosie the Riveter site a quarter of a century ago and organized Monday’s day of action outside the museum, the choice of this date was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rosie the Riveter is celebrating its 25th anniversary,” she said. “Ironically, as it hits that milestone, it is doing so in an atmosphere that would not have allowed this park to be born.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as retired National Park Service employee and event co-organizer Naomi Torres said: “National parks are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That’s not American’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rally follows seven months of actions by the Trump administration that parks leaders say have eroded staffing levels, morale and public trust in national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the February \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">firing of over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan to cut federal spending\u003c/a>. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0016_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimberley Rodler attends the National Park Service’s 109th birthday celebration at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,”\u003c/a> aimed at the “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">directive for parks staff — and visitors — to flag any content \u003c/a>on display within national parks that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living”. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">According to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the Trump administration said it would finalize this review on Sept. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront National Historic Park was established in 2000. This site focuses not just on the local community’s role in supporting the war effort, but also the stories of those fighting for their freedom at home, like incarcerated Japanese Americans, the LGBTQ+ community and Black Americans facing housing discrimination — an educational focus that Graves and other advocates fear could put this park in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0012_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flora Ninomiya (left), whose Japanese American family lost their Richmond home and business during World War II incarceration, converses with an event attendant during the National Park Service’s 109th birthday event at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Richmondside\u003c/em>, a handful of staff members at the park \u003ca href=\"https://richmondside.org/2025/02/04/rosie-riveter-museum-temporarily-removes-lgbtq-exhibit/\">even briefly removed an exhibit \u003c/a>focused on the LGBTQ+ history of the region back in January, before putting it back up a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers at Monday’s event was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835709/its-horrifying-10-bay-area-artists-speak-out-on-child-detainment-at-the-border\">Flora Ninomiya, who was incarcerated\u003c/a> during World War II alongside her family and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025052/we-really-need-to-fight-japanese-americans-who-remember-internment-vow-to-resist-trump\">thousands of other Japanese Americans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her story is part of the fabric of history, she said, and is at risk of being lost if funding gets cut from national parks — and if certain narratives are erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really critical, especially at this time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">when our government is taking immigrants, many of them who are legally here\u003c/a>,” Ninomiya said. “That’s not American. That is certainly not what I want my government to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dismantling an institution’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jon Jarvis, who served as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/director-jonathan-jarvis.htm\">director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016\u003c/a> and spoke at Monday’s rally, said the second Trump administration’s attacks on parks are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never in my now-almost-50 years of working in conservation have I seen such a direct attempt at essentially dismantling an institution that has served the American people for well over 100 years,” Jarvis told the crowd assembled on the Richmond waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053673 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0015_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Jarvis, who served as the 18th director of the National Park Service from 2009 to 2016, speaks during the agency’s 109th birthday celebration and Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jarvis told KQED that the various orders from the administration have created an air of frustration and confusion among parks staff who are dedicated to carrying out their roles as educators and stewards of history. He described Trump’s executive order as counter to the park service’s mission “to tell these stories authentically and based on the best scholarship in science — it’s essentially a violation of that responsibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jarvis said Rosie the Riveter is among \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-plan-could-offload-hundreds-of-national-park-sites-to-states/\">the many smaller national parks sites that some Republicans have proposed offloading to state or local jurisdiction\u003c/a>. For him, this place is “a microcosm of all the issues that are facing the National Park Service,” because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldwariimonuments.org/items/show/28\">its history as a community-led park\u003c/a> — making it “in many ways the perfect place” for Monday’s rally, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When the administration says, ‘We want you to shut the hell up,’ they’re basically telling the community to shut up,” Jarvis said. “And they’re telling this community … that they don’t count, their history is not relevant. It’s a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This air of defiance was on display among speakers and the assembled crowd at Monday’s event, as attendees held up signs with messages like “Resist” and “History is not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our parks must remain places where the real stories of our history are told and not changed for political convenience — and you’re not going to let that happen, right?” Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia asked the crowd, who echoed “Right!” in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberley Rodler, a former National Park Service employee and San Rafael resident who was in attendance wearing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10919734/watch-a-thousand-rosie-the-riveters-set-a-world-record-in-richmond\">Rosie the Riveter’s signature red lipstick and bandana\u003c/a>, said she is driven to act in defense of national parks by exactly those kinds of stories told at the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The little things add up,” Rodler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s speakers did not include any current parks staffers, and Torres informed the assembled crowd that staff had requested that anyone visiting the museum that day did not bring their signs or placards inside with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service told KQED the request was made “to protect the historic resources within the center and to ensure the safety of all park visitors,” in light of the park not having “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053078/yosemite-biologist-fired-after-hanging-transgender-pride-flag-from-el-capitan\">a designated First Amendment area\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The good, the bad and the shameful’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next few weeks, parks are expected to get the results of any submissions they’ve received about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans”\u003c/a> — and staff may then be asked to revise, remove or cover up any public-facing materials on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure how parks are going to handle that,” Graves said. “When I think about Rosie the Riveter, that kind of inclusive storytelling permeates every aspect of the exhibits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250825_ROSIE-THE-RIVETER-PROTEST-_-0002_GH-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters line the walkway with signs spelling “Protect Our Park” during the National Parks Conservation Association’s Day of Action at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Torres, telling the multifaceted stories of American history, “the good and the bad and the shameful,” is the only way to avoid repeating them today. “We cannot move forward as a country unless we think critically about our past and our future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graves agreed, saying that for parks staff, taking down or revising history would be akin to the “moral injury” soldiers face when they have to compromise their ethics in the line of battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to tell history accurately,” Graves said. “We want to get the facts straight and the stories correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about representing so many people who are American, who did build this country and who should be included in the way we tell the American story,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A group of Republican lawmakers is asking the California Supreme Court to remove a redistricting initiative from the November ballot, arguing Democrats violated the law when they rushed the measure through to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053140/california-lawmakers-pass-redistricting-plan-now-it-heads-to-voters\">redraw congressional districts\u003c/a> ahead of the 2026 midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, last week placed Proposition 50 on a special November ballot. The initiative asks voters to throw out the maps drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052064/newsom-calls-for-special-election-to-redraw-californias-congressional-maps\">approve new congressional districts\u003c/a>, including five that are likely to flip from Republican to Democratic. It was written in response to Texas’ decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-08-23/texas-senate-redistricting-gerrmyandering-california-congressional-maps-passed-debate-governor\">redraw\u003c/a> its own congressional districts to flip five seats from blue to red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250825_Writ_Remove-ACA-8-From-Ballot_FINAL.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a> was filed as an emergency petition to the state Supreme Court on behalf of four GOP members of the state Legislature, three California voters and a former member of the state’s independent redistricting commission, which has been tasked with drawing congressional districts for the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 50 would temporarily suspend the independent commission and approve new maps created by the Legislature. Under the measure, those maps would stay in place until after the 2030 census, when the independent commission would resume drawing districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re trying to destroy democracy in California — that’s not good for anybody,” Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, said. He said he does not believe that redistricting would revert to the independent commission after 2030 if Proposition 50 passes, even if the law requires it. “Once politicians get that power — I don’t believe for one second this would be temporary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed the blame squarely on Democrats and Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingSignedAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingSignedAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingSignedAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingSignedAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation calling for a special election on a redrawn congressional map on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s authoritarian to predetermine elections in California, and that’s exactly what will happen if Gavin Newsom is successful in November,” Strickland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican President Donald Trump set off the mid-decade redistricting scramble this summer, calling on red states to redraw their lines and to give his party an edge in the next year’s midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues that Proposition 50 violates state law in several ways, including by usurping the power of the Citizens Redistricting Commission and seeking to redraw congressional lines twice in one decade. The commission was created by voters in 2008 to draw state legislative districts and expanded to include congressional districts in 2010.[aside postID=news_12053140 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/CARedistrictingAP.jpg']“The constitutional provisions in force now say that redistricting has to be done by the Independent Citizens Commission. It has to involve transparency and public participation. And it can’t be for partisan gerrymandering,” said Mike Columbo, an attorney representing Republicans. “By engaging in the redistricting process already, before asking for voters to grant them the power to do so, the Legislature has exceeded its power under the Constitution. The Legislature cannot break the law and ask for the people later to retroactively give it the power to redistrict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loyola Marymount University law professor Jessica Levinson noted that voters are being asked to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think about what this proposal is trying to do, it’s trying to change our state Constitution,” she said. “The lawsuit is essentially arguing that these changes violate the Constitution as it stands. That’s true — and that’s why the voters are being asked to amend the Constitution to change it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, Levinson believes the suit faces a “serious uphill battle,” in part because judges are generally reluctant to get ahead of voters and prevent them from considering a question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/73076353-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section of the California seal hangs on the front of the State of California Earl Warren Building on Jan. 22, 2007, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At this point, if the California Supreme Court granted relief, they would be essentially prohibiting the voters from weighing in on this question,” she said. “So in a sense, we should remember that all pre-election reviews in some way face an uphill battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges more technical legal violations, including that the ballot measure violates a state law prohibiting initiatives from posing questions on more than one subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it rehashes an argument that the state Supreme Court already \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-supreme-court-declines-to-stop-newsoms-redistricting-plan/\">declined to take up last week\u003c/a>: whether the legislation creating Proposition 50 was illegally passed because the bill was not in print for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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