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(Use the vertical slider to compare side-by-side images.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1515789\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 346px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1515789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02.jpg\" alt=\"SnowpackLocator02\" width=\"346\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02-160x171.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02-240x257.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02-375x402.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/SnowpackLocator02-520x557.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These three locations are shown in the satellite images below. \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/02/astounding-snowpack-bodes-well-for-summer-water-supply/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blitz of winter storms\u003c/a> from late December into February, it looked like this year’s snowpack might be headed for a record. 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She’s been organizing locals to help State Parks and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccc.ca.gov/Pages/default.aspx\">California Conservation Corps \u003c/a>build the trail. “I don’t know how to stress this cause for me I mean it’s really personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-27c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/03/29/TrailConstruction.jpg\" Title=\"Divided Big Sur Gets Some Help as New Trail Links North and South\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone on the south side of the bridge has a story of hardship from being isolated for more than a month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a very dear friend, who is actually my ex-husband from years ago, who has stage IV cancer that I’ve been his primary care person for. So for a month I’ve been cut off from being able to help him. Luckily, I have some friends who are helping. 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Serious research groups want to conduct small, low-risk studies to see what might be possible, and to probe the particles’ microphysics and chemistry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of approach is starting to seem downright respectable — even the prestigious National Academy of Sciences recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/10/385065816/scientific-pros-weigh-the-cons-of-messing-with-earths-thermostat\">called\u003c/a> for more research on climate geoengineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The research that is being proposed is tiny and completely innocuous,” Parson said. “One of the groups that’s interested in doing this wants to spray sea salt up into the air to see what happens to the transmission of sunlight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many environmentalists are suspicious of efforts to tinker with the climate. What’s more, they think just talking about the possibility of cooling the planet will threaten the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”WzKnhbQXEP4Hscsriw9q61wQesQMx1Zq”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the last thing Parson would want is for this research to be associated with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent you’re in a political setting where misinformation about climate change is being spread, efforts to cut emissions are being undermined or threatened,” Parson told NPR, “then that suggests the possibility that the risks of pursuing research of this kind might actually outweigh the benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Trump administration advocating cuts for climate science, it’s unlikely they’ll face a decision of whether to turn down funding. 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"content": "\u003cp>Declaring “the start of a new era” in energy production, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would revive the coal industry and create jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move makes good on his campaign pledge to unravel former President Barack Obama’s plan to curb global warming. The order seeks to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Climate change is real and will not be wished away by rhetoric or denial.’\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown, California,\u003cbr>\nGov. Andrew Cuomo, New York\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Democratic Govs. Jerry Brown of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a joint statement Tuesday saying they’re still committed to their own emissions targets. The two states have set aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Their targets are stricter than the Obama power plant rule Trump seeks to eliminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is real and will not be wished away by rhetoric or denial,” the two governors said in the statement. “Dismantling the Clean Power Plan and other critical climate programs is profoundly misguided and shockingly ignores basic science. With this move, the Administration will endanger public health, our environment and our economic prosperity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has repeatedly criticized the power plant rule and others as an attack on American workers and the struggling coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists, including former Vice President Al Gore, denounced the plan. But Trump said the effort would allow workers to “succeed on a level playing field for the first time in a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what this is all about: bringing back our jobs, bringing back our dreams and making America wealthy again,” Trump said, during a ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, attended by a number of coal miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”3r1z4IlFYFzVnboUqLggbsORLXX6KaCE”]The order initiates a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. The regulation, which was the former president’s signature effort to curb carbon emissions, has been the subject of long-running legal challenges by Republican-led states and those who profit from burning oil, coal and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as Obama’s climate efforts were often stymied by legal challenges, environmental groups are promising to fight Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has called global warming a “hoax” invented by the Chinese, and has repeatedly criticized the power-plant rule as an attack on American workers and the struggling U.S. coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to pulling back from the Clean Power Plan, the administration will also lift a 14-month-old moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration had imposed a three-year moratorium on new federal coal leases in January 2016, arguing that the $1 billion-a-year program must be modernized to ensure a fair financial return to taxpayers and address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump accused his predecessor of waging a “war on coal” and boasted in a speech to Congress that he has made “a historic effort to massively reduce job-crushing regulations,” including some that threaten “the future and livelihoods of our great coal miners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order will also chip away at other regulations, including scrapping language on the “social cost” of greenhouse gases. It will initiate a review of efforts to reduce the emission of methane in oil and natural gas production as well as a Bureau of Land Management hydraulic fracturing rule, to determine whether those reflect the president’s policy priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘These executive actions are a welcome departure from the previous administration’s strategy of making energy more expensive through costly, job-killing regulations that choked our economy.’\u003ccite>Thomas J. Donohue,\u003cbr>U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> It will also rescind Obama-era executive orders and memoranda, including one that addressed climate change and national security and one that sought to prepare the country for the impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration is still in discussion about whether it intends to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order could make it more difficult, though not impossible, for the U.S. to achieve its carbon reduction goals. The president’s promises to boost coal jobs run counter to market forces, such as U.S. utilities converting coal-fired power plants to cheaper, cleaner-burning natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, alarmed environmental groups and scientists earlier this month when he said he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming. The statement is at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and Pruitt’s own agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies and climate scientists agree the planet is warming, mostly due to man-made sources, including carbon dioxide, methane, halocarbons and nitrogen oxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents say Obama’s effort would have killed coal-mining jobs and driven up electricity costs. The Obama administration, some Democratic-led states and environmental groups counter that it would spur thousands of clean-energy jobs and help the U.S. meet ambitious goals to reduce carbon pollution set by the international agreement signed in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order on coal-fired power plants follows an executive order he signed last month mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution. The order instructs the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to review a rule that redefined “waters of the United States” protected under the Clean Water Act to include smaller creeks and wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republicans have blamed Obama-era environmental regulations for the loss of coal jobs, federal data shows that U.S. mines have been shedding jobs for decades under presidents from both parties as a result of increasing automation and competition from natural gas, which has become more abundant through hydraulic fracturing. Another factor is the plummeting cost of solar panels and wind turbines, which now can produce emissions-free electricity cheaper than burning coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an Energy Department analysis released in January, coal mining now accounts for fewer than 75,000 U.S. jobs. By contrast, renewable energy — including wind, solar and biofuels — now accounts for more than 650,000 U.S. jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s plans drew praise from business groups and condemnation from environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue praised the president for taking “bold steps to make regulatory relief and energy security a top priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These executive actions are a welcome departure from the previous administration’s strategy of making energy more expensive through costly, job-killing regulations that choked our economy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Vice President Al Gore blasted the order as “a misguided step away from a sustainable, carbon-free future for ourselves and generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is essential, not only to our planet, but also to our economic future, that the United States continues to serve as a global leader in solving the climate crisis by transitioning to clean energy, a transition that will continue to gain speed due to the increasing competiveness of solar and wind,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Michael Biesecker contributed to this report. Follow Daly and Colvin on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MatthewDalyWDC and https://twitter.com/colvinj\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The regulation, which was the former president’s signature effort to curb carbon emissions, has been the subject of long-running legal challenges by Republican-led states and those who profit from burning oil, coal and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as Obama’s climate efforts were often stymied by legal challenges, environmental groups are promising to fight Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has called global warming a “hoax” invented by the Chinese, and has repeatedly criticized the power-plant rule as an attack on American workers and the struggling U.S. coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to pulling back from the Clean Power Plan, the administration will also lift a 14-month-old moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration had imposed a three-year moratorium on new federal coal leases in January 2016, arguing that the $1 billion-a-year program must be modernized to ensure a fair financial return to taxpayers and address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump accused his predecessor of waging a “war on coal” and boasted in a speech to Congress that he has made “a historic effort to massively reduce job-crushing regulations,” including some that threaten “the future and livelihoods of our great coal miners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order will also chip away at other regulations, including scrapping language on the “social cost” of greenhouse gases. 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"content": "\u003cp>David Hockney has been the subject of more than 400 solo exhibitions over his long career. The British-born artist is such a rock star, \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reports \u003ca class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-hockney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tate Britain\u003c/a> will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/24/tate-britain-to-open-till-midnight-to-cope-with-hockney-show-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening its doors until midnight\u003c/a> for the first time to cope with demand for its current major retrospective of Hockney’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a point in his life when major world museums are presenting big Hockney shows, the artist could easily retire. But\u003cem> \u003c/em>an exhibition of 28 images he created of Yosemite National Park, \u003cem>Yosemite Suite,\u003c/em> shows how Hockney continues to reassess familiar territory in new ways. After being shown in London, New York and Venice, CA, \u003cem>Yosemite Suite\u003c/em> has arrived in the Bay Area. The works are on view at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/12858/the-yosemite-suite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pace Gallery in Palo Alto\u003c/a> through May 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/315264550″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles-based visual artist visited Yosemite in 2010 and 2011. Instead of an easel or medium-format camera, he brought his iPad along. The digital drawings he created using the software Brushes have been reproduced as large prints for display, four of them stretching to nearly eight feet in height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the resulting images have been tucked into bigger shows, like \u003ca href=\"http://deyoung.famsf.org/archive/hockney/hockney-about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at San Francisco’s de Young Museum in 2013. But seeing all 28 images assembled together in a dedicated exhibition immerses the visitor into Hockney’s vision of Yosemite. It’s a vision that is at once sunny and riotously colorful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12938826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12938826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-800x1085.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 21\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney.' width=\"800\" height=\"1085\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-768x1042.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1020x1384.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1920x2605.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1180x1601.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-960x1303.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-240x326.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-375x509.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-520x706.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 21” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trees rise up like the columns of an open, sunlit Gothic cathedral. You feel like you could face-plant into the fluffy, flower-covered mountainsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hockney’s digital space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the course of his long career, Hockney has embraced all sorts of technologies, from Polaroid photographs to fax machines. Yet his work always remains rooted in painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology is not the end in itself, but rather, a tool,” says Douglas Baxter, president of Pace Gallery in New York, and Hockney’s longtime friend. With \u003cem>Yosemite Suite\u003c/em>, Baxter says, Hockney responds to the park with an Impressionist’s eye and then “translates it to the iPad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for Hockney the sedate earth tones of artists past. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/art/faculty-and-staff/ryan-reynolds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Reynolds\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of art at Santa Clara University, says the artist translates the language of the landscape into his own patois of color, line and texture. “He takes what could be seen as these postcard views, and turns them into something that you want to contemplate and think about,” Reynolds says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12963302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12963302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1060.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 3\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. ' width=\"800\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1060.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1020x1351.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1920x2543.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-960x1272.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-240x318.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-375x497.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-520x689.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut.jpg 1546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 3” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, Reynolds says that Hockney is a master of texture, regardless of whether the work is produced with paint and brushes or a finger on a screen. “Dots, lines, scribbles, are used to mimic texture,” Reynolds says. “He’s studied artists like Matisse and Picasso quite thoroughly, and you can see those influences in his work and especially in these Yosemite paintings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3> Long legacy of Yosemite art\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hockney comes from a long line of artists inspired by Yosemite. In the mid-19th century, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/valley-of-the-yosemite-33107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albert Bierstadt\u003c/a>’s oil paintings first established the landscape in the American imagination, as did the work of William Kieth and Thomas Hill. “As part the Hudson River School era, they were interested in the epic landscape infused with majestic light,” Reynolds says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came photography, epitomized by the work of Ansel Adams, Carleton Watkins and Celia Crocker Thompson. In more recent years, a host of photographers have continued to tackle Yosemite afresh: \u003ca href=\"http://www.matthewbrandt.com/works/taste-tests-in-color/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Brandt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://binhdanh.com/Projects/Yosemite/yosemite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binh Danh\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://judydater.com/nudes/pzo007y7y85t95guktxobndyqw7zvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judy Dater\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamkatseff.com/landscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Katseff\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansuburbx.com/2015/07/roger-minick-sightseer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Minick\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2015/11/opies-yosemite-for-la-courthouse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Opie\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.milleetibbs.com/mountains_valleys1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millee Tibbs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But relatively few artists are drawn to the park these days. “Yosemite lost the intellectual excitement that it once held to many painters, probably due to how well Yosemite is known and how often it has been depicted,” Reynolds says. “Maybe also because no one had an idea of how to do it differently. How to deal with those impossibly grand views and angles of monumental granite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12938823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12938823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1077.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 8\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney.' width=\"800\" height=\"1077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1077.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-160x215.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-768x1034.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1020x1373.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1920x2584.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1180x1588.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-960x1292.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-520x700.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 8” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hockney clearly isn’t intimidated by Yosemite or its legacy on canvas or photo stock. “He’s not afraid to play with places that are very familiar to us,” says \u003ca href=\"http://art.sdsu.edu/profiles/bridget-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridget Gilman\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of art history at San Diego State University. “There are all these ways in which a place that’s familiar could be a launching point for some kind of experimentation with materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hockney’s application of iPad painting to one of the nation’s most iconic landmarks ultimately recalls John Muir’s description of the park in \u003cem>The Yosemite\u003c/em>: “From the eastern boundary of this vast golden flower-bed rose the mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Hockey’s ‘Yosemite Suite’ is on view at the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto through Sunday, May 7. More information \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/12797/david-hockney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>David Hockney has been the subject of more than 400 solo exhibitions over his long career. The British-born artist is such a rock star, \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reports \u003ca class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-hockney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tate Britain\u003c/a> will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/24/tate-britain-to-open-till-midnight-to-cope-with-hockney-show-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening its doors until midnight\u003c/a> for the first time to cope with demand for its current major retrospective of Hockney’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a point in his life when major world museums are presenting big Hockney shows, the artist could easily retire. But\u003cem> \u003c/em>an exhibition of 28 images he created of Yosemite National Park, \u003cem>Yosemite Suite,\u003c/em> shows how Hockney continues to reassess familiar territory in new ways. After being shown in London, New York and Venice, CA, \u003cem>Yosemite Suite\u003c/em> has arrived in the Bay Area. The works are on view at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/12858/the-yosemite-suite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pace Gallery in Palo Alto\u003c/a> through May 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/315264550″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/315264550″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles-based visual artist visited Yosemite in 2010 and 2011. Instead of an easel or medium-format camera, he brought his iPad along. The digital drawings he created using the software Brushes have been reproduced as large prints for display, four of them stretching to nearly eight feet in height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the resulting images have been tucked into bigger shows, like \u003ca href=\"http://deyoung.famsf.org/archive/hockney/hockney-about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> at San Francisco’s de Young Museum in 2013. But seeing all 28 images assembled together in a dedicated exhibition immerses the visitor into Hockney’s vision of Yosemite. It’s a vision that is at once sunny and riotously colorful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12938826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12938826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-800x1085.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 21\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney.' width=\"800\" height=\"1085\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-800x1085.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-768x1042.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1020x1384.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1920x2605.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-1180x1601.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-960x1303.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-240x326.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-375x509.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY-520x706.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/62628_06_HOCKNEY.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 21” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trees rise up like the columns of an open, sunlit Gothic cathedral. You feel like you could face-plant into the fluffy, flower-covered mountainsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Hockney’s digital space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the course of his long career, Hockney has embraced all sorts of technologies, from Polaroid photographs to fax machines. Yet his work always remains rooted in painting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology is not the end in itself, but rather, a tool,” says Douglas Baxter, president of Pace Gallery in New York, and Hockney’s longtime friend. With \u003cem>Yosemite Suite\u003c/em>, Baxter says, Hockney responds to the park with an Impressionist’s eye and then “translates it to the iPad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for Hockney the sedate earth tones of artists past. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/art/faculty-and-staff/ryan-reynolds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Reynolds\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of art at Santa Clara University, says the artist translates the language of the landscape into his own patois of color, line and texture. “He takes what could be seen as these postcard views, and turns them into something that you want to contemplate and think about,” Reynolds says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12963302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12963302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1060.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 3\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. ' width=\"800\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1060.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-160x212.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1020x1351.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1920x2543.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-960x1272.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-240x318.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-375x497.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut-520x689.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24690_62610_06_HOCKNEY-qut.jpg 1546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 3” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For instance, Reynolds says that Hockney is a master of texture, regardless of whether the work is produced with paint and brushes or a finger on a screen. “Dots, lines, scribbles, are used to mimic texture,” Reynolds says. “He’s studied artists like Matisse and Picasso quite thoroughly, and you can see those influences in his work and especially in these Yosemite paintings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3> Long legacy of Yosemite art\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hockney comes from a long line of artists inspired by Yosemite. In the mid-19th century, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/valley-of-the-yosemite-33107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albert Bierstadt\u003c/a>’s oil paintings first established the landscape in the American imagination, as did the work of William Kieth and Thomas Hill. “As part the Hudson River School era, they were interested in the epic landscape infused with majestic light,” Reynolds says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came photography, epitomized by the work of Ansel Adams, Carleton Watkins and Celia Crocker Thompson. In more recent years, a host of photographers have continued to tackle Yosemite afresh: \u003ca href=\"http://www.matthewbrandt.com/works/taste-tests-in-color/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Brandt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://binhdanh.com/Projects/Yosemite/yosemite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binh Danh\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://judydater.com/nudes/pzo007y7y85t95guktxobndyqw7zvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judy Dater\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamkatseff.com/landscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Katseff\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.americansuburbx.com/2015/07/roger-minick-sightseer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Minick\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2015/11/opies-yosemite-for-la-courthouse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Opie\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.milleetibbs.com/mountains_valleys1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millee Tibbs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But relatively few artists are drawn to the park these days. “Yosemite lost the intellectual excitement that it once held to many painters, probably due to how well Yosemite is known and how often it has been depicted,” Reynolds says. “Maybe also because no one had an idea of how to do it differently. How to deal with those impossibly grand views and angles of monumental granite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12938823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12938823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1077.jpg\" alt='\"Untitled No. 8\" from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney.' width=\"800\" height=\"1077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-800x1077.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-160x215.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-768x1034.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1020x1373.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1920x2584.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-1180x1588.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-960x1292.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-375x505.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut-520x700.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/RS24691_62615_06_HOCKNEY-qut.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Untitled No. 8” from The Yosemite Suite, 2010, by David Hockney. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of David Hockney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hockney clearly isn’t intimidated by Yosemite or its legacy on canvas or photo stock. “He’s not afraid to play with places that are very familiar to us,” says \u003ca href=\"http://art.sdsu.edu/profiles/bridget-gilman/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridget Gilman\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of art history at San Diego State University. “There are all these ways in which a place that’s familiar could be a launching point for some kind of experimentation with materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hockney’s application of iPad painting to one of the nation’s most iconic landmarks ultimately recalls John Muir’s description of the park in \u003cem>The Yosemite\u003c/em>: “From the eastern boundary of this vast golden flower-bed rose the mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>David Hockey’s ‘Yosemite Suite’ is on view at the Pace Gallery in Palo Alto through Sunday, May 7. More information \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/12797/david-hockney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump will sign sweeping executive orders Tuesday that take aim at a number of his predecessor’s climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging orders and accompanying memorandums will seek to undo the centerpiece of former President Obama’s environmental legacy and national efforts to address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also jeopardize America’s current role in international efforts to confront climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior White House official says the goal is to make the U.S. energy-independent and to get the Environmental Protection Agency back to its core mission of maintaining clean air and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a symbolic gesture, the president is expected to sign the documents at EPA headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Trump’s Regulatory Targets\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The major regulation targeted by the executive order will be the Clean Power Plan, Obama’s signature climate measure that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump will order a review of that and a number of other climate efforts, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>a federal moratorium on coal leasing\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>a measure that requires federal agencies to consider climate change during their rule-making process\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>the “social cost of carbon,” which puts a dollar figure on carbon pollution\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“In taking a sledgehammer to U.S. climate action, the administration will push the country backward, making it harder and more expensive to reduce emissions,” said Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wri.org//\">World Resources Institute\u003c/a>, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate science is clear and unwavering: mounting greenhouse gas emissions are warming our planet, putting people and business in harm’s way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some energy companies are celebrating the anticipated move. Trump is expected to be accompanied by energy executives when he signs the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.api.org/\">American Petroleum Institute\u003c/a> president and CEO Jack Gerard said, “We look forward to working with the Trump administration and Congress on forward-looking energy policies that will help ensure the United States continues leading the world in the production and refining of oil and natural gas, and in the reduction of carbon emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current head of the EPA, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is a longtime critic of environmental regulation. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519499975/epa-head-scott-pruitt-doubts-basic-consensus-on-climate-change\">Earlier this month\u003c/a> Pruitt said carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to climate change, rejecting established science. Before becoming EPA administrator, Pruitt joined dozens of other state attorneys general who sued the agency to halt the Clean Power Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of the policies that Trump is targeting will be easy to overturn, the Clean Power Plan could prove more complicated. Environmental law experts say it could take the administration years to fully undo it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that policy and some of the others that Trump is expected to address later today:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Clean Power Plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Clean Power Plan is a set of national standards that are designed to slow human-caused climate change by limiting carbon pollution from power plants. The power sector accounts for \u003ca href=\"http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=77&t=11\">almost 40 percent\u003c/a> of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. The Clean Power Plan would cut those emissions and carbon pollution 32 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he introduced it \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/03/remarks-president-announcing-clean-power-plan\">in 2015\u003c/a>, Obama called the Clean Power Plan “the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against climate change.” It’s the centerpiece of the U.S. commitment to the Paris climate agreement. Donald Trump and Republicans though, have called the plan a “job-killer” and have pledged to kill it instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The senior White House official said today’s executive orders do not address the Paris climate deal. “Whether we stay in or out is still under discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive orders kick off a rule-making process with the goal of ending the Clean Power Plan. But they won’t end the policy outright, nor do they say how his administration will get rid of it, and the devil may be in the details. Any effort to repeal the rule could prove lengthy, difficult and fraught with litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you have something like the Clean Power Plan — a final rule-making — then that can’t be withdrawn using any process other than the one that was used to create it,” says Nathan Richardson, a visiting fellow at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rff.org/\">Resources for the Future\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means notices, public comment and a rule-making procedure that could take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has time. Currently, the Clean Power Plan is held up in federal court after lawsuits from industry groups and states challenged its legality. A ruling could be months away and any decision — for or against the plan — will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress could also step in and amend the Clean Air Act to say the EPA shouldn’t regulate greenhouse gases, nullifying the Clean Power Plan, but that could prove politically challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Moratorium on Federal Coal Leases\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration placed a moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/15/463164790/u-s-moratorium-on-new-coal-leases-to-be-announced-friday\">in January 2016\u003c/a>, citing concerns over pricing and pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the estimated three-year hold on leasing, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-launches-comprehensive-review-federal-coal-program\">Department of the Interior said\u003c/a> it was going to review the country’s coal-leasing program to make sure it was providing “a fair return to taxpayers and reflect its impacts on the environment, while continuing to help meet our energy needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal lands account for roughly \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/15/463164790/u-s-moratorium-on-new-coal-leases-to-be-announced-friday\">40 percent of all\u003c/a> U.S. coal production. Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are mined on federal lands every year, generating nearly $1.3 billion for the government in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups say that money doesn’t offset the societal costs of pollution from coal mining and consumption. Burning coal is a leading cause of carbon dioxide emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order to lift the moratorium should take immediate effect, allowing the Bureau of Land Management to issue new coal leases on federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not at all clear there will be any immediate rush for new leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coal production fell in 2016,” says Robert Godby, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uwyo.edu/cee/\">Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy\u003c/a> at the University of Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it’s fallen for several years as utilities have switched to cheaper natural gas. That means existing coal reserves have grown bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The coal market is so weak,” Godby says, “and some companies are coming out of bankruptcy.” He says they simply don’t have the cash to make the enormous investment required to lease federal land for future coal production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godby says the decline in coal leasing — and the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in royalties — has been painful for Wyoming. The state had been using the money to build new schools, but is now facing a large budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Social Cost of Carbon\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The “social cost of carbon” is another Obama-era policy that directed government agencies to factor in the effects of climate change on their rule-making. It essentially put a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-cleetus/the-social-cost-of-carbon-underscores-an-obvious-fact-climate-change-is-costly\">price tag on carbon emissions\u003c/a> and told agencies to factor that price tag in when making a regulation. The current cost is \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/social-cost-carbon\">$36 per metric ton\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is expected to try to neuter the policy by directing the EPA to lower that cost to the point where it won’t have much weight in policy-making. An all-out elimination of the cost would likely have left the administration with weaker \u003ca href=\"http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2016/D08-08/C:14-2159:J:Ripple:aut:T:fnOp:N:1807496:S:0\">legal standing\u003c/a> should it be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is aiming to cut federal climate change efforts across government. 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"content": "\u003cp>The town of Lucerne in Lake County is tucked between mountains and a lake. When you drive in on the main two-lane highway, the sign that greets you calls it the “Switzerland of America.” But David Cruz has a different nickname for the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to the most expensive water in the whole United States,” Cruz says. He’s standing in his front yard, wearing a T-shirt that says: “FLAT BROKE -- DAUGHTER IN COLLEGE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's out, but we're still paying,\" adds Cruz’s wife, Lorena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days\" target=\"_blank\">100-day action plan\u003c/a> to “Make America Great Again,” President Trump proposed privatization as the best strategy for fixing the country's infrastructure, including roads, bridges and water systems. That's already happened in Lake County's Lucerne and other small towns like it throughout California -- and it's not working out very well for people like the Cruz family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/03/2017-03-24b-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/03/24/TapWater.jpg\" Title=\"Why This California Town’s Water Costs Way More Than the National Average\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Cruz is semi-retired, and says he can’t afford to pay his family’s water bill on his limited income. Lorena shows me their latest one: $712.70 for two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months of water costs the average U.S. household about $240. The Cruz family is paying three times that, and Lorena says her family of five doesn't waste water. They do dishes only once a day, wash their laundry every two weeks and take short showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These habits might sound familiar after a drought that lasted half a decade. But this isn't about the drought. The Cruzes are conserving water because they can’t afford not to, rain or shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11374347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11374347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"A sign displayed at a public hearing regarding Lucerne’s water rates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-1180x803.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-960x653.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-520x354.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign displayed at a public hearing regarding Lucerne’s water rates. \u003ccite>(Audrey Dilling/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t always been like this. But just over a decade ago, David Cruz says, their water bill started to rise. The high cost of water has impacted the entire town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no trees, empty houses, no gardens,” says David Cruz. \"Pretty soon it’s going to be a ghost town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cruz family's neighbor, Steve Theodorf, remembers more vibrant times in the area. He’s lived in Lucerne since high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the summer it was just wall-to-wall tourists,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodorf was just doing something he rarely does: washing his car to get ready for a special trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I took the first damn shower in one month today. ... Do you know what that feels like?'\u003ccite>Lucerne resident Samuel Bonaccorso\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Otherwise we just leave our cars dirty because we can't afford to wash them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of his neighbors, Theodorf is a retired veteran on a fixed income. Lucerne’s population skews mostly older and white, and many people live below the poverty line. The main highway through the town is dotted with shuttered hotels and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to see the town go the way it’s gone,” Theodorf says. “The water is what killed the businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Thai restaurant that closed up shop and reopened in another town just a couple of miles down the road, where water bills are lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how does a town get priced out by its water?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11374351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11374351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Clear Lake, the source of Lucerne’s drinking water, is full of algae, bacteria and other compounds that must be removed before the water reaches customers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clear Lake, the source of Lucerne’s drinking water, is full of algae, bacteria and other compounds that must be removed before the water reaches customers. \u003ccite>(Audrey Dilling/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucerne’s water comes from nearby Clear Lake. But, at least on this visit, it doesn’t quite live up to the name. The lake is teeming with green algae. Water like this needs a lot of treatment. And when the current water company in Lucerne took over about 15 years ago, the health department told them the treatment system they inherited wasn’t up to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply cannot operate a system that does not provide safe drinking water to customers,” says Paul Townsley, vice president of regulatory matters for \u003ca href=\"https://www.calwater.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Water Services\u003c/a> (Cal Water). Townsley says the company had no choice but to upgrade the treatment plant, to the tune of about $7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You take that cost and you divide it by the number of customers here\" -- that's about 1,800 households -- “and you have the issue that we have today,” Townsley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with two discounts offered by the company, the cost of water in Lucerne remains unaffordable for many customers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Townsley says that spending any less on the Lucerne system is not an option. “The alternative is to ignore the infrastructure,” he adds, which is the choice hundreds of small water systems around California are being forced to make because they can’t come up with the money to make improvements. As many as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_314EHR.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">160,000 Californians\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> get their water from a company that has failed to meet water quality standards in recent years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Cal Water was able to secure a zero-interest loan from the state to build the plant, something smaller rural communities often don’t have the capacity to do. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, as one of the largest private water companies in the West, Cal Water has access to pools of funding for infrastructure from investors. And it’s up to the customers in Lucerne to pay it back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An investor in a company like Cal Water is investing in infrastructure,\" says Townsley. \"The money has to come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might even be coming from you, if you’ve got a retirement fund. Some major mutual funds invest in Cal Water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were a public company, money for big projects would come from bonds, Townsley explains. But people vote on bonds. The residents of Lucerne don’t get a vote. Instead, they get one chance every three years to plead their case at a public hearing with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"> California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a> (CPUC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took the first damn shower in one month today,” Lucerne resident Samuel Bonaccorso told a CPUC judge in front at the latest packed public hearing in December. “Do you know what that feels like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, the water company agreed to consolidate Lucerne’s costs with other nearby water districts -- another option that’s only available to a large company like Cal Water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brings down the monthly water bill for people like Bonaccorso from three times the national average to double what most Americans pay for their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California faces a funding gap of as much as \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_314EHR.pdf\">$160 million per year\u003c/a> to ensure small, rural communities have access to safe and affordable water. With support from Cal Water, Governor Brown recently signed legislation converting state loans like the one used to build the Lucerne plants into grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story was produced with support from the UC Berkeley 11th-Hour Food and Farming Fellowship.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story has been updated from its original version to provide more details about Cal Water’s efforts to reduce the cost of water in Lucerne.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Cruz is semi-retired, and says he can’t afford to pay his family’s water bill on his limited income. Lorena shows me their latest one: $712.70 for two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months of water costs the average U.S. household about $240. The Cruz family is paying three times that, and Lorena says her family of five doesn't waste water. They do dishes only once a day, wash their laundry every two weeks and take short showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These habits might sound familiar after a drought that lasted half a decade. But this isn't about the drought. The Cruzes are conserving water because they can’t afford not to, rain or shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11374347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11374347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-800x544.jpg\" alt=\"A sign displayed at a public hearing regarding Lucerne’s water rates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-1180x803.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-960x653.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/LucerneWaterSign-520x354.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign displayed at a public hearing regarding Lucerne’s water rates. \u003ccite>(Audrey Dilling/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t always been like this. But just over a decade ago, David Cruz says, their water bill started to rise. The high cost of water has impacted the entire town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no trees, empty houses, no gardens,” says David Cruz. \"Pretty soon it’s going to be a ghost town.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cruz family's neighbor, Steve Theodorf, remembers more vibrant times in the area. He’s lived in Lucerne since high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the summer it was just wall-to-wall tourists,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodorf was just doing something he rarely does: washing his car to get ready for a special trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I took the first damn shower in one month today. ... Do you know what that feels like?'\u003ccite>Lucerne resident Samuel Bonaccorso\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Otherwise we just leave our cars dirty because we can't afford to wash them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of his neighbors, Theodorf is a retired veteran on a fixed income. Lucerne’s population skews mostly older and white, and many people live below the poverty line. The main highway through the town is dotted with shuttered hotels and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to see the town go the way it’s gone,” Theodorf says. “The water is what killed the businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Thai restaurant that closed up shop and reopened in another town just a couple of miles down the road, where water bills are lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how does a town get priced out by its water?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11374351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11374351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Clear Lake, the source of Lucerne’s drinking water, is full of algae, bacteria and other compounds that must be removed before the water reaches customers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ClearLake-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clear Lake, the source of Lucerne’s drinking water, is full of algae, bacteria and other compounds that must be removed before the water reaches customers. \u003ccite>(Audrey Dilling/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucerne’s water comes from nearby Clear Lake. But, at least on this visit, it doesn’t quite live up to the name. The lake is teeming with green algae. Water like this needs a lot of treatment. And when the current water company in Lucerne took over about 15 years ago, the health department told them the treatment system they inherited wasn’t up to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply cannot operate a system that does not provide safe drinking water to customers,” says Paul Townsley, vice president of regulatory matters for \u003ca href=\"https://www.calwater.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Water Services\u003c/a> (Cal Water). Townsley says the company had no choice but to upgrade the treatment plant, to the tune of about $7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You take that cost and you divide it by the number of customers here\" -- that's about 1,800 households -- “and you have the issue that we have today,” Townsley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with two discounts offered by the company, the cost of water in Lucerne remains unaffordable for many customers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Townsley says that spending any less on the Lucerne system is not an option. “The alternative is to ignore the infrastructure,” he adds, which is the choice hundreds of small water systems around California are being forced to make because they can’t come up with the money to make improvements. As many as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_314EHR.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">160,000 Californians\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> get their water from a company that has failed to meet water quality standards in recent years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Cal Water was able to secure a zero-interest loan from the state to build the plant, something smaller rural communities often don’t have the capacity to do. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, as one of the largest private water companies in the West, Cal Water has access to pools of funding for infrastructure from investors. And it’s up to the customers in Lucerne to pay it back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An investor in a company like Cal Water is investing in infrastructure,\" says Townsley. \"The money has to come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might even be coming from you, if you’ve got a retirement fund. Some major mutual funds invest in Cal Water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were a public company, money for big projects would come from bonds, Townsley explains. But people vote on bonds. The residents of Lucerne don’t get a vote. Instead, they get one chance every three years to plead their case at a public hearing with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"> California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/a> (CPUC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took the first damn shower in one month today,” Lucerne resident Samuel Bonaccorso told a CPUC judge in front at the latest packed public hearing in December. “Do you know what that feels like?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, the water company agreed to consolidate Lucerne’s costs with other nearby water districts -- another option that’s only available to a large company like Cal Water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brings down the monthly water bill for people like Bonaccorso from three times the national average to double what most Americans pay for their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California faces a funding gap of as much as \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_314EHR.pdf\">$160 million per year\u003c/a> to ensure small, rural communities have access to safe and affordable water. 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The county, at the southern end of the Central Valley, produces 70 percent of the oil pumped out of the ground here and is one of this blue state’s pockets of dark red.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ask most oil folks if they think Trump will make a difference to their industry, and the answer is largely the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not really, no,” says Chad Hathaway, who owns a small oil company in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving through town, you can’t miss how big oil is here — there are oil wells on the main streets of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are close,” says Hathaway. “We are family and when part of the family hurts, everybody feels it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People here hit a low point last year when oil dropped to $26 a barrel, a quarter of what it was three years ago. Many companies laid off workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway, a tall, 40-year-old guy with a determined streak, rode out the downturn by cutting pay. 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If it makes sense, I’ll do it. I am not stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway says he gets into Facebook battles with family members in the Bay Area who don’t understand\u003cb> \u003c/b>this part of the state, or his support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t understand,” he says. “How are we so dumb down here to think that this guy is actually going to do something for us? Well, nobody else was doing it for us before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as even Hathaway acknowledges, there may be little Trump can do for the state’s oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the nation, but production has been declining since the mid-1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VoMPoJgde3sCIYWFTjOsMMKIdT4Gjt6T”]That’s because the major economic driver for the industry is the price of oil. It rises and falls due to global market forces, including the international consortium OPEC, which is largely beyond President Trump’s reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other reason is that California has a major say in environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety percent of my problems are with Sacramento,” Hathaway says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway doesn’t disparage all environmental regulations. ““Some are good,” he says. “Some are meaningful. Some are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was glad to see Trump get rid of a rule about air pollution, which regulated methane from oil and gas wells. Nonetheless, California \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/08/68859/as-feds-roll-back-methane-rule-california-pushes-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has its own version of that rule\u003c/a>. So Hathaway won’t see much of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other people here in Kern County are feeling more optimistic, because there are policies where the federal government holds sway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a good mood,” says Les Clark. He’s been in oil since 1965, but now runs a trade association called the Independent Oil Producers’ Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We meet up in Taft, a small town west of Bakersfield that was built around oil. Clark’s granddaughter is playing in the Friday night basketball game at the high school, where he knows almost everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says the federal government controls some rules, like ones relating to oil industry wastewater. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving through town, you can’t miss how big oil is here — there are oil wells on the main streets of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are close,” says Hathaway. “We are family and when part of the family hurts, everybody feels it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People here hit a low point last year when oil dropped to $26 a barrel, a quarter of what it was three years ago. Many companies laid off workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway, a tall, 40-year-old guy with a determined streak, rode out the downturn by cutting pay. 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If it makes sense, I’ll do it. I am not stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway says he gets into Facebook battles with family members in the Bay Area who don’t understand\u003cb> \u003c/b>this part of the state, or his support for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just don’t understand,” he says. “How are we so dumb down here to think that this guy is actually going to do something for us? Well, nobody else was doing it for us before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as even Hathaway acknowledges, there may be little Trump can do for the state’s oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the nation, but production has been declining since the mid-1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>That’s because the major economic driver for the industry is the price of oil. It rises and falls due to global market forces, including the international consortium OPEC, which is largely beyond President Trump’s reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other reason is that California has a major say in environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety percent of my problems are with Sacramento,” Hathaway says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hathaway doesn’t disparage all environmental regulations. ““Some are good,” he says. “Some are meaningful. Some are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was glad to see Trump get rid of a rule about air pollution, which regulated methane from oil and gas wells. Nonetheless, California \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/08/68859/as-feds-roll-back-methane-rule-california-pushes-a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has its own version of that rule\u003c/a>. So Hathaway won’t see much of a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other people here in Kern County are feeling more optimistic, because there are policies where the federal government holds sway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a good mood,” says Les Clark. He’s been in oil since 1965, but now runs a trade association called the Independent Oil Producers’ Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We meet up in Taft, a small town west of Bakersfield that was built around oil. Clark’s granddaughter is playing in the Friday night basketball game at the high school, where he knows almost everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says the federal government controls some rules, like ones relating to oil industry wastewater. 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