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Now I work from home,\" Besharati says. \"I used to have seven or eight employees, and no one now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11759231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/travelagent1-5873225a838d3e2e8eaf804a22a1802ebca0057a-e1562355277965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tehrangeles (a portmanteau of Tehran, Iran's capital, and Los Angeles), business owners like Besharati say they are suffering the effects of the travel ban, sanctions and increasing White House threats of war against Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/travel-agents.htm#tab-1\">business of travel agents is declining \u003c/a>as people book trips online, Besharati says, in his case it's not about the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem is political. My niche market is Iran,\" Besharati says. \"I still have my loyal customers that are older than 50 years old, but they don't feel going to Iran is safe now. That's why they're not going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/attvacation-8add11106ff29e0799b62e45f828ce3ef5b46f3a-s800-c85-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In April, Besharati's travel agency moved out of its office in the Tehrangeles neighborhood of Los Angeles after being there for some 20 years. \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Iran had a 7% drop in international tourist arrivals between 2015 to 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?end=2017&locations=IR&start=2015\">according to data from the World Bank\u003c/a>. When Trump signed the executive order in January 2017, Besharati says, he spent $200,000 on refunds for customers who had booked trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Besharati's clients are U.S. citizens, permanent residents or green card holders who go to Iran to visit family. He says that after Trump's executive order enacting the travel ban, they were concerned about getting back into the U.S. if they travel to Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says the ban is needed for national security, arguing that countries have not cooperated with the U.S. in vetting travelers. But critics say the ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512592783/trump-advisers-have-made-anti-muslim-comments-in-the-past\">stems from anti-Muslim views\u003c/a> and unfairly targets people from Muslim-majority countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, as threats of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734278683/iran-shoots-down-u-s-spy-drone-it-says-was-in-its-airspace\">war with Iran filled the headlines\u003c/a>, Besharati says, nine more clients asked for refunds on their tickets to Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are afraid,\" Besharati says. \"They think maybe the next day they will start war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Jafari, 51, was one of Besharati's longtime clients. He went to the travel agency in Persian Square to book his parents' annual trip to Iran to visit relatives. But months after Trump issued the ban in 2017, he canceled their trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101871805,news_11756413,forum_2010101871700' label='More on US-Iran Tensions']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I decided it wasn't safe. It seemed like things were changing day by day.\" Jafari says. \"I didn't want them to go, and then have things change around, and they couldn't come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry-united-states-terrorists-public-safety-threats/\">newest version of the executive order\u003c/a>, upheld by the Supreme Court in June 2018, makes an exemption for dual nationals, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\">widespread news of travelers detained in airports\u003c/a> led Jafari to cancel his parents' trip. They haven't visited Iran since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty percent of the almost half a million Iranians in the U.S. live in Southern California like Jafari, according to the Census Bureau. He says he visits Persian Square not just to book trips to Iran for his parents but also for the food. Surrounding the now-shuttered travel agency are Persian bookstores, restaurants, cafes and specialty stores. And Besharati's travel agency wasn't the only store on the block affected in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Helmi owns a Persian rug store in the area. He sponsored the initiative to name this strip of Tehrangeles Persian Square. He, too, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735638010/trump-hits-iran-with-new-sanctions-how-will-they-impact-iranians?preview=\">felt the effect of rising tensions\u003c/a> between the U.S. and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759248\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11759248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/rugs-5831cb81acce8de97411ee899232e10ee33d4aa6-s1200-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helmi's rugs range from $1,000 up to $500,000, but his inventory is shrinking and he's unable to refill it because of the sanctions against Iran \u003ccite>(Claire Heddles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His store, Damoka, stands out on Westwood Boulevard. It has giant windows that read \"Retirement Sale\" in front of an impressive display of intricately made rugs. His family has been in the carpet business for three generations. Classical music plays throughout the store as Helmi tells the stories of the centuries-old rugs on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the store's height, Helmi had a small factory in Iran where craftsmen would spend years on a single rug made by hand-tying thousands of tiny knots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed his workshop amid economic sanctions and rising inflation. The exchange rate for the Iranian currency, the rial, is 42,000 to the dollar compared with just 8,000 a decade ago, according to the Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't import anymore,\" Helmi says. \"So I told the workers I cannot support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his store has been affected by economic battle with Iran for almost a decade. A 2010 embargo prevented him from importing carpets. When it was lifted in 2015, he could finally restock his store. But Trump's withdrawal just a few years later, as well as the ensuing sanctions, put him back in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-end rugs, Helmi's business is still thriving from his extensive antique collection. But he plans to retire soon, both because his children aren't interested in carrying on the business and because he's unable to restock his inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many things like the travel ban. I don't know how it's going to end up,\" Helmi says. \"Every day it's getting worse and worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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They haven't visited Iran since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty percent of the almost half a million Iranians in the U.S. live in Southern California like Jafari, according to the Census Bureau. He says he visits Persian Square not just to book trips to Iran for his parents but also for the food. Surrounding the now-shuttered travel agency are Persian bookstores, restaurants, cafes and specialty stores. And Besharati's travel agency wasn't the only store on the block affected in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Helmi owns a Persian rug store in the area. He sponsored the initiative to name this strip of Tehrangeles Persian Square. 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It has giant windows that read \"Retirement Sale\" in front of an impressive display of intricately made rugs. His family has been in the carpet business for three generations. Classical music plays throughout the store as Helmi tells the stories of the centuries-old rugs on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the store's height, Helmi had a small factory in Iran where craftsmen would spend years on a single rug made by hand-tying thousands of tiny knots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He closed his workshop amid economic sanctions and rising inflation. The exchange rate for the Iranian currency, the rial, is 42,000 to the dollar compared with just 8,000 a decade ago, according to the Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't import anymore,\" Helmi says. \"So I told the workers I cannot support them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his store has been affected by economic battle with Iran for almost a decade. A 2010 embargo prevented him from importing carpets. When it was lifted in 2015, he could finally restock his store. But Trump's withdrawal just a few years later, as well as the ensuing sanctions, put him back in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For high-end rugs, Helmi's business is still thriving from his extensive antique collection. But he plans to retire soon, both because his children aren't interested in carrying on the business and because he's unable to restock his inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many things like the travel ban. I don't know how it's going to end up,\" Helmi says. \"Every day it's getting worse and worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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By comparison, the rate for the country as a whole is 3.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people like 57-year-old Graciela Panduro, who lost a job at Walmart two years ago because of poor circulation in her legs, good jobs can be hard to find. “I’m applying everywhere and they always say, ‘Leave us the application over here and we’ll call you.’ But no calls,” Panduro says. She and her adult son — also unemployed — live off the money her husband makes as a handyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panduro was standing inside the community center in the little town of Heber, where the county has set up a food bank. Outside, a line of people waiting to get in snakes around the parking lot. Many carry umbrellas to protect themselves from the brutal sun overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11758658,news_11758479 label='Further Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 250 families show up at the center each month to get free food — milk, cheese and meat — distributed by volunteers and paid staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the jobs here are agricultural: The Imperial Valley is home to thousands of acres of farms that grow cauliflower, potatoes and spinach and require a large seasonal workforce. Some of the farmworkers live here; many others cross the border from Mexico a few miles away to work every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they become too old to work in the fields, however, few jobs are available other than retail and fast food. And even those can be hard to get, says Alba Sanchez, who works for the Imperial Valley Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of stores closing down right now,” she says. “Sears closed down. We have a lot of other stores closing at the mall that employed these families and they’re out of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Imperial Valley does have middle-class residents, many of whom work in government and law enforcement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which patrols 71 miles of the Mexican border nearby, is a big local employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two state prisons are also located nearby and the valley was delighted to get them, says El Centro City Council member Cheryl Viegas-Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When everybody else was saying, ‘Not in my backyard,’ the whole NIMBY thing, ‘Don’t dare site those prisons here,’ we were like, ‘Please. Bring them here. Bring the jobs here,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viegas-Walker herself came to El Centro as a young woman after her husband took a job at a local law firm. At first, she was less than thrilled to live in the valley. Today, she says she has become its biggest cheerleader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She likes the small town feel of the city, the fact that she can drive to work in six minutes. Unlike most of California, El Centro is also affordable: A nice house on a palm tree-lined street in the better part of town can be had for about $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Viegas-Walker, many local officials argue that the unemployment rate is lower than the Labor Department claims and is skewed by the large number of seasonal workers in the area, many of them coming from the much larger city of Mexicali, Mexico, next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also say their efforts to lure new businesses have been hurt by California’s comparatively high minimum wage, which they say has driven some jobs into Arizona and even Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one disputes that there aren’t enough good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing to have a job. It’s another thing to have a job that pays a [good] wage and has some upward mobility, and certainly that’s where [the Imperial Valley] economy continues to fall short,” says Mike Bracken, chief economist at Development Management Group, which advises local businesses and communities on development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viegas-Walker acknowledges that people with college degrees tend to leave El Centro for greener pastures. She knows that firsthand: Her own two grown sons now live in Oregon and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a brain drain. I mean, my two sons will not return to the valley. They won’t come back,” Viegas-Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those who remain have few options for work. In the United States, the poverty rate was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.html\">12.3%\u003c/a> in 2017. 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"content": "\u003cp>American taxpayers are looking at a bigger bill for this year's Independence Day party in the nation's capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this Fourth of July, President Trump has added an address from the Lincoln Memorial, tanks stationed in the area, an extended fireworks display and military aircraft flyovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in Congress are complaining about the added expenses and politicization of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's just cheapening and weaponizing patriotism in a way that I hope a lot of Americans find deeply disturbing,\" Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) told KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual July 4 parade will be followed by a 6:30 p.m. Trump address from the Lincoln Memorial with military flyovers and performances by the Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and others. That evening, the Capitol Fourth concert, also a trademark of the usual D.C. holiday, will be followed by an extended fireworks show lasting 35 to 40 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Rep. Jared Huffman D-San Rafael']'He's just cheapening and weaponizing patriotism in a way that I hope a lot of Americans find deeply disturbing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's going to be a big price tag for this and the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab,\" said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which directs spending for such events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hollen and other Democratic appropriators on Capitol Hill have raised questions and concerns for months that spending for the day could go haywire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-gives-tickets-to-trumps-july-fourth-extravaganza-to-gop-donors/2019/07/02/9109a566-9ce0-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?utm_term=.fc6e1c9ff642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post reported\u003c/a> Tuesday the National Park Service will redirect almost $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees allocated for park improvement to cover costs for Trump's plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you take something funded by the Park Service ... you know to aggrandize Donald Trump, and then hand out tickets to his big Republican donors, it's grotesque,\" said Huffman, who sits on the House Committee on Natural Resources that oversees the National Park Service. \"It is a spectacle, a partisan spectacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that somewhere in the endless stream of these outrages, the sensibilities of this country turn more strongly against this man and what he's trying to do,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just before the big event, Democratic appropriators still don't know how much it will all cost in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Congress Waiting on Total Costs. Experts Say it's Not Cheap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't heard anything,\" said New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, ranking Democrat for the Senate Appropriations Committee panel on interior and related agencies. \"It's disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1146079484807909376\">suspend operations at Reagan National Airport for 1.5 hours\u003c/a> for Trump's speech and flyovers. The aerial program will feature the jetliner used for Air Force One and aircraft representing all five military services, including the Navy's Blue Angels, said Jeffrey Reinbold, a superintendent of the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A military official told NPR it could also include F-35s and F-18s. And there will be military tanks parked along the National Mall, Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said there would be \"the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks.\" However, production of Sherman tanks ended in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're gonna have a great Fourth of July in Washington, D.C. It'll be like no other, it'll be special and I hope a lot of people come and it's going to be about this country and it's a salute to America,\" Trump said from the Oval Office Monday. \"I'm going to be here and I'm going to say a few words, and we're going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too. And we're gonna have some tanks stationed outside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's multiple requests for costs related to the plans, as well as more extensive details on the additional military personnel, equipment and security for the day from the Interior Department, National Park Service, U.S. Secret Service, the Pentagon and the five military services went unanswered. A military official said the White House was not approving Pentagon requests to share such details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won't be cheap, experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758945 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153544455-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparations are made for the \"Salute to America\" Fourth of July event with President Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., July 3, 2019, which will feature flyovers by the Blue Angels, an airplane used as Air Force One, military demonstrations and a speech by Trump. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>University of Denver professor Andrew Sherbo, who tracks such figures, said the Boeing 747 used for Air Force One could come at a cost of $205,000 an hour (the jetliner is considered Air Force One only when the president is aboard).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost per flying hour for the F-35 can be $20,000 or more, according to Department of Defense comptroller figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Blue Angels could cost a more reasonable $6,000 per day, since air shows are tied to their training, said Sherbo, a former Pentagon official who now teaches finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Capitol Concerts portion of the program, plus the annual Memorial Day concert, is budgeted at $6.4 million from the National Park Service budget, which is under the Interior Department, said Annie Orloff, Udall's press secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Park Service needs that money for real things, real needs, the backlog of deferred maintenance. And the important mission at the Park Service has nothing to do with a military parade,\" Huffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be followed by a joint show put on by two fireworks companies, Phantom Fireworks and Fireworks by Grucci, that will launch from behind the Lincoln Memorial for a display lasting 15 to 20 minutes. As a result, they are donating an estimated $750,000 or more as part of the plans, said William Weimer, vice president of Phantom Fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11721340,news_11391561,news_11286211' label='More on Trump and the NPS']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a pretty overwhelming display,\" said Weimer. \"We saw an opportunity and approached the government in March to make the donation and try to give back to the country that has been so good to us. ... It's a privilege and an honor for us to do this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will be followed by Garden State Fireworks, a mainstay of the annual D.C. program since 2013, which will put on a 20-minute show from a new location at West Potomac Park. It will come at a cost of more than $250,000, said Christopher Santore, a choreographer whose family founded the company in 1890.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Garden State's show was 17.5 minutes long, Santore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebration is funded by three pots of money: donations, the Interior Department and the Defense Department. This year, the Interior Department and Secretary David Bernhardt have been tasked with leading the expanded plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, said since the Capitol's Fourth celebration is paid by three different sources of money, it's a hard tally to track down in a traditional year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that all the new elements for the presidential address and extended programming, and the costs become even fuzzier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a good question,\" Cancian said. \"It's difficult to answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Udall, Van Hollen and others have pressed Bernhardt and his agency for answers. They have warned that taxpayer funds can't be used for a political rally and say Trump's plans appear to cross that line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153534326-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Code Pink group poses in front a Bradley Fighting Vehicle ahead of the \"Salute to America\" Fourth of July event with President Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2019. The event will feature flyovers by the Blue Angels, an airplane used as Air Force One, military demonstrations and a speech by Trump. \u003ccite>(Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Special Access for VIP Section \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House is issuing special VIP tickets to access a new, restricted area at the steps to Trump's speech as well as halfway along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A White House official said the area is being reserved for friends, family, Cabinet officials and possibly members of Congress. Military personnel, who are slated to perform, will also be in the ticketed area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a Republican National Committee official confirmed it had received a \"small number of tickets\" to distribute for the special section. The official said it was similar to other customary moves under Democratic and Republican administrations to share tickets for Christmas open houses and garden tours at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Democrats were quick to disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Udall noted there are specific regulations that bar taxpayers from paying for a partisan event, and propaganda is prohibited. Trump's plans seem to veer into that \"very tricky area,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unacceptable that the Interior Department is failing to inform Congress about how it plans to spend taxpayer money to fund the president's lavish July 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> plans, which reportedly include special access to the National Mall for the politically connected,\" Udall said in a statement Tuesday. \"The American people deserve to know how much of their money the president is spending to turn their July 4\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> celebration into a de facto campaign rally. All reports indicate that the president is planning to turn a national day of unity into a day of vanity – trying to use the military for political purposes and doling out perks to his political backers – at the taxpayers' expense. We need answers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall']'The American people deserve to know how much of their money the president is spending to turn their July 4th celebration into a de facto campaign rally.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a White House official countered that notion and said Trump's speech will focus on a unifying theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president has been very clear that he wants to help all Americans celebrate America. It's America's birthday and he wants to celebrate America, our flag and our great military, and the men and women who serve in it,\" the official said. \"This speech is not going to be political. It will be a celebration and salute to America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a May congressional hearing, Udall and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee subpanel on interior and related agencies, said they wanted cost figures for the new Fourth plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know that we had asked for those numbers on that,\" Murkowski told Bernhardt. \"We do want this celebration that is a wonderful celebration and a great tribute to our nation to be able to continue and to have the public continue to enjoy it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Van Hollen, Udall and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, wrote to Bernhardt demanding his agency share the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say there's precedent to worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration still owes the D.C. administration $7.3 million from the January 2017 inauguration. As a result, members such as D.C.'s representative in Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, are sounding the alarm that appropriators must replenish the account, known as the Emergency Planning and Security Fund, before it goes dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are very concerned with an event we can't even price at a time when we are owed money,\" Norton said. \"And I don't think the city can refuse to provide the necessary security. So it is extremely unfair to the city to hold an unprecedented event and not at least choke up money to make it happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It Will be Wild'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Trump attended the French celebration of Bastille Day in July 2017, he said one of his first calls was to replicate and \"try and top it.\" The plans, which were slated for Veterans Day weekend in November 2018, were scratched after word leaked of a $92 million price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in February, Trump announced the plans to \"HOLD THE DATE\" on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099651121088466946\">Twitter.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099651121088466946\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th,\" Trump tweeted Feb. 24. \"It will be called 'A Salute To America' and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some groups are determined to make it clear Trump isn't their favorite president. And that could mean more demands for security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive political organization VoteVets, which largely supports Democratic military veterans on Capitol Hill, has raised about $40,000 off its plans to counter Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is helping spearhead an effort to pass out thousands of shirts on the Fourth featuring the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, the Navy war hero and lawmaker who died last year and remains a target of Trump's ire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist group Code Pink will display the \"Baby Trump\" blimp that has been seen at protests around the world. The group received a physical permit this week to stand the 20-foot balloon on the northwest quadrant of the National Mall at 17th Street, said co-director Medea Benjamin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the group is fighting to gain FAA approval to inflate the balloon with a small portion of helium to lift it at least 2 feet off the ground. If not, it will inflate the balloon with a leaf blower to meet requirements, Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group will also be passing out 100 miniversions of the balloons, Benjamin noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be wild,\" she said. \"There will be tons of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's going to be a big price tag for this and the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab,\" said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which directs spending for such events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hollen and other Democratic appropriators on Capitol Hill have raised questions and concerns for months that spending for the day could go haywire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-gives-tickets-to-trumps-july-fourth-extravaganza-to-gop-donors/2019/07/02/9109a566-9ce0-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?utm_term=.fc6e1c9ff642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post reported\u003c/a> Tuesday the National Park Service will redirect almost $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees allocated for park improvement to cover costs for Trump's plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you take something funded by the Park Service ... you know to aggrandize Donald Trump, and then hand out tickets to his big Republican donors, it's grotesque,\" said Huffman, who sits on the House Committee on Natural Resources that oversees the National Park Service. \"It is a spectacle, a partisan spectacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope that somewhere in the endless stream of these outrages, the sensibilities of this country turn more strongly against this man and what he's trying to do,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just before the big event, Democratic appropriators still don't know how much it will all cost in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Congress Waiting on Total Costs. Experts Say it's Not Cheap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't heard anything,\" said New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, ranking Democrat for the Senate Appropriations Committee panel on interior and related agencies. \"It's disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1146079484807909376\">suspend operations at Reagan National Airport for 1.5 hours\u003c/a> for Trump's speech and flyovers. The aerial program will feature the jetliner used for Air Force One and aircraft representing all five military services, including the Navy's Blue Angels, said Jeffrey Reinbold, a superintendent of the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A military official told NPR it could also include F-35s and F-18s. And there will be military tanks parked along the National Mall, Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said there would be \"the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abram tanks.\" However, production of Sherman tanks ended in the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're gonna have a great Fourth of July in Washington, D.C. It'll be like no other, it'll be special and I hope a lot of people come and it's going to be about this country and it's a salute to America,\" Trump said from the Oval Office Monday. \"I'm going to be here and I'm going to say a few words, and we're going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too. And we're gonna have some tanks stationed outside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's multiple requests for costs related to the plans, as well as more extensive details on the additional military personnel, equipment and security for the day from the Interior Department, National Park Service, U.S. Secret Service, the Pentagon and the five military services went unanswered. 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So what accounts for our drastic difference in cost?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What We Know: Taxes and the Environment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of what makes gas more expensive in the Bay Area is true statewide as well: The price is high because of higher taxes and stricter environmental restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California taxes on gasoline involve a combination of state and local charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gasoline excise tax of 41.7 cents a gallon (47.3 cents after July 1)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gasoline sales tax: 2.25%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Local sales taxes, which in the Bay Area range up to 2.5%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Underground storage tank maintenance fee: 2 cents a gallon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Adding together all those charges comes to something in the neighborhood of 55 cents per gallon, according to the American Petroleum Institute. 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This \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article219331435.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulation\u003c/a> directly targets fuel producers and requires them to limit the creation of greenhouse gases in the production, transportation and use of fuel in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual amounts of these extra environmental costs fluctuate on a regular basis, but right now cap-and-trade costs us an additional 14 cents per gallon and the low carbon fuel standard adds another 13 cents, according to Severin Borenstein, the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Energy Institute, who has studied gas prices for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the extra cost of refining California’s gasoline. We pay an extra 5 to 10 cents per gallon because the California Air Resources Board requires that the gas we put into our cars be made from a formula producing less air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borenstein is quick to point out that these extra costs have real benefits when it comes to combating climate change and air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies have shown that California has been able to much more effectively clean up our air quality,” Borenstein said. “If you’re in the middle of Los Angeles and you look toward the mountains, you now see the mountains, which wasn’t the case 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But adding up the environmental costs and the gas taxes doesn’t get you anywhere near the current difference between what Californians pay at the pump versus the rest of the country. So what about the rest?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What We Don’t Know: ‘Mystery Gas Surcharge’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Prior to 2015, the (gas price) differential between California and the rest of the country was pretty much completely explained by our higher taxes and environmental fees and the cost of making our cleaner gasoline,” Borenstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2015, a new price gap of 20 to 30 cents opened up, one that neither Borenstein — nor anyone else — can find the cause of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started on Feb. 18, 2015, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon-mobil-refinery-20170502-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explosion\u003c/a> at an Exxon refinery in Torrance, just outside Los Angeles. The refinery was shut down for more than a year, and gas prices in the state shot up, as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735475/california-gas-prices-expected-to-spike-in-wake-of-shutdown-at-valeros-benicia-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usually do\u003c/a> when a refinery goes offline unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These unplanned outages are an even bigger issue in California because the state is what’s known as a “petroleum island.” We don’t have pipelines connecting refineries in Los Angeles to those in the Bay Area or to the rest of the country. Plus, not many refineries make the special better-for-the-environment gasoline that the state requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there’s a production gap, there are only a few places gas stations can turn to, and that gas has to come in by ship, which costs more and can take weeks to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Borenstein, it usually takes a month or two for gas prices to come back down after that kind of spike. But after the 2015 explosion, “that just didn’t happen, and ever since then we’ve seen this additional differential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This additional differential is what Borenstein calls the “mystery gasoline surcharge.” He says right now it’s costing Californians about $20 million per day in higher fuel costs — and $20 billion and counting since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know if it’s because (gasoline suppliers) are gouging, or because there is some additional cost that hasn’t been accounted for and that cropped up in 2015,” Borenstein said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/07fd475d-fa63-4e8a-8d06-8071dca2711f?src=embed\" title=\"California Gas Taxes\" width=\"700\" height=\"835\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing we do know is that many Californians get their gas from big-name brands, including Chevron, Shell, Exxon, Mobil and 76, which charge 11 to 16 cents more per gallon than ARCO, unbranded gas stations and grocery stores like Costco and Safeway that also sell gas, according to the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a preliminary report from the commission last month, “While this practice is not necessarily illegal, it may be an effort of a segment of the market to artificially inflate prices to the detriment of California consumers and could account for at least part of the price differential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There Anything We Can Do?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January, 19 state legislators asked Attorney General Xavier Becerra to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/29/a-20-cent-mystery-surcharge-on-gas-california-lawmakers-ask-ag-to-find-out-why/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look into\u003c/a> the mystery gasoline surcharge, and in April, Gov. 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The commission quickly produced the report quoted above and asked for more time to do a deeper investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hopeful that between the attorney general’s office and the California Energy Commission, they will be able to get to the bottom of what’s going on and bring our gas prices down a bit,” Borenstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until then, there are a few things Borenstein said consumers can do to try to save themselves a little pain at the pump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recommended buying gas from off-brand retailers, planning ahead so you don’t end up having to fuel up in an especially expensive place like downtown San Francisco, and getting a more fuel-efficient car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you buy a car that gets 30 miles to the gallon instead of 20 miles to the gallon, that is the equivalent of cutting the price of gasoline by a third,” he said. “So it really makes sense to think about the fuel efficiency of the car you drive.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>To listen to this story, click the play button above and go to 4:45.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know things cost more in the Bay Area: housing, lattes, tempeh burritos the size of your forearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the places this is most clear is at the gas pump. The \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA#state-metro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national average\u003c/a> for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline right now is around $2.70, according to AAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization says California’s statewide average is $3.74, and in the Bay Area, average prices range from $3.68 in the Vallejo-Fairfield area to $3.87 in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global crude oil prices are the biggest determining factor of what gas costs, but those for the most part aren’t going to affect California or the Bay Area differently from other parts of the country. So what accounts for our drastic difference in cost?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What We Know: Taxes and the Environment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of what makes gas more expensive in the Bay Area is true statewide as well: The price is high because of higher taxes and stricter environmental restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California taxes on gasoline involve a combination of state and local charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Gasoline excise tax of 41.7 cents a gallon (47.3 cents after July 1)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gasoline sales tax: 2.25%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Local sales taxes, which in the Bay Area range up to 2.5%\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Underground storage tank maintenance fee: 2 cents a gallon\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Adding together all those charges comes to something in the neighborhood of 55 cents per gallon, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Keep in mind we also pay a federal excise tax of 18.4 cents per gallon on top of all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our state gas taxes are second-highest in the country behind Pennsylvania’s 58.2 cents. And on July 1, we’ll leapfrog Pennsylvania when that 5.6-cent increase kicks in. It’s worth noting that even with its high tax, Pennsylvania’s gas prices are about a buck cheaper per gallon on average than California’s.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the environmental side, we fork out extra because of the state’s cap-and-trade program — which requires several industries, including fuel wholesalers, to cut down on carbon emissions — as well as California’s low carbon fuel standard. This \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article219331435.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulation\u003c/a> directly targets fuel producers and requires them to limit the creation of greenhouse gases in the production, transportation and use of fuel in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual amounts of these extra environmental costs fluctuate on a regular basis, but right now cap-and-trade costs us an additional 14 cents per gallon and the low carbon fuel standard adds another 13 cents, according to Severin Borenstein, the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Energy Institute, who has studied gas prices for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the extra cost of refining California’s gasoline. We pay an extra 5 to 10 cents per gallon because the California Air Resources Board requires that the gas we put into our cars be made from a formula producing less air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borenstein is quick to point out that these extra costs have real benefits when it comes to combating climate change and air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Studies have shown that California has been able to much more effectively clean up our air quality,” Borenstein said. “If you’re in the middle of Los Angeles and you look toward the mountains, you now see the mountains, which wasn’t the case 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But adding up the environmental costs and the gas taxes doesn’t get you anywhere near the current difference between what Californians pay at the pump versus the rest of the country. So what about the rest?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What We Don’t Know: ‘Mystery Gas Surcharge’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Prior to 2015, the (gas price) differential between California and the rest of the country was pretty much completely explained by our higher taxes and environmental fees and the cost of making our cleaner gasoline,” Borenstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2015, a new price gap of 20 to 30 cents opened up, one that neither Borenstein — nor anyone else — can find the cause of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started on Feb. 18, 2015, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon-mobil-refinery-20170502-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explosion\u003c/a> at an Exxon refinery in Torrance, just outside Los Angeles. The refinery was shut down for more than a year, and gas prices in the state shot up, as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735475/california-gas-prices-expected-to-spike-in-wake-of-shutdown-at-valeros-benicia-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">usually do\u003c/a> when a refinery goes offline unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These unplanned outages are an even bigger issue in California because the state is what’s known as a “petroleum island.” We don’t have pipelines connecting refineries in Los Angeles to those in the Bay Area or to the rest of the country. Plus, not many refineries make the special better-for-the-environment gasoline that the state requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there’s a production gap, there are only a few places gas stations can turn to, and that gas has to come in by ship, which costs more and can take weeks to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Borenstein, it usually takes a month or two for gas prices to come back down after that kind of spike. But after the 2015 explosion, “that just didn’t happen, and ever since then we’ve seen this additional differential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This additional differential is what Borenstein calls the “mystery gasoline surcharge.” He says right now it’s costing Californians about $20 million per day in higher fuel costs — and $20 billion and counting since 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know if it’s because (gasoline suppliers) are gouging, or because there is some additional cost that hasn’t been accounted for and that cropped up in 2015,” Borenstein said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/07fd475d-fa63-4e8a-8d06-8071dca2711f?src=embed\" title=\"California Gas Taxes\" width=\"700\" height=\"835\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing we do know is that many Californians get their gas from big-name brands, including Chevron, Shell, Exxon, Mobil and 76, which charge 11 to 16 cents more per gallon than ARCO, unbranded gas stations and grocery stores like Costco and Safeway that also sell gas, according to the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a preliminary report from the commission last month, “While this practice is not necessarily illegal, it may be an effort of a segment of the market to artificially inflate prices to the detriment of California consumers and could account for at least part of the price differential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is There Anything We Can Do?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January, 19 state legislators asked Attorney General Xavier Becerra to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/29/a-20-cent-mystery-surcharge-on-gas-california-lawmakers-ask-ag-to-find-out-why/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">look into\u003c/a> the mystery gasoline surcharge, and in April, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E is back in bankruptcy court Wednesday. The utility has until this fall to submit an official reorganization plan, but some are reporting that the company could exit from bankruptcy faster than anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali will hear arguments on when the court will consider that reorganization plan. Even after the utility files the plan, it will need approval from Montali and state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reorganization plan is still being formulated. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/pg-e-is-said-to-float-31-billion-bankruptcy-restructuring-plan\">But Bloomberg reported\u003c/a> on Friday that it could be unveiled in August, with a timeline that would see PG&E emerge from bankruptcy as early as next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Montali will also hear arguments on whether a wildfire victims' lawsuit, filed after PG&E entered bankruptcy protection, can move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to comment on the Bloomberg report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are looking at all options when it comes to working with the governor and all stakeholders, and are committed to resolving wildfire victims' claims fairly and expeditiously, mitigating wildfire risks, continuing to deliver safe and reliable energy to our customers, and supporting the state's bold clean energy goals, while keeping customer rates and bills as low as possible,\" PG&E said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State Eyes Reorganizing PG&E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When shareholders met in San Francisco on Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11756347/newsom-proposes-huge-wildfire-insurance-fund-for-states-big-power-companies\">Governor Gavin Newsom announced a proposal\u003c/a> to create a huge new wildfire insurance fund to help protect the financial stability of California's investor-owned electrical utilities. 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How’s that?,” Johnson replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When another shareholder complained that she’d called the utility several times to flag power lines on trees in her neighborhood, Johnson promised her a meeting with Michael Lewis, PG&E's senior vice president of electrical operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when a PG&E lineman, and member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, told Johnson he’d brought some letters that would reveal time-sensitive safety problems he’s witnessed, Johnson promised to read them and get in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure how transparent your team has been with you since you arrived,” the lineman told Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone was convinced that Johnson could turn the utility’s culture around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re fairly insulated, they live in their own little world. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a bid to get Santa Clara County to green light the largest \u003ca href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,” said Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford’s plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that’s proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it’s a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.’\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University’s associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region’s housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that’s already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford’s general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn’t had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford’s latest proposal yet, said “even a cursory reading suggests it’s pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that’s not going to work,” Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.’\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county’s director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them “to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,” he said. “It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to “get to ‘yes’,” despite what he sees as “pushback” from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to develop three and a million square feet, then you’ve got to mitigate the impacts,” said Simitian. “It’s that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.’\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, “It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there’s resistance to Stanford’s plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s growth related,” said Hancock. “There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a bid to get Santa Clara County to green light the largest \u003ca href=\"https://gup.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">development application\u003c/a> in county history, Stanford University on Monday unveiled a rejiggered package of community housing, transportation and education benefits worth $4.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford is offering $3.4 billion to build at least 1,115 new housing units — including 575 below-market rate — and $1.17 billion to finance transportation improvements and $138 million to boost Palo Alto Unified School District’s coffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would constitute most of what the county has asked for, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, Stanford is proposing to deliver over the next two decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Three quarters of the 2,172 housing units the county demanded, including 575 below-market rate, in the first few years of the expansion, some portion thereof on university land.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15.25 million in pedestrian, bicycle and transit improvements in San Mateo County and $15.05 million in Palo Alto.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion for the expansion of sustainable commute programs and transit infrastructure projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$1.13 billion in fees in lieu of a cap on commute trips affecting campus residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$138.5 million to the Palo Alto Unified School District.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different moment — not only for us — which is reflected in this proposal that we’ve brought forward, but for all of the communities around us,” said Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, noting Stanford has 8,180 acres of property in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have always had long-term, land use plans for our academic teaching and research facilities, and for housing our faculty and students,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford's plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36468_IMG_8798-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County officials are concerned Stanford’s plans for expansion could worsen traffic in the region, among other concerns. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say the negotiation process every quarter century or so goes smoothly, and that’s proving especially true in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Stanford is only planning to grow at the rate of roughly 1% a year, it’s a big entity — in a region already strained by the impacts of explosive economic development paired with inadequate housing and transit development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region.’\u003ccite>Jean McCown, Stanford University’s associate vice president for government and community relations\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“One of the differences today is the extent to which we all clearly understand the significances of our current housing and transportation challenges, not only for our campus and communities, but for the region,” McCown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the friction between Stanford and neighboring counties is the extent to which they want the university to respond to the region’s housing crisis. While offering to build the larger portion of the housing Santa Clara County planning officials asked for, Stanford wants to repeal two ordinances that require it to pay affordable housing fees and designate 16% of new housing units as affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford also wants credit for half of 1,300 units of graduate student housing that’s already in the pipeline and a 215-unit faculty and staff housing project in Menlo Park. Both were planned independent of the campus expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d5/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Simitian\u003c/a> represents the district home to all of the proposed growth and he helped negotiate the last general use plan in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11757058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford's general use plan.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS36461_IMG_8786-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once the Santa Clara County Planning Commission decides on a recommendation, yes or no, the Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve Stanford’s general use plan. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simitian, who hasn’t had the chance to review all 52 pages of Stanford’s latest proposal yet, said “even a cursory reading suggests it’s pretty much more of the same. I can understand why the university would want a bilateral agreement negotiated behind closed doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is taking about bringing 9,610 new folks to the campus: students, staff, faculty, day workers. And yet has proposed 2,600 beds and 550 housing units. Well, that means there are more than 7,000 people — after you get rid of the student beds — more than 7,000 people fighting for 550 housing units. Pretty clear that’s not going to work,” Simitian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated. It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.’\u003ccite>Joe Simitian, Santa Clara County supervisor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Simitian is not alone in his concerns. A group of Palo Alto and Santa Clara County officials wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/70025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> detailing their objections, particularly around transit concerns, in February to the county’s director of planning and development. San Mateo County has \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/blog/2019-05-06/county-san-mateo-cities-urge-santa-clara-county-help-hold-stanford-accountable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sent a letter \u003c/a>to Santa Clara County Supervisors, urging them “to help hold Stanford University accountable for the anticipated impacts to housing, traffic, the environment and residents if it is allowed to expand its campus by more than 20 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that it is a thoroughly reviewed project, and that any of the impacts of the projects are fully mitigated,” he said. “It’s the largest development proposal in the history of Santa Clara County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately though, Simitian says he expects to “get to ‘yes’,” despite what he sees as “pushback” from the largest landowner in the county as the parties enter what most consider the final stage of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re going to develop three and a million square feet, then you’ve got to mitigate the impacts,” said Simitian. “It’s that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those who feel Stanford is promising enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford.’\u003ccite>Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Russell Hancock, a Stanford \u003ca href=\"https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/people/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecturer\u003c/a> and also president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/russell-hancock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, said, “It’s always baffling to me when the neighbors vilify Stanford. This is a world class institution. There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many Stanford neighbors enjoy free use of amenities like hiking trails, gardens and museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get to cheer for Stanford in the Rose Bowl, this is just an amazing community asset,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why does he think there’s resistance to Stanford’s plan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s growth related,” said Hancock. “There might be other things at play as well. There might be egos and personalities involved that go back generations. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes a correction (see end of text). \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leading safety expert says California regulators should give careful scrutiny to the proposed purchase of a pipeline that carries crude petroleum to several Bay Area oil refineries because of the prospective buyer’s record of oil spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has also drawn widespread concern from California energy companies, which have told regulators that the sale of the Shell Oil pipeline system to Long Beach-based Crimson Pipeline could harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson has proposed buying the Shell system, one of three pipeline networks that carry crude oil from Central California oil fields to the Bay Area, for at least $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson already owns one of the pipeline systems, and industry groups say that the sale would allow the company to dominate the transportation of crude to refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has begun reviewing the proposed sale, a process that could take between several months to more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the nation’s top pipeline safety experts said he’s concerned about the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Weimer, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://pstrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pipeline Safety Trust\u003c/a>, an independent advocacy group based in Bellingham, Washington, said the CPUC should carefully review Crimson’s recent safety history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the regulators would want to get some assurance that Crimson has the ability to operate and maintain a pipeline that’s already been somewhat problematic,” Weimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Shell’s management, the pipeline ruptured in 2015 and 2016, releasing tens of thousands of gallons of oil in eastern Alameda County and causing millions of dollars in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spills prompted California’s fire marshal, for the first time, to call on a pipeline operator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495013/after-two-spills-shell-oil-to-replace-miles-of-problem-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to replace about 12 miles of the line\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weimer pointed to recent data from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration as demonstrating potential concern about Crimson’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the metrics PHMSA uses to compare how much oil a pipeline spills is “barrel miles.” Each barrel mile represents one barrel of oil transported 1 mile in a pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that measure — the number of barrels spilled per billion barrel miles — PHMSA says Crimson had the nation’s second-highest three-year average of oil spilled. The agency data included spills from 2016 through 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/ventura/2018/12/22/crimson-pipeline-oil-spill-ventura-spurs-homeowner-lawsuits/2318377002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Crimson line ruptured\u003c/a>, spilling 45,000 gallons of crude in Ventura. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-live-updates-oil-spill-ventura-crimson-pipeline-has-history-of-spills-1466709978-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> reported the company had recorded 10 spills in the previous decade, totaling 313,000 gallons and causing close to $6 million in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weimer said the CPUC should require Crimson to explain its record of spills. He added that regulators should consider how the Shell pipeline system works when assessing Crimson’s purchase proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell pipeline carries crude that’s heated and pushed through at different pressures, two factors that raise safety challenges, according to Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell’s pipeline problems arose “because of those two exact things,” Weimer said. “They need to make sure that Crimson has the ability to deal with those types of issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Crimson did not respond to a request for comment on industry and safety concerns tied to the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sale Raises Industry Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell and Crimson announced the pipeline deal in January. Crimson, which owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimsonmidstream.com/pipeline-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several other lines\u003c/a> in California and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M281/K395/281395615.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> in April asking the CPUC to approve the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That centerpiece of the deal is the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, a 177-mile system that runs up the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from Coalinga, across the southwestern edge of the Delta, and through the hills of eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the Shell and Marathon refineries in Martinez and Valero in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Pablo Bay system is one of three pipelines that bring crude oil to Bay Area refineries. Crimson already owns a line known as the KLM pipeline, and Phillips 66 runs a pipeline that brings crude from Kern County to its refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson says in its CPUC filing its plan to buy the Shell line is in the public interest, would benefit producers and refineries, and would not harm competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it wants to sell its pipelines in California because they “are not a strategic fit in its portfolio,” company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to sell its Martinez refinery\u003c/a> to PBF Energy, a large independent refining company, for up to $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oil Giants That Run Bay Area Refineries Want Assurances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero Energy Co., which has a major refinery in Benicia, and Marathon Petroleum, which owns the old Tesoro refinery (formerly known as the Golden Eagle refinery) in Martinez, have filed \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M294/K815/294815760.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official protests\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major oil companies, referred to as “joint shippers” in their CPUC filing, say they fear Crimson will charge them more than Shell currently does to transport crude to their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joint shippers respectfully urge the commission to direct Crimson to provide, and to carefully review, Crimson’s financial books and records to properly assess whether Crimson is economically equipped to acquire yet another large pipeline infrastructure,” the companies wrote to the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon say they want assurances that Crimson will continue to provide heated crude to Bay Area refineries, as Shell has been doing. The also want to know whether the company plans to consolidate what would be its two lines between the Central Valley and Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon declined comment beyond the public filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Independent Producers Protest Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trade association representing 500 independent crude oil and natural gas producers and other companies \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M290/K324/290324430.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has also filed a protest\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By any measure, Crimson will have substantial market power over a critical pipeline for California petroleum resources,” said the filing from the California Independent Petroleum Association. The group said it represents about 70% of the state’s oil producers and 90% of its natural gas producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association wants to be assured that if the sale goes through, its members rates won’t change for at least five years. It expressed worries that if Crimson were to shut down one of the two main pipelines, some of its members would be forced to truck their product to Bay Area refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns may be tied to a change in oil production in the last couple of decades: Oil producers are pumping out less oil, and both the Shell and KLM lines are carrying less crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of the active pipeline capacity out of the San Joaquin Valley is unfilled,” Crimson said in its filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can have a negative effect on line performance. If a pipeline has too little oil, the fuel can solidify and damage the line. Operators heat the crude petroleum to avoid that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like trying to move cold honey through a pipeline. It won’t move if it’s cold. You need to keep it warm enough to keep it moving,” said the Pipeline Safety Trust’s Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIPA CEO Rock Zierman says his association supports the deal — his association just wants to make sure its members don’t lose out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is of significant interest to CIPA members that the transaction results in fair and reasonable rates and competitive conditions of operation for California’s petroleum pipelines,” Zierman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal of the protest is for the CPUC to grant ‘party status’ to CIPA, so that independent producers can ensure their interests are heard during the transaction process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> This story originally reported that Shell Oil’s pipeline carries crude petroleum to Chevron’s Richmond refinery, information included in Crimson’s application to the CPUC. However, Chevron says the Richmond facility gets crude only by ship, through the refinery’s marine terminal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has begun reviewing the proposed sale, a process that could take between several months to more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the nation’s top pipeline safety experts said he’s concerned about the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Weimer, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://pstrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pipeline Safety Trust\u003c/a>, an independent advocacy group based in Bellingham, Washington, said the CPUC should carefully review Crimson’s recent safety history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the regulators would want to get some assurance that Crimson has the ability to operate and maintain a pipeline that’s already been somewhat problematic,” Weimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Shell’s management, the pipeline ruptured in 2015 and 2016, releasing tens of thousands of gallons of oil in eastern Alameda County and causing millions of dollars in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spills prompted California’s fire marshal, for the first time, to call on a pipeline operator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495013/after-two-spills-shell-oil-to-replace-miles-of-problem-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to replace about 12 miles of the line\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weimer pointed to recent data from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration as demonstrating potential concern about Crimson’s operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the metrics PHMSA uses to compare how much oil a pipeline spills is “barrel miles.” Each barrel mile represents one barrel of oil transported 1 mile in a pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that measure — the number of barrels spilled per billion barrel miles — PHMSA says Crimson had the nation’s second-highest three-year average of oil spilled. The agency data included spills from 2016 through 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/ventura/2018/12/22/crimson-pipeline-oil-spill-ventura-spurs-homeowner-lawsuits/2318377002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Crimson line ruptured\u003c/a>, spilling 45,000 gallons of crude in Ventura. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-live-updates-oil-spill-ventura-crimson-pipeline-has-history-of-spills-1466709978-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> reported the company had recorded 10 spills in the previous decade, totaling 313,000 gallons and causing close to $6 million in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weimer said the CPUC should require Crimson to explain its record of spills. He added that regulators should consider how the Shell pipeline system works when assessing Crimson’s purchase proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shell pipeline carries crude that’s heated and pushed through at different pressures, two factors that raise safety challenges, according to Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell’s pipeline problems arose “because of those two exact things,” Weimer said. “They need to make sure that Crimson has the ability to deal with those types of issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Crimson did not respond to a request for comment on industry and safety concerns tied to the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sale Raises Industry Concerns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell and Crimson announced the pipeline deal in January. Crimson, which owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimsonmidstream.com/pipeline-locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several other lines\u003c/a> in California and Louisiana, \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M281/K395/281395615.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed paperwork\u003c/a> in April asking the CPUC to approve the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That centerpiece of the deal is the San Pablo Bay Pipeline, a 177-mile system that runs up the west side of the San Joaquin Valley from Coalinga, across the southwestern edge of the Delta, and through the hills of eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the Shell and Marathon refineries in Martinez and Valero in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Pablo Bay system is one of three pipelines that bring crude oil to Bay Area refineries. Crimson already owns a line known as the KLM pipeline, and Phillips 66 runs a pipeline that brings crude from Kern County to its refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crimson says in its CPUC filing its plan to buy the Shell line is in the public interest, would benefit producers and refineries, and would not harm competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shell says it wants to sell its pipelines in California because they “are not a strategic fit in its portfolio,” company spokesman Ray Fisher said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754005/shell-to-sell-martinez-refinery-for-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to sell its Martinez refinery\u003c/a> to PBF Energy, a large independent refining company, for up to $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oil Giants That Run Bay Area Refineries Want Assurances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero Energy Co., which has a major refinery in Benicia, and Marathon Petroleum, which owns the old Tesoro refinery (formerly known as the Golden Eagle refinery) in Martinez, have filed \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M294/K815/294815760.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official protests\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major oil companies, referred to as “joint shippers” in their CPUC filing, say they fear Crimson will charge them more than Shell currently does to transport crude to their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joint shippers respectfully urge the commission to direct Crimson to provide, and to carefully review, Crimson’s financial books and records to properly assess whether Crimson is economically equipped to acquire yet another large pipeline infrastructure,” the companies wrote to the CPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon say they want assurances that Crimson will continue to provide heated crude to Bay Area refineries, as Shell has been doing. The also want to know whether the company plans to consolidate what would be its two lines between the Central Valley and Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero and Marathon declined comment beyond the public filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Independent Producers Protest Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A trade association representing 500 independent crude oil and natural gas producers and other companies \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M290/K324/290324430.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has also filed a protest\u003c/a> with the CPUC over the proposed sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By any measure, Crimson will have substantial market power over a critical pipeline for California petroleum resources,” said the filing from the California Independent Petroleum Association. The group said it represents about 70% of the state’s oil producers and 90% of its natural gas producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association wants to be assured that if the sale goes through, its members rates won’t change for at least five years. It expressed worries that if Crimson were to shut down one of the two main pipelines, some of its members would be forced to truck their product to Bay Area refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns may be tied to a change in oil production in the last couple of decades: Oil producers are pumping out less oil, and both the Shell and KLM lines are carrying less crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Much of the active pipeline capacity out of the San Joaquin Valley is unfilled,” Crimson said in its filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can have a negative effect on line performance. If a pipeline has too little oil, the fuel can solidify and damage the line. Operators heat the crude petroleum to avoid that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like trying to move cold honey through a pipeline. It won’t move if it’s cold. You need to keep it warm enough to keep it moving,” said the Pipeline Safety Trust’s Weimer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIPA CEO Rock Zierman says his association supports the deal — his association just wants to make sure its members don’t lose out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is of significant interest to CIPA members that the transaction results in fair and reasonable rates and competitive conditions of operation for California’s petroleum pipelines,” Zierman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal of the protest is for the CPUC to grant ‘party status’ to CIPA, so that independent producers can ensure their interests are heard during the transaction process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday, PG&E’s shareholders will meet for the first time since the company’s power lines started California’s deadliest wildfire last November. Investors are set to vote on a fresh slate of directors that the utility announced in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That reset has resulted in a board on which Wall Street interests are heavily represented. Eleven are new arrivals, more than half of whom have investing or corporate restructuring experience.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"pge\" label=\"Can PG&E Change?\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A board of directors is tasked with overseeing a publicly traded company’s management and with representing the interests of shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some financial experts say that the company is doing exactly what it needs to do: Emerging from Chapter 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board of directors for the company reflects its current priorities, which is to get out from bankruptcy and offer bondholders some protection from default,” said Aswath Damodaran, a corporate finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “I think the board reflects where the company is at this point in its life cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others have expressed disappointment. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/03/28/pge-board/\">called the board choices troubling\u003c/a> this spring. Newsom said he’d expected to see a greater emphasis placed on changing the company’s safety culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of curious that they went in really heavy on finance and bankruptcy people, because bankruptcy really doesn’t seem to be the central challenge in front of PG&E,” said Jared Ellias, who teaches bankruptcy and corporate governance at UC Hastings College of the Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellias said that the new board shows how the utility thinks that “the relationship with Wall Street is the most important set of expertise that they want to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, a PG&E spokesperson refuted the idea that Wall Street interests are too heavily weighted on the new board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board and our new CEO are focused on safety and operational performance and resolving the claims of those affected by the 2017 and 2018 wildfires,” PG&E wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also noted that many of its new board members have executive experience at utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who’s On the Board?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of the new board members have a history with hedge funds that have been actively involved in efforts to shape PG&E’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New board members include Richard Barrera, a former partner and co-portfolio manager at Redwood Capital Management, one of the three firms that, according to SEC filings, collectively held 10% of PG&E shares this spring, when the board overhaul and selection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737721/pgampe-names-new-chief-executive-and-board-in-major-leadership-overhaul\">current CEO Bill Johnson\u003c/a> took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, Michael Leffell, once served as deputy executive managing member at Davidson Kempner Capital Management. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-28/pimco-other-pg-e-creditors-said-to-pitch-35-billion-exit-plan\">Bloomberg reported\u003c/a> that firm joined forces with other Wall Street heavyweights, Pacific Investment Management Co. and Elliott Management, in trying to sell state lawmakers on a plan to establish a fund for past wildfire victims. The investor group is one of several that have reportedly pitched various versions of such a fund, which wildfire victims’ attorneys say would unfairly cap the amount of liabilities PG&E owes their clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hedge Funds Compete for Board Seats\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hedge funds involved have jockeyed for position since PG&E entered into bankruptcy protection in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Redwood Capital Management, Abrams Capital Management and Knighthead Capital Management have held significant sway, another hedge fund — BlueMountain Capital Management — has successfully leveraged its smaller 2% stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the runup to PG&E’s bankruptcy, BlueMountain Capital \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729984/large-pge-shareholder-nominates-entirely-new-board-of-directors\">vowed a fight\u003c/a> to replace PG&E’s entire board, even proposing its own slate, which included former National Transportation Safety Board head Christopher Hart. In April, PG&E hired Hart as a safety adviser reporting directly to the CEO. [pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"CPUC President Michael Picker\"]“Bringing in new leaders with impressive resumes is one thing; making sure they are appropriately qualified for the specific safety-driven requirements of the task at hand is something else.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BlueMountain Capital also pushed for Frederick Buckman, who now sits on PG&E’s board. Buckman’s resume includes time as a managing partner focused on the utilities sector at Brookfield Asset Management. He has also been the chief executive of utilities, including PacifiCorp, the Oregon-based power company controlled by investor Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, in addition to casting votes on the current board, shareholders are also expected to approve the addition of CEO Bill Johnson and to consider whether to create another position for another independent director. That would bring the board’s total size to 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Critics Contend the Board ‘Refresh’ Isn’t Enough\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the board is supposed to serve shareholders, one of PG&E’s loudest critics, former California Public Utilities Commission President Loretta Lynch, said it should also answer to the public. She said it should include representation for wildfire survivors, PG&E workers, the state government and ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the federal government bailed out Chrysler decades ago, the government had a say in who the Chrysler board members were. And those members stayed on the board until Chrysler fully repaid the government with interest,” Lynch said. “That certainly should happen here because clearly PG&E is going to be bailed out by ratepayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Michael Picker recently wrote in a blog post on the agency’s website that regulators will be watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing in new leaders with impressive resumes is one thing; making sure they are appropriately qualified for the specific safety-driven requirements of the task at hand is something else,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E’s corporate governance guidelines as of April 5 of this year, all members of the board of directors are elected each year and serve one-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the CPUC announced this week that it is seeking comment on a possible overhaul of PG&E, including restructuring the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Meet the New Board\u003c/h3>\n\u003cdiv class=\"desktop-hide\">\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Nora-Mead-Brownell.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>Nora Mead Brownell\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Chair of the board of PG&E Corp. and co-founder of Espy Energy Solutions LLC\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Director since 2019. 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That entails rezoning some its ample land holdings from office or commercial space to residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said it will also create a $250 million fund to provide developers with incentives to build 5,000 affordable housing units throughout the region, and dole out $50 million in grants to help address homelessness and displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Across the region, one issue stands out as particularly urgent and complex: housing,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-billion-investment-bay-area-housing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog post announcing the plan\u003c/a>. “The lack of new supply, combined with the rising cost of living, has resulted in a severe shortage of affordable housing options for long-time middle and low-income residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While saying that Google had already invested in “developing housing that meets the needs of these communities,” Pichai acknowledged, “there’s more to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Sundar Pichai, Google CEO']‘As Google grows throughout the Bay Area … we’ve invested in developing housing that meets the needs of these communities. 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There are real impacts from our growth on the affordable housing supply in your cities and we need to do more to help,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo is also supporting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101860444/google-eyes-san-jose-for-campus-for-20000-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Google campus \u003c/a>slated for development in downtown San Jose that would relocate roughly 20,000 employees working around Santa Clara County. According to the company, some 50 percent of those people already live in San Jose. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754319/without-affordability-safeguards-googles-san-jose-campus-could-trigger-235-million-in-yearly-rent-hikes-report-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report released last week\u003c/a> by a local labor group found that the project would lead to major rent spikes throughout the city in the absence of strong affordability safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google wouldn’t comment on the plan beyond what it described in Pichai’s brief blog post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has the most expensive monthly median housing costs in the nation, according to \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>: $2,341 in the San Jose‐Sunnyvale‐Santa Clara metro region in 2017, compared to $1,567 in California and $1,048 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Sandy Perry, Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County']‘Google is suggesting that this donation will compensate for its growth throughout the entire Bay Area. We do not believe it is large enough to do that.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing an increase in the people that are living in RVs or other temporary shelters,” said Rachel Massaro, director of research for Joint Venture, which publishes regular economic surveys of the Bay Area. “There are people that are living with other families. And we’ve also seen an increase in mega-commuters that are commuting into the region more than three hours daily just to work here and then living elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also reported that affordable housing units represented only a small share of recently approved units in Silicon Valley. While there were more than 8,000 new Silicon Valley housing units permitted in 2018, it found that only 489 of them were affordable to those earning less than 50% of the local median income. 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We do not believe it is large enough to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Shoor, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.catalyzesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catalyze SV\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that advocates for community engagement in development, said every large employer in the region should realize by now that the housing crisis is creating vast inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope more tech companies will say that, regardless of bottom line, this is a solution that requires solving, and that the resources can be marshaled and the political will can be built to get there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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