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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The halfway point of the California Legislature's final sprint for 2015 offered several examples of a long-standing maxim inside the hallways of the state Capitol: The hardest, most controversial proposals are almost always left until the very end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's debates in the state Assembly and Senate saw dozens of bills with final (or almost final) actions taken by lawmakers. And it saw a major shift on two topics: A concession to the oil industry on the year's biggest climate change legislation, and a delay in finding a solution to long-term funding for California's transportation needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay on transportation was a clear signal of how tough the issue had become as the end-of-session deadline approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, told reporters late Wednesday that transportation funding would be pushed over until the fall -- after lawmakers have concluded their regular work -- for a closer look by a to-be-announced special legislative committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(The state Senate leader) and I will be forming a conference committee to continue to work on transportation, so that we respond to the stakeholders up and down the state -- business, labor, local elected officials, to get that done,\" said Atkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort failed to find enough Republicans in the Legislature willing to endorse new taxes or fees to help fund what has been estimated to be a $6 billion annual shortfall in keeping up with road, highway and transit needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a number of other bills cleared key hurdles, or went to the governor's desk, on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End-of-Life Choices\u003c/strong>: The day's most intense debate ended with the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/09/04/physician-assisted-suicide-bill-advances-with-new-sunset-clause/\" target=\"_blank\">approving the closely watched bill\u003c/a> to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication, and the proposal now headed to the state Senate. ABX2-15 by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, was the focus of a floor debate that lasted some two hours. There was no clean split along party lines, with some Democrats opposed and a few Republicans in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I certainly don't take this lightly,\" said Eggman in her closing remarks, offered while fighting back tears. Other legislators also grew emotional during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it remains unclear whether the bill will next have one final policy committee hearing before the Legislature adjourns Friday night, or whether it heads directly to the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Toll For Walking On The Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/strong>: The body overseeing the Golden Gate Bridge may soon be barred from imposing a toll on walkers and bikers, after the Legislature sent the governor\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB40\" target=\"_blank\"> Assembly Bill 40\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, if signed by Brown, would prohibit sidewalk tolls for pedestrians and cyclists crossing the Golden Gate and state-owned toll bridges. The cash-strapped bridge district has twice voted to study such a fee, but Ting sought to tie the ban to the subject du jour in Sacramento: Climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of foot and pedal power cannot be overlooked as we strive to combat climate change. We should not discourage these healthy transportation alternatives by nickel-and-diming people who are part of the solution,” he said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Funded Recounts In Close Elections\u003c/strong>: Lawmakers sent the governor a bill debated now for more than a year, sparked by 2014's close contest in the race for state controller. Assembly Bill 44 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, allows the governor to order a recount in any statewide race (either for a statewide office or a ballot measure) where the gap between second and third place for candidates, or passage and defeat for a ballot measure, is either less than 1,000 votes or 0.00015 of the votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abortion Clinic Access\u003c/strong>: Legislation to allow independent primary care clinics -- including those that offer abortion services -- to secure a state license cleared the state Senate and headed back for a final vote in the Assembly ... but not before sparking some heated fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, said that \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1177_cfa_20150908_162020_sen_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 1177\u003c/a> is an attempt to help clinics that can't get a license because no nearby hospital will sign an agreement for transferring patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's become politicized,\" said Pan, a physician. \"Because of that politicization, people have been denied reproductive services.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans accused Democrats of trying to expand these services at a risk to women. And one senator angrily suggested he was being criticized for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of my colleagues on this floor believe I have to have a uterus to have an opinion,\" said Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Racial Profiling Bill\u003c/strong>: The Senate passed a bill that would drastically expand the data collected and made public by police departments -- one aimed at improving relations between law enforcement and communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would require all police agencies to report extensive data on each contact they make with a member of the public, including the perceived race and ethnicity of the person. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The information would be handed over to the State Attorney General’s Office, where a new body would be charged with improving racial sensitivity in law enforcement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican lawmakers said the bill would distract police officers from their job of policing, and insisted that racial bias problems among law enforcement officers have improved, Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Legislators dealt at least a temporary blow on Tuesday to extending and expanding California's landmark climate change law, as they counted down the final hours of their 2015 session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's floor debates in the state Assembly and Senate saw action on several bills of note. Lawmakers are scheduled to adjourn for the year on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by a group of reluctant Democrats, the Assembly rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_32_cfa_20150904_170421_asm_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 32\u003c/a>, the effort by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) to expand her landmark 2006 law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would mandate a cut in greenhouse gas levels of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent by the year 2050. A group of Democrats and environmental justice groups \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-pavley-climate-change-20150908-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">rallied at an event\u003c/a> in support of the bill Tuesday morning. But none of that convinced as many as a dozen Democratic Assembly members who did not vote for the bill later in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, in a written statement, said that the vote came \"while many members were not on the floor and before several had a chance to review the recent amendments.\" She vowed to bring it back up for another vote before the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the climate change bills -- including \u003ca href=\"http://focus.senate.ca.gov/sites/focus.senate.ca.gov/files/climate/505050.html\" target=\"_blank\">the bill to enhance renewable energy, energy efficiency and the use of electric vehicles\u003c/a> -- remain at the center of an intense social media campaign by everyone from activists to prominent actors. That marquee bill, Senate Bill 350, also made news on Tuesday, as reports suggest new life in long-rumored efforts to tone down its mandate to cut petroleum usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">To protect the environment & air we breathe, we have to move forward w clean energy & sustainable solutions: \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/jeuT3Mc9Mg\">http://t.co/jeuT3Mc9Mg\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SB350?src=hash\">#SB350\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio/status/641358593854320640\">September 8, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other big legislative efforts also seemed to be on the rocks. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/adlerben/status/641344558207381504\" target=\"_blank\">A key Republican state senator expressed concerns about striking any quick deal on funding transportation\u003c/a>, just days after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/vehicle-fee-voter-approval-in-transportation-fix-mulled-in-sacramento\" target=\"_blank\">public sparring between the governor's team and GOP lawmakers\u003c/a>. And just last week, efforts on another big item -- health care financing through a new tax on managed care plans -- were dealt a setback when \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2015/9/8/california-association-of-health-plans-opposes-two-tax-bills\" target=\"_blank\">a major HMO advocacy group officially voiced its opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the notable bills that either went to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday, cleared important hurdles or struggled:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banning Confederate Names on Public Buildings\u003c/strong>: The state Senate gave final passage to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_539_bill_20150716_amended_asm_v93.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SB539\u003c/a>, a bill to outlaw existing or new government buildings and locations -- from schools to parks and beyond -- to be named in honor of a Confederate soldier. Inspired by the Charleston, South Carolina, murders in June, the bill would take effect on Jan. 1, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Republican legislators opposed the measure on the grounds that they said it rewrites history, bipartisan support carried it to the governor's desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This measure does nothing to change our history books,\" said its author, state Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda. \"It simply says that if you were a Confederate leader, whose purpose was to break the Union into two to defend slavery, that you should not have a place of honor on public buildings in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Tuesday, the Assembly also unanimously approved \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AJR26\" target=\"_blank\">a resolution\u003c/a> encouraging the removal of Confederate flags and symbols from federal property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Microbeads Ban\u003c/strong>: A ban on the tiny plastic beads in products like exfoliants was sent to the governor's desk after being resurrected via new amendments just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_888_cfa_20150904_100255_sen_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 888\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would ban the sale of personal care products that contain \"microbeads\" as of 2020. Fines for breaking the law could total $2,500 a day. The late changes to the bill exclude natural exfoliants from the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill to Ban Warrantless Searches of Cellphones, Computers\u003c/strong>: State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/08/tech-industry-backs-new-california-digital-privacy-law/\" target=\"_blank\">tried for years\u003c/a> to pass a law that subjects searches of cellphones and other electronic devices to the same standards as snail mail -- and 2015 proved no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly passed Senate Bill 178 with a supermajority vote on Tuesday, but not without some last-minute drama. While many Republican lawmakers supported the bill, Assemblyman Jim Cooper -- a former sheriff's captain -- warned that it would make it easier for predators to prey on children. Cooper, D-Elk Grove, argued the bill \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">will limit law enforcement effectiveness at investigating and prosecuting sexual predators.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, including GOP members, pushed back. Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, a Republican from Big Bear Lake who presented the bill on the Assembly floor, as well as Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen, R-Modesto, noted that many prominent law enforcement groups removed their opposition in recent days after Leno agreed to amend the bill to specifically address the child pornography issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holding up his cellphone, Obernolte said, \"It's very clear that the information in this device falls under (the) Fourth Amendment ... but unfortunately, privacy laws in California have not caught up with technology.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate will take one more vote on the measure before it heads to Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Government Contracts and Lobbying, Junkets\u003c/strong>: It was a big day for measures to strengthen ethics laws in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 1200, which would\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/14/Bill-Lobbying-Laws-Local-Ordinances\" target=\"_blank\"> bring lobbying for state contracts under existing lobbying laws\u003c/a>, fell one vote short in the state Senate but will be granted a second chance, known as \"reconsideration,\" before the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would close a loophole in existing lobbying laws that exempts paid lobbying for public contracts from the same disclosure rules as lobbying for legislation or regulation. We \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/240-million-education-contract-illustrates-state-lobbying-loopholes\" target=\"_blank\">took an in-depth look at the issue \u003c/a>this summer, finding that it's nearly impossible to find out who's working behind the scenes to secure billions of taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly also approved \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB21\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 21\u003c/a>, which would expand disclosure requirements around junkets for elected officials. The bill would require a nonprofit organization that \"regularly organizes and hosts travel for elected officials\" to disclose the names of donors who both donated to the nonprofit\u003cspan class=\"blue_text\" style=\"color: blue\"> \u003c/span>and accompanied an elected official for any portion of the travel. 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And it appears likely that whittling down their list of ideas before the legislative session ends on Sept. 11 will take some serious negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221859337″ 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>Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2015-16/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/CapandTradeExpenditurePlan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included a list of priorities in his May budget proposal\u003c/a>, including spending money on energy-efficiency upgrades to private and public buildings; handing out rebates for water-saving appliances; restoring wetlands and watersheds; and increasing waste diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have weighed in with a long list of their own. The California Taxpayers Association, which opposes the cap-and-trade program, tallied a whopping \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltax.org/homepage/Cap_Trade_Spending_Report2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4.8 billion cap-and-trade wish list from lawmakers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10663699\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10663699\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some Democrats want to use cap-and-trade money for public transit needs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Democrats want to use cap-and-trade money for public transit needs. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the proposals: A group of Bay Area and Los Angeles Democrats wants to spend \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/coalition-of-bay-area-legislators-transit-agencies-and-advocates-call-for-state-funding-for-transit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an additional $100 million each year \u003c/a>from the cap-and-trade fund on public transit improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblyman David Chiu\u003c/a>, D-San Francisco, said the proposal would benefit Californians from all socioeconomic backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parameters of the cap-and-trade program were to use those revenues for things that will directly reduce greenhouse gases,” Chiu said. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“We know that 40 percent of our emissions are coming from the millions of cars we have on our streets. And thinking about ways to be creative in supporting transportation modes that millions of California use to get more cars off the roads and reduce our gas emissions and reduce congestion — all of that makes a lot of sense.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and his allies aren’t the only ones with ideas. Other proposals run the gamut: Building sustainable and affordable housing; reducing wildfire emissions; creating more open space; and even making ports more energy efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10663701\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10663701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Wildfires release greenhouse gas emissions into the air. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildfires release greenhouse gas emissions into the air. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that has risen to the forefront is how much money should go to disadvantaged communities that have taken the brunt of pollution — and how to define such communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a62/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblywoman Autumn Burke\u003c/a>, D-Los Angeles, represents a region that includes wealthier communities like Marina Del Rey, and more working-class enclaves, such as Inglewood. She says the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current formula for defining “disadvantaged”\u003c/a> may not capture some deserving communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still think the definition of a disadvantaged community needs to be worked at with a finer-tooth comb,” she said. And, she added, many of the environmentally-friendly incentives and programs offered to California residents in the past — such as fuel-efficient car subsidies and solar rebates — have mainly \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-electric-cars-20150824-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benefited the wealthy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to see equality,” Burke said. “I have a district that’s diverse, not just racially but economically, and I just want to see parity — I want to see the disadvantaged portions of my community have access to funds and have clean air, just like the western portion of my district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I want to see the disadvantaged portions of my community have access to funds and have clean air.’ \u003ccite>Assemblywoman Autumn Burke\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Republicans have priorities of their own for the money. State Sen. Bob Huff, R-San Dimas, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520161SB2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wants to use about $1.9 billion of the cap-and-trade funding to fix the state’s roads and highways\u003c/a>. Earlier this summer, the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/03/special-sessions-on-health-care-and-transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called a special session \u003c/a>aimed at finding ways to fix the state’s crumbling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This transportation crisis requires that we look at everything,” said Huff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huff’s bill will be \u003ca href=\"http://stran.senate.ca.gov/agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heard in a Senate committee\u003c/a> Tuesday. But it’s not expected to go far; Democrats have scoffed at the idea that cap-and-trade money could legally be used to fix roads used by polluting cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal is not a real proposal,” said Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles. “You’d have litigation almost immediately because there’s no nexus with regards to carbon reduction of (greenhouse gas) and other criteria pollutants and filling a pothole. So it’s not a serious proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats can go it alone: They need only a simple majority in each house of the Legislature to approve a plan to spend the money. But Democratic lawmakers’ priorities are as varied as their districts, and they will also need to bring the governor on board with any final plan. And if they want to do it in 2015, they don’t have much time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The California Taxpayers Association, which opposes the cap-and-trade program, tallied a whopping \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltax.org/homepage/Cap_Trade_Spending_Report2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4.8 billion cap-and-trade wish list from lawmakers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10663699\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10663699\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Some Democrats want to use cap-and-trade money for public transit needs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/7040_transform-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Democrats want to use cap-and-trade money for public transit needs. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the proposals: A group of Bay Area and Los Angeles Democrats wants to spend \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/coalition-of-bay-area-legislators-transit-agencies-and-advocates-call-for-state-funding-for-transit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an additional $100 million each year \u003c/a>from the cap-and-trade fund on public transit improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblyman David Chiu\u003c/a>, D-San Francisco, said the proposal would benefit Californians from all socioeconomic backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parameters of the cap-and-trade program were to use those revenues for things that will directly reduce greenhouse gases,” Chiu said. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“We know that 40 percent of our emissions are coming from the millions of cars we have on our streets. And thinking about ways to be creative in supporting transportation modes that millions of California use to get more cars off the roads and reduce our gas emissions and reduce congestion — all of that makes a lot of sense.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu and his allies aren’t the only ones with ideas. Other proposals run the gamut: Building sustainable and affordable housing; reducing wildfire emissions; creating more open space; and even making ports more energy efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10663701\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10663701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Wildfires release greenhouse gas emissions into the air. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/6501_transform-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildfires release greenhouse gas emissions into the air. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that has risen to the forefront is how much money should go to disadvantaged communities that have taken the brunt of pollution — and how to define such communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a62/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblywoman Autumn Burke\u003c/a>, D-Los Angeles, represents a region that includes wealthier communities like Marina Del Rey, and more working-class enclaves, such as Inglewood. 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"content": "\u003cp>For kids growing up on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centralcoast-tourism.com/monterey-bay-region.htm\">Central Coast\u003c/a>, actually getting to the ocean can depend on their socioeconomic status or where their families live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some young people surf and explore in the tidepools, while others never visit Monterey Bay. But here's some good news: the Monterey Bay region is teeming with programs to inspire the next generation of marine scientists, no matter who they are or where they come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point Lobos, just south of Carmel, attracts kids from all over the region. It’s a place where they can see whales migrating off in the distance and get up close with smaller sea creatures during low tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer many of those young people were kids and their counselors from \u003ca href=\"http://campsealab.org/\">\u003cu>Camp SEA Lab\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. 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Many of its students are children of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that age, you know a lot of family expectations, a lot of pressure to contribute and help out, and summer jobs should be priority in the culture. And so if we had to pay for it, definitely wouldn’t be able to participate,” says Carrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the aquarium covers the cost of the program, which begins with a summer camp and continues in school with a class and student research. Students who complete the program, graduate high school and go to college also receive a $1,000 scholarship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Carrillo, the WATCH program is an experience that brought her full circle. She now works at the aquarium as a bilingual education specialist. Her job includes leading a program that connects Head Start preschoolers to the ocean, where some of the kids are the children of her high school classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love that I know where they are coming from, and it’s a little bit easier for me to gain buy-in from these parents because I came from their community,” says Carrillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also shows kids that they can follow their dreams and come back to do something positive, all while helping the ocean in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>ZEPHYR COVE, Nevada — Perhaps the stunning blue lake waters were the inspiration for Gov. Jerry Brown to offer a crystal-clear message at Lake Tahoe’s annual environmental summit: Opponents in the political fight over climate change better be ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no intention of backing down,” said Brown in regard to the current fight over one new hot-button climate change bill at the state Capitol — though his remarks seemed in line with his general viewpoint on the environmental challenges he sees facing California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to intensify our efforts at bringing lower carbon fuels and lower carbon pollution,” he said. And then, to put a fine point on it: “We’re going to attack this problem of climate change in a very positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10655370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10655370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-400x308.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at the Lake Tahoe Summit on Aug. 24, 2015 in Zephyr Cove, NV.\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-400x308.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-1440x1109.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-1180x909.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978-960x740.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/IMG_3978.jpg 1755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at the Lake Tahoe Summit on Aug. 24, 2015, in Zephyr Cove, Nevada. \u003ccite>(John Myers/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The governor joined Nevada officials, as well as regional members of California’s congressional delegation and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco, for Monday’s two-hour event on the Tahoe shoreline that emphasized cooperation and collaboration to preserve the alpine lake’s cobalt-blue waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even for a lake whose clarity has improved since the first summit in 1997, there’s a political murkiness to efforts at protection. For almost a decade , efforts have stalled in Washington, D.C., to renew federal funding for a variety of Tahoe lake and regional environmental projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, two very different visions of new federal help for the Tahoe region have emerged: one from Feinstein and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., to \u003ca href=\"http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/7/nevada-california-senators-introduce-lake-tahoe-restoration-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allocate $415 million in funding\u003c/a>; and a much leaner version from U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, that \u003ca href=\"https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tahoe-restoration-act-of-2015-introduced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would spend about $60 million and focus most of the money on forest fire prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock said his proposal was about as good as it gets when it comes to the budget demands of his fellow Republicans in the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Talk without action is just talk,” McClintock told the crowd at the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does Brown think of the small-is-all-we-can-get approach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smaller versions come from smaller minds,” the governor told reporters after the event. “And Lake Tahoe, and the environment, are big.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown used his own speech at the lakeside summit to urge efforts that help “de-carbonize” the atmosphere. While he’s been a frequent guest at the annual event, the governor seemed eager for a more expansive fight on environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has not taken a position on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/16/the-big-battles-to-watch-in-final-2015-debates-california-state-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Legislature’s most-talked-about bill\u003c/a>, Senate Bill 350 by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles. But the bill would codify three climate change efforts the governor laid out in \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his January inaugural\u003c/a>: More renewable energy, more energy efficient vehicles, and a cut in vehicle petroleum use by up to 50 percent. The bill is now the target of an intense lobbying and public relations campaign on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, while not endorsing the specific language, made it clear he’s working behind the scenes to find a bill that will make it through the Legislature and to his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brown seemed energized for the fight. “The oil industry is in deep trouble,” he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-senate-leader-says-oil-industry-fear-mongering-on-sb-350-20150819-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad campaign launched by an oil industry-funded group that warns of potential gas rationing\u003c/a>, or worse, if SB350 becomes law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The petroleum boys are making up things,” said the governor. “I don’t want to use the word that is normally used for things when people don’t tell the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, two very different visions of new federal help for the Tahoe region have emerged: one from Feinstein and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., to \u003ca href=\"http://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2015/7/nevada-california-senators-introduce-lake-tahoe-restoration-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allocate $415 million in funding\u003c/a>; and a much leaner version from U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, that \u003ca href=\"https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/tahoe-restoration-act-of-2015-introduced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would spend about $60 million and focus most of the money on forest fire prevention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock said his proposal was about as good as it gets when it comes to the budget demands of his fellow Republicans in the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Talk without action is just talk,” McClintock told the crowd at the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does Brown think of the small-is-all-we-can-get approach?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smaller versions come from smaller minds,” the governor told reporters after the event. “And Lake Tahoe, and the environment, are big.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown used his own speech at the lakeside summit to urge efforts that help “de-carbonize” the atmosphere. While he’s been a frequent guest at the annual event, the governor seemed eager for a more expansive fight on environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has not taken a position on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/16/the-big-battles-to-watch-in-final-2015-debates-california-state-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Legislature’s most-talked-about bill\u003c/a>, Senate Bill 350 by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles. But the bill would codify three climate change efforts the governor laid out in \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his January inaugural\u003c/a>: More renewable energy, more energy efficient vehicles, and a cut in vehicle petroleum use by up to 50 percent. The bill is now the target of an intense lobbying and public relations campaign on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, while not endorsing the specific language, made it clear he’s working behind the scenes to find a bill that will make it through the Legislature and to his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brown seemed energized for the fight. “The oil industry is in deep trouble,” he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-senate-leader-says-oil-industry-fear-mongering-on-sb-350-20150819-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad campaign launched by an oil industry-funded group that warns of potential gas rationing\u003c/a>, or worse, if SB350 becomes law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The petroleum boys are making up things,” said the governor. “I don’t want to use the word that is normally used for things when people don’t tell the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LONE PINE, Inyo County — The gas station's ground was covered with the small winged bugs. Piles of carcasses, inches deep, sat swept to the sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the road, they rained onto car windshields. They flew by the thousands toward even the smallest sources of light, and crept along windows and kitchen tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such has been the skin-crawling reality for the past two months in the high-desert communities at the foot of the Sierra Nevada's eastern slopes, where residents have seen an explosion of the black-and-red seed bug species \u003cem>Melacoryphus lateralis\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're in everything. There's no way to get rid of them or eradicate them. They're just here,\" said Blair Nicodemus, 33, of Lone Pine, while driving with a bug creeping on his windshield. \"Sometimes there will be these micro-plumes that'll come through where there will be just thousands of them, and they'll be all over you. ... I'm sure I've eaten at least two dozen, because they get into your food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'At nighttime, if you go into the station, they'll follow. They go everywhere. They get on your body, your head.'\u003ccite>Soma Praba,\u003cbr>\nPearsonville gas station owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Such outbreaks have happened in Arizona's Sonoran desert near Tucson, but scientists say it's the first one they have record of in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influx has been driven by a mild winter and monsoonal weather, which provided healthier vegetation for the nutrient-sucking bugs, said David Haviland, an entomologist with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bugs' flight into town and toward the lights in homes, businesses or cars, however, might be related to the drying up of native vegetation in the summer heat and the drought, said Nathan Reade, agricultural commissioner for Inyo and Mono counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the north, a different type of bug is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/20/burning-mans-got-bugs-cue-radical-itching-and-bitching\" target=\"_blank\">infesting the site\u003c/a> of the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. State officials are working to identify the green, coin-shaped insects swarming the outdoor venue and biting workers setting up for this year's event, which starts a week from Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entomologist Jeff Knight, with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, said the bugs aren't bloodsuckers and don't seem to pose a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the outbreak of fingernail-size seed bugs is a main topic of conversation in the infested communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A printout in a Lone Pine motel lobby warned people to keep their doors shut at night, and a hotel worker advised people to keep their car windows up if lights are on. A Dollar General Store in Inyokern limited its store hours after dark to avoid dealing with the bugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lia Sensanbaugh of Inyokern doesn't turn on her lights when at home. \"I've got them real bad,\" she said. \"I've been living off my TV light for about a month and a half.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10652397\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/pearsonvillebugs-a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10652397\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/pearsonvillebugs-a-400x491.jpg\" alt=\"Insects swarm a Shell station in the desert town of Pearsonville, southwestern Inyo County. The insects have been identified as a variety of seed bug.\" width=\"400\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/pearsonvillebugs-a-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/pearsonvillebugs-a-800x982.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/pearsonvillebugs-a.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Insects swarm a Shell station in the desert town of Pearsonville, southwestern Inyo County. The insects have been identified as a variety of seed bug. \u003ccite>(Matthew Hengst)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gas stations and rest areas along U.S. 395 — the main route from Southern California to the sparsely populated Owens Valley and eastern Sierra — are prime bug targets because of their lights. 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State officials are working to identify the green, coin-shaped insects swarming the outdoor venue and biting workers setting up for this year's event, which starts a week from Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entomologist Jeff Knight, with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, said the bugs aren't bloodsuckers and don't seem to pose a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the outbreak of fingernail-size seed bugs is a main topic of conversation in the infested communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A printout in a Lone Pine motel lobby warned people to keep their doors shut at night, and a hotel worker advised people to keep their car windows up if lights are on. 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