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"content": "\u003cp>California’s prolonged and ongoing drought has at least one positive outcome. It has prompted water officials across the state to quickly develop new sources of water — and one of those new sources is flushed water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocwd.com/\">Orange County Water District \u003c/a>is leading the nation in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocwd.com/gwrs/about-gwrs/\">wastewater treatment \u003c/a>to replenish groundwater supplies — and that project is expanding now, designed to eventually supply water to 2.4 million people, about 40 percent of all water needed in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success in turning used water into drinking water in Orange County is being copied across the state, according to David Sedlak, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://bwc.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Water Center\u003c/a>, which monitors the state’s water policy and progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water agencies in California have been watching Orange County for years now,” Sedlak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297719879\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has set aside $1 billion for water recycling, including treating wastewater to drinking water standards. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleywater.org/\">Santa Clara Water Authority \u003c/a>and San Jose consulted with Orange County officials, and they’re now leading the way in Northern California. A huge \"toilet-to-tap\" effort is being planned by the city of Los Angeles, which could eventually top Orange County’s output.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every water district in the state is planning some kind of wastewater-to-drinking-water effort now, Sedlak said, and that kind of rapid progress is unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you think about the normal glacial pace with which water infrastructure projects usually get built,” he said, “things are moving at a lightning pace in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think pretty soon all of the water we have in sewer treatment plants is going to be recycled.'\u003ccite>Madelyn Glickfeld, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nowhere quicker than Orange County, which currently processes 100 million gallons of wastewater a day. When the expansion is completed in 2022, that number is expected to climb to 130 million gallons a day. The district uses reverse osmosis and filtering technology to exceed state standards for drinking water, and then it pumps that water underground to refill its groundwater basin and aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That additional underground step accomplishes a number of things. By refilling the groundwater basin, there is less danger of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4693\">subsidence problem \u003c/a>afflicting the Central Valley, where groundwater pumping has \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/08/19/central-valley-is-sinking-faster-than-we-thought-in-current-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">caused the land to sink\u003c/a> as much as 2 inches a month. 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And that’s in the cards for much of the rest of California, said UCLA water policy researcher Madelyn Glickfeld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going so quickly,” she said. “I think pretty soon all of the water we have in sewer treatment plants is going to be recycled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, water officials have been prodded by the drought, now entering year number six in California. Recent rains have eased some of the problems for northernmost areas, but federal officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/droughtca.php\">(NOAA) estimate\u003c/a> 87 percent of the state is still in drought, with over half in severe drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cut water allocations again this year. This time districts are getting 20 percent of contracted water, which is better than last year’s 10 percent allocation but still much less than most districts need. Glickfeld said districts don’t want to rely on that water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, their goal is to stop importing water,” Glickfeld said. “And they think they can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11220167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11220167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Reverse osmosis membranes at the Groundwater Replenishment System.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Membranes-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reverse osmosis membranes at the Groundwater Replenishment System. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Orange County Water District)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, getting new sources doesn’t mean much without cutting water use. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump, in a statement early this morning, announced his intention to nominate ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department and become the country’s top diplomat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection, which had been rumored for the past week, is unusual in a number of ways, and could face more scrutiny than usual when the Senate holds confirmation hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key facts about the president-elect’s nominee for the final major position to be filled in his Cabinet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tillerson never has worked for the government — or anyone other than Exxon since 1975\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson is the Wichita Falls, Texas-born son of a Boy Scouts of America administrator who rose to become an Eagle Scout himself, \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/11/505187939/who-is-rex-tillerson-trumps-reported-pick-for-secretary-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Coll told NPR’s Michel Martin\u003c/a>. He joined Exxon Co., U.S.A. shortly after earning a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never left, working his way up through the ranks to eventually lead the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection of a private-sector executive as secretary of state has happened before, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> notes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/exxons-rex-tillerson-is-top-candidate-for-secretary-of-state-1481318464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Bechtel executive George Shultz serving under Reagan\u003c/a> — but Shultz had previously served as secretary of Labor and Treasury secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11217197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11217197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an Arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011. \u003ccite>(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Coll notes in a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece that \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rex-tillerson-from-a-corporate-oil-sovereign-to-the-state-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the oil giant runs a very State Department-like team of analysts\u003c/a> that predicts which countries will remain stable enough to ensure profitable investment. And \u003cem>The \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/808515387335839744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>‘s Philip Rucker reported late Monday\u003c/a> that Tillerson came with recommendations from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told NPR’s David Greene \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505227834/trump-expected-to-name-his-pick-for-secretary-of-state-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the selection could work, with the right support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some difference between knowing about the world and knowing about foreign policy,” Haass said. “He’d obviously need to surround himself with people who had experience on the ground inside the department and around the inter-agency process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s had extensive dealings with Russia — which may complicate his confirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson spent much of his ExxonMobil career in the company’s international division, Coll told NPR, developing ties to countries around the world — particularly Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That brought him into contact with Vladimir Putin,” Coll said. “ExxonMobil is one of the few American oil companies that has managed to stay in Russia through all kinds of political weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”7cXYUs4A9uhJI5gytbv4kt9cro81LNnu”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/12/505272577/in-exxonmobils-rex-tillerson-moscow-sees-trusted-highly-regarded-figure'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tillerson developed close ties to state-run oil company Rosneft\u003c/a>, NPR’s Lucian Kim reports, and had reached agreements to run development projects with Rosneft in Siberia and the Russian Arctic. Those projects came to a halt when the U.S. imposed economic sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the agreements left him with a good reputation in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” ‘The Russians respect strength, and they see it in ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson. They like him,’ Edward Verona, a former ExxonMobil Russia vice president, told NPR. ‘Putin likes that personality type — not exactly the Trump personality, but the personality that quietly projects power, discipline, control. … It’s a pretty good example of diplomacy, alliance-building, seeing who your friends are and what they can do for you. It was pretty shrewd deal-making.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Following CIA allegations of Russian hacking to benefit Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, Tillerson will have to explain those ties to senators if he’s to be confirmed, CFR’s Haass told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He would have to say, ‘Here’s why I did what I did at the time. Here’s how I’m going to separate myself from it now. Here’s how I view Russia and how I would approach policy toward Russia.’ So this is now probably the biggest single set of questions he would have to tackle.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11218487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11218487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Oil trucks line up in April 2013 at the Bazian refinery near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. ExxonMobil was one of several oil companies to negotiate with the regional government, despite opposition from Baghdad and the United States.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil trucks line up in April 2013 at the Bazian refinery near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. ExxonMobil was one of several oil companies to negotiate with the regional government, despite opposition from Baghdad and the United States. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Meyer/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The diplomatic goals of Tillerson’s company haven’t always lined up with those of his government\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post-Crimea sanctions were not the first time ExxonMobil’s goals were at cross-purposes with those of the United States, Coll told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“ExxonMobil is a very large corporation that really sees itself as an independent sovereign in the world. It has revenue the size of the economy of South Africa. It operates all over the world, negotiating with leaders on behalf of its shareholders. It’s kind of a parallel quasi-state.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Exxon operates in more than 50 different countries, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> reports; Tillerson became an important figure in nations around the world, Coll wrote in \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New Yorker.\u003c/em> He offered the example of ExxonMobil’s business activity in the African nation of Chad:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“During the mid-two-thousands, the entirety of U.S. aid and military spending in the country directed through the U.S. Embassy in the capital, N’Djamena, amounted to less than twenty million dollars annually, whereas the royalty payments Exxon made to the government as part of an oil-production agreement were north of five hundred million dollars. Idriss Déby, the authoritarian President of Chad, did not need a calculator to understand that Rex Tillerson was more important to his future than the U.S. Secretary of State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Kurdistan, during the Obama Administration, Tillerson defied State Department policy and cut an independent oil deal with the Kurdish Regional Government, undermining the national Iraqi government in Baghdad. ExxonMobil did not ask permission. After the fact, Tillerson arranged a conference call with State Department officials and explained his actions, according to my sources, by saying, ‘I had to do what was best for my shareholders.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And \u003cem>The \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/808515387335839744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>‘s Philip Rucker reported late Monday\u003c/a> that Tillerson came with recommendations from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told NPR’s David Greene \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505227834/trump-expected-to-name-his-pick-for-secretary-of-state-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the selection could work, with the right support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some difference between knowing about the world and knowing about foreign policy,” Haass said. “He’d obviously need to surround himself with people who had experience on the ground inside the department and around the inter-agency process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s had extensive dealings with Russia — which may complicate his confirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson spent much of his ExxonMobil career in the company’s international division, Coll told NPR, developing ties to countries around the world — particularly Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That brought him into contact with Vladimir Putin,” Coll said. “ExxonMobil is one of the few American oil companies that has managed to stay in Russia through all kinds of political weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/12/505272577/in-exxonmobils-rex-tillerson-moscow-sees-trusted-highly-regarded-figure'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tillerson developed close ties to state-run oil company Rosneft\u003c/a>, NPR’s Lucian Kim reports, and had reached agreements to run development projects with Rosneft in Siberia and the Russian Arctic. Those projects came to a halt when the U.S. imposed economic sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the agreements left him with a good reputation in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” ‘The Russians respect strength, and they see it in ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson. They like him,’ Edward Verona, a former ExxonMobil Russia vice president, told NPR. ‘Putin likes that personality type — not exactly the Trump personality, but the personality that quietly projects power, discipline, control. … It’s a pretty good example of diplomacy, alliance-building, seeing who your friends are and what they can do for you. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump is leaning toward choosing Rex Tillerson as his nominee for secretary of state, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobil-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371\">according to multiple news reports \u003c/a>this weekend. NPR has not independently confirmed those reports. The potential pick is already drawing scrutiny for the ExxonMobil CEO's close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has no government experience, the 64-year-old Tillerson oversees a company that has operations in 50 countries around the world and has worked closely with Putin. In 2011, he struck a deal with a Kremlin-controlled oil company to drill in the Arctic, but the project was put on hold after the U.S. and Europe imposed sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-candidate-for-state-has-close-ties-to-vladimir-putin-1481033938\">\u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson has opposed U.S. sanctions against Russia, telling his company's shareholders in May 2014 that \"we don't find them to be effective unless they are very well implemented comprehensively and that's a very hard thing to do,\" according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobile-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371?cid=eml_nbn_20161210\">NBC News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11217197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11217197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an Arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011. \u003ccite>(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The prospect of Tillerson as secretary of state sparked a round of criticism from Democrats, and even pushback from Republican senators who would vote on his nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which conducts hearings for secretary of state nominees, and tweeted on Sunday, \"Being a 'friend of Vladimir' is not an attribute I am hoping for from a #SecretaryOfState.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., pledged that Tillerson will get a fair hearing in the Senate during at interview with CBS's \u003cem>Face The Nation\u003c/em>, but added, \"It's a matter of concern to me that he has such a close personal relationship with Vladimir Putin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his transition team insist that no final decision has been made and that an announcement is coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807970490635743237\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump praised many of the candidates he has interviewed for the job in an interview on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em>, where he was asked to make the case for Tillerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's much more than a business executive. I mean, he's a world-class player,\" Trump said of the ExxonMobil chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a company that's been unbelievably managed,\" Trump continued. \"And to me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself, for the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson represented his company in Russia during Boris Yeltsin's administration, and in 2013 the Kremlin awarded him Russia's \"Order of Friendship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vRPwoWj4ArEuoSVahKYzyP32g31yspuv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of Tillerson's likely nomination comes just as the CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election specifically to help Trump win. Trump pushed back on that report late Friday, in a statement that disparaged the CIA but didn't address Russia's involvement. Throughout the campaign, Trump repeatedly praised Putin and questioned earlier reports from the CIA that Russian hackers were behind the release of emails from the Democratic National Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's deliberation over who should serve as the country's chief diplomat has been very public. In an interview process that has seemed at times to mirror the drama that the former reality TV star loves, other finalists for the job included Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; former CIA Director David Petraeus; and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a leading critic of Trump in the 2016 campaign. Romney recanted his comments calling Trump a \"phony\" and a \"fraud\" as he lobbied for the secretary of state job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was also seen in contention, but reports indicate he is likely to be named as deputy secretary of state, responsible for daily operations as the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton served under President George W. Bush in the State Department and as U.N. ambassador, and he stands by the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and overthrow Saddam Hussein. He also \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/trump-needs-to-reverse-the-iran-deal-and-assert-our-interests/\">advocates for tearing up the Iran nuclear agreement\u003c/a> reached by the Obama administration. Bolton said recently that the only lasting solution is \"regime change in Tehran.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another onetime top pick, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/rudy-giuliani-removes-himself-from-consideration-for-trump-cabinet-post/\">announced\u003c/a> Friday he had taken himself out of the running, though earlier reports had indicated it was Trump who had already decided that one of his most fervent supporters and frequent surrogates would not get the plum post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Tillerson is nominated, there will be some tough questions ahead about how he can take on the role of America's top diplomat and distance himself from his company's interests and his vast holdings of Exxon shares, which are reportedly worth about $151 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some breaks between Tillerson and the president-elect. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Pacific Gas and Electric review of a major outage last year has uncovered a list of safety problems at the utility's largest gas storage facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The December 2015 outage, which left thousands of eastern Contra Costa County households without heat on one of the coldest days of the season, is still under investigation by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297569940\" 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>It came five years after a PG&E natural gas pipeline explosion drew attention to poor record keeping and unsafe practices in operating the utility's pipeline network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time the utility did not consider the dangers associated with moisture entering its natural gas lines, and some of its operators did not trust some of the facility's storage controls, according to the company's report into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2015/12/28/discovery-bay-outage-pge-working-to-restore-gas-service/\" target=\"_blank\">gas outage that affected customers\u003c/a> in the communities of Discovery Bay and Byron last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E furnished a redacted copy of its root-cause analysis of last December's disruption at its McDonald Island facility on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report's release comes several months after PG&E \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Documents/GasStorage/State%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20Supervisor%27s%20letter%20to%20PGE%206-30-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily closed the island's storage field\u003c/a> after finding fuel leaks at the site. Those leaks were discovered from inspections prompted by new state requirements that were the result of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493813305/socal-gas-to-pay-4-million-after-massive-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">massive gas leak in Aliso Canyon\u003c/a> near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LCcel2g7Qfam76K333zgkVItUDlvRZPj\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E's asset and risk management practices did not adequately consider the risks associated with liquid or moisture intrusion into the gas system,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's investigation pointed to \"an ineffective corrective maintenance system,\" as well as control room practices that \"were not sufficient for a facility which has this level of complexity and risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says the episode has led to significant changes in how it operates its natural gas facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can look at this event and really get a view on what happened, and help prevent something like this from happening anywhere on our natural gas system,\" said PG&E spokesman Nick Stimmel in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outage Prompts Concerns by Consumer Advocates and Environmentalists \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the company's critics say the incident and the utility's findings point to the need for tougher oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates say the report reveals the kinds of weaknesses in PG&E's gas transmission system that should have been corrected after\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/08/five-years-after-deadly-san-bruno-explosion-are-we-safer/\" target=\"_blank\"> the September 2010 natural gas pipeline blast\u003c/a> that killed eight people, injured dozens and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here we are ... years later and apparently it's business as usual with PG&E,\" said Mindy Spatt, a spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network, who reviewed the gas outage report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why does it take some kind of a problem for PG&E to be aware of the need to properly maintain these gas facilities?\" Spatt asked. \"It appears from this report that they weren't doing that all along.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say the report shows the state's natural gas systems need stronger regulation and that California needs to accelerate toward greener energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't have operational and maintenance requirements and the utmost rigor of managing your facilities, you can end up with problems,\" said Tim O'Connor, director of the Environmental Defense Fund's Oil and Gas Program in California, who also reviewed the report. \"Here, it looks to be a blend of both equipment and personnel that caused this impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This equipment is in need of continuous repair and updating,\" O'Connor said. \"Sometimes valves break, sometimes human error can leave them open, and when that happens we can have impacts on the environment or impacts on our daily lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Connor says the Discovery Bay gas outage, other problems at PG&E's McDonald Island facility and the massive Aliso Canyon gas leak all show the management and oversight of the state's natural gas systems need to be overhauled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Only until we really diversify our energy mix away from being wholly reliant on natural gas to being more reliant on cleaner sources of energy can we have a better, more reliable system and reduce the impact that these problems can have on everyday people,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has submitted the report to the California Public Utilities Commission, which is investigating the outage. The CPUC's probe is not yet completed, according to commission spokeswoman Terrie Prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Details of Gas Outage Report\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 27, 2015, crews at PG&E's gas distribution control center noticed a drop in gas pressure along a system that brings the fuel to residents in Discovery Bay and Byron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem was tied to a station on McDonald Island, one of PG&E's three gas storage facilities. The company buys natural gas when there's less demand -- particularly in the summer when it's cheaper -- and stores it underground on the island until the higher-demand winter months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue was a regulating station that reduces pressure on natural gas lines. The one in this case, though, was frosted over and its pressure had become \"erratic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To isolate the problem, PG&E shut off gas service to some 6,000 gas customers during one of the coldest days of 2015, with lows in the area in the high 20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The root-cause analysis found that because a bypass valve was improperly left open, natural gas flowing from the storage facility did not pass through equipment designed to remove moisture from the gas as it moves into PG&E's pipeline network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That allowed moisture-laden gas from the storage field to reach a regulator station that monitors gas flow before it heads to customers. The cold weather that night caused ice to form inside the gas line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In investigating the outage, PG&E learned that there was no online \"moisture analyzer\" at McDonald Island. 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Their buttery insides are a delicacy in Japanese restaurants where they show up on menus as uni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Holcomb shows the insides of an empty purple urchin, surviving without much kelp to eat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holcomb shows the insides of an empty purple urchin, surviving without much kelp to eat. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Urchins live off kelp, and in the last three years the kelp forests on the Northern California coast have collapsed. Income for local red urchin divers has plummeted by 90 percent in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without kelp you lose all your shellfishery. You lose the abalone fishery, you lose the urchin fishery,” says Holcomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kelp here has been devoured by a different kind of urchin: purple urchins. They’re smaller, less meaty and not worth fishing for. And they’re voracious eaters of kelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The kelp forest has just gotten it from all sides.’\u003ccite>Cynthia Catton, marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Nothing can survive their appetite,” says Holcomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, many parts of Northern California’s coast have turned into what scientists call an urchin barren. There’s not much life besides a mass of spiny purple creatures carpeting the seafloor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are starving animals that don’t die from starvation,” says Holcomb. “They just keep breeding and there’s more and more of them every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A ‘Perfect Storm’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelp beds play a key role in marine ecology. The fast-growing seaweed is a food source for many undersea animals. It also forms a habitat for young fish that hide in its stalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of kelp forests normally varies from year to year. But Cynthia Catton, a marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, says that in decades of observation, such low levels are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a new phase,” says Catton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catton says that the kelp forests were hit by a “perfect storm” of factors. “The kelp forest has just gotten it from all sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first blow began in 2013, with a wasting disease that devastated sea star population along the entire Pacific Coast of North America. They are the urchins’ main predator. With sea stars in decline, purple urchins went on a kelp-eating rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a friend who calls them the goats of the sea,” says Catton. “They form these feeding fronts and they just munch through everywhere they’re walking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next problem: Kelp need cold water. In 2014, oceanographers noticed an unusual warming in the Northern Pacific — even more than could be explained by climate science. For lack of a better term, they called it the “warm blob.” Then, last year’s El Niño made the water even warmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catton’s team saw the kelp forests between the Bay Area and the Oregon border shrink by 93 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202032\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Marine biologist Cynthia Catton meets divers Carson Bell and Jon Holcomb on a seafood processing dock in Fort Bragg.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine biologist Cynthia Catton meets divers Carson Bell and Jon Holcomb on a seafood processing dock in Fort Bragg. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Restoring the Kelp Forest\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shellfish divers are not always the closest allies with the agencies that monitor their fishing. As Jon Holcomb puts it, “we’re resource users, and they’re resource protectors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they share the same goal: restoring the kelp forest ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb and a few other divers have volunteered to help biologist Catton with a restoration effort. They’ve been diving underwater to remove masses of purple urchins from a few test sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re hoping that in those sites, their effort to remove urchins will allow kelp to grow back in the spring. The challenge is collecting thousands of urchins at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back out on his boat near Mendocino, Holcomb assembles the device he’s developed for just this purpose. He slaps together 10-foot-long pieces of fiberglass tubing to make a sort of underwater vacuum cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s much like trying to scratch the paint off a house with a pin. It’s not gonna be easy.’\u003ccite>Jon Holcomb, urchin diver\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Not real pretty,” he says, adjusting the tube. “I didn’t get carried away here on the aesthetics of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a modified version of a tool called an airlift, which is used to clear sand and silt from the seafloor. This one is built for purple urchins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb puts on his scuba gear, and connects the pipes to an air compressor on deck. Then he dives down with the equipment to depths of about 30 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXExXw4R0A\">videos\u003c/a> he’s made of his process, the seafloor looks like a minefield of spiky purple creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb uses a little metal rake to scrape the urchins off the rocks, and into his fiberglass tube. The device sucks the urchins up, and deposits them into a large net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This day, it takes him almost two hours to clear off an area smaller than a tennis court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally comes up, his net is packed with thousands of purple urchins with wiggly spines. They’re much lighter than the same number of urchins would be in a healthy kelp forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb smashes one open to show that there’s no flesh inside. “They’re all empty,” says Holcomb. “There’s no food value in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Holcomb, a veteran diver with his urchin airlift.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Holcomb, a veteran diver with his urchin airlift. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We head back to a dock in Fort Bragg, where Catton has brought a group of local volunteers to count and measure the urchins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be able to say, ‘How much effort does this take?’ ” says Catton. “‘How effective is this on a small scale? How can we expand this effectively? And if not, what do we need to do differently?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few months, her team will return to the test sites to find out if the divers’ efforts have allowed kelp to grow back. But even if their experiment succeeds, the problem of restoring the coastline is vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much like trying to scratch the paint off a house with a pin,” says Holcomb. “It’s not gonna be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently though, a few changes in the ocean may point towards a recovery for the kelp forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm blob in the Pacific has abated. The storms of the last few months have cooled off the ocean, and water temperatures are closer to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, many sea star populations along the coast appear to be recovering. If they survive to adulthood without dying of the wasting disease, they could help bring back the balance of the ecosystem — eating the urchins that have been eating the kelp.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jon Holcomb is an old-time urchin diver with the leathery skin of a man who spends a lot of time on his boat. On a sunny morning in August, he motors out to a cove by the town of Mendocino, and squints across the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was solid kelp,” says Holcomb. “When we first came here in the mid-’80s, this was a complete mat, you couldn’t swim through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s devoid of kelp,” he says. “It’s like a lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 42 years, Holcomb has made his living diving for red urchins. Their buttery insides are a delicacy in Japanese restaurants where they show up on menus as uni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Holcomb shows the insides of an empty purple urchin, surviving without much kelp to eat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20924_IMG_1735-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holcomb shows the insides of an empty purple urchin, surviving without much kelp to eat. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Urchins live off kelp, and in the last three years the kelp forests on the Northern California coast have collapsed. Income for local red urchin divers has plummeted by 90 percent in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without kelp you lose all your shellfishery. You lose the abalone fishery, you lose the urchin fishery,” says Holcomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kelp here has been devoured by a different kind of urchin: purple urchins. They’re smaller, less meaty and not worth fishing for. And they’re voracious eaters of kelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The kelp forest has just gotten it from all sides.’\u003ccite>Cynthia Catton, marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Nothing can survive their appetite,” says Holcomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, many parts of Northern California’s coast have turned into what scientists call an urchin barren. There’s not much life besides a mass of spiny purple creatures carpeting the seafloor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are starving animals that don’t die from starvation,” says Holcomb. “They just keep breeding and there’s more and more of them every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A ‘Perfect Storm’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelp beds play a key role in marine ecology. The fast-growing seaweed is a food source for many undersea animals. It also forms a habitat for young fish that hide in its stalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The size of kelp forests normally varies from year to year. But Cynthia Catton, a marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, says that in decades of observation, such low levels are unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a new phase,” says Catton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catton says that the kelp forests were hit by a “perfect storm” of factors. “The kelp forest has just gotten it from all sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first blow began in 2013, with a wasting disease that devastated sea star population along the entire Pacific Coast of North America. They are the urchins’ main predator. With sea stars in decline, purple urchins went on a kelp-eating rampage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a friend who calls them the goats of the sea,” says Catton. “They form these feeding fronts and they just munch through everywhere they’re walking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next problem: Kelp need cold water. In 2014, oceanographers noticed an unusual warming in the Northern Pacific — even more than could be explained by climate science. For lack of a better term, they called it the “warm blob.” Then, last year’s El Niño made the water even warmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catton’s team saw the kelp forests between the Bay Area and the Oregon border shrink by 93 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202032\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Marine biologist Cynthia Catton meets divers Carson Bell and Jon Holcomb on a seafood processing dock in Fort Bragg.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS20950_IMG_1862-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marine biologist Cynthia Catton meets divers Carson Bell and Jon Holcomb on a seafood processing dock in Fort Bragg. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Restoring the Kelp Forest\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shellfish divers are not always the closest allies with the agencies that monitor their fishing. As Jon Holcomb puts it, “we’re resource users, and they’re resource protectors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they share the same goal: restoring the kelp forest ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb and a few other divers have volunteered to help biologist Catton with a restoration effort. They’ve been diving underwater to remove masses of purple urchins from a few test sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re hoping that in those sites, their effort to remove urchins will allow kelp to grow back in the spring. The challenge is collecting thousands of urchins at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back out on his boat near Mendocino, Holcomb assembles the device he’s developed for just this purpose. He slaps together 10-foot-long pieces of fiberglass tubing to make a sort of underwater vacuum cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s much like trying to scratch the paint off a house with a pin. It’s not gonna be easy.’\u003ccite>Jon Holcomb, urchin diver\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Not real pretty,” he says, adjusting the tube. “I didn’t get carried away here on the aesthetics of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a modified version of a tool called an airlift, which is used to clear sand and silt from the seafloor. This one is built for purple urchins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb puts on his scuba gear, and connects the pipes to an air compressor on deck. Then he dives down with the equipment to depths of about 30 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXExXw4R0A\">videos\u003c/a> he’s made of his process, the seafloor looks like a minefield of spiky purple creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb uses a little metal rake to scrape the urchins off the rocks, and into his fiberglass tube. The device sucks the urchins up, and deposits them into a large net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This day, it takes him almost two hours to clear off an area smaller than a tennis court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally comes up, his net is packed with thousands of purple urchins with wiggly spines. They’re much lighter than the same number of urchins would be in a healthy kelp forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holcomb smashes one open to show that there’s no flesh inside. “They’re all empty,” says Holcomb. “There’s no food value in them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11202000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11202000\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Holcomb, a veteran diver with his urchin airlift.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS20910_IMG_1586-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Holcomb, a veteran diver with his urchin airlift. \u003ccite>(Carrie Boyle/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We head back to a dock in Fort Bragg, where Catton has brought a group of local volunteers to count and measure the urchins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be able to say, ‘How much effort does this take?’ ” says Catton. “‘How effective is this on a small scale? How can we expand this effectively? And if not, what do we need to do differently?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few months, her team will return to the test sites to find out if the divers’ efforts have allowed kelp to grow back. But even if their experiment succeeds, the problem of restoring the coastline is vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much like trying to scratch the paint off a house with a pin,” says Holcomb. “It’s not gonna be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently though, a few changes in the ocean may point towards a recovery for the kelp forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm blob in the Pacific has abated. The storms of the last few months have cooled off the ocean, and water temperatures are closer to normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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One problem is it’s so expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds like enough to make any solar company executive break out in a sweat, but the mood in some executive suites is surprisingly buoyant.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I think there’s no question that states are going to be critical.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Dan Kammen, UC Berkeley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’m cautiously optimistic,” says Michael Wheeler of Recurrent Energy, a San Francisco-based solar company. “We’re feeling as though we’re going to be okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason: Wheeler says Trump’s perception of the cost is hopelessly out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who thinks that solar is expensive at the utility scale right now hasn’t seen the latest,” he says. “Solar’s price, because it’s a technology, will continue to go lower and lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power from big solar projects is \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/09/30/price-of-solar-energy-in-the-united-states-has-fallen-to-5%C2%A2kwh-on-average/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 70 percent cheaper\u003c/a> today than it was a decade ago. The cost of wind power has also come down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, in some places, the price of the power they produce is competitive with fossil fuels like natural gas. Some electric utilities are choosing renewables based on cost alone, even in red states like Texas and Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clean energy is not a niche product anymore,” Wheeler says.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1210283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1059px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1210283 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4.jpg\" alt=\"The Barren Ridge solar project in Kern County, California.\" width=\"1059\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4.jpg 1059w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-800x471.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-768x453.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-1020x601.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-960x566.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-240x141.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-375x221.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/12/recurrent4-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1059px) 100vw, 1059px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Barren Ridge solar project in Kern County, California. \u003ccite>(Recurrent Energy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump Administration could also open more public land for development, something cheered by oil and gas companies and opposed by many environmentalists. But renewable energy companies also stand to gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a place where we think we could do even better under a Trump administration,” Wheeler says. “We’ve had a very difficult time building solar on public lands under the Obama Administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When state and federal agencies \u003ca href=\"http://largely%20end%20wind%20energy%20development%20in%20California\">unveiled a recent plan\u003c/a> prioritizing federal lands for renewables in California, the wind energy industry’s trade association said restrictions in the plan would “largely end wind energy development in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Downside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some other clouds in the forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solar and wind companies rely on longstanding tax credits, which were extended in Congress last December, after a lengthy struggle. The 30 percent Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) will expire at the end of 2019, when it starts ramping down eventually to 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”nBhyhpsAqwZDFdglnpNrbMhgjZCX8FOc”]“The legislation is one of the greatest investments in renewable energy in American history,” said Senator Harry Reid upon passing the credit extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Trump Administration allows those credits to dry up, which could take several years, demand for solar and wind could drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly there would be a different forecast for price projection, but it’s not so significant that the market would crater,” Wheeler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second potential downer for renewable energy: Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/11/trump-has-vowed-to-kill-the-clean-power-plan-heres-how-he-might-and-might-not-succeed/?utm_term=.97d4f9822d22\">vowed to shelve\u003c/a> one of the keystones in Obama’s climate change policy, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-overview-clean-power-plan\">Clean Power Plan\u003c/a>, under which states would have to move away from coal power. Wheeler says that would have quadrupled the market for renewables.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-9OlGJ\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/9OlGJ/8/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" align=\"right\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not depending upon it but to have that be messaged as being dead was pretty heart-wrenching,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>States Drive the Market\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s no question that states are going to be critical,” said Dan Kammen, professor of energy at UC Berkeley. 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