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"content": "\u003cp>Sonoma County water officials, under order from the state to improve the capacity of their sewage system, say a valve malfunction and leaky pipes resulted in a string of spills this month that released 2.7 million gallons of waste and stormwater, some of which flowed into local creeks and San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest spill occurred Jan. 12, when a faulty valve at a Sonoma County Water Agency treatment plant caused sewage to run backward in a pipeline that handles waste from homes and businesses in the Sonoma Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That 2.2 million-gallon spill happened amid a separate series of incidents in which heavy rain overwhelmed the capacity of sanitary sewers, causing another 500,000 gallons of foul water to gush into local streets and creeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have not experienced, at least in my memory in the recent past, a spill or unauthorized discharge of this size.’\u003ccite>Pamela Jeane, Sonoma Water assistant general manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Sonoma County Water Agency say they’re planning to spend millions of dollars to inspect, repair or replace aging infrastructure to prevent similar capacity problems in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they face a deadline: the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board says the county agency must make a series of improvements by 2024, after the district repeatedly experienced capacity-related sewage spills during wet weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2015, the state imposed a cease-and-desist order mandating the changes. Since then, there have been more than 60 sanitary sewer overflows at the local district that have led to the release of 1.37 million gallons, according to data from the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates say the episodes show the agency needs to accelerate its efforts to prevent releases into ecologically sensitive areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A well-maintained system shouldn’t have that kind of volume getting into the environment,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Spill Into Schell Slough and San Pablo Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The water agency says the 2.2 million gallons of sewage released Jan. 12 from the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District treatment plant flowed into Schell Slough, a wetland near the community of Schellville and just south of Highway 12. From there, the effluent snaked through a series of sloughs before finally dumping into the waters of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not experienced, at least in my memory in the recent past, a spill or unauthorized discharge of this size,” said Pamela Jeane, a Sonoma County Water Agency assistant general manager. “This is very unusual and something that we, of course, don’t like to see happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report to the San Francisco Bay Regional Quality Control Board on Thursday, the water agency said the problem first came to light when a staff member noticed a flow meter on a 12-inch sewage pipeline running backwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716715/state-launches-probe-into-50000-gallon-marin-county-sewage-spill\">State Launches Probe Into 100,000-Gallon Marin County Sewage Spill\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716715/state-launches-probe-into-50000-gallon-marin-county-sewage-spill\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/SewageTruck-1020x812.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ryan Kirchner, operations coordinator at the county water agency, said staff at the treatment plant discovered a malfunctioning valve, stopped the flow 15 minutes later and devised a way to block further releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district was not able to recover any of the sewage after it spilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the amount (of) water in the slough, site location, and slough water quality, it was physically impossible to recover any of the treatment plant unauthorized discharge,” Kirchner said in the report to state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report added that in the hours after the release, the plant’s staff did not observe foam, odors or toilet paper in the water and saw no evidence of dead or injured animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said there’s a possibility that the spill caused ecological damage to the nearby wildlife refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This a really bad problem. 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They say that’s mostly because of leaky infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increased flows are attributed to inflow and infiltration, which allows groundwater and storm water to enter leaky sewer pipelines, manhole covers and private sewer laterals,” said Ann DuBay, an agency spokeswoman, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight spills came several years after the water control board ordered Sonoma County to increase its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the county had already put in place those changes, like installing larger sewer lines and replacing manholes, the recent storm-related spills most likely would not have happened, according to Bill Johnson, who heads a division of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board that focuses on enforcement and pollution reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would love it if we could have made those improvements happen overnight,” Johnson said. “But it takes a while to get the funding and do the engineering and put the stuff into place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Raising a Red Flag\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said local water districts like Sonoma’s need to move faster to prevent future big releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these spills that happen every single rainy season but really they are preventable,” Choksi-Chugh said. “It has raised a red flag for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District is investing in several projects aimed at preventing more stormwater spills, according to DuBay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the district plans to spend $6 million on a project to replace 1.8 miles of pipeline along Highway 12, she said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and its parent company on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a move the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717965/pge-announces-plans-for-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insists\u003c/a> is necessary to contend with tens of billions of dollars in potential liabilities growing out of the calamitous wildfire seasons of 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a simple \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5698778/034138272896.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voluntary petition\u003c/a> filed just after midnight Tuesday morning with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, PG&E estimated its liabilities at about $51 billion and its assets at more than $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that solvency, PG&E officials argued that they need the Chapter 11 protection because they are unable to borrow enough cash to cover operating costs. As part of the filing, PG&E is asking the court to approve $5.5 billion in financing from nine major banks that will allow the company to keep paying its bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Dennis Montali, who was assigned the case and oversaw PG&E’s previous bankruptcy proceedings 18 years ago, refused to authorize that emergency financing until Thursday. Instead, at a 90-minute hearing packed with dozens of PG&E lawyers and attorneys representing a wide range of other interested parties, Montali mostly dealt with scheduling future court dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did, however, temporarily approve two motions thatPG&E argued were central to keeping the business operating: one that will let them use existing bank accounts, and another to allow them continued access to gas and electric markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t even had 14 hours to absorb what was filed,” Montali said, joking at one point that “some of us try to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a somewhat unusual statement for a bankruptcy judge, Montali also pledged to let the public weigh in on the case, even if they are not parties to the bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly that the public … should be given their day in court and I will not deny it — but I have to deny it today,” he said, adding that the public comments won’t “have to be in response to a specific motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be an opportunity to get things off their chest,” he added. “I can’t solve all their problems, but I can at least listen to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the hearing, PG&E filed more than two dozen other motions and documents with the bankruptcy court, including one asking the court to let it keep paying its employees’ wages and benefits for the next 30 days. The company estimates that it will need $61 million for wages and $72 million for benefit payments over the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also requested $130 million to be paid out to about 14,000 employees in special bonuses for fiscal year 2018. The bonuses are intended to reward managers who prioritize safety, help customers, among other things. The average bonus was $13,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also asking the court to reject a ruling by federal energy regulators that would force them to keep paying renewable energy suppliers the same rates negotiated before the bankruptcy filing. Montali said all of those motions will be considered at Thursday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is pledging to not just keep the lights on but is also asking the court to allow it to continue customer programs that help promote clean energy and support low-income customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hearing the ‘calls for change’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, interim PG&E CEO John Simon said the company will continue to focus on wildfire safety, adding that leaders there have “heard the calls for change” and are committed to emerging from bankruptcy with an “energy system our customers want and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout this process, we are fully committed to enhancing our wildfire safety efforts, as well as helping restoration and rebuilding efforts across the communities impacted by the devastating Northern California wildfires,” Simon said. “We also intend to work together with our customers, employees and other stakeholders to create a more sustainable foundation for the delivery of safe, reliable and affordable service in the years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it announced its intention on Jan. 14 to file for bankruptcy protection, the state’s biggest utility said two years of horrendously costly wildfires had created such a massive potential debt that it needed a bankruptcy court to help restructure the company for its future viability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of that feared debt could come in the form of damage awards and settlements with the 6,000-plus plaintiffs who have filed suit against the company so far after the two seasons of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s view remained unchanged despite last week’s finding that the company’s equipment was not responsible for the Tubbs Fire — the October 2017 blaze that killed 22 people and destroyed about 5,000 homes in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement following the bankruptcy announcement, PG&E noted that it had long believed it was not responsible for the Tubbs Fire and said that the decision to file for Chapter 11 reorganization was reached with the assumption that the utility would not be held liable for that blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was also unmoved by \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bluemountain-capital-management-llc-delivers-second-open-letter-to-board-of-directors-of-pge-corporation-nyse-pcg--board-of-directors-of-pacific-gas-and-electric-company-300782167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demands\u003c/a> from one investor, BlueMountain Capital Management, that it shelve the bankruptcy filing. BlueMountain has promised to try to replace PG&E’s board of directors at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big shareholder angered by filing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Executives at at the firm, which is one of PG&E’s largest shareholders, reacted angrily to the filing. In a written statement, Blue Mountain officials said they will continue to push for new leadership and would propose a “new slate” of directors by Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s filing is the latest example of how the (PG&E) board continues to fail the company, wildfire victims, customers, employees, creditors, shareholders and the people of California. We urge all stakeholders to support change at PG&E,” Blue Mountain officials said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is one of 53,878 shareholders that stand to lose out because of the bankruptcy filing.\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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa), who took the lead last year in negotiating a state response to wildfires, agreed with Blue Mountain executives that the company needs new leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given its track record of obfuscation and mismanagement, I’m not surprised PG&E claims it can no longer meet its financial obligations,” Dodd said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E stock plummeted after a series of 2017 wildfires that swept through Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, as well as Lake, Butte, Solano and Yuba counties. The utility had been warning for a year that it could face bankruptcy if the state didn’t give it some relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers did agree to soften the blow of those 2017 fires by creating a process for the utility to issue ratepayer-backed bonds to pay for costs related to the fires. Less than two months after Gov. Jerry Brown signed that bill, SB 901, the Camp Fire broke out in Butte County on Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a day, that blaze became the deadliest and most destructive in state history, killing 86 people and destroying nearly 14,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in early January, the company’s bond rating was slashed to junk status, making it prohibitively expensive for PG&E to borrow capital. A week later, the company announced in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it intended to file for bankruptcy as early as Jan. 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Chris Holden, who chairs the Assembly’s utility committee, said early Tuesday that he had hoped to see PG&E avoid bankruptcy but is well aware that the future of the company is now in the hands of a bankruptcy court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hoping to protect ‘most vulnerable’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Our goal all along was to protect the most vulnerable, but now the bankruptcy court will be managing the future of PG&E and its creditors, including the damages of fire victims for which the utility is deemed responsible,” Holden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pledged to keep working with lawmakers and the governor to protect victims, provide safe and affordable power for ratepayers and maintain the state’s aggressive renewable energy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will help to provide direction to the Public Utilities Commission, who will be representing Californian’s interests in the bankruptcy proceeding,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not clear how much power lawmakers or regulators will have to do those things. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and its parent company on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a move the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717965/pge-announces-plans-for-bankruptcy-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insists\u003c/a> is necessary to contend with tens of billions of dollars in potential liabilities growing out of the calamitous wildfire seasons of 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a simple \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5698778/034138272896.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voluntary petition\u003c/a> filed just after midnight Tuesday morning with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, PG&E estimated its liabilities at about $51 billion and its assets at more than $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that solvency, PG&E officials argued that they need the Chapter 11 protection because they are unable to borrow enough cash to cover operating costs. As part of the filing, PG&E is asking the court to approve $5.5 billion in financing from nine major banks that will allow the company to keep paying its bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Dennis Montali, who was assigned the case and oversaw PG&E’s previous bankruptcy proceedings 18 years ago, refused to authorize that emergency financing until Thursday. Instead, at a 90-minute hearing packed with dozens of PG&E lawyers and attorneys representing a wide range of other interested parties, Montali mostly dealt with scheduling future court dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did, however, temporarily approve two motions thatPG&E argued were central to keeping the business operating: one that will let them use existing bank accounts, and another to allow them continued access to gas and electric markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t even had 14 hours to absorb what was filed,” Montali said, joking at one point that “some of us try to sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a somewhat unusual statement for a bankruptcy judge, Montali also pledged to let the public weigh in on the case, even if they are not parties to the bankruptcy proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly that the public … should be given their day in court and I will not deny it — but I have to deny it today,” he said, adding that the public comments won’t “have to be in response to a specific motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be an opportunity to get things off their chest,” he added. “I can’t solve all their problems, but I can at least listen to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the hearing, PG&E filed more than two dozen other motions and documents with the bankruptcy court, including one asking the court to let it keep paying its employees’ wages and benefits for the next 30 days. The company estimates that it will need $61 million for wages and $72 million for benefit payments over the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also requested $130 million to be paid out to about 14,000 employees in special bonuses for fiscal year 2018. The bonuses are intended to reward managers who prioritize safety, help customers, among other things. The average bonus was $13,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also asking the court to reject a ruling by federal energy regulators that would force them to keep paying renewable energy suppliers the same rates negotiated before the bankruptcy filing. Montali said all of those motions will be considered at Thursday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is pledging to not just keep the lights on but is also asking the court to allow it to continue customer programs that help promote clean energy and support low-income customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hearing the ‘calls for change’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, interim PG&E CEO John Simon said the company will continue to focus on wildfire safety, adding that leaders there have “heard the calls for change” and are committed to emerging from bankruptcy with an “energy system our customers want and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout this process, we are fully committed to enhancing our wildfire safety efforts, as well as helping restoration and rebuilding efforts across the communities impacted by the devastating Northern California wildfires,” Simon said. “We also intend to work together with our customers, employees and other stakeholders to create a more sustainable foundation for the delivery of safe, reliable and affordable service in the years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it announced its intention on Jan. 14 to file for bankruptcy protection, the state’s biggest utility said two years of horrendously costly wildfires had created such a massive potential debt that it needed a bankruptcy court to help restructure the company for its future viability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of that feared debt could come in the form of damage awards and settlements with the 6,000-plus plaintiffs who have filed suit against the company so far after the two seasons of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s view remained unchanged despite last week’s finding that the company’s equipment was not responsible for the Tubbs Fire — the October 2017 blaze that killed 22 people and destroyed about 5,000 homes in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement following the bankruptcy announcement, PG&E noted that it had long believed it was not responsible for the Tubbs Fire and said that the decision to file for Chapter 11 reorganization was reached with the assumption that the utility would not be held liable for that blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was also unmoved by \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bluemountain-capital-management-llc-delivers-second-open-letter-to-board-of-directors-of-pge-corporation-nyse-pcg--board-of-directors-of-pacific-gas-and-electric-company-300782167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demands\u003c/a> from one investor, BlueMountain Capital Management, that it shelve the bankruptcy filing. BlueMountain has promised to try to replace PG&E’s board of directors at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big shareholder angered by filing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Executives at at the firm, which is one of PG&E’s largest shareholders, reacted angrily to the filing. In a written statement, Blue Mountain officials said they will continue to push for new leadership and would propose a “new slate” of directors by Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s filing is the latest example of how the (PG&E) board continues to fail the company, wildfire victims, customers, employees, creditors, shareholders and the people of California. We urge all stakeholders to support change at PG&E,” Blue Mountain officials said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is one of 53,878 shareholders that stand to lose out because of the bankruptcy filing.\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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2019/01/14/PGEWorkersLift.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa), who took the lead last year in negotiating a state response to wildfires, agreed with Blue Mountain executives that the company needs new leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given its track record of obfuscation and mismanagement, I’m not surprised PG&E claims it can no longer meet its financial obligations,” Dodd said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E stock plummeted after a series of 2017 wildfires that swept through Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties, as well as Lake, Butte, Solano and Yuba counties. The utility had been warning for a year that it could face bankruptcy if the state didn’t give it some relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers did agree to soften the blow of those 2017 fires by creating a process for the utility to issue ratepayer-backed bonds to pay for costs related to the fires. Less than two months after Gov. 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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>\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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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. 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. Professors are hesitating to accept another class of graduate students because they don’t know whether they’ll get federal grants to pay the newcomers and fund their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I applied for a bunch of grants last year and am waiting to see if I’ll get funding so I can determine whether to admit a grad student and if so, how many,” said Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M. “The way things are going, I may not take any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Flesher reported from Traverse City, Michigan, and Webber reported from Chicago. AP reporter Susan Montoya Bryan contributed from Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. Four were flown to Isle Royale from the mainland last fall — one later died — and researchers planned to relocate several others this winter. 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