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Traditionally powerful Sacramento groups representing business and agriculture are also hoping to have their needs addressed in Newsom’s initial spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to a dozen different organizations to ask what they’d like to see from Newsom’s first budget. Here are some of their responses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716247\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716247 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2.jpg 188w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Herald-Mike-Legislative-Advocate-2-160x183.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Herald\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy, \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Western Center on Law and Poverty would like to see Governor Newsom end deep poverty for all \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/CalWORKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalWORKS\u003c/a> (California’s public assistance program) families by increasing CalWORKS grants above 50 percent of the federal poverty level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715988\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2.jpg 102w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/R.-Jacobsen-2014.2-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Jacobsen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Jacobsen, CEO/executive director, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fcfb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresno County Farm Bureau\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Central Valley faces many challenges over the next few years but none greater than the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Combined with recently adopted increases in the minimum flow requirements to the Delta and water cutbacks from over the past decade, SGMA will have devastating, community-wide impacts. We hope to see Governor Newsom propose resources towards better understanding and mitigating the impacts of SGMA as well as contributing additional finances to capital projects that actually yield water supplies. State and local investment towards SGMA compliance is needed immediately and long-term in order to soften the impending losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Lempert\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Lempert, president, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children Now\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Governor Newsom proposes significant funding to support the whole child. In addition to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-gov-elect-gavin-newsom-will-propose-1546395091-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed investments\u003c/a> in early care and education, we hope to see additional funding for STEM education, especially early math and science for kids-of-color and girls, which will strengthen his focus on early childhood programs and school readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715974\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Buckley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Buckley, policy director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housing California\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11715972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/buckley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Gov. Newsom surpass previous administrations by dedicating an ongoing portion of the budget to provide stable, affordable homes for the 1.5 million low-income families over-burdened by housing costs and the 130,000 Californians experiencing homelessness on any given night, which is the foundation we need if the new administration is committed to racial, health, and economic equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg 734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Wunderman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope Governor Newsom takes a measured approach to any new spending, focusing on California’s long-term fiscal stability and making strategic investments in critical areas like housing, transportation and education. We’re extremely excited about Gov. Newsom’s announcement to invest almost $2 billion in early education and child care, two areas that can return huge dividends for our economy and quality of life. Even more effective than spending precious public dollars to address California’s biggest challenges is focusing on legislative and policy reforms that can leverage the power of the marketplace to spur investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11716557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Roberson\" width=\"160\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1038x1200.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Roberson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Roberson, Government Relations Director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/california-nurses-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Nurses Association\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CNA supports funding that would restore the infrastructure of our communities, including but not limited to public education, access to safety net healthcare, and balancing a full budget. Apart from the budget, our priority for this next governor is to fully implement a \u003cem>Medicare for All\u003c/em> system in the state of California. This system is the best system that can cover all residents where they can enjoy comprehensive, safe, therapeutic health care, not just more insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716249\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716249 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Anderson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lenore Anderson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite major progress on criminal justice reform and reducing incarceration, the prison budget has remained stubbornly high. 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Combined with recently adopted increases in the minimum flow requirements to the Delta and water cutbacks from over the past decade, SGMA will have devastating, community-wide impacts. We hope to see Governor Newsom propose resources towards better understanding and mitigating the impacts of SGMA as well as contributing additional finances to capital projects that actually yield water supplies. State and local investment towards SGMA compliance is needed immediately and long-term in order to soften the impending losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715964\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715964\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/lempert-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Lempert\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Lempert, president, \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Children Now\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Governor Newsom proposes significant funding to support the whole child. In addition to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-gov-elect-gavin-newsom-will-propose-1546395091-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed investments\u003c/a> in early care and education, we hope to see additional funding for STEM education, especially early math and science for kids-of-color and girls, which will strengthen his focus on early childhood programs and school readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715974\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 188px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Tyrone-Buckley-Housing-California-headshot-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyrone Buckley\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Buckley, policy director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.housingca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Housing California\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11715972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/buckley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope to see Gov. Newsom surpass previous administrations by dedicating an ongoing portion of the budget to provide stable, affordable homes for the 1.5 million low-income families over-burdened by housing costs and the 130,000 Californians experiencing homelessness on any given night, which is the foundation we need if the new administration is committed to racial, health, and economic equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 185px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11715977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman.jpg 734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/jim-wunderman-160x130.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Wunderman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Council\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hope Governor Newsom takes a measured approach to any new spending, focusing on California’s long-term fiscal stability and making strategic investments in critical areas like housing, transportation and education. We’re extremely excited about Gov. Newsom’s announcement to invest almost $2 billion in early education and child care, two areas that can return huge dividends for our economy and quality of life. Even more effective than spending precious public dollars to address California’s biggest challenges is focusing on legislative and policy reforms that can leverage the power of the marketplace to spur investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11716557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Roberson\" width=\"160\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS-1038x1200.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RobersonS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Roberson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephanie Roberson, Government Relations Director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/california-nurses-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Nurses Association\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CNA supports funding that would restore the infrastructure of our communities, including but not limited to public education, access to safety net healthcare, and balancing a full budget. Apart from the budget, our priority for this next governor is to fully implement a \u003cem>Medicare for All\u003c/em> system in the state of California. This system is the best system that can cover all residents where they can enjoy comprehensive, safe, therapeutic health care, not just more insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716249\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716249 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1-160x182.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Lenore-Anderson-1.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenore Anderson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lenore Anderson, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite major progress on criminal justice reform and reducing incarceration, the prison budget has remained stubbornly high. 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"content": "\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, the National Park Service has decided to dip into entrance fee funds to pay for expanded operations during a government shutdown that has furloughed many of its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after reports of degradation in the parks — trash thrown on the ground, human waste piling up and visitors behaving irresponsibly by letting their dogs off leash or even driving off-road to do doughnuts in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\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\">Shutdown Delays Yosemite Death Probe, Spurs More National Park Closures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\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\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-151376605-Vernal-Falls.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676134/National-Park-Service-s-Revised-Contingency-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised contingency plan\u003c/a>, obtained and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by\u003c/a> The Washington Post, did not specify how many agency employees would return to work, nor which parks would receive the additional staffing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/updatelapse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> earlier Sunday, the National Park Service said the funds would not be able to fully open parks and that many of the smaller sites around the country will remain closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NPS will begin to use these funds to clean up trash that has built up at numerous parks, clean and maintain restrooms, bring additional law enforcement rangers into parks to patrol accessible areas, and to restore accessibility to areas that would typically be accessible this time of year,\" the agency wrote in the press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 of the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/entrance-fee-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">418 park sites collect entrance fees\u003c/a>. The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. On any given day, 10 to 50 people will show up. Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. Purdy hopes that Joshua Tree National Park will be one of the ones chosen for additional staff resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it is, she hopes that National Park Service janitors will be some of the first staffers to come back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, the National Park Service has decided to dip into entrance fee funds to pay for expanded operations during a government shutdown that has furloughed many of its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after reports of degradation in the parks — trash thrown on the ground, human waste piling up and visitors behaving irresponsibly by letting their dogs off leash or even driving off-road to do doughnuts in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\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\">Shutdown Delays Yosemite Death Probe, Spurs More National Park Closures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\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\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-151376605-Vernal-Falls.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676134/National-Park-Service-s-Revised-Contingency-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised contingency plan\u003c/a>, obtained and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by\u003c/a> The Washington Post, did not specify how many agency employees would return to work, nor which parks would receive the additional staffing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/updatelapse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> earlier Sunday, the National Park Service said the funds would not be able to fully open parks and that many of the smaller sites around the country will remain closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NPS will begin to use these funds to clean up trash that has built up at numerous parks, clean and maintain restrooms, bring additional law enforcement rangers into parks to patrol accessible areas, and to restore accessibility to areas that would typically be accessible this time of year,\" the agency wrote in the press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 of the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/entrance-fee-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">418 park sites collect entrance fees\u003c/a>. The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. On any given day, 10 to 50 people will show up. Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. Purdy hopes that Joshua Tree National Park will be one of the ones chosen for additional staff resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it is, she hopes that National Park Service janitors will be some of the first staffers to come back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The path to innovation is not always a smooth, straight line. In some cases, it’s U-shaped. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, a 2,000-foot-long floating barrier, shaped like a U, was dispatched to the Great Pacific garbage patch between Hawaii and California, where roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1.8 trillion pieces\u003c/a> of plastic have formed a floating field of debris roughly twice the size of Texas. Made of connected plastic pipes, the barrier was meant to catch and clean-up the plastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invented by Boyan Slat when he was just 17, the barrier has so far done \u003cem>some\u003c/em> of what it was designed to accomplish. It travels with wind and wave propulsion, like a U-shaped Pac-Man hungry for plastic. It orients itself in the wind and it catches and concentrates plastic, \u003cem>sort of\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Slat, now 24, recently discovered with the beta tester for his design, plastic occasionally drifts out of its U-shaped funnel. The other issue with the beta tester, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">System 001\u003c/a>, is that last week, a 60-feet-long end section broke off. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EAeNdTFHU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first issue, Slat said, was likely due to the device’s speed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/648560948/giant-pac-man-launched-to-gobble-garbage-patch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a September interview\u003c/a> with NPR, he said the device averages about four inches per second, which his team has now concluded is too slow. The break in the barrier was due to an issue with the material used to build it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In principle, I think we are relatively close to getting it working,” Slat said in an interview Saturday with NPR’s Michel Martin. “It’s just that sometimes the plastic is also escaping again. Likely what we have to do is we have to speed up the system so that it constantly moves faster than the plastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the material failure, Slat said his team will probably try to locally reinforce the system to combat the problem of material fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a paper clip and you move that back and forward many times, essentially the material gets weaker,” he said. “That’s likely what has happened with material of the cleanup system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRIE98y_UM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat and the team at his nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoceancleanup.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ocean Cleanup\u003c/a>, are now bringing the system back to Hawaii for repairs and upgrades. Slat \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/13/466680233/how-to-clean-up-all-that-plastic-in-the-oceans\">told NPR in 2016\u003c/a> that his structure is 10 times further away from land than the world’s most remote oil rig, subject to battering waves and storms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the material failure occurred, it wasn’t due to the result of a major Pacific storm. It was just normal wear and tear, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had conditions twice as worse as we had last weekend, but the system already sort of moved back and forth about 1.5 million times since it’s been out there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an estimated cost of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#263d8c2253ed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$24.6 million reported by Forbes\u003c/a>, and a challenging work environment, the project is high-risk and Slat hopes, high-reward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716206\" 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/gettyimages-542117706_custom-4903d0d2a2c802fa193a3dde7f90be769cfab834-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But experts on plastic pollution have \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/i-asked-15-ocean-plastic-pollution-experts-about-the-ocean-cleanup-project-and-they-have-concerns/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> about the project’s effectiveness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Conservancy,\u003c/a> told NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in September\u003c/a> that only 3 to 5 percent of the total amount of ocean plastic actually winds up in systems of circulating currents. He estimates that about 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean each year — roughly the equivalent of one dump truck full of plastic every minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say efforts should be aimed at preventing plastics from going into the ocean in the first place, and that Slat’s barrier project could divert resources away from that goal. Others have expressed concern about the barrier’s impact on marine wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said that marine wildlife is be able to safely pass underneath a 10-foot deep screen under the pipe meant to catch debris. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-cleanup-skeptical-scientists/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired reported\u003c/a> that the pipes could attract and lead animals straight into plastic-polluted waters, and may also shed nano-sized particles of plastic into the water when hit with the sun’s rays.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern is that ultraviolet light from the sun can potentially disintegrate the plastic, but The Ocean Cleanup responded by telling Wired that the high-density polyethylene plastic used in their tubes can reflect UV radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat’s confidence in his design hasn’t wavered, and said he was unfazed by the current setbacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716212\" 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/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-160x95.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyan Slat walks in front of his first prototype ocean cleanup device on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable,” he said. “I’m confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we’ll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team hopes to make the system fully operational sometime this year. If the project succeeds, Slat’s vision is to deploy a fleet of 60 more devices, projected to remove half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s plastic within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this vision, one he has held since his teens, support vessels would act like ocean garbage trucks; ships would carry the plastics back to land, where they would be processed, recycled, and reused — not dumped back into the ocean. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=An+Engineering+Wunderkind%27s+Ocean+Plastics+Cleanup+Device+Hits+A+Setback&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first issue, Slat said, was likely due to the device’s speed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/648560948/giant-pac-man-launched-to-gobble-garbage-patch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a September interview\u003c/a> with NPR, he said the device averages about four inches per second, which his team has now concluded is too slow. The break in the barrier was due to an issue with the material used to build it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In principle, I think we are relatively close to getting it working,” Slat said in an interview Saturday with NPR’s Michel Martin. “It’s just that sometimes the plastic is also escaping again. Likely what we have to do is we have to speed up the system so that it constantly moves faster than the plastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the material failure, Slat said his team will probably try to locally reinforce the system to combat the problem of material fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a paper clip and you move that back and forward many times, essentially the material gets weaker,” he said. “That’s likely what has happened with material of the cleanup system.”\u003c/p>\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/RcRIE98y_UM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RcRIE98y_UM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Slat and the team at his nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoceancleanup.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ocean Cleanup\u003c/a>, are now bringing the system back to Hawaii for repairs and upgrades. Slat \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/13/466680233/how-to-clean-up-all-that-plastic-in-the-oceans\">told NPR in 2016\u003c/a> that his structure is 10 times further away from land than the world’s most remote oil rig, subject to battering waves and storms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the material failure occurred, it wasn’t due to the result of a major Pacific storm. It was just normal wear and tear, Slat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had conditions twice as worse as we had last weekend, but the system already sort of moved back and forth about 1.5 million times since it’s been out there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an estimated cost of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/08/28/the-ocean-cleanup-is-starting-aims-to-cut-garbage-patch-by-90-by-2040/#263d8c2253ed\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$24.6 million reported by Forbes\u003c/a>, and a challenging work environment, the project is high-risk and Slat hopes, high-reward. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716206\" 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/gettyimages-542117706_custom-4903d0d2a2c802fa193a3dde7f90be769cfab834-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716206\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inventor Boyan Slat presented a prototype of The Ocean Cleanup project on June 22, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But experts on plastic pollution have \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/i-asked-15-ocean-plastic-pollution-experts-about-the-ocean-cleanup-project-and-they-have-concerns/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concerns\u003c/a> about the project’s effectiveness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Leonard, chief scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://oceanconservancy.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Conservancy,\u003c/a> told NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646724291/a-massive-floating-boom-is-supposed-to-clean-up-the-pacific-can-it-work\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in September\u003c/a> that only 3 to 5 percent of the total amount of ocean plastic actually winds up in systems of circulating currents. He estimates that about 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean each year — roughly the equivalent of one dump truck full of plastic every minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say efforts should be aimed at preventing plastics from going into the ocean in the first place, and that Slat’s barrier project could divert resources away from that goal. Others have expressed concern about the barrier’s impact on marine wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat said that marine wildlife is be able to safely pass underneath a 10-foot deep screen under the pipe meant to catch debris. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-cleanup-skeptical-scientists/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired reported\u003c/a> that the pipes could attract and lead animals straight into plastic-polluted waters, and may also shed nano-sized particles of plastic into the water when hit with the sun’s rays.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern is that ultraviolet light from the sun can potentially disintegrate the plastic, but The Ocean Cleanup responded by telling Wired that the high-density polyethylene plastic used in their tubes can reflect UV radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat’s confidence in his design hasn’t wavered, and said he was unfazed by the current setbacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716212\" 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/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-542418248_custom-cf5afda129268fbb8d69f2d5d81457be5184e59d-s800-c85-160x95.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyan Slat walks in front of his first prototype ocean cleanup device on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(REMKO DE WAAL/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Considering the things we have been able to prove in the past few months and considering the problems that we have faced, they seem quite solvable,” he said. “I’m confident that the team will be able to design appropriate solutions for this and that we’ll have the system back in the patch in a few months from now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team hopes to make the system fully operational sometime this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>The government shutdown has forced the partial or \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\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complete closure\u003c/a> of some of the nation's most popular national parks and has furloughed thousands of federal land agency workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means all kinds of under-the-radar, yet critical, work has mostly stopped — from timber sales to wildfire prevention projects to the general upkeep and enforcement of laws on millions of acres of U.S. public lands. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an eerie silence,\" says John Wentworth, a councilman in the Eastern Sierra town of Mammoth Lakes. \"The folks that are responsible for stewarding, maintaining and watching out for one of the great legacies of the United States are absent; they're gone.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mammoth Lakes is completely surrounded — and largely dependent on — U.S. public lands. That includes the adjacent ski resort, which operates on a U.S. Forest Service lease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown has coincided with one of the town's busiest seasons. Suddenly there's no one staffing area visitor centers or popular trailheads for snowshoeing, snowmobiling. There's no one to interact with visitors, enforce the rules and just manage the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of scary,\" Wentworth says. \"We don't know what to tell our visitors; we don't know how to be good hosts and stewards of these public lands because the federal presence is not there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wentworth's anxiety is familiar to communities across the West that promote themselves as gateways to massive expanses of U.S. public lands. Much of that land is open to the public and to everything from natural resource extraction to outdoor recreation. The latter contributes billions to the U.S. economy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/outdoor-recreation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several recent studies\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/utah_wide-544c1de1f1a623af630e5c3ba21b2bcdadc8f57d-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Land Management land in the southern Utah desert. The partial federal government shutdown has furloughed thousands of land agency workers, leaving work on critical projects mostly stopped.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716103\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bureau of Land Management land in the southern Utah desert. The partial federal government shutdown has furloughed thousands of land agency workers, leaving work on critical projects mostly stopped. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when your landlord is suddenly unreachable, almost everything is thrown into limbo. About half of all of California is federal land. Next door in Nevada it's more like 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, there are lots of citizens out there that will pick up trash, but the larger landscape planning issues, they're not being addressed,\" says Jaina Moan of The Nature Conservancy's Nevada chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, groups like The Nature Conservancy have played a big role in large collaborative conservation and other development projects on federal land, such as programs that help improve rangeland for ranchers and reduce wildfire risk in national forests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moan's group can keep working on the side, but they can't access certain lands or the federal scientists who work on them. And big collaborative meetings about these projects are postponed indefinitely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like most of America, we hope that Congress and the president can resolve this soon because we need those government partnerships to work so that we can make sure that the conservation of our lands and waters can continue,\" Moan says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westerners have been watching for years as funding for federal lands agencies and infrastructure has generally been on the decline. John Wentworth of the Mammoth Lakes town council says local governments like his have been trying to plan around this new reality, launching partnerships to pool resources and get some of the work done that was traditionally the federal government's responsibility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that if these spasms that come out of Washington due to unprecedented, existential, partisan craziness, we will have partnerships and working relationships in place to be able to mitigate these effects,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, his town is partnering with the Forest Service to remove trash and staff area trailheads. But this latest shutdown, Wentworth says, happened so quickly there was no time for even short-term contingency plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]acing staggering liability costs for its potential culpability in a series of deadly wildfires, the parent company of California’s largest utility is exploring whether to sell off a major part of the company, NPR has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internally, Pacific Gas & Electric has dubbed this strategy “Project Falcon.” Under the plan, the company would sell its natural gas division this spring. After years of deadly errors and safety violations, the utility giant is looking for ways to cover liability costs and avoid bankruptcy, a senior company official and a former employee with knowledge of the plan tell NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All net proceeds from the sale of PG&E’s gas division would be used to set up a fund to pay billions of dollars in potential claims from wildfires, the sources said. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is exploring selling key real estate assets, including its San Francisco headquarters, and moving its operations elsewhere in the Bay Area, the sources say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday the company announced it would be”reviewing structural options” to best position the company to meet customer and operational needs. In addition, PG&E said it is searching for new directors for its board to “augment its existing expertise in safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to make any senior leaders available to comment on Project Falcon. A written statement from spokesman Andy Castagnola said, “PG&E does not comment on market rumors or speculation. As a company, our priority continues to be the safety of our customers and the communities we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfire Damages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the state’s fire agency, Cal Fire, \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/newsreleases/2018/2017_WildfireSiege_Cause.pdf\">determined that PG&E power equipment was responsible\u003c/a> for sparking at least a dozen major fires across Northern California in 2017. And now, regulators are investigating whether PG&E equipment sparked November’s Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\">What Now For PG&E?\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33930_111318_AW_CampFire_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715439/pge-says-unlicensed-electrical-work-may-have-sparked-tubbs-fire-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PG&E Says Unlicensed Electrical Work May Have Sparked Tubbs Fire Disaster\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654027/my-world-was-burning-the-north-bay-fires-and-what-went-wrong\">‘My World Was Burning’: The North Bay Fires and What Went Wrong\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfires/\">Ongoing Fire Coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company could end up having to pay billions from legal action stemming from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity analysts project PG&E’s damages from the wildfires could exceed PG&E’s market value and its insurance coverage. One Citigroup analyst estimates the company could be on the hook for\u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/pg-e-plunges-after-drawing-down-revolving-credit-facilities-1\"> up to $15 billion in damages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies Allstate, State Farm and USAA\u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/insurance-companies-sue-pge-over-california-wildfire-damages-2019-01-03\"> have filed lawsuits against PG&E\u003c/a>, blaming the utility for the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gas sale strategy would have to be approved by the state regulatory agency, the California Public Utilities Commission, which has already expressed deep concerns about PG&E’s shoddy safety record, lack of transparency and past efforts to pass liability costs on to the state’s ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, state regulators and lawmakers have been kept out of PG&E’s planning loop for Project Falcon, named for a group of peregrine falcons nesting on the roof of the company’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former PG&E officials say they’re speaking with NPR out of concern senior management is not acting in the best interests of ratepayers, safety and the state. “There’s a public trust element in being a utility monopoly,” said the senior company official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bailout?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E is under no legal obligation to disclose its internal discussions about ways to stave off bankruptcy. But given the potential impact on ratepayers and taxpayers if the utility eventually needs a bailout, \u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michael-wara/\">Michael Wara\u003c/a>, a lawyer and research scholar at Stanford University, calls the lack of transparency “extremely disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be thinking very hard about how to create safety for Californians rather than how to make money for shareholders when they’re not being totally transparent, especially in the current context where there’s a lack of trust and so many people that have been harmed by PG&E’s infrastructure,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wara added, “What California urgently needs and wants from its utilities right now is hard thinking about how to better protect communities from fire. And it’s hard to see that going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wall Street wants to see hard thinking, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Fleishman, senior utilities analyst and a managing director at Wolfe Research, said PG&E’s plan for dealing with fires in the future is unclear. “They clearly seem to be more at risk for that,” Fleishman said. “This kind of risk profile is not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s stock is down about 50 percent since the Camp Fire broke out on Nov. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer watchdog groups want any big move done with transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything PG&E wants to propose should be done in an open, public manner and include a comprehensive, coherent wildfire mitigation strategy,” says Mark Toney, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network (TURN)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is widespread anger in the state over PG&E’s shoddy safety record. Protests broke out at recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/11/29/pge-wildfire-mishaps-spark-fury-profanity-protests-and-a-puc-probe/\">public oversight meetings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/12/11/protesters-march-to-pge-headquarters-to-demand-accountability-over-camp-fire/\">at the company’s San Francisco headquarters\u003c/a>, where environmentalists and activists read the names of the more than 100 people who died in the combined Camp Fire and last year’s wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties. At one customer service center the company has \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/12/07/pg-e-installing-bullet-proof-glass-redding-payment-center/2233570002/\">installed new bulletproof glass\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>‘Serious Safety Problems’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late December, state regulators said they were considering several proposals in response to ongoing concerns about the utility’s role in a deadly gas explosion in 2010 and in the more recent wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E has had serious safety problems with both its gas and electric operations for many years,” the California Public Utilities Commission said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Possible changes put forth by the commission include splitting up the gas and electric divisions, and either making the company a public utility or making the company’s return on equity contingent on safety performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must be careful and practical,” the commission’s president, Michael Picker, said in a statement last month. “This process will be like repairing a jetliner while it’s in flight. Crashing a plane to make it safer isn’t good for the passengers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission declined further comment for this story. A spokesman said only that state regulators are looking at a range of options for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate development, the state’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pge-prosecution-charges-20181230-story.html\">a court filing \u003c/a>in late December that PG&E could face criminal charges up to murder if it’s found liable in any of the recent deadly California wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E was convicted of felony safety violations in a gas line explosion in 2010 in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, that killed eight people and destroyed a neighborhood. The federal judge overseeing the utility’s \u003ca href=\"https://calwatchdog.com/2018/12/03/pge-may-have-violated-its-criminal-probation-from-san-bruno-disaster/\">five-year criminal probation\u003c/a> in that case had asked Becerra’s opinion on whether PG&E’s possible role in the recent wildfires constitutes a probation violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11287629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters mop up hot spots near homes destroyed by the massive gas pipeline explosion and fire on Sept. 10, 2010 in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11287629\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters mop up hot spots near homes destroyed by the massive gas pipeline explosion and fire on Sept. 9, 2010 in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Stakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sale would have big implications for the company, which supplies electricity and gas to more than 5 million California households and has more than 20,000 employees. PG&E’s natural gas assets account for between 20 to 30 percent of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sources, who spoke to NPR and provided supporting documents, say the planning for Project Falcon began shortly after the 2017 wine country fires and picked up again in earnest this past June, when Cal Fire determined PG&E was responsible for at least a dozen of those fires. The planning, the sources say, has accelerated following November’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sources also said the company would like to present its own plan before one is imposed by regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only two states with a law known as “inverse condemnation,” which makes utilities liable for damages caused by utility equipment, even if the utility is not found negligent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Structuring the Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E shareholders and institutional investors may welcome a gas sale as a way to cover, at least in part, wildfire liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the gas sale plan, all gross proceeds from the sale would go into the wildfire fund with “no direct shareholder benefit from cash,” according to the PG&E source. But shareholders could get new shares in the company that purchases the gas arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators and lawmakers may argue that a deal should be structured to solely benefit wildfire victims, and that any deal should come with protections for ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be asking ourselves hard questions as a state as to whether a settlement in bankruptcy might be better than something we get through this gas sale,” warns Wara, the Stanford researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inside sources say the company is hoping to get between $10.7 and $15.5 billion for its gas assets. Given the company’s safety, liability and political challenges — including new allegations last month that the company violated safety regulations –\u003cstrong>– \u003c/strong>analysts say it’s not at all clear they would get that on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\">CPUC: Investigators Found PG&E Falsified Thousands of ‘Call Before You Dig’ Records\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-452938164-1180x782.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In mid-December, state regulators found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/677003961/pg-e-falsified-gas-pipeline-safety-records-regulators-say\">PG&E had systematically falsified safety documents and broke safety rules\u003c/a> related to its natural gas operations over a five-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, PG&E spokesman Matt Nauman said in an e-mailed statement to NPR that the company is “committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes on the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/04/09/398571726/pg-e-hit-with-1-6-billion-penalty-for-2010-calif-pipeline-explosion\">$1.6 billion fine \u003c/a>from regulators — the largest in state history — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/26/pge-gets-maximum-sentence-for-san-bruno-crimes/\">six felony \u003c/a>convictions following the 2010 San Bruno explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Miller, senior utilities equity strategist at Morningstar, is skeptical a potential gas sell-off would fly with regulators or Wall Street. He said he doesn’t think another utility would step forward to buy the gas assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may get a good price but it also carries with it a lot of regulatory and political risk,” Miller says. “There’s no good outcome for ratepayers under any scenario and not an ideal outcome for shareholders either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Project Falcon and the Camp Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s fiscal woes deepened in the wake of last month’s Camp Fire in Butte County, California, which killed at least 86 people and displaced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668380458/housing-crisis-concerns-grow-as-camp-fire-continues-to-burn\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> who continue to face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/01/672600324/weeks-after-containment-of-californias-deadly-camp-fire-survivors-wait-for-trail\">desperate housing crisis\u003c/a>. Paradise and neighboring towns were all but wiped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the state’s fire agency Cal Fire. PG&E has told state regulators it experienced problems \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181211006013/en/PGE-Publicly-Releases-Supplemental-Report-Electric-Incidents\">on two sections of its electric system\u003c/a> near where the Camp Fire erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711958/pge-details-damage-to-power-lines-in-area-where-camp-fire-began\">PG&E Details Damage to Power Lines in Area Where Camp Fire Began\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711958/pge-details-damage-to-power-lines-in-area-where-camp-fire-began\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33765_GettyImages-1059345734-qut-1180x806.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company faces nearly two dozen lawsuits from fire victims over its possible culpability for the Camp Fire, including allegations of possible equipment failures and poor maintenance. In one lawsuit, residents accuse the company of prioritizing advertising spending over fire and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s clear there are problems on both sides of the business,” says analyst Fleishman, referring to the gas and electric divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleishman says a gas sale and new management on the electric side might allow PG&E leaders to focus solely on improving safety. “I think the company is willing do anything structurally if they think it can help with safety,” Fleishman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts warn that the company risks running out of access to capital, not just because of present liability, but also because of the risk of future catastrophic fires, a specter sharpened by climate change and a century of fire suppression policy in the nation’s forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company in November said it had exhausted its revolving credit lines. And the ratings agencies, Moody’s Investor Service and S&P,\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-15/pg-e-credit-cut-to-brink-of-junk-by-moody-s-on-wildfire-risk\"> recently downgraded the company’s credit rating\u003c/a> to near “junk” status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Approval Process Will Be Complicated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal PG&E planning documents on the potential sale, labeled “privileged and confidential,” show company officials are concerned about regulatory approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CPUC approval process will be complicated and lengthy, so phasing the proceeding to obtain early decisions on matters that are crucial to the viability of the transaction is desirable,” one document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the gas sale would cover some liabilities, the Legislature also may be asked to step in. State lawmakers partially shielded the company for liability claims in 2017 with a bill that critics called a bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts and consumer advocates worry \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Bill-Could-Shield-Utilities-From-California-Wildfire-Costs-500997361.html\">lawmakers may expand that protection for this year\u003c/a> and beyond, putting taxpayers and ratepayers on the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately we’re going to be left holding the bag,” says Wara of Stanford University. “If PG&E can’t pay all of these costs, then it’s the California taxpayer that ultimately will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some lawmakers are already balking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bill Dodd, who originally supported shielding PG&E from liability costs related to fires in 2017, has now lost patience with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E has demonstrated a pattern of poor management and illegal conduct that has shattered lives across California,” Dodd said in an emailed statement. He called for “systemic change, which must include change on the board of directors and in the executive suite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Devastating+Wildfires+Force+California%27s+Largest+Utility+To+Plan+Sale+Of+Gas+Assets+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>acing staggering liability costs for its potential culpability in a series of deadly wildfires, the parent company of California’s largest utility is exploring whether to sell off a major part of the company, NPR has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internally, Pacific Gas & Electric has dubbed this strategy “Project Falcon.” Under the plan, the company would sell its natural gas division this spring. After years of deadly errors and safety violations, the utility giant is looking for ways to cover liability costs and avoid bankruptcy, a senior company official and a former employee with knowledge of the plan tell NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All net proceeds from the sale of PG&E’s gas division would be used to set up a fund to pay billions of dollars in potential claims from wildfires, the sources said. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is exploring selling key real estate assets, including its San Francisco headquarters, and moving its operations elsewhere in the Bay Area, the sources say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday the company announced it would be”reviewing structural options” to best position the company to meet customer and operational needs. In addition, PG&E said it is searching for new directors for its board to “augment its existing expertise in safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to make any senior leaders available to comment on Project Falcon. A written statement from spokesman Andy Castagnola said, “PG&E does not comment on market rumors or speculation. As a company, our priority continues to be the safety of our customers and the communities we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfire Damages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the state’s fire agency, Cal Fire, \u003ca href=\"http://calfire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/newsreleases/2018/2017_WildfireSiege_Cause.pdf\">determined that PG&E power equipment was responsible\u003c/a> for sparking at least a dozen major fires across Northern California in 2017. 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Crashing a plane to make it safer isn’t good for the passengers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission declined further comment for this story. A spokesman said only that state regulators are looking at a range of options for the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate development, the state’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Xavier Becerra, said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pge-prosecution-charges-20181230-story.html\">a court filing \u003c/a>in late December that PG&E could face criminal charges up to murder if it’s found liable in any of the recent deadly California wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E was convicted of felony safety violations in a gas line explosion in 2010 in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, that killed eight people and destroyed a neighborhood. The federal judge overseeing the utility’s \u003ca href=\"https://calwatchdog.com/2018/12/03/pge-may-have-violated-its-criminal-probation-from-san-bruno-disaster/\">five-year criminal probation\u003c/a> in that case had asked Becerra’s opinion on whether PG&E’s possible role in the recent wildfires constitutes a probation violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11287629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters mop up hot spots near homes destroyed by the massive gas pipeline explosion and fire on Sept. 10, 2010 in San Bruno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11287629\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/DestroyedHomes-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters mop up hot spots near homes destroyed by the massive gas pipeline explosion and fire on Sept. 9, 2010 in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Stakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sale would have big implications for the company, which supplies electricity and gas to more than 5 million California households and has more than 20,000 employees. PG&E’s natural gas assets account for between 20 to 30 percent of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company sources, who spoke to NPR and provided supporting documents, say the planning for Project Falcon began shortly after the 2017 wine country fires and picked up again in earnest this past June, when Cal Fire determined PG&E was responsible for at least a dozen of those fires. The planning, the sources say, has accelerated following November’s Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sources also said the company would like to present its own plan before one is imposed by regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only two states with a law known as “inverse condemnation,” which makes utilities liable for damages caused by utility equipment, even if the utility is not found negligent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Structuring the Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E shareholders and institutional investors may welcome a gas sale as a way to cover, at least in part, wildfire liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the gas sale plan, all gross proceeds from the sale would go into the wildfire fund with “no direct shareholder benefit from cash,” according to the PG&E source. But shareholders could get new shares in the company that purchases the gas arm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators and lawmakers may argue that a deal should be structured to solely benefit wildfire victims, and that any deal should come with protections for ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be asking ourselves hard questions as a state as to whether a settlement in bankruptcy might be better than something we get through this gas sale,” warns Wara, the Stanford researcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inside sources say the company is hoping to get between $10.7 and $15.5 billion for its gas assets. Given the company’s safety, liability and political challenges — including new allegations last month that the company violated safety regulations –\u003cstrong>– \u003c/strong>analysts say it’s not at all clear they would get that on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\">CPUC: Investigators Found PG&E Falsified Thousands of ‘Call Before You Dig’ Records\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712721/cpuc-investigators-found-pge-falsified-thousands-of-call-before-you-dig-records\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-452938164-1180x782.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In mid-December, state regulators found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/677003961/pg-e-falsified-gas-pipeline-safety-records-regulators-say\">PG&E had systematically falsified safety documents and broke safety rules\u003c/a> related to its natural gas operations over a five-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, PG&E spokesman Matt Nauman said in an e-mailed statement to NPR that the company is “committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes on the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/04/09/398571726/pg-e-hit-with-1-6-billion-penalty-for-2010-calif-pipeline-explosion\">$1.6 billion fine \u003c/a>from regulators — the largest in state history — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/26/pge-gets-maximum-sentence-for-san-bruno-crimes/\">six felony \u003c/a>convictions following the 2010 San Bruno explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis Miller, senior utilities equity strategist at Morningstar, is skeptical a potential gas sell-off would fly with regulators or Wall Street. He said he doesn’t think another utility would step forward to buy the gas assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may get a good price but it also carries with it a lot of regulatory and political risk,” Miller says. “There’s no good outcome for ratepayers under any scenario and not an ideal outcome for shareholders either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Project Falcon and the Camp Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s fiscal woes deepened in the wake of last month’s Camp Fire in Butte County, California, which killed at least 86 people and displaced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668380458/housing-crisis-concerns-grow-as-camp-fire-continues-to-burn\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> who continue to face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/01/672600324/weeks-after-containment-of-californias-deadly-camp-fire-survivors-wait-for-trail\">desperate housing crisis\u003c/a>. Paradise and neighboring towns were all but wiped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the state’s fire agency Cal Fire. PG&E has told state regulators it experienced problems \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181211006013/en/PGE-Publicly-Releases-Supplemental-Report-Electric-Incidents\">on two sections of its electric system\u003c/a> near where the Camp Fire erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711958/pge-details-damage-to-power-lines-in-area-where-camp-fire-began\">PG&E Details Damage to Power Lines in Area Where Camp Fire Began\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711958/pge-details-damage-to-power-lines-in-area-where-camp-fire-began\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33765_GettyImages-1059345734-qut-1180x806.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company faces nearly two dozen lawsuits from fire victims over its possible culpability for the Camp Fire, including allegations of possible equipment failures and poor maintenance. In one lawsuit, residents accuse the company of prioritizing advertising spending over fire and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s clear there are problems on both sides of the business,” says analyst Fleishman, referring to the gas and electric divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleishman says a gas sale and new management on the electric side might allow PG&E leaders to focus solely on improving safety. “I think the company is willing do anything structurally if they think it can help with safety,” Fleishman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts warn that the company risks running out of access to capital, not just because of present liability, but also because of the risk of future catastrophic fires, a specter sharpened by climate change and a century of fire suppression policy in the nation’s forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company in November said it had exhausted its revolving credit lines. And the ratings agencies, Moody’s Investor Service and S&P,\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-15/pg-e-credit-cut-to-brink-of-junk-by-moody-s-on-wildfire-risk\"> recently downgraded the company’s credit rating\u003c/a> to near “junk” status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Approval Process Will Be Complicated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal PG&E planning documents on the potential sale, labeled “privileged and confidential,” show company officials are concerned about regulatory approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CPUC approval process will be complicated and lengthy, so phasing the proceeding to obtain early decisions on matters that are crucial to the viability of the transaction is desirable,” one document reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the gas sale would cover some liabilities, the Legislature also may be asked to step in. State lawmakers partially shielded the company for liability claims in 2017 with a bill that critics called a bailout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts and consumer advocates worry \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Bill-Could-Shield-Utilities-From-California-Wildfire-Costs-500997361.html\">lawmakers may expand that protection for this year\u003c/a> and beyond, putting taxpayers and ratepayers on the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately we’re going to be left holding the bag,” says Wara of Stanford University. “If PG&E can’t pay all of these costs, then it’s the California taxpayer that ultimately will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some lawmakers are already balking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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But the rangers who ordinarily patrol the park have been sent packing by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680506057/trump-leading-democrats-fault-each-other-as-partial-shutdown-heads-into-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the spending standoff in Washington\u003c/a> that has forced the shutdown of about a quarter of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The visitors centers are closed,\" said John Lauretig, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofjosh.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a>. \"All the bathrooms are still open, but they're not being maintained right now by the Park Service. So the local community has rallied together and started cleaning the bathrooms and restocking the toilet paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the partial government shutdown enters its second weekend with no sign of compromise on the horizon, Lauretig and others are digging in for what could be a long-term project. \"As the dumpsters fill up and the pit toilets fill up, what kinds of solutions can we make to solve those problems?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers in Washington have offered little hope of a quick compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell you when the government's going to be open,\" President Trump told reporters this week. He's insisting that Congress provide $5 billion for his proposed border wall. Democrats, who are set to take control of the House next week, have refused. The stalemate has left nine major government departments — including Homeland Security, Interior and State — without spending authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the effects of the partial shutdown have been little more than an inconvenience to some and invisible to many. Some 400,000 critical federal employees have stayed on the job. And while they're not being paid at the moment, that impact won't really show up until their next paychecks, which are due Jan. 11. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/update-smithsonian-statement-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680596210/smithsonian-and-national-zoo-to-close-after-new-years-day-in-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shutter their doors Jan. 2.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamps program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and the school lunch program are funded through January but could take a hit if the shutdown continues beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House economist Kevin Hassett predicted the shutdown would not do lasting damage to the U.S. economy. But he admitted it could cause a blip in the unemployment rate if hundreds of thousands of federal workers are still idle in a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be more of a temporary thing,\" Hassett said. \"It's not something that we expect is really material for the outlook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ap_18361782049005shutdown_wide-841697d7c63826a2ed1eb9b34f12492d20d73d06-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"People skate on the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, as a partial government shutdown continues in Washington. 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FEMA also rattled the housing market when it said it would stop selling flood insurance during the shutdown — a move that could have jeopardized some 40,000 home sales in flood-prone areas each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they can't get the flood insurance, they can't get the mortgage,\" said Allan Dechert, who heads the insurance committee for the National Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/12/28/fema-resumes-selling-flood-insurance-policies-during-appropriations-lapse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA backtracked late Friday\u003c/a> and said it would resume selling flood insurance during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Joshua Tree National Park for now, volunteers will keep scrubbing toilets. But devotees say that's no substitute for the park rangers who ordinarily keep an eye on the Native American rock art and other history dotting the desert landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are rare and unique artifacts up there that need to be protected by a fully-staffed National Park Service staff,\" Lauretig said. \"My concern is right now those one-of-a-kind kind of things in the park are unprotected, unfortunately.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/update-smithsonian-statement-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680596210/smithsonian-and-national-zoo-to-close-after-new-years-day-in-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shutter their doors Jan. 2.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamps program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and the school lunch program are funded through January but could take a hit if the shutdown continues beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House economist Kevin Hassett predicted the shutdown would not do lasting damage to the U.S. economy. 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But devotees say that's no substitute for the park rangers who ordinarily keep an eye on the Native American rock art and other history dotting the desert landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are rare and unique artifacts up there that need to be protected by a fully-staffed National Park Service staff,\" Lauretig said. \"My concern is right now those one-of-a-kind kind of things in the park are unprotected, unfortunately.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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