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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES -- California lawmakers proposed stronger regulations Monday to prevent a natural gas storage leak like one that has sickened Los Angeles residents and driven thousands from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, said the legislation would prevent a replay of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">massive uncontrolled leak\u003c/a> that has persisted nearly three months in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we can do better,\" Pavley said at a news conference in the Porter Ranch neighborhood, where residents have complained of nausea, headaches, nosebleeds and other ailments since the leak was discovered Oct. 23. \"How can we make sure this kind of tragedy never happens again?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10829438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10829438 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1751.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas is drilling to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"640\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1751.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x486.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1435.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas is drilling to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 4,500 families either plan to or have moved out of Porter Ranch while Southern California Gas Co. tries to stop the leak. It has cost the company more than $50 million and is not expected to be plugged until March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill would require safety valves, better leak protection and tighter restrictions if facilities are close to homes or schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well that is leaking from a massive underground gas storage field was once equipped with a safety valve, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0104-gas-leak-20160104-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">but it was leaking and was removed in 1979\u003c/a>. The company said it wasn't required to have a safety valve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for residents suing SoCalGas has said the safety valve wouldn't have prevented the leak, but would have stopped the well from belching \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/12/14/the-hidden-climate-threat-that-gas-companies-noticed-but-rarely-fixed/\" target=\"_blank\">enormous amounts of climate-changing methane\u003c/a> into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additive that makes the odorless gas detectable to human smell is blamed for making some residents ill, though public health officials and the gas company said there are no long-term health impacts from the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jedZejPKD4zDjcoUKcGQSnkmJDyScDRP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley said the package of bills would complement \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">an emergency declaration from the governor\u003c/a> and would require the gas company to pay environmental costs and for relocation of residents and not pass them along to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill would prevent the company from storing more gas into vacant oil fields a mile and a half underground until regulators determine the facility is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman said SoCalGas is no longer injecting gas into the ground, but drawing it out to decrease the pressure where the well is leaking.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOS ANGELES -- California lawmakers proposed stronger regulations Monday to prevent a natural gas storage leak like one that has sickened Los Angeles residents and driven thousands from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, said the legislation would prevent a replay of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/06/brown-declares-state-of-emergency-over-porter-ranch-gas-leak\" target=\"_blank\">massive uncontrolled leak\u003c/a> that has persisted nearly three months in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we can do better,\" Pavley said at a news conference in the Porter Ranch neighborhood, where residents have complained of nausea, headaches, nosebleeds and other ailments since the leak was discovered Oct. 23. \"How can we make sure this kind of tragedy never happens again?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10829438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10829438 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1751.jpg\" alt=\"Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas is drilling to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"640\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1440x1751.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-400x486.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-1180x1435.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ReliefWellWorkers-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers on-site at a relief well SoCalGas is drilling to try and stop the leak at its Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Lance DeLaura/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 4,500 families either plan to or have moved out of Porter Ranch while Southern California Gas Co. tries to stop the leak. It has cost the company more than $50 million and is not expected to be plugged until March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill would require safety valves, better leak protection and tighter restrictions if facilities are close to homes or schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 2015, more than 2 million cargo containers moved through the Port of Oakland. After those containers are offloaded from cargo ships, they are stacked onto large decks until they can be loaded onto trucks, trains or ships and shipped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those decks are essentially massive piers, built over water on thousands of vertical concrete supports called piles. 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The piles stretch 60 feet from the terminal deck down into the water, but their actual length is much longer, as they are embedded deep into the mud at the bottom of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spend a lot of time playing in the mud,” said Kevin Nekimken, one of the divers at the Port of Oakland. “We see a lot of damage down in the mud line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One gray morning in December, as Nekimken prepared to dive into the water and perform a pile inspection, he discovered evidence of the damage caused by saltwater on his dive suit. The communications line that connects the suit to the boat had been infiltrated by water and corroded the electrical leads. Nekimken quickly cut out the rotted bit of the wire and reattached the communications line to his dive helmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10826324 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Diver Kevin Nekimken puts on his helmet before a recent dive at the Port of Oakland. 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Commercial divers like Nekimken do not wear the iconic compressed air tanks like recreational scuba divers. Instead, they use bulky dive helmets that encompass the whole head. These dive helmets receive surface-supplied oxygen from an air compressor on a boat. This allows divers an unlimited supply of air. Nekimken said that it’s not uncommon for divers at the Port of Oakland to be underwater for as long as six hours without surfacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After putting on the dive helmet and attaching the compressed air hoses and communications cables, he jumped into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Nekimken sank into the bay and made his way to the back of the boat, his colleague, Sean Wheeles, was watching his back. Wheeles is also a diver for the port, but that day he was operating a robotic underwater vehicle called a VideoRay. The VideoRay is equipped with lights, a camera and sonar capability. Wheeles controlled the submersible from a laptop on the surface. He was able to provide a bit of extra light for Nekimken and monitor his progress from the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, Nekimken resurfaced at the back of the boat. Dive supervisor Donald Ockrassa unceremoniously dropped an important tool into the water for Nekimken, a power washer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826328\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Kekimken uses a pressure washer to clean off a cement pile on a recent dive. 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The power washer made quick work of the algae, but as Nekimken moved deeper into the water, the growth on the pile was more significant. Closer to the mud line at the base of the pile, Nekimken found thick clusters of barnacles and mussels. As he sprayed the thick growth near the bottom, the water clouded darkly around him, and he lost visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the pile was cleaned of growth, Nekimken was able to inspect the surface of the pile for fractures. The concrete piles can be easily fractured during an earthquake. These small fractures are not an immediate concern, as the rebar inside the pile will still hold it together. The danger lies in the slow process of saltwater seeping through cracks and reaching the steel rebar inside. The saltwater slowly corrodes the steel, which over time begins to swell, further cracking and weakening the strength of the pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If divers discover a pile with hairline fractures, they can easily seal them on the spot. If they find a pile with significant damage, they will return later, surround the pile with scaffolding, and pour fresh concrete around the damaged pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826329\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10826329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1440x942.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of cement piles support a deck at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-768x503.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of cement piles support a deck at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nekimken didn’t find any fractures that morning. He resurfaced after about an hour, making it a very short dive. He climbed up a ladder on the back of the boat, and his fellow divers helped him remove the suit. He squeezed dish soap into the neoprene suit to make it easier to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Nekimken struggled to get out of the tight suit, Wheeles packed up the VideoRay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great job,” said Wheeles. “There’s enough work for our dive team for the rest of our careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With thousands of concrete piles slowly degrading in the saltwater, regular fracturing created by earthquakes, and increased shipping activity at the port, Wheeles is right. The dive team at the Port of Oakland will never run out of work.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2015, more than 2 million cargo containers moved through the Port of Oakland. After those containers are offloaded from cargo ships, they are stacked onto large decks until they can be loaded onto trucks, trains or ships and shipped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those decks are essentially massive piers, built over water on thousands of vertical concrete supports called piles. These piles — approximately 28,000 of them — are the critical unseen system that supports all cargo activities at the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This critical pile system is managed and maintained by a small team of four divers, who spend most of their time inspecting and repairing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10826326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-1440x808.jpg\" alt=\"An example of the pile construction used at the Port of Oakland, on a decommissioned pier. (Alan Toth/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-1440x808.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-400x224.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_pier-960x539.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of the pile construction used at the Port of Oakland, on a decommissioned pier. (Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the piles at the Port of Oakland are made of concrete with steel rebar cores. The piles stretch 60 feet from the terminal deck down into the water, but their actual length is much longer, as they are embedded deep into the mud at the bottom of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spend a lot of time playing in the mud,” said Kevin Nekimken, one of the divers at the Port of Oakland. “We see a lot of damage down in the mud line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One gray morning in December, as Nekimken prepared to dive into the water and perform a pile inspection, he discovered evidence of the damage caused by saltwater on his dive suit. The communications line that connects the suit to the boat had been infiltrated by water and corroded the electrical leads. Nekimken quickly cut out the rotted bit of the wire and reattached the communications line to his dive helmet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10826324 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Diver Kevin Nekimken puts on his helmet before a recent dive at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_helmet-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diver Kevin Nekimken puts on his helmet before a recent dive at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nekimken then put on a thick neoprene dry suit before attaching his dive helmet. Commercial divers like Nekimken do not wear the iconic compressed air tanks like recreational scuba divers. Instead, they use bulky dive helmets that encompass the whole head. These dive helmets receive surface-supplied oxygen from an air compressor on a boat. This allows divers an unlimited supply of air. Nekimken said that it’s not uncommon for divers at the Port of Oakland to be underwater for as long as six hours without surfacing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After putting on the dive helmet and attaching the compressed air hoses and communications cables, he jumped into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Nekimken sank into the bay and made his way to the back of the boat, his colleague, Sean Wheeles, was watching his back. Wheeles is also a diver for the port, but that day he was operating a robotic underwater vehicle called a VideoRay. The VideoRay is equipped with lights, a camera and sonar capability. Wheeles controlled the submersible from a laptop on the surface. He was able to provide a bit of extra light for Nekimken and monitor his progress from the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, Nekimken resurfaced at the back of the boat. Dive supervisor Donald Ockrassa unceremoniously dropped an important tool into the water for Nekimken, a power washer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826328\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Kekimken uses a pressure washer to clean off a cement pile on a recent dive. (Alan Toth/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_underwater-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kekimken uses a pressure washer to clean off a cement pile on a recent dive. (Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nekimken submerged and made his way to a nearby pile. Near the surface, the pile had a light coat of green algae. The power washer made quick work of the algae, but as Nekimken moved deeper into the water, the growth on the pile was more significant. Closer to the mud line at the base of the pile, Nekimken found thick clusters of barnacles and mussels. As he sprayed the thick growth near the bottom, the water clouded darkly around him, and he lost visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the pile was cleaned of growth, Nekimken was able to inspect the surface of the pile for fractures. The concrete piles can be easily fractured during an earthquake. These small fractures are not an immediate concern, as the rebar inside the pile will still hold it together. The danger lies in the slow process of saltwater seeping through cracks and reaching the steel rebar inside. The saltwater slowly corrodes the steel, which over time begins to swell, further cracking and weakening the strength of the pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If divers discover a pile with hairline fractures, they can easily seal them on the spot. If they find a pile with significant damage, they will return later, surround the pile with scaffolding, and pour fresh concrete around the damaged pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826329\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10826329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1440x942.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of cement piles support a deck at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-768x503.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/diver_piles.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of cement piles support a deck at the Port of Oakland. (Alan Toth/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nekimken didn’t find any fractures that morning. He resurfaced after about an hour, making it a very short dive. He climbed up a ladder on the back of the boat, and his fellow divers helped him remove the suit. He squeezed dish soap into the neoprene suit to make it easier to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Nekimken struggled to get out of the tight suit, Wheeles packed up the VideoRay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great job,” said Wheeles. “There’s enough work for our dive team for the rest of our careers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With thousands of concrete piles slowly degrading in the saltwater, regular fracturing created by earthquakes, and increased shipping activity at the port, Wheeles is right. The dive team at the Port of Oakland will never run out of work.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In just a few short years, solar power has gotten big in California, and now it’s at the top of the renewable energy heap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data compiled from daily reports by the state’s major grid manager indicate that in 2015, solar became the No. 1 source of renewable energy in California. Not only did solar beat wind power for the first time, but it also topped drought-depleted hydropower, the long-standing leader in California electricity generation outside fossil fuels and nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator doesn’t cover the entire state, but it does manage about 80 percent of the California grid, including those portions served by PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, the state’s three big investor-owned utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, CAISO reports on the hourly electrical output from a long list of sources for the electricity used by 30 million Californians, ranging from biogas at the low end of generation to thermal — natural gas, essentially — at the high end. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports in sum show that in 2015, utility-scale solar power plants produced 15,591,964 megawatt-hours of electricity for CAISO. That’s 6.7 percent of the system’s total of 231,965,326 MWh. Wind came in at 5.3 percent. Hydro contributed 5.9 percent, with the portion that the state considers renewable, “small hydro,” at 0.6 percent of generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 542px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10826476\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10826476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png\" alt=\"Power generated from large solar installations has overtaken wind-power generation in California.\" width=\"542\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png 542w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart-400x289.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power generated from large solar installations has overtaken wind-power generation in California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s a vastly changed picture from just a few years ago. As recently as 2012, solar accounted for just 0.9 percent of CAISO generation, less than one-quarter of the 4 percent share that wind had at the time. (Hydro, with the drought beginning to unfold, produced 9.3 percent of the system’s energy that year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s the kicker: These figures \u003cem>undercount\u003c/em> solar’s true contribution. CAISO’s solar data are derived only from big plants that sell their power at the wholesale level. The agency’s numbers don’t include the ubiquitous small systems installed throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Variously labeled rooftop, distributed or behind-the-meter solar, there are hundreds of thousands of small installations on California homes and businesses, and their output adds up. Experts estimate that including these systems would boost solar’s tally by nearly half — meaning solar in all its sizes, shapes and forms probably accounted for close to 10 percent of California’s electricity in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Benefit During Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One payoff from all the solar: Despite the big drop in hydropower due to the drought, CAISO used less thermal and imported energy last year than it did in 2012. Bernadette Del Chiaro, who heads the California Solar Energy Industries Association, called that “a really interesting story that has not gotten enough play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial incentives and ever-increasing requirements through the state’s renewable portfolio standard are driving the growth of renewable energy, and solar in California has some particular advantages, Del Chiaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know there’s a lot of sunshine here. But beyond that, Del Chiaro said, “As utilities have worked to meet their renewable energy mandates, solar has become a favorite choice because the cost of PV [photovoltaic] panels has declined so much that it is more competitive than most other forms of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes wind, said Mark Jacobson, a Stanford professor who has been researching and promoting scenarios for achieving 100 percent renewable energy for all purposes, not just electricity, by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While wind costs in the national average are much lower than both solar and gas due to extremely fast Great Plains wind, they are more comparable in California,” Jacobson said in an email. “And wind has a little more siting difficulty in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GTM Research, which tracks solar trends, utility-scale photovoltaic solar in California (including non-CAISO areas) grew from 0.8 gigawatts installed capacity at the beginning of 2013 to 6.6 GW by last October, the most recent update available. Concentrating solar — what CAISO calls “solar thermal” plants, like Ivanpah in the Mojave Desert — adds nearly another gigawatt of generating capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind power capacity in the state inched up from 5.5 GW to 6 GW during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Rader, executive director of the California Wind Energy Association, says that’s cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot have just solar,” Rader said. “We have to have a mix. It is clear from all the studies that have been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges for Wind Power Development\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee last November, Rader blamed wind’s meager growth on “sweeping restrictions” that “have been adopted or are slated for adoption by Los Angeles, San Diego and Solano counties in rural areas hosting some of the state’s best remaining wind resources.” Rader was also critical of a draft plan to regulate desert development that would put “80 percent of the high-quality wind resources on remote federal lands in the vast deserts of Southern California … permanently off-limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most realistic scenario for adding significant wind power in California is wiring it in from out of state, Rader said. Developers in Wyoming, which has a monstrous wind resource but practically nobody to use it, are especially keen to send wind power California’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has largely cut off new out-of-state renewables, but that could change. The Legislature last year opened the door to expanding the Independent System Operator, and CAISO has been talking up a plan to bring in PacifiCorp, which serves around 1.8 million customers in six Western states, including California’s far north and big chunks of Utah and Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caiso.com/Documents/StudyBenefits-PacifiCorp-ISOIntegration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent report\u003c/a> commissioned by CAISO and PacifiCorp suggested a merger could help solve a problem that comes with the rapid growth of solar power generation: The grid can handle only so much power at one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since solar power is generated only during daylight hours and ramps up rapidly after sunrise, it could create what amounts to an overload and force grid operators to curtail the amount of solar power flowing into the system. Adding PacifiCorp to its system would give CAISO an outlet for the surplus solar power, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826477\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 584px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10826477\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10826477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png\" alt=\"Solar power has become California's No. 1 source of the renewable energy over the last four years. \" width=\"584\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png 584w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart-400x269.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar power has become California’s No. 1 source of the renewable energy over the last four years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Del Chiaro’s group hasn’t taken a position on the CAISO expansion, but she said solar growth that includes a significant rooftop component would promote grid innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we did nothing, obviously we’d have problems,” she said. “But if we model a vision that takes advantage of localized generation and incorporates storage, that is the answer to the concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential rooftop solar capacity was at 2.4 GW at the beginning of October 2015, with another 1.9 GW in the “non-residential” rooftop category, according to GTM Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tax, Metering Policies Impact Solar Development\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law an extension of a 30 percent investment tax credit for solar. It applies to all forms of solar, but will especially aid utility solar, Del Chiaro said. She expects it to continue to thrive in California, although she suspects most new plants will be in the 5 MW to 20 MW range as opposed to the 50 MW and larger facilities that have been built in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tax credit won’t be enough to keep rooftop solar growing, Del Chiaro added. The key there, she said, is the potential for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/11/24/california-utilities-and-solar-companies-battle-over-electricity-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changes in net metering\u003c/a>, the policy of compensating small-system owners at the retail rate for the solar power they generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities around the country, including in California, say net metering results in non-solar users carrying an unfair burden in maintaining a grid that benefits all. They’re pushing for reduced solar payments and/or new fees for solar adopters. In December, the California Public Utilities Commission proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pe.com/articles/solar-789435-proposed-utilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maintaining the full retail rate\u003c/a> for net metering, with only modest new fees. The commission could vote on that proposal as early as Jan. 28.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In just a few short years, solar power has gotten big in California, and now it’s at the top of the renewable energy heap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data compiled from daily reports by the state’s major grid manager indicate that in 2015, solar became the No. 1 source of renewable energy in California. Not only did solar beat wind power for the first time, but it also topped drought-depleted hydropower, the long-standing leader in California electricity generation outside fossil fuels and nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator doesn’t cover the entire state, but it does manage about 80 percent of the California grid, including those portions served by PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, the state’s three big investor-owned utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, CAISO reports on the hourly electrical output from a long list of sources for the electricity used by 30 million Californians, ranging from biogas at the low end of generation to thermal — natural gas, essentially — at the high end. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports in sum show that in 2015, utility-scale solar power plants produced 15,591,964 megawatt-hours of electricity for CAISO. That’s 6.7 percent of the system’s total of 231,965,326 MWh. Wind came in at 5.3 percent. Hydro contributed 5.9 percent, with the portion that the state considers renewable, “small hydro,” at 0.6 percent of generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 542px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10826476\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10826476\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png\" alt=\"Power generated from large solar installations has overtaken wind-power generation in California.\" width=\"542\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart.png 542w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Wind-and-Solar-Line-Chart-400x289.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power generated from large solar installations has overtaken wind-power generation in California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s a vastly changed picture from just a few years ago. As recently as 2012, solar accounted for just 0.9 percent of CAISO generation, less than one-quarter of the 4 percent share that wind had at the time. (Hydro, with the drought beginning to unfold, produced 9.3 percent of the system’s energy that year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Experts estimate that including these systems would boost solar’s tally by nearly half — meaning solar in all its sizes, shapes and forms probably accounted for close to 10 percent of California’s electricity in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Benefit During Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One payoff from all the solar: Despite the big drop in hydropower due to the drought, CAISO used less thermal and imported energy last year than it did in 2012. Bernadette Del Chiaro, who heads the California Solar Energy Industries Association, called that “a really interesting story that has not gotten enough play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial incentives and ever-increasing requirements through the state’s renewable portfolio standard are driving the growth of renewable energy, and solar in California has some particular advantages, Del Chiaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know there’s a lot of sunshine here. But beyond that, Del Chiaro said, “As utilities have worked to meet their renewable energy mandates, solar has become a favorite choice because the cost of PV [photovoltaic] panels has declined so much that it is more competitive than most other forms of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes wind, said Mark Jacobson, a Stanford professor who has been researching and promoting scenarios for achieving 100 percent renewable energy for all purposes, not just electricity, by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While wind costs in the national average are much lower than both solar and gas due to extremely fast Great Plains wind, they are more comparable in California,” Jacobson said in an email. “And wind has a little more siting difficulty in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to GTM Research, which tracks solar trends, utility-scale photovoltaic solar in California (including non-CAISO areas) grew from 0.8 gigawatts installed capacity at the beginning of 2013 to 6.6 GW by last October, the most recent update available. Concentrating solar — what CAISO calls “solar thermal” plants, like Ivanpah in the Mojave Desert — adds nearly another gigawatt of generating capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind power capacity in the state inched up from 5.5 GW to 6 GW during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Rader, executive director of the California Wind Energy Association, says that’s cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot have just solar,” Rader said. “We have to have a mix. It is clear from all the studies that have been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges for Wind Power Development\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee last November, Rader blamed wind’s meager growth on “sweeping restrictions” that “have been adopted or are slated for adoption by Los Angeles, San Diego and Solano counties in rural areas hosting some of the state’s best remaining wind resources.” Rader was also critical of a draft plan to regulate desert development that would put “80 percent of the high-quality wind resources on remote federal lands in the vast deserts of Southern California … permanently off-limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most realistic scenario for adding significant wind power in California is wiring it in from out of state, Rader said. Developers in Wyoming, which has a monstrous wind resource but practically nobody to use it, are especially keen to send wind power California’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has largely cut off new out-of-state renewables, but that could change. The Legislature last year opened the door to expanding the Independent System Operator, and CAISO has been talking up a plan to bring in PacifiCorp, which serves around 1.8 million customers in six Western states, including California’s far north and big chunks of Utah and Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caiso.com/Documents/StudyBenefits-PacifiCorp-ISOIntegration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent report\u003c/a> commissioned by CAISO and PacifiCorp suggested a merger could help solve a problem that comes with the rapid growth of solar power generation: The grid can handle only so much power at one time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since solar power is generated only during daylight hours and ramps up rapidly after sunrise, it could create what amounts to an overload and force grid operators to curtail the amount of solar power flowing into the system. Adding PacifiCorp to its system would give CAISO an outlet for the surplus solar power, the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826477\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 584px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10826477\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10826477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png\" alt=\"Solar power has become California's No. 1 source of the renewable energy over the last four years. \" width=\"584\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart.png 584w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/2012-2015-CAISO-Bar-Chart-400x269.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar power has become California’s No. 1 source of the renewable energy over the last four years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Del Chiaro’s group hasn’t taken a position on the CAISO expansion, but she said solar growth that includes a significant rooftop component would promote grid innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we did nothing, obviously we’d have problems,” she said. “But if we model a vision that takes advantage of localized generation and incorporates storage, that is the answer to the concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential rooftop solar capacity was at 2.4 GW at the beginning of October 2015, with another 1.9 GW in the “non-residential” rooftop category, according to GTM Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tax, Metering Policies Impact Solar Development\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law an extension of a 30 percent investment tax credit for solar. It applies to all forms of solar, but will especially aid utility solar, Del Chiaro said. She expects it to continue to thrive in California, although she suspects most new plants will be in the 5 MW to 20 MW range as opposed to the 50 MW and larger facilities that have been built in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the tax credit won’t be enough to keep rooftop solar growing, Del Chiaro added. The key there, she said, is the potential for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/11/24/california-utilities-and-solar-companies-battle-over-electricity-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changes in net metering\u003c/a>, the policy of compensating small-system owners at the retail rate for the solar power they generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2015/12/OceanSoundscapesMiller.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Undersea sounds from Monterey Bay provided by Dave Cade and Hopkins Marine Station.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPDATED 6/1/16: The Obama Administration on Wednesday released its first-ever comprehensive strategy for reducing undersea noise pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noise is becoming ever more “pervasive” in the ocean, says Michael Jasny, who directs the Marine Mammal Protection Project for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says ocean noise from shipping, naval sonar and industrial operations has been doubling every ten years for several decades, interfering with marine animals’ ability to find food and reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a problem that is intensifying,’” he says. “The science has made clear that it has to be dealt with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason says the patchwork of laws governing ocean noise have not been joined by a single strategy. While NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"http://cetsound.noaa.gov/Assets/cetsound/documents/Roadmap/ONS_Draft_Roadmap_Complete_May31.pdf\">140-page plan\u003c/a> stops short of establishing any actual rules, environmentalists say it’s a good start toward “concrete action” to muffle the ocean soundscape.\u003cbr>\nThe draft “roadmap” could eventually lead to actions such as placing speed limits on merchant ships in some areas, or re-drawing shipping lanes to minimize impacts on marine life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORIGINAL POST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one of the world’s largest container ships passed under the Golden Gate Bridge on New Year’s Eve, it raised the curtain on a new era for West Coast container ports — and raised new anxiety for marine biologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s a lot of noise in the ocean and the oceans have been getting noisier.’\u003ccite>Danielle Lipski, NOAA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Scientists have long been concerned about the impacts of noise pollution on undersea ecosystems. A wide variety of marine animals, from whales to snapping shrimp, depend on sound to navigate, communicate, and even survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_496725\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 3851px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886.jpg\" alt=\"The Ultra-Large Container Ship Benjamin Franklin enters San Francisco Bay on December 31, 2015, the largest cargo ship ever to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"3851\" height=\"2886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886.jpg 3851w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3851px) 100vw, 3851px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ultra-Large Container Ship Benjamin Franklin enters San Francisco Bay on December 31, 2015, the largest cargo ship ever to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At a very basic level, we know that these animals use sound as we use light,” says Brandon Southall, a marine consultant and research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It’s their fundamental essential mode of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While environmentalists have fought epic battles with the U.S. Navy over interference from sonar, Southall says the growth of commercial shipping poses by far the biggest threat to the undersea soundscape, from the noise ships generate simply by moving through the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an overall length of 1,300 feet, the ULCS (Ultra-Large Container Ship) \u003ca href=\"http://maritimematters.com/2015/12/cma-cgm-benjamin-franklin-gets-hollywood-welcome/\">Benjamin Franklin\u003c/a> is the biggest ship ever to call at a North American port — 200 feet longer than the Navy’s newest, biggest aircraft carriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_445290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445290\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-445290\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"NOAA scientist Danielle Lipski (foreground) and technicians aboard the R/V Fulmar prepare to deploy an undersea sound-recording station that will capture sounds for two years before floating back to the ocean's surface.\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA scientist Danielle Lipski (foreground) and technicians aboard the R/V Fulmar prepare to deploy an undersea sound-recording station that will capture sounds for two years before floating back to the ocean’s surface. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When fully loaded, the Franklin has a draft of 52 feet — it’s like dragging a 5-story building along underwater. That takes giant propellers and a huge amount of power to move. And all of that generates low-frequency noise below the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other things in the ocean make sound,” says Southall, “but shipping is the overwhelmingly dominant component of the noise that people put into the ocean in places like San Francisco Bay here, where you have all the ships coming in and out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship’s operators say the Franklin is designed to be more than compliant with new international guidelines for minimizing ship noise below the water line. But the guidelines are voluntary, and there’s no assurance that other shippers will follow suit, especially in retrofitting older ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lloyd’s Register, total tonnage of the global merchant shipping fleet is expected to double by 2030 (v. 2010). That would mean more ships and bigger ships. The number of large container ships could multiply six times, driven by growing populations, rising consumerism and increased global trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_445524\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445524\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-445524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-800x4186.jpeg\" alt=\"NOAA is building out a network of undersea listening stations along both U.S. coasts.\" width=\"324\" height=\"1695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-800x4186.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-400x2093.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-768x4018.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-1440x7535.jpeg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-1180x6174.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-960x5023.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA is building out a network of undersea listening stations along both U.S. coasts. \u003ccite>(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, scientists are deploying a network of undersea listening stations to develop a more complete “picture” of ocean soundscapes and how they’re changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of noise in the ocean and the oceans have been getting noisier,” researcher Danielle Lipski told me as the NOAA research vessel R/V Fulmar was about to cast off from Bodega Bay in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipski’s mission on that day was to deploy the newest in a network of underwater listening devices, this one about 20 miles off of Pt. Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that there are ships and we know that there are whales,” she said, “but we don’t really understand the soundscape there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipski says sound — especially in the low-frequency range where whales vocalize — can travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometers underwater, depending on a variety of factors such as the contours of the sea floor, water salinity and even temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/\">Pacific Marine Environmental Lab\u003c/a> hope this undersea “surround sound” will reveal, among other things, how much noise pollution is being generated by shipping lanes that cut through the \u003ca href=\"http://cordellbank.noaa.gov/\">Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that I think we’ll get a pretty good idea of how that sound is affecting the habitat quality of the animals that are in the sanctuary,” Lipski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers won’t come quickly. The listening station, anchored to the sea floor in more than 1,600 feet of water, cannot transmit, so it will continue recording sounds for two years. Only then will scientists retrieve the hydrophone and begin to analyze what they’ve got.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having two years’ worth of data’s gonna be a really rich data set for us to understand the types of sounds that change seasonally and year-to-year,” Lipski told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, scientists can make recommendations for things like where to expand shipping lanes — and where not to — and fine-tune new international guidelines for making the ships themselves quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_444036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-444036 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-800x397.png\" alt=\"NOAA is building out a network of sound-gathering stations along both U.S. coasts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-800x397.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-400x199.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-768x381.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-1440x715.png 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-1180x586.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/NOAASoundBuoymap-960x477.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA is building out a network of sound-gathering stations along both U.S. coasts. \u003ccite>(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, things continue to amp up under the waves. From a whale’s perspective, Southall likens it to living in a city undergoing rapid growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s in a place that is loud and dynamic but it didn’t have this whole component of ships, boats, echo sounders — you know, just human presence — in the lifespan of some of these 150-year-old animals,” Southall said. “Their whole environment has gone from a rural area to a busy city, if they live near shipping lanes.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason says the patchwork of laws governing ocean noise have not been joined by a single strategy. While NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"http://cetsound.noaa.gov/Assets/cetsound/documents/Roadmap/ONS_Draft_Roadmap_Complete_May31.pdf\">140-page plan\u003c/a> stops short of establishing any actual rules, environmentalists say it’s a good start toward “concrete action” to muffle the ocean soundscape.\u003cbr>\nThe draft “roadmap” could eventually lead to actions such as placing speed limits on merchant ships in some areas, or re-drawing shipping lanes to minimize impacts on marine life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORIGINAL POST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one of the world’s largest container ships passed under the Golden Gate Bridge on New Year’s Eve, it raised the curtain on a new era for West Coast container ports — and raised new anxiety for marine biologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s a lot of noise in the ocean and the oceans have been getting noisier.’\u003ccite>Danielle Lipski, NOAA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Scientists have long been concerned about the impacts of noise pollution on undersea ecosystems. A wide variety of marine animals, from whales to snapping shrimp, depend on sound to navigate, communicate, and even survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_496725\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 3851px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886.jpg\" alt=\"The Ultra-Large Container Ship Benjamin Franklin enters San Francisco Bay on December 31, 2015, the largest cargo ship ever to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"3851\" height=\"2886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886.jpg 3851w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/IMG_5886-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3851px) 100vw, 3851px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ultra-Large Container Ship Benjamin Franklin enters San Francisco Bay on December 31, 2015, the largest cargo ship ever to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At a very basic level, we know that these animals use sound as we use light,” says Brandon Southall, a marine consultant and research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It’s their fundamental essential mode of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While environmentalists have fought epic battles with the U.S. Navy over interference from sonar, Southall says the growth of commercial shipping poses by far the biggest threat to the undersea soundscape, from the noise ships generate simply by moving through the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an overall length of 1,300 feet, the ULCS (Ultra-Large Container Ship) \u003ca href=\"http://maritimematters.com/2015/12/cma-cgm-benjamin-franklin-gets-hollywood-welcome/\">Benjamin Franklin\u003c/a> is the biggest ship ever to call at a North American port — 200 feet longer than the Navy’s newest, biggest aircraft carriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_445290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445290\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-445290\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"NOAA scientist Danielle Lipski (foreground) and technicians aboard the R/V Fulmar prepare to deploy an undersea sound-recording station that will capture sounds for two years before floating back to the ocean's surface.\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/RS17929_IMG_3972-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA scientist Danielle Lipski (foreground) and technicians aboard the R/V Fulmar prepare to deploy an undersea sound-recording station that will capture sounds for two years before floating back to the ocean’s surface. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When fully loaded, the Franklin has a draft of 52 feet — it’s like dragging a 5-story building along underwater. That takes giant propellers and a huge amount of power to move. And all of that generates low-frequency noise below the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other things in the ocean make sound,” says Southall, “but shipping is the overwhelmingly dominant component of the noise that people put into the ocean in places like San Francisco Bay here, where you have all the ships coming in and out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ship’s operators say the Franklin is designed to be more than compliant with new international guidelines for minimizing ship noise below the water line. But the guidelines are voluntary, and there’s no assurance that other shippers will follow suit, especially in retrofitting older ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lloyd’s Register, total tonnage of the global merchant shipping fleet is expected to double by 2030 (v. 2010). That would mean more ships and bigger ships. The number of large container ships could multiply six times, driven by growing populations, rising consumerism and increased global trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_445524\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445524\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-445524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-800x4186.jpeg\" alt=\"NOAA is building out a network of undersea listening stations along both U.S. coasts.\" width=\"324\" height=\"1695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-800x4186.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-400x2093.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-768x4018.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-1440x7535.jpeg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-1180x6174.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/BuoyFINAL-e1451602701489-960x5023.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA is building out a network of undersea listening stations along both U.S. coasts. \u003ccite>(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, scientists are deploying a network of undersea listening stations to develop a more complete “picture” of ocean soundscapes and how they’re changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of noise in the ocean and the oceans have been getting noisier,” researcher Danielle Lipski told me as the NOAA research vessel R/V Fulmar was about to cast off from Bodega Bay in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipski’s mission on that day was to deploy the newest in a network of underwater listening devices, this one about 20 miles off of Pt. Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that there are ships and we know that there are whales,” she said, “but we don’t really understand the soundscape there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lipski says sound — especially in the low-frequency range where whales vocalize — can travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometers underwater, depending on a variety of factors such as the contours of the sea floor, water salinity and even temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at NOAA’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/\">Pacific Marine Environmental Lab\u003c/a> hope this undersea “surround sound” will reveal, among other things, how much noise pollution is being generated by shipping lanes that cut through the \u003ca href=\"http://cordellbank.noaa.gov/\">Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From that I think we’ll get a pretty good idea of how that sound is affecting the habitat quality of the animals that are in the sanctuary,” Lipski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers won’t come quickly. The listening station, anchored to the sea floor in more than 1,600 feet of water, cannot transmit, so it will continue recording sounds for two years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The week's third storm made an on-time arrival overnight and brought an equal-opportunity soaking to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED's Off-Site Blog Headquarters -- my house in North Berkeley -- we got .62 of an inch in just a couple of hours starting around 4 a.m. And the rain pounding down here is typical of what's happening around the rest of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heaviest totals so far are far to the north and south of the Golden Gate, with Soquel, south of Santa Cruz on Monterey Bay, getting 1.18 inches since midnight and Venado in northern Sonoma County getting 1.52 inches. That latter location, in the hills west of Healdsburg, has gotten more than 7 inches of rain since Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Rain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rain for selected locations for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Wednesday and total since rain began in Sonoma County on Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>\u003cstrong>Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>\u003cstrong>Last 24 hours (in.)\u003c/strong>\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>\u003cstrong>Since Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Venado (Sonoma County)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2.36\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>7.32\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz Mts.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.43\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5.14\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Middle Peak (Mount Tamalpais)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.22\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4.64\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>La Honda\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.11\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2.54\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Santa Rosa\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.94\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2.10\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Point Reyes Station\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.83\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2.01\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.18\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.97\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.05\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.96\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco International Airport\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.98\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.80\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>St. Mary's College (Moraga)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.71\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.72\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Sacramento\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.44\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.59\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Napa\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.79\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.54\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Redwood City\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.55\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.52\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oakland Museum\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.80\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.41\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Jose International Airport\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.44\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.30\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Totals around the bay at dawn are generally between a half-inch and an inch from San Francisco north and between a quarter-inch and half-inch down to San Jose. The heaviest rain was moving into the Peninsula and South Bay at daybreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rain prompted Muni to take the unusual step of shutting down its cable cars early Wednesday, at least for the morning hours, and replacing them with far less charming buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service posted a flash flood watch for the entire Bay Area through this afternoon. While the heaviest rain is expected to move through the region by late morning, the potential for showers and thunderstorms will continue through most of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm features winds gusting up to 40 mph, especially on the region's hilltops and ridges and along the coast. Caltrans has posted high wind advisories for Bay Area toll bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The main impulse of Northern California's second storm of 2016 blew through the region before dawn Tuesday, dumping about 3 inches of rain in the mountains/hills north and south of San Francisco Bay. But except for the all-too-predictable snarled traffic -- the California Highway Patrol reported dozens of collisions and widely scattered highway flooding -- the storm passed without causing major disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasional bouts of rain are expected through Tuesday evening, with a brief break before the next weather system arrives early Wednesday. More rain is expected each day through the end of the week, with relatively weak storms moving through quickly Thursday and late Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like this sort of thing -- and it's your duty as a resident of drought-stricken California to embrace the rain -- you're in luck. Forecasters say weather models show two or three more storms are in store for next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locales early Tuesday included Venado, the reliably sopping-wet hill location west of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, which recorded 3.20 inches in the 12 hours ended at 7 a.m. Ben Lomond, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, got 2.83 inches. Rainfall in lower elevations has generally ranged between half an inch and 1 inch, though San Rafael got 1.67 inches and Novato 1.30 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The areas burned by Lake County's big summer fires also saw heavy overnight rainfall, including nearly 2 inches on Cobb Mountain. The National Weather Service posted a flash flood watch for much of the county overnight, but so far there have been no reports of significant flooding or debris flows there despite the inundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> We will declare the departing weather system a really punky excuse for a storm. The only locations in the surrounding region to record an inch or more of rain in the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. Monday were in or adjacent to the Valley Fire burn area in Lake County and at one recording station in the mountains along the Big Sur coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to the central Bay Area, totals were much more modest, ranging from just .01 of an inch at San Jose International Airport to two-thirds of an inch in the mountains of northern Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says we should not be fooled by the effete performance of the Sunday-Monday storm, first of a series of Pacific weather systems expected through this weekend. The NWS Bay Area office in Monterey says a much more potent storm will barge into northern Sonoma County late Monday and intensify as it moves over the San Francisco area Tuesday morning. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">The forecast\u003c/a> calls for moderate to heavy rain and blustery winds to make it to the central Bay Area and South Bay in time for the morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect more of the same Wednesday, as Storm Three arrives with rain that's expected to continue into Thursday. A dry day Friday is forecast, to be followed by more rain on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Saturday, Jan. 2:\u003c/strong> Hey, Bay Area, here's what's coming at you in the next few days: a series of storms that promises to bring a healthy dose of rain to communities throughout the Bay Area, another soaking to the coastal mountains north and south of San Francisco Bay and more snow to the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two storms in that series are \u003ca href=\"http://go.nasa.gov/1ZHivqY\" target=\"_blank\">depicted above\u003c/a>: one looming just off the West Coast, a second huge comma-shaped system in the north central Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">Forecasters say\u003c/a> rain will begin Sunday along most of the coast from northern Sonoma County down through Monterey Bay. 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By the end of the workweek, many lowland locations around the bay will have picked up more than 2 inches of rain, while the wettest hill locales will have registered 6 inches or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some forecasters say longer-range weather models suggest this week is just the start of a prolonged wet pattern for the Bay Area and most of California. \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/3754\" target=\"_blank\">Commenting\u003c/a> on what appears to be a major, El Niño-driven shift in the jet stream, Daniel Swain of The California Weather Blog says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... The screaming message, at this point, is that quite a few storms will affect California over the next 2-3 weeks. Not all of them will be strong, but some of them probably will be. Some may preferentially affect the northern part of the state; others will focus on the far southern region. 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But except for the all-too-predictable snarled traffic -- the California Highway Patrol reported dozens of collisions and widely scattered highway flooding -- the storm passed without causing major disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasional bouts of rain are expected through Tuesday evening, with a brief break before the next weather system arrives early Wednesday. More rain is expected each day through the end of the week, with relatively weak storms moving through quickly Thursday and late Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like this sort of thing -- and it's your duty as a resident of drought-stricken California to embrace the rain -- you're in luck. Forecasters say weather models show two or three more storms are in store for next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainiest locales early Tuesday included Venado, the reliably sopping-wet hill location west of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, which recorded 3.20 inches in the 12 hours ended at 7 a.m. Ben Lomond, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, got 2.83 inches. Rainfall in lower elevations has generally ranged between half an inch and 1 inch, though San Rafael got 1.67 inches and Novato 1.30 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The areas burned by Lake County's big summer fires also saw heavy overnight rainfall, including nearly 2 inches on Cobb Mountain. The National Weather Service posted a flash flood watch for much of the county overnight, but so far there have been no reports of significant flooding or debris flows there despite the inundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> We will declare the departing weather system a really punky excuse for a storm. The only locations in the surrounding region to record an inch or more of rain in the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. Monday were in or adjacent to the Valley Fire burn area in Lake County and at one recording station in the mountains along the Big Sur coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to the central Bay Area, totals were much more modest, ranging from just .01 of an inch at San Jose International Airport to two-thirds of an inch in the mountains of northern Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says we should not be fooled by the effete performance of the Sunday-Monday storm, first of a series of Pacific weather systems expected through this weekend. 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"content": "\u003cp>A self-styled militia in eastern Oregon grabbed national headlines Saturday when members \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/03/461818657/militia-takes-over-federal-building-following-protest-in-oregon\">broke into the headquarters\u003c/a> of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. There the armed group remained on Sunday, occupying the federal building in protest of what it sees as government overreach on rangelands throughout the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XcIaAmFxDkwflyDRsRypGh8WuShMTkJe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand in defense,\" Ammon Bundy, the group's apparent leader and spokesman, \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/militia-oregon-wildlife-refuge-burns-bundy-hammond/\">told Oregon Public Broadcasting\u003c/a>. \"And when the time is right, we will begin to defend the people of Harney County, [Oregon], in using the land and the resources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammon's brother, Ryan, has reportedly used harsher rhetoric, saying members of the militia are willing to kill or be killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/IanKullgren/status/683524884484390912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their last name may ring a bell. Ammon and Ryan Bundy are sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who notably \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">took part in an armed standoff\u003c/a> with the federal Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, in Nevada in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammon Bundy now is part of a group of 15 to 150 people — \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/militiamen-break-into-malheur-national-wildlife-refuge-building/\">depending on which source you believe\u003c/a> — who are protesting the arson convictions of two Oregon ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>why \u003c/em>exactly are a Nevada rancher's son and his supporters taking up the cause of two guys from Oregon? What is the source of the continued friction between many ranchers and the federal government? What does a 20-year-old terrorist attack in Oklahoma City have to do with all of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>The Background\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The situation began, in some ways, in the decades following the Civil War. The 1862 Homestead Act granted 160 acres of land to the people willing to settle it. Ranchers in some regions needed far more land than that to be profitable. They eventually began to pay grazing fees for the right to lease federal land — if they agreed to federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/461831737/461841372\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you are using somebody else's land for your livelihood, that puts you in a very dependent relationship,\" Paul Starrs, a geography professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/307960343/ranchers-conflict-with-grazing-fees-began-decades-ago\">told NPR's Ted Robbins\u003c/a> in 2014. \"And livestock ranchers are, in my experience, pretty savvy people. And they don't like that uncertainty. Nobody really likes uncertainty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranchers have strongly objected to the government's management of federal lands, especially over issues of water or environmental conservation, and to the terms of their leases. Cliven Bundy, for his part, grazed his cattle on federal lands and refused to pay grazing fees. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">still hasn't collected the more than $1 million he owes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension is heightened by how much land the federal government continues to own in the Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YYiqiugnaq6ydNcKqZyfXmTKNTC5Vm8y\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf\">the Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>, in Nevada the U.S. owned more than 81 percent of the land in the state in 2010. In Oregon, that number hovered right around half — 53 percent of the land, more than 30 million acres of which were administered by either the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is, it's a paradox being a rugged individualist dependent on the government — unless you're John Wayne,\" Robbins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a paradox that Dwight and Steven Hammond chafed at for decades — and one that drew them off the ranch and into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hammonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The animus harbored by the two Hammond men for federal land agencies dates back decades. Both reportedly were arrested for obstructing federal officials in 1994 — in protest of which \"nearly 500 incensed ranchers showed up at a rally in Burns,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582\">according to High Country News\u003c/a>. But even before that, the Hammonds bristled at the authority of managers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Dwight] Hammond allegedly made death threats against previous managers in 1986 and 1988 and against [Forrest] Cameron, the current manager, in 1991 and again this year,\" High Country News reported in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of the current situation were sown in 2001 and 2006. In both those years, the U.S. government said the Hammonds set fires that spread onto land managed by the BLM. The 2001 blaze burned 139 acres of public land, according to court documents; the 2006 fire — for which only Steven was convicted — burned an additional acre of public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson convictions for both father and son were handed down in 2012. Much of the dispute in the years afterward — including, eventually, this weekend's armed occupation — revolves around the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ132/html/PLAW-104publ132.htm\">Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996\u003c/a>, which increased the penalties for arson committed against federal property, the mandatory minimum punishment for such crimes was upped to five years in federal prison. The law, which was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, struck the judge presiding over the sentencing as too harsh — and off-base in this instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just would not be — would not meet any idea I have of justice, proportionality,\" U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan \u003ca href=\"http://landrights.org/or/Hammond/Transcript%20of%20Judges%20ruling.pdf\">said at the sentencing\u003c/a>. \"I am not supposed to use the word 'fairness' in criminal law. I know that I had a criminal law professor a long time ago yell at me for doing that. And I don't do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But this — it would be a sentence which would shock the conscience to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hogan sentenced Dwight Hammond Jr. to three months of prison, and Steven Hammond to a year and one day. The federal government wanted the full five years, appealing the shorter sentences and eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.landrights.org/or/Hammond/Hammonds%20Appeal%209th%20district%20court.pdf\">winning that appeal\u003c/a> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even a fire in a remote area has the potential to spread to more populated areas, threaten local property and residents, or endanger the firefighters called to battle the blaze,\" District Judge Stephen J. Murphy wrote in the appellate court's opinion. \"Given the seriousness of arson, a five-year sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the offense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original sentences were remanded, and the Hammonds were sentenced to five years in prison. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-militia-oregon-20160103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hammonds surrendered\u003c/a> to prison authorities on Monday in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whatever their continued friction with federal officials, the Hammonds have not publicly condoned the self-styled militia members who claim to be interceding on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Hammonds' attorney has previously stated the militiamen showing up in Burns do not represent the ranchers,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/burns-oregon-standoff-militia/\">Oregon Public Broadcasting reports\u003c/a>, noting that many locals in Burns have also received the out-of-towners warily — with several \"Militia Go Home\" fliers posted throughout the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/amandapeacher/status/683741037207007232\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Cliven Bundy, Ammon's father, expressed his hesitation over the protests. \"I don't quite understand how much they're going to accomplish,\" Bundy told OPB. \"I think of it this way: What business does the Bundy family have in Harney County, Oregon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, that has not dissuaded Ammon Bundy or the group with which he's holed up in the Malheur refuge headquarters. At a press conference there, Bundy said his plan may take \"several months at the shortest to accomplish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, law enforcement \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/militia-oregon-wildlife-refuge-burns-bundy-hammond/\">had not attempted\u003c/a> to remove the armed group from the federal building, OPB reports.\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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What does a 20-year-old terrorist attack in Oklahoma City have to do with all of it?\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>The Background\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The situation began, in some ways, in the decades following the Civil War. The 1862 Homestead Act granted 160 acres of land to the people willing to settle it. Ranchers in some regions needed far more land than that to be profitable. They eventually began to pay grazing fees for the right to lease federal land — if they agreed to federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/461831737/461841372\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you are using somebody else's land for your livelihood, that puts you in a very dependent relationship,\" Paul Starrs, a geography professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/307960343/ranchers-conflict-with-grazing-fees-began-decades-ago\">told NPR's Ted Robbins\u003c/a> in 2014. \"And livestock ranchers are, in my experience, pretty savvy people. And they don't like that uncertainty. Nobody really likes uncertainty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranchers have strongly objected to the government's management of federal lands, especially over issues of water or environmental conservation, and to the terms of their leases. Cliven Bundy, for his part, grazed his cattle on federal lands and refused to pay grazing fees. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/04/14/399397139/year-after-denying-federal-control-bundy-still-runs-his-bit-of-nevada\">still hasn't collected the more than $1 million he owes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension is heightened by how much land the federal government continues to own in the Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf\">the Congressional Research Service\u003c/a>, in Nevada the U.S. owned more than 81 percent of the land in the state in 2010. In Oregon, that number hovered right around half — 53 percent of the land, more than 30 million acres of which were administered by either the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is, it's a paradox being a rugged individualist dependent on the government — unless you're John Wayne,\" Robbins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a paradox that Dwight and Steven Hammond chafed at for decades — and one that drew them off the ranch and into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Hammonds\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The animus harbored by the two Hammond men for federal land agencies dates back decades. Both reportedly were arrested for obstructing federal officials in 1994 — in protest of which \"nearly 500 incensed ranchers showed up at a rally in Burns,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582\">according to High Country News\u003c/a>. But even before that, the Hammonds bristled at the authority of managers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Dwight] Hammond allegedly made death threats against previous managers in 1986 and 1988 and against [Forrest] Cameron, the current manager, in 1991 and again this year,\" High Country News reported in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of the current situation were sown in 2001 and 2006. In both those years, the U.S. government said the Hammonds set fires that spread onto land managed by the BLM. The 2001 blaze burned 139 acres of public land, according to court documents; the 2006 fire — for which only Steven was convicted — burned an additional acre of public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson convictions for both father and son were handed down in 2012. Much of the dispute in the years afterward — including, eventually, this weekend's armed occupation — revolves around the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-104publ132/html/PLAW-104publ132.htm\">Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996\u003c/a>, which increased the penalties for arson committed against federal property, the mandatory minimum punishment for such crimes was upped to five years in federal prison. The law, which was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, struck the judge presiding over the sentencing as too harsh — and off-base in this instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just would not be — would not meet any idea I have of justice, proportionality,\" U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan \u003ca href=\"http://landrights.org/or/Hammond/Transcript%20of%20Judges%20ruling.pdf\">said at the sentencing\u003c/a>. \"I am not supposed to use the word 'fairness' in criminal law. I know that I had a criminal law professor a long time ago yell at me for doing that. And I don't do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But this — it would be a sentence which would shock the conscience to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hogan sentenced Dwight Hammond Jr. to three months of prison, and Steven Hammond to a year and one day. The federal government wanted the full five years, appealing the shorter sentences and eventually \u003ca href=\"http://www.landrights.org/or/Hammond/Hammonds%20Appeal%209th%20district%20court.pdf\">winning that appeal\u003c/a> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even a fire in a remote area has the potential to spread to more populated areas, threaten local property and residents, or endanger the firefighters called to battle the blaze,\" District Judge Stephen J. Murphy wrote in the appellate court's opinion. \"Given the seriousness of arson, a five-year sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the offense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original sentences were remanded, and the Hammonds were sentenced to five years in prison. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-militia-oregon-20160103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hammonds surrendered\u003c/a> to prison authorities on Monday in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Whatever their continued friction with federal officials, the Hammonds have not publicly condoned the self-styled militia members who claim to be interceding on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Hammonds' attorney has previously stated the militiamen showing up in Burns do not represent the ranchers,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.opb.org/news/article/burns-oregon-standoff-militia/\">Oregon Public Broadcasting reports\u003c/a>, noting that many locals in Burns have also received the out-of-towners warily — with several \"Militia Go Home\" fliers posted throughout the town.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″ 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>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), which requires day care providers to be vaccinated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 216,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, even if the device does not contain tobacco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 960\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat, makes it easier for people to donate sperm or eggs and for unmarried parents who use assisted reproduction to be recognized as legal guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Rights and Equality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the governor couldn’t agree on much around affordable housing, but they did back a number of bills expanding workers rights, particularly for women and parents — including a groundbreaking gender pay bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 358\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Sen. Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. Mitchell gives child welfare social workers better oversight of mental health treatment for foster kids, including the prescription of psychotropic medications.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 731\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Sen. Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. Sponsored by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, it registers people to vote when they receive or renew their driver’s license, unless they opt out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 990\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), requires clearer disclosure on campaign fliers so it’s apparent who is paying for them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\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/239851144″&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/239851144″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. 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Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. 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Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. 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