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So people are turning to other means to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to Trinity, Rose fought against environmentalists like Bower for decades in what's known here as “the timber wars.” Now the two have a common enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here,” Rose says. “We're being taken advantage of by people with all kinds of different motives, but all revolving around money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose wishes there were no marijuana farms in Trinity County, but he says that is not possible. 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The organization worked with environmentalists and loggers to urge the local Board of Supervisors to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_e4157d1a-748a-11e6-b075-a3573ddd07b4.html\">an emergency marijuana growing ordinance\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Either we're going to work with them or we're going to lose everything.' \u003ccite>Duncan McIntosh, small business marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The ordinance sets guidelines for cultivation and establishes a permitting process like they have done in nearby \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2159/Commercial-Medical-Marijuana-Permitting\">Humboldt County. \u003c/a>It has provisions to try and slow down the number of big new growers pouring into Trinity. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Joseph Bower has seen a lot of changes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinitycounty.org\">Trinity County.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re sitting in his pickup truck a few miles from his house in central Trinity. About 10 years ago, nothing but forest surrounded this winding dirt road. Now it’s lined with marijuana farms. Cannabis plants pop out everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road cuts through \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/01/business/fi-dope-county1\">Trinity Pines,\u003c/a> a private subdivision tucked in National Forest land. There are hundreds of lots where people farm medical marijuana for dispensaries. And, in the surrounding National Forest, drug cartels have been caught growing for the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1809px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108314\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Unknown.gif\" alt=\"A gif showing the massive number of marijuana grows that have appeared in a slice of Trinity Pines over the last 10 years.\" width=\"1809\" height=\"905\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gif showing the massive number of marijuana grows that have appeared in a slice of Trinity Pines over the last 10 years. \u003ccite>(Google Earth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We pass a heap of trash with an old camper someone dumped by the side of the road. The words “haul away” are sprayed in black on its side. “That’s what you get,” Bower says. “Junk, junk, junk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says many of the newer marijuana growers are outsiders with no regard for the local community. He says they are \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/marijuana-camps-cited-in-trinity-pines-area-ep-376600984-355188411.html\">sucking streams dry and dumping pesticides.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm fine with growers who want to live here as long as they obey the rules and don't create environmental problems.' \u003ccite>Joseph Bower, Environmentalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Joseph Bower and his wife, Susan, have lived in Trinity County for close to 40 years. “I'm fine with growers who want to live here, live on the land, send their kids to school, pay their taxes,\" Bower says. \"As long as they obey the rules and don't create environmental problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They could even worsen under the pressure of bigger businesses and more competition. Legalization has smaller growers in the area worried as well. 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"content": "\u003cp>The marine terminal that oil tankers use to unload crude to the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo has reopened, a week after an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/22/officials-investigate-whether-phillips-66-refinery-tied-to-san-pablo-bay-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">investigation into an oil spill and sickening odor\u003c/a> prompted the company to shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tanker at the refinery named the Yamuna Spirit left San Pablo Bay and the marine terminal restarted operations Tuesday night, said Phillips 66 spokesman Paul Adler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, a top Bay Area health official said the refinery needs to notify local agencies faster next time it learns of an oil spill near its facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa County's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer, said Phillips 66 took 10 hours to tell his agency about the spill, a delay that could have impacted the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hours later the sheen was gone and there was no evidence of it at that location,\" Sawyer said. \"So we lost some valuable time in trying to determine where the oil came from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips 66 has not responded to requests for comment on its delay in contacting the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odor that sent dozens to the hospital and prompted the investigation was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers to the city's communications operators complained of an unknown odor in South Vallejo, areas just north of the Carquinez Strait and on the eastern shore of San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city issued a shelter in place order, and city crews and PG&E representatives tried to find the source of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 p.m. that night, Vallejo city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations, but they were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on two San Francisco Bay ferryboats returning to Vallejo then reported an oil sheen to the U.S. Coast Guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer said that crews unloading crude from the Yamuna Spirit noticed a sheen in San Pablo Bay at 1 a.m. the following Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At daybreak, the Coast Guard confirmed the presence of a sheen that was 1 mile long and 40 feet wide. The agency later learned that there were two oil sheens in the water, one of them close to the Phillips 66 terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery told the California State Warning Center shortly before 9 a.m., according to Shawn Boyd, a spokesman for the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told Contra Costa's hazardous materials program at 11 a.m., Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard and the state Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) have been testing the liquid found in the sheens to determine what the substance was and where it came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/OSPR/CalSpillWatch\" target=\"_blank\">Results of those tests are pending\u003c/a> and the investigation is ongoing, said OSPR spokeswoman Amy Norris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of answers frustrates at least one Vallejo city official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilwoman Katy Miessner said the possibility that an oil spill may have sickened some of the city's residents is cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this is something we're going to have to address,\" Miessner said. \"Personally, I had no idea that we were vulnerable to the refineries across the bay.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 29 Sept 2016:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill this month allowing the retrieval of lost or abandoned crab traps after crab fishing season has closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current law doesn't allow anyone to disturb traps belonging to another person; the new law establishes a permit that grants a person the authority to collect lost or abandoned crab traps belonging to others, and provides a fee for each trap turned in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also requires crab fishermen to pay a fee for each trap of theirs turned in, and prohibits the renewal of their fishing permit until the fee is paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. And now, one less: This weekend, one of the 45-ton creatures was found dead off the coast of Maine, completely entangled in fishing line — head, flippers and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was not an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, an\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-blue-whale-rescue-coast-entangled-20160628-snap-story.html\"> endangered blue whale\u003c/a> wrapped in fishing gear was seen struggling off the coast of Dana Point in Southern California. Rescuers were unable to extricate it before it swam away. And earlier this month, rescuers unsuccessfully tried to free an\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/whale-729059-entangled-humpback.html\"> entangled humpback\u003c/a> whale near Newport. Spotters say they believe the humpback eventually found its way free of most of the gear, though they're unsure if there's anything still trapped in its mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While any kind of fishing gear can be lost or abandoned at sea, gillnets, crab pots and traps are the most common types that continue to \"ghost fish\" — entrapping marine animals like whales, seals, sea lions and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the West Coast saw 61 whale entanglements — \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/NMFS_3-21-2016_entaglements.pdf\">a record number\u003c/a> that is nonetheless likely to be broken this year. So far in 2016, there have been 60 reports of entanglements as of late September. Why it's happening is unclear. Researchers say there's more derelict gear in the water today, and more reported sightings, but population numbers and migratory patterns of whales have also shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens when a whale becomes entangled is grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gear is really, really heavy and when a whale comes in contact with it, it thrashes around to shed the gear,\" says Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. Sometimes that works; sometimes it entangles the whale even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it can drown the whale immediately, or it can happen over weeks, because they get so tired,\" she says. \"They eventually die of exhaustion. If the gear is in their mouths, it impedes their ability to feed. It can amputate their tails or other parts of the body. And for younger whales, the gear may wrap around them, but the whale keeps growing and it cuts into their flesh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat the problem, Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"http://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-09-23-governor-brown-signs-mcguire%E2%80%99s-whale-protection-bill\">The Whale Protection & Crab Gear Retrieval Act\u003c/a> into law on Friday. A first of its kind for the state, the new law is designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear by creating financial incentives for the state's Dungeness and rock crab fishermen to collect any abandoned gear they find during the offseason. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_FINAL.pdf\">estimated\u003c/a> 40,000 Dungeness crab pots may be lost every year between California and the Canadian border. And that's just one fishery in one region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, plucking lost gear out of California waters was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an existing law that made it unlawful to move, damage or disturb any trap that belongs to another person. And you [couldn't] have gear on your boat outside of the season,\" says Monsell, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/project_pages/whale-entanglement/Charter2016.pdf\">fishing gear group\u003c/a> that worked on strategies to reduce whale entanglements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11108041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-400x558.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil. \u003ccite>(Projeto Tamar Brazil/Marine Photobank/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other types of fishing gear, crab pots are traceable to the owner. Fishermen who collect abandoned gear in the offseason will be paid a recovery bounty by the owner who lost the trap. Fishermen who do not buy back their lost or abandoned traps will not be allowed to get their vessel permit for the following season. In California, the Dungeness crab season typically runs Nov. 15-June 30, although last year's season was delayed because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/07/455049713/why-a-neurotoxin-is-closing-crab-season-in-california\">a toxic algae bloom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing everything we can,\" says longtime crabber Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association in San Francisco. \"Three or four years ago we got trap limits. No one can throw more than 500 traps. We've decreased the gear in the water, and we're looking at that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Oregon also have postseason recovery programs, but unlike California's, fishermen are allowed to keep or sell the gear they retrieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all entanglements come from abandoned or lost gear. Whales can be caught up in active fishing gear, too, especially when changing ocean conditions move prey, like schools of anchovies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Unusual-Number-of-Whales-Seen-in-San-Francisco-Bay-379273711.html\">closer to shore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Entanglements are a hard issue. When you have a whale, you don't know if it's active or abandoned fishing gear,\" says Sherry Lippiatt, California Regional Coordinator, NOAA Marine Debris Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast isn't alone in being a problem spot. It's estimated there are more than \u003ca href=\"http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/lobster/fishery/trap-debris/\">85,000 derelict traps\u003c/a> in the Florida Keys, affecting 79 species and killing 630,000 lobsters a year. An estimated 450,000 pots used to catch blue crab are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/ghost-story-1.18647\">lost each year\u003c/a> in Louisiana. In the Chesapeake Bay, where nearly half of all U.S. blue crabs are landed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19671\">160,000 crab pots go astray\u003c/a> annually. And according to the environmental group \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/news/working-our-partners-remove-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-maine-waters\">World Animal Protection\u003c/a>, of the 3 million lobster pots that go into the water in Maine, an estimated 10 percent are lost each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the group launched the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ghostgear.org/\">Global Ghost Gear Initiative\u003c/a> to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108042\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 532px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg\" alt=\"World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine.\" width=\"532\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11108042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine. \u003ccite>(Kristian Whipple/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager with World Animal Protection, says that each year around the globe, 640,000 tons of gear is getting lost in the ocean. \"It adds up. Very little of it is getting pulled out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lost gear has been known to travel great distances. \"Colleagues in the U.K. found lobster pots from Maine and Canada on the shores of the U.K. That gear crossed the ocean,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghost gear can continue to trap fish and shellfish — and impact the health of a fishery. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found that removing just over 34,000 derelict pots allowed the fishery to harvest an additional 13,500 metric tons of crab worth $21.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other financial incentives to getting abandoned gear out of the water. Influential groups like Seafood Watch take ghost gear \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/standard%20revision%20reference/2015%20standard%20revision/mba_seafoodwatch_fisheries_criteria_final.pdf?la=en\">into account\u003c/a> when rating a fishery if there's strong evidence that it's a problem, while the Marine Stewardship Council's certification includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/documents/scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-requirements-version-2.0\">criteria\u003c/a> on effects from gear loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rochmanlab.com/\">Chelsea Rochman\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies ocean debris, including derelict fishing gear, says that while the new California legislation is helpful, she's not sure whether it will ultimately save whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of marine debris and derelict fishing gear, it's a first step. But what's special about this law is that the fishermen are on board. It incentivises them to pick up their gear,\" she says. \"I think it's a great first step.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins says that's because fishers had a voice at the table when the working group first sat down to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to be proactive and get ahead of this. Now, at the end of the season, we can pick up the gear and get it out of the ocean, because we love whales like everyone else,\" says Collins. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 29 Sept 2016:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill this month allowing the retrieval of lost or abandoned crab traps after crab fishing season has closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current law doesn't allow anyone to disturb traps belonging to another person; the new law establishes a permit that grants a person the authority to collect lost or abandoned crab traps belonging to others, and provides a fee for each trap turned in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also requires crab fishermen to pay a fee for each trap of theirs turned in, and prohibits the renewal of their fishing permit until the fee is paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. And now, one less: This weekend, one of the 45-ton creatures was found dead off the coast of Maine, completely entangled in fishing line — head, flippers and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was not an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, an\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-blue-whale-rescue-coast-entangled-20160628-snap-story.html\"> endangered blue whale\u003c/a> wrapped in fishing gear was seen struggling off the coast of Dana Point in Southern California. Rescuers were unable to extricate it before it swam away. And earlier this month, rescuers unsuccessfully tried to free an\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/whale-729059-entangled-humpback.html\"> entangled humpback\u003c/a> whale near Newport. Spotters say they believe the humpback eventually found its way free of most of the gear, though they're unsure if there's anything still trapped in its mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While any kind of fishing gear can be lost or abandoned at sea, gillnets, crab pots and traps are the most common types that continue to \"ghost fish\" — entrapping marine animals like whales, seals, sea lions and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the West Coast saw 61 whale entanglements — \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/NMFS_3-21-2016_entaglements.pdf\">a record number\u003c/a> that is nonetheless likely to be broken this year. So far in 2016, there have been 60 reports of entanglements as of late September. Why it's happening is unclear. Researchers say there's more derelict gear in the water today, and more reported sightings, but population numbers and migratory patterns of whales have also shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens when a whale becomes entangled is grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gear is really, really heavy and when a whale comes in contact with it, it thrashes around to shed the gear,\" says Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. Sometimes that works; sometimes it entangles the whale even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it can drown the whale immediately, or it can happen over weeks, because they get so tired,\" she says. \"They eventually die of exhaustion. If the gear is in their mouths, it impedes their ability to feed. It can amputate their tails or other parts of the body. And for younger whales, the gear may wrap around them, but the whale keeps growing and it cuts into their flesh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat the problem, Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"http://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-09-23-governor-brown-signs-mcguire%E2%80%99s-whale-protection-bill\">The Whale Protection & Crab Gear Retrieval Act\u003c/a> into law on Friday. A first of its kind for the state, the new law is designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear by creating financial incentives for the state's Dungeness and rock crab fishermen to collect any abandoned gear they find during the offseason. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_FINAL.pdf\">estimated\u003c/a> 40,000 Dungeness crab pots may be lost every year between California and the Canadian border. And that's just one fishery in one region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, plucking lost gear out of California waters was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an existing law that made it unlawful to move, damage or disturb any trap that belongs to another person. And you [couldn't] have gear on your boat outside of the season,\" says Monsell, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/project_pages/whale-entanglement/Charter2016.pdf\">fishing gear group\u003c/a> that worked on strategies to reduce whale entanglements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11108041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-400x558.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil. \u003ccite>(Projeto Tamar Brazil/Marine Photobank/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other types of fishing gear, crab pots are traceable to the owner. Fishermen who collect abandoned gear in the offseason will be paid a recovery bounty by the owner who lost the trap. Fishermen who do not buy back their lost or abandoned traps will not be allowed to get their vessel permit for the following season. In California, the Dungeness crab season typically runs Nov. 15-June 30, although last year's season was delayed because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/07/455049713/why-a-neurotoxin-is-closing-crab-season-in-california\">a toxic algae bloom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing everything we can,\" says longtime crabber Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association in San Francisco. \"Three or four years ago we got trap limits. No one can throw more than 500 traps. We've decreased the gear in the water, and we're looking at that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Oregon also have postseason recovery programs, but unlike California's, fishermen are allowed to keep or sell the gear they retrieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all entanglements come from abandoned or lost gear. Whales can be caught up in active fishing gear, too, especially when changing ocean conditions move prey, like schools of anchovies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Unusual-Number-of-Whales-Seen-in-San-Francisco-Bay-379273711.html\">closer to shore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Entanglements are a hard issue. When you have a whale, you don't know if it's active or abandoned fishing gear,\" says Sherry Lippiatt, California Regional Coordinator, NOAA Marine Debris Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast isn't alone in being a problem spot. It's estimated there are more than \u003ca href=\"http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/lobster/fishery/trap-debris/\">85,000 derelict traps\u003c/a> in the Florida Keys, affecting 79 species and killing 630,000 lobsters a year. An estimated 450,000 pots used to catch blue crab are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/ghost-story-1.18647\">lost each year\u003c/a> in Louisiana. In the Chesapeake Bay, where nearly half of all U.S. blue crabs are landed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19671\">160,000 crab pots go astray\u003c/a> annually. And according to the environmental group \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/news/working-our-partners-remove-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-maine-waters\">World Animal Protection\u003c/a>, of the 3 million lobster pots that go into the water in Maine, an estimated 10 percent are lost each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the group launched the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ghostgear.org/\">Global Ghost Gear Initiative\u003c/a> to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108042\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 532px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg\" alt=\"World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine.\" width=\"532\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11108042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine. \u003ccite>(Kristian Whipple/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager with World Animal Protection, says that each year around the globe, 640,000 tons of gear is getting lost in the ocean. \"It adds up. Very little of it is getting pulled out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lost gear has been known to travel great distances. \"Colleagues in the U.K. found lobster pots from Maine and Canada on the shores of the U.K. That gear crossed the ocean,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghost gear can continue to trap fish and shellfish — and impact the health of a fishery. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found that removing just over 34,000 derelict pots allowed the fishery to harvest an additional 13,500 metric tons of crab worth $21.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other financial incentives to getting abandoned gear out of the water. Influential groups like Seafood Watch take ghost gear \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/standard%20revision%20reference/2015%20standard%20revision/mba_seafoodwatch_fisheries_criteria_final.pdf?la=en\">into account\u003c/a> when rating a fishery if there's strong evidence that it's a problem, while the Marine Stewardship Council's certification includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/documents/scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-requirements-version-2.0\">criteria\u003c/a> on effects from gear loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rochmanlab.com/\">Chelsea Rochman\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies ocean debris, including derelict fishing gear, says that while the new California legislation is helpful, she's not sure whether it will ultimately save whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of marine debris and derelict fishing gear, it's a first step. But what's special about this law is that the fishermen are on board. It incentivises them to pick up their gear,\" she says. \"I think it's a great first step.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins says that's because fishers had a voice at the table when the working group first sat down to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to be proactive and get ahead of this. Now, at the end of the season, we can pick up the gear and get it out of the ocean, because we love whales like everyone else,\" says Collins. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 12:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing and destructive Loma Fire continued moving toward remote California homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Wednesday as it scorched its way through bone-dry brush and trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, burning in steep mountain terrain south of San Francisco, grew overnight to over 2,200 acres and is only 10 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. It gutted one home and threatened 300 buildings, though it was not clear how many were homes or smaller structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities ordered residents of several canyons and other rugged areas to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures and calmer winds were expected to help more than 1,000 firefighters battling the flames, said Capt. Nick Wallingford of the Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cooling trend is very good news, but there's still a big threat,\" he said Wednesday. \"Today, we're really going on the offensive in fighting this fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http://firetracker.scpr.org/loma-fire-santa-clara-2016/embed/\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire burned in an area dotted with large-scale marijuana growing operations. Anthony Lopez returned Tuesday to check on his home, which was still under an evacuation order, and was overjoyed to find dozens of his marijuana plants intact and his 1972 Buick Skylark uncharred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Noble, 75, left the mountain home where he's lived for a quarter-century as flames approached and fire trucks rolled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I evacuated ... because I didn't want to get in anyone's way,\" he told the San Jose Mercury News, adding that he had no idea when he might be able to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started Monday during a heat wave that brought low humidity and temperatures in the upper 90s to much of California. The heat began easing, but fire risk remained extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11107879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11107879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Lopez removes what's left of his marijuana crop as the Loma Fire approaches his neighborhood in the Santa Cruz Mountains on September 27, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/WeedPlantsLoma-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Lopez removes what's left of his marijuana crop as the Loma Fire approaches his neighborhood in the Santa Cruz Mountains on September 27, 2016. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:42 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Fire has now spread over 2,000 acres, and more than 500 fire personnel are now fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze has so far destroyed one home and charred more than 1.5 square miles of dry brush and timber, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents\">according to Cal Fire\u003c/a>. The fire is only 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire right now is very active,\" said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jonathon Cox. \"There's a lot of dry fuel up there and heat that, combined, are pushing this fire in directions at a rapid rate of spread or critical, as what we refer to it as.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers have been set up at Soquel High School, the Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley in Los Gatos and Morgan Hill Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106570 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A burned out Porsche sits near a home partially burned by the Loma Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains on September 27, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned-out Porsche sits near a home partially burned by the Loma Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Sept. 27, 2016. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLOVERDALE -- A fast-moving wildfire prompted the evacuations of 300 homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, while fire crews continued to battle a blaze burning close to a massive geothermal power-producing facility in Sonoma County, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Fire started Monday on the southern edge of Santa Clara County and quickly spread to 500 acres, threatening radio and television antennas, said Cal Fire spokeswoman Stephanie Stuehler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bethwillon/status/780845866084999168\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a second blaze known as the Sawmill Fire erupted amid hot, dry conditions and gusty winds in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and forced the temporary evacuation of one of its 14 geothermal plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Kerr, a spokesman for Calpine, which operates The Geysers geothermal complex, said evacuated employees were allowed to return to the plant, which started operating later Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All employees were safe and accounted for and the flow of electricity from the facility was not disrupted, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/780233282537402368\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our remaining plants at the Geysers continue to operate normally and our team is constantly assessing the situation and will take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of employees and the preservation of our facilities,\" Kerr said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said the blaze near the small city of Cloverdale has charred about 1,500 acres, or more than 2 square miles of timber and dry brush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said Monday that the fire also burned on plant property, but he did not know how close to the infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geysers are located in the Mayacamas Mountains and are naturally occurring steam field reservoirs below the earth's surface. They are harnessed by Calpine to make renewable energy for homes and businesses across Northern California, according to the company web site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site says The Geysers, spreading 45 square miles along the Sonoma and Lake County border, is the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world. Calpine owns and operates the 14 power plants at The Geysers, providing power for the equivalent of 725,000 homes, according to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Geysers supplies electricity to California's Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties, plus a portion of the power needs for Marin and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 90 residents from 36 homes near the fire were under evacuation orders or advisories Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire was under investigation as firefighters battling the blaze Monday in steep terrain braced for another day of temperatures in the high 90s with strong winds. 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Anthony Lopez returned Tuesday to check on his home, which was still under an evacuation order, and was overjoyed to find dozens of his marijuana plants intact and his 1972 Buick Skylark uncharred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norman Noble, 75, left the mountain home where he's lived for a quarter-century as flames approached and fire trucks rolled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I evacuated ... because I didn't want to get in anyone's way,\" he told the San Jose Mercury News, adding that he had no idea when he might be able to go back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started Monday during a heat wave that brought low humidity and temperatures in the upper 90s to much of California. 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The fire is only 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire right now is very active,\" said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jonathon Cox. \"There's a lot of dry fuel up there and heat that, combined, are pushing this fire in directions at a rapid rate of spread or critical, as what we refer to it as.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers have been set up at Soquel High School, the Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley in Los Gatos and Morgan Hill Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106570 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A burned out Porsche sits near a home partially burned by the Loma Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains on September 27, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/BurnedCarLoma-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned-out Porsche sits near a home partially burned by the Loma Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Sept. 27, 2016. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLOVERDALE -- A fast-moving wildfire prompted the evacuations of 300 homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, while fire crews continued to battle a blaze burning close to a massive geothermal power-producing facility in Sonoma County, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Fire started Monday on the southern edge of Santa Clara County and quickly spread to 500 acres, threatening radio and television antennas, said Cal Fire spokeswoman Stephanie Stuehler.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/blue-cut-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cut Fire\u003c/a> swept through San Bernardino County earlier this summer, it destroyed over 36,000 acres and some 300 structures. Among them was a beloved iconic diner. Twelve Naugahyde booths, 18 seats at the horseshoe counter, a jukebox and memorabilia lining the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on the 15 freeway, on what was once a section of the most historic highway in the country, Route 66.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve made the drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the last 64 years, you’ve passed the Summit Inn. It was a diner, a gas station and a gift shop. The “inn” part of the name wasn’t just filigree; there was a small motel on the 9-acre property that closed down in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perched near the top of the Cajon Pass, the big red sign with the white block letters announced the down-home outpost against a sky of blinding desert blue. At night, the sign became a blinking neon beacon to countless weary travelers looking for a cup of coffee, a bite to eat, or a place to gas up and stretch their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284839081\" 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 was a landmark. You could not go by the Summit Inn without going, 'There it is!'” says author and pop culture historian Charles Phoenix. “It was one of those places you never didn't notice on your way to Vegas or Yellowstone, or doing the old classic Route 66 trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the fire, there’s not much to notice anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the flames coming up the hill and I knew we had to go,” says Michelle Keeney. She was on duty that day in August, but then she’s been on duty for most of the last 24 years. Since Keeney was hired as a teenager, she’s worked as everything from graveyard shift cashier to, most recently, general manager. The fire took her job, her house and everything she owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't want to say it was a curse, but it’s almost like it was a curse,” she continues. “Really strange. Maybe like they’re mad that Mr. Stevens is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s “they”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They? The fire gods? I don’t know!” says Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11104956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11104956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mr. Stevens she’s talking about is Cecil Stevens. He bought the inn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things I’ve done in my life have been on Friday the 13th,” Stevens reveals. “So I always look forward to Friday the 13th every year. Man, something good’s gonna happen!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sold the business on Friday, July 1. Six weeks later it burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was born in Dale City, Oklahoma, “an arm’s throw” from Route 66. Ever since, the venerated road has loomed large in his legend. Just ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a 66 type of guy. Born on 66, lived on 66, enjoyed 66, know a lot about 66. Sixty-six seems to be the key to me. I probably wouldn’t have been able to be up here if it wasn’t for Route 66.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial fateful encounter with the inn came in 1952, the year it was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first day I laid eyes on the Summit Inn I was with my brother Calvin,” Stevens recalls. “I had been drafted in the Army during the Korean deal, and so we decided we'd take a trip from where we lived in San Diego to Utah, and on our way we stopped at the Summit. It was new at that time. We sat there at the counter and had coffee. That gas station was doing real big business at that time, and I kind of liked that spot. I just had a good feeling about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105017\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the 50 years he owned the Summit, Stevens was a boss, a father figure, a tough guy and a sweetheart. But mostly, he was a man who liked talking to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always talk to customers about everything that was going on at the time,” he says. “I enjoyed it. They call it schmoozing or something? And I loved talking to movie stars. They come in there a lot. I had Clint Eastwood, I made him a bet I could beat him in my Pantera, he had a Porsche or something. He said, 'I don't want to take your money.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of making bets with Clint Eastwood aside, driving through the high desert was treacherous, and the Cajon Pass could be a desolate place for travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a highway and they get stranded out there and they didn't have any way to get out of there and they'd hang around the Summit for a week,” says Stevens. “They’d sleep out in back and dig in the trash. It was awful. Sooner or later somebody'd come to get'em or I'd take them back to Victorville and drop them off in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the pancakes and ostrich burgers, the inn was the stage for decades of transient human drama. Heart attacks, drunken drivers, Vegas losers reeking of depression, and road rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two cars got into a road rage incident on the freeway,” says Keeney. “They followed each other into the Arco station and that led to a fight inside. The man who was working the graveyard shift told them to take it outside and they did. The offender who started the incident was actually pushed into the middle of the road, and an 18-wheeler hit him and he was killed. It was a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But horrific highway tragedy aside, there were the regulars. Dave Ellis first ate there as a kid in the '50s traveling with his family on Route 66. As an adult he became a fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection. \u003ccite>(Peter GIlstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went to the Summit every day,” he says. “If it wasn't for lunch it would be for breakfast, and when I first moved up here I’d go for dinner a lot, too. I've been up here for 19 years and I've been a regular customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s something else about retired roofing contractor Ellis: \"I was a stand-in for Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, on the 'Leave it to Beaver' show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the 1950s Cleaver family on \"Leave it to Beaver\" represented a warm, happy all-American fiction of a time gone by, the Summit Inn was the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I worked with, we were like family,” says Keeney. “It was your work family, but you could depend on them if you need them. It was insanely wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wonderfulness is what Katherine Recinos-Juarez thought she and her mother, Annabella, and brother, Otto Recinos, were buying when they purchased the Summit Inn from Cecil Stevens. At 84, he was ready to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first couple weeks I was there 15 hours a day, and we clicked very, very fast, all of us,” she says. “We became a family within weeks, days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-400x255.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/SummitBurnedSign-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People examine the remains of the historic Summitt Inn after the Blue Cut Fire burned the historic diner to the ground. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 16 Recinos-Juarez was running errands in L.A. when she got a warning call from Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By 3 p.m. she calls me, we’re being evacuated. By 6 I was receiving all the pictures of it being burned down. I was driving and I pulled over and just stopped driving for about 40 minutes because I was just broken inside of me,” says Recinos-Juarez. “It was my baby, and just kind of went away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the fire, the charred hulk of the inn was fenced off. Then, everything apart from the sign was demolished and removed. But Recinos-Juarez says they aren’t giving up on the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're still in discussion with insurance. Hopefully, crossing fingers, we can rebuild the Summit Inn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, the lingering smell of smoke still hangs in the air where the Summit Inn once stood, and that red sign with the white block letters is still there. The cars and trucks still speed by, but -- for now anyway -- they don’t stop anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/blue-cut-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cut Fire\u003c/a> swept through San Bernardino County earlier this summer, it destroyed over 36,000 acres and some 300 structures. Among them was a beloved iconic diner. Twelve Naugahyde booths, 18 seats at the horseshoe counter, a jukebox and memorabilia lining the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on the 15 freeway, on what was once a section of the most historic highway in the country, Route 66.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve made the drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the last 64 years, you’ve passed the Summit Inn. It was a diner, a gas station and a gift shop. The “inn” part of the name wasn’t just filigree; there was a small motel on the 9-acre property that closed down in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perched near the top of the Cajon Pass, the big red sign with the white block letters announced the down-home outpost against a sky of blinding desert blue. At night, the sign became a blinking neon beacon to countless weary travelers looking for a cup of coffee, a bite to eat, or a place to gas up and stretch their legs.\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/284839081&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/284839081'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a landmark. You could not go by the Summit Inn without going, 'There it is!'” says author and pop culture historian Charles Phoenix. “It was one of those places you never didn't notice on your way to Vegas or Yellowstone, or doing the old classic Route 66 trip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the fire, there’s not much to notice anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the flames coming up the hill and I knew we had to go,” says Michelle Keeney. She was on duty that day in August, but then she’s been on duty for most of the last 24 years. Since Keeney was hired as a teenager, she’s worked as everything from graveyard shift cashier to, most recently, general manager. The fire took her job, her house and everything she owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't want to say it was a curse, but it’s almost like it was a curse,” she continues. “Really strange. Maybe like they’re mad that Mr. Stevens is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who’s “they”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They? The fire gods? I don’t know!” says Keeney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11104956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11104956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/KeeneyStevens-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Summit Inn owner Cecil Stevens (R) with former general manager Michelle Keeney. She worked at the Inn for 24 years. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Mr. Stevens she’s talking about is Cecil Stevens. He bought the inn on Friday, Oct. 13, 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things I’ve done in my life have been on Friday the 13th,” Stevens reveals. “So I always look forward to Friday the 13th every year. Man, something good’s gonna happen!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sold the business on Friday, July 1. Six weeks later it burned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens was born in Dale City, Oklahoma, “an arm’s throw” from Route 66. Ever since, the venerated road has loomed large in his legend. Just ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a 66 type of guy. Born on 66, lived on 66, enjoyed 66, know a lot about 66. Sixty-six seems to be the key to me. I probably wouldn’t have been able to be up here if it wasn’t for Route 66.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His initial fateful encounter with the inn came in 1952, the year it was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first day I laid eyes on the Summit Inn I was with my brother Calvin,” Stevens recalls. “I had been drafted in the Army during the Korean deal, and so we decided we'd take a trip from where we lived in San Diego to Utah, and on our way we stopped at the Summit. It was new at that time. We sat there at the counter and had coffee. That gas station was doing real big business at that time, and I kind of liked that spot. I just had a good feeling about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105017\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/StevensPhoto-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecil Stevens holds a photo of neighbors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the 50 years he owned the Summit, Stevens was a boss, a father figure, a tough guy and a sweetheart. But mostly, he was a man who liked talking to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would always talk to customers about everything that was going on at the time,” he says. “I enjoyed it. They call it schmoozing or something? And I loved talking to movie stars. They come in there a lot. I had Clint Eastwood, I made him a bet I could beat him in my Pantera, he had a Porsche or something. He said, 'I don't want to take your money.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of making bets with Clint Eastwood aside, driving through the high desert was treacherous, and the Cajon Pass could be a desolate place for travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a highway and they get stranded out there and they didn't have any way to get out of there and they'd hang around the Summit for a week,” says Stevens. “They’d sleep out in back and dig in the trash. It was awful. Sooner or later somebody'd come to get'em or I'd take them back to Victorville and drop them off in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the pancakes and ostrich burgers, the inn was the stage for decades of transient human drama. Heart attacks, drunken drivers, Vegas losers reeking of depression, and road rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two cars got into a road rage incident on the freeway,” says Keeney. “They followed each other into the Arco station and that led to a fight inside. The man who was working the graveyard shift told them to take it outside and they did. The offender who started the incident was actually pushed into the middle of the road, and an 18-wheeler hit him and he was killed. It was a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But horrific highway tragedy aside, there were the regulars. Dave Ellis first ate there as a kid in the '50s traveling with his family on Route 66. As an adult he became a fixture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11105024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11105024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-400x302.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DaveEllis-960x725.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Ellis, Summit Inn regular for almost 20 years, at home with his massive automotive memorabilia collection. \u003ccite>(Peter GIlstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went to the Summit every day,” he says. “If it wasn't for lunch it would be for breakfast, and when I first moved up here I’d go for dinner a lot, too. I've been up here for 19 years and I've been a regular customer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s something else about retired roofing contractor Ellis: \"I was a stand-in for Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, on the 'Leave it to Beaver' show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the 1950s Cleaver family on \"Leave it to Beaver\" represented a warm, happy all-American fiction of a time gone by, the Summit Inn was the real thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people I worked with, we were like family,” says Keeney. “It was your work family, but you could depend on them if you need them. It was insanely wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wonderfulness is what Katherine Recinos-Juarez thought she and her mother, Annabella, and brother, Otto Recinos, were buying when they purchased the Summit Inn from Cecil Stevens. 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She starts to tell me about her family, who lived in Mendocino County. But she stops herself before getting into the details. Growers from her parents’ generation still don’t like to talk about their business. All she will say is that her family's operation was raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11098950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11098950\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg\" alt='Small growers in Humboldt hope \"connoisseur cannabis\" helps them stay competitive in a changing industry. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Erin Brockovich went after PG&E for poisoning groundwater in the desert town of Hinkley, California — a campaign that later became a film starring Julia Roberts — the toxic chemical was a heavy metal called hexavalent chromium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also known as chromium 6, the chemical is listed under California’s \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65single080516.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prop 65 \u003c/a>as causing cancer, \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65/chemicals/chrome0908.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developmental harm and reproductive harm\u003c/a> in both men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2016/09/erin-brockovich-chemical-drinking-water-more-200-million-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report \u003c/a>out today finds Hinkley isn’t the only California city with chromium 6 contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found 11 water districts serving some 400,000 Californians had hexavalent chromium in their tap water at levels above the state’s legal limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Above the Legal Limit\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The state’s limit for chromium 6 in drinking water is 10 parts per billion. 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An \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2016-chromium6-lower-48.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive map\u003c/a> developed from the data shows chromium 6 levels in California and throughout the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was eye opening,” says Bill Walker, co-author of the Environmental Working Group report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to say the chromium 6 situation is as bad as the Flint situation but we’re saying if you start to look at it more closely you can find some really disturbing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-KU9ds\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/KU9ds/2/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThe chemical occurs naturally in the environment from \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the erosion of \u003c/span>natural\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> chromium deposits\u003c/span> but it’s also manufactured and used in stainless steel production, metal finishing, chrome plating, leather tanning, and to prevent corrosion in electrical plant cooling towers, as was the case in Hinkley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the workplace, the main way people might be exposed to chromium 6 is through drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulates \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=13096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chromium 6 in work environments\u003c/a>, the EPA doesn’t regulate chromium 6 in drinking water. In fact, California is the only state that does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California has two standards: a legally enforceable \u003cem>limit\u003c/em> on chromium 6 in drinking water, and a much lower public health \u003cem>goal\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Does the state want us to drink distilled water? Cause that’s basically what they’re trying to get us to do, it’s absurd.’\u003ccite>Ken Moore, Kerman City’s Public Works Director\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Toxicologists at the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment set the public health goal for chromium intake at .02 parts per billion. A part per billion is about a drop of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public health goal must represent a negligible health risk. State scientists said at .02 ppb, the risk of developing cancer for people who drink the water daily for 70 years is no more than a one-in-a-million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires the legal limit be set “as close as is \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technically and economically feasible\u003c/a>” to the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California Department of Public Health set a legally enforceable level in 2014, it took into account factors such as how costly it would be for water districts to monitor and clean up the chemical. Public health officials set the legally enforceable level 500 times higher than the public health goal, at 10 parts per billion. It \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/chromium6/chromium_fact_sheet_2015_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was the first\u003c/a> drinking water standard for chromium 6 in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s legal limit represents a cancer risk of 500 people per-one-million, for people who drink the water daily for 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials found that getting chromium 6 levels below 10 ppb added significantly to the cost of compliance. To set the legal limit only half as high, at 5 ppb, would have tripled the cost. To reach 1 ppb, the cost would have been 11 times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the EWG report, Los Banos water samples registered the highest level of chromium 6, at 31.5 ppb, followed by Kerman City at 19.2 ppb and Patterson City at 18 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities that tested above the state’s legal limit run from Sacramento to Los Angeles through California’s Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the water districts that tested below the legal limit, but above the public health goal are Hollister, L.A. County Waterworks Districts and Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents concerned about elevated levels should “contact their water system to see exactly what is going on and what the treatment is,” says state water board public information officer Andrew DiLuccia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2015, public water systems in California have been required to test for chromium 6 in drinking water. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also found the vast majority of samples from water districts serving roughly 8.5 million Californians across the state had hexavalent chromium at levels below the legal limit, but above the public health goal set by state scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/research/chromium-six-found-in-us-tap-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report \u003c/a>is from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, a watchdog agency based in Washington, D.C. The non-profit analyzed data the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency collected from water utilities across the country between 2013 and 2015. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2016-chromium6-lower-48.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive map\u003c/a> developed from the data shows chromium 6 levels in California and throughout the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was eye opening,” says Bill Walker, co-author of the Environmental Working Group report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to say the chromium 6 situation is as bad as the Flint situation but we’re saying if you start to look at it more closely you can find some really disturbing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-KU9ds\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/KU9ds/2/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nThe chemical occurs naturally in the environment from \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the erosion of \u003c/span>natural\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> chromium deposits\u003c/span> but it’s also manufactured and used in stainless steel production, metal finishing, chrome plating, leather tanning, and to prevent corrosion in electrical plant cooling towers, as was the case in Hinkley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of the workplace, the main way people might be exposed to chromium 6 is through drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulates \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=13096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chromium 6 in work environments\u003c/a>, the EPA doesn’t regulate chromium 6 in drinking water. 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State scientists said at .02 ppb, the risk of developing cancer for people who drink the water daily for 70 years is no more than a one-in-a-million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires the legal limit be set “as close as is \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technically and economically feasible\u003c/a>” to the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California Department of Public Health set a legally enforceable level in 2014, it took into account factors such as how costly it would be for water districts to monitor and clean up the chemical. Public health officials set the legally enforceable level 500 times higher than the public health goal, at 10 parts per billion. It \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/chromium6/chromium_fact_sheet_2015_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was the first\u003c/a> drinking water standard for chromium 6 in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s legal limit represents a cancer risk of 500 people per-one-million, for people who drink the water daily for 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials found that getting chromium 6 levels below 10 ppb added significantly to the cost of compliance. To set the legal limit only half as high, at 5 ppb, would have tripled the cost. To reach 1 ppb, the cost would have been 11 times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the EWG report, Los Banos water samples registered the highest level of chromium 6, at 31.5 ppb, followed by Kerman City at 19.2 ppb and Patterson City at 18 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities that tested above the state’s legal limit run from Sacramento to Los Angeles through California’s Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the water districts that tested below the legal limit, but above the public health goal are Hollister, L.A. County Waterworks Districts and Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents concerned about elevated levels should “contact their water system to see exactly what is going on and what the treatment is,” says state water board public information officer Andrew DiLuccia.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2015, public water systems in California have been required to test for chromium 6 in drinking water. 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