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"content": "\u003cp>At most, there are only 20 days of official business left at the state Capitol. By the time it’s over, huge policy and political fights will have been waged, some of which may set the stage for debates left for the voters to settle in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators return on Monday to Sacramento for the final sprint to the end of this year’s duties, the halfway mark of the two-year legislative session that began in January. Hundreds of bills are left to be debated, covering topics from environmental policy to privacy rights and long-term funding for roads and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are our top picks for the battles worth watching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Biggie: Climate Clash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s reputation on the international stage as a leader on climate change regulations has been front and center in recent months, and legislators may be on the verge of doubling down on that effort. Most notable are two bills to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and separate legislation to cut the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greenhouse gas bills (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_32_cfa_20150710_120306_asm_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 32\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1288_cfa_20150713_150625_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1288\u003c/a>) push beyond the state’s 2006 landmark law, which seeks to shrink emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. AB 1288, by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would extend the state’s use of cap-and-trade as a tool to limit greenhouse gas emissions. SB 32, by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), would ratchet down emission levels by mid-century to 80 percent below 1990 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10643312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hard to believe, but those bills may spark debate that seems tepid compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_350&sess=CUR&house=B&author=de_le%F3n_%3Cde_leon%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 350\u003c/a> by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). This bill is an attempt to pull off the equivalent of a climate change hat trick: More renewable energy, more energy efficient buildings, and a 50 percent reduction in the use of petroleum by cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last element — a big downsizing of gasoline use — is the one the oil industry has vowed to kill, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiadriversalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an aggressive PR campaign over the last few weeks\u003c/a> and a list of business-leaning Democrats in the Assembly who they hope will lead the charge to weaken the Senate leader’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, a bill authored by a legislative leader can be hard to stop. And de León holds some powerful cards in his hand — namely, the bills of assemblymembers that have made it to the Senate, bills he could amend or kill to get his way with SB 350.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the biggest of the final legislative battles. And keep your eye on Gov. Jerry Brown, who may play a key role behind the scenes on an issue which he seems to increasingly view as a big part of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money Talks: Health Care and Tobacco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will be working both on regular-session issues and, concurrently, on two special legislative sessions — dealing with health care and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Brown’s call for a special health care session\u003c/a> is mostly aimed at finding a way to fund Medi-Cal, it seems a new round of tobacco wars will be taking front and center in the debate as well.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10643161\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg\" alt=\"RS3292_NoSmokingSign\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Democratic lawmakers have already introduced legislation as part of the special session that would define e-cigarettes as tobacco products and bring them under the state’s existing anti-smoking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Senate Bill xx5 by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Bill xx6 by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) are essentially do-overs of Leno’s SB 140, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Assembly-amendments-kill-bill-to-regulate-6374014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unceremoniously gutted in July by Assemblyman Adam Gray \u003c/a>(D-Merced), chair of the lower house’s powerful governmental organization committee. So it seems that legislation, combined with other bills, could set up an interesting battle in the Assembly, whose more moderate members have recently been loath to expand anti-tobacco laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(By the way, the “x” in the bill numbers refers to the fact that these were introduced in the \u003cem>special session\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the tobacco docket: \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_10_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx10\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), which would allow counties to impose their own tobacco taxes; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_7_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx7\u003c/a> by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-San Gabriel Valley) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), which would both raise the smoking age to 21; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_6_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx6\u003c/a> by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), which would close some loopholes in the state’s workplace smoking laws; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge), which would expand tobacco-free programs to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care session, of course, is actually aimed at finding a way to backfill \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/06/22/california-must-change-tax-or-face-losing-billions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.1 billion in funding for Medi-Cal that will dry up next June\u003c/a>, when the federal government starts enforcing new rules around how the low-income health insurance is funded. Democrats and Republicans also want to increase reimbursement rates for doctors who serve Medi-Cal patients and to increase funding for developmental disability services; Democratic lawmakers are pushing, too for more funding for the state’s In-Home Supportive Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) has proposed a flat tax on all managed care organizations in the state of $7.88 per patient, per month. He said the tax would raise the $1.1 billion for Medi-Cal, as well as money for the other programs. Republicans say that tax is unnecessary, and they would like to see the state instead dedicate any new general fund revenues above and beyond 2015 budget levels to developmental disability services and Medi-Cal rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transportation’s Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big special session debate over the final month will be over new dollars for California’s aging roads, highways and bridges. Getting consensus on the seriousness of the issue was the easy part; finding a way to pay for it — given that most revenue remedies will require a supermajority, bipartisan vote of each house — is the hard part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money? An \u003ca href=\"https://cafwd.app.box.com/s/cmibxng0bc6m345umly51adylv3zpu2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-star coalition of local governments, business, and transportation groups\u003c/a> says it needs to be at least $6 billion. Annually. That’s a heavy lift in the political world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key debates will include how much to earmark for things like roads and bridges, and how much some urban legislators may demand for public transit; how many different fees or taxes can or should be raised, from gas taxes to vehicle registration fees; how much of the ever-growing pot of cash from cap-and-trade’s auction of emission allowances should be tapped; and the idea of moving away from per gallon taxes and towards “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/road_charge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road charging\u003c/a>,” where drivers pay based on how many miles they drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime … and Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two controversial criminal justice bills will also be up for debate this month, both of them \u003ca href=\"/Users/mlagos/Downloads/201520160AB953_Senate%20Public%20Safety-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed\u003c/a> by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>, by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), is billed by supporters, including the ACLU, as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/AB953_fact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015.”\u003c/a> It would mandate 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. AB 953 would also expand the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. It’s supported by a long list of civil rights groups and opposed by most of the state’s large police organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leno is again attempting to curb warrantless searches of phones, computers and other electronic devices with \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>. It’s his fourth run at the issue, which has repeatedly been embraced by lawmakers but vetoed by Brown in the face of law enforcement opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would require law enforcement to secure a court order before they compel service providers to give them personal communications, or before they search an electronic device. It has some exceptions for emergency situations. It’s supported by tech companies, consumer organizations and civil liberties groups, but opposed by prosecutors, police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elections and Disclosure Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of notable bills in the final month may make important changes in the conducting of elections and campaigns, starting as soon as next year’s contest. The most talked about of these is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1461_bill_20150623_amended_sen_v94.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1461\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), requiring DMV and state elections officials to automatically register to vote those who are eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills that will be worth watching include a state-funded recount for razor-thin statewide candidate or ballot measure elections, and new donor disclosure rules on campaign mailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of disclosure: Keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1200_cfa_20150706_131902_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1200\u003c/a>, the effort by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to apply lobbying reports for those who seek government contracts — an area, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/240-million-education-contract-illustrates-state-lobbying-loopholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as we reported last week, that’s virtually opaque when it comes to seeing who’s influencing what\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Affordability Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also attempting to change a handful of state laws that they argue will make life easier for working families and individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643242\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1440x1076.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 908\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) would \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/06/26/bill-to-expand-paid-family-leave-gains-traction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand paid family leave in California\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 406\u003c/a>, by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) would also \u003ca href=\"http://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2015-04-07-jackson-bill-would-provide-job-protection-paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand job protections for Californians\u003c/a> that take paid family leave; Jackson’s Senate Bill 358 would\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Time-to-require-equal-pay-for-similar-work-6405957.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> strengthen California’s gender pay protections\u003c/a>; and Leno’s \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 3\u003c/a> would raise the state’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017, with automatic future increases based on the rate of inflation — the same kind of inflation “indexing” that’s been opposed in previous incarnations by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ripped From The Headlines?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, there will be legislative debates that, even more than some of the bills mentioned above, are largely driven by the state or national news cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ad67.assemblygop.com/featured-news/melendez-calls-full-state-audit-planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are vowing to fight for more information on Planned Parenthood’s use of state tax dollars\u003c/a>, after the summertime controversy over a hidden video and accusations of selling fetal tissue for medical research. While \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/hhs-warns-states-of-possible-violation-in-ending-medicaid-funds-for-planned-parenthood-1439392786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP-dominant legislatures in other states are provoking a fight with the feds on the issue\u003c/a>, a debate in the heavily Democratic statehouse in Sacramento would be mostly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer’s tragic headline of a San Francisco murder, allegedly carried out by an undocumented felon who was released from custody just days earlier, may also make its way to the Legislature. Republican state Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-senator-proposes-immigration-holds-on-felons-in-the-country-illegally-20150813-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to introduce a bill \u003c/a>to require that local law enforcement notify federal immigrations officials before releasing a convicted felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less sensational, but also part of a national narrative, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_142_cfa_20150715_173328_asm_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 142\u003c/a> by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) to ban drone aircraft within a 350-foot zone of privacy over private property. Jackson and other legislators also are calling for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/20/firefighters-could-destroy-drones-under-proposed-california-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new laws regarding drones interfering with firefighting efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greenhouse gas bills (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_32_cfa_20150710_120306_asm_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 32\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1288_cfa_20150713_150625_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1288\u003c/a>) push beyond the state’s 2006 landmark law, which seeks to shrink emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. AB 1288, by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would extend the state’s use of cap-and-trade as a tool to limit greenhouse gas emissions. SB 32, by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), would ratchet down emission levels by mid-century to 80 percent below 1990 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10643312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hard to believe, but those bills may spark debate that seems tepid compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_350&sess=CUR&house=B&author=de_le%F3n_%3Cde_leon%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 350\u003c/a> by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). This bill is an attempt to pull off the equivalent of a climate change hat trick: More renewable energy, more energy efficient buildings, and a 50 percent reduction in the use of petroleum by cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last element — a big downsizing of gasoline use — is the one the oil industry has vowed to kill, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiadriversalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an aggressive PR campaign over the last few weeks\u003c/a> and a list of business-leaning Democrats in the Assembly who they hope will lead the charge to weaken the Senate leader’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, a bill authored by a legislative leader can be hard to stop. And de León holds some powerful cards in his hand — namely, the bills of assemblymembers that have made it to the Senate, bills he could amend or kill to get his way with SB 350.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the biggest of the final legislative battles. And keep your eye on Gov. Jerry Brown, who may play a key role behind the scenes on an issue which he seems to increasingly view as a big part of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money Talks: Health Care and Tobacco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will be working both on regular-session issues and, concurrently, on two special legislative sessions — dealing with health care and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Brown’s call for a special health care session\u003c/a> is mostly aimed at finding a way to fund Medi-Cal, it seems a new round of tobacco wars will be taking front and center in the debate as well.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10643161\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg\" alt=\"RS3292_NoSmokingSign\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Democratic lawmakers have already introduced legislation as part of the special session that would define e-cigarettes as tobacco products and bring them under the state’s existing anti-smoking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Senate Bill xx5 by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Bill xx6 by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) are essentially do-overs of Leno’s SB 140, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Assembly-amendments-kill-bill-to-regulate-6374014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unceremoniously gutted in July by Assemblyman Adam Gray \u003c/a>(D-Merced), chair of the lower house’s powerful governmental organization committee. So it seems that legislation, combined with other bills, could set up an interesting battle in the Assembly, whose more moderate members have recently been loath to expand anti-tobacco laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(By the way, the “x” in the bill numbers refers to the fact that these were introduced in the \u003cem>special session\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the tobacco docket: \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_10_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx10\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), which would allow counties to impose their own tobacco taxes; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_7_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx7\u003c/a> by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-San Gabriel Valley) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), which would both raise the smoking age to 21; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_6_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx6\u003c/a> by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), which would close some loopholes in the state’s workplace smoking laws; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge), which would expand tobacco-free programs to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care session, of course, is actually aimed at finding a way to backfill \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/06/22/california-must-change-tax-or-face-losing-billions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.1 billion in funding for Medi-Cal that will dry up next June\u003c/a>, when the federal government starts enforcing new rules around how the low-income health insurance is funded. Democrats and Republicans also want to increase reimbursement rates for doctors who serve Medi-Cal patients and to increase funding for developmental disability services; Democratic lawmakers are pushing, too for more funding for the state’s In-Home Supportive Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) has proposed a flat tax on all managed care organizations in the state of $7.88 per patient, per month. He said the tax would raise the $1.1 billion for Medi-Cal, as well as money for the other programs. Republicans say that tax is unnecessary, and they would like to see the state instead dedicate any new general fund revenues above and beyond 2015 budget levels to developmental disability services and Medi-Cal rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transportation’s Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big special session debate over the final month will be over new dollars for California’s aging roads, highways and bridges. Getting consensus on the seriousness of the issue was the easy part; finding a way to pay for it — given that most revenue remedies will require a supermajority, bipartisan vote of each house — is the hard part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money? An \u003ca href=\"https://cafwd.app.box.com/s/cmibxng0bc6m345umly51adylv3zpu2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-star coalition of local governments, business, and transportation groups\u003c/a> says it needs to be at least $6 billion. Annually. That’s a heavy lift in the political world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key debates will include how much to earmark for things like roads and bridges, and how much some urban legislators may demand for public transit; how many different fees or taxes can or should be raised, from gas taxes to vehicle registration fees; how much of the ever-growing pot of cash from cap-and-trade’s auction of emission allowances should be tapped; and the idea of moving away from per gallon taxes and towards “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/road_charge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road charging\u003c/a>,” where drivers pay based on how many miles they drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime … and Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two controversial criminal justice bills will also be up for debate this month, both of them \u003ca href=\"/Users/mlagos/Downloads/201520160AB953_Senate%20Public%20Safety-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed\u003c/a> by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>, by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), is billed by supporters, including the ACLU, as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/AB953_fact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015.”\u003c/a> It would mandate 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. AB 953 would also expand the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. It’s supported by a long list of civil rights groups and opposed by most of the state’s large police organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leno is again attempting to curb warrantless searches of phones, computers and other electronic devices with \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>. It’s his fourth run at the issue, which has repeatedly been embraced by lawmakers but vetoed by Brown in the face of law enforcement opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would require law enforcement to secure a court order before they compel service providers to give them personal communications, or before they search an electronic device. It has some exceptions for emergency situations. It’s supported by tech companies, consumer organizations and civil liberties groups, but opposed by prosecutors, police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elections and Disclosure Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of notable bills in the final month may make important changes in the conducting of elections and campaigns, starting as soon as next year’s contest. The most talked about of these is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1461_bill_20150623_amended_sen_v94.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1461\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), requiring DMV and state elections officials to automatically register to vote those who are eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills that will be worth watching include a state-funded recount for razor-thin statewide candidate or ballot measure elections, and new donor disclosure rules on campaign mailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of disclosure: Keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1200_cfa_20150706_131902_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1200\u003c/a>, the effort by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to apply lobbying reports for those who seek government contracts — an area, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/240-million-education-contract-illustrates-state-lobbying-loopholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as we reported last week, that’s virtually opaque when it comes to seeing who’s influencing what\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Affordability Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also attempting to change a handful of state laws that they argue will make life easier for working families and individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643242\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1440x1076.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 908\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) would \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/06/26/bill-to-expand-paid-family-leave-gains-traction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand paid family leave in California\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 406\u003c/a>, by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) would also \u003ca href=\"http://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2015-04-07-jackson-bill-would-provide-job-protection-paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand job protections for Californians\u003c/a> that take paid family leave; Jackson’s Senate Bill 358 would\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Time-to-require-equal-pay-for-similar-work-6405957.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> strengthen California’s gender pay protections\u003c/a>; and Leno’s \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 3\u003c/a> would raise the state’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017, with automatic future increases based on the rate of inflation — the same kind of inflation “indexing” that’s been opposed in previous incarnations by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ripped From The Headlines?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, there will be legislative debates that, even more than some of the bills mentioned above, are largely driven by the state or national news cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ad67.assemblygop.com/featured-news/melendez-calls-full-state-audit-planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are vowing to fight for more information on Planned Parenthood’s use of state tax dollars\u003c/a>, after the summertime controversy over a hidden video and accusations of selling fetal tissue for medical research. While \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/hhs-warns-states-of-possible-violation-in-ending-medicaid-funds-for-planned-parenthood-1439392786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP-dominant legislatures in other states are provoking a fight with the feds on the issue\u003c/a>, a debate in the heavily Democratic statehouse in Sacramento would be mostly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer’s tragic headline of a San Francisco murder, allegedly carried out by an undocumented felon who was released from custody just days earlier, may also make its way to the Legislature. Republican state Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-senator-proposes-immigration-holds-on-felons-in-the-country-illegally-20150813-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to introduce a bill \u003c/a>to require that local law enforcement notify federal immigrations officials before releasing a convicted felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not know that was a bathroom,\" Collins observes. \"I thought it was some kind of electrical equipment or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the stall emits a familiar sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, now that I hear it flush, ...\" she says. \"I did not know that was a bathroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10639117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10639117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Loos are designed to deter vandalism and misuse.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portland Loos are designed to deter vandalism and misuse. \u003ccite>(Jonathan J. Cooper/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Collins was mystified by a \u003ca href=\"http://theloo.biz/\">Portland Loo\u003c/a>, a prefabricated public restroom that's been popping up from Seattle to Cincinnati to Montreal. The loos have real toilets and running water, and are better ventilated than port-a-potties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're controversial. The toilets turned out to be much pricier than expected, and some people complain that they could attract illict activity – prostitution or drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins isn't keen to try one out. If she had to go, she says, \"I would hold it and go in the ballpark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portland Loos are designed to ease the daunting task of keeping a public restroom \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/21/365692827/what-microbes-lurked-in-the-last-public-restroom-you-used\">safe and clean\u003c/a>. They can be power-washed and have slits along the bottom to make it clear if there's somebody inside. They cost about $100,000 each, but that doesn't include the connection to sewer lines, which is where some cities stumble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego spent more than half a million dollars installing its two loos — double the initial price tag. Now, due to more costs and residents' complaints, it's planning to remove one and put it in storage. A nearby homeless shelter will open its bathrooms around the clock instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates point out that the need to provide clean toilets is a public health problem shared by all cities; \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/08/15/158874028/bill-gates-crowns-toilet-innovators-at-sanitation-fair\">solving the problem\u003c/a> benefits residents and visitors of all economic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Bennett, homeless for 22 years, says San Diego's push to open more public restrooms has improved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps,\" he says. \"It gives me a chance to not have to go all the way across town to use the restroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is a loo fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The homeless population is up in this area since the Portland Loo was installed,\" says Jon Wantz, who runs a restaurant a few blocks away from one. \"The increased activity, whether it be criminal or drug-related, or just transient-related in general, it's not good for business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Affording individuals the ability to use a private and safe space to utilize the restroom is basic dignity,\" counters \u003ca href=\"http://www.girlsthinktank.org/board\">Heather Pollock\u003c/a>, executive director of Girls Think Tank, a San Diego homeless advocacy nonprofit. A restroom isn't truly public, she says, unless everyone can use it — and many people aren't allowed in the restrooms inside stores and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I walked in and was holding all of my belongings, or I hadn't showered in a few days, there's a very high likelihood that I would not be able to utilize that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock points out San Diego provides free dog poop bags from dispensers across the city, but there are only a few places where a homeless person can use a toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wonder what kind of message we're sending as a community,\" she says, \"when we're basically saying we value dog owners more than we value human beings and their basic dignity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 KPBS-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=San+Diego+Installed+Public+Loos%2C+But+Now+They%27re+Flush+With+Problems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego's new public toilets in kiosks on sidewalks were designed for convenience, but they've proven to be more expensive than the city expected and controversial. From member station KPBS, Claire Trageser reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLAIRE TRAGESER, BYLINE: On a steamy San Diego afternoon, baseball fans are headed towards the Padre's downtown stadium. As they approach the park, they pass a large steel stall on the sidewalk. Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DARLENE COLLINS: I did not know that was a bathroom. I thought that was some kind of electrical equipment or something. Yeah, I thought it was some - well, now I hear it flush. I would not think that was a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Collins was mystified by a Portland Loo, a prefabricated public restroom that's been popping up from Seattle to Cincinnati to Montreal. The loos are better ventilated than port-a-potties and have running water. Still, Collins wasn't keen on trying one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: It's probably disgusting - yeah, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: If she did have to go...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: I would hold it and go in the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RONALD BENNETT: A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Ronald Bennett has been homeless for 22 years. He says the city's push to open more public restrooms has improved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BENNETT: It gives me a chance not to have to go all the way across town to use the restroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: But not everyone is a loo fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JON WANTZ: The homeless population is up in this area since the Portland Loo was installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Jon Wantz runs a restaurant a few blocks away from one of the loos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WANTZ: The increased activity, whether it be criminal or drug-related or just transient-related in general, it's not good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HEATHER POLLOCK: Affording individuals the ability to use a private and safe space to utilize a restroom is basic dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Heather Pollock leads a San Diego homeless advocacy nonprofit called Girls Think Tank. She says people like the idea of public restrooms, just not if they have to share them with the homeless. 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They cost about $100,000 each, but that doesn't include the connection to sewer lines, which is where some cities stumble. San Diego spent more than half a million dollars installing its two loos - double the initial price tag. Now, due to more costs and residents' complaints, it's planning to remove one and put it in storage. A nearby homeless shelter will open its bathrooms around the clock instead. For NPR News, I'm Claire Trageser in San Diego. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=San+Diego+Installed+Public+Loos%2C+But+Now+They%27re+Flush+With+Problems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego's new public toilets in kiosks on sidewalks were designed for convenience, but they've proven to be more expensive than the city expected and controversial. From member station KPBS, Claire Trageser reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLAIRE TRAGESER, BYLINE: On a steamy San Diego afternoon, baseball fans are headed towards the Padre's downtown stadium. As they approach the park, they pass a large steel stall on the sidewalk. Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DARLENE COLLINS: I did not know that was a bathroom. 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"content": "\u003cp>Logger Hudson Fisk is on the ground looking up at a dead Ponderosa pine he and his team are about to fell. At the top, a climber cuts off the last of the limbs with a chainsaw. He ties a rope or tagline around the trunk, descends the tree by a third, and saws a notch. Then he starts cutting off the first section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/218277846\" 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>Fisk and three other men pull on the other end of the tagline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep cutting!” someone yells to the climber. “Keep cutting until it falls off that tree!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a matter of seconds, the first section of the tree is down. Boom!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson Fisk’s Tree and Excavating Service is under a lot of pressure these days. 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In just one year, one mating pair of beetles can reproduce 12 million offspring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come I’ve never seen any of the beetles?” Hohweiler asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the beetles are about the size of a grain of rice,” Nielson says. He pops some of the bark off the tree in hopes of finding one. “These beetles have already left the building,” he says, when he doesn’t see any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where did they go?” asks Hohweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re airborne and they’ve gone to the tree next door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to the tree after that, and the tree after that, says Nielson. In fact, there’s really nothing that can stop an outbreak like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielson points to some track marks or egg galleries on a huge tree trunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like someone took a bowl of spaghetti and threw it on the tree and peeled it off and left those marks,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just wildfires that homeowners need to worry about, says Nielson. These trees will also suffer wind breakage from big storms and fall on roads and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember a few years ago when we had that big freak snowstorm?” he asks Hohweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah! I’d stand out here and listen to the trees breaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Exactly” says Nielson. “And those were green healthy trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hohweiler says he’s removing the trees because he wants to be a good steward of the land. 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He’s getting 10 to 15 calls daily from homeowners in the foothills anxious to get rid of \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/index.cfm\">dead trees \u003c/a>like the one he just felled for Gerd Stoecker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614231\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10614231\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-400x552.jpg\" alt=\"A climber cuts off all the dead branches before the dead Ponderosa pine is felled.\" width=\"400\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-400x552.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-800x1104.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-1440x1987.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-1400x1931.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-1180x1628.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree-960x1324.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/climber-in-tree.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A climber cuts off all the dead branches before the dead Ponderosa pine is felled. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stoecker's land has \"suffered a pretty major infestation of pine beetles,” Fisk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoecker agrees. “It’s depressing,” he says. “The trees make up the property. That’s why we bought it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoecker owns about 40 acres, and in the next few days he’ll have 11 dead trees removed near his house. It’s costing him plenty and he’s not even making money on the wood because sawmills are flooded with fire salvage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says many homeowners can’t afford to have their trees removed and are just crossing their fingers that nothing bad happens. “Hopefully nothing falls on the house or the roof or somebody gets hurts,” Stoecker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or there’s a wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These go up like torches, you know, if there would be a fire,” he adds. “You’re removing fuel, basically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the trees are dead, they burn violently, especially if the fire gets up in the canopy, says Fisk, who is also a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it gets hot again like it was a few weeks ago, it could be a catastrophic year,” he adds. “It could really turn bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why Len Nielson, a unit forester for MMU Cal Fire, has spent countless days advising homeowners on tree removal. On this Friday, it’s his day off but he’s still taking the time to drop off forestry permits to Lee Hohweiler, who needs them to have logs removed from his 25-acre property. He has already felled 24 dead trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m gonna give you these,” says Nielson, handing him the permits. The key to removing wood, he adds, is hiring a licensed timber operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fisk could do these, right?” asks Hohweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Correct,” Nielson says. “He absolutely turns these in to me. I have probably ten of these right now on my desk from Hudson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielson says Mariposa County alone has lost 30 to 40 percent of its Ponderosa pines. That number will likely double by next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So let’s look at some of your trees,” Nielson says. “Some of these trees are already showing signs of mortality that are still green.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signs of mortality come from bark beetles that have drilled into the tree and girdled it. In a non-drought year, the trees would be more resilient. Nielson points to a glob of sap on the tree. It’s the size of a fingertip and it’s called a pitch pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10614233\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10614233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Fire Forester Len Nielson points to a pitch pocket on a dying Ponderosa pine. \" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-1400x1867.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/pitch-pocket-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire Forester Len Nielson points to a pitch pocket on a dying Ponderosa pine. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The bug drills into the tree,” Nielson says. “The tree actually produces a little extra sap and pitch, and captures that bug and pushes it back out the hole that it made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought has stressed the trees enough that they can’t fight off the epidemic numbers of bark beetles. In just one year, one mating pair of beetles can reproduce 12 million offspring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come I’ve never seen any of the beetles?” Hohweiler asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the beetles are about the size of a grain of rice,” Nielson says. He pops some of the bark off the tree in hopes of finding one. “These beetles have already left the building,” he says, when he doesn’t see any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where did they go?” asks Hohweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re airborne and they’ve gone to the tree next door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to the tree after that, and the tree after that, says Nielson. In fact, there’s really nothing that can stop an outbreak like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielson points to some track marks or egg galleries on a huge tree trunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like someone took a bowl of spaghetti and threw it on the tree and peeled it off and left those marks,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just wildfires that homeowners need to worry about, says Nielson. These trees will also suffer wind breakage from big storms and fall on roads and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember a few years ago when we had that big freak snowstorm?” he asks Hohweiler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah! I’d stand out here and listen to the trees breaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Exactly” says Nielson. “And those were green healthy trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hohweiler says he’s removing the trees because he wants to be a good steward of the land. But watching the pines die is breaking his heart. “It’s pretty emotional,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the trees he felled were 150 years old. Hohweiler knows new ones will grow, but he’s 67 -- and it takes a long time for a tree to get big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m never gonna see them again,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hohweiler turns to Nielson’s 16-year-old daughter, who’s been accompanying her father today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "Aug. 5 California Wildfire Update: Rocky Fire Now at 68,000 Acres | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Noon Wednesday, Aug. 5:\u003c/strong> Tuesday’s break from the hot, windy weather was more than welcome for crews battling the Rocky Fire, burning 80 miles north of San Francisco. Firefighting officials said crews made progress with some help from light rain Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to do things like cut fire line directly on the fire’s edge and not have to fall back and wait for the fire to come to us, so we can be more productive in that aspect,” says Jeff Ohs, a fire battalion chief from Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hot temperatures are expected to return today, creating the potential once again for extreme fire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”cQgeXQ46C0oO4ARnnY5Lxgo6pSC1t9XE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total the fire has burned 68,300 acres and is 20 percent contained. Thirty-nine residences and 52 outbuildings have been destroyed and four structures have been damaged. The blaze isn’t expected to be completely corralled until at least Monday. More than 3,000 firefighters are working on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> The Rocky Fire, southeast of Clear Lake, has burned 24 homes and spurred mandatory or advisory evacuation orders affecting some 13,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the Tuesday evening update below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217927113″ 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>Update, 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> The fire grew overnight to 65,000 acres, or about 101 square miles, and remains about 12 percent contained. It is expected to grow even larger today. Yesterday, firefighters were disappointed to see it cross Highway 20, into land that has plenty of fuel to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a little bit concerned about today’s weather,” says Cal Fire Capt. Don Camp. “We are expecting a slight increase of temperatures in the mid to upper 80s, but more trouble to us is we’re expecting a strong eastern wind push that could potentially push the fire west into areas that haven’t previously burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker Jeff Frost has been sharing images and videos of the fire on \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/frostjeff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Instagram account\u003c/a>. This timelapse of driving through the fire gives you a glimpse at what fire crews are facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/58nihEsQ9-/?taken-by=frostjeff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, midnight Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> A quick note to say that the overall acreage on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a> was reported to have grown “just” 2,000 acres during the day Monday — that’s more than 3 square miles, which is a lot, if you’re standing there looking at it. That puts the total acreage for the fire at 62,000, or about 97 square miles since it started last Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 12,000 residents in the area, 80 miles north of San Francisco, are still under mandatory orders to leave their homes or have been advised they could be required to leave. The reported total of damaged structures — 24 homes and 26 outbuildings — has held steady since Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relatively small total growth in the fire belies some grim moments Monday afternoon, when the blaze managed to jump Highway 20, which fire managers hoped would hold as a containment line on the northern side of the fire from the town of Clearlake 18 miles east to Highway 16. But as afternoon winds kicked up, spot fires started in several locations, forcing managers to redeploy strike teams, bulldozers, helicopters and air tankers to try to stop the new blazes from becoming established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spot fires are very serious because of the winds, terrain and fuel bed,” Cal Fire Scott McLean said in an email to KQED’s Tara Siler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “fuel bed” McLean refers to involves the sprawling swath of countryside east of Clear Lake that hasn’t burned in decades and decades. The vegetation — grass, brush, oaks and pines — is extra dry after four years of drought, and McLean and other veteran firefighters are saying this is one of the most extreme wildfires they’ve ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Siler’s interview with McLean, aired at 5:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217672908&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:40 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3:\u003c/strong> The predictable news Monday morning from the Rocky Fire, burning near the southeast end of Clear Lake: It’s still growing. Cal Fire upped its estimate of acres burned to 60,000 — about 94 square miles or roughly double the size of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a welcome wrinkle in the fire agency’s morning report: After a weekend that saw the blaze race uncontrolled across vast sweeps of backcountry, firefighters have made some substantial progress toward containment. Fire lines have now been completed around 12 percent of the fire perimeter, up from the constant 5 percent reported over the last several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says 3,000 firefighters have now been assigned to the incident, along with four air tankers, 19 helicopters, 57 bulldozers and 285 fire engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire maps released Monday morning also show that fire managers have turned long stretches of Highway 20, along the fire’s northern edge, and Highway 16, on the eastern fringe, into de facto fire lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Capt. Tony McHale said crews conducted firing operations along both highways — igniting fires to deprive the advancing flames of fuel. Although that tactic has proved effective, McHale said that developments Sunday afternoon showed how quickly the fire can pose new threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of drama on the western flank,” McHale said, referring to the fire front near the town of Clearlake. “We had a spot fire just east of town that turned into a tremendous blow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That flare-up prompted new mandatory evacuation orders for residents of rural areas east of Clearlake. Cal Fire estimates a total of 12,000 people were either ordered from their homes or advised they may have to leave. It’s unclear how many have actually heeded orders to leave. The Lake County News website has reported that only a few dozen people had showed up at evacuation centers in Middletown and Kelseyville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s updated acreage total for the Rocky Fire is 54,000 acres, or about 84 square miles. The fire has doubled in size over the last 24 hours and, as noted earlier, it’s now the biggest fire of the state’s much-dreaded 2015 fire season, and it’s still just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday, the fire burned rapidly to the north and east, forcing the closure of Highways 20 and 16. Sunday, Cal Fire says, the main growth in the blaze was on its northwest flank, in the general direction of the town of Clearlake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted a new round of mandatory evacuations in areas just east of that town. Cal Fire says about 12,000 people in more than 5,200 residences are under either mandatory orders to leave or have been warned they’ll have to evacuate if the fire continues to spread. It’s believed that most of those on alert live on the east side of Clearlake and the nearby town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing army of firefighters — about 2,700 in all — has been deployed to try to encircle the fire. Some of the increase in acreage Sunday was due to firing operations — a tactic in which crews set fires in carefully chosen areas to deny fuel to the advancing flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:05 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a>, now burning in three counties southeast of Clear Lake, is for now the biggest blaze of California’s 2015 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said this morning the fire, which started Wednesday afternoon, has covered 47,000 acres. That’s about 73.5 square miles — close to the same area as all of Oakland or double the size of San Francisco if you want to think of the blaze in Bay Area terms. The fire agency says the blaze is still just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire burned east from Lake County into Colusa and Yolo counties Saturday afternoon, apparently jumping a line ploughed by bulldozers on the blaze’s northeastern flank. The flames reached the edges of Highway 20 and Highway 16 at several points, prompting closure of both routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for a large area east of Clear Lake, while an advisory alerting residents they may need to leave their homes has been issued for those living on the east side of the towns of Lower Lake and Clearlake. The fire’s progress toward those two communities has slowed, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10626984\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10626984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-400x240.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire's Sunday morning map of the Rocky Fire, east of Clear Lake. (Click map for full-size image.) \" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-400x240.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-800x480.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24.png 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire’s Sunday morning map of the Rocky Fire, east of Clear Lake. (Click map for full-size image.) \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One piece of good news for the 2,000 firefighters brought into the battle: Weather is expected to be favorable for most of the coming week, with temperatures a little lower than normal and higher humidity expected. Afternoon conditions pose the biggest challenge, with gusty winds from the west and southwest helping push the fire further north and northeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> The still-expanding \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a> has shut down Highway 20, the main route between the southern Sacramento Valley, Clear Lake and the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The route is now closed to through traffic between Highway 53, on the east shore of Clear Lake, and Highway 16 — a distance of 18 miles. Highway 16, which runs south from Highway 20 to the Capay Valley, has also been closed to through traffic at the Yolo-Lake county line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the blaze, now burning into its fourth full day, has charred 27,000 acres — about 42 square miles, an area a little larger than San Francisco and about half of Oakland. The fire agency say the fire has destroyed 24 homes and 26 outbuildings and is threatening about 6,000 residences, mostly in the Lake County towns of Clearlake and Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been ordered out of the mostly rural areas west, north and south of the fire. Residents on the east side of Clearlake and Lower Lake have been put on notice they may have to leave. Officials say the evacuation orders and advisories together affect about 12,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still reported to be 5 percent contained. The outlook? Cal Fire’s evening briefing is succinct: “The fire is expected to have significant activity and growth.” That’s because of continued hot, dry, windy conditions — and also because four years of drought in an area that hasn’t burned in a while have helped create ideal conditions for a major conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:35 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is reinforcing crews still struggling to contain the Rocky Fire southeast of Clear Lake, with the blaze growing to 22,500 acres — 35 square miles — early Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The continued rapid spread of the fire 80 miles north of San Francisco has prompted local officials to put thousands of residents in two towns — Lower Lake and Clearlake — on alert for a possible evacuation. Cal Fire maps suggest the blaze has burned to within about 2 miles of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,600 firefighters are now battling the blaze, which broke out Wednesday just east of the town of Lower Lake and has destroyed 14 homes and 16 outbuildings so far. The fire, burning in rugged oak woodlands, chaparral and grasslands typical of much of Lake County, is just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10625688\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10625688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46-400x237.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire map of the Rocky Fire perimeter at midday Saturday, Aug. 1. (Click for larger image.)\" width=\"400\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46-400x237.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46-800x474.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46.png 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire map of the Rocky Fire perimeter at midday Saturday, Aug. 1. (Click for larger image.)” \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents have been ordered from hundreds of homes in rural areas east of Lower Lake. Saturday morning, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation advisory — not an order, but an alert that an evacuation may be ordered — for the east sides of Lower Lake and Clearlake. About 6,100 homes and other structures are said to be threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a midday Saturday briefing, Cal Fire said the agency has about 9,000 firefighters working to contain 24 major fires across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NASA/status/627221952239927296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 p.m. Friday, July 31:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire says the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a>, burning across the hilly countryside east of the town of Lower Lake, has consumed about 15,000 acres of oak, brush and grassland — about 24 square miles, or half the area of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,000 firefighters were on the lines Friday morning, and the blaze was reported just 5 percent contained. So far, the fire is believed to have destroyed three homes and an undetermined number of barns, garages and other outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 650 residents were ordered from their homes in a rural area near Lower Lake on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as the newly kindled fire raced east through dry vegetation. The fire spread to the south, east and north late Thursday and early Friday, and more mandatory evacuations were ordered Friday morning. It’s not immediately clear how many additional residents were affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/fire.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YubaNet\u003c/a>, perhaps the best non-official source of California fire news, reports Friday that about 8,000 firefighters are working on 18 major fires across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:50 a.m. Thursday, July 30:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is rushing crews to the scene of a dangerous new fire that has forced evacuations in the hills southeast of Clear Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says the Rocky Fire, which began Wednesday afternoon, has burned 8,300 acres with no containment. Several homes and “multiple outbuildings” have reportedly burned in the area. Like much of the country between the Sacramento Valley and the coast, it’s steep terrain, riven by canyons and dominated by oaks, chaparral and grassland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents along 5 miles of Morgan Valley Road east of the town of Lower Lake were ordered from their homes as the fire spread Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says it has about 630 firefighters on the scene, supported by eight air tankers and 11 helicopters. That’s about double the number of firefighters on the scene last night, when the agency said its primary focus was on saving homes in the fire’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on the ground Thursday are contending with temperatures expected to peak between 100 and 105 degrees today, with humidity in the teens or single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same hot, dry weather has helped revive the Wragg Fire, a 7,500-acre blaze burning north of Vacaville and west of Winters at the southeast end of Lake Berryessa. Crews aided by relatively cool, humid weather seemed last weekend to be on the way to finishing containment of the fire — again, burning in extremely rugged country. But the return of scorching, sere conditions allowed the fire to flare up and resume its spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, announced at 6,591 acres early this week, has grown by about 1,000 acres in the last two days and has expanded to backup containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_PIO/status/626788593797763072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 25: \u003c/strong>Authorities have lifted all evacuation orders as fire crews continue to make rapid progress containing the fire that has burned across 6,900 acres at the southeast end of Lake Berryessa. Cal Fire says 1,825 firefighters are on the scene; the blaze was 47 percent contained as of noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 128, the main access to Lake Berryessa from both the Napa Valley on the west and Interstate 505 on the east, was reopened Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis’ Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, a popular hiking destination close to Monticello Dam, remains closed as officials assess damage to trail facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also gaining ground on a relatively small but troublesome blaze near Kyburz, on U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4408/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200-acre Kyburz Fire\u003c/a> is now 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, sparked by a vehicle that had pulled off the side of the highway, had shut down the main route to Lake Tahoe. One lane of U.S. 50 was reopened Friday, with traffic being metered at Pollock Pines to the west and Meyers to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 24:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire reports the blaze burning near Lake Berryessa, the Wragg Fire, remains at 6,900 acres burned and has upped the containment number to 20 percent. Residents of the Golden Bear Estates, between the lake and Winters, have been allowed to return home. Residents of Quail Ridge, closer to the fire front, are still under a mandatory evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kyburz Fire, burning along U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento, doubled in size overnight to 200 acres. The main impact: The highway, one of the two main routes to Lake Tahoe from the Bay Area, is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather forecast in both places is pretty favorable for firefighters — relatively mild temperatures and relatively high humidity, with no sustained high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:55 p.m. Thursday, July 23:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is reporting some progress in containing the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, burning in rugged chaparral south of Lake Berryessa. As we noted earlier, containment is now reported at 15 percent, up from 5 percent earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hellodanpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Potter\u003c/a>, who reports for KQED News and KQED Science, says that as the fire burns into more remote terrain, the threat to 200 homes that have been evacuated is easing. Weather conditions have improved somewhat, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The winds have cooperated somewhat today, compared to yesterday, so firefighters are making really good progress,” said Amy Head, a Cal Fire captain and information office for the Wragg Fire. “We’re in obviously a very steep and rugged terrain area — crews are having to hike in. We’re using a lot of air resources as well. So it is a little bit slow-going, but we’re making good progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a new challenge for firefighters in the region: \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4408/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A blaze broke out\u003c/a> this afternoon near the American River hamlet of Kyburz, on U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that fire is not a big one yet — it had burned an estimated 100 acres or so as of 5:30 p.m. — it forced the closure of the highway, one of the two main routes between the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe. The highway is closed from just east of Pollock Pines east to Meyers. The most direct detour: Mormon Emigrant Trail, a well-maintained paved route that runs from outside Pollock Pines to Highway 88 near Silver Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 225 firefighters are on the lines trying to contain the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado National Forest officials reported mandatory evacuations have been ordered along a 5-mile stretch of U.S. 50 west of Kyburz, an unincorporated area dotted with campgrounds and summer cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/News10_CA/status/624337487050186752\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Thursday, July 23:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire reports that the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, which started Wednesday afternoon just south of Lake Berryessa, continues to grow rapidly. The agency says the blaze has now consumed about 6,900 acres — nearly 11 square miles.The fire is now reportedly 15 percent contained — up from 5 percent Thursday morning. A force of 1,300 firefighters, backed up by four air tankers and 10 helicopters, is working to limit the threat to two rural communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most immediate threat, Cal Fire reports, is to 200 structures in an area called Quail Ridge. That’s close to the Markley Cove Marina at the southern end of the lake. Residents from Quail Ridge and from Golden Bear Estates — a community east of the lake — were ordered to evacuate Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed a barn and a tent trailer and damaged another building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsBayArea/status/624296687025176576\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information on the fire’s location and origin below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Thursday, July 23\u003c/strong> For the second time in two summers, Cal Fire is battling a major wildland blaze in the rugged country near the southern end of Lake Berryessa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, it was the 6,500-acre \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monticello Fire\u003c/a>, sparked by fireworks on the night of the Fourth of July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, which Cal Fire says raced through 5,000 acres between about 2:30 p.m. and midnight Wednesday — nearly a square mile an hour. Early Thursday, the fire was reported 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/dbrekke.mpl3khoc/attribution,zoompan,zoomwheel,geocoder,share.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZGJyZWtrZSIsImEiOiJjZUQzZ05nIn0.ZqSnN4vdLKsiZTEjAPSDrg\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the blaze is threatening about 150 structures and ordered mandatory evacuations of two unincorporated communities at the southern end of the lake: Quail Ridge, near the Markley Cove Resort in Napa County; and Golden Bear Estates, in Yolo County east of the lake and west of the town of Winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two campgrounds in the area were also cleared out, and several hikers were helicoptered out of the Cold Canyon area near Monticello Dam, site of a UC Davis reserve and several popular trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation center has been set up in Winters. With many ranches in the area and livestock in peril — see the video below — a separate refuge was also set up north of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AlanWangABC7/status/624068281977036801\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 400 firefighters were trying to contend with the blaze, with more being dispatched to join the battle on Thursday. Among the aerial resources committed to the incident on Wednesday was a DC-10 jumbo jet that dropped fire retardant to try to slow the spread of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather has been a major factor, with erratic winds driving the fire to the east and southeast from its suspected point of origin, a traffic accident at Highway 128 and Wragg Canyon Road. But the winds calmed Wednesday night, and more humid, cool weather is expected to help fire crews Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> The Rocky Fire, southeast of Clear Lake, has burned 24 homes and spurred mandatory or advisory evacuation orders affecting some 13,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the Tuesday evening update below:\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/217927113″&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/217927113″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> The fire grew overnight to 65,000 acres, or about 101 square miles, and remains about 12 percent contained. It is expected to grow even larger today. Yesterday, firefighters were disappointed to see it cross Highway 20, into land that has plenty of fuel to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a little bit concerned about today’s weather,” says Cal Fire Capt. Don Camp. “We are expecting a slight increase of temperatures in the mid to upper 80s, but more trouble to us is we’re expecting a strong eastern wind push that could potentially push the fire west into areas that haven’t previously burnt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker Jeff Frost has been sharing images and videos of the fire on \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/frostjeff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Instagram account\u003c/a>. This timelapse of driving through the fire gives you a glimpse at what fire crews are facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://instagram.com/p/58nihEsQ9-/?taken-by=frostjeff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, midnight Tuesday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> A quick note to say that the overall acreage on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a> was reported to have grown “just” 2,000 acres during the day Monday — that’s more than 3 square miles, which is a lot, if you’re standing there looking at it. That puts the total acreage for the fire at 62,000, or about 97 square miles since it started last Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 12,000 residents in the area, 80 miles north of San Francisco, are still under mandatory orders to leave their homes or have been advised they could be required to leave. The reported total of damaged structures — 24 homes and 26 outbuildings — has held steady since Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relatively small total growth in the fire belies some grim moments Monday afternoon, when the blaze managed to jump Highway 20, which fire managers hoped would hold as a containment line on the northern side of the fire from the town of Clearlake 18 miles east to Highway 16. But as afternoon winds kicked up, spot fires started in several locations, forcing managers to redeploy strike teams, bulldozers, helicopters and air tankers to try to stop the new blazes from becoming established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spot fires are very serious because of the winds, terrain and fuel bed,” Cal Fire Scott McLean said in an email to KQED’s Tara Siler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “fuel bed” McLean refers to involves the sprawling swath of countryside east of Clear Lake that hasn’t burned in decades and decades. The vegetation — grass, brush, oaks and pines — is extra dry after four years of drought, and McLean and other veteran firefighters are saying this is one of the most extreme wildfires they’ve ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Siler’s interview with McLean, aired at 5:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217672908&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:40 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3:\u003c/strong> The predictable news Monday morning from the Rocky Fire, burning near the southeast end of Clear Lake: It’s still growing. Cal Fire upped its estimate of acres burned to 60,000 — about 94 square miles or roughly double the size of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a welcome wrinkle in the fire agency’s morning report: After a weekend that saw the blaze race uncontrolled across vast sweeps of backcountry, firefighters have made some substantial progress toward containment. Fire lines have now been completed around 12 percent of the fire perimeter, up from the constant 5 percent reported over the last several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says 3,000 firefighters have now been assigned to the incident, along with four air tankers, 19 helicopters, 57 bulldozers and 285 fire engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire maps released Monday morning also show that fire managers have turned long stretches of Highway 20, along the fire’s northern edge, and Highway 16, on the eastern fringe, into de facto fire lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Capt. Tony McHale said crews conducted firing operations along both highways — igniting fires to deprive the advancing flames of fuel. Although that tactic has proved effective, McHale said that developments Sunday afternoon showed how quickly the fire can pose new threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of drama on the western flank,” McHale said, referring to the fire front near the town of Clearlake. “We had a spot fire just east of town that turned into a tremendous blow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That flare-up prompted new mandatory evacuation orders for residents of rural areas east of Clearlake. Cal Fire estimates a total of 12,000 people were either ordered from their homes or advised they may have to leave. It’s unclear how many have actually heeded orders to leave. The Lake County News website has reported that only a few dozen people had showed up at evacuation centers in Middletown and Kelseyville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire’s updated acreage total for the Rocky Fire is 54,000 acres, or about 84 square miles. The fire has doubled in size over the last 24 hours and, as noted earlier, it’s now the biggest fire of the state’s much-dreaded 2015 fire season, and it’s still just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday, the fire burned rapidly to the north and east, forcing the closure of Highways 20 and 16. Sunday, Cal Fire says, the main growth in the blaze was on its northwest flank, in the general direction of the town of Clearlake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted a new round of mandatory evacuations in areas just east of that town. Cal Fire says about 12,000 people in more than 5,200 residences are under either mandatory orders to leave or have been warned they’ll have to evacuate if the fire continues to spread. It’s believed that most of those on alert live on the east side of Clearlake and the nearby town of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing army of firefighters — about 2,700 in all — has been deployed to try to encircle the fire. Some of the increase in acreage Sunday was due to firing operations — a tactic in which crews set fires in carefully chosen areas to deny fuel to the advancing flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:05 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a>, now burning in three counties southeast of Clear Lake, is for now the biggest blaze of California’s 2015 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said this morning the fire, which started Wednesday afternoon, has covered 47,000 acres. That’s about 73.5 square miles — close to the same area as all of Oakland or double the size of San Francisco if you want to think of the blaze in Bay Area terms. The fire agency says the blaze is still just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire burned east from Lake County into Colusa and Yolo counties Saturday afternoon, apparently jumping a line ploughed by bulldozers on the blaze’s northeastern flank. The flames reached the edges of Highway 20 and Highway 16 at several points, prompting closure of both routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for a large area east of Clear Lake, while an advisory alerting residents they may need to leave their homes has been issued for those living on the east side of the towns of Lower Lake and Clearlake. The fire’s progress toward those two communities has slowed, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10626984\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10626984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-400x240.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire's Sunday morning map of the Rocky Fire, east of Clear Lake. (Click map for full-size image.) \" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-400x240.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24-800x480.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-02-11.05.24.png 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire’s Sunday morning map of the Rocky Fire, east of Clear Lake. (Click map for full-size image.) \u003ccite>(Cal Fire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One piece of good news for the 2,000 firefighters brought into the battle: Weather is expected to be favorable for most of the coming week, with temperatures a little lower than normal and higher humidity expected. Afternoon conditions pose the biggest challenge, with gusty winds from the west and southwest helping push the fire further north and northeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:40 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> The still-expanding \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a> has shut down Highway 20, the main route between the southern Sacramento Valley, Clear Lake and the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The route is now closed to through traffic between Highway 53, on the east shore of Clear Lake, and Highway 16 — a distance of 18 miles. Highway 16, which runs south from Highway 20 to the Capay Valley, has also been closed to through traffic at the Yolo-Lake county line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the blaze, now burning into its fourth full day, has charred 27,000 acres — about 42 square miles, an area a little larger than San Francisco and about half of Oakland. The fire agency say the fire has destroyed 24 homes and 26 outbuildings and is threatening about 6,000 residences, mostly in the Lake County towns of Clearlake and Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been ordered out of the mostly rural areas west, north and south of the fire. Residents on the east side of Clearlake and Lower Lake have been put on notice they may have to leave. Officials say the evacuation orders and advisories together affect about 12,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still reported to be 5 percent contained. The outlook? Cal Fire’s evening briefing is succinct: “The fire is expected to have significant activity and growth.” That’s because of continued hot, dry, windy conditions — and also because four years of drought in an area that hasn’t burned in a while have helped create ideal conditions for a major conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:35 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is reinforcing crews still struggling to contain the Rocky Fire southeast of Clear Lake, with the blaze growing to 22,500 acres — 35 square miles — early Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The continued rapid spread of the fire 80 miles north of San Francisco has prompted local officials to put thousands of residents in two towns — Lower Lake and Clearlake — on alert for a possible evacuation. Cal Fire maps suggest the blaze has burned to within about 2 miles of Lower Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,600 firefighters are now battling the blaze, which broke out Wednesday just east of the town of Lower Lake and has destroyed 14 homes and 16 outbuildings so far. The fire, burning in rugged oak woodlands, chaparral and grasslands typical of much of Lake County, is just 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10625688\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10625688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Screenshot-2015-08-01-12.48.46-400x237.png\" alt=\"Cal Fire map of the Rocky Fire perimeter at midday Saturday, Aug. 1. 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About 6,100 homes and other structures are said to be threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a midday Saturday briefing, Cal Fire said the agency has about 9,000 firefighters working to contain 24 major fires across the state.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:35 p.m. Friday, July 31:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire says the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocky Fire\u003c/a>, burning across the hilly countryside east of the town of Lower Lake, has consumed about 15,000 acres of oak, brush and grassland — about 24 square miles, or half the area of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1,000 firefighters were on the lines Friday morning, and the blaze was reported just 5 percent contained. So far, the fire is believed to have destroyed three homes and an undetermined number of barns, garages and other outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 650 residents were ordered from their homes in a rural area near Lower Lake on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as the newly kindled fire raced east through dry vegetation. The fire spread to the south, east and north late Thursday and early Friday, and more mandatory evacuations were ordered Friday morning. It’s not immediately clear how many additional residents were affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://yubanet.com/fire.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YubaNet\u003c/a>, perhaps the best non-official source of California fire news, reports Friday that about 8,000 firefighters are working on 18 major fires across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:50 a.m. Thursday, July 30:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is rushing crews to the scene of a dangerous new fire that has forced evacuations in the hills southeast of Clear Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says the Rocky Fire, which began Wednesday afternoon, has burned 8,300 acres with no containment. Several homes and “multiple outbuildings” have reportedly burned in the area. Like much of the country between the Sacramento Valley and the coast, it’s steep terrain, riven by canyons and dominated by oaks, chaparral and grassland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents along 5 miles of Morgan Valley Road east of the town of Lower Lake were ordered from their homes as the fire spread Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says it has about 630 firefighters on the scene, supported by eight air tankers and 11 helicopters. That’s about double the number of firefighters on the scene last night, when the agency said its primary focus was on saving homes in the fire’s path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews on the ground Thursday are contending with temperatures expected to peak between 100 and 105 degrees today, with humidity in the teens or single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same hot, dry weather has helped revive the Wragg Fire, a 7,500-acre blaze burning north of Vacaville and west of Winters at the southeast end of Lake Berryessa. Crews aided by relatively cool, humid weather seemed last weekend to be on the way to finishing containment of the fire — again, burning in extremely rugged country. But the return of scorching, sere conditions allowed the fire to flare up and resume its spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, announced at 6,591 acres early this week, has grown by about 1,000 acres in the last two days and has expanded to backup containment lines.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 25: \u003c/strong>Authorities have lifted all evacuation orders as fire crews continue to make rapid progress containing the fire that has burned across 6,900 acres at the southeast end of Lake Berryessa. Cal Fire says 1,825 firefighters are on the scene; the blaze was 47 percent contained as of noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 128, the main access to Lake Berryessa from both the Napa Valley on the west and Interstate 505 on the east, was reopened Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis’ Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, a popular hiking destination close to Monticello Dam, remains closed as officials assess damage to trail facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also gaining ground on a relatively small but troublesome blaze near Kyburz, on U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4408/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200-acre Kyburz Fire\u003c/a> is now 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, sparked by a vehicle that had pulled off the side of the highway, had shut down the main route to Lake Tahoe. One lane of U.S. 50 was reopened Friday, with traffic being metered at Pollock Pines to the west and Meyers to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 24:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire reports the blaze burning near Lake Berryessa, the Wragg Fire, remains at 6,900 acres burned and has upped the containment number to 20 percent. Residents of the Golden Bear Estates, between the lake and Winters, have been allowed to return home. Residents of Quail Ridge, closer to the fire front, are still under a mandatory evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kyburz Fire, burning along U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento, doubled in size overnight to 200 acres. The main impact: The highway, one of the two main routes to Lake Tahoe from the Bay Area, is closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather forecast in both places is pretty favorable for firefighters — relatively mild temperatures and relatively high humidity, with no sustained high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:55 p.m. Thursday, July 23:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire is reporting some progress in containing the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, burning in rugged chaparral south of Lake Berryessa. As we noted earlier, containment is now reported at 15 percent, up from 5 percent earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hellodanpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Potter\u003c/a>, who reports for KQED News and KQED Science, says that as the fire burns into more remote terrain, the threat to 200 homes that have been evacuated is easing. Weather conditions have improved somewhat, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The winds have cooperated somewhat today, compared to yesterday, so firefighters are making really good progress,” said Amy Head, a Cal Fire captain and information office for the Wragg Fire. “We’re in obviously a very steep and rugged terrain area — crews are having to hike in. We’re using a lot of air resources as well. So it is a little bit slow-going, but we’re making good progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a new challenge for firefighters in the region: \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4408/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A blaze broke out\u003c/a> this afternoon near the American River hamlet of Kyburz, on U.S. 50 about 75 miles east of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that fire is not a big one yet — it had burned an estimated 100 acres or so as of 5:30 p.m. — it forced the closure of the highway, one of the two main routes between the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe. The highway is closed from just east of Pollock Pines east to Meyers. The most direct detour: Mormon Emigrant Trail, a well-maintained paved route that runs from outside Pollock Pines to Highway 88 near Silver Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 225 firefighters are on the lines trying to contain the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Dorado National Forest officials reported mandatory evacuations have been ordered along a 5-mile stretch of U.S. 50 west of Kyburz, an unincorporated area dotted with campgrounds and summer cabins.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Thursday, July 23:\u003c/strong> Cal Fire reports that the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, which started Wednesday afternoon just south of Lake Berryessa, continues to grow rapidly. The agency says the blaze has now consumed about 6,900 acres — nearly 11 square miles.The fire is now reportedly 15 percent contained — up from 5 percent Thursday morning. A force of 1,300 firefighters, backed up by four air tankers and 10 helicopters, is working to limit the threat to two rural communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most immediate threat, Cal Fire reports, is to 200 structures in an area called Quail Ridge. That’s close to the Markley Cove Marina at the southern end of the lake. Residents from Quail Ridge and from Golden Bear Estates — a community east of the lake — were ordered to evacuate Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed a barn and a tent trailer and damaged another building.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>More information on the fire’s location and origin below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Thursday, July 23\u003c/strong> For the second time in two summers, Cal Fire is battling a major wildland blaze in the rugged country near the southern end of Lake Berryessa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, it was the 6,500-acre \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monticello Fire\u003c/a>, sparked by fireworks on the night of the Fourth of July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, it’s the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a>, which Cal Fire says raced through 5,000 acres between about 2:30 p.m. and midnight Wednesday — nearly a square mile an hour. Early Thursday, the fire was reported 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/dbrekke.mpl3khoc/attribution,zoompan,zoomwheel,geocoder,share.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiZGJyZWtrZSIsImEiOiJjZUQzZ05nIn0.ZqSnN4vdLKsiZTEjAPSDrg\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the blaze is threatening about 150 structures and ordered mandatory evacuations of two unincorporated communities at the southern end of the lake: Quail Ridge, near the Markley Cove Resort in Napa County; and Golden Bear Estates, in Yolo County east of the lake and west of the town of Winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two campgrounds in the area were also cleared out, and several hikers were helicoptered out of the Cold Canyon area near Monticello Dam, site of a UC Davis reserve and several popular trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation center has been set up in Winters. With many ranches in the area and livestock in peril — see the video below — a separate refuge was also set up north of town.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Eating bugs might sound like something you’d do if you lost a bet. But a few companies have cropped up that are marketing insect powder as a nutritional supplement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring little food or water, bugs also have a low-carbon footprint, a fact that makes them very attractive here in drought-stricken California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But could cricket-packed cookies and milkshakes be the next big food trend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217265673\" 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>Three entrepreneurs in their mid-20s have launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalovalley.farm/\">Coalo Valley Farms\u003c/a> in a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Van Nuys, north of Los Angeles. They’re using repurposed cannabis-growing equipment to grow tens of thousands of crickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crickets live in big plastic bins filled with cardboard pizza boxes and a pasty food substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can hear the ambient noise in here, you’ve got a little fan going, it’s nice and warm, and you’ve got the chirping,” says 25-year-old Elliot Mermel, the farm’s founder. “It’s a great place to fall asleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624583\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Elliot Mermel of Coalo Valley Farms sets up ventilation tubes for a cricket breeding tent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliot Mermel of Coalo Valley Farms sets up ventilation tubes for a cricket breeding tent. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While farms have grow crickets for fishing bait or pet reptile snacks for years, the trend of growing them exclusively for human consumption here in the United States is relatively new. The first such farm to do so, \u003ca href=\"http://bigcricketfarms.com/\">Big Cricket Farms\u003c/a>, opened in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they reach adulthood, the crickets are put in a cold room until they go into hibernation, and they never wake up. Then they’re ground up, pasteurized and dried into a powder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drying crickets is a lot harder than you’d expect, according to Dr. Aaron Dossey, a biochemist in Georgia and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://allthingsbugs.com/\">All Things Bugs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have exoskeletons, and their bodies are just designed not to dry out because they’re exposed to the elements and things,\" Dossey explains. \"So if you put them in an oven, it takes a long time and a lot of heat to dry them whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few startup companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.exoprotein.com/\">Exo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chapul.com/\">Chapul\u003c/a>, buy cricket powder wholesale from Dossey, and then put it into nutrition bars. The company \u003ca href=\"http://www.sixfoods.com/\">Six Foods\u003c/a> uses it for their cricket chips, which they call “chirps.” Another company, San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://bitty.myshopify.com/\">Bitty\u003c/a>, sells cookies as well as baking flour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@lesliejz/don-t-stop-showering-california-lay-off-the-burgers-and-nuts-and-pick-up-some-crickets-eb63bddf0277\">recent blog post\u003c/a>, Bitty co-founder Leslie Ziegler writes: “Crickets are nutritionally complete, contain fiber, Omega-3 fatty acids, and a slew of other important vitamins and minerals. They take up just 2 square feet of pasture per pound versus beef’s 200 square feet. They emit zero greenhouse gases. And ... they require only one gallon of water for every one pound grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624588\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624588\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic bins serve as the breeding ground for thousands of crickets until they’re ready to be processed into a high-protein powder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-1440x1021.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic bins serve as the breeding ground for thousands of crickets until they’re ready to be processed into a high-protein powder. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But are consumers in the U.S. ready to eat creepy, crawly insects -- even in powdered form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is quite common around the world. Bricia Lopez, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://ilovemole.com/\">Guelaguetza\u003c/a>, a Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles, says all sorts of insects are eaten in Oaxaca, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Escamoles\u003c/em>, which are ant larvae. We eat \u003cem>gusanos de maguey\u003c/em>, which are the worms that grow inside the \u003cem>maguey\u003c/em>. We eat these big ants, which are called \u003cem>chicatanas\u003c/em>. We make salsa out of them,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Guelaguetza, Lopez serves fried grasshoppers, known as \u003cem>chapulines\u003c/em>, prepared with tomato, onion, jalapeno, garlic and parsley. “And then at the end, when you’re ready to serve them, you just squeeze a little bit of lime on top, and then you put them on the table, and that’s pretty much it,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Pound for pound, crickets have about the same amount of protein as chicken.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lopez says people order \u003cem>chapulines\u003c/em> every day in the restaurant, and not just Oaxacan customers. But that doesn’t mean the bugs have gone mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a thing in Oaxaca and people eat them, but if you go in other parts of Mexico, like in other states, they’re not as popular,\" she explains. \"So I think it’ll still gonna be a while to see grasshoppers on, like, McDonald’s menus or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crickets are much cheaper to raise than cows or chickens or pigs, according to Phil Lempert, a food marketing analyst and editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.supermarketguru.com/\">SupermarketGuru.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pound for pound, insects, for example, crickets, have about the same amount of protein as does chicken, but certainly costs a lot less to produce, a lot less space, and some would argue, a lot more sustainable,” Lempert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Lempert says, insects have another factor going for them: the thrill of the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials live by the slogan, when it comes to food, you only live once, and I never want to eat the same thing twice in my lifetime,” he says. \"And if they take up insects, guess what. Every supermarket in the country will be stocking them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the “Fear Factor” element, the adrenaline rush of trying something scary or forbidden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10622701 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Coalo Valley Farms founders (from left) Peter Markoe, Elliot Mermel and Nate Snow.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coalo Valley Farms founders (from left) Peter Markoe, Elliot Mermel and Nate Snow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who like to go out and do those risky, edgy things, they’re much more open to eating insects as well. So some people might do it just for bragging rights, too,” says Matt Ruby, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who studies people’s food choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby polled 200 Americans about whether they’d eat insects. About two-thirds said they would, with a strong preference for eating them ground up into something, as opposed to eating them whole. Ruby sees a parallel with the rise of sushi in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When sushi was first introduced here, many people were quite disgusted at the thought of eating raw fish,\" Ruby explains. \"But sushi has become incredibly popular in the United States. There’s almost 4,000 sushi restaurants just in the U.S. So, the same thing could happen with insects, but it’s really quite difficult to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's up to companies to determine whether the food they're making is safe to eat, and the Food and Drug Administration will get involved if that comes into question. So far, no one's asked them to investigate, including Elliot Mermel and the guys at Coalo Valley Farms. They think the moment for insects has arrived, especially in food-obsessed Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a new ingredient for chefs to play around with, it’s a new ingredient for food-centric individuals to try out,\" Mermel says. \"You don’t have to go to Mexico or Southeast Asia to try it. You can try something new right here in LA.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They haven’t started making the cricket powder themselves yet. In the meantime they plan to hit farmers markets, with a food truck marked with the slogan “Sustainable Junk Food.” They’ll sell gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and \u003cem>quesadillas\u003c/em> with whole crickets in them. The crickets are optional ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, if someone really wants a grilled cheese without the crickets we’ll give it to them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eating bugs might sound like something you’d do if you lost a bet. But a few companies have cropped up that are marketing insect powder as a nutritional supplement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring little food or water, bugs also have a low-carbon footprint, a fact that makes them very attractive here in drought-stricken California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But could cricket-packed cookies and milkshakes be the next big food trend?\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/217265673&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/217265673'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three entrepreneurs in their mid-20s have launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalovalley.farm/\">Coalo Valley Farms\u003c/a> in a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Van Nuys, north of Los Angeles. They’re using repurposed cannabis-growing equipment to grow tens of thousands of crickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crickets live in big plastic bins filled with cardboard pizza boxes and a pasty food substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can hear the ambient noise in here, you’ve got a little fan going, it’s nice and warm, and you’ve got the chirping,” says 25-year-old Elliot Mermel, the farm’s founder. “It’s a great place to fall asleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624583\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624583\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Elliot Mermel of Coalo Valley Farms sets up ventilation tubes for a cricket breeding tent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTube-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliot Mermel of Coalo Valley Farms sets up ventilation tubes for a cricket breeding tent. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While farms have grow crickets for fishing bait or pet reptile snacks for years, the trend of growing them exclusively for human consumption here in the United States is relatively new. The first such farm to do so, \u003ca href=\"http://bigcricketfarms.com/\">Big Cricket Farms\u003c/a>, opened in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they reach adulthood, the crickets are put in a cold room until they go into hibernation, and they never wake up. Then they’re ground up, pasteurized and dried into a powder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drying crickets is a lot harder than you’d expect, according to Dr. Aaron Dossey, a biochemist in Georgia and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://allthingsbugs.com/\">All Things Bugs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have exoskeletons, and their bodies are just designed not to dry out because they’re exposed to the elements and things,\" Dossey explains. \"So if you put them in an oven, it takes a long time and a lot of heat to dry them whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few startup companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.exoprotein.com/\">Exo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chapul.com/\">Chapul\u003c/a>, buy cricket powder wholesale from Dossey, and then put it into nutrition bars. The company \u003ca href=\"http://www.sixfoods.com/\">Six Foods\u003c/a> uses it for their cricket chips, which they call “chirps.” Another company, San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://bitty.myshopify.com/\">Bitty\u003c/a>, sells cookies as well as baking flour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@lesliejz/don-t-stop-showering-california-lay-off-the-burgers-and-nuts-and-pick-up-some-crickets-eb63bddf0277\">recent blog post\u003c/a>, Bitty co-founder Leslie Ziegler writes: “Crickets are nutritionally complete, contain fiber, Omega-3 fatty acids, and a slew of other important vitamins and minerals. They take up just 2 square feet of pasture per pound versus beef’s 200 square feet. They emit zero greenhouse gases. And ... they require only one gallon of water for every one pound grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10624588\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10624588\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic bins serve as the breeding ground for thousands of crickets until they’re ready to be processed into a high-protein powder.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-400x284.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-1440x1021.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/CricketTubs-960x681.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic bins serve as the breeding ground for thousands of crickets until they’re ready to be processed into a high-protein powder. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But are consumers in the U.S. ready to eat creepy, crawly insects -- even in powdered form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, is quite common around the world. Bricia Lopez, co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://ilovemole.com/\">Guelaguetza\u003c/a>, a Oaxacan restaurant in Los Angeles, says all sorts of insects are eaten in Oaxaca, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Escamoles\u003c/em>, which are ant larvae. We eat \u003cem>gusanos de maguey\u003c/em>, which are the worms that grow inside the \u003cem>maguey\u003c/em>. We eat these big ants, which are called \u003cem>chicatanas\u003c/em>. We make salsa out of them,” Lopez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Guelaguetza, Lopez serves fried grasshoppers, known as \u003cem>chapulines\u003c/em>, prepared with tomato, onion, jalapeno, garlic and parsley. “And then at the end, when you’re ready to serve them, you just squeeze a little bit of lime on top, and then you put them on the table, and that’s pretty much it,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Pound for pound, crickets have about the same amount of protein as chicken.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Lopez says people order \u003cem>chapulines\u003c/em> every day in the restaurant, and not just Oaxacan customers. But that doesn’t mean the bugs have gone mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a thing in Oaxaca and people eat them, but if you go in other parts of Mexico, like in other states, they’re not as popular,\" she explains. \"So I think it’ll still gonna be a while to see grasshoppers on, like, McDonald’s menus or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crickets are much cheaper to raise than cows or chickens or pigs, according to Phil Lempert, a food marketing analyst and editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.supermarketguru.com/\">SupermarketGuru.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pound for pound, insects, for example, crickets, have about the same amount of protein as does chicken, but certainly costs a lot less to produce, a lot less space, and some would argue, a lot more sustainable,” Lempert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Lempert says, insects have another factor going for them: the thrill of the new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials live by the slogan, when it comes to food, you only live once, and I never want to eat the same thing twice in my lifetime,” he says. \"And if they take up insects, guess what. Every supermarket in the country will be stocking them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the “Fear Factor” element, the adrenaline rush of trying something scary or forbidden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10622701 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Coalo Valley Farms founders (from left) Peter Markoe, Elliot Mermel and Nate Snow.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS16192_IMG_5812.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coalo Valley Farms founders (from left) Peter Markoe, Elliot Mermel and Nate Snow.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who like to go out and do those risky, edgy things, they’re much more open to eating insects as well. So some people might do it just for bragging rights, too,” says Matt Ruby, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania who studies people’s food choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruby polled 200 Americans about whether they’d eat insects. About two-thirds said they would, with a strong preference for eating them ground up into something, as opposed to eating them whole. Ruby sees a parallel with the rise of sushi in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When sushi was first introduced here, many people were quite disgusted at the thought of eating raw fish,\" Ruby explains. \"But sushi has become incredibly popular in the United States. There’s almost 4,000 sushi restaurants just in the U.S. So, the same thing could happen with insects, but it’s really quite difficult to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's up to companies to determine whether the food they're making is safe to eat, and the Food and Drug Administration will get involved if that comes into question. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This project was produced by the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003ci>San Francisco Public Press\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a community-supported nonprofit news organization dedicated to public interest journalism. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like every body of water that opens onto a global ocean, San Francisco Bay is virtually guaranteed to rise several feet in coming decades, climate scientists say. But that has not deterred real estate developers from proposing and building billions of dollars worth of new homes and offices in bayfront areas that current climate change predictions show could flood by century’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land-use records and environmental applications reveal that the building boom, fueled by a white-hot tech economy, is moving too fast for regulators to keep pace. Most cities and regional agencies have not yet adopted tools to address flooding in areas where thousands of acres are threatened by sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Even the scenario widely considered ‘most likely’ would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Orange_motto-copy-400x162.jpg\" alt=\"sfpp-duke-v4\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10622862\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Developers say they have engineering and financial solutions to deal with any reasonable future flooding risk. But critics, including climate scientists, urban planners and environmental activists, say the current wave of construction might leave taxpayers on the hook for enormously expensive emergency protections and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studying climate change predict that the rise in ocean levels will accelerate later this century as the atmosphere heats the ocean and melts glaciers. Many of their models show that by 2100, occasional flooding could reach as high as 8 feet above current high tide, in the event of a severe coastal storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the scenario widely considered “most likely” — 3 feet of permanent rise — would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers are planning or currently building at least 27 major commercial and residential complexes around the bay on land lower than 8 feet above high tide, as estimated by recent aerial surveys. And more than a dozen Bay Area cities continue to issue permits for plans that address future flood risks vaguely, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\" alt=\"SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium\" width=\"1310\" height=\"980\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg 1310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Facebook are among the marquee corporate names driving the bayfront explosion. Some cities are even courting companies to build near sea level, often on landfill created in the mid-20th century in former salt marshes. Much of that land could return to the sea, unless cities erect seawalls, levees and other monumental edifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Hill, a professor of environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley, said more experimentation is needed in waterfront construction techniques. But few businesses are invested in fortifying the properties they build beyond midcentury. It is hard to fund resilient architecture, Hill said, when developers “do not have a shared interest with the public about what will happen with those properties in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many areas, new development includes desperately needed housing. Projects now in the pipeline in San Francisco would add 25,000 new apartments. On Treasure Island alone, developers are ready to break ground on a forest of residential towers that could house 12,000 people, and at Mission Rock and Pier 70, developers have pledged to build more affordable apartments than the city requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate and government data show that the highest-profile building projects on the shorelines of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the East Bay will cost more than $21 billion to build, excluding the value of the land underneath them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not account for the likely public cost, coming within decades, of protecting these settlements with dikes, levees and artificial wetlands — or for the economic toll of abandoning development in designated buffer zones as waves rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few local governments, including Mountain View, are beginning to spend money on sea level rise infrastructure projects that can protect waterfront business districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622860\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 772px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\" alt=\"An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was \" width=\"772\" height=\"1158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10622860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg 772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. Asked if he was\u003cbr>worried about sea level rise, he quipped: ‘I’ll rise with it.’ \u003ccite>(Peter Snarr, San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco is in its second year of interdepartmental planning to address sea rise. But the city has yet to update its flood plain ordinance or planning and building codes to address increasing flood risk on the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creating consistent rules governing private property could be a challenge. “Regulations around climate change are in their infancy, or nonexistent,” said David Behar, climate program director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has updated its flood maps, which guide public works investments, but other agencies do not impose those guidelines on private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors last year resisted a call from the chair of the city’s civil grand jury to stop approving new shoreline development until stricter building rules are passed. Officials said that changes to city codes might be necessary, though until now state environmental laws and reviews have been sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official maps upon which the city’s 2008 flood ordinance is based do not account for future sea rise. Developers say this means the city lacks the legal grounds to prevent building there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past five years, San Francisco land-use agencies have approved residential, entertainment, retail, medical and office projects on nearly 50 waterfront parcels that are less than 8 feet above sea level. Major projects are somewhere in the approval process for Treasure Island and in parts of South of Market, Pier 70, Candlestick Point and Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious is the Golden State Warriors’ $1 billion plan for a mixed-use facility in the Mission Bay neighborhood south of downtown. Opponents of the project, centered around an arena for the 2015 NBA champions, have focused on how it would affect traffic and bay views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey of 13 communities around the bay with the most intense waterfront development, the Public Press found that six had progressed beyond studying the threat of sea rise but none had an action plan. And only two — San Francisco and San Jose — had changed rules for any departments that oversee land use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 report for the California Energy Commission, the Pacific Institute, an Oakland-based research group advocating for corporate environmental stewardship and social equity, estimated that property lost in the event of 4.6 feet of sea rise by 2099 would cost the Bay Area $62 billion (nearly two-thirds the cost for all of California).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This inundation would require rebuilding the airports serving San Francisco and Oakland, and moving parts of interstates 101 on the Peninsula and 80 in the East Bay. It could also put 270,000 people in danger during severe floods, the report warned, and “continued development in vulnerable areas will put additional areas at risk and raise protection costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, 'We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,' says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10622865\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/KINGTIDES_locations_06.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During king tides, which occur when the gravity of the sun and the moon align, “We can get an idea of what a permanent rise in sea level might look like in our communities,” says the California King Tides Project. In these stills from a timelapse video, the tide at Heron’s Head Park near Hunters Point rose 5.75 feet over 5.5 hours. \u003ccite>(Eric Lawson/San Francisco Public Press.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Now is the time to look seriously at what will happen 50 or 100 years down the road,” said Gary Griggs, who directs the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and contributed to the National Research Council’s most recent report on sea level rise on the West Coast. “What is the value of making a development, housing project or mall if we know it will have to be removed later, except for some short-term temporary gains?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers stand to profit handsomely from the waterfront land rush, but governments also benefit in the short run. The proposed megaprojects promise tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Some cities are offering developers tax credits, low-cost land and flood-control infrastructure to encourage building on their shorelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting alone, cities risk pushing floodwaters into neighboring areas. In the short term, to avoid ringing the whole bay with barriers, communities could surround themselves with small levees and extend them inland up creeks. This would keep water from neighboring communities out, until it got too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The common roadblocks that environmentalists face nationwide in raising concern over adaptation to climate change, such as distrust of science or lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, play only a small role in Bay Area politics. Here, the obstacles involve pressure from the real estate, construction and tech businesses emphasizing short-term economic opportunity over more precautionary environmental perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco planning staffers say they evaluate each application for its response to the threat of sea level rise and suggest a range of adaptation strategies. According to public records, in the last five years the city has approved more than 50 projects, each worth at least $1 million, in low-lying waterfront areas. The estimated development costs of these projects exceed $4.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report in June 2014 from San Francisco’s civil grand jury — a volunteer committee that examines local government — concluded that San Francisco was not moving nearly fast enough to protect public safety in the event of sea rise. Behar, who last year headed the city’s interagency Sea Level Rise Technical Committee, said scientists’ increasing confidence in their projections and the degree of agreement among them support taking action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Mayor Ed Lee convened a new panel, the Sea Level Rise Coordinating Committee, chaired by Gil Kelley, the director of citywide planning, and Fuad Sweiss, the city engineer. He said the group would produce a “high-level assessment” of risks and vulnerabilities, and consider recommending stricter rules for private development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryta Piazza, corresponding secretary of the civil grand jury, told a Board of Supervisors committee in September 2014 that the city should impose a moratorium on private developments until its codes are updated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t stay ahead of the trend,” Piazza said, “as we are now we’ll be forever catching up, fixing up, and ending up spending much more money in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Visit \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/searise\">\u003ci>sfpublicpress.org/searise\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> for a longer version of this story, including accompanying articles, graphics, photos and maps that appear in the summer 2015 print edition of the San Francisco Public Press. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the scenario widely considered “most likely” — 3 feet of permanent rise — would put thousands of acres of the current shoreline underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers are planning or currently building at least 27 major commercial and residential complexes around the bay on land lower than 8 feet above high tide, as estimated by recent aerial surveys. And more than a dozen Bay Area cities continue to issue permits for plans that address future flood risks vaguely, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg\" alt=\"SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium\" width=\"1310\" height=\"980\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium.jpg 1310w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SFPP_issue_17_B4-5_medium-960x718.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Facebook are among the marquee corporate names driving the bayfront explosion. Some cities are even courting companies to build near sea level, often on landfill created in the mid-20th century in former salt marshes. Much of that land could return to the sea, unless cities erect seawalls, levees and other monumental edifices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Hill, a professor of environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley, said more experimentation is needed in waterfront construction techniques. But few businesses are invested in fortifying the properties they build beyond midcentury. It is hard to fund resilient architecture, Hill said, when developers “do not have a shared interest with the public about what will happen with those properties in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many areas, new development includes desperately needed housing. Projects now in the pipeline in San Francisco would add 25,000 new apartments. On Treasure Island alone, developers are ready to break ground on a forest of residential towers that could house 12,000 people, and at Mission Rock and Pier 70, developers have pledged to build more affordable apartments than the city requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporate and government data show that the highest-profile building projects on the shorelines of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the East Bay will cost more than $21 billion to build, excluding the value of the land underneath them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not account for the likely public cost, coming within decades, of protecting these settlements with dikes, levees and artificial wetlands — or for the economic toll of abandoning development in designated buffer zones as waves rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few local governments, including Mountain View, are beginning to spend money on sea level rise infrastructure projects that can protect waterfront business districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622860\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 772px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSC_0186.jpg\" alt=\"An apartment tower rises in Mission Bay, bringing new neighbors for Jack Wickert, 78, a retired music teacher and playwright who lives in a houseboat on Mission Creek. 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