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"content": "\u003cp>On January 28, 1969, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., experienced a blowout. The result was an oil spill that at the time ranked as the largest in U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster, which made headlines across the nation, helped create the modern environmental movement. It also led to restrictions on offshore drilling — restrictions the Trump Administration is trying to loosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to the spill began one morning on Platform A, a rig located about six miles from the coast and operated at the time by Union Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had already drilled four wells from the platform and were drilling a fifth when they ran into a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You punch into some of these oil reservoirs and you get a lot of back pressure,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mccauley\">Douglas McCauley\u003c/a>, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCauley has brought me out to Platform A on a boat, which circles the rig as he talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that in this case, the back pressure overwhelmed the well's safety systems. This allowed crude oil and natural gas trapped thousands of feet down to rocket toward the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they're taking these big drilling pipes and shoving them back down the hole and these gigantic steel blocks on top of that to seal off this blowout,\" McCauley says. It worked, but only for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" McCauley says. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1200x865.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" says Douglas McCauley, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\" \u003ccite>(Jon Hamilton/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Better reinforcement of the well might have prevented the spill. But Union Oil had received a waiver from the government that allowed the company to drill without installing steel casing pipe to the depth usually required by federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unimpeded, oil and gas under tremendous pressure opened five separate gashes in the soft sandstone seabed. So much gas bubbled to the surface near Platform A that the water appeared to boiling. And oil from the underwater fissures began to form a slick that would eventually cover an area nearly the size of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect on marine life was profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right where we're sitting right now you transformed from this ecosystem of amazing richness, amazing biodiversity, amazing biological activity into a sort of Armageddon of blackness,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few days for the oil to reach Santa Barbara's famous beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I smelled it long before I saw it; it really stank around here,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/j-marc-mcginnes\">Marc McGinnes\u003c/a>, a lawyer who came down from San Francisco. \"And when I looked at the oil on the beach, I cried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinnes left his job at a big law firm to help launch a legal response to the spill. He would go on to become a key figure in the environmental efforts that grew out the event as well as a faculty member at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721590 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cleanup-11_enl-a5cb2fa688fdf35f4517047e09007d7d62a82997-1-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spill received enough media attention that President Richard Nixon made a trip to survey the damage in a helicopter. He also visited an oil-soaked beach near Santa Barbara Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon spent his time on the beach \"walking around gingerly\" to avoid stepping on the sticky blobs of oil, McGinnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil killed thousands of birds and an unknown number of sea mammals. Hundreds of oiled birds that were still alive were taken to the Santa Barbara Zoo, which is just a few steps from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time there was really no place or process to care for the oiled wildlife that was showing up on the beaches,\" says Nancy McToldridge, the zoo's director. \"So the zoo closed its doors and concentrated its time and energy into taking in these oiled birds, treating them and then rehabbing them back out into the wild.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suffering and deaths of so many animals helped get the public's attention and spur lawmakers to action. And 1969 marked a turning point for environmental activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Santa Barbara oil spill really helped to take an issue that was growing and really convert it into legislative action and a whole body of environmental law at the federal level and also at the state level that we still have with us today,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/peter-alagona\">Peter Alagona\u003c/a>, a historian at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/688219307/689252708\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthday.org/\">Earth Day\u003c/a> took place just over a year later in April of 1970. The Environmental Protection Agency was created in December of that year. Environmental laws passed or strengthened during this period included the Clean Air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act\">Clean Water\u003c/a> and Endangered Species Acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the 1969 oil spill had such an impact was that Santa Barbara was home to a lot of wealthy Republicans who had helped elect Nixon, Alagona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon himself was no environmentalist, Alagona says, \"but he realized during a time when there were many other extremely controversial, divisive issues like the Vietnam War for instance, that as American public concern grew about damage to the environment that this could potentially be a winning issue for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Nixon signed the environmental legislation, even though many in his own party opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/rig-17_enl-335db3bf6117d4fa390f96f28775f014030af2a3-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oil slick visible around Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel emanated from fissures in the seabed.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Santa Barbara is much better prepared for an oil spill than it was in 1969. There's a 46-foot fast-response vessel in the harbor. And animals exposed to oil are cared for by a statewide group called the \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/\">Oiled Wildlife Care Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response system got a test in 2015, when an oil pipeline burst a few miles up the coast. Workers deployed thousands of feet of floating boom to help contain the spill and skimmer boats began removing the oil from the water's surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, members of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network sprang into action, rescuing and caring for oiled animals. And those animals were more likely to survive than the ones oiled in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many more animals survive now than they would have back in the '60s or '70s or even the '80s,\" says Julie Barnes, a veterinarian and vice president for animal health and care at the Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's partly because of what animal care experts learned from the Santa Barbara spill, Barnes says. But they've learned even more from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's got to the point that there's so many spills that for animals there's a highly organized system in place,\" Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the greatest environmental danger from oil probably isn't another spill, McCauley says. It's the climate change caused by burning all that oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara got a preview of what that might mean a year ago, he says. It came in the form of a mudslide that careened through the community of Montecito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were boulders and trees traveling at like 22 miles per hour down the street,\" McCauley says. \"It destroyed 100 houses and killed 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to peg any one incident to climate change. But the mudslide followed the sort of extreme weather thought to accompany global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think of that as being the most insidious, the worst thing the oil industry has done to our community,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to offshore drilling would help reduce the effects of climate change by reducing the supply of oil, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump Administration seems headed in the other direction. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On January 28, 1969, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., experienced a blowout. The result was an oil spill that at the time ranked as the largest in U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster, which made headlines across the nation, helped create the modern environmental movement. It also led to restrictions on offshore drilling — restrictions the Trump Administration is trying to loosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to the spill began one morning on Platform A, a rig located about six miles from the coast and operated at the time by Union Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had already drilled four wells from the platform and were drilling a fifth when they ran into a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You punch into some of these oil reservoirs and you get a lot of back pressure,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mccauley\">Douglas McCauley\u003c/a>, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCauley has brought me out to Platform A on a boat, which circles the rig as he talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that in this case, the back pressure overwhelmed the well's safety systems. This allowed crude oil and natural gas trapped thousands of feet down to rocket toward the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they're taking these big drilling pipes and shoving them back down the hole and these gigantic steel blocks on top of that to seal off this blowout,\" McCauley says. It worked, but only for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" McCauley says. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1200x865.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" says Douglas McCauley, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\" \u003ccite>(Jon Hamilton/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Better reinforcement of the well might have prevented the spill. But Union Oil had received a waiver from the government that allowed the company to drill without installing steel casing pipe to the depth usually required by federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unimpeded, oil and gas under tremendous pressure opened five separate gashes in the soft sandstone seabed. So much gas bubbled to the surface near Platform A that the water appeared to boiling. And oil from the underwater fissures began to form a slick that would eventually cover an area nearly the size of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect on marine life was profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right where we're sitting right now you transformed from this ecosystem of amazing richness, amazing biodiversity, amazing biological activity into a sort of Armageddon of blackness,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few days for the oil to reach Santa Barbara's famous beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I smelled it long before I saw it; it really stank around here,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/j-marc-mcginnes\">Marc McGinnes\u003c/a>, a lawyer who came down from San Francisco. \"And when I looked at the oil on the beach, I cried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinnes left his job at a big law firm to help launch a legal response to the spill. He would go on to become a key figure in the environmental efforts that grew out the event as well as a faculty member at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721590 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cleanup-11_enl-a5cb2fa688fdf35f4517047e09007d7d62a82997-1-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spill received enough media attention that President Richard Nixon made a trip to survey the damage in a helicopter. He also visited an oil-soaked beach near Santa Barbara Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon spent his time on the beach \"walking around gingerly\" to avoid stepping on the sticky blobs of oil, McGinnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil killed thousands of birds and an unknown number of sea mammals. Hundreds of oiled birds that were still alive were taken to the Santa Barbara Zoo, which is just a few steps from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time there was really no place or process to care for the oiled wildlife that was showing up on the beaches,\" says Nancy McToldridge, the zoo's director. \"So the zoo closed its doors and concentrated its time and energy into taking in these oiled birds, treating them and then rehabbing them back out into the wild.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suffering and deaths of so many animals helped get the public's attention and spur lawmakers to action. And 1969 marked a turning point for environmental activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Santa Barbara oil spill really helped to take an issue that was growing and really convert it into legislative action and a whole body of environmental law at the federal level and also at the state level that we still have with us today,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/peter-alagona\">Peter Alagona\u003c/a>, a historian at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/688219307/689252708\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthday.org/\">Earth Day\u003c/a> took place just over a year later in April of 1970. The Environmental Protection Agency was created in December of that year. Environmental laws passed or strengthened during this period included the Clean Air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act\">Clean Water\u003c/a> and Endangered Species Acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the 1969 oil spill had such an impact was that Santa Barbara was home to a lot of wealthy Republicans who had helped elect Nixon, Alagona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon himself was no environmentalist, Alagona says, \"but he realized during a time when there were many other extremely controversial, divisive issues like the Vietnam War for instance, that as American public concern grew about damage to the environment that this could potentially be a winning issue for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Nixon signed the environmental legislation, even though many in his own party opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/rig-17_enl-335db3bf6117d4fa390f96f28775f014030af2a3-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oil slick visible around Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel emanated from fissures in the seabed.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Santa Barbara is much better prepared for an oil spill than it was in 1969. There's a 46-foot fast-response vessel in the harbor. And animals exposed to oil are cared for by a statewide group called the \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/\">Oiled Wildlife Care Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response system got a test in 2015, when an oil pipeline burst a few miles up the coast. Workers deployed thousands of feet of floating boom to help contain the spill and skimmer boats began removing the oil from the water's surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, members of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network sprang into action, rescuing and caring for oiled animals. And those animals were more likely to survive than the ones oiled in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many more animals survive now than they would have back in the '60s or '70s or even the '80s,\" says Julie Barnes, a veterinarian and vice president for animal health and care at the Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's partly because of what animal care experts learned from the Santa Barbara spill, Barnes says. But they've learned even more from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's got to the point that there's so many spills that for animals there's a highly organized system in place,\" Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the greatest environmental danger from oil probably isn't another spill, McCauley says. It's the climate change caused by burning all that oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara got a preview of what that might mean a year ago, he says. It came in the form of a mudslide that careened through the community of Montecito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were boulders and trees traveling at like 22 miles per hour down the street,\" McCauley says. \"It destroyed 100 houses and killed 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to peg any one incident to climate change. But the mudslide followed the sort of extreme weather thought to accompany global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think of that as being the most insidious, the worst thing the oil industry has done to our community,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to offshore drilling would help reduce the effects of climate change by reducing the supply of oil, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Monday, 4:15 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The partial federal government shutdown might be over, but volunteers are still taking it upon themselves to cleanup the Bay Area's federal parklands, many of which have been unattended and uncleaned by paid workers for more than a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For 35 days federal employees haven't been able to take care of our public lands, and we need to get out there,\" said Annie Burke, a Berkeley resident who helped organize #ShutdownCleanup, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/shutdowncleanup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook group\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tUVNAK_g21RWyH1k4PTWz0Nr0Wj6jFTaOCgxCop-4CI/edit?fbclid=IwAR1NQDNP7prej5-ZuWNsqEYCcRGdb6RSVGGFH48Dr0v-RF1NQld35qc6hfg#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google spreadsheet\u003c/a> that asked people to report conditions at their local parks and beaches during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke said the goal of #ShutdownCleanup was to \"crowdsource information about the conditions and then help regular citizens to get out there and help cleanup.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Burke, Muir Beach and Stinson Beach in Marin County, as well as Aquatic Park and Fort Mason in San Francisco are in the greatest need of cleanup this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because the government opens temporarily doesn't mean that hundreds of federal employees jump right back and are able to do all the things they've been supposed to be doing for four-plus weeks,\" Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Trump on Friday was announcing his agreement with congressional Democrats to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721026/trump-to-address-shutdown-as-lawmakers-zero-in-on-short-term-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fund the government\u003c/a> through Feb. 15, volunteers like Christina Toms were still out picking up trash at local parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were two trash cans here that were close to overflowing, full of lots of gross stuff,\" said Toms, a wetland scientist who cleaned up Tennessee Valley and Rodeo Beach in Marin after visiting the #ShutdownCleanup Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of the region's federal parklands was one of the most visible consequences of the 35-day shutdown that forced around 800,000 federal workers to stay home or work without pay, including those tasked with maintaining the Bay Area's federal parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Reps. Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman stand with trash collected at Lands End and Ocean Beach on Jan. 5, 2018, during the government shutdown. They delivered the trash to the White House a few days later.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman stand with trash collected at Lands End and Ocean Beach on Jan. 5, 2018, during the government shutdown. They delivered the trash to the White House a few days later. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike during some previous shutdowns, the Trump administration chose to keep most national parks open in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early days\u003c/a> of this budget standoff, despite a lack of staffing. That started to change as many parks faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalism\u003c/a>, excessive waste and visitor safety issues, forcing them to close. Other parks were able to stay open thanks to community or corporate funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the shutdown, local residents, organizations and even elected officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participated in cleanups\u003c/a> on the federally-operated sites, and San Francisco Public Works directed its staff to help empty trash bins at some parks and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke said she plans to continue using #ShutdownCleanup to mobilize people who want to keep the region's parklands clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts continue,\" Burke said of the shutdown. \"It's not like some light goes on and everything is fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Are Parks Reopening?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A note on the National Park Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> on Saturday said that it was \"preparing to resume regular operations though the schedule for individual parks may vary depending on staff size and complexity of operations.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Recreation Area announced Monday that all of its sites had \"resumed regularly scheduled operations\" and that all areas of the GGNRA, Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Point National Historic Site are open for regular operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Park Superintendent Tom Leatherman, staff at the following sites will return to work on Monday and assess the state of the parks ahead of reopening:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>John Muir National Historic Site\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"None of my staff have been on, so we have to make sure the sites are safe and any issues with the resources in the parks are being addressed,\" Leatherman said in an email on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquatic Park has been open throughout the shutdown, but the rest of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park — including its piers and historic ships — have been closed. Park Superintendent Kevin Hendricks said the visitors center reopened on Sunday, and staff are taking Sunday and Monday to assess the state of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe we'll have Hyde Street Pier open for visitors starting Monday,\" Hendricks said. \"Not yet the ships though unfortunately. We'll be working on getting the various different ships ready for visitors as the week progresses.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore reopened Sunday at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PointReyesNPS/status/1089291184630046720\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SequoiaKingsNPS/status/1089617647413673985\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED Science reporter Hannah Hagemann contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because the government opens temporarily doesn't mean that hundreds of federal employees jump right back and are able to do all the things they've been supposed to be doing for four-plus weeks,\" Burke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Trump on Friday was announcing his agreement with congressional Democrats to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721026/trump-to-address-shutdown-as-lawmakers-zero-in-on-short-term-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fund the government\u003c/a> through Feb. 15, volunteers like Christina Toms were still out picking up trash at local parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were two trash cans here that were close to overflowing, full of lots of gross stuff,\" said Toms, a wetland scientist who cleaned up Tennessee Valley and Rodeo Beach in Marin after visiting the #ShutdownCleanup Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of the region's federal parklands was one of the most visible consequences of the 35-day shutdown that forced around 800,000 federal workers to stay home or work without pay, including those tasked with maintaining the Bay Area's federal parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721381\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Reps. Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman stand with trash collected at Lands End and Ocean Beach on Jan. 5, 2018, during the government shutdown. They delivered the trash to the White House a few days later.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34626_10773162592_IMG_0239-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman stand with trash collected at Lands End and Ocean Beach on Jan. 5, 2018, during the government shutdown. They delivered the trash to the White House a few days later. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike during some previous shutdowns, the Trump administration chose to keep most national parks open in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early days\u003c/a> of this budget standoff, despite a lack of staffing. That started to change as many parks faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandalism\u003c/a>, excessive waste and visitor safety issues, forcing them to close. Other parks were able to stay open thanks to community or corporate funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the shutdown, local residents, organizations and even elected officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participated in cleanups\u003c/a> on the federally-operated sites, and San Francisco Public Works directed its staff to help empty trash bins at some parks and beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke said she plans to continue using #ShutdownCleanup to mobilize people who want to keep the region's parklands clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The impacts continue,\" Burke said of the shutdown. \"It's not like some light goes on and everything is fine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Are Parks Reopening?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A note on the National Park Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> on Saturday said that it was \"preparing to resume regular operations though the schedule for individual parks may vary depending on staff size and complexity of operations.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate National Recreation Area announced Monday that all of its sites had \"resumed regularly scheduled operations\" and that all areas of the GGNRA, Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Point National Historic Site are open for regular operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Park Superintendent Tom Leatherman, staff at the following sites will return to work on Monday and assess the state of the parks ahead of reopening:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>John Muir National Historic Site\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"None of my staff have been on, so we have to make sure the sites are safe and any issues with the resources in the parks are being addressed,\" Leatherman said in an email on Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquatic Park has been open throughout the shutdown, but the rest of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park — including its piers and historic ships — have been closed. 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"content": "\u003cp>The rainwater collection system is broken at the environmental research station on a remote, rocky Pacific island off the California coast. So is a crane used to hoist small boats in and out of the water. A two-year supply of diesel fuel for the power generators is almost gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel ordinarily would help with such problems. But they haven’t been around since the partial federal government shutdown began a month ago, forcing researchers with the nonprofit Point Blue Conservation Science to rely on volunteers to haul bottled water and 5-gallon jugs of diesel to the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 30 miles from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pruDfr5hL0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the scientists are pressing on with their long-running study of elephant seals during the crucial winter breeding season. They tag and monitor the lumbering creatures, whose numbers are recovering after being hunted to near-extinction, and study how warming oceans could affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve found some creative solutions, but things will get more strained the longer the shutdown is continued,” said Pete Warzybok, a marine ecologist with Point Blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse has delayed, disrupted and now threatens to derail environmental research projects across the nation — and not just those conducted by government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with universities, nonprofit organizations and private companies say their inability to collaborate with federal partners, gain access to federal lands and laboratories, and secure federal funding is jeopardizing their work on a vast array of subjects, including invasive and endangered species and air and water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/shutdown_010219_final-1020x698.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Researchers might miss court-ordered deadlines for reports involving endangered plants or animals. Warm-weather field studies that must be planned months in advance could be delayed or canceled. And studies that rely on strict monitoring or testing schedules could be compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, the damage could range from inconvenient to irreparable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with a constant presence on the Farallones since 1968 might have to leave if their agreement with the government isn’t renewed by the end of March. Besides opening a gap in decades of data collection, their absence would leave the islands and their wildlife defenseless to trespassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would mean that there would be no stewards present on the island, so the island would be completely empty, leaving it vulnerable to disturbance for people coming on the island illegally,” said Warzybok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720946\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Western Gull chicks, just days old, share their new nest in the Southeast Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(RJ Roush/Point Blue Conservation Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was available to respond because employees are not allowed to work during the shutdown, according to voicemail messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientist Harvey Bootsma needs to book a National Park Service boat for summer experiments involving quagga mussels in Lake Michigan, where the invasive pests are suspected of causing a decline in perch, whitefish and other prized species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government doesn’t reopen soon, “it could really mess us up,” said Bootsma, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One increasingly likely casualty is the world’s longest continuous study of a predator-prey relationship in one location. For 60 years, biologists have documented population shifts and interactions between gray wolves and moose at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. Much of the data is collected during winter, when scientists use planes to observe the wolves forming packs, battling over territory and killing moose, but the team is shut out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-week mission isn’t dead yet, but prospects fade daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of a season’s worth of data would be “devastating,” said Rolf Peterson of Michigan Technological University, the co-leader. “Continuity is what’s at the core of a lot of observational science, especially long-term projects. At some point, the loss of continuity degrades the integrity and value of the work itself. 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Four were flown to Isle Royale from the mainland last fall — one later died — and researchers planned to relocate several others this winter. Peterson’s group also wants to dart 20 moose and fit them with radio collars to gauge their reaction to the arriving wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/wolfcrate-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The female wolf is shown looking at a remote camera shortly before leaving her crate upon relocation to Isle Royale. \u003ccite>(Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both of these projects, while partially supported by other funds, require National Park Service personnel and facilities to operate,” agency spokeswoman Alexandra Picavet said. “Until there is an approved funding source to support those functions, both operations are suspended.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at risk are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s aerial surveys of endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico, which usually happen in late January and early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California mission to gather data on fish and study how climate change is affecting oceans, which began 70 years ago, also is in limbo. A research ship was reserved for this winter’s operation, carried out by a federal, state and university partnership. But because it’s owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the San Diego-based vessel is off-limits until the shutdown ends. No suitable replacement is available, said program director Brice Semmens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data gaps from a lost mission would be harmful because “the ocean is changing so rapidly now,” he said. “We need to understand how these changes are going to affect populations we care about, like shellfish or Dungeness crab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A juvenile Dungeness crab scuttles in the waters of Monterey Harbor. \u003ccite>(Steve Lonhart/NOAA MBNMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shutdown is also taking a toll on the next generation of environmental researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal scientists teach and monitor graduate students’ projects at universities nationwide. Now, the schools may cancel some courses and students are worrying about graduating on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three experts with the U.S. Geological Survey teach in the wildlife and fisheries program at the University of Georgia, where a statistical modeling class was scratched because the government instructor isn’t allowed to work, biology professor John Maerz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We depend on them being there; we build our curriculum and projects around them,” Maerz said. “You can’t replace that expertise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students are struggling to do research with federal laboratories and other facilities shuttered. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The rainwater collection system is broken at the environmental research station on a remote, rocky Pacific island off the California coast. So is a crane used to hoist small boats in and out of the water. A two-year supply of diesel fuel for the power generators is almost gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel ordinarily would help with such problems. But they haven’t been around since the partial federal government shutdown began a month ago, forcing researchers with the nonprofit Point Blue Conservation Science to rely on volunteers to haul bottled water and 5-gallon jugs of diesel to the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, about 30 miles from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1pruDfr5hL0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1pruDfr5hL0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the scientists are pressing on with their long-running study of elephant seals during the crucial winter breeding season. They tag and monitor the lumbering creatures, whose numbers are recovering after being hunted to near-extinction, and study how warming oceans could affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve found some creative solutions, but things will get more strained the longer the shutdown is continued,” said Pete Warzybok, a marine ecologist with Point Blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impasse has delayed, disrupted and now threatens to derail environmental research projects across the nation — and not just those conducted by government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with universities, nonprofit organizations and private companies say their inability to collaborate with federal partners, gain access to federal lands and laboratories, and secure federal funding is jeopardizing their work on a vast array of subjects, including invasive and endangered species and air and water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/shutdown_010219_final-1020x698.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Researchers might miss court-ordered deadlines for reports involving endangered plants or animals. Warm-weather field studies that must be planned months in advance could be delayed or canceled. And studies that rely on strict monitoring or testing schedules could be compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on how long the shutdown lasts, the damage could range from inconvenient to irreparable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists with a constant presence on the Farallones since 1968 might have to leave if their agreement with the government isn’t renewed by the end of March. Besides opening a gap in decades of data collection, their absence would leave the islands and their wildlife defenseless to trespassers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would mean that there would be no stewards present on the island, so the island would be completely empty, leaving it vulnerable to disturbance for people coming on the island illegally,” said Warzybok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720946\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/owl.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Western Gull chicks, just days old, share their new nest in the Southeast Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(RJ Roush/Point Blue Conservation Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was available to respond because employees are not allowed to work during the shutdown, according to voicemail messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientist Harvey Bootsma needs to book a National Park Service boat for summer experiments involving quagga mussels in Lake Michigan, where the invasive pests are suspected of causing a decline in perch, whitefish and other prized species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government doesn’t reopen soon, “it could really mess us up,” said Bootsma, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One increasingly likely casualty is the world’s longest continuous study of a predator-prey relationship in one location. For 60 years, biologists have documented population shifts and interactions between gray wolves and moose at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. Much of the data is collected during winter, when scientists use planes to observe the wolves forming packs, battling over territory and killing moose, but the team is shut out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven-week mission isn’t dead yet, but prospects fade daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of a season’s worth of data would be “devastating,” said Rolf Peterson of Michigan Technological University, the co-leader. “Continuity is what’s at the core of a lot of observational science, especially long-term projects. At some point, the loss of continuity degrades the integrity and value of the work itself. And there are things that don’t come around a second time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 794px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11720919 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-5.33.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-5.33.31-PM.png 794w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-5.33.31-PM-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USFWS Kodiak seaplane arrives on Isle Royale in Lake Superior carrying the fourth relocated wolf on October 14, 2018. \u003ccite>(Jim Peaco/National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The timing is particularly bad because the park recently began a multiyear effort to replenish its wolf population, which had fallen to two. 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No suitable replacement is available, said program director Brice Semmens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data gaps from a lost mission would be harmful because “the ocean is changing so rapidly now,” he said. “We need to understand how these changes are going to affect populations we care about, like shellfish or Dungeness crab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11720926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11720926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-1020x710.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/dungenesscrab.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A juvenile Dungeness crab scuttles in the waters of Monterey Harbor. \u003ccite>(Steve Lonhart/NOAA MBNMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shutdown is also taking a toll on the next generation of environmental researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal scientists teach and monitor graduate students’ projects at universities nationwide. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:45 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 15-month investigation into the deadliest of the 2017 Northern California wildfires, Cal Fire on Thursday announced that PG&E equipment was not responsible for starting the Tubbs Fire — the catastrophic blaze that swept over the hills from just outside Calistoga into Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire killed 22 people, destroyed more than 5,000 homes and was responsible for as much as $10 billion in insured property losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire investigation found that \"a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure\" caused the fire. The agency said that it had not found any violations of state law connected to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has disputed suggestions that its power lines sparked the fire, is facing hundreds of lawsuits related to the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal court filing last month, the company argued that privately maintained power lines at a home at 1128 Bennett Lane, near Highway 128 outside Calistoga — the point where the Tubbs Fire began just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2017 — sparked the deadly blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715439/pge-says-unlicensed-electrical-work-may-have-sparked-tubbs-fire-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that a caretaker on the property\u003c/a> had undertaken a series of unpermitted, unlicensed repairs on the lines and that there was evidence that equipment was involved in the start of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/17LNU010045_tubbs_le80_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80-page investigative report\u003c/a> says it found no evidence that PG&E equipment ignited the blaze,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's investigator on the case, John Martinez, said determining the precise cause of the fire was difficult because the blaze consumed so much of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez noted the presence of a privately owned power pole that may have been involved in the ignition. Martinez said the property's caretaker had described the pole as \"woodpeckered so damn bad\" that he intended to replace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator noted that the pole was nearly completely consumed in the fire, suggesting that it may have snapped and fallen onto the residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I eliminated all other causes for the Tubbs Fire,\" Martinez wrote in his conclusion, \"with the exception of an electrical-caused fire originating from an unknown event affecting privately owned conductor (power lines) or equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire had previously determined that PG&E equipment was responsible for 18 of the more than 170 wildfires that swept Northern California in October 2017. The fire agency said it had found evidence that the utility may have violated state law in 11 of those incidents and referred cases to local prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Pitre, one of the attorneys involved in the Tubbs Fire litigation, said Thursday he was unconvinced by the Cal Fire findings on the blaze's origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have evidence that suggests that the origin of the fire is not the place that’s identified by Cal Fire,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evidence involves a pair of fuses that blew on a PG&E power pole along the road adjacent to 1128 Bennett Lane. The fuses, which melt and expel hot metal when they detect a fault on a power line, may have dropped hot metal into roadside vegetation that PG&E has acknowledged it failed to clear as required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, plaintiffs' investigators found evidence of metal in the area where the fuses blew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitre added that he believes PG&E should have proactively turned off the power the night of the North Bay fires -- a precautionary step it didn't start taking until last fall's fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If PG&E had implemented a de-energization policy and been proactive, we never would have had the Tubbs Fire,\" Pitre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick McCallum, who lost his home in the Tubbs Fire and has been lobbying on behalf of fire victims in the state Capitol for the past year, agreed that the Cal Fire report isn't the last word in the fight between the utility and fire victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first thought was, 'Oh my God, what is this going to do for the victims [whose] ... ability to restore their lives and rebuild were dependent on this,' \" he said. \"Then my rational side came in -- and it's not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCallum noted that many of the people in Sonoma County were underinsured, because of the high property costs, and so are depending on being able to sue PG&E to make up the difference. He said Tubbs Fire victims should contact their lawyers and keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as Nov. 5, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/75488/000100498018000015/pge-093018x10q.htm#s3DC8A6F7961A529692A36201BF7CAE60\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a quarterly filing\u003c/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PG&E said the company had concluded it was \"probable\" it would incur losses due to claims arising from some of the October 2017 blazes -- including the Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, which killed nine people, and Nuns Fire in Sonoma County, which killed three. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on several other wildfires, including the Tubbs Fire, PG&E said in the same document it had \"not concluded that a loss arising from those fires is probable\" -- a judgment the company said could change as new facts emerged. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the utility earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718176/what-does-pges-bankruptcy-mean-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because it faces at least $30 billion in potential liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those possible liabilities stem from other fires that started in October 2017 and from last November's Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 86 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the community of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Cal Fire's announcement on the Tubbs Fire, PG&E emphasized the legal and financial hurdles ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regardless of today’s announcement, PG&E still faces extensive litigation, significant potential liabilities and a deteriorating financial situation,” the company said. \"Resolving the legal liabilities and financial challenges stemming from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires will be enormously complex and will require us to address multiple stakeholder interests, including thousands of wildfire victims and others who have already made claims and likely thousands of others we expect to make claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's declared intention to seek bankruptcy protection has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719917/pge-says-bankruptcy-could-take-3-years-as-shareholders-fight-filing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drawn criticism\u003c/a> from investors who say the company remains solvent and is failing in its duty to shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The news from Cal Fire that PG&E did not cause the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire is yet another example of why the company shouldn't be rushing to file for bankruptcy, which would be totally unnecessary and bad for all stakeholders,” said a spokesperson for BlueMountain Capital Management, an investor critical of the bankruptcy plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims like McCallum are also skeptical that PG&E actually needs to file for Chapter 11 protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very strength of the lawsuits against PG&E helps the company argue for bankruptcy, said Stanford law professor Robert Rabin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A strong case can be made out that faulty maintenance and faulty attention to vegetation surrounding the power lines was negligent, perhaps grossly negligent, on the part of PG&E,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a bankruptcy judge consolidates some of the hundreds of lawsuits against PG&E, fire victims could see smaller settlements. 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The agency said that it had not found any violations of state law connected to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which has disputed suggestions that its power lines sparked the fire, is facing hundreds of lawsuits related to the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a federal court filing last month, the company argued that privately maintained power lines at a home at 1128 Bennett Lane, near Highway 128 outside Calistoga — the point where the Tubbs Fire began just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2017 — sparked the deadly blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715439/pge-says-unlicensed-electrical-work-may-have-sparked-tubbs-fire-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that a caretaker on the property\u003c/a> had undertaken a series of unpermitted, unlicensed repairs on the lines and that there was evidence that equipment was involved in the start of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire's \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/fire_protection/downloads/FireReports/17LNU010045_tubbs_le80_Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80-page investigative report\u003c/a> says it found no evidence that PG&E equipment ignited the blaze,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's investigator on the case, John Martinez, said determining the precise cause of the fire was difficult because the blaze consumed so much of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez noted the presence of a privately owned power pole that may have been involved in the ignition. 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And they will definitely defraud the people in Butte County … They make money by taking the money and not doing the cleanup job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunters Point residents involved in the suit claim to have suffered major health impacts as a result of the company’s fraudulent reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11661883 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-1200x773.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-960x618.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-375x242.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge-520x335.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ShipyardLarge.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. \u003ccite>(Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For its part, Tetra Tech, Inc., the parent company, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing at the former shipyard, arguing that any deception was committed by a few “rogue” employees employed by its subsidiary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/Contracts/Advertisement/1944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalRecyle\u003c/a>, the state agency in charge of wildfire cleanup that selected the firm for the Camp Fire contract, said in a statement that it had determined the firm was both “responsive and responsible while offering CalRecycle the lowest project price.” Tetra Tech, Inc. 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He also noted that only two firms submitted bids for the contract, given the dearth of companies that take on this degree of cleanup work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>November’s Camp Fire, the most destructive wildfire ever recorded in California, killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the foothill town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleanup of the 240-square-mile area charred by the fire will be a massive undertaking, involving the removal of millions of tons of debris and potentially toxic material, in what is expected to ultimately cost upwards of $3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/green/article/Suspect-shipyard-contractor-gets-huge-state-13521866.php\">San Francisco Chronicle recently reported\u003c/a>, CalRecycle has leaned heavily on Tetra Tech, the parent company, in the past year for help with other fire cleanups. 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"content": "\u003cp>A week after announcing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717965/pge-announces-plans-for-bankruptcy-protection\">the company will file for bankruptcy protection\u003c/a> at month's end, Pacific Gas and Electric officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/75488/000095015719000075/form8-k.htm\">said they have secured financing\u003c/a> to continue safe operations while the Chapter 11 case proceeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PG&E wrote that it entered into an agreement with four major banks to provide $5.5 billion in \"debtor-in-possession,\" or DIP loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">PG&E Bankruptcy: How We Got Here\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E expects that the DIP Facilities will provide it with sufficient liquidity to fund its ongoing operations, including its ability to provide safe service to customers during the Chapter 11 cases,\" the filing states, adding that the company expects the Chapter 11 proceedings to take two years, but that the loans could be extended to a third year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest twist in a bankruptcy case that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718176/what-does-pges-bankruptcy-mean-for-you\">could have huge implications\u003c/a> for California ratepayers, fire victims and the state's fight against climate change. PG&E announced on Jan. 14 that it plans to file for Chapter 11 protections around Jan. 29, citing the more than $30 billion in potential liabilities from a series of devastating wildfires that the company is suspected of starting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing will also have huge repercussions for PG&E's shareholders — including New York-based BlueMountain Capital Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most investors have bailed on PG&E since November's deadly Camp Fire in Butte County, the hedge fund has more than doubled its stake, and says it currently holds about 2 percent of outstanding shares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one of the firm's leaders told KQED that entering Chapter 11 doesn't make sense for PG&E — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There hasn't been a single judgment issued against the company from the 2017 or 2018 wildfire claims. Many of them are in pretrial orders, which could take a few years,\" said Omar Vaishnavi, a partner at BlueMountain Capital Management, in an exclusive interview with KQED's \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when a decision happens against the company in the future, the company could appeal that decision, which means that these cases could go on for four or five, even up to 10 years in some cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718123/s-f-considers-buying-some-of-pges-infrastructure-in-wake-of-bankruptcy-plans\">S.F. Considers Buying Some of PG&E’s Infrastructure in Wake of Bankruptcy Plans\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718123/s-f-considers-buying-some-of-pges-infrastructure-in-wake-of-bankruptcy-plans\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/PGETrucksSF-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In addition to questioning the rush to enter into bankruptcy protection, Vaishnavi takes issue with the utility's estimate that the liability it faces from those fires could exceed $30 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's multiple avenues to reduce those liabilities from that $30 billion figure to something much lower than that,\" Vaishnavi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The options include settling claims to lower the amount it ultimately pays out, as Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric did following a devastating fire in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E's liabilities could still end up being higher than the company is currently worth. While its investigation into the Camp Fire's cause is ongoing, Cal Fire has already ruled that PG&E equipment was involved in at least 18 of the more than 170 fires that swept Northern California in October 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Vaishnavi argues, PG&E is far more valuable than it's worth on paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E is one of the largest and most attractive utilities in the country,\" he said. \"It starts with where it's located. It's in California, and one of the most important initiatives California has outlined is growth in clean energy. PG&E is very important to ensure that growth plan.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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