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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gish says Harley-Davidson, along with other major motorcycle manufacturers, is behind the curve when it comes to electric vehicle technology, so this is a smart move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gish says there’s just one problem that Harley has in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve developed the hell out of their brand,” says Gish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s usually a good thing, but Gish says their brand appeals to an older crowd. So some people might think of older gentlemen in leather chaps, or “Sons of Anarchy,” the television show about the outlaw Harley motorcycle gang. 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It’s just twist and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Alta’s bikes are high-powered. In 2016, one of its electric motorcycles beat out its gas-powered counterparts in a supercross race. It was a first in the electric motorcycle world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question still lingers: What do Harley’s tried-and-true base think about electric hogs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be great for commuters. It would be great for people who have never ridden a motorcycle before,” says Bustindy. “But I don’t think I would ever own one because I like to tour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motorcycle touring, or going on long rides, is not something electric motorcycles can do because they run out of charge quicker than traditional engines run out of gas. At least for now. 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The company has announced it plans to launch a fleet of green electric motorcycles, separately from Alta, next year.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It provides stability, and just a good brotherhood,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between fire seasons, he travels the country providing training through a program with the Bureau of Land Management and Team Rubicon, a nonprofit veteran service organization that responds to natural disasters worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"The Team Rubicon and Bureau of Land Management rookie class settles in for wildland firefighting 101. 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Successful graduates will get their 'red card' certification to respond to wildfires and be paid as a firefighter. \u003ccite>(Libby Denkmann/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With firefighting, veterans “have a group of people that they’re with all the time, similar to a platoon or a battalion,\" Decker said. “We deploy together. 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And when you’re working in forestry, especially in fire, that’s what you get.’\u003ccite>Jason Boeshore, veterans program coordinator, Conservation Legacy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell first announced the Team Rubicon-BLM partnership in 2015. Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stressed the growing threat of catastrophic wildfires due to climate change and drought, and the need for federal agencies to strengthen the available workforce required to safely contain increasingly ferocious wildland fires in Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, Team Rubicon and BLM have trained more than 900 firefighters. This year the program is significantly expanding: It’s on course to reach a total of nearly 2,000 trained wildland firefighters by the end of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say military veterans are a logical resource for fire agencies because they’re accustomed to the physical challenges of working long hours on tough terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unique firefighting, because it’s not the same as fighting a structure fire,” Asselin said. “This is a much bigger area. 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Boeshore said most of the veterans spend two six-month seasons with the corps, then move on to join a fire crew somewhere else in the country. The priority is employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Fighting fires exercises all those things that you really got used to in the military that you lost when you come out into civilian life.’\u003ccite>Michael Lloyd, National Wildland Firefighter program manager for Team Rubicon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We have so many veterans out there that just need meaningful careers,\" Boeshore said, adding the Veterans Fire Corps is also growing this year. “I have a lot of guys coming into this program that are jobless and homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans experience a lot of the things they miss from military life within the structure of firefighting crews, Boeshore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans need camaraderie. They need to be part of a team. And when you’re working in forestry, especially in fire, that’s what you get,” he said. “There’s a chain of command. There’s a hierarchy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decker’s brother hooked him up with a fire crew in Wyoming, and it stuck. He now has 16 years of wildfire response under his belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a really good route to go. It provides stability, and just a good brotherhood,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between fire seasons, he travels the country providing training through a program with the Bureau of Land Management and Team Rubicon, a nonprofit veteran service organization that responds to natural disasters worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"The Team Rubicon and Bureau of Land Management rookie class settles in for wildland firefighting 101. Successful graduates will get their 'red card' certification to respond to wildfires and be paid as a firefighter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-800x471.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-960x565.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass-520x306.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RookieClass.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Team Rubicon and Bureau of Land Management rookie class settles in for wildland firefighting 101. Successful graduates will get their 'red card' certification to respond to wildfires and be paid as a firefighter. \u003ccite>(Libby Denkmann/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With firefighting, veterans “have a group of people that they’re with all the time, similar to a platoon or a battalion,\" Decker said. “We deploy together. Military service translates really well into work on a fire line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans who complete the Team Rubicon-BLM course earn their Wildland Firefighter Type II certification, allowing them to mobilize to assist federal agencies in responding to fire and to be paid as firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire agencies are looking to recruit more veterans like Decker, said John Asselin, spokesman with the BLM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we’re getting fires that are lasting longer into the year past the season, like the fires that were out here in December,” Asselin said. “So it’s really important that we have a pool of trained wildland firefighters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Veterans need camaraderie. They need to be part of a team. And when you’re working in forestry, especially in fire, that’s what you get.’\u003ccite>Jason Boeshore, veterans program coordinator, Conservation Legacy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell first announced the Team Rubicon-BLM partnership in 2015. Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stressed the growing threat of catastrophic wildfires due to climate change and drought, and the need for federal agencies to strengthen the available workforce required to safely contain increasingly ferocious wildland fires in Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, Team Rubicon and BLM have trained more than 900 firefighters. This year the program is significantly expanding: It’s on course to reach a total of nearly 2,000 trained wildland firefighters by the end of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say military veterans are a logical resource for fire agencies because they’re accustomed to the physical challenges of working long hours on tough terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unique firefighting, because it’s not the same as fighting a structure fire,” Asselin said. “This is a much bigger area. 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Boeshore said most of the veterans spend two six-month seasons with the corps, then move on to join a fire crew somewhere else in the country. The priority is employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Fighting fires exercises all those things that you really got used to in the military that you lost when you come out into civilian life.’\u003ccite>Michael Lloyd, National Wildland Firefighter program manager for Team Rubicon\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We have so many veterans out there that just need meaningful careers,\" Boeshore said, adding the Veterans Fire Corps is also growing this year. “I have a lot of guys coming into this program that are jobless and homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans experience a lot of the things they miss from military life within the structure of firefighting crews, Boeshore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans need camaraderie. They need to be part of a team. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/25/old-bay-bridge-piers-to-be-reused-as-public-boardwalk-vista-points/\">in January\u003c/a>, an important but rather obscure committee of state and regional transportation officials approved a Caltrans plan to turn four of the support piers from the Bay Bridge’s old eastern span into a pair of public parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/tbpoc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a> imposed one rather important condition on its approval: The budget for the project, which involves some demolition along with the anticipated construction, was limited to $52 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, along with officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and agencies on both sides of the bay, see the massive relics of the now-vanished span as a once-in-a-century opportunity to give the public access to areas just offshore of Oakland and Yerba Buena Island. The new parks would be great vantage points for taking in the workings of the Port of Oakland, for instance, and marveling at the $6.5 billion splendor of the new eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday in San Francisco, Caltrans' chief bridge engineer Brian Maroney reported to the three-member oversight committee that the agency is ready to proceed with a slightly scaled-back version of the agency's original vision for the waterfront parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To manage all the work in the project for $52 million -- to implode two of the half-dozen remaining piers, build a 600-foot walkway over the bay on three of the remaining piers near the Oakland shore and construct a massive viewing platform on a pier adjacent to Yerba Buena Island -- Maroney said a team of architects, engineers and contractors had to revise some of their more ambitious plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After we went out and got bids, we were closer to 60 (million dollars) than we were to 52,\" Maroney told the panel. \"About two weeks ago, we had one of those 'come to Jesus' meetings, where everybody got together, and it was really tough. ... I made it clear I wasn't coming back here and asking for any more money.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get under the budget and include a 10 percent contingency -- a cushion for unforeseen expenses -- Maroney said the team identified eliminated some details of the original plan. For instance, a large parking lot and paved walkway leading to the Yerba Buena Island viewing platform was removed from the project and replaced by a simple crushed-gravel walkway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although electrical connections will be provided for both the Oakland and Yerba Buena parks, no lighting will be installed. That's in part because the agencies that will manage the sites -- the East Bay Regional Park District and the Treasure Island Development Authority -- don't want them to be open at night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We identified items that if taken out, somebody in the future could put back in if they wanted,\" Maroney said. \"That was painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-160x82.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1020x521.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1920x982.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1180x603.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-960x491.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-240x123.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-375x192.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-520x266.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Caltrans rendering of the view from the existing Bay Bridge bike path to a planned park and recreational pier on the Oakland shoreline. \u003ccite>(Caltrans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maroney also said the general contractor on the job, Kiewit/Manson, had agreed to forego $2 million in their normal overhead and markup charges. \"They took a bite of the sandwich, too,\" Maroney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney added that Caltrans feels it's essential to start moving on the project immediately. The price of steel needed for the project has been changing rapidly because of the Trump administration's threats of tariffs against Chinese steel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Caltrans contractor told the agency last week that \"when they were getting quotes, they were literally getting quotes that only lasted for one hour.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More important, Maroney said the project has not yet obtained environmental approvals from the host of federal and state agencies, including the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, that will need to sign off. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not have any permits to build this work,\" Maroney told the committee, adding that delays in approvals could threaten the Caltrans timeline to finish its in-water construction work by the end of the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he was encouraged by recent meetings the agencies that permits could be expedited \"and we are asking, respectfully, to do things a little faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee unanimously granted Caltrans permission to sign contracts to proceed. If the agency's timeline holds up, the new shoreline park facilities could open to the public in about a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Oakland shoreline, the new recreational pier would tie into a new shoreline park planned by the East Bay park district. Development of that site, on land immediately south of the Bay Bridge that was once part of the Oakland Army Base, is being held up by the need to clean up contaminants on the property.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's a blustery day in the border town of Mexicali in Baja California, Mexico, and five men are huddled inside a makeshift encampment covered with protest signs outside the city's government offices. The intense wind makes the tarps serving as walls flap loudly, like Batman's cape as he propels down a building. And just like Batman, they say they're there for justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesus Galaz Duarte, Mauricio Villa, Alberto Salcido, Francisco Javier Trujillo and Jorge Benitez all form part of Mexicali Resiste, an activist group fighting the opening of a new brewery by the Fortune 500 company Constellation Brands. Constellation makes wines, spirits and beer, including Corona, Modelo and Pacifico, as well as beers from craft brewer Ballast Point. The company has set up offices in the city, and is working with the local government to build a $1.5 billion brewery that will use local water to make beer for American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brewery is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbrands.com/news/articles/constellation-brands-to-build-new-10-million-hectoliter-brewery-in-mexicali-mexico-and-further-expand-its-nava-brewery-to-fuel-the-continued-industry-leading-growth-of-its-beer-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slated to open in about five years\u003c/a>, and plans to invest another $500 million for infrastructure, land and water rights to double production over time. It will initially make 10 million hectoliters of beer (roughly 264 million gallons), according to the company press release. Constellation Brands says it will use 3.5 liters of water from local wells to produce one liter of beer, amounting to 1.8 billion gallons of water a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a drop of the beer would go to the Mexican market, Constellation Brands says the brewery will create 750 permanent jobs in Mexicali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But members of Mexicali Resiste say the negative impacts far outweigh the possible benefits and are hoping to stop Goliath in his tracks. They've set up encampments, held marches and led protests that have in some cases erupted in violence. Videos showing members \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ajplusespanol/videos/1770264503025891/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">throwing rocks and being bloodied by police batons \u003c/a>have gone viral. Members also claim to have been harassed and threatened, beaten and had their offices burglarized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a model of exploitation and capitalism where they basically come for the natural resources to exploit them and take them away to wherever the market is,\" says Galaz Duarte. \"When the market grows and has to satisfy consumers, they're going to deplete the water here. So what's going to happen? They're going to go to another place where there's more water to satisfy the same market and deplete their water. They're going to leave this region without the resources to live a dignified life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A strained water system\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is a precious commodity, especially in Mexicali and many neighboring cities where it isn't uncommon to wake up in the morning to find there's no running water. About four hours southeast of Los Angeles, Mexicali's temperatures are the highest in all of Mexico, reaching up to 125 degrees. Local agriculture heavily relies on municipal water sources and the Colorado River, as there's virtually no rainfall throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300,000 people in Baja California live without regular access to water, and nearly 6 percent of households lack running water. Tijuana and Mexicali are hit hardest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/288978/Baja_California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico's government reports.\u003c/a> However, the count includes only water for bathing, washing, gardening, etc. Mexico's tap water is unsafe to drink, so drinking water has to be purchased from outside companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Water Commission (Conagua) has reported that 37.5 percent of Mexico's aquifers are overexploited, with Mexicali's suffering most. This has led local farmers to stop producing on large sections of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists, local farmers and many others are demanding answers as to why, with such a scarcity of water, the government is giving Constellation Brands millions of gallons of it to make beer for American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The situation with Constellation Brands is born out of a circuit of corruption,\" says Salcido. \"All that corruption was seen reflected with the welcoming of a beer company from the United States that has demonstrated will be a straw that is going to consume millions of liters of water, knowing that water is needed by farmers and, more than anything, the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Standards and influence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Burgos, brewery director at Constellation Brands' Mexicali offices, assures there are no laws being broken or ethics being violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A company like Constellation Brands is managed with international standards in terms of high ethics and values,\" he says. \"Constellation Brands has been in the U.S. for more than 70 years, and for a company to have that kind of permanence, it has to be managed with high national and international standards of ethics and values, and the care of the environment and natural resources. It's implicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists point out the cozy relationship Constellation has with the government. The legal representative for Constellation Brands, Sergio Eduardo Montes Montoya, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/multinacional-cervecera-quiere-desierto-mexicano_0_710779434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also works in the mayor's office as the director of Urban Administration\u003c/a>. Senator Victor Hermosillo Celada's company, Hermosillo and Associates, is \u003ca href=\"http://hermosillo.com/projects/constellation-brands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading the construction of the multibillion-dollar brewery\u003c/a> and speaks openly about his political and business dealings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constellation Brands denies the suggestion of corruption. It issued a statement in response to NPR's questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No government officials or authorities in office have been hired by Constellation Brands. We continue to work with local authorities to ensure all aspects of our brewery construction project are in full compliance with all applicable rules, regulations and laws. This has been validated by Mexico's Ministry of the Interior,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Mexican government contacted about the same allegations have yet to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constellation Brands already operates one of the largest breweries in the world out of the city of Nava in Coahuila, which opened in 2010. The company is in the process of expanding it. Constellation also operates a brewery in the city of Sonora in Obregon, which it also plans to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Burgos explains, the company chose Mexicali for its third Mexican brewery because of its proximity to the border and intended market. The city also offers a glass bottle plant, a cardboard plant and potential for an aluminum can plant, all of which represent 70 percent of Constellation Brands' supply costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgos says the brewery will use water that is designated for agriculture but isn't being used by farmers, so it's not taking any extra from the city's water sources. \"The water isn't going to run out,\" he says. \"We come with the directive to take care of the natural resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A pattern of privatization\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist Galaz Duarte says the brewery's influence is part of a larger problem. He worries that a lack of transparency and public involvement may lead to the privatization of water that will benefit big corporations, including Constellation Brands, the government and politicians at the expense of the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Baja California governor Francisco \"Kiko\" Vega introduced a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebajapost.com/2017/01/04/social-rejection-against-baja-california-water-law-grows-stronger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ley del Agua (Waters Law) Bill\u003c/a> that would allow private entities to access the state's treated water and build services around it. But it was recently rescinded after \u003ca href=\"https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/baja-governor-bows-to-huge-water-law-protest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass protests\u003c/a>. Projects like the Constellation Brands brewery raise questions about continued efforts to privatize water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Basically this government has based its business model around selling the public's water,\" says Galaz Duarte. \"In this model, anything can be bought. Everything has a price.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Zaragoza is a freelance culture writer based in Los Angeles. She was raised on the U.S.-Mexico border. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/there_she_goz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@there_she_goz\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Local agriculture heavily relies on municipal water sources and the Colorado River, as there's virtually no rainfall throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300,000 people in Baja California live without regular access to water, and nearly 6 percent of households lack running water. Tijuana and Mexicali are hit hardest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/288978/Baja_California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico's government reports.\u003c/a> However, the count includes only water for bathing, washing, gardening, etc. Mexico's tap water is unsafe to drink, so drinking water has to be purchased from outside companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Water Commission (Conagua) has reported that 37.5 percent of Mexico's aquifers are overexploited, with Mexicali's suffering most. This has led local farmers to stop producing on large sections of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists, local farmers and many others are demanding answers as to why, with such a scarcity of water, the government is giving Constellation Brands millions of gallons of it to make beer for American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The situation with Constellation Brands is born out of a circuit of corruption,\" says Salcido. \"All that corruption was seen reflected with the welcoming of a beer company from the United States that has demonstrated will be a straw that is going to consume millions of liters of water, knowing that water is needed by farmers and, more than anything, the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Standards and influence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Burgos, brewery director at Constellation Brands' Mexicali offices, assures there are no laws being broken or ethics being violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A company like Constellation Brands is managed with international standards in terms of high ethics and values,\" he says. \"Constellation Brands has been in the U.S. for more than 70 years, and for a company to have that kind of permanence, it has to be managed with high national and international standards of ethics and values, and the care of the environment and natural resources. It's implicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But activists point out the cozy relationship Constellation has with the government. The legal representative for Constellation Brands, Sergio Eduardo Montes Montoya, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/multinacional-cervecera-quiere-desierto-mexicano_0_710779434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also works in the mayor's office as the director of Urban Administration\u003c/a>. Senator Victor Hermosillo Celada's company, Hermosillo and Associates, is \u003ca href=\"http://hermosillo.com/projects/constellation-brands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading the construction of the multibillion-dollar brewery\u003c/a> and speaks openly about his political and business dealings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constellation Brands denies the suggestion of corruption. It issued a statement in response to NPR's questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No government officials or authorities in office have been hired by Constellation Brands. We continue to work with local authorities to ensure all aspects of our brewery construction project are in full compliance with all applicable rules, regulations and laws. This has been validated by Mexico's Ministry of the Interior,\" it says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Mexican government contacted about the same allegations have yet to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constellation Brands already operates one of the largest breweries in the world out of the city of Nava in Coahuila, which opened in 2010. The company is in the process of expanding it. Constellation also operates a brewery in the city of Sonora in Obregon, which it also plans to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Burgos explains, the company chose Mexicali for its third Mexican brewery because of its proximity to the border and intended market. The city also offers a glass bottle plant, a cardboard plant and potential for an aluminum can plant, all of which represent 70 percent of Constellation Brands' supply costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgos says the brewery will use water that is designated for agriculture but isn't being used by farmers, so it's not taking any extra from the city's water sources. \"The water isn't going to run out,\" he says. \"We come with the directive to take care of the natural resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A pattern of privatization\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activist Galaz Duarte says the brewery's influence is part of a larger problem. 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That raises an expensive and emotional question: Who should pay for wildfire damages if the power companies are liable, their stockholders or their customers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities are big political donors and have a lot of sway in a Capitol dominated by Democrats. The three companies have given at least $12.5 million to California political campaigns since 2013, including more than $2.5 million to the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also play a significant role in realizing California’s ambitious climate-change goals by developing clean energy infrastructure, so environmental progress could be at stake if they go bust. 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He says the utilities are trying to cast the problem as fallout from climate change so they can put the costs on customers instead of cutting into their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to change the current liability rules has not yet been introduced, but the issue is one of several wildfire-related bills that will likely dominate the Capitol in the coming months. Gov. Brown and lawmakers also pledged to tackle problems with the emergency response system, availability of insurance for homeowners in risky areas and forest-management practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The northern California wildfires came about from an extraordinary confluence of events. It’s too early to make any assumptions about liability,” PG&E spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo said by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that if the company is found liable under the “inverse condemnation” law, it would argue that costs should be “shared by all customers.” Paulo did not have an estimate on how much that might raise customers’ electricity bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene Mitchell, vice president of San Diego Gas & Electric, said the utilities have asked state leaders to change the liability rules because wildfires and other natural disasters that come with a warming planet are creating a “new normal” for their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t about our stock prices. 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Stock prices \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edison-stock-fires-20171207-story.html\">dropped\u003c/a> for Southern California Edison after the December wildfires in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/16/pge-shares-crash-while-puc-scrutinizes-utilitys-responsibility-for-wildfires/\">as they did\u003c/a> for PG&E following the autumn blazes in Napa and Sonoma counties. Credit agencies have been lowering PG&E’s bond ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the power companies’ lobbyists have been pounding the hallways of the state Capitol, asking legislators to change the “inverse condemnation” law. They argue that it shouldn’t apply to them—or if it does, they should be allowed to raise rates to cover their costs. That raises an expensive and emotional question: Who should pay for wildfire damages if the power companies are liable, their stockholders or their customers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities are big political donors and have a lot of sway in a Capitol dominated by Democrats. The three companies have given at least $12.5 million to California political campaigns since 2013, including more than $2.5 million to the state Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also play a significant role in realizing California’s ambitious climate-change goals by developing clean energy infrastructure, so environmental progress could be at stake if they go bust. On the other hand, Californians—who already \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/\">pay 50 percent more\u003c/a> for electricity than residents in the rest of the country—would see their bills jump even higher if the power companies are allowed to pass the liability costs on to their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the utilities get the governor and the Legislature to change the liability rules, then what stake will they have in the game? There’s no reason for them to use best practices, to act responsibly, because they’re going to get bailed out,” said state Sen. 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He says the utilities are trying to cast the problem as fallout from climate change so they can put the costs on customers instead of cutting into their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to change the current liability rules has not yet been introduced, but the issue is one of several wildfire-related bills that will likely dominate the Capitol in the coming months. Gov. Brown and lawmakers also pledged to tackle problems with the emergency response system, availability of insurance for homeowners in risky areas and forest-management practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The northern California wildfires came about from an extraordinary confluence of events. It’s too early to make any assumptions about liability,” PG&E spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo said by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that if the company is found liable under the “inverse condemnation” law, it would argue that costs should be “shared by all customers.” Paulo did not have an estimate on how much that might raise customers’ electricity bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene Mitchell, vice president of San Diego Gas & Electric, said the utilities have asked state leaders to change the liability rules because wildfires and other natural disasters that come with a warming planet are creating a “new normal” for their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t about our stock prices. 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"content": "\u003cp>Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaveMarinwood/status/976536870237556736\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek villain\u003c/a>. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-lawmaker-threatens-sue-state-transportation-development-bill-sb-827-passes/\" target=\"_blank\">thunderous applause\u003c/a>.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to receive a single vote — and faces tough odds of passing the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827\" target=\"_blank\">SB 827\u003c/a>, sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, tries to force cities to build more dense housing around public transit hubs. The bill has received a remarkable level of media attention both within California and nationally, providing fodder for think pieces from Slate, Vox, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg and The New York Times — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/business/energy-environment/climate-density.html\" target=\"_blank\">called\u003c/a> it a “bold, divisive plan to wean Californians from cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attention has only amplified a loud and acrimonious debate over how the bill would transform California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents see the bill as a radical and necessary step for the state to solve its endemic housing shortage and meet its ambitious climate change goals. Opponents see it as a blunt overreach of state power that would destroy the character of local communities while displacing long-established residents so developers could build more luxury condo towers for rich people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four things you should know about California’s most controversial housing bill in decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This isn’t hype. If it becomes law, the bill could revolutionize California cities.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As currently written, SB 827 would essentially exempt all new housing built within half a mile of a train stop or quarter mile of a frequent bus stop from most local zoning rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if a city had zoned an area for single-family homes, developers could invoke the bill to build multifamily apartment buildings between four and eight stories high. It would also free those projects from parking requirements and other zoning rules frequently abused by cities to impede new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-800x1031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1031\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-160x206.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-240x309.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-375x483.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-520x670.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much area in major California cities would fall under the bill? That’s what makes this so radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/SB%20827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary analysis\u003c/a> by the San Francisco Planning Department shows that basically all — yes, all — of San Francisco and huge swaths of Los Angeles would lose their local zoning regulations. Ninety percent of San Francisco’s residential parcels would have a higher height limit for new development under the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more rigorous analysis of just how much developers would take advantage of the bill, and how it would apply to smaller California cities, has not yet been conducted. But the potential is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, urbanists across the state have longed for the type of density SB 827 would bring. Despite major pushback from some quarters of his home city that San Francisco would become unrecognizable should the bill become law, Wiener has stressed that such density is good for cities like San Francisco, and the most effective way to combat the region’s astronomical housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many environmentalists love this bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of SB 827 say it has two primary goals: 1) to increase the supply of housing and thereby lower housing prices, and 2) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd11.senate.ca.gov/files/urban_planning_professor_support_for_sb_827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Urban planning academics\u003c/a> and climate change activists argue the state can only meet its climate change goals — a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by the year 2030 — if it succeeds in getting people out of their cars and onto public transportation closer to where they work. Alternative energy sources and cleaner-burning power plants can only go so far: The leading cause of emissions nationally is the tailpipe. Building tons of housing in major job centers close to good transit seems like a sensible and necessary solution, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at least one prominent environmental group with a tradition of opposing new development has balked at the measure. Angering many climate change activists, California’s Sierra Club has argued the bill would only create more local hostility to future transportation projects and would displace low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-gentrification groups argue that communities whose residents have lower incomes are much more likely to ride a bus or take a subway to work than commuters who earn more money. If lower-income residents are exiled to the suburbs as a consequence of the bill, its success at cutting carbon emissions will be muted at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anti-gentrification and tenants’ rights groups? Not so much\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates for lower-income renters and urban communities of color have greeted SB 827 with a mixture of skepticism and hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of prominent Los Angeles anti-gentrification and civil rights groups signed onto a \u003ca href=\"http://allianceforcommunitytransit.org/l-a-community-organizations-oppose-sb-827/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> opposing the bill last month on the grounds that it lacked sufficient protections for renters whose apartments could be demolished to make way for newer, bigger, market-rate projects. They also expressed the broader fear that “opening the floodgates” around transit corridors would mean rents around shiny new developments would rise out of reach of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has addressed some of those concerns by amending the bill to include fairly strict renter protections. Developers who wish to demolish a renter-occupied unit would have to pay for the moving and living expenses of tenants for more than three years, and renters would have the right to move back into the new development at their old rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11657647 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the changes have yet to attract broad support from major housing equity groups, who fear the larger gentrification pressures possibly unleashed from the bill. It also didn’t help that backers of SB 827 waited until after the bill’s announcement to try to court those groups’ endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bill faces a very tough road in the Legislature — a road that goes through Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bills that override local zoning control are rarely popular in the California Legislature. Homeowners in many regions of the state are, by and large, not thrilled with the idea of new apartment complexes going up next door over their objections. Homeowners are also more likely to vote than renters — a fact state legislators are acutely aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are stealth power players in Sacramento, and are also not fans of having their zoning power stripped away. Up and down the state, mayors, city council members and county supervisors have come out against the bill, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers passed a handful of laws that encroached on the traditional zoning power of cities. But that housing package took a herculean effort to enact after years of failure, and importantly included new funding sources for subsidized housing, as well as tenants’ protections that attracted support from a wide coalition of housing groups. And the zoning process changes brought by those laws pale in comparison to what SB 827 could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere has opposition to state interference in local planning decisions been as fierce as in Marin County, an affluent northern suburb in the Bay Area. If the bill is to receive a full vote of the Legislature, it will first have to clear a committee controlled by Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who represents Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire could prevent the bill from moving past his desk and receiving a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaveMarinwood/status/976536870237556736\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek villain\u003c/a>. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-lawmaker-threatens-sue-state-transportation-development-bill-sb-827-passes/\" target=\"_blank\">thunderous applause\u003c/a>.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to receive a single vote — and faces tough odds of passing the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827\" target=\"_blank\">SB 827\u003c/a>, sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, tries to force cities to build more dense housing around public transit hubs. The bill has received a remarkable level of media attention both within California and nationally, providing fodder for think pieces from Slate, Vox, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg and The New York Times — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/business/energy-environment/climate-density.html\" target=\"_blank\">called\u003c/a> it a “bold, divisive plan to wean Californians from cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attention has only amplified a loud and acrimonious debate over how the bill would transform California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents see the bill as a radical and necessary step for the state to solve its endemic housing shortage and meet its ambitious climate change goals. Opponents see it as a blunt overreach of state power that would destroy the character of local communities while displacing long-established residents so developers could build more luxury condo towers for rich people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four things you should know about California’s most controversial housing bill in decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This isn’t hype. If it becomes law, the bill could revolutionize California cities.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As currently written, SB 827 would essentially exempt all new housing built within half a mile of a train stop or quarter mile of a frequent bus stop from most local zoning rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if a city had zoned an area for single-family homes, developers could invoke the bill to build multifamily apartment buildings between four and eight stories high. It would also free those projects from parking requirements and other zoning rules frequently abused by cities to impede new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-800x1031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1031\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-160x206.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-240x309.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-375x483.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-520x670.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much area in major California cities would fall under the bill? That’s what makes this so radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/SB%20827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary analysis\u003c/a> by the San Francisco Planning Department shows that basically all — yes, all — of San Francisco and huge swaths of Los Angeles would lose their local zoning regulations. Ninety percent of San Francisco’s residential parcels would have a higher height limit for new development under the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more rigorous analysis of just how much developers would take advantage of the bill, and how it would apply to smaller California cities, has not yet been conducted. But the potential is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, urbanists across the state have longed for the type of density SB 827 would bring. Despite major pushback from some quarters of his home city that San Francisco would become unrecognizable should the bill become law, Wiener has stressed that such density is good for cities like San Francisco, and the most effective way to combat the region’s astronomical housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many environmentalists love this bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of SB 827 say it has two primary goals: 1) to increase the supply of housing and thereby lower housing prices, and 2) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd11.senate.ca.gov/files/urban_planning_professor_support_for_sb_827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Urban planning academics\u003c/a> and climate change activists argue the state can only meet its climate change goals — a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by the year 2030 — if it succeeds in getting people out of their cars and onto public transportation closer to where they work. Alternative energy sources and cleaner-burning power plants can only go so far: The leading cause of emissions nationally is the tailpipe. Building tons of housing in major job centers close to good transit seems like a sensible and necessary solution, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at least one prominent environmental group with a tradition of opposing new development has balked at the measure. Angering many climate change activists, California’s Sierra Club has argued the bill would only create more local hostility to future transportation projects and would displace low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-gentrification groups argue that communities whose residents have lower incomes are much more likely to ride a bus or take a subway to work than commuters who earn more money. If lower-income residents are exiled to the suburbs as a consequence of the bill, its success at cutting carbon emissions will be muted at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anti-gentrification and tenants’ rights groups? Not so much\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates for lower-income renters and urban communities of color have greeted SB 827 with a mixture of skepticism and hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of prominent Los Angeles anti-gentrification and civil rights groups signed onto a \u003ca href=\"http://allianceforcommunitytransit.org/l-a-community-organizations-oppose-sb-827/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> opposing the bill last month on the grounds that it lacked sufficient protections for renters whose apartments could be demolished to make way for newer, bigger, market-rate projects. They also expressed the broader fear that “opening the floodgates” around transit corridors would mean rents around shiny new developments would rise out of reach of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has addressed some of those concerns by amending the bill to include fairly strict renter protections. Developers who wish to demolish a renter-occupied unit would have to pay for the moving and living expenses of tenants for more than three years, and renters would have the right to move back into the new development at their old rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11657647 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the changes have yet to attract broad support from major housing equity groups, who fear the larger gentrification pressures possibly unleashed from the bill. It also didn’t help that backers of SB 827 waited until after the bill’s announcement to try to court those groups’ endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bill faces a very tough road in the Legislature — a road that goes through Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bills that override local zoning control are rarely popular in the California Legislature. Homeowners in many regions of the state are, by and large, not thrilled with the idea of new apartment complexes going up next door over their objections. Homeowners are also more likely to vote than renters — a fact state legislators are acutely aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are stealth power players in Sacramento, and are also not fans of having their zoning power stripped away. Up and down the state, mayors, city council members and county supervisors have come out against the bill, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers passed a handful of laws that encroached on the traditional zoning power of cities. But that housing package took a herculean effort to enact after years of failure, and importantly included new funding sources for subsidized housing, as well as tenants’ protections that attracted support from a wide coalition of housing groups. And the zoning process changes brought by those laws pale in comparison to what SB 827 could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere has opposition to state interference in local planning decisions been as fierce as in Marin County, an affluent northern suburb in the Bay Area. If the bill is to receive a full vote of the Legislature, it will first have to clear a committee controlled by Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who represents Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire could prevent the bill from moving past his desk and receiving a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article from \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/event/2015-california-health-data-journalism-fellowship\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Data Fellowship\u003c/a>, a program of the USC Annenberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or nearly a century a hulking industrial plant near downtown Los Angeles melted down car batteries to reclaim their lead. The facility, most recently owned by Exide Technologies, was shut down in 2015 in a deal the company made with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid criminal prosecution for polluting nearby residential communities. Neighborhood activists have criticized California’s Department of Toxic Substances, which allowed Exide to continue operating for years with a temporary permit, despite evidence it was a major polluter. But a year-long investigation by \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Health Reporting Center has found that two other agencies, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), failed to take action during a simmering public health crisis involving hundreds of lead-poisoned workers at the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1987 and 2014, according to records we obtained from CDPH, California health officials were aware of more than 2,300 blood tests from the plant’s workers revealing blood-lead levels above 25 micrograms per deciliter — high enough to cause miscarriages, tremors, mood disorders and heart disease. While CDPH lacks the power to levy fines or mandate changes, it may refer cases to Cal/OSHA, which has that authority. But except for one fleeting moment in 1996, the agencies have operated in virtual silos, failing to coordinate actions or share incontrovertible evidence that the facility was a potential death trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-800x1371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1371\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-800x1371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-160x274.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-240x411.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-375x643.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-520x891.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s distressing to know that Exide workers were exposed at that level and chronically,” said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a physician and leading lead researcher with Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. “We’ve known for decades that lead at those levels can lead to hypertension and chronic renal failure [kidney disease]. California regulators were aware of this information and should have better protected these workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the anemic enforcement by California officials, regulators in much of the rest of the nation have, thanks to a strict federal lead directive issued in 2001, cracked down on perilous battery recycling plants — issuing six-figure fines and requiring multimillion-dollar safety improvements. Although the federal lead directive is legally binding in states where workers are directly protected by federal OSHA and eight other state-run programs that adopted these standards, California, the nation’s most populous state, never embraced them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exide appealed a $280 Cal/OSHA fine. It was ultimately reduced to $150 — less than the cost of a speeding ticket.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite California’s seemingly lower standards, Cal/OSHA told Capital & Main that “Cal/OSHA’s program is required to be, and is, at least as effective as federal OSHA.” However, despite hundreds of workers who developed lead poisoning at the plant, the only fine specifically related to lead that we found issued by Cal/OSHA at the site, which recycled about 25,000 lead-acid car batteries a day, was a 2008 citation for $150 — less than the cost of a speeding ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he lead problem at the Vernon plant, which was acquired by Exide in 2000, goes back a long time. In the 1970s, Jim Dahlgren, today a retired physician, treated 120 severely lead-poisoned workers from the plant, then owned by National Lead, and helped qualify them for disability insurance. Dahlgren, who worked for UCLA, at the time, claimed that nearly all of those men died prematurely from complications due to lead exposure and that several patients fell into lead-induced comas. Dahlgren said his patients’ blood levels routinely measured above 100 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL), a potentially lethal level. “Every single organ system of the body is impacted adversely by lead,” Dahlgren said. “These men had symptoms that ran the spectrum — severe abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, chest pains, trouble thinking, headaches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dahlgren’s account was echoed in a 1973 Los Angeles Times article headlined “Plant Fumes Poisoning Plant Workers, Union Says,” and an obscure 1976 documentary, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJXKJVlMVk&t=287s\">Lead Smelter\u003c/a>,” which interviewed Dahlgren, along with gaunt, bedridden workers and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJXKJVlMVk&t=287s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Rodriguez, a poet and writer who achieved fame with his memoir about escaping gang life, “Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,” spent six months in 1978 working in the Vernon plant as a smelter. The plant’s huge furnaces melted down car batteries and separated out the lead into what is called slag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After you use the furnace, all the lead would fall to the bottom and there was a hole in the back called a slag hole,” Rodriguez said. “I had to use a jackhammer to hammer it open, and pull the slag out and put it into carts. A good friend of mine said, ‘You know you got to get out of there. Lead will kill you and your family.’ That woke me up, might have saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDPH declined interview requests or to answer specific questions by email, and instead issued a statement that read in part, “CDPH takes seriously any incidents that may affect the public health of the people in California,” adding that “there are always lessons to be learned, especially in the case of long-running complex community public health issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide’s lead-poisoning problem, however, was well known to state officials. Because battery recycling involves potentially lethal exposure to lead, the company was required to test workers’ blood several times per year and to report the results to the CDPH. (Exide did not respond to emails and phone messages requesting comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that CDPH was aware of more than 2,300 concerning blood lead tests among workers at the Vernon site, our investigation found that CDPH referred the company to Cal/OSHA only a few times in the 1990s, and that between 1990 and 2013, inspections of the plant related to lead by Cal/OSHA occurred only in 1995, 1996 and 2008. Records we obtained show the 1995 inspection was triggered by a complaint to Cal/OSHA from a private physician who had treated a plant worker with symptoms of lead poisoning and alarming blood-lead levels. Cal/OSHA determined “no serious injuries or illnesses detected” and issued no fines. 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Despite the new ownership, lead poisoning among workers was still a huge problem. Blood-lead testing tracked by CDPH showed that in 1995, 135 workers at the site that year had seriously elevated levels of lead in their blood, and 33 workers had blood-lead levels above 40 μg/dL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year Cal/OSHA’s inspection report dismissed concerns about fundamental safety at the plant, CDPH was expressing extreme concern. In 1995 CDPH’s Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program chief, Barbara Materna, wrote a letter to GNB’s regional director, David Wesley, noting that the Vernon workers had blood-lead levels high enough to cause “increased blood pressure, damaged sperm, and impaired learning ability in children exposed to lead during pregnancy.” CDPH also expressed grave concerns that airborne levels of lead found in parts of the plant were more than 50 times above federal safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The agency is a battleground between those who see the prime directive as protecting workers and others who are fearful of hurting the bottom line of industry.’\u003ccite>Mariano Kramer, former Cal/OSHA manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By 1996 CDPH had had enough. “Our policy is to work cooperatively with those who are improving health and safety conditions in their workplace,” Materna wrote GNB. “However, if serious conditions are not addressed in a timely manner we are obligated to make referrals to Cal/OSHA for enforcement actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capital & Main spoke to Mariano Kramer, then a Los Angeles-area Cal/OSHA district manager, who CDPH sent the referral letter to. In 1996, after receiving a referral from CDPH, he supervised the only inspection we could find that appears to have had any teeth behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA told us it was unable to locate records related to the 1996 inspection. Kramer recalls the case vividly, however: “It was a very messy situation at the plant and a lengthy process. We required them to make substantial safety improvements.” The fines and required safety upgrades, which Kramer said were levied, seemed to make a difference at the plant. Lead poisoning cases dropped 25 percent the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Joanne Kim/Capital & Main)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]owever, the monitoring of the Vernon plant, which Exide Technologies purchased in 2000, became less frequent and appears to have amounted to an annual form letter. In 2005 CDPH told Exide, “We recently received one or more reports of elevated blood-lead levels at or above 40 μg/dL for employees of Exide Technologies.” The letter continued, “Elevated BLLs indicate serious problems with your lead safety program that should be corrected. They may also indicate violations of the Cal/OSHA Lead Standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, according to records provided to Capital & Main by CDPH, about 40 workers per year continued to show alarming levels of lead in their blood. It wasn’t until 2008 that Cal/OSHA performed a new lead-safety inspection at the site. The inspection stemmed from an anonymous complaint from an Exide worker, and the inspectors don’t appear to have been armed with any of the information collected by CDPH. When inspectors arrived at the sprawling Vernon plant, records show, they took just one swipe of a surface in search of evidence of lead dust. The sample was taken on a shelf next to a telephone — in an office that was designated a lead-free zone, where workers were supposed to be able to take breaks without wearing any protective equipment. While the shelf had lead levels far in excess of federal standards, Cal/OSHA fined Exide just $280 for the safety violation it labeled “low” in severity. Exide appealed the fine and the violation was ultimately reduced to $150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA appeared even less concerned with the toxic air to which workers were exposed in the plant’s smelting room. Alvin Richardson, a 20-year plant veteran, said he remembers Cal/OSHA coming to inspect the site in 2008 and affixing an air monitor to his clothing to measure the amount of lead that he and other workers were being exposed to. Richardson says he wasn’t told the results, even though he had become a canary in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts we spoke to, including Kramer, say the results from Richardson’s air monitor, which measured airborne lead more than 13 times above levels federal limits, could have required the evacuation of workers and at a minimum should have resulted in stiff penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the results came back, Cal/OSHA may have employed some creative math. (See equation below.) Because Richardson was wearing a respirator mask, Cal/OSHA’s report reasoned its inspectors could divide the level of exposure by a factor of 50. (See formula below.) After the airborne lead levels were divided by 50, the inspection gave the smelting operation a clean bill of health, no fines were issued for the airborne lead, and the company was allowed to keep up its operation without making any engineering changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"80\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11657131\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image.png 691w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-160x19.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-240x28.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-375x43.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-520x60.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA declined repeated requests for in-person interviews about its lead-related protocols or to comment on former workers who claim to be suffering today. In response to queries about the seemingly inadequate 2008 inspection, Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza responded via email, “The division can only issue citations when it finds sufficient evidence of violations. The inspection was handled appropriately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Clyde Payne, who for 23 years was the area director of U.S. OSHA’s Jackson, Mississippi, office, said that applying the equation employed by Cal/OSHA violated a fundamental OSHA principle. “The principle,” Payne said, “is you are not allowed to use the respirator to excuse toxic air. You have to implement other controls like ventilation and proper hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne explained that the equation which Cal/OSHA employed is intended to be used to determine if employers are using proper respirators, or if they need to provide a better respirator. “Because we assume that workers are going to get exposed in other ways, you don’t utilize that type of division to excuse violations of the air standards.” Payne added, “There is no question it’s challenging for companies to get those levels of airborne lead down, but if you do not have somebody riding your rear end, you won’t try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ariano Kramer retired in 2011 and today works as an instructor at the Dominguez Hills OSHA Training Center. After reviewing the report of the 2008 inspection of the plant, he said the levels of airborne lead that Alvin Richardson and other workers were exposed to were completely unacceptable. “One of the basic tenets of safety and health is the hierarchy of controls,” Kramer said. “You start with administrative and engineering, and the last thing that you do is personal protective equipment. Because with ventilators, you are doing nothing to correct the hazard. All you’re doing is putting a barrier to the hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of federal OSHA inspections carried out around the same time as Cal/OSHA’s 2008 inspection of Exide in Vernon does show that dramatically different standards were employed. For example, during their 2012 inspection of a Johnson Controls battery recycling plant in Ohio, OSHA inspectors affixed air monitors to workers just as they did with Richardson in California. The level of lead detected was one-third what Richardson and other Exide workers were exposed to. But because the OSHA inspectors did not employ the division formula utilized in California, they deemed the exposure levels as a “serious” violation of OSHA regulations. All told, OSHA issued to Johnson Controls Battery Group Inc. fines of $188,000, more than 1,200 times the $150 fine issued to Exide during Cal/OSHA’s 2008 inspection for violating lead standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvin Richardson told us that when he left the company in 2011 he suffered from what he believed to be lead-related symptoms, including exhaustion and tremors. After he departed his daily routine at Exide, Richardson hoped his symptoms would improve, but they worsened. Today the 53-year-old suffers from chronic weakness and kidney problems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can’t stand for very long,” Alvin’s wife LaShawn Richardson told us, adding that her husband had just received state disability status after a seven-year struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Joanne Kim/Capital & Main)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kramer believes that two long-running problems at Cal/OSHA likely contributed to an inadequate inspection in 2008. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency is kind of a political football, a battleground between those who see the prime directive as protecting workers and others who are fearful of hurting the bottom line of industry. Some staff also have a poor understanding of health-related safety issues like lead. The agency is better at recognizing a crane that might fall. When it comes to nearly invisible toxins like lead dust, that can be a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rania Sabty-Daily, an expert in industrial hygiene and an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, told Capital & Main that one of the stumbling blocks preventing better protection of California workers are long-delayed changes to the state’s lead standards. The standards formulated in the 1970s allow employees to continue working even with blood lead levels up to 50 μg/dL. Health experts consider those standards out of date because the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other authorities say permanent damage can occur at levels as low as 10 μg/dL. In 2009 CDPH issued new recommendations and asked Cal/OSHA to call for removing workers with lead levels above 20 μg/dL and not returning them until they fall to below 15 μg/dL. In addition CDPH proposed that a more protective standard be applied to airborne lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because CDPH can only make recommendations, CDPH petitioned Cal/OSHA in 2010 to adopt the new standards. In a statement, Cal/OSHA told us it agreed with the necessity to make some changes. “The existing lead standard is based on pre-1978 data and subsequent research has shown significant adverse effects at lower levels. The advisory committee met six times from 2011-2015 to draft a proposed industrial regulation that will lower the blood-lead removal level (BLL) and Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL). \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/5198Meetings.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">That process is ongoing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut the process to change California regulations appears to have bogged down. Cal/OSHA invited companies like Exide and other stakeholders to participate in advisory meetings over the new standards. During one advisory meeting in 2011, industry representatives, particularly from battery recycling companies, hammered the proposal. According to minutes from the sessions, Terry Campbell, an executive from U.S. Battery, said that one-fourth of the company’s Corona workers would have to be pulled from their jobs because of high blood-lead levels. Ultimately, the company said, it could be forced to close up shop and move to Mexico. Representatives from Exide echoed similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a totally dysfunctional system,” said Sabty-Daily. “We debate the toughest standards in the country — meanwhile, Cal/OSHA enforces [what are among] the weakest standards in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There appears to be an even larger problem to fix. Our investigation found that workers protected by Cal/OSHA under the outdated standards continue to be harmed by unsafe lead conditions with little or no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The Public Health Department ‘ends up being a shield for companies which expose the public and workers to toxins.’\u003ccite>James Wheaton, First Amendment Project Lawyer, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In October we made a public records request asking CDPH for lists of workers who had lead levels at or above 20 μg/dL for the last 30 years. According to the data we received, the agency was aware of more than 26,000 blood tests from workers from more than 260 companies across the state. Workers were counted once per year at their highest level according to CDPH. We also learned that between 2010 and 2017, even as California’s regulatory agencies continued to debate toughening lead standards, CDPH was aware of an additional 2,256 blood tests at or above 20 μg/dL. Despite those alarming numbers, finding the locations of the workplaces that have had large numbers of lead poisoned workers is for the moment impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://gfycat.com/ifr/OccasionalFamousBangeltiger\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CDPH previously provided year-by-year anonymous data for lead-poisoned workers at Exide, the agency turned down our request for information about where those other cases in the state were occurring. Citing a “constitutional right to privacy,” CDPH says it is concerned that providing anonymous details about the extent of the problem at specific companies could somehow lead to identifying the individual workers. When there is “a high risk of re-identification, statistical masking must be applied,” the agency said in a March 14 statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bruce Lanphear, the lead-poisoning expert, also was troubled by the withholding of specific numbers for where the lead poisoning incidents were occurring. “That’s just hogwash. One of the basic functions of public health is to make clear the extent of the problem and where it’s occurring. You can’t protect the public if you’re not armed with the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Wheaton, senior counsel for the First Amendment Project and a media-law professor at UC Berkeley, called the agency’s rationale for keeping the information secret “bogus” and said he believed the agency had violated California law with its refusal to disclose the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDPH unfortunately has a tendency to jealously guard information which is vital to the public,” Wheaton said. “The net result is the agency ends up being a shield for companies which expose the public and workers to toxins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Exide closed in 2015, several battery recycling plants continue to operate in the greater Los Angeles area, and they appear to represent an ongoing problem when it comes to workers exposed to lead. While CDPH would not provide Capital & Main with information about where the most serious cases are occurring, in response to a public records request the agency did provide similar data to the Los Angeles Times in 2016 for worker exposures in Los Angeles County from 2008 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data, provided to Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Barboza, show that Quemetco, another Los Angeles-area recycling plant which, unlike Exide, is still up and running, had 254 workers with elevated blood-lead levels (at or above 10 g/dL) between 2008 and 2014. By comparison, Exide had 175 workers during that same time period with similarly elevated levels. Quemetco also appears to have another Exide-like problem. Soil samples taken from homes within a quarter-mile of the plant, according to data we obtained from the Department of Toxic Substances Control, also show that surface soil is on average four times above acceptable levels, suggesting a multimillion-dollar cleanup could be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]rior to publication of this article we shared data we had gathered with several lawmakers and Bill Allayaud, the California director of the Environmental Working Group, a science-based watchdog organization. Allayaud’s group has spearheaded several proposed lead laws in California. “We all know how the neighborhoods around Exide were polluted with toxic lead over the long term, and now we are finding out how workers on the frontlines were neglected by the agencies that are supposed to monitor and demand that hazardous conditions be eliminated,” Allayaud said. “This needs to be fixed so this never happens again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allayaud collaborated with San Jose Assemblyman Ash Kalra, who introduced legislation sponsored by the Environmental Working Group that would require CDPH and Cal/OSHA to follow federal standards recognized in other states. Kalra’s measure, Assembly Bill 2963, would legally require the “State Department of Public Health to report to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health any instance where a worker’s blood-lead level is at or above a certain amount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to Capital & Main, Kalra said, “Lead poisoning is a serious matter and we need to consider the gravity of this hazard by ensuring that our state agencies are properly scrutinizing cases involving workers’ exposure to high levels of lead — this means that adequate inspections need to be carried out whenever there is evidence of serious lead-related exposure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra plans to hold hearings in April for his worker-protection bill based on our investigations. He told Capital & Main that he would like to have Alvin Richardson and other workers testify to educate the public about what it’s like to experience lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvin’s a proud man,” said his wife, LaShawn. “Going through this has been a long, incredibly difficult struggle for our entire family.” She said she was speaking to us in the hope that future workers wouldn’t have to endure what her husband has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joe Rubin wrote this story while participating in the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article from \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/event/2015-california-health-data-journalism-fellowship\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Data Fellowship\u003c/a>, a program of the USC Annenberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or nearly a century a hulking industrial plant near downtown Los Angeles melted down car batteries to reclaim their lead. The facility, most recently owned by Exide Technologies, was shut down in 2015 in a deal the company made with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid criminal prosecution for polluting nearby residential communities. Neighborhood activists have criticized California’s Department of Toxic Substances, which allowed Exide to continue operating for years with a temporary permit, despite evidence it was a major polluter. But a year-long investigation by \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capital & Main\u003c/a> and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Health Reporting Center has found that two other agencies, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), failed to take action during a simmering public health crisis involving hundreds of lead-poisoned workers at the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1987 and 2014, according to records we obtained from CDPH, California health officials were aware of more than 2,300 blood tests from the plant’s workers revealing blood-lead levels above 25 micrograms per deciliter — high enough to cause miscarriages, tremors, mood disorders and heart disease. While CDPH lacks the power to levy fines or mandate changes, it may refer cases to Cal/OSHA, which has that authority. But except for one fleeting moment in 1996, the agencies have operated in virtual silos, failing to coordinate actions or share incontrovertible evidence that the facility was a potential death trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-800x1371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1371\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-800x1371.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-160x274.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-240x411.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-375x643.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning-520x891.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/PossibleHealthLeadPoisoning.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s distressing to know that Exide workers were exposed at that level and chronically,” said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a physician and leading lead researcher with Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. “We’ve known for decades that lead at those levels can lead to hypertension and chronic renal failure [kidney disease]. California regulators were aware of this information and should have better protected these workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to the anemic enforcement by California officials, regulators in much of the rest of the nation have, thanks to a strict federal lead directive issued in 2001, cracked down on perilous battery recycling plants — issuing six-figure fines and requiring multimillion-dollar safety improvements. Although the federal lead directive is legally binding in states where workers are directly protected by federal OSHA and eight other state-run programs that adopted these standards, California, the nation’s most populous state, never embraced them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Exide appealed a $280 Cal/OSHA fine. It was ultimately reduced to $150 — less than the cost of a speeding ticket.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite California’s seemingly lower standards, Cal/OSHA told Capital & Main that “Cal/OSHA’s program is required to be, and is, at least as effective as federal OSHA.” However, despite hundreds of workers who developed lead poisoning at the plant, the only fine specifically related to lead that we found issued by Cal/OSHA at the site, which recycled about 25,000 lead-acid car batteries a day, was a 2008 citation for $150 — less than the cost of a speeding ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he lead problem at the Vernon plant, which was acquired by Exide in 2000, goes back a long time. In the 1970s, Jim Dahlgren, today a retired physician, treated 120 severely lead-poisoned workers from the plant, then owned by National Lead, and helped qualify them for disability insurance. Dahlgren, who worked for UCLA, at the time, claimed that nearly all of those men died prematurely from complications due to lead exposure and that several patients fell into lead-induced comas. Dahlgren said his patients’ blood levels routinely measured above 100 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL), a potentially lethal level. “Every single organ system of the body is impacted adversely by lead,” Dahlgren said. “These men had symptoms that ran the spectrum — severe abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, chest pains, trouble thinking, headaches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dahlgren’s account was echoed in a 1973 Los Angeles Times article headlined “Plant Fumes Poisoning Plant Workers, Union Says,” and an obscure 1976 documentary, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJXKJVlMVk&t=287s\">Lead Smelter\u003c/a>,” which interviewed Dahlgren, along with gaunt, bedridden workers and their families.\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/APJXKJVlMVk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/APJXKJVlMVk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Luis Rodriguez, a poet and writer who achieved fame with his memoir about escaping gang life, “Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,” spent six months in 1978 working in the Vernon plant as a smelter. The plant’s huge furnaces melted down car batteries and separated out the lead into what is called slag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After you use the furnace, all the lead would fall to the bottom and there was a hole in the back called a slag hole,” Rodriguez said. “I had to use a jackhammer to hammer it open, and pull the slag out and put it into carts. A good friend of mine said, ‘You know you got to get out of there. Lead will kill you and your family.’ That woke me up, might have saved my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDPH declined interview requests or to answer specific questions by email, and instead issued a statement that read in part, “CDPH takes seriously any incidents that may affect the public health of the people in California,” adding that “there are always lessons to be learned, especially in the case of long-running complex community public health issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide’s lead-poisoning problem, however, was well known to state officials. Because battery recycling involves potentially lethal exposure to lead, the company was required to test workers’ blood several times per year and to report the results to the CDPH. (Exide did not respond to emails and phone messages requesting comment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that CDPH was aware of more than 2,300 concerning blood lead tests among workers at the Vernon site, our investigation found that CDPH referred the company to Cal/OSHA only a few times in the 1990s, and that between 1990 and 2013, inspections of the plant related to lead by Cal/OSHA occurred only in 1995, 1996 and 2008. Records we obtained show the 1995 inspection was triggered by a complaint to Cal/OSHA from a private physician who had treated a plant worker with symptoms of lead poisoning and alarming blood-lead levels. Cal/OSHA determined “no serious injuries or illnesses detected” and issued no fines. The company, according to the inspection report, also told Cal/OSHA that “engineering controls were not feasible at the plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"tableauPlaceholder\" id=\"viz1521665837143\" style=\"position: relative\">\u003cnoscript>\u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/battery-blood-how-california-health-agencies-failed-exide-workers-0321\">\u003cimg alt=\"Exide/GNB Workers' Annual Peak Blood Lead Levels (BLL)Tabulated by year, 1987-2014; data source: California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Exide Technologies acquired GNB Technologies in 2000. 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Despite the new ownership, lead poisoning among workers was still a huge problem. Blood-lead testing tracked by CDPH showed that in 1995, 135 workers at the site that year had seriously elevated levels of lead in their blood, and 33 workers had blood-lead levels above 40 μg/dL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same year Cal/OSHA’s inspection report dismissed concerns about fundamental safety at the plant, CDPH was expressing extreme concern. In 1995 CDPH’s Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program chief, Barbara Materna, wrote a letter to GNB’s regional director, David Wesley, noting that the Vernon workers had blood-lead levels high enough to cause “increased blood pressure, damaged sperm, and impaired learning ability in children exposed to lead during pregnancy.” CDPH also expressed grave concerns that airborne levels of lead found in parts of the plant were more than 50 times above federal safety standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The agency is a battleground between those who see the prime directive as protecting workers and others who are fearful of hurting the bottom line of industry.’\u003ccite>Mariano Kramer, former Cal/OSHA manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By 1996 CDPH had had enough. “Our policy is to work cooperatively with those who are improving health and safety conditions in their workplace,” Materna wrote GNB. “However, if serious conditions are not addressed in a timely manner we are obligated to make referrals to Cal/OSHA for enforcement actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capital & Main spoke to Mariano Kramer, then a Los Angeles-area Cal/OSHA district manager, who CDPH sent the referral letter to. In 1996, after receiving a referral from CDPH, he supervised the only inspection we could find that appears to have had any teeth behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA told us it was unable to locate records related to the 1996 inspection. Kramer recalls the case vividly, however: “It was a very messy situation at the plant and a lengthy process. We required them to make substantial safety improvements.” The fines and required safety upgrades, which Kramer said were levied, seemed to make a difference at the plant. Lead poisoning cases dropped 25 percent the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Joanne Kim/Capital & Main)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">H\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>owever, the monitoring of the Vernon plant, which Exide Technologies purchased in 2000, became less frequent and appears to have amounted to an annual form letter. In 2005 CDPH told Exide, “We recently received one or more reports of elevated blood-lead levels at or above 40 μg/dL for employees of Exide Technologies.” The letter continued, “Elevated BLLs indicate serious problems with your lead safety program that should be corrected. They may also indicate violations of the Cal/OSHA Lead Standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then, according to records provided to Capital & Main by CDPH, about 40 workers per year continued to show alarming levels of lead in their blood. It wasn’t until 2008 that Cal/OSHA performed a new lead-safety inspection at the site. The inspection stemmed from an anonymous complaint from an Exide worker, and the inspectors don’t appear to have been armed with any of the information collected by CDPH. When inspectors arrived at the sprawling Vernon plant, records show, they took just one swipe of a surface in search of evidence of lead dust. The sample was taken on a shelf next to a telephone — in an office that was designated a lead-free zone, where workers were supposed to be able to take breaks without wearing any protective equipment. While the shelf had lead levels far in excess of federal standards, Cal/OSHA fined Exide just $280 for the safety violation it labeled “low” in severity. Exide appealed the fine and the violation was ultimately reduced to $150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA appeared even less concerned with the toxic air to which workers were exposed in the plant’s smelting room. Alvin Richardson, a 20-year plant veteran, said he remembers Cal/OSHA coming to inspect the site in 2008 and affixing an air monitor to his clothing to measure the amount of lead that he and other workers were being exposed to. Richardson says he wasn’t told the results, even though he had become a canary in the coal mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts we spoke to, including Kramer, say the results from Richardson’s air monitor, which measured airborne lead more than 13 times above levels federal limits, could have required the evacuation of workers and at a minimum should have resulted in stiff penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the results came back, Cal/OSHA may have employed some creative math. (See equation below.) Because Richardson was wearing a respirator mask, Cal/OSHA’s report reasoned its inspectors could divide the level of exposure by a factor of 50. (See formula below.) After the airborne lead levels were divided by 50, the inspection gave the smelting operation a clean bill of health, no fines were issued for the airborne lead, and the company was allowed to keep up its operation without making any engineering changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"80\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11657131\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image.png 691w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-160x19.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-240x28.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-375x43.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/word-image-520x60.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA declined repeated requests for in-person interviews about its lead-related protocols or to comment on former workers who claim to be suffering today. In response to queries about the seemingly inadequate 2008 inspection, Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza responded via email, “The division can only issue citations when it finds sufficient evidence of violations. The inspection was handled appropriately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Clyde Payne, who for 23 years was the area director of U.S. OSHA’s Jackson, Mississippi, office, said that applying the equation employed by Cal/OSHA violated a fundamental OSHA principle. “The principle,” Payne said, “is you are not allowed to use the respirator to excuse toxic air. You have to implement other controls like ventilation and proper hygiene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne explained that the equation which Cal/OSHA employed is intended to be used to determine if employers are using proper respirators, or if they need to provide a better respirator. “Because we assume that workers are going to get exposed in other ways, you don’t utilize that type of division to excuse violations of the air standards.” Payne added, “There is no question it’s challenging for companies to get those levels of airborne lead down, but if you do not have somebody riding your rear end, you won’t try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ariano Kramer retired in 2011 and today works as an instructor at the Dominguez Hills OSHA Training Center. After reviewing the report of the 2008 inspection of the plant, he said the levels of airborne lead that Alvin Richardson and other workers were exposed to were completely unacceptable. “One of the basic tenets of safety and health is the hierarchy of controls,” Kramer said. “You start with administrative and engineering, and the last thing that you do is personal protective equipment. Because with ventilators, you are doing nothing to correct the hazard. All you’re doing is putting a barrier to the hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of federal OSHA inspections carried out around the same time as Cal/OSHA’s 2008 inspection of Exide in Vernon does show that dramatically different standards were employed. For example, during their 2012 inspection of a Johnson Controls battery recycling plant in Ohio, OSHA inspectors affixed air monitors to workers just as they did with Richardson in California. The level of lead detected was one-third what Richardson and other Exide workers were exposed to. But because the OSHA inspectors did not employ the division formula utilized in California, they deemed the exposure levels as a “serious” violation of OSHA regulations. All told, OSHA issued to Johnson Controls Battery Group Inc. fines of $188,000, more than 1,200 times the $150 fine issued to Exide during Cal/OSHA’s 2008 inspection for violating lead standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvin Richardson told us that when he left the company in 2011 he suffered from what he believed to be lead-related symptoms, including exhaustion and tremors. After he departed his daily routine at Exide, Richardson hoped his symptoms would improve, but they worsened. Today the 53-year-old suffers from chronic weakness and kidney problems. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can’t stand for very long,” Alvin’s wife LaShawn Richardson told us, adding that her husband had just received state disability status after a seven-year struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ExideExterior2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the now-shuttered Exide plant in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Joanne Kim/Capital & Main)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kramer believes that two long-running problems at Cal/OSHA likely contributed to an inadequate inspection in 2008. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency is kind of a political football, a battleground between those who see the prime directive as protecting workers and others who are fearful of hurting the bottom line of industry. Some staff also have a poor understanding of health-related safety issues like lead. The agency is better at recognizing a crane that might fall. When it comes to nearly invisible toxins like lead dust, that can be a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rania Sabty-Daily, an expert in industrial hygiene and an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, told Capital & Main that one of the stumbling blocks preventing better protection of California workers are long-delayed changes to the state’s lead standards. The standards formulated in the 1970s allow employees to continue working even with blood lead levels up to 50 μg/dL. Health experts consider those standards out of date because the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other authorities say permanent damage can occur at levels as low as 10 μg/dL. In 2009 CDPH issued new recommendations and asked Cal/OSHA to call for removing workers with lead levels above 20 μg/dL and not returning them until they fall to below 15 μg/dL. In addition CDPH proposed that a more protective standard be applied to airborne lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because CDPH can only make recommendations, CDPH petitioned Cal/OSHA in 2010 to adopt the new standards. In a statement, Cal/OSHA told us it agreed with the necessity to make some changes. “The existing lead standard is based on pre-1978 data and subsequent research has shown significant adverse effects at lower levels. The advisory committee met six times from 2011-2015 to draft a proposed industrial regulation that will lower the blood-lead removal level (BLL) and Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL). \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/5198Meetings.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">That process is ongoing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ut the process to change California regulations appears to have bogged down. Cal/OSHA invited companies like Exide and other stakeholders to participate in advisory meetings over the new standards. During one advisory meeting in 2011, industry representatives, particularly from battery recycling companies, hammered the proposal. According to minutes from the sessions, Terry Campbell, an executive from U.S. Battery, said that one-fourth of the company’s Corona workers would have to be pulled from their jobs because of high blood-lead levels. Ultimately, the company said, it could be forced to close up shop and move to Mexico. Representatives from Exide echoed similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a totally dysfunctional system,” said Sabty-Daily. “We debate the toughest standards in the country — meanwhile, Cal/OSHA enforces [what are among] the weakest standards in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There appears to be an even larger problem to fix. Our investigation found that workers protected by Cal/OSHA under the outdated standards continue to be harmed by unsafe lead conditions with little or no consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The Public Health Department ‘ends up being a shield for companies which expose the public and workers to toxins.’\u003ccite>James Wheaton, First Amendment Project Lawyer, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In October we made a public records request asking CDPH for lists of workers who had lead levels at or above 20 μg/dL for the last 30 years. According to the data we received, the agency was aware of more than 26,000 blood tests from workers from more than 260 companies across the state. Workers were counted once per year at their highest level according to CDPH. We also learned that between 2010 and 2017, even as California’s regulatory agencies continued to debate toughening lead standards, CDPH was aware of an additional 2,256 blood tests at or above 20 μg/dL. Despite those alarming numbers, finding the locations of the workplaces that have had large numbers of lead poisoned workers is for the moment impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://gfycat.com/ifr/OccasionalFamousBangeltiger\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CDPH previously provided year-by-year anonymous data for lead-poisoned workers at Exide, the agency turned down our request for information about where those other cases in the state were occurring. Citing a “constitutional right to privacy,” CDPH says it is concerned that providing anonymous details about the extent of the problem at specific companies could somehow lead to identifying the individual workers. When there is “a high risk of re-identification, statistical masking must be applied,” the agency said in a March 14 statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bruce Lanphear, the lead-poisoning expert, also was troubled by the withholding of specific numbers for where the lead poisoning incidents were occurring. “That’s just hogwash. One of the basic functions of public health is to make clear the extent of the problem and where it’s occurring. You can’t protect the public if you’re not armed with the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Wheaton, senior counsel for the First Amendment Project and a media-law professor at UC Berkeley, called the agency’s rationale for keeping the information secret “bogus” and said he believed the agency had violated California law with its refusal to disclose the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDPH unfortunately has a tendency to jealously guard information which is vital to the public,” Wheaton said. “The net result is the agency ends up being a shield for companies which expose the public and workers to toxins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Exide closed in 2015, several battery recycling plants continue to operate in the greater Los Angeles area, and they appear to represent an ongoing problem when it comes to workers exposed to lead. While CDPH would not provide Capital & Main with information about where the most serious cases are occurring, in response to a public records request the agency did provide similar data to the Los Angeles Times in 2016 for worker exposures in Los Angeles County from 2008 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data, provided to Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Barboza, show that Quemetco, another Los Angeles-area recycling plant which, unlike Exide, is still up and running, had 254 workers with elevated blood-lead levels (at or above 10 g/dL) between 2008 and 2014. By comparison, Exide had 175 workers during that same time period with similarly elevated levels. Quemetco also appears to have another Exide-like problem. Soil samples taken from homes within a quarter-mile of the plant, according to data we obtained from the Department of Toxic Substances Control, also show that surface soil is on average four times above acceptable levels, suggesting a multimillion-dollar cleanup could be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>rior to publication of this article we shared data we had gathered with several lawmakers and Bill Allayaud, the California director of the Environmental Working Group, a science-based watchdog organization. Allayaud’s group has spearheaded several proposed lead laws in California. “We all know how the neighborhoods around Exide were polluted with toxic lead over the long term, and now we are finding out how workers on the frontlines were neglected by the agencies that are supposed to monitor and demand that hazardous conditions be eliminated,” Allayaud said. “This needs to be fixed so this never happens again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allayaud collaborated with San Jose Assemblyman Ash Kalra, who introduced legislation sponsored by the Environmental Working Group that would require CDPH and Cal/OSHA to follow federal standards recognized in other states. Kalra’s measure, Assembly Bill 2963, would legally require the “State Department of Public Health to report to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health any instance where a worker’s blood-lead level is at or above a certain amount.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to Capital & Main, Kalra said, “Lead poisoning is a serious matter and we need to consider the gravity of this hazard by ensuring that our state agencies are properly scrutinizing cases involving workers’ exposure to high levels of lead — this means that adequate inspections need to be carried out whenever there is evidence of serious lead-related exposure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra plans to hold hearings in April for his worker-protection bill based on our investigations. He told Capital & Main that he would like to have Alvin Richardson and other workers testify to educate the public about what it’s like to experience lead poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alvin’s a proud man,” said his wife, LaShawn. “Going through this has been a long, incredibly difficult struggle for our entire family.” She said she was speaking to us in the hope that future workers wouldn’t have to endure what her husband has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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