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But it's still legal to export the fossil fuel from here — and lucrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The privately owned \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/06/22/coal-train-dust-worries-richmond-residents/\">Levin-Richmond terminal\u003c/a>, for instance, ships more than 1 million tons of coal a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. market for coal dries up, producers are looking for more places to ship it to countries still hungry for fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217040267&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>That’s what drove Utah recently to approve a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/06/oakland-mayor-port-developer-in-dispute-over-plan-to-ship-coal\" target=\"_blank\">$53 million investment\u003c/a> in a cargo terminal set to open in West Oakland in 2017 -- a move that has set off a political firestorm here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oaklanders fear that trains carrying coal to ships in the harbor will further threaten the health of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coal is just part of what is happening to this one community,” says Margaret Gordon, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon, 69, has been fighting pollution in her neighborhood for decades. There's plenty of it. This part of town experiences \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/air-pollution-dispute-west-oakland-army-base\" target=\"_blank\">a high incidence of asthma\u003c/a> among children and \u003ca href=\"http://www.societyhealth.vcu.edu/media/society-health/pdf/PMReport_Alameda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">significantly lower life expectancies\u003c/a> than more affluent parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a drive through West Oakland, Gordon points to a freight train rolling by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See how this train is coming through?” she says, “That's how close the train is going to be to where the people are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just a few blocks from a large apartment complex that’s already subject to around-the-clock diesel exhaust from trucks going to and from Oakland's busy port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One neighborhood, one area — one little area of the city has all this going on at one time,” says Gordon. “Three freeways, a post office distribution center with trucks, a port facility, soil that needs to be remediated, a smelting company, recycling company, a Superfund site -- now just add the coal terminal to it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10622557\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train sits idle at the Port of Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train sits idle at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the trains start bringing coal to the new bulk terminal, Gordon worries they'll spew dust all over her neighborhood. But one of the cargo terminal's developers promises that won't be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have eliminated that problem because we will cover the rail cars,” says Jerry Bridges, president of \u003ca href=\"http://obotjv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Terminal Logistics Solutions\u003c/a>, the company awarded a contract to build and run the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandglobal.com/index.php/project/about/wgw-development\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal\u003c/a> (OBOT). Bridges says the facility will be able to handle 9 million tons of bulk cargo a year and expects 4.2 million tons of it to be coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they are loaded at the origin, at the coal mine, and as they transit from the mine to the port, there will be no dust coming off of the trains,” Bridges says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terminal, he says, will also be clean. To demonstrate, he holds up a picture that depicts the typical way terminals handle coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just open piles of product laying on the ground, with water being sprayed on it to keep the dust down,” Bridges says. \"That's the way it's handled everywhere else in the rest of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges holds up another picture depicting white domes on a pristine dock, saying, “This is what our terminal would look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bridges, the bulk terminal will use new technology to keep dusty material like coal enclosed all the way from the mines to the ships that will carry the cargo overseas. Coal cars will dump their load into an underground conveyor system, he says, which will whisk it into vessels' cargo holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridges' assurances of a clean, safe coal facility have fallen flat with Mayor Libby Schaaf and the City Council, which voted last year to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1747455&GUID=D41B7760-10B0-455E-B1F5-88894FBAD097&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\">oppose shipping coal\u003c/a> through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not going to let ourselves be fooled or falsely placated into thinking something is not what it is.” says \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/o/District1/\">Councilman Dan Kalb\u003c/a>, whose district lies north of the terminal site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials awarded \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiagroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Capital and Investment Group\u003c/a> (CCIG) to develop its share of the old Oakland Army Base. CCIG President Phil Tagami has been a major force in Oakland development, and a well-connected one. Tagami's firm has led two landmark redevelopment efforts financed largely, as the new port facility is, with public funds -- the Rotunda Building and the Fox Oakland theater. The developer was a close ally of Jerry Brown during his tenure as mayor, with Brown appointing him to serve on the Port of Oakland board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb notes that Tagami promised no coal would move through the new port when the question arose early in the development process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would never let coal go through his property -- this is what he said to my face here in City Hall and to others, too,” says Kalb. \"We’re just trying to hold him to his word. That’s all. It’s not any shocker what the city is doing. What’s shocking is what the private developer’s doing, and their partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami declined to be interviewed for this story. So did Oakland's Mayor Schaaf. The two are reportedly negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But emails obtained through a public records request show the two butting heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one, \u003ca href=\"http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/3khxtyd4w4j07hq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Schaaf orders\u003c/a> Tagami to honor the city's ban on coal. Tagami \u003ca href=\"http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/4lxhbjb0sg4izov0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">replies\u003c/a> that he has the right to export any legal commodity, including coal, and has all the permits to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Dervin-Ackerman of the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay chapter, which opposes coal exports because of local impacts and because they may promote climate change, says that’s just not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coal was never considered as a commodity that was going through during any of the environmental review, which is supposed to consider all the impacts not only on an environment but the people that live near the project,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dervin-Ackerman says the city has leverage it can use to delay the terminal project if necessary. Officials could reopen the environmental review or reopen the development agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either action would create uncertainty, which can spook investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Bridges, head of Terminal Logistics Solutions, says he hasn't signed any contracts with coal shippers yet and is still raising the $260 million to build the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve thought about what if the project gets killed in Oakland?” says Bridges. “Then it gets killed, and we go away. But coal is a product that's going to ship, and it can ship from Oakland or it can ship from somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges says Oakland could lose out on as many as 100 on-site jobs -- half of which go to locals -- and another 2,600 jobs in related services for the terminal, and all the other economic benefits of running a world-class export terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's City Council has set a hearing for Sept. 21 to look at the public health and safety concerns associated with coal dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The accurate information is going to come out,\" says Kalb. \"Then, based on the record, the city will have an opportunity to enact regulations that all parties will have to follow.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Oaklanders fear that trains carrying coal to ships in the harbor will further threaten the health of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coal is just part of what is happening to this one community,” says Margaret Gordon, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.woeip.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon, 69, has been fighting pollution in her neighborhood for decades. There's plenty of it. This part of town experiences \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/air-pollution-dispute-west-oakland-army-base\" target=\"_blank\">a high incidence of asthma\u003c/a> among children and \u003ca href=\"http://www.societyhealth.vcu.edu/media/society-health/pdf/PMReport_Alameda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">significantly lower life expectancies\u003c/a> than more affluent parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a drive through West Oakland, Gordon points to a freight train rolling by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See how this train is coming through?” she says, “That's how close the train is going to be to where the people are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just a few blocks from a large apartment complex that’s already subject to around-the-clock diesel exhaust from trucks going to and from Oakland's busy port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One neighborhood, one area — one little area of the city has all this going on at one time,” says Gordon. “Three freeways, a post office distribution center with trucks, a port facility, soil that needs to be remediated, a smelting company, recycling company, a Superfund site -- now just add the coal terminal to it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10622557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10622557\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train sits idle at the Port of Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/PortTrain-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train sits idle at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the trains start bringing coal to the new bulk terminal, Gordon worries they'll spew dust all over her neighborhood. But one of the cargo terminal's developers promises that won't be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have eliminated that problem because we will cover the rail cars,” says Jerry Bridges, president of \u003ca href=\"http://obotjv.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Terminal Logistics Solutions\u003c/a>, the company awarded a contract to build and run the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandglobal.com/index.php/project/about/wgw-development\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal\u003c/a> (OBOT). Bridges says the facility will be able to handle 9 million tons of bulk cargo a year and expects 4.2 million tons of it to be coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they are loaded at the origin, at the coal mine, and as they transit from the mine to the port, there will be no dust coming off of the trains,” Bridges says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terminal, he says, will also be clean. To demonstrate, he holds up a picture that depicts the typical way terminals handle coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just open piles of product laying on the ground, with water being sprayed on it to keep the dust down,” Bridges says. \"That's the way it's handled everywhere else in the rest of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges holds up another picture depicting white domes on a pristine dock, saying, “This is what our terminal would look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bridges, the bulk terminal will use new technology to keep dusty material like coal enclosed all the way from the mines to the ships that will carry the cargo overseas. Coal cars will dump their load into an underground conveyor system, he says, which will whisk it into vessels' cargo holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridges' assurances of a clean, safe coal facility have fallen flat with Mayor Libby Schaaf and the City Council, which voted last year to \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1747455&GUID=D41B7760-10B0-455E-B1F5-88894FBAD097&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\">oppose shipping coal\u003c/a> through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not going to let ourselves be fooled or falsely placated into thinking something is not what it is.” says \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/o/District1/\">Councilman Dan Kalb\u003c/a>, whose district lies north of the terminal site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials awarded \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiagroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Capital and Investment Group\u003c/a> (CCIG) to develop its share of the old Oakland Army Base. CCIG President Phil Tagami has been a major force in Oakland development, and a well-connected one. Tagami's firm has led two landmark redevelopment efforts financed largely, as the new port facility is, with public funds -- the Rotunda Building and the Fox Oakland theater. The developer was a close ally of Jerry Brown during his tenure as mayor, with Brown appointing him to serve on the Port of Oakland board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb notes that Tagami promised no coal would move through the new port when the question arose early in the development process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would never let coal go through his property -- this is what he said to my face here in City Hall and to others, too,” says Kalb. \"We’re just trying to hold him to his word. That’s all. It’s not any shocker what the city is doing. What’s shocking is what the private developer’s doing, and their partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami declined to be interviewed for this story. So did Oakland's Mayor Schaaf. 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Tagami \u003ca href=\"http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/4lxhbjb0sg4izov0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">replies\u003c/a> that he has the right to export any legal commodity, including coal, and has all the permits to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Dervin-Ackerman of the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay chapter, which opposes coal exports because of local impacts and because they may promote climate change, says that’s just not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coal was never considered as a commodity that was going through during any of the environmental review, which is supposed to consider all the impacts not only on an environment but the people that live near the project,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dervin-Ackerman says the city has leverage it can use to delay the terminal project if necessary. Officials could reopen the environmental review or reopen the development agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either action would create uncertainty, which can spook investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Bridges, head of Terminal Logistics Solutions, says he hasn't signed any contracts with coal shippers yet and is still raising the $260 million to build the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve thought about what if the project gets killed in Oakland?” says Bridges. “Then it gets killed, and we go away. 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"content": "\u003cp>For Gov. Jerry Brown, this has been a summer to remember. With negotiations over the state budget quickly and neatly sewn up in almost record time, he’s been able to focus instead on a national and international pilgrimage for action on climate change. And a new poll suggests he and his fellow Democrats are pretty much speaking what Californians want to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday night poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)\u003c/a> finds strong support for not only the idea that climate change is linked to the state’s historic drought, but also equally robust support for a handful of legislative ideas to double down on the state’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty-one percent of likely voters — and 64 percent of all adults in the survey — agree that California needs to do its own thing to combat the effects of carbon emissions and not wait for action in Washington, D.C. And almost eight of every 10 state residents in the poll say the climate change threat is serious, with most (52 percent) calling it very serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, long regarded as the politician who seems to have the best barometer on what Californians think, has ramped up his defense of quick action on the part of the state. 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The poll comes just two days after the oil industry launched an aggressive campaign to recast the bill — especially its mandate of less gas for cars — as a disaster of another kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usjtzx-7SBE?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can afford a Tesla, then this message won’t really matter to you,” says the spokesperson in the very first words uttered in the TV ad — a not-so-subtle jab at class and wealth issues in an election season in which those distinctions will be talked about a lot, especially by Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad is sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiadriversalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Drivers Alliance\u003c/a>, an advocacy group bankrolled by the state’s oil and gas industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics accuse California Democrats of selling out their traditional base support in working-poor communities for “a policy of environmental puritanism,” as writer Joel Kotkin \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/07/putting-climate-change-ahead-of-constituents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opined just hours before the new poll was released\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotkin took particular aim at the legislative champion of the new climate change agenda, Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So how does de León’s priority on climate change help his two-thirds-Latino district, where a quarter of households were under the poverty line in 2014 and nearly half of all households earned less than $34,000?… Unless you fear that rising seas will flood the eastern parts of Los Angeles in the near future, a radically decarbonized economy offers limited benefits to a district where 40 percent of residents don’t have even high school degrees and that is unlikely to emerge soon as a software engineering hotbed or a center of media or finance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the new polling suggests that the starting point of the debate is in favor of Democrats on these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When examining the various subgroups of Californians surveyed, there’s strong support for the three essential components of de León’s SB350. Even 63 percent of Republicans surveyed support the expansion of renewable energy. And contrary to the assertions in the oil industry ad, 81 percent of the state’s lowest-income residents in the PPIC survey — those making under $40,000 a year — support the idea of cutting petroleum use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question then may be whether the state’s most prominent proponent of the effort to build on existing law — Brown — can beat back any kind of vocal and well-funded opposition in the weeks and months to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PPIC’s new poll shows the governor gets good marks for his job performance from 53 percent of Californians surveyed, and 55 percent of the all-important likely voters. But his handling of environmental issues, the poll finds, is a little less popular: 47 percent of all adults, 48 percent of likely voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TV ad from the oil industry, in particular, is a sign that these poll numbers matter. Whether it’s a shot across the bow for legislators and Brown as they negotiate on a final plan, or a harbinger of a 2016 political campaign to come, remains to be seen. After all, the oil industry could, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more easily than at any time in decades\u003c/a>, qualify a referendum to try and overturn the new climate change law next November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they no doubt know that Brown is sitting on some $23 million in unspent campaign cash — just the kind of money he’d need for a huge ballot measure battle that could, in many ways, shape his political legacy.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But his fellow Democrats in the California Legislature have other goals in mind, and the new survey offers them some possible momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether those surveyed support the idea of cutting California’s 1990-measured greenhouse gases by 80 percent over the next 3½ decades, the answer is yes: 69 percent like that idea. The proposal is now under consideration in the Legislature, one of \u003ca href=\"http://focus.senate.ca.gov/climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a package of ambitious climate change bills being pushed by Democrats in the state Senate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That package, sure to be one of the most-watched sets of bills when legislators return in August from the summer recess, gets a lot of love in the new PPIC poll. Its centerpiece is Senate Bill 350, an aggressive mandate of 50 percent less petroleum use in cars, 50 percent more renewable energy, and a doubling of energy efficiency in existing buildings, all in just 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These proposals were outlined by Brown in his January State of the State speech, and the new poll finds strong support for all three — between seven and eight in 10 of all adults for each proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the politics of these proposals, of this plan, are far from settled. 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"content": "\u003cp>Until Tuesday, Walt Palmer was just a 55-year-old dentist from suburban Minneapolis who enjoyed hunting big game with a bow, then \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/schafferarchery/sets/72157623354181680\" target=\"_blank\">posing with a grin\u003c/a> alongside his kills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deer, moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, Dall sheep, musk ox, caribou, white rhino, leopard, bear: \u003ca href=\"http://brentsinclair.blogspot.com/2010/09/walt-palmer.html\" target=\"_blank\">All felt the sting\u003c/a> of Palmer's arrows. Each and every one seems to be pictured somewhere online with the triumphant dentist. (And yes, Palmer stalked California big game, too, including tule elk in Solano County. So there's your local angle.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, Palmer's fame has been confined to big-game hunting circles. And then \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/28/killer-of-cecil-the-lion-was-american-zimbabwe-officials-claim\" target=\"_blank\">he killed Cecil the Lion\u003c/a> and became an international celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10619916\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSCF1269.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10619916\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/DSCF1269.jpg\" alt=\"Walt Palmer, pictured with leopard killed in earlier hunt in Zimbabwe. \" width=\"360\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Palmer, pictured with leopard killed in earlier hunt in Zimbabwe. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://brentsinclair.blogspot.com/2010/09/walt-palmer.html\">Trophy Hunt America\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palmer shot the lion, who was something of a celebrity himself, during a hunt earlier this month in Zimbabwe. Reports in Britain's Guardian and Telegraph newspapers suggest \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11767119/Cecil-the-lions-killer-revealed-as-American-dentist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cecil was shot\u003c/a> inside or on the border of one of the southern African county's national parks. In addition to being \"the most famous creature\" in Hwange National Park, Cecil was wearing an electronic collar and being monitored by wildlife biologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Guardian:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said the man thought to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil was ... US citizen Walter Palmer, from a small town near Minneapolis. The man left the lion skinned and headless on the outskirts of the park, the ZCTF’s Johnny Rodrigues said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunt took place around 6 July. “They went hunting at night with a spotlight and they spotted Cecil,” Rodrigues said. “They tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure Cecil out of the park and they scented an area about half a kilometre from the park.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/world/video/2015/jul/28/cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe-archive-video\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer confirmed Tuesday that he had killed the lion, but said he was unaware of his trophy's identity. \u003ca href=\"http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-dentist-admits-killing-beloved-lion-thought-he-was-acting-legally/318990061/\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Walter J. 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"content": "\u003cp>An estimated 50 to 75 people took part in a protest Saturday at a eucalyptus grove on the UC Berkeley campus, many of them stripping naked in doing so, to make clear their opposition to a proposed FEMA-funded tree-clearing program in the East Bay hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was orchestrated by the \u003ca href=\"http://treespiritproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tree Spirit Project\u003c/a>, whose mission is “to raise awareness of the critical role trees play in our lives, both globally and personally.” Jack Gescheidt, the West Marin resident who founded the project, does this partly by taking fine-art photographs of people, often naked, communing with trees and nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Emergency Management Agency in March \u003ca href=\"http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1425077328244-f71996db45bcd309f185c77a38c0b457/ROD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">allocated $5.7 million\u003c/a> to the California Office of Emergency Services to remove eucalyptus trees as part of fire hazard abatement in several parts of the hills — including Claremont Canyon and other areas near the scene of the devastating 1991 wildfire that killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes. The funds will be distributed to UC Berkeley, the city of Oakland, and the East Bay Regional Parks District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10607313\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/nakedtrees2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/nakedtrees2-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Gescheidt and his Tree Spirit Project team address a group of volunteers at UC Berkeley on Saturday. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10607313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/nakedtrees2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/nakedtrees2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Gescheidt and his Tree Spirit Project team address a group of volunteers at UC Berkeley on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Ted Friedman/Berkeleyside)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tree Spirit Project has joined other campaigners who oppose what they say is unnecessary and harmful “clear-cutting.” The Hills Conservation Network group is \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/03/23/hills-residents-sue-fema-following-fire-mitigation-decision/\" target=\"_blank\">suing FEMA in federal court\u003c/a>. It says the clearing of trees will increase rather than decrease fire danger by turning fire-resistant living trees into dead wood left onsite. It is also protesting the potential use of the herbicide glyphosate, commercially known as Round Up, on the remaining tree stumps after the clearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, another group of hills residents opposes the FEMA decision for the opposite reason: they say the fire mitigation plan doesn’t go far enough. The \u003ca href=\"http://claremontcanyon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Claremont Canyon Conservancy\u003c/a> supports complete eradication. Jon Kaufman, stewardship coordinator of the 500-strong group, said earlier this year: “The problem today is eucalyptuses crowd out native trees, leaving a dense eucalyptus forest with oaks and bays underneath, starved for sunlight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, at around 10 a.m., Gescheidt came to the eucalyptus grove near Cal's western entrance with a six-man crew, according to Ted Friedman who took the photographs published here. Gescheidt gave a “stirring talk” defending the eucalyptus trees, which he said have been wrongly identified as a fire risk. He then directed the volunteers who had shown up in a dress rehearsal as they posed artfully, fully clothed, against the large trees. Then many of the volunteers stripped off and resumed their poses for photographs to be taken. The shoot took about two hours, Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support independent local journalism by \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\">\u003cb>becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>. Members enjoy lots of perks, like invitations to member-only events, and an annual party.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>early a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snow packs and rising seas, created the nation’s most aggressive program to combat global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash petroleum use in vehicles to levels not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215553879″ 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/aside>\n\u003cp>Yet as the debate continues, a number of questions remain unanswered. Among them: Will other states or nations follow California in pursuing deep emissions cuts? Will California be able to meet the new targets, and if so, how? What are the total costs and benefits of the programs? How much will the price of gasoline and electricity increase?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s some of what we do know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The state has emerged as a global leader in fighting climate change, despite producing only about one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It has created a dizzying array of programs to cut pollution, from reducing the carbon content of motor fuels to capping emissions at large factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The 2006 law, Assembly Bill 32, established a goal of cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emission to 1990 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, emissions need to fall by six percent between 2013 (the latest year for which figures are available) and 2020. Brown and other political leaders expect that to happen. However, emissions have fallen only slightly since 2009, when the recession ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• An executive order issued by Brown this spring would \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be much harder to achieve. Over the 10 years leading up to Brown’s deadline, emissions must fall up to seven times as fast as during the preceding decade. And emissions would have to fall another 40 percentage points by 2050 if a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_32&sess=CUR&house=B&author=pavley_%3Cpavley%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> currently before the Assembly passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Cutting emissions brings costs. To date, consumers in the state have seen an estimated three to five percent rise in electricity rates, and are paying about an extra dime per gallon of gasoline, due to specific climate-related programs. Going forward, a \u003ca href=\"https://ethree.com/documents/E3_PATHWAYS_GHG_Scenarios_Updated_April2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by a San Francisco consulting group found that deep emissions cuts by 2030 could carry costs of up to $23 billion yearly. That figure could go higher by 2050, according to the group, which did not tally the health benefits of cleaner air or the climate benefits of lower emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Despite the pioneering policies, emissions have fallen more slowly in the state than in the rest of the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions in California dropped by 7 percent from their peak in 2004 to 2013, compared to\u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/inventoryexplorer/#allsectors/allgas/gas/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 9 percent nationwide over the same period\u003c/a>. Reducing emissions is harder here because the state’s economy is already relatively energy-frugal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100%; position: relative; padding-top: 75%;\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://calmatters.org/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When AB 32 passed, establishing the nation’s first broad plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists hoped the action would touch off a revolution. The target established by the law was ambitious, especially considering the continuing population and economic growth. It built on an earlier groundbreaking \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ccms/ccms.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> to reduce the greenhouse gases in car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized under AB 32 and the car bill, we’re not just talking about polar bears and arctic ice caps but this was real impacts to California,” said Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, an author of both bills. Melting mountain snows, rising seas, and poor health resulting from warmer temperatures — all resonated with Californians, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxddSAFOyxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing ceremony\u003c/a> for AB 32 on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that major nations like Mexico, Brazil, China and India would join the fight against climate change. So would the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trust me,” Schwarzenegger said to applause, as international flags fluttered behind him in the breeze. “I am convinced of that, that this will happen, because nothing is more important than protecting our planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change did not come as swiftly as Pavley and Schwarzenegger had hoped. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress tried to pass a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions nationally, but it failed. Pavley’s effort to clean up cars’ tailpipes did eventually \u003ca href=\"http://sd27.senate.ca.gov/news/2010-03-31-senator-fran-pavley-s-landmark-clean-cars-law-becomes-national-standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become the basis of a national policy\u003c/a>. But federal rules on climate change still lack the breadth of California’s. Nations like China and Brazil have also moved slowly, at least until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state has forged ahead, still hoping to sow inspiration beyond its borders. To stop climate change, the whole world — not just California — must participate. As Brown travels to the Vatican this week and to a major United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December, he will surely argue that if one of the world’s largest economies can slash emissions, others can too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kaleidoscope of programs has arisen to accelerate California’s shift to a clean economy. The broadest and perhaps most controversial of these is a cap-and-trade policy, which subjects the state’s most-polluting companies to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to trade credits to pollute. The California Chamber of Commerce has challenged the legality of a key feature of the program. The state has prevailed so far, but the lawsuit is working its way through an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other policies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions include a requirement for most electricity providers to get 33 percent of their energy from renewable source, such as wind farms and solar arrays by 2020, and a low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of fuels like gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-\u003cbr>\nintensive by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other programs also exist, including goals making buildings more energy efficient, increasing the number of electric vehicles and maximizing the use of public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100%; position: relative; padding-top: 75%;\">\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://calmatters.org/iframes/20150708_greenhouse-policies/\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>These rules, arcane and complex, remain largely invisible to Californians. But they result in slightly increased prices, notably at the gas pump, where economists say the cap-and-trade program has added roughly a dime to each gallon since the beginning of this year. Electric bills are also rising. The state’s Public Utilities Commission estimates that electric power rates have increased by three to five percent due to the renewable energy requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish we could mark on a nice spreadsheet the incremental cost for every regulation,” said Tupper Hull, vice-president of the Western States Petroleum Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is difficult to find companies that have left the state specifically because of climate policies, as opposed to California’s broad basket of regulations. But industry groups and their advocates predict this will happen in the future, as policies grow stricter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Energy cost in the state will necessarily rise, and that will create challenges for retaining employment,” said Robert Wyman, Jr., a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Latham & Watkins, who represents many business clients. He argues that California’s system of interlocking policies has made compliance more expensive than it would be under a single, market-oriented system, like cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials do not know how much their climate rules have cost or saved. The Air Resources Board, the state regulatory body that oversees the greenhouse gas reductions, stated in a key \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/2013_update/first_update_climate_change_scoping_plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document\u003c/a> last year that the law’s impact on economic growth remains unknown. Some years earlier, a knot of studies estimated that California’s gross state product could see anywhere from a 1 percent gain to a 2.2 percent decline as a result of AB 32. The models differed in their assumptions, such as how they forecast the pace of technological change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AB 32 say that in addition to cleaning the air, the law has contributed to a vibrant clean-energy industry that is innovating with startling speed. A \u003ca href=\"http://info.aee.net/hs-fs/hub/211732/file-2173902479-pdf/PDF/aeei-california-advanced-energy-employment-survey-fnl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> released in December by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, an environmental organization co-founded by the billionaire and clean-energy activist Tom Steyer, found that employment in the state’s clean-energy sectors like solar and wind, along with nuclear and natural gas electricity generation, rose by five percent over the prior year. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.next10.org/sites/next10.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FINAL%20Climate%20Pathways%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a>, funded by the environmental innovation nonprofit Next 10, argues that using less gasoline (as electric and hybrid cars make possible) should free up spending and create jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/windmill-e1437176751200.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/windmill-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wind power is an important part of California's energy plan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10604970\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind power is an important part of California’s energy plan. \u003ccite>(Carl Costas/CALmatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, chair of the Air Resources Board, noted in an interview that jobs and investment are increasing in California. “We look at that happening at the same time that the cap and trade program has been in effect and we say, “‘What’s the problem?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term future of California’s greenhouse gas programs lies in two bills that have passed the state Senate and are being evaluated this summer by the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 350 aims at three pieces of the energy puzzle — petroleum, electricity and buildings. It seeks to cut petroleum use in motor vehicles by 50 percent (a very difficult target, analysts agree), boost electric utilities’ reliance on renewable energy to 50 percent, and double the energy efficiency in buildings – all by the year 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 32 would require the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century. It would codify into law an executive order issued by Schwarzenegger, a step that helps ensure that the goal is binding. The long-term targets are drawn from international climate science: If large nations cut their emissions that sharply, scientists believe it can limit the world’s warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What programs California will use to meet these tougher targets remains uncertain, though Democratic political leaders stress that they will bring more green jobs to the state and reduce unhealthy air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless we do something, our economy will be severely damaged,” said state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, who co-authored SB 350. “The public health of our children will be severely impaired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An illuminating view came from a \u003ca href=\"https://ethree.com/documents/E3_PATHWAYS_GHG_Scenarios_Updated_April2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> this spring by Energy and Environmental Economics (E3), a San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the state to evaluate future greenhouse gas reductions. To reduce emissions by 26 to 38 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a level not quite as ambitious as the 40 percent reduction recently ordered by Brown — the group forecast a range of results, from savings of $8 billion to costs of $23 billion per year. (E3’s projections are in 2012 dollars.) A cut of 33 percent by 2030 could cost about $50 per Californian per year, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet those future goals, the model incorporated some technologies only minimally in use today, such as increased reliance on renewable diesel, according to Amber Mahone, director of climate policy analysis at E3. It also assumed that new or expanded regulations would be needed. For example, the analysis factored in more capture of the potent greenhouse gas methane from manure at California’s dairy farms, a sector that, for now, largely falls outside mandatory regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of reaching the tougher targets of slashing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels, the E3 study found, could range from a savings of around $15 billion to costs of almost $100 billion yearly, under a scenario in which emissions fall at a steady rate. This projection is highly uncertain, Mahone emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the human level, modeling by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm, found that the cap-and-trade program could raise gasoline prices by 22 cents a gallon by 2025, though there is an outside chance of prices increasing by as much as 50 cents a gallon, according to Colleen Regan, a senior analyst with the firm for North American power and environmental markets. However, Californians should need less gas as cars become more fuel-efficient or electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these numbers are hazy predictions. What is clear is that meeting long-term targets will be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the words of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/2013_update/first_update_climate_change_scoping_plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state plan\u003c/a> on climate change released last year, “Progressing toward California’s long-term climate goals will require that greenhouse gas reduction rates be significantly accelerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only must the emissions reductions come faster in the future, but the reductions may also be harder. That is evident already. California has not been able to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as the nation in recent years, as a comparison between state and federal inventories shows. Indeed, the data hint at difficulties ahead. \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/reports/MVF_10_Year_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gasoline sales\u003c/a> are ticking up. Emissions have been largely flat since falling steeply in 2008-9 as the recession hit, though state officials and outside analysts expect that future reductions, brought about by programs just starting to have an impact, will be sufficient to meet or exceed the 2020 goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On greenhouse gas emissions, California has always been an A student,” said Ashley Lawson, a senior carbon analyst at Thomson Reuters. “So to perform any better, you have to work really, really hard to go from an A to an A plus.” The rest of the country, which is replacing coal-fired power plants with less-polluting natural gas plants, “was able to go from a C to a B, with almost no effort at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics like the Chamber of Commerce say that the drastic emissions measures planned for the future could harm the economy and take away jobs. Supporters counter that past sky-is-falling projections have not come to pass, and that technological innovation is speeding up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, above the howls of industry groups, electric cars had barely begun to hit the roadways, and a rooftop’s worth of solar panels cost more than a year at a private college. Prices have fallen rapidly since then, and California is getting cleaner. The question for the future is whether it can get clean enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters\u003c/a> is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to explaining California policies ands politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>early a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snow packs and rising seas, created the nation’s most aggressive program to combat global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash petroleum use in vehicles to levels not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\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/215553879″&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/215553879″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Yet as the debate continues, a number of questions remain unanswered. Among them: Will other states or nations follow California in pursuing deep emissions cuts? Will California be able to meet the new targets, and if so, how? What are the total costs and benefits of the programs? How much will the price of gasoline and electricity increase?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s some of what we do know:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The state has emerged as a global leader in fighting climate change, despite producing only about one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It has created a dizzying array of programs to cut pollution, from reducing the carbon content of motor fuels to capping emissions at large factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• The 2006 law, Assembly Bill 32, established a goal of cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emission to 1990 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, emissions need to fall by six percent between 2013 (the latest year for which figures are available) and 2020. Brown and other political leaders expect that to happen. However, emissions have fallen only slightly since 2009, when the recession ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• An executive order issued by Brown this spring would \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be much harder to achieve. Over the 10 years leading up to Brown’s deadline, emissions must fall up to seven times as fast as during the preceding decade. And emissions would have to fall another 40 percentage points by 2050 if a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_32&sess=CUR&house=B&author=pavley_%3Cpavley%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> currently before the Assembly passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Cutting emissions brings costs. To date, consumers in the state have seen an estimated three to five percent rise in electricity rates, and are paying about an extra dime per gallon of gasoline, due to specific climate-related programs. Going forward, a \u003ca href=\"https://ethree.com/documents/E3_PATHWAYS_GHG_Scenarios_Updated_April2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by a San Francisco consulting group found that deep emissions cuts by 2030 could carry costs of up to $23 billion yearly. That figure could go higher by 2050, according to the group, which did not tally the health benefits of cleaner air or the climate benefits of lower emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Despite the pioneering policies, emissions have fallen more slowly in the state than in the rest of the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions in California dropped by 7 percent from their peak in 2004 to 2013, compared to\u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/inventoryexplorer/#allsectors/allgas/gas/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 9 percent nationwide over the same period\u003c/a>. Reducing emissions is harder here because the state’s economy is already relatively energy-frugal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100%; position: relative; padding-top: 75%;\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://calmatters.org/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When AB 32 passed, establishing the nation’s first broad plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists hoped the action would touch off a revolution. The target established by the law was ambitious, especially considering the continuing population and economic growth. It built on an earlier groundbreaking \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ccms/ccms.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> to reduce the greenhouse gases in car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized under AB 32 and the car bill, we’re not just talking about polar bears and arctic ice caps but this was real impacts to California,” said Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, an author of both bills. Melting mountain snows, rising seas, and poor health resulting from warmer temperatures — all resonated with Californians, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxddSAFOyxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing ceremony\u003c/a> for AB 32 on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that major nations like Mexico, Brazil, China and India would join the fight against climate change. So would the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trust me,” Schwarzenegger said to applause, as international flags fluttered behind him in the breeze. “I am convinced of that, that this will happen, because nothing is more important than protecting our planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Change did not come as swiftly as Pavley and Schwarzenegger had hoped. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress tried to pass a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions nationally, but it failed. Pavley’s effort to clean up cars’ tailpipes did eventually \u003ca href=\"http://sd27.senate.ca.gov/news/2010-03-31-senator-fran-pavley-s-landmark-clean-cars-law-becomes-national-standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become the basis of a national policy\u003c/a>. But federal rules on climate change still lack the breadth of California’s. Nations like China and Brazil have also moved slowly, at least until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state has forged ahead, still hoping to sow inspiration beyond its borders. To stop climate change, the whole world — not just California — must participate. As Brown travels to the Vatican this week and to a major United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December, he will surely argue that if one of the world’s largest economies can slash emissions, others can too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kaleidoscope of programs has arisen to accelerate California’s shift to a clean economy. The broadest and perhaps most controversial of these is a cap-and-trade policy, which subjects the state’s most-polluting companies to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to trade credits to pollute. The California Chamber of Commerce has challenged the legality of a key feature of the program. The state has prevailed so far, but the lawsuit is working its way through an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other policies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions include a requirement for most electricity providers to get 33 percent of their energy from renewable source, such as wind farms and solar arrays by 2020, and a low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of fuels like gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-\u003cbr>\nintensive by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other programs also exist, including goals making buildings more energy efficient, increasing the number of electric vehicles and maximizing the use of public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100%; position: relative; padding-top: 75%;\">\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://calmatters.org/iframes/20150708_greenhouse-policies/\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>These rules, arcane and complex, remain largely invisible to Californians. But they result in slightly increased prices, notably at the gas pump, where economists say the cap-and-trade program has added roughly a dime to each gallon since the beginning of this year. Electric bills are also rising. The state’s Public Utilities Commission estimates that electric power rates have increased by three to five percent due to the renewable energy requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish we could mark on a nice spreadsheet the incremental cost for every regulation,” said Tupper Hull, vice-president of the Western States Petroleum Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is difficult to find companies that have left the state specifically because of climate policies, as opposed to California’s broad basket of regulations. But industry groups and their advocates predict this will happen in the future, as policies grow stricter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Energy cost in the state will necessarily rise, and that will create challenges for retaining employment,” said Robert Wyman, Jr., a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Latham & Watkins, who represents many business clients. He argues that California’s system of interlocking policies has made compliance more expensive than it would be under a single, market-oriented system, like cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials do not know how much their climate rules have cost or saved. The Air Resources Board, the state regulatory body that oversees the greenhouse gas reductions, stated in a key \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/2013_update/first_update_climate_change_scoping_plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document\u003c/a> last year that the law’s impact on economic growth remains unknown. Some years earlier, a knot of studies estimated that California’s gross state product could see anywhere from a 1 percent gain to a 2.2 percent decline as a result of AB 32. The models differed in their assumptions, such as how they forecast the pace of technological change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AB 32 say that in addition to cleaning the air, the law has contributed to a vibrant clean-energy industry that is innovating with startling speed. A \u003ca href=\"http://info.aee.net/hs-fs/hub/211732/file-2173902479-pdf/PDF/aeei-california-advanced-energy-employment-survey-fnl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> released in December by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, an environmental organization co-founded by the billionaire and clean-energy activist Tom Steyer, found that employment in the state’s clean-energy sectors like solar and wind, along with nuclear and natural gas electricity generation, rose by five percent over the prior year. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.next10.org/sites/next10.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/FINAL%20Climate%20Pathways%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a>, funded by the environmental innovation nonprofit Next 10, argues that using less gasoline (as electric and hybrid cars make possible) should free up spending and create jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/windmill-e1437176751200.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/windmill-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wind power is an important part of California's energy plan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10604970\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind power is an important part of California’s energy plan. \u003ccite>(Carl Costas/CALmatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, chair of the Air Resources Board, noted in an interview that jobs and investment are increasing in California. “We look at that happening at the same time that the cap and trade program has been in effect and we say, “‘What’s the problem?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term future of California’s greenhouse gas programs lies in two bills that have passed the state Senate and are being evaluated this summer by the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 350 aims at three pieces of the energy puzzle — petroleum, electricity and buildings. It seeks to cut petroleum use in motor vehicles by 50 percent (a very difficult target, analysts agree), boost electric utilities’ reliance on renewable energy to 50 percent, and double the energy efficiency in buildings – all by the year 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 32 would require the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century. It would codify into law an executive order issued by Schwarzenegger, a step that helps ensure that the goal is binding. The long-term targets are drawn from international climate science: If large nations cut their emissions that sharply, scientists believe it can limit the world’s warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What programs California will use to meet these tougher targets remains uncertain, though Democratic political leaders stress that they will bring more green jobs to the state and reduce unhealthy air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless we do something, our economy will be severely damaged,” said state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, who co-authored SB 350. “The public health of our children will be severely impaired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An illuminating view came from a \u003ca href=\"https://ethree.com/documents/E3_PATHWAYS_GHG_Scenarios_Updated_April2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> this spring by Energy and Environmental Economics (E3), a San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the state to evaluate future greenhouse gas reductions. To reduce emissions by 26 to 38 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a level not quite as ambitious as the 40 percent reduction recently ordered by Brown — the group forecast a range of results, from savings of $8 billion to costs of $23 billion per year. (E3’s projections are in 2012 dollars.) A cut of 33 percent by 2030 could cost about $50 per Californian per year, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet those future goals, the model incorporated some technologies only minimally in use today, such as increased reliance on renewable diesel, according to Amber Mahone, director of climate policy analysis at E3. It also assumed that new or expanded regulations would be needed. For example, the analysis factored in more capture of the potent greenhouse gas methane from manure at California’s dairy farms, a sector that, for now, largely falls outside mandatory regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of reaching the tougher targets of slashing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels, the E3 study found, could range from a savings of around $15 billion to costs of almost $100 billion yearly, under a scenario in which emissions fall at a steady rate. This projection is highly uncertain, Mahone emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the human level, modeling by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm, found that the cap-and-trade program could raise gasoline prices by 22 cents a gallon by 2025, though there is an outside chance of prices increasing by as much as 50 cents a gallon, according to Colleen Regan, a senior analyst with the firm for North American power and environmental markets. However, Californians should need less gas as cars become more fuel-efficient or electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these numbers are hazy predictions. What is clear is that meeting long-term targets will be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the words of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/2013_update/first_update_climate_change_scoping_plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state plan\u003c/a> on climate change released last year, “Progressing toward California’s long-term climate goals will require that greenhouse gas reduction rates be significantly accelerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only must the emissions reductions come faster in the future, but the reductions may also be harder. That is evident already. California has not been able to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as the nation in recent years, as a comparison between state and federal inventories shows. Indeed, the data hint at difficulties ahead. \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/reports/MVF_10_Year_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gasoline sales\u003c/a> are ticking up. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">J\u003c/span>ust off U.S. 101 in Redwood City on Seaport Boulevard, a truck carrying stacks of flattened cars rumbles eastward, toward the bay. Moments later, a different truck lugs a covered mound of dirt debris in the opposite direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eastbound truck is delivering discarded vehicles to a Sims Metal Management facility, the regional branch of a multinational metal recycling company that operates a 13-acre plant at the Port of Redwood City. Sims purchases metal waste like cars, kitchen appliances and crop irrigation pipes, feeds them into a metal shredder and then sells the scrap overseas, where it will be used in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck exiting Sims is disposing of non-metal shredder residue, en route to a private landfill far outside county lines. This residue looks like dirt, but is really a blend of plastics, rubber and fabrics that are coated with fine bits of metal from the shredding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These two vehicles represent the input and output of an intricate metal recycling operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604819\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10604819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-400x397.jpg\" alt=\"Top: A truck brings discarded cars into Sims Metal Management facility in Redwood City for shredding. Bottom: Truck delivers auto shredder waste to landfill.\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-400x397.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/trucks1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: A truck brings discarded cars into Sims Metal Management facility in Redwood City for shredding. Bottom: Truck delivers auto shredder waste to landfill. \u003ccite>(Peter Johnson/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Metal recyclers in California export more than 7 million tons of material a year. The two metal firms currently operating in the Bay Area — Sims in Redwood City and Schnitzer Steel in Oakland — contribute around 600,000 tons a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While metal recyclers provide benefits by conserving resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the toxic nature of the materials being handled poses a dilemma for the industry and its regulators. When not contained properly, metals such as lead, mercury, copper, zinc and cadmium can have serious health effects for people and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry’s method of managing the risks associated with these metals is under close scrutiny today. There are several agencies responsible for ensuring that metal recyclers abide by state and federal regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, regulators have fined Sims millions of dollars for violating various state and federal laws at its Redwood City plant. The records supporting the fines describe years or even decades of violations and illustrate a broader story about the difficulty of regulating the metal shredding industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new law that took effect this year may push more stringent regulation for parts of the metal shredding process, though some environmental advocates question how effective the law will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from Sims Metal Management declined to be interviewed in detail for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Rodby, Sims’ public relations and government affairs manager, pointed the authors to public statements made at the time regarding specific settlements or fines. In general, these statements convey that the company intends to comply with the relevant regulations moving forward. Rodby also provided information about the timeline of improvements being made to the Redwood City facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=1bBpGNZk4TZ8bejqWgvkM2JCTonA9exOvt_-dTNmdcHM&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=450\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Noxious Smoke in the Air\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Sims plant drew widespread attention in late 2013, when two fires broke out at the facility in less than two months and spread noxious black smoke over the Peninsula. Redwood City issued shelter-in-place warnings during the first fire, on Nov. 10, and advised citizens to stay indoors and close air-intake systems during the second fire, Dec. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s incident reports on the fires note the district’s ambient air-quality monitors detected elevated levels of fine particulates consistent with the smoke plumes, but do not further specify what particulates were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Text/Cahill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Cahill\u003c/a>, professor emeritus of physics at UC Davis, the kind of smoke produced by the fires sometimes contains sharply elevated amounts of ultra-fine metals, which can cause serious damage to the cardiovascular system as they accumulate in the lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill, whose experience with aerosol pollution spans several decades, happened to be measuring air particulates near another shredder in Oakland during the first fire. His equipment picked up the smoke emanating from the Sims facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one in the world was looking at that smoke at the time,” Cahill said. “The fact that we found it was a surprise. Clearly, the local air district did not know and we found out by accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill said he is not able to divulge what he found in the smoke because the results are currently being used in litigation -- though not against Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he expressed concern that the regulatory agencies were not more closely monitoring the effect of the fires on air quality in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10604822\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Sims Metal Management facility across Redwood Creek.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Sims Metal Management facility across Redwood Creek. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heavy Metals in the Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>eginning in the early 1990s, Sims operated its ship-loading conveyor without adequate pollution controls to prevent materials from falling into Redwood Creek, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/sims-metal/Sims_Metal_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a 2014 U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit\u003c/a> against the company. Until the conveyor was enclosed almost two decades later, Sims allowed scrap metal and other materials to fall into the creek, according to the DOJ action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleged that for nearly a decade, through 2012, Sims allowed pollutants to flow into Redwood Creek and Redwood City's storm sewer system every day it rained more than one-tenth of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the suit said, pollution was detected by Sims' own 2003 study of the shoreline near the conveyor system, which found sediment samples with levels of copper, lead, nickel and zinc that exceeded California safety limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Wampler, an EPA Clean Water Act Enforcement officer, his agency did not know about this study until it launched an investigation of the facility for other violations in 2011. That probe led the EPA to order Sims to correct several Clean Water Act violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company settled the 2014 lawsuit, paid a $189,500 fine, and entered into a consent decree that required it to analyze sediments adjacent to its ship-loading facility and undertake a cleanup if concentrations of heavy metals or other toxic material exceeds quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims also comes under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board, which in 2011 conducted its first formal inspection of the recycling facility in 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long time between inspections is due in part to the sheer number of facilities that fall under the board’s jurisdiction, said Thomas Mumley, the regional board's assistant executive officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The type of investigations that have gone on at Sims are more the exception than the rule,” Mumley said. “There’s just a lot of places. Ten percent are inspected [annually] in general and probably a smaller percent are targeted for more detailed investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wampler noted a similar situation when discussing the EPA’s inspection coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are hundreds of thousands of facilities that are potential candidates for inspections across our country for Clean Water Act industrial stormwater,\" he said, \"and choosing which ones we go to is an art and a science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://infogr.am/sims_metal_vs_legal_limits_for_mean_total_concentration_of_metals\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://infogr.am/sims_metal_vs_legal_limit_for_mean_soluble_concentration_of_metals\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gray Fluff on the Flats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sims plant is next to two other properties: Bair Island, which is part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and salt flats owned by Cargill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2011, Cargill became concerned about a fluffy gray substance accumulating on its property and reported the issue to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which maintains Bair Island. According to Mendel Stewart, manager of the refuge at the time, the Fish and Wildlife officials contacted Sims about the fluff and discovered that it was called \"light fibrous material\" -- also known as auto shredder residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substance is a byproduct of the metal shredding process and is comprised of non-metal materials that go through the shredder, such as rubber and auto fuel. It can contain levels of metals that exceed the regulatory thresholds, as well as potentially toxic chemical compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Fish and Wildlife Service tested the wetlands of Bair Island and found elevated levels of metals and trace levels of PCBs and phthalates -- the latter a chemical used in making plastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2011, Fish and Wildlife notified Sims of its concerns. Representatives from the the agency visited the Sims facility in September 2011, but by December had not taken action to resolve the issue. Eventually, the company responded to the complaints by modifying the Redwood City facility layout, installing a large overhead sprinkler system and using water trucks to keep down dust, according to a March 2013 Fish and Wildlife report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sims continued to allow light fibrous material to be released from the plant, according to a civil environmental enforcement action that the state Department of Toxic Substances Control filed against the company in November 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims settled the case for $2.4 million on the day the action was filed, but admitted no wrongdoing. As part of the settlement, Sims was required to make several capital improvements to the facility, such as fully enclosing the metal shredder, by the end of last month. Sims has completed several upgrades and received an extension for some other work, “primarily completion of the shredder enclosure, for which work has already begun,” Rodby said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attempt to Strengthen Regulations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state law, authored by state Sen. Jerry Hill, a Peninsula Democrat, addresses some of the issues with regulating metal shredders -- particularly the classification and regulation of the 700,000 tons of residue from the shredding process that goes into the state's landfills every year. Once it's in a landfill, this waste may contaminate groundwater and stormwater runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said he found after the 2013 fires at Sims that regulation of the recycling industry had been largely ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found that basically the industry has not been regulated,” Hill said. “[Regulators] have been trying to regulate it since the 1980s. I felt there was some legislation necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1249\" target=\"_blank\">SB1249\u003c/a>, revokes regulators' earlier decisions to treat metal shredder waste as \"non-hazardous\" and requires the Department of Toxic Substance Control to review standards for classifying and handling the waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the law will lead to new regulations is still an open question. The department can choose to maintain current standards for auto shredder residue if its analysis proves that these standards do not pose a significant potential hazard to human health or the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the legislative action, industry followers are dubious of the the agency’s ability to improve its decades-old policies regarding auto shredder residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always skeptical,” Hill said. “Especially with the DTSC because historically they have not acted, I believe, responsibly in their oversight of facilities like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Len Keck, project manager and owner’s representative at Westfield Consulting, a firm that advises recycling companies, questions whether the DTSC will be able to successfully regulate auto shredder residue, even though this new law gives the agency more authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since the 1990s, the DTSC has wanted to regulate it [auto shredder residue],” Keck said. “And it is always going to be next year, or six months from now. I don’t know if this is real, or if this is one more effort at marching in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nerd Box:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>To examine the issue of metal recycling regulation, a team of three Stanford students reviewed inspection data and legal records from five different government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board, the Department of Toxic Substances, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the San Francisco District Attorney. Outside environmental and industry experts helped reporters interpret the data and documents and provided commentary about the state of the metal recycling regulation system. Some of the records were available on the web, while others required public records requests. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While metal recyclers provide benefits by conserving resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the toxic nature of the materials being handled poses a dilemma for the industry and its regulators. When not contained properly, metals such as lead, mercury, copper, zinc and cadmium can have serious health effects for people and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry’s method of managing the risks associated with these metals is under close scrutiny today. There are several agencies responsible for ensuring that metal recyclers abide by state and federal regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, regulators have fined Sims millions of dollars for violating various state and federal laws at its Redwood City plant. The records supporting the fines describe years or even decades of violations and illustrate a broader story about the difficulty of regulating the metal shredding industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new law that took effect this year may push more stringent regulation for parts of the metal shredding process, though some environmental advocates question how effective the law will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from Sims Metal Management declined to be interviewed in detail for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Rodby, Sims’ public relations and government affairs manager, pointed the authors to public statements made at the time regarding specific settlements or fines. In general, these statements convey that the company intends to comply with the relevant regulations moving forward. Rodby also provided information about the timeline of improvements being made to the Redwood City facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=1bBpGNZk4TZ8bejqWgvkM2JCTonA9exOvt_-dTNmdcHM&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=450\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Noxious Smoke in the Air\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Sims plant drew widespread attention in late 2013, when two fires broke out at the facility in less than two months and spread noxious black smoke over the Peninsula. Redwood City issued shelter-in-place warnings during the first fire, on Nov. 10, and advised citizens to stay indoors and close air-intake systems during the second fire, Dec. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s incident reports on the fires note the district’s ambient air-quality monitors detected elevated levels of fine particulates consistent with the smoke plumes, but do not further specify what particulates were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Text/Cahill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Cahill\u003c/a>, professor emeritus of physics at UC Davis, the kind of smoke produced by the fires sometimes contains sharply elevated amounts of ultra-fine metals, which can cause serious damage to the cardiovascular system as they accumulate in the lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill, whose experience with aerosol pollution spans several decades, happened to be measuring air particulates near another shredder in Oakland during the first fire. His equipment picked up the smoke emanating from the Sims facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one in the world was looking at that smoke at the time,” Cahill said. “The fact that we found it was a surprise. Clearly, the local air district did not know and we found out by accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cahill said he is not able to divulge what he found in the smoke because the results are currently being used in litigation -- though not against Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he expressed concern that the regulatory agencies were not more closely monitoring the effect of the fires on air quality in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10604822\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Sims Metal Management facility across Redwood Creek.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/bair.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Sims Metal Management facility across Redwood Creek. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heavy Metals in the Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>eginning in the early 1990s, Sims operated its ship-loading conveyor without adequate pollution controls to prevent materials from falling into Redwood Creek, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/region9/mediacenter/sims-metal/Sims_Metal_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a 2014 U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit\u003c/a> against the company. Until the conveyor was enclosed almost two decades later, Sims allowed scrap metal and other materials to fall into the creek, according to the DOJ action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleged that for nearly a decade, through 2012, Sims allowed pollutants to flow into Redwood Creek and Redwood City's storm sewer system every day it rained more than one-tenth of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the suit said, pollution was detected by Sims' own 2003 study of the shoreline near the conveyor system, which found sediment samples with levels of copper, lead, nickel and zinc that exceeded California safety limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Wampler, an EPA Clean Water Act Enforcement officer, his agency did not know about this study until it launched an investigation of the facility for other violations in 2011. That probe led the EPA to order Sims to correct several Clean Water Act violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company settled the 2014 lawsuit, paid a $189,500 fine, and entered into a consent decree that required it to analyze sediments adjacent to its ship-loading facility and undertake a cleanup if concentrations of heavy metals or other toxic material exceeds quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims also comes under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board, which in 2011 conducted its first formal inspection of the recycling facility in 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long time between inspections is due in part to the sheer number of facilities that fall under the board’s jurisdiction, said Thomas Mumley, the regional board's assistant executive officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The type of investigations that have gone on at Sims are more the exception than the rule,” Mumley said. “There’s just a lot of places. Ten percent are inspected [annually] in general and probably a smaller percent are targeted for more detailed investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wampler noted a similar situation when discussing the EPA’s inspection coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are hundreds of thousands of facilities that are potential candidates for inspections across our country for Clean Water Act industrial stormwater,\" he said, \"and choosing which ones we go to is an art and a science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://infogr.am/sims_metal_vs_legal_limits_for_mean_total_concentration_of_metals\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://infogr.am/sims_metal_vs_legal_limit_for_mean_soluble_concentration_of_metals\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gray Fluff on the Flats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sims plant is next to two other properties: Bair Island, which is part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and salt flats owned by Cargill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2011, Cargill became concerned about a fluffy gray substance accumulating on its property and reported the issue to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which maintains Bair Island. According to Mendel Stewart, manager of the refuge at the time, the Fish and Wildlife officials contacted Sims about the fluff and discovered that it was called \"light fibrous material\" -- also known as auto shredder residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substance is a byproduct of the metal shredding process and is comprised of non-metal materials that go through the shredder, such as rubber and auto fuel. It can contain levels of metals that exceed the regulatory thresholds, as well as potentially toxic chemical compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Fish and Wildlife Service tested the wetlands of Bair Island and found elevated levels of metals and trace levels of PCBs and phthalates -- the latter a chemical used in making plastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2011, Fish and Wildlife notified Sims of its concerns. Representatives from the the agency visited the Sims facility in September 2011, but by December had not taken action to resolve the issue. Eventually, the company responded to the complaints by modifying the Redwood City facility layout, installing a large overhead sprinkler system and using water trucks to keep down dust, according to a March 2013 Fish and Wildlife report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Sims continued to allow light fibrous material to be released from the plant, according to a civil environmental enforcement action that the state Department of Toxic Substances Control filed against the company in November 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims settled the case for $2.4 million on the day the action was filed, but admitted no wrongdoing. As part of the settlement, Sims was required to make several capital improvements to the facility, such as fully enclosing the metal shredder, by the end of last month. Sims has completed several upgrades and received an extension for some other work, “primarily completion of the shredder enclosure, for which work has already begun,” Rodby said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Attempt to Strengthen Regulations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new state law, authored by state Sen. Jerry Hill, a Peninsula Democrat, addresses some of the issues with regulating metal shredders -- particularly the classification and regulation of the 700,000 tons of residue from the shredding process that goes into the state's landfills every year. Once it's in a landfill, this waste may contaminate groundwater and stormwater runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said he found after the 2013 fires at Sims that regulation of the recycling industry had been largely ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found that basically the industry has not been regulated,” Hill said. “[Regulators] have been trying to regulate it since the 1980s. I felt there was some legislation necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1249\" target=\"_blank\">SB1249\u003c/a>, revokes regulators' earlier decisions to treat metal shredder waste as \"non-hazardous\" and requires the Department of Toxic Substance Control to review standards for classifying and handling the waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the law will lead to new regulations is still an open question. The department can choose to maintain current standards for auto shredder residue if its analysis proves that these standards do not pose a significant potential hazard to human health or the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the legislative action, industry followers are dubious of the the agency’s ability to improve its decades-old policies regarding auto shredder residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always skeptical,” Hill said. “Especially with the DTSC because historically they have not acted, I believe, responsibly in their oversight of facilities like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Len Keck, project manager and owner’s representative at Westfield Consulting, a firm that advises recycling companies, questions whether the DTSC will be able to successfully regulate auto shredder residue, even though this new law gives the agency more authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ever since the 1990s, the DTSC has wanted to regulate it [auto shredder residue],” Keck said. “And it is always going to be next year, or six months from now. I don’t know if this is real, or if this is one more effort at marching in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you fit the public media stereotype, you probably pride yourself on caring about the environment, right? Maybe you’re letting your lawn go brown, or trying to drive less. Some experts say there’s another way you can be environmentally friendly: Stop wasting food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the farm to the fridge, it’s estimated that 40 percent of what could be eaten just isn’t, and that can impact climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out more, I go to the Sacramento Delta, where pear season has just begun. I’m talking to Chuck Baker, a lifelong pear farmer who manages a ranch for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rivermaid.com/\">Rivermaid Trading Co\u003c/a>., and I’m trying to stay out of the way of workers literally running from tree to tree with ladders picking the biggest pears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215210476″ 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>“We have a lot of wind in the delta,” Baker says. “That’s why we have very good fruit, because of those cool delta breezes at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he says that helpful wind can also cause what’s called limb rub. He points out a fat pear, with small marks on the skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605055\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-800x523.jpg\" alt='An example of \"limb rub\" on an otherwise perfect pear.' width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1400x914.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-960x627.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of “limb rub” on an otherwise perfect pear. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is just from the wind swinging the pear against another pear or limb, and it makes a mark,” he explains. “The industry in the past has set standards very high, where they don’t allow those marks. A lot of that fruit has good value, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just a little cosmetically challenged, like all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As workers dump loads of pears into bins on a tractor, produce broker Ron Clark laments these standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just in our food, it’s in our lives,” he says. “We have a lot of images sent to us of thin models, perfect-looking Hollywood faces. But that’s not reality, is it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just a little cosmetically challenged, like all of us.’\u003ccite>Chuck Baker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clark is co-founder of a new startup called \u003ca href=\"http://www.imperfectproduce.com/home.php\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, which is working to change consumers’ perceptions and find homes for “cosmetically challenged” produce. They’re starting with low-cost CSA boxes and a grocery store partnership (more about that at the end of this story). He takes me to a nearby packing shed, where the fruit gets washed and then sorted by lines of women quickly separating imperfect pears from marketable ones, which get hand-wrapped and packaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10604908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Workers sort pears at the Rivermaid Trading Company packing shed in Lodi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort pears at the Rivermaid Trading Company packing shed in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Twenty percent of fresh produce that’s grown for the fresh market never makes it to human consumption,” Clark says. That means it doesn’t make it onto grocery shelves, or in canned products, or even juices. “It either gets plowed back into the field, composted or ends up in landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s the big deal about food waste? Jonathan Bloom, author of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.wastedfood.com/\">American Wasteland\u003c/a>,” says, “We’re basically aiding climate change from the food we throw away.” First, there’s water, certainly among the hottest topics in California. “About one-quarter of fresh water usage is embedded in food that is ultimately thrown out,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s oil. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil that goes into producing our food,” Bloom says. The best estimates he’s seen are that 4 percent of all U.S. energy consumption is used to produce food we don’t use — energy for on-farm tractors, transportation and refrigeration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the wasted food goes to the landfill, and it decomposes without air, creating methane, says Bloom. While there are lots of questions about how to definitively and consistently collect data relating to food waste, Bloom says, “What we do know is that the two largest creators of waste are farms and households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Meg Burritt, director of wellness and sustainability at Raley's.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Burritt, director of wellness and sustainability at Raley’s. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enter Meg Burritt. She’s the director of wellness and sustainability for the grocery store chain \u003ca href=\"http://www.raleys.com/www/\">Raley’s\u003c/a>, which has over 100 stores in Northern California and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a couple of problems that I think we as grocers haven’t addressed in our history as an institution. One of them is food waste,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another is helping people on a budget access enough nutritious produce. She didn’t know exactly what part Raley’s could play, until last fall when she saw a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/98441820\">catchy video \u003c/a>produced by French grocer \u003cspan class=\"st\">Intermarché\u003c/span>, in which the store specifically marketed “ugly produce.” The video went viral, and \u003cspan class=\"st\">Intermarché\u003c/span> reported spectacular sales. A similar program started in a huge Canadian chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m an optimist, so I thought: Well, they’re doing it in France, they’re doing it in Canada, we can definitely do it here in the States,” says Burritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Four percent of all U.S. energy consumption is used to produce food we don’t use\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Raley’s has partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.imperfectproduce.com/home.php\">Imperfect\u003c/a>, and just last weekend they launched a pilot program in 10 California stores. They targeted neighborhoods where customers may have tighter budgets, or where there aren’t a lot of options for buying produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I visit a Raley’s in the Gold Country town of Auburn. The display of what they’re calling \u003ca href=\"http://www.raleysseasons.com/newsroom/lightening-the-landfill-load-raleys-launches-real-good-produce-program/\">Real Good produce\u003c/a> is just steps from the door, and it’s piled high with pears and bell peppers. Regular customer Rich Purdom gravitates toward the bright red elongated peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605196\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Selepec, produce team leader at Raley's, holds a $2 "perfect" red pepper next to "imperfect" peppers, which sell for $1.19 per pound.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Selepec, produce team leader at Raley’s, holds a $2 “perfect” red pepper next to two “imperfect” peppers, which sell for $1.19 per pound. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I go by color when I buy vegetables,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I point out that the prices are lower — about 75 cents each, compared with $2 for a regular pepper — because of how they look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funny-looking? That doesn’t bother me,” he says. “They’re going to get chopped up in fajitas. It all ends up in the same spot, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Johnson makes a beeline for the pears, which she’s loading into a paper bag. She’s been shopping here 35 years, and read about the Real Good produce program in the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They mentioned they’re going to use fruit you may not usually buy because it’s a little smaller or a little blemished,” she says, “but we know it’s perfectly all right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I say that not everyone knows that, she laughs. “Well, they should be a little more informed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will last about 90 days, starting with pears, plums and red and green peppers and then moving to other produce. If the Auburn store is any indication, it’s going well so far. It has sold more imperfect produce than expected in the first week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of the series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Foodways\u003c/a>. Stories in the series about food and climate change are funded by a grant from Invoking the Pause.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you fit the public media stereotype, you probably pride yourself on caring about the environment, right? Maybe you’re letting your lawn go brown, or trying to drive less. Some experts say there’s another way you can be environmentally friendly: Stop wasting food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the farm to the fridge, it’s estimated that 40 percent of what could be eaten just isn’t, and that can impact climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out more, I go to the Sacramento Delta, where pear season has just begun. I’m talking to Chuck Baker, a lifelong pear farmer who manages a ranch for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rivermaid.com/\">Rivermaid Trading Co\u003c/a>., and I’m trying to stay out of the way of workers literally running from tree to tree with ladders picking the biggest pears.\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/215210476″&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/215210476″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of wind in the delta,” Baker says. “That’s why we have very good fruit, because of those cool delta breezes at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he says that helpful wind can also cause what’s called limb rub. He points out a fat pear, with small marks on the skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605055\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-800x523.jpg\" alt='An example of \"limb rub\" on an otherwise perfect pear.' width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1400x914.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub-960x627.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LimbRub.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of “limb rub” on an otherwise perfect pear. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is just from the wind swinging the pear against another pear or limb, and it makes a mark,” he explains. “The industry in the past has set standards very high, where they don’t allow those marks. A lot of that fruit has good value, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just a little cosmetically challenged, like all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As workers dump loads of pears into bins on a tractor, produce broker Ron Clark laments these standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just in our food, it’s in our lives,” he says. “We have a lot of images sent to us of thin models, perfect-looking Hollywood faces. But that’s not reality, is it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just a little cosmetically challenged, like all of us.’\u003ccite>Chuck Baker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Clark is co-founder of a new startup called \u003ca href=\"http://www.imperfectproduce.com/home.php\">Imperfect Produce\u003c/a>, which is working to change consumers’ perceptions and find homes for “cosmetically challenged” produce. They’re starting with low-cost CSA boxes and a grocery store partnership (more about that at the end of this story). He takes me to a nearby packing shed, where the fruit gets washed and then sorted by lines of women quickly separating imperfect pears from marketable ones, which get hand-wrapped and packaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10604908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10604908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Workers sort pears at the Rivermaid Trading Company packing shed in Lodi.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/SortingPears.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort pears at the Rivermaid Trading Company packing shed in Lodi. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Twenty percent of fresh produce that’s grown for the fresh market never makes it to human consumption,” Clark says. That means it doesn’t make it onto grocery shelves, or in canned products, or even juices. “It either gets plowed back into the field, composted or ends up in landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s the big deal about food waste? Jonathan Bloom, author of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.wastedfood.com/\">American Wasteland\u003c/a>,” says, “We’re basically aiding climate change from the food we throw away.” First, there’s water, certainly among the hottest topics in California. “About one-quarter of fresh water usage is embedded in food that is ultimately thrown out,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s oil. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil that goes into producing our food,” Bloom says. The best estimates he’s seen are that 4 percent of all U.S. energy consumption is used to produce food we don’t use — energy for on-farm tractors, transportation and refrigeration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the wasted food goes to the landfill, and it decomposes without air, creating methane, says Bloom. While there are lots of questions about how to definitively and consistently collect data relating to food waste, Bloom says, “What we do know is that the two largest creators of waste are farms and households.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Meg Burritt, director of wellness and sustainability at Raley's.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Meg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Burritt, director of wellness and sustainability at Raley’s. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enter Meg Burritt. She’s the director of wellness and sustainability for the grocery store chain \u003ca href=\"http://www.raleys.com/www/\">Raley’s\u003c/a>, which has over 100 stores in Northern California and Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a couple of problems that I think we as grocers haven’t addressed in our history as an institution. One of them is food waste,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another is helping people on a budget access enough nutritious produce. She didn’t know exactly what part Raley’s could play, until last fall when she saw a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/98441820\">catchy video \u003c/a>produced by French grocer \u003cspan class=\"st\">Intermarché\u003c/span>, in which the store specifically marketed “ugly produce.” The video went viral, and \u003cspan class=\"st\">Intermarché\u003c/span> reported spectacular sales. A similar program started in a huge Canadian chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m an optimist, so I thought: Well, they’re doing it in France, they’re doing it in Canada, we can definitely do it here in the States,” says Burritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Four percent of all U.S. energy consumption is used to produce food we don’t use\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Raley’s has partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.imperfectproduce.com/home.php\">Imperfect\u003c/a>, and just last weekend they launched a pilot program in 10 California stores. They targeted neighborhoods where customers may have tighter budgets, or where there aren’t a lot of options for buying produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I visit a Raley’s in the Gold Country town of Auburn. The display of what they’re calling \u003ca href=\"http://www.raleysseasons.com/newsroom/lightening-the-landfill-load-raleys-launches-real-good-produce-program/\">Real Good produce\u003c/a> is just steps from the door, and it’s piled high with pears and bell peppers. Regular customer Rich Purdom gravitates toward the bright red elongated peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10605196\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Selepec, produce team leader at Raley's, holds a $2 "perfect" red pepper next to "imperfect" peppers, which sell for $1.19 per pound.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Peppers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Selepec, produce team leader at Raley’s, holds a $2 “perfect” red pepper next to two “imperfect” peppers, which sell for $1.19 per pound. \u003ccite>(Cynthia E. Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I go by color when I buy vegetables,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I point out that the prices are lower — about 75 cents each, compared with $2 for a regular pepper — because of how they look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Funny-looking? That doesn’t bother me,” he says. “They’re going to get chopped up in fajitas. It all ends up in the same spot, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Johnson makes a beeline for the pears, which she’s loading into a paper bag. She’s been shopping here 35 years, and read about the Real Good produce program in the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They mentioned they’re going to use fruit you may not usually buy because it’s a little smaller or a little blemished,” she says, “but we know it’s perfectly all right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I say that not everyone knows that, she laughs. “Well, they should be a little more informed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will last about 90 days, starting with pears, plums and red and green peppers and then moving to other produce. If the Auburn store is any indication, it’s going well so far. It has sold more imperfect produce than expected in the first week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Riverside Pushes Back Against State Water Restrictions",
"headTitle": "Riverside Pushes Back Against State Water Restrictions | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown made good on a threat that had been hanging in the air for months. He ordered the state’s first-ever mandatory cuts in water use. \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Order B-29-15\u003c/a> gave the State Water Resources Control Board authority to establish and enforce conservation targets for every water district serving residential and commercial customers. The goal: A 25 percent reduction in statewide residential/commercial water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To comply with Brown’s order, the water board set conservation levels for each water district. Those targets \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/supplier_tiers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are broken down into tiers\u003c/a>: Communities that use relatively little water and have done a good job conserving may need to cut use by only 8 percent from 2013 levels; districts that have lagged in conservation need to cut use by 36 percent compared with 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not every water district has accepted its water-savings tier. Some, including the Humboldt County cities of Eureka and Arcata, have persuaded the water board to grant less stringent conservation goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the city of Riverside, which was ordered to cut use by 28 percent — even though the city says it’s not dependent on outside supplies of water, has stored a four-year emergency supply and has invested more than $100 million in conservation and other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argues it should be placed in a special 4 percent reduction tier for districts that have implemented effective conservation and supply measures — and it’s eager to avoid the $10,000-a-day fine the water board could levy for not cutting use by the mandated 28 percent. So last month, the city filed a lawsuit (\u003ca href=\"#riversidesuit\">embedded below\u003c/a>) in Fresno Superior Court that requests a review of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/drought/docs/emergency_regulations/rs2015_0032_with_adopted_regs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> tier structure\u003c/a> in which Riverside was placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see what Riverside is basing its case on, it’s helpful to visit the Gage Canal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The canal carries water pumped from a local aquifer past century-old citrus groves, homes and businesses, ending in a central reservoir that sustains the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2008, we turned our tap off to the statewide water project,” says Kevin Milligan, deputy general manager of Riverside Public Utilities (RPU). “We said we’re on our own. We’ll manage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside gets all its water from four groundwater basins, and says it’s done more than its fair share to prepare for drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our argument with the state is less about conservation numbers and more about what we have done to become drought-resilient,” says Milligan. “We knew this day would come, and our citizens chose to invest $100 million in being ready for today. And now the state is saying that investment doesn’t count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investment includes a new water treatment plant, turf removal programs and educational outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10599580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10599580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-800x635.jpg\" alt=\"A worker at the Gage Canal Treatment Plant in Riverside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-400x318.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-1440x1143.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-1180x937.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-960x762.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the Gage Canal Treatment Plant in Riverside. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city says that preparation has allowed it to store a four-year supply of groundwater. That’s why, Milligan says, Riverside should have been put into the 4 percent conservation tier instead of the 28 percent tier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that position is up against the hard reality of the four-year drought and dwindling water supplies across most of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a statewide drought of historic proportions,” says Caren Trgovcich, the water board’s deputy director. “And so there are no exemptions in the regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water board’s tiers focused on per capita residential water use. 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And now the state is saying that investment doesn’t count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investment includes a new water treatment plant, turf removal programs and educational outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10599580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10599580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-800x635.jpg\" alt=\"A worker at the Gage Canal Treatment Plant in Riverside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-800x635.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-400x318.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-1440x1143.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-1180x937.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant-960x762.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/GageTreatmentPlant.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the Gage Canal Treatment Plant in Riverside. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city says that preparation has allowed it to store a four-year supply of groundwater. 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"content": "\u003cp>When you live in a hot part of California and can only water your garden on certain days during the drought, you may have to make some hard choices about letting trees or shrubs die. What if there was a no-guilt, free water source you could use anytime, without the water cops coming after you? People in parched Fresno have a new option starting Wednesday. They can lug filtered water home from the sewage plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s pretty simple, really. It looks like a do-it-yourself car wash. Residents can get a special key card to access a side gate to the wastewater treatment plant and pull up in their trucks to a stall with a hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.casaweb.org/content/stephen-hogg-director-and-past-president-1-year\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Hogg\u003c/a>, who heads up the plant, shows me around as they’re getting ready for the first customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/213807626\" 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>\"This water cannot be used for drinking, but can be used for essentially anything else, such as gardens, washing of vehicles, any non-consumable kinds of uses,\" Hogg explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water is free to local residents who pay their sewer bills and fill out an \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FDA52CE8-4BAA-4E85-BCC0-B5E13AD24EEE/0/ExtractionWellWaterResidentAppFinal20150625.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">application\u003c/a> to get the treated wastewater. It doesn’t cost the city much, because it’s water they have to dump anyway. And even though it may sound gross to use sewage water, Hogg says the water, which comes from the groundwater disposal ponds where the plant stores treated water, is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10593278\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10593278\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536.jpg\" alt=\"The new filling station at the Fresno Wastewater treatment plant allows residents to take home 300 gallons a day, if they can find a way to haul it.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/wastewater1536-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new filling station at the Fresno Wastewater treatment plant allows residents to take home 300 gallons a day, if they can find a way to haul it. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very clean, very safe,\" Hogg says. \"It would technically meet any of the drinking water standards, but it's not a permitted facility, so we can't use it for consumption.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California cities are starting to think about recycled water for landscaping. Fresno doesn’t have its full “toilet-to-tap” system set up yet. So in the meantime they’re letting people come and haul up to 300 gallons a day. That weighs about 2,400 pounds, so people need a truck and a covered container clearly marked “non potable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t bring your garbage can or your plastic wading pool?\" I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can bring the garbage can if it has a lid!\" Hogg laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities with wastewater filling stations include \u003ca href=\"http://www.dsrsd.com/do-business-with-us/recycled-water-use/residential-recycled-water-fill-station\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin, Pleasanton,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://centralsan.org/index.cfm?navid=1348\" target=\"_blank\">Martinez\u003c/a>. Fresno’s is a 20-minute drive out of town, so residents have to figure out if it’s worth the time, and the gas, to lug free water home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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