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Thus, Lapin says, “a small percentage is still a substantial amount of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reacting to the news Wednesday, representatives from the coal industry said the divestment \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/05/07/310449120/when-colleges-divest-in-coal-its-barely-a-drop-in-the-bucket\" target=\"_blank\">will have no impact on the industry at all\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>Divested Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>College of the Atlantic\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foothill-De Anza Community College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Mountain College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hampshire College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naropa University\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peralta Community College District\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitzer College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescott College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling College\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unity College\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The move was initiated by \u003ca href=\"http://www.fossilfreestanford.org\" target=\"_blank\">Fossil Free Stanford\u003c/a>, a student-led organization that petitioned the university last year as part of a national campaign encouraging divestment from all fossil fuel companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's going to prove to be an enormous victory in terms of symbolism,” Michael Peñuelas, one of the leaders of Fossil Free Stanford, says. “And it's going to tell a lot of other university administrations and other private-sector institutions that this is a feasible move to divest from coal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford’s decision clearly bolsters a national campaign that has seen 11 other schools remove investments in fossil fuel companies. 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Boats are starting to come into port with loads of the big fish — called king salmon by some, chinook by others, and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/chinooksalmon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oncorhynchus tshawytscha\u003c/a>\u003c/em> by the truly geeky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alerted to the arrival of boats at San Francisco's Pier 45 on Tuesday, photographer Mark Andrew Boyer went to check out the scene. He encountered some beautiful fish and a couple of the best people in the Bay Area to talk about them, fisherman Larry Collins and Kenny Belov, a restaurateur and wholesaler of sustainable fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fish being landed now are so beautiful, the sight of them is so intoxicating, that it's easy to forget how fragile their continued existence is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the salmon the commercial fleet is bringing in by line and hook are Sacramento River fall-run chinook. Unlike most other California salmon, the Sacramento River fish have not been listed as endangered or threatened under federal and state law. But along with other California salmon, their survival is a subject of concern. A crash in the Sacramento fall-run population led to a two-year shutdown of the fish in 2008 and 2009 and severe restrictions on catching them in 2010. Their numbers, hugely dependent on the production of juvenile salmon at Central Valley hatcheries, have recovered since then, and a big harvest by recent standards is expected this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is casting a shadow over the future of the fish and those who depend on them for a living. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\"> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrKwTm5jldE&w=640&h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn Mair was only 4 when he was diagnosed last year with asthma. He’s still so tiny that his inhaler apparatus is half as big as his head, and his twice-daily doses have slipped into his everyday routine alongside watching cartoons and playing with a favorite stuffed monkey named George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in West Oakland, a neighborhood clogged with air pollution from the surrounding freeways and the Port of Oakland. Residents here are twice as likely to go to the emergency room with asthma as people in Alameda County overall. They’re also more likely to die of cancer, heart disease or lung disease — all illnesses with known links to polluted air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now officials and activists are tussling over a massive development project underway right next door, at the decommissioned Oakland Army Base. The project promises to bring much-needed jobs and economic benefits to Oakland and beyond. But health officials fear it could worsen the already toxic air in West Oakland, sticking residents with more than their fair share of the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hope and Risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopes for the remade former base, decommissioned in 1999, are high. The city and the port are turning about 300 acres of it into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandglobal.com/\">modern trade and logistics hub\u003c/a> right next to the current port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s up and running in 2020, the new trade center will have an additional shipping terminal, a bigger rail yard and ample facilities for handling and sorting cargo. It will give the port area the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands more cargo containers each year. And the city predicts it will provide at least 2,000 new jobs, plus an economic boost reaching into the American Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland Army Base was an economic engine for West Oakland especially, and Oakland and the region generally,” says Fred Blackwell, Oakland’s interim city administrator. “So the notion of bringing it back and having it be an economic engine for the neighborhood and the city once again … is pretty exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs is real — in the city and in this neighborhood in particular. West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. What’s disputed is whether the city is doing enough to limit emissions and protect West Oakland residents such as Jahvonn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell points to a thick \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221282783/Air-Pollution-Mitigation-Plan-for-Oakland-Army-Base-Redevelopment-Project\">air-quality plan\u003c/a>, dozens of pages long and required by state law, and says: “I think we have gone about as far as we can go to try to mitigate these issues while still having a viable project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vintze, along with the Alameda County Public Health Department and local environmental activists, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has to be some other things put into place in order to limit the impact of what they’re going to do,” says county Public Health Director Muntu Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is doing more than the law demands in at least one regard, by requiring heavy construction vehicles, like backhoes, to install cleaner engine technology a year ahead of the state’s mandated schedule (though for some vehicles that’s still not for another two to four years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But air quality and public health authorities wanted the city to go further. They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This community has suffered egregiously at the hands of the freight industry,” says Brian Beveridge, who lives in West Oakland and co-directs a local environmental group, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We deserve better than to just be told, ‘Well, we’re all going to do the best we can not to break the law.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To soothe some community fears, the developer installed three air-quality monitors around West Oakland and \u003ca href=\"http://ngem.com/OAB_AQM/\">publishes the data\u003c/a> daily, online. One of the monitors is on the roof of Jahvonn Mair’s school, Prescott Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if pollution spikes, though, the city acknowledges that the devices aren’t precise enough to show whether the construction is the cause. And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. She says she wants to move her son to a healthier place, but she earns just over $1,000 a month as a part-time certified nurse assistant, and the Oakland Housing Authority says it doesn’t have the money to move her right now. She’s applying to the Housing Authority for a medical exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to move ASAP,” she says, an urgency in her voice. “I want to get out of here. … But there’s nothing I can do, I have to stay here. You know how they say some people get stuck in certain places? We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once it’s up and running in 2020, the new trade center will have an additional shipping terminal, a bigger rail yard and ample facilities for handling and sorting cargo. It will give the port area the capacity to handle hundreds of thousands more cargo containers each year. And the city predicts it will provide at least 2,000 new jobs, plus an economic boost reaching into the American Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Oakland Army Base was an economic engine for West Oakland especially, and Oakland and the region generally,” says Fred Blackwell, Oakland’s interim city administrator. “So the notion of bringing it back and having it be an economic engine for the neighborhood and the city once again … is pretty exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs is real — in the city and in this neighborhood in particular. West Oakland’s unemployment rate is typically higher than the city’s overall, which dipped below 10 percent at the end of last year. With that in mind, city officials placed a job recruiting center for the Army Base project at 18th and Adeline streets, smack in the middle of West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134748\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 319px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/trucks-west-oakland-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for 7-8 hours waiting to unload their trucks onto the diesel ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"319\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day at the Port of Oakland trucks line up for seven or eight hours waiting to unload their cargo onto the ships. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>( Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what’s the potential harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction, which began last fall, will require heavy-duty diesel trucks and construction vehicles to make tens of thousands of trips to and from the site. And the new trade center will ultimately host a lot more freight activity than the port alone does today — all of which takes fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point out that the impact will be somewhat offset by the efficiency of shifting more cargo from trucks to trains. Still, the project’s official \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221109312/Environmental-Impact-Report-on-Oakland-Army-Base-and-Air-Quality\">environmental analysis\u003c/a> predicts that it will “significantly and unavoidably” expose nearby residents to toxic air pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a worst-case scenario, the analysis says the project could raise a West Oaklander’s lifetime risk of cancer by close to 100 cases per 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number might sound small. But local activists and health officials argue that West Oakland — a community that’s about half African-American and 85 percent nonwhite, where residents make about half the county’s average household income — is already bearing an unfair burden. Public health studies have found that the life expectancy for someone born and raised in West Oakland is at least 15 years less than someone born and raised in the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health problems are not all because of air pollution. Still, David Vintze, the air quality planning manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, says West Oakland can’t take any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our own studies have shown a two to three times increase in the amount of pollution in that community versus any other place in the Bay Area,” Vintze says. “That community is already too overburdened to be saturated with more particulate matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jahvonn lives in the Ironhorse apartment building on 14th Street, literally next door to Interstate 880 and directly across the freeway from the Army base. He calls his asthma attacks “heart attacks” and says they make his stomach hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mom, Charlotte Lynn, keeps him indoors more often since his diagnosis. When he does go outside, it’s often to the second-floor courtyard of his apartment building, where he and his friends ride bikes within direct view of the interstate. Many of them also have asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing by the courtyard’s railing, Lynn watches one tractor-trailer truck after another drive by, leaving the port of today. “All you can see is trucks on the freeway,” she says. “That’s it, trucks, trucks, trucks. See? There’s another one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Is Enough?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health concerns notwithstanding, everyone, including Vintze, wants the Army base project to go on. 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They \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221058904/BAAQMD-Letter-to-Oakland-7-22-13\">asked Oakland officials\u003c/a> to require diesel filters on all the trucks hauling materials to the construction site, as trucks serving the port must have. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108341/Oakland-Response-Letter-to-BAAQMD-9-23-13\">city said no\u003c/a>. The City Council had voted to require that fully half the labor for this project come from Oakland, officials explained. And if they required expensive filters, they’d squeeze out too many small, independent Oakland truckers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The West Oakland community, it’s their health, it’s their life,” says Vintze. “It shouldn’t be minimized for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Tagami is an Oakland native, CEO of California Capital and Investment Group, and the project developer. He points out that he’s already meeting or exceeding the legal requirements for air quality control, and calls the regulators who are complaining about the project “rogue individuals” who have become overzealous in their oversight role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a handful of shake-down people who want to ring the bell and argue and complain that something more can be done, but I haven’t seen them create many jobs,” he says. “Yelling at the rain is not going to make the rain stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is, indeed, not stopping. Vintze and others have basically given up on further changing the construction plans. Now they’re hoping to get stronger protections into the plan for trade center operations in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134750\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134750 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/inhalers.jpg\" alt=\"In Jahvonn Mair's preschool class of 22 students, 7 have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"650\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Jahvonn Mair’s preschool class of 22 students, seven have been diagnosed with asthma and use an inhaler. Here they display their inhalers. From left to right, Akirah Armstrong, (behind) Adrian Kemp, RiJai Malone, Omarr Daniel (front), Jahvonn Mair and Sarquan Holland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This community has suffered egregiously at the hands of the freight industry,” says Brian Beveridge, who lives in West Oakland and co-directs a local environmental group, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We deserve better than to just be told, ‘Well, we’re all going to do the best we can not to break the law.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To soothe some community fears, the developer installed three air-quality monitors around West Oakland and \u003ca href=\"http://ngem.com/OAB_AQM/\">publishes the data\u003c/a> daily, online. One of the monitors is on the roof of Jahvonn Mair’s school, Prescott Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if pollution spikes, though, the city acknowledges that the devices aren’t precise enough to show whether the construction is the cause. And there’s nothing in writing that says what the developer must do to correct it. Instead, says Blackwell, the city administrator, the monitors’ main purpose is to tell if overall pollution in the neighborhood rises or falls over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Unknowns\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tagami and other proponents argue that the project could actually pave the way for cleaner air in West Oakland in the long run. It’ll enable companies to handle more cargo on site, instead of trucking it around the region for processing. And it could bring electric power to some cranes and docked ships instead of having them burn diesel. In fact, the California Transportation Commission, which is putting up nearly half the cost of the $500 million project, based its grant in part on the promise of cleaner air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, it’s impossible to predict now whether those improvements will be enough to totally counteract the emissions coming from ships, trains and trucks moving many tons more cargo each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beveridge says he hopes it will but — like the promise of economic benefits for West Oakland — he’ll believe it when he sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying. … A rising tide raises all boats,” he says. “That’s great if you have a boat. But if you don’t have a boat, a rising tide just sooner or later goes above your nose and you’re finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, across the interstate, Charlotte Lynn keeps the windows closed to the traffic. 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Defense attorneys said the subpoena amounted to harassment and argued that the manager of the property, not Khosla, was responsible for decisions like closing off access. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khosla, a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, is expected to appear in court Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the Surfrider Foundation said in opening arguments Thursday that Khosla violated the California Coastal Act when he blocked access to Martins Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people of the state of California passed legislation in 1976 saying that the beaches are public property,” said Surfrider attorney Joe Cotchett outside court. “We now have an individual who steps up and says I’m going to challenge that, because under my constitutional rights, I can buy a beach and close it to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Jeffrey Essner argued that there’s no public right of access to the property because the previous owners routinely closed it for winter, private events and other occasions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Monday, May 5): \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla have asked that the venture capitalist be excused from testifying in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/silicon-valley-billionaire-battles-surfers-over-beach-access/\">public access dispute\u003c/a> over a scenic stretch of San Mateo coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two companies owned by Khosla, Martins Beach 1, LLC and Martins Beach 2, LLC, bought the 100-acre Martins Beach property for $37.5 million in 2008. 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But the motion states that Khosla has no “unique knowledge” about the case and therefore should not be required to testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Surfrider’ s efforts …. can only be explained by an improper motive to harass.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The Surfrider’s efforts to force Mr. Khosla to testify at trial can only be explained by an improper motive to harass, annoy, or invade the privacy of Mr. Khosla, to create some perceived leverage, or to generate publicity,” reads the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khosla’s attorneys have also \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/222194141/Motion-for-Site-Visit-by-the-Trial-Judge\">requested a site visit\u003c/a>, which would bring both legal teams, along with the judge, to see “the unique properties” of the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few dozen residents still live on the beach property, but their leases expire in 2021. 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"content": "\u003cp>In California, it’s as dependable as the rainy season. Okay, more so. Whenever there’s too much water or not enough, \u003ca title=\"SacBee - post\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/14/6235822/why-dont-we-build-the-auburn-dam.html\">people start talking\u003c/a> about \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Auburn Dam\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Dam\">Auburn Dam\u003c/a>. It’s California’s biggest dam that has never been built — and probably never will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17060\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/auburn_dam_sketch2_crop_.jpg\" alt=\"Auburn Dam\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist’s rendering of how the completed Auburn Dam would appear on the North Fork of the American River. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest revival occurred at a recent show-and-tell for the \u003ca title=\"YouTube - Folsom Spillway\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3eIlLNpr8\">new spillway under construction\u003c/a> at Folsom Dam. Congressman Tom McClintock, R-Auburn, seized the occasion — not so much for congratulations — but to decry recent releases of water from dams on the American River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It infuriates me that for the past three days, we have seen releases of water out of dams on the American River triple in order to meet environmental regulations that place the interests of fish above those of human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressman then pivoted and called for completion of Auburn Dam, a long-stagnant project on the North Fork of the American River originally green-lighted by Congress in 1965, near the end of what the late writer Marc Reisner called the “go-go years” of American dam building. McClintock’s colleague from across the aisle, Sacramento Democrat Doris Matsui, sat nearby, literally shaking her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClintock told the assembled dignitaries that a brimming Auburn Lake reservoir upstream, “could fill and refill Folsom Lake nearly 2 1/2 times.” The current drought has left Folsom Lake at alarmingly low levels this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the project, designed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, would create one of the state’s biggest reservoirs, with a capacity of more than 2 million acre-feet of water, about half the volume of Shasta Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then McClintock took aim at Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to construct \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/california-to-release-chapters-of-plan-to-restore-delta/\">bypass tunnels\u003c/a> to carry water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the inflated costs we’re seeing today,” said McClintock, “[the dam project] could be done for much less than the current proposal to build a cross-Delta facility that produces zero additional water storage.” (According to Reclamation, there hasn’t been a reliable cost update on the project since 2006.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to extoll other potential advantages, such as, “power for a million homes” and “a major new recreational resource for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/3405918292_99db0a4b41_b.jpg\" alt=\"ADD CAPTION (Alisha Vargas/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations remain from where engineers began laying the foundations for Auburn Dam in the 1970s. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/alishav/3405918292\">Alisha Vargas/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, those who enjoy (or profit from) rafting and paddling the scenic, frothy reaches of the North Fork have long taken a different view of the recreational potential, as those reaches would disappear under hundreds of feet of flat water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auburn Dam was never completed but it was started. Reminders are still there, the most obvious being the \u003ca title=\"SacBee - post\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/16/6330719/foresthill-bridge-undergoes-a.html\">Forresthill Bridge\u003c/a>, a green metal and concrete ribbon that soars more than 700 feet above the American River, built to span a reservoir that never was. If you’re more ambitious and \u003ca title=\"EveryTrail - Auburn Dam\" href=\"http://www.everytrail.com/guide/base-of-auburn-dam\">hike down into the river canyon\u003c/a>, you can still see where it was carved out on both sides to anchor the concrete arch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1975, taxpayers had already shelled out about $137 million for the project. But the following year, when a magnitude 5.7 quake occurred a little too close for comfort, Reclamation took a time-out to revisit the dam’s design and work has never resumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dam was redesigned to meet those seismic considerations,” McClintock told me in an interview after his remarks at the spillway. “So yes, that’s already been engineered around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not go back and do a full engineering analysis,” said Drew Lessard, Reclamation’s area manager for central California, referring to an updated study by the Bureau in 2006. He says that in the late 1970s, Reclamation did “move the location slightly,” to minimize seismic impacts. Lessard says that moving forward now would require a full “reformulation study,” reassessing the project’s costs and priorities, and that such a study by itself would take years and cost millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, that thing’s been studied over and over and over again,” said Matsui, in a separate interview. “And you know what? There’s no support for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the California State Water Resources Board revoked the water rights that had been set aside for the Bureau of Reclamation. Most water rights are a use-it-or-lose-it proposition in California, to prevent what the Board calls “cold storage,” which is to say sitting on water rights without actually using the water. Many believed that was the final nail in the project’s coffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, apparently not everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/Auburn_1733.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18177\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/Auburn_1733.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration from a USBR report shows the prospective size and location of Auburn Dam, compared to Folsom and Nimbus Dams, which were built. (USBR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from a USBR report shows the prospective size and location of Auburn Dam and reservoir, compared to Folsom and Nimbus Dams, which were built. (USBR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the project, designed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, would create one of the state’s biggest reservoirs, with a capacity of more than 2 million acre-feet of water, about half the volume of Shasta Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then McClintock took aim at Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to construct \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/california-to-release-chapters-of-plan-to-restore-delta/\">bypass tunnels\u003c/a> to carry water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the inflated costs we’re seeing today,” said McClintock, “[the dam project] could be done for much less than the current proposal to build a cross-Delta facility that produces zero additional water storage.” (According to Reclamation, there hasn’t been a reliable cost update on the project since 2006.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to extoll other potential advantages, such as, “power for a million homes” and “a major new recreational resource for our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17064\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17064\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/04/3405918292_99db0a4b41_b.jpg\" alt=\"ADD CAPTION (Alisha Vargas/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations remain from where engineers began laying the foundations for Auburn Dam in the 1970s. 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