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Residents who awakened in the predawn darkness to see flames approaching were ordered to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames in a neighborhood abutting Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora. Homes are nestled in canyons and among rugged ridges that made an accurate assessment difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 125 acres of dry brush was charred in the wilderness area about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they questioned three persons of interest detained near Colby Trail, where the fire was believed to have started. Sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Roth stressed that they were not suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notorious \u003ca href=\"http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/santa_ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Anas\u003c/a>, linked to the spread of Southern California's worst wildfires, picked up at daybreak. The extremely dry Santa Anas blow downslope and can push fires out of the mountains and into communities below. The area, which has been historically dry, has been buffeted by the winds which have raised temperatures into the 80s. The Santa Anas typically begin in the fall and last through winter into spring. A wet winter reduces fire risk, but the whole state is experiencing historically dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>TV news helicopters spotted embers igniting palm trees in residential yards as firefighters with hoses beat back flames lapping at the edges of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. Citrus College, located in the heart of Glendora, canceled classes for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several schools were closed. The Glendora Unified School District closed Goddard Middle School, which was being used as a fire department command post. District spokeswoman Michelle Hunter said 900 students attend the school, which is near the fire and within the evacuation area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 firefighters were on the scene. The Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed seven engines and three helicopters to the fire, which was reported around 5:50 a.m. (PST) and was growing rapidly. 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Residents who awakened in the predawn darkness to see flames approaching were ordered to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames in a neighborhood abutting Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora. Homes are nestled in canyons and among rugged ridges that made an accurate assessment difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 125 acres of dry brush was charred in the wilderness area about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they questioned three persons of interest detained near Colby Trail, where the fire was believed to have started. Sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Roth stressed that they were not suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notorious \u003ca href=\"http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/santa_ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Anas\u003c/a>, linked to the spread of Southern California's worst wildfires, picked up at daybreak. The extremely dry Santa Anas blow downslope and can push fires out of the mountains and into communities below. The area, which has been historically dry, has been buffeted by the winds which have raised temperatures into the 80s. The Santa Anas typically begin in the fall and last through winter into spring. A wet winter reduces fire risk, but the whole state is experiencing historically dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>TV news helicopters spotted embers igniting palm trees in residential yards as firefighters with hoses beat back flames lapping at the edges of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. Citrus College, located in the heart of Glendora, canceled classes for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several schools were closed. The Glendora Unified School District closed Goddard Middle School, which was being used as a fire department command post. District spokeswoman Michelle Hunter said 900 students attend the school, which is near the fire and within the evacuation area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 firefighters were on the scene. The Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed seven engines and three helicopters to the fire, which was reported around 5:50 a.m. (PST) and was growing rapidly. Officials added to the firefighting aircraft with a water-dropping Super Scooper plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash rained down on the city, said Jonathan Lambert, 31, general manager of Classic Coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're underneath a giant cloud of smoke,\" he said. \"It's throwing quite the eerie shadow over a lot of Glendora.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Eric Black told KCAL-TV that he is preparing to evacuate, but he's going to try to protect his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're loading up the motorhome right now. If we need to go, we'll go.\" Black told the station. He had been using his garden hose to wet the brush around his house. \"I'm going to stay as long as I can to try to protect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last catastrophic fire in the San Gabriel Mountains broke out in 2009 and burned for months. The flames blackened 250 square miles, killed two firefighters and destroyed 209 structures, including 89 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is in a historically dry era and winter has brought no relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red-flag warnings for critical fire weather conditions were posted from Santa Barbara County south through Los Angeles to the U.S.-Mexico border, along the spine of the Sierra Nevada, and in areas east and north of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires that struck windy areas of the state earlier in the week were quickly quashed by large deployments of firefighters, aircraft and other equipment before the flames could be stoked by gusts into major conflagrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large parts of Southern California below mountain passes, canyons and foothills have been buffeted all week by the region's notorious Santa Ana winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spawned by surface high pressure over the interior of the West, the Santa Anas form as the cold air flows toward Southern California, then speeds up and warms as it descends in a rush toward the coast. Some of the most extreme gusts reported by the National Weather Service topped 70 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offshore winds also raise temperatures to summerlike levels. Many areas have enjoyed temperatures well into the 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also under the influence of a persistent upper-level ridge of high pressure anchored off its north coast that has also kept the region generally warm, dry and clear.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS268_chevron20120810.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-120958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS268_chevron20120810-640x455.jpg\" alt=\"The Chevron refinery fire in Richmond in August 2012 sent smoke across much of the East Bay. (Stephen Schiller/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chevron refinery fire in Richmond in August 2012 sent smoke across much of the East Bay. (Stephen Schiller/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Stephen Schiller/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal chemical regulators investigating the 2012 Chevron Richmond fire are putting off action on refinery safety after an apparent split on how strict new regulations should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a packed meeting Wednesday night in Richmond, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csb.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Chemical Safety Board\u003c/a> voted to defer for 120 days action on a staff report on the August 2012 Chevron fire. The report calls on California regulators to adopt a stricter, more proactive approach to regulating oil refineries similar to the system used in many European countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach is known as a \"safety case\" regime, in which technically competent regulatory personnel would evaluate refinery safety plans, then audit and inspect facilities to make sure operators were implementing the plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends requiring refineries to bring regulators in to oversee work that's deemed hazardous and to take steps to ensure that refinery workers can report unsafe practices without fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, CSB investigators said, a \"safety case\" model requires oil refineries to use inherently safer materials and equipment — one of Chevron's major failures leading up to the 2012 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We have a refinery safety problem in the U.S. The current regulatory system is clearly not working.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Rafael Moure-Eraso\u003cbr>\nChemical Safety Board chair\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>About 100 community residents attended the meeting in the Richmond City Council chambers, along with members of environmental groups and oil industry representatives. A handful of people carried signs calling on the board to adopt the staff report with its strict safety recommendations, and some community members told the board that it's time for action to make Chevron's Richmond operation safer and cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Gray White told the board she was among the 15,000 East Bay residents who sought hospital treatment after the refinery fire sent a thick plume of black smoke across much of western and northern Contra Costa County. \"Breathing air full of toxic chemicals has drastically reduced our quality of life,\" White told the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-hour meeting heard a summary of the staff report. It echoes the board's preliminary findings, which blamed the fire on Chevron's repeated failure to follow advice from its own safety experts and install a safer type of steel in key parts of the refinery. High sulphur content in crude oil processed at the refinery caused older pipes to thin, then rupture, sparking the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24922078/richmond-federal-board-at-odds-over-recommendations-stemming\" target=\"_blank\">As the Contra Costa Times' Robert Rogers reports\u003c/a>, sign before the meeting suggested the board would adopt the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday's meeting, Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso was firm in his belief that the safety case regime was the right approach. He was the lone vote in favor of adopting the staff report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a refinery safety problem in the U.S.,\" Moure-Eraso said. \"The current regulatory system is clearly not working.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moure-Eraso's sentiments were echoed by Dan Tillema, a lead investigator for CSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see any downside to the safety case regime,\" Tillema said. \"But there will be industry resistance.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And, Rogers adds, the industry did express opposition to the new safety regime in written comments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Adopting the safety case regime would add complexity and uncertainty\" without guaranteed benefits, said Ron Chittim, a senior policy adviser for the American Petroleum Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement released earlier Wednesday, Western States Petroleum Association President Catherine Reheis-Boyd urged California and Contra Costa officials to take \"a thoughtful and cautious approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reheis-Boyd wrote that moving too quickly to adopt some of the programs recommended by the CSB could inject a high level of complexity and confusion into long-standing and successful safety programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must be very careful in how we introduce change, especially into programs that have a long record of acceptance and success,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When it came time to vote on adopting the staff report and the \"safety case\" recommendations, the board members split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemical Safety Board member Mark Griffon moved to put off voting on the report, saying that the agency needs more time to iron out transitional issues and address unanswered questions raised by the public, including whether the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety, Cal-OSHA, is authorized to require refineries to correct safety hazards in a timely manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffon suggested postponing a decision for 120 days to allow a panel to amend the report by addressing how to address potential obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Beth Rosenberg also voted to delay a decision Wednesday night, saying, \"I am 90 percent sure that I want regime change in the United States. I want to do it from a position of strength.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moure-Eraso voted to adopt the report and new safety regime; Griffon and Rosenberg voted for the 120-day delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains material from Grace Rubenstein of KQED News and Bay City News. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-81968\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/drakesoysterfarm20121129-640x413.jpg\" alt=\"Strings of mother shells for growing oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co., in 2007 photo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strings of mother shells for growing oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co., in 2007 photo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday 10:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong> The owner of the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. says he'll appeal his imminent eviction from Point Reyes National Seashore to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday rejected Kevin Lunny's request for a rehearing of his case. Lunny has been seeking to overturn a 2012 decision by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to end the oyster operation's lease at the seashore and allow the National Park Service to proceed with plans to convert the property to wilderness uses. But Lunny says he isn't finished yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/ci_24909002/court-denies-drakes-bay-oyster-co-petition-have\" target=\"_blank\">the Marin Independent Journal reports\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lunny said in a statement late Tuesday he will take his fight to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe the court's decision not to rehear our case is incorrect, and that the dissenting opinion from Judge Watford will prevail,\" Lunny said. \"Because of that, we are requesting our case be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. We are grateful for our thousands of supporters, partners, customers and patrons that have supported our small, family-owned farm for four generations. We remain committed to succeeding in our fight to remain open and serve our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a September ruling 9th Circuit Judge Paul J. Watford wrote in a dissenting opinion Lunny's request for an injunction should have been granted. That provided the oyster company's supporters hope the court might re-consider that 2-1 ruling.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Tuesday): \u003c/strong>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has closed another legal door on the Drakes Bay Oyster Co.'s bid to reverse a federal decision that will force it to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court today announced that a three-judge panel \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/01/14/13-15227_order_amended_opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">voted 2-1 against Drakes Bay's request\u003c/a> for an en banc hearing of its case, which challenges former Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar's refusal to grant an extension of the oyster operation's lease at Point Reyes National Seashore. By the same vote, the same panel last September rejected an appeal from Drakes Bay owner Kevin Lunny for a preliminary injunction to head off the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue in the case is the conflict between Lunny's decade-old campaign to win an extension to the oyster company's lease and National Park Service plans to designate Drakes Estero, the operation's site, as wilderness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/November-2008/The-Oyster-War/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny has long maintained \u003c/a>that the park service not only could but should extend the 40-year \"reservation of use and occupancy\" first granted in 1972 when the government bought the property from the operation's previous owner. The National Park Service, operating under provisions of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/upload/lawsandpolicies_publiclaw94_544.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act\u003c/a>, informed Lunny in 2005 of its intention not to extend the lease beyond its expiration date in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny's chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government's original agreement to purchase the oyster farm's property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation's environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire \"would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar's decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary's action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. Ultimately, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected Lunny's request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Interior's action, leading to the 9th Circuit appeal and today's decision denying a rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused a split between environmental groups that support wilderness restoration at Point Reyes and leaders of the sustainable food movement, who praise Drakes Bay as a model operation. Both sides submitted \"friend of the court\" briefs during the Drakes Bay appeal. A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation \"would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's decision to deny the en banc review, in which a larger panel of 9th Circuit judges would have considered Lunny's request, leaves just one option for a further appeal: The U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Prows, one of several lawyers who has represented Lunny in fighting the Interior Department's decision, said in December that he was prepared to take the case to the nation's highest court if the en banc hearing was denied. \"I don't see any reason why we wouldn't take it to the Supreme Court,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/ci_24648124/appeals-court-urged-reject-drakes-bay-oyster-case\" target=\"_blank\">told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>. \"It's a bigger issue than just the oyster farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drake-s-Bay-Oyster-Co-s-options-are-running-out-5142560.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> the company is considering further legal action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Spokeswoman Tina Walker said the company is \"strongly considering\" a Supreme Court appeal, and disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's decision to \"eject our historic, family-owned oyster farm.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster Co. has been allowed to continue operating while its case has been litigated. It would need to seek another court order to remain open while appealing to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the ruling released today by the 9th Circuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_73963\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/199698950/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting on California land policy, planning and conservation is supported by a grant from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny's chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government's original agreement to purchase the oyster farm's property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation's environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire \"would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar's decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary's action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. Ultimately, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected Lunny's request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Interior's action, leading to the 9th Circuit appeal and today's decision denying a rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused a split between environmental groups that support wilderness restoration at Point Reyes and leaders of the sustainable food movement, who praise Drakes Bay as a model operation. Both sides submitted \"friend of the court\" briefs during the Drakes Bay appeal. A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation \"would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's decision to deny the en banc review, in which a larger panel of 9th Circuit judges would have considered Lunny's request, leaves just one option for a further appeal: The U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Prows, one of several lawyers who has represented Lunny in fighting the Interior Department's decision, said in December that he was prepared to take the case to the nation's highest court if the en banc hearing was denied. \"I don't see any reason why we wouldn't take it to the Supreme Court,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/ci_24648124/appeals-court-urged-reject-drakes-bay-oyster-case\" target=\"_blank\">told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>. \"It's a bigger issue than just the oyster farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drake-s-Bay-Oyster-Co-s-options-are-running-out-5142560.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> the company is considering further legal action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Spokeswoman Tina Walker said the company is \"strongly considering\" a Supreme Court appeal, and disagrees with the Ninth Circuit's decision to \"eject our historic, family-owned oyster farm.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster Co. has been allowed to continue operating while its case has been litigated. It would need to seek another court order to remain open while appealing to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the ruling released today by the 9th Circuit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_73963\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/199698950/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Forecasters Extend Red-Flag Warning Into Sierra Nevada ",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/3899606162_0906221345_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Briones Regional Park near Lafayette, typical of Bay Area landscapes experiencing high fire danger in the current drought. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Briones Regional Park near Lafayette, typical of Bay Area landscapes experiencing high fire danger in the current drought. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">red-flag warning\u003c/a> is still in place for the North Bay and East Bay Hills (and for the Coast Range to the north of the Bay Area and the Diablo Range east of San Jose). The good news: Despite the windy, extremely dry conditions, no major fires have broken out (although \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9393678\" target=\"_blank\">a wind-driven 50-acre blaze on Kimball Island \u003c/a>in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on Tuesday burned three homes on Tuesday.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news is that red-flag warnings are now in place for almost the entire western slope of the Sierra Nevada, from near Quincy, in Plumas County, down to the Tehachapi Mountains east of Bakersfield. The Bay Area fire weather warning is in effect until Thursday morning. The warning for the Sierra will be in place until Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">Weather forecasters say\u003c/a> today will be warm, windy and bone-dry, with humidity readings of just 5 to 10 percent. That sounds like September or October in the Bay Area, when gusty northerly or northeasterly winds occasionally howl across the hills and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ511&warncounty=CAC013&firewxzone=CAZ511&local_place1=&product1=Red+Flag+Warning#.UtVXLWS0-3A\" target=\"_blank\">increase the danger of fire\u003c/a>. In the fall, those \u003ca href=\"http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/classes/m356/DiabloWinds/DiabloDef.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo Winds\u003c/a>, the local cousins to Southern California's \u003ca href=\"http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/santa_ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Anas\u003c/a>, can combine with dry brush and an ignition source — an arcing power line, an unattended campfire, a spark from a lawnmower — to touch off a wildfire. Here in the Bay Area, the classic, tragic example is \u003ca href=\"http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-060.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the devastating East Bay Hills fire of October 1991\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123340\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-123340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-14-at-7.43.41-AM.png\" alt=\"National Weather Service map showing red-flag fire conditions for the Bay Area and Northern California. (Click on map to go to National Weather Service/Bay Area home page.)\" width=\"400\" height=\"373\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Weather Service map showing red-flag fire conditions for the Bay Area and Northern California. (Click on map to go to National Weather Service/Bay Area home page.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We're now in the middle of what should be our wet season, and any talk of fire danger is something we normally would have left behind months ago. But with our typical rains having \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24904396/california-drought-whats-causing-it?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">vanished for now\u003c/a>, nothing about this season is normal. Take a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">the home page of the National Weather Service for the Bay Area\u003c/a>. Its regional map is covered with crimson splotches that signal forecasters have posted \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">a red-flag warning\u003c/a> for the hills and mountains throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's warning extends through Thursday morning. It reaches from the Coast Range in Humboldt County down to the Santa Cruz Mountains and covers all the hilly areas in the North Bay and East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could put away the red-flag warnings for the season if only the rains return. Is there any short-term hope of that happening? Here's what the National Weather Service forecasters in Monterey have to say in their latest forecast discussion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For those hoping for rainfall, unfortunately nothing encouraging to report even looking out through 16 days (January 30th). ... Good shot that we will see more record highs set next week. ... Confidence remains very high for the much drier than normal weather to continue. ... Unless there is a huge change in the pattern that the models are not picking up on, we are on track to have the driest January on record for virtually all locations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, the managing editor of KQED Science and an environment and science reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24904396/california-drought-whats-causing-it?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">a story today\u003c/a> that has a memorable description of the persistent ridge of high pressure that's steering storms away from the California coast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Like a brick wall, the mass of high pressure air has been blocking Pacific winter storms from coming ashore in California, deflecting them up into Alaska and British Columbia, even delivering rain and cold weather to the East Coast. Similar high-pressure zones pop up all the time during most winters, but they usually break down, allowing rain to get through to California. This one, ominously, has anchored itself for 13 months, since December 2012, making it unprecedented in modern weather records and leaving researchers scratching their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like the Sierra -- a mountain range just sitting off the West Coast -- only bigger,\" said Bob Benjamin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey. \"This ridge is sort of a mountain in the atmosphere. In most years, it comes and goes. This year it came and didn't go.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We could put away the red-flag warnings for the season if only the rains return. Is there any short-term hope of that happening? Here's what the National Weather Service forecasters in Monterey have to say in their latest forecast discussion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For those hoping for rainfall, unfortunately nothing encouraging to report even looking out through 16 days (January 30th). ... Good shot that we will see more record highs set next week. ... Confidence remains very high for the much drier than normal weather to continue. ... Unless there is a huge change in the pattern that the models are not picking up on, we are on track to have the driest January on record for virtually all locations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Rogers\u003c/a>, the managing editor of KQED Science and an environment and science reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24904396/california-drought-whats-causing-it?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">a story today\u003c/a> that has a memorable description of the persistent ridge of high pressure that's steering storms away from the California coast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Like a brick wall, the mass of high pressure air has been blocking Pacific winter storms from coming ashore in California, deflecting them up into Alaska and British Columbia, even delivering rain and cold weather to the East Coast. Similar high-pressure zones pop up all the time during most winters, but they usually break down, allowing rain to get through to California. This one, ominously, has anchored itself for 13 months, since December 2012, making it unprecedented in modern weather records and leaving researchers scratching their heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like the Sierra -- a mountain range just sitting off the West Coast -- only bigger,\" said Bob Benjamin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey. \"This ridge is sort of a mountain in the atmosphere. In most years, it comes and goes. This year it came and didn't go.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/09/a-dose-of-straight-talk-on-fukushima-radiation-rumors/rs6220_175721355-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123104\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6220_175721355-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other morning on KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum\u003c/a>\" program, we invited listeners to call and write with ideas about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/listeners-weigh-in-what-stories-should-kqed-cover-in-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">what we ought to be covering\u003c/a> in the coming year. We got lots of ideas for coverage on health, technology, arts and culture, politics and the economics of living in this region. We also heard requests for coverage on science and environmental subjects, including this one from a caller named David:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would love to see some coverage of the radiation spread from Fukushima Daiichi. I feel woefully uninformed, and I've heard reports that the radiation releases could affect the whole West Coast, which seems extreme except I've been hearing things. Hearing what its impact is, both short term and long term, would be great.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, KQED has been getting questions for months about the West Coast impact from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-they-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a>. The questions often appear to be prompted by claims made in blog posts like this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html\" target=\"_blank\">28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried by Radiation from Fukushima\u003c/a> -- posts that appear to be long on hyperbole, alarmism and cherry-picked facts and short on data and reasoning. In response, one of our science editors came up with a letter (see the end of this post) that points to what we believe to give well informed and well researched sources of information on the local impact of Fukushima radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It’s pretty clear there’s nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted and fried by Fukushima radiation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The questions are still coming, stirred partly by concern over the impact of one of the world's most serious nuclear disasters and partly by the continuing stream of Internet \"evidence\" suggesting radiation from Fukushima is poisoning us and wreaking havoc on the environment. Just this week, for instance, there's this: Fishermen in Mexico discovered \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25663557\" target=\"_blank\">conjoined gray whale calves\u003c/a> off the Baja coast. That much is true, and from what early stories say, it could be the first time conjoined gray whales have ever been seen. But you don't have to go far to find reports like this, on a site called The Voice of Russia: \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_09/Two-headed-whale-found-in-Mexico-is-Fukushima-radiation-to-be-blamed-8583/\" target=\"_blank\">Two-headed whale found in Mexico. Is Fukushima radiation responsible?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? Who said anything about a two-headed whale? Or Fukushima? The question in the headline is sensational and leading, and the answer the piece gives is of the \"no one knows — but it \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be!\" variety. (For a more sober take, check Slate: \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/3rf9c6jt\" target=\"-blank\">No, That Conjoined Whale Calf Was Not Caused by Fukushima\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Video From Surfer's Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest recent Net-enabled Fukushima shocker originated in our own backyard. It came by way of a YouTube video shot near Half Moon Bay and posted just before Christmas. From there it has gone viral. (Here's one version, possibly the original judging from the traffic it's gotten, though it misidentifies the location as Pacifica State Beach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly does the 7½-minute video show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features a man visiting the beach with a Geiger counter, a device that detects the presence of radioactive material (here's \u003ca href=\"http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/geiger/\" target=\"_blank\">one simple description\u003c/a> of a counter and what it measures). Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. We don't exempt our own offerings from that advice either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* * *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the letter we've sent to listeners and readers who have asked for information about the impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thank you for being a KQED listener and for your email regarding Internet buzz about ocean contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information on the Internet that claims that the tsunami debris near the West Coast is radioactive, or that huge plumes of nuclear water are heading for the West Coast, or that fish here are carrying dangerously high levels of radiation, is false. These claims are unsubstantiated and not supported by scientists who have studied the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d recommend reading this information — \u003ca href=\"http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation \u003c/a>— from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the world’s leading marine science organizations. The writer, Ken Buesseler, organized the first comprehensive study of the spread of radionuclides from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. He gained expertise on the topic when he studied the spread of radionuclides from Chernobyl into the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, here is a post on a website run by marine scientists that addresses each of the concerns that have arisen on several sensationalistic and misleading websites and explains why they are inaccurate: \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903\" target=\"_blank\">28 fallacies about the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s effect on the U.S. West Coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here is the Natural Resources Defense Council on the topic: \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmckinzie/fukushima_radiation_risks_from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Risks from Eating Fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope this explains why the KQED Science team hasn’t covered this topic. We do cover a range of topics concerning the ocean ecosystems and marine life off the coasts of Northern California, and would not ignore credible information concerning radiation poisoning in these waters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/09/a-dose-of-straight-talk-on-fukushima-radiation-rumors/rs6220_175721355-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123104\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6220_175721355-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other morning on KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum\u003c/a>\" program, we invited listeners to call and write with ideas about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/listeners-weigh-in-what-stories-should-kqed-cover-in-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">what we ought to be covering\u003c/a> in the coming year. We got lots of ideas for coverage on health, technology, arts and culture, politics and the economics of living in this region. We also heard requests for coverage on science and environmental subjects, including this one from a caller named David:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would love to see some coverage of the radiation spread from Fukushima Daiichi. I feel woefully uninformed, and I've heard reports that the radiation releases could affect the whole West Coast, which seems extreme except I've been hearing things. Hearing what its impact is, both short term and long term, would be great.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, KQED has been getting questions for months about the West Coast impact from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-they-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a>. The questions often appear to be prompted by claims made in blog posts like this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html\" target=\"_blank\">28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried by Radiation from Fukushima\u003c/a> -- posts that appear to be long on hyperbole, alarmism and cherry-picked facts and short on data and reasoning. In response, one of our science editors came up with a letter (see the end of this post) that points to what we believe to give well informed and well researched sources of information on the local impact of Fukushima radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It’s pretty clear there’s nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted and fried by Fukushima radiation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The questions are still coming, stirred partly by concern over the impact of one of the world's most serious nuclear disasters and partly by the continuing stream of Internet \"evidence\" suggesting radiation from Fukushima is poisoning us and wreaking havoc on the environment. Just this week, for instance, there's this: Fishermen in Mexico discovered \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25663557\" target=\"_blank\">conjoined gray whale calves\u003c/a> off the Baja coast. That much is true, and from what early stories say, it could be the first time conjoined gray whales have ever been seen. But you don't have to go far to find reports like this, on a site called The Voice of Russia: \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_09/Two-headed-whale-found-in-Mexico-is-Fukushima-radiation-to-be-blamed-8583/\" target=\"_blank\">Two-headed whale found in Mexico. Is Fukushima radiation responsible?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? Who said anything about a two-headed whale? Or Fukushima? The question in the headline is sensational and leading, and the answer the piece gives is of the \"no one knows — but it \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be!\" variety. (For a more sober take, check Slate: \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/3rf9c6jt\" target=\"-blank\">No, That Conjoined Whale Calf Was Not Caused by Fukushima\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Video From Surfer's Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/instagram-says-users-photos-wont-appear-in-ads/with-afp-story-by-veronique-dupont-us-e/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83253\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-83253\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/fracking-e1376499238155.jpg\" alt=\"Workers change the pipes in a fracking operation. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers change the pipes in a fracking operation. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SciWriAlicia\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Chang\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nand \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitter.com/JHDearen\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dearen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Oil and gas companies that are fracking off the Southern California coast must report chemicals discharged into the ocean under a new rule released Thursday by federal environmental regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the requirement in the federal register, and will become effective March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after a series of stories by The Associated Press last year revealed \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oil-companies-frack-coastal-waters-calif\" target=\"_blank\">at least a dozen offshore frack jobs in the Santa Barbara Channel\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/calif-finds-more-instances-offshore-fracking\" target=\"_blanket\">more than 200 \u003c/a>in nearshore waters overseen by the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hydraulic fracturing, which involves pumping huge amounts of sand, water and chemicals deep underground to release oil, was conducted with no separate environmental analysis of the fracking chemicals on the sea surroundings, and little or no oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This requirement was added in response to recent concerns regarding the potential effects of discharges of fluids used for offshore hydraulic fracturing operations,\" the EPA said in its notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry has insisted that fracking, which has been around for decades, does not harm the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While attention has been focused on fracking on land close to communities, little is known about the practice in the ocean, which uses far less fracking fluids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well permits and emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show fracking has quietly occurred off Southern California since the late 1990s with mixed success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the AP stories were published, the California Coastal Commission launched an investigation. A group of state lawmakers also called on the federal government to look into the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest offshore frack was completed in January 2010 by Venoco Inc., which targeted the Monterey Shale, home to one of the nation's largest deposits of shale oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It did not produce the results we expected,\" Venoco spokeswoman Lisa Rivas said in an email Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said the company does not have plans to frack in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new EPA rule applies only to new drilling jobs on nearly two dozen grandfathered-in platforms in federal waters off the Santa Barbara coast, site of a 1969 oil platform blowout that spilled more than 3 million gallons of crude oil, ruined miles of beaches and killed thousands of birds and other wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spill led to a prohibition on new offshore platforms in federal waters off California, but companies used fracking and other techniques in an attempt to stimulate new production from old existing wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, state oil regulators have drafted rules requiring companies to test groundwater and alert landowners before fracking or other well stimulation. Companies would also have to disclose the chemicals used and acquire permits before a job. Those rules go into full effect in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent Petroleum Association and Independent Oil Producers' Agency did not respond to messages for comment. The Western States Petroleum Association said none of its members use hydraulic fracturing technology in offshore federal waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists said the new federal rule was a step in the right direction, but they still want the government to ban the practice altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The EPA's rule will provide some information about the toxic fracking chemicals dumped into our ocean, but it relies on oil companies to be honest and transparent in their self-reporting,\" said Miyoko Sakashita, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But not this year, as the state deals with the consequences of this season's missing rains. 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No structures have been threatened or injuries reported, and both blazes are about 40 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires are a lot less dangerous than many that erupt in the summer. But fire experts are worried all the same, because January is a time of year when the northern reaches of the state normally are too wet to ignite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unprecedented for us to do this in January,\" said Battalion Chief Mike Giannini, whose Marin County Fire Department is one of the first to be called upon to send aid north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've sent crews this early in the year in the past to Southern California, because their fire season never seems to end,\" Giannini said. \"But not up there. Not to places like Humboldt, which has coastal, high-humidity, forested types of conditions we would normally equate with low fire danger.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Northern California, like the rest of the state, is far short of its normal rainfall for the season that started last July 1. Eureka, on the Humboldt Coast, has gotten just 28 percent of its seasonal average to date. Redding, at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley, has received 23 percent of normal for early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effects of the prolonged dry spell, which began a year ago during the 2012-13 rainy season, are being felt most dramatically in the Sacramento area. As the Sacramento Bee's \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matt_weiser\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Weiser\u003c/a> reports today, flows from the rapidly shrinking Folsom Lake into the American River will be cut dramatically this week. Some Sacramento-area communities that depend on the lake for drinking water are imposing severe restrictions on water use:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Without reducing water releases to the river, and without a return to normal winter weather, water agencies such as San Juan Water District would risk running out of water by March. At that point, the district’s water intake at Folsom Dam would be sucking air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an exceedingly difficult yet critical situation we’re in right now,” said Shauna Lorance, general manager of the San Juan Water District, which serves Roseville, Granite Bay, Folsom, Fair Oaks, Citrus Heights and Orangevale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, San Juan’s board of directors will be asked to adopt the most extreme water conservation measures possible. 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He enumerated the many dire effects a drought can have in California — everything from rampant wildfires to high unemployment in the Central Valley farm communities. “As we work toward the common good of the state in this situation, we are reminded of our dependence on the Creator and of the relationship we have with Him to be good stewards,” Soto wrote. “As stewards of creation we can turn to the Divine Master asking that He see our plight and give ear to our plea for rain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soto’s communique comes with California in the 13th consecutive month of scant rainfall. Last year was \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/01/02/2013-californias-big-dry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the driest calendar year on record\u003c/a> for many parts of the state. 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