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(Alex Emslie / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104147\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/PhotoWeek130719buildingbrid.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130719buildingbrid\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nAs the eastern span of the Bay Bridge enters its final building phase, a new show at the Oakland Museum of California offers 23 \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/18/local-boy-gets-to-shoot-2-bay-bridges-under-construction/\">stunning photos of the original Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge under construction\u003c/a>. Oakland photographer Peter Stackpole was only 20 when he was granted informal access to the bridges, and shot the images between 1934 and 1936. Twenty-three men died while building the bridge. This photo, \"Quitting Time,\" likely shows workers heading home early after one of their colleagues died on the job. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> / Courtesy of Collection of the Oakland Museum of California)\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104148\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/beach-piano.jpg\" alt=\"beach piano\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-year-old Penelope Keep performs at Francis Beach in Half Moon Bay on one of 12 old pianos that artist Mauro Ffortissimo hauled out to the beaches of San Mateo County. 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Photo: RVSD Courtesy press photo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/main/newsroom/press-releases/2013/arrest-in-manila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marin County district attorney announced\u003c/a> that former \u003ca href=\"http://rvsd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross Valley Sanitary District (RVSD)\u003c/a> general manager Brett Richards had been arrested in Moalboal, Cebu, Philippines, following a bizarre year that started with his abrupt emailed resignation from the agency in July 2012 and his subsequent disappearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest happened on July 11. Since then, the former wastewater manager has been held in Manila awaiting proceedings, according to the DA, before he will be sent back to Marin County on charges of the misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement and multiple counts of money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/main/newsroom/press-releases/2013/arrest-in-manila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the press release\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On March 5, Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian filed a criminal complaint and obtained a felony arrest warrant from the Marin County Superior Court, and bail was set at $1 million. Through its continuing investigation, the D.A.’s office learned that Richards had fled the United States, and the tracking of his financial records traced him to the Philippines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the beginning of the story, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED readers and listeners may remember the Ross Valley Sanitary District and Richards from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/12/23/huge-marin-sewage-spill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two back-to-back sewage spills in 2010 totaling 842,000 gallons in Kentfield, near the College of Marin\u003c/a>. Richards and the sanitary district, which serves most of central Marin, blamed the spills on “environmental terrorism.” Large amounts of debris, including “large pieces of road asphalt and rubber from the Kent School running track, along with two hard hats, chunks of clay dirt and a big piece of wire nest,” were found clogging up the pipes and it was believed by the agency to have been deliberately put there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitary district has found itself in the middle of a glut of lawsuits in the last few years — including one with construction company JMB over the spill, \u003ca href=\"http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/corte-madera-considers-loan-request-from-rvsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one with the wastewater treatment agency of which it is a part\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/sanitary-district-settles-one-lawsuit-begins-another-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one with an LLC that had entered into an option to purchase land from the agency but then fell into dispute about that land\u003c/a>. In 2011, RVSD was the subject of a third Marin County grand jury report criticizing the agency for its mismanagement, excessive litigation and business practices that appeared to be increasing costs for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/20120622__BrettRichards_200-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Richards, the former general manager of RVSD, was arrested in the Philippines. Photo: RVSD\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Richards, the former general manager of RVSD, was arrested in the Philippines. Photo: RVSD\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The name of the report? \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/depts/gj/reports-and-responses/reports-responses/2010-11/~/media/Files/Departments/GJ/Reports%20Responses/2010/Ross%20Valley%20Sanitary%20District.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Ross Valley Sanitary District: Not Again!”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition to the board and to Richards’ management grew as rate increases and pipe fixes became increasingly contentious. Dire warnings from the district about a lack of funding fueled concerns. And private security was frequently in attendance at board meetings during the height of the debates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2012, ratepayers went to the ballot box, ousting incumbent board member Marcia Johnson and electing newcomers (though well known in the community) Frank Egger and Mary Sylla — who found herself the subject of a rambling and angry letter from Richards criticizing her for her campaign and opposition to his policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/rosskentfieldgreenbrae/ci_20936778/critical-letter-from-ross-valley-sewer-district-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Marin Independent Journal, which also has the letter in full\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the letter, Richards, who has been the district’s manager since 2008, suggests that Sylla has been speaking ill of him or untruthfully, but the language is vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having heard numerous stories from others about the words you speak regarding me, it seems fitting to send you this note,” the letter continues. “Frankly, I had hope (sic) you were a better person than you represent yourself to be.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_20924457/dick-spotswood-ross-valley-sanitary-district-chief-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Marin IJ published an editorial\u003c/a> arguing that the general manager had received a $350,000 loan from the district to secure housing but hadn’t bought any property, he reportedly stopped coming into work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was hired in 2008 and paid $163,000 a year, which was raised to $197,000 in 2009. Under his contract, he also was prohibited from being fired in the 90 days before a board election or 180 days after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to come into work for weeks, Richards emailed his resignation in late July 2012, according to the district lawyer. In September, Richards \u003ca href=\"http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/brett-richards-takes-the-ross-valley-sanitary-distric8a7bfb7b6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started a blog to expose the truth about the campaign against him and RVSD\u003c/a>. Ross Valley Sewer Truth, which dove into a number of political issues that had been hot topics, such as sewage agency consolidation, is now defunct and has been taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/brett-richards-takes-the-ross-valley-sanitary-distric8a7bfb7b6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The purpose of the blog? According to the author, it will disclose, in the order of events, Ross Valley Sanitary District happenings between 2008 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the pages that follow, you are going to learn about board members, mayors, councilpersons, lawyers, public employees, those who are willing to subject themselves to a carefully shielded power group, and what happens to those when they don’t. In addition, we’ll be talking about the better part of $300,000,000 [stet] because part of the story is who has and who desires the power to control it, what some will do to keep it, and what some will do to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for Marin leaders to begin passing the blog’s URL from inbox to inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With some of the things that are written here, I would expect it is [Richards],” said Larkspur Councilman Larry Chu. “I don’t know what he intends to do with this, or if he feels some kind of injustice and needs to put his side of the story out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writer says the blog is an “invitation” for the public to be the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I crazy? I hope you’ll read on and decide for yourself.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has he done since then? How did he end up in the Philippines? What happened to the $350,000 loan? If only he still updated the blog, perhaps we would know.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Richards and the sanitary district, which serves most of central Marin, blamed the spills on “environmental terrorism.” Large amounts of debris, including “large pieces of road asphalt and rubber from the Kent School running track, along with two hard hats, chunks of clay dirt and a big piece of wire nest,” were found clogging up the pipes and it was believed by the agency to have been deliberately put there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanitary district has found itself in the middle of a glut of lawsuits in the last few years — including one with construction company JMB over the spill, \u003ca href=\"http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/corte-madera-considers-loan-request-from-rvsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one with the wastewater treatment agency of which it is a part\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://larkspurcortemadera.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/sanitary-district-settles-one-lawsuit-begins-another-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one with an LLC that had entered into an option to purchase land from the agency but then fell into dispute about that land\u003c/a>. In 2011, RVSD was the subject of a third Marin County grand jury report criticizing the agency for its mismanagement, excessive litigation and business practices that appeared to be increasing costs for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103908\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-103908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/20120622__BrettRichards_200-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Richards, the former general manager of RVSD, was arrested in the Philippines. Photo: RVSD\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Richards, the former general manager of RVSD, was arrested in the Philippines. Photo: RVSD\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The name of the report? \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/depts/gj/reports-and-responses/reports-responses/2010-11/~/media/Files/Departments/GJ/Reports%20Responses/2010/Ross%20Valley%20Sanitary%20District.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Ross Valley Sanitary District: Not Again!”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition to the board and to Richards’ management grew as rate increases and pipe fixes became increasingly contentious. Dire warnings from the district about a lack of funding fueled concerns. And private security was frequently in attendance at board meetings during the height of the debates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2012, ratepayers went to the ballot box, ousting incumbent board member Marcia Johnson and electing newcomers (though well known in the community) Frank Egger and Mary Sylla — who found herself the subject of a rambling and angry letter from Richards criticizing her for her campaign and opposition to his policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/rosskentfieldgreenbrae/ci_20936778/critical-letter-from-ross-valley-sewer-district-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Marin Independent Journal, which also has the letter in full\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the letter, Richards, who has been the district’s manager since 2008, suggests that Sylla has been speaking ill of him or untruthfully, but the language is vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having heard numerous stories from others about the words you speak regarding me, it seems fitting to send you this note,” the letter continues. “Frankly, I had hope (sic) you were a better person than you represent yourself to be.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_20924457/dick-spotswood-ross-valley-sanitary-district-chief-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Marin IJ published an editorial\u003c/a> arguing that the general manager had received a $350,000 loan from the district to secure housing but hadn’t bought any property, he reportedly stopped coming into work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards was hired in 2008 and paid $163,000 a year, which was raised to $197,000 in 2009. Under his contract, he also was prohibited from being fired in the 90 days before a board election or 180 days after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to come into work for weeks, Richards emailed his resignation in late July 2012, according to the district lawyer. In September, Richards \u003ca href=\"http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/brett-richards-takes-the-ross-valley-sanitary-distric8a7bfb7b6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started a blog to expose the truth about the campaign against him and RVSD\u003c/a>. Ross Valley Sewer Truth, which dove into a number of political issues that had been hot topics, such as sewage agency consolidation, is now defunct and has been taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/brett-richards-takes-the-ross-valley-sanitary-distric8a7bfb7b6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The purpose of the blog? According to the author, it will disclose, in the order of events, Ross Valley Sanitary District happenings between 2008 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the pages that follow, you are going to learn about board members, mayors, councilpersons, lawyers, public employees, those who are willing to subject themselves to a carefully shielded power group, and what happens to those when they don’t. In addition, we’ll be talking about the better part of $300,000,000 [stet] because part of the story is who has and who desires the power to control it, what some will do to keep it, and what some will do to get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for Marin leaders to begin passing the blog’s URL from inbox to inbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With some of the things that are written here, I would expect it is [Richards],” said Larkspur Councilman Larry Chu. “I don’t know what he intends to do with this, or if he feels some kind of injustice and needs to put his side of the story out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writer says the blog is an “invitation” for the public to be the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Am I crazy? I hope you’ll read on and decide for yourself.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has he done since then? How did he end up in the Philippines? What happened to the $350,000 loan? If only he still updated the blog, perhaps we would know.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "PG&E Critics Like CPUC's New Proposed San Bruno Fine, PG&E Not So Much",
"title": "PG&E Critics Like CPUC's New Proposed San Bruno Fine, PG&E Not So Much",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98957\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98957 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/SanBruno-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A crater filled with water marks at the site of the San Bruno pipeline explosion. (Photo: Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crater filled with water marks at the site of the San Bruno pipeline explosion. (Photo: Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission's Consumer Protection and Safety Division \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/16/cpuc-san-bruno-pge-penalty/#full\" target=\"_blank\">recommended\u003c/a> today that PG&E pay $2.25 billion for negligence leading up to the San Bruno pipeline explosion and fire in September 2010. The blaze killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. The proposed penalty includes a $300 million fine to be paid into the state's general fund. The rest will go to pipeline safety and repairs and precludes \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/07/16/how-painful-is-pges-2-25b-fine-for-san-bruno-pipeline-explosion-900m-tax-savings/\" target=\"_blank\"> tax benefits and credit for improvements already\u003c/a> made that the utility would have received under a controversial old proposal by the CPSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's filing cites \"unprecedented and serious violations of PG&E's safety obligations under the law that continued unabated for many years, and which demonstrate PG&E's disinterest in compliance with the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal still has to be reviewed by an administrative law judge, who will send a recommendation to the full commission, which must approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Jerry Hill, whose district includes San Bruno and who is one of PG&E's most vocal critics, told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler that the proposal is \"very encouraging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s something that is a substantive penalty if the full commission adopts it and if the administrative law judge accepts it. As well, it’s something that is within reason as a penalty that certainly could act as a responsible sanction and punishment for PG&E from a civil standpoint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Utility Reform Network (TURN), another longtime critic of PG&E, issued a press release that said the revised proposal was a \"great improvement.\" Both Tom Long, TURN's legal director, and Hill said that the proposal, if approved, would result in the utility's shareholders paying for $1.5 billion in required safety improvements rather than its customers.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323394504578610161692919702.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> is putting it this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The call for harsher punishment shows that hard-liners at the regulatory agency prevailed in an internal dispute among investigators and lawyers concerning the appropriate punishment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As for PG&E ... not on board. From a statement from the company:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In its zeal to punish PG&E, the staff of the California Public Utilities Commission has lost sight of our important shared goal of making PG&E’s natural gas operation the safest in the country as quickly as we possibly can....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is difficult to understand how the CPUC expects PG&E to attract the capital necessary to maintain the extraordinary investment in safety currently underway, or raise billions of dollars more for safety improvements mandated by the CPUC. We hope that the Commission, in its final decision, will serve the interests of the public and all PG&E customers by remembering the harsh lessons learned a decade ago during the electricity crisis -- in order to keep investing in safety, PG&E must be able to attract capital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The original proposal by the PUC's safety division was so controversial that PUC lawyers who worked on the case asked to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/05/city/\" target=\"_blank\">reassigned\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Angela Hart, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area planning officials say efforts to encourage dense development will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103888\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103888\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/traffic-emissions-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Miller/KQED\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Miller/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But what they rarely mention publicly is that their goal, a 15 percent per capita reduction of carbon dioxide from cars and light trucks by 2035, actually represents an overall emissions increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, it’s a math trick: The per capita figure hides a predicted regional population growth of 28 percent. That means total passenger vehicle emissions regionwide would actually rise by 9.1 percent — an indication that regional planning is not helping California’s efforts to become a model in combating climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said the decision by state regulators to present greenhouse gas emissions on a per-person basis instead of overall contradicts the spirit of his signature climate bill, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said the law was supposed to help reduce carbon emissions by getting people out of their cars. It requires regional agencies to develop ways to limit suburban sprawl and expand public transit in compact transit villages and the urban centers of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The per capita approach is something that we’re going to have to look at,” Steinberg said. “Ultimately the imperative is to improve the climate and reduce greenhouse gases.” But he did say better regional planning would at least slow the growth of emissions and improve quality of life. \u003c!--more-->Steinberg’s bill was intended to complement Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vaunted 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, which calls on the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources to 1990 levels by 2020, and more in future decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plan Bay Area, the first of 18 regional strategies to help local governments implement climate-friendly “smart growth,” or high-density development close to transit lines, will be finalized in July. Ezra Rapport, executive director of the Association of Bay Area Governments, acknowledged that the plan “is not going to reduce emissions” overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re trying to make sure that growth occurs in neighborhoods that have good access to transportation,” he said. “That way we’re part of the solution that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONSENSUS CALCULATIONS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In settling on the per capita metric, state air-quality officials acknowledged that it would not yield as far-reaching results as they originally had hoped for, but that more aggressive goals might not be achievable with current levels of government funding, local zoning laws, existing land ownership patterns and expectations for economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2009, a 19-member panel of volunteer stakeholders convened a roundtable meeting at the headquarters of the California Environmental Protection Agency in Sacramento to review the rules, as the law required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the table were local elected officials and planners, private groups, including the powerful pro-industry Bay Area Council, and transportation and environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nine months of sometimes heated negotiations, the panel unanimously agreed to let regulators track greenhouse gas reductions from cars and light trucks across California, using one of two “relative” measures instead of gauging total annual emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other relative measure they considered for regional emissions reporting was to assess progress against hypothetical “business as usual” scenarios — what economists think might happen over the next 20 years without the policy. That measure, also called the “baseline” projection, is what the California Air Resources Board uses most often in public outreach to claim that pollution from vehicles and light trucks will decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they often neglect to say is that total emissions will rise compared with actual, measured emissions. For the state, that means a big difference: comparing the 2035 goal with economists’ business-as-usual estimate, emissions will fall by 9.9 percent. But compared with the actual emissions in 2005, before the climate legislation was passed, emissions will have risen 18.2 percent by 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it is the regional “per capita” figures and statewide comparisons with “business as usual” that get repeated year after year in news stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both methodologies make it hard to measure progress against the total reductions required by the Global Warming Solutions Act, which uses absolute emissions targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing emissions to grow in the transportation sector presents a challenge to the state’s overall climate change goals. Other strategies — energy efficiency, alternative fuels, changes in automobile engines and the cap-and-trade carbon market — will have to make steeper cuts to make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Clegern, a spokesman for the Air Resources Board who works on climate change issues, acknowledged that despite the per capita reductions, the Sustainable Communities Strategy will not prevent an increase in total carbon emissions from passenger vehicles through 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some parts of the state, greenhouse gases will go up, but you have to look at how much they would go up if it were business as usual, without this law,” Clegern said. “Increases might be 18 percent, but it would have been 40 or 50 percent without the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall transportation accounts for about 38 percent of statewide emissions, with cars and light trucks making up a smaller slice of the overall pie — 9.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clegern said the possible carbon savings from passenger vehicles represented a small “sliver” of the state’s reduction goals. According to the latest Air Resources Board figures, that would be 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, out of the total 126 million goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that the per capita standard allows each part of the state to use uniform measures of progress. Planners from across the state’s 18 regions are looking to the 166-page Plan Bay Area’s goals and methods to set their own policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ECONOMIC PRESSURES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">Some environmental advocates who participated in the meetings said that persuading business and government leaders to limit the growth of emissions at all was a step forward. Officials emphasized that regional plans must be re-evaluated every four years, so the metric can be revisited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important point is that these are real, meaningful targets,” said Amanda Eaken, deputy director of the Sustainable Communities, Energy and Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This was the first time that the state has done anything like this. We’re realizing that the greenhouse gas reduction we can achieve is probably greater than we’d originally thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakeholders at the 2009 meeting in Sacramento agreed that with state population expected to grow by 12.8 million people between 2005 and 2035, overall emissions would have to grow substantially. The Bay Area alone is expected to grow by 2.1 million, to a total of 9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State air officials said setting absolute carbon reduction targets could deter economic growth. It should be possible to design cities that can still develop while fighting vehicle emissions, said Daniel Sperling, a member of the Air Resources Board and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that the best metric to measure reductions was per capita because it would not penalize growth,” Sperling said. “Emissions are going to be lower than what they’d otherwise be. It’s a starting point that puts the state on the right trajectory to create a policy framework that’s never existed before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final draft of Plan Bay Area was expected to be released in mid-July. A March draft of the plan uses the term “per capita” liberally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the two agencies leading the process, have published dozens of press releases and newspaper opinion pieces citing the 15 percent per capita goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the popular understanding of the plan seems murky — often the “per capita” caveat gets dropped. In late May, a San Jose Mercury News op-ed piece by local environmental and civic activists stated incorrectly: “This regional transportation and land-use plan must reduce greenhouse gases 15 percent by 2035.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UNDERFUNDED PLANS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisa Barbour, a planning doctoral student at UC Berkeley, said the problem with Plan Bay Area is that the lack of financial incentives for cities makes the policy weak. Each city controls its own development, so incentives must be available for cities to concentrate development in compact, walkable and transit-friendly neighborhoods. And the regional agencies need the authority to mandate standards for things like environmentally friendly zoning laws, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2008 law that set the process in motion, Barbour said, “calls for a more efficient land use and transportation pattern to reduce greenhouse gases. But it’s not clear that the process is actually on track to achieving those goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plan Bay Area sets aside money for cities to help developers build new housing and jobs near BART, Caltrain and local transit lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of the plan is transportation and land use, so it’s fair to say that it is a very modest bill in terms of climate change,” said Rebecca Long, a legislative analyst at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the plan, Bay Area cities and counties will receive $800 million in grant funding through 2016 from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Sixty of the region’s 101 cities and all nine counties have applied and are developing 169 “priority development areas,” where growth is supposed to concentrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said the dissolution of all 400 state redevelopment agencies and recent federal transportation cuts have “crippled” his agency, so there is little money or political power to fully carry out the plan. The agency distributes toll, gas tax and other revenues for transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the law did was require us to adopt a strategy,” Heminger said. “We’ve done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg’s office said the 2008 law must be strengthened. Without real teeth, the senator said, the effort to redesign cities to encourage people to drive less could fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change was not only important, it was crucial,” Steinberg said. “We were able to make the transportation and land-use part successful because we had the added element of climate change in the mix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regional planners project that the Bay Area will need 660,000 additional homes and 1.1 million more jobs to support the anticipated population growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kip Lipper, Steinberg’s chief policy adviser for energy, natural resources and the environment, said more important than reducing greenhouse gases in California is developing effective land-use planning that actually works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said local governments could do a better job of setting bolder goals. “The work is never done,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said the law was supposed to help reduce carbon emissions by getting people out of their cars. It requires regional agencies to develop ways to limit suburban sprawl and expand public transit in compact transit villages and the urban centers of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The per capita approach is something that we’re going to have to look at,” Steinberg said. “Ultimately the imperative is to improve the climate and reduce greenhouse gases.” But he did say better regional planning would at least slow the growth of emissions and improve quality of life. \u003c!--more-->Steinberg’s bill was intended to complement Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vaunted 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, which calls on the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources to 1990 levels by 2020, and more in future decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plan Bay Area, the first of 18 regional strategies to help local governments implement climate-friendly “smart growth,” or high-density development close to transit lines, will be finalized in July. Ezra Rapport, executive director of the Association of Bay Area Governments, acknowledged that the plan “is not going to reduce emissions” overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re trying to make sure that growth occurs in neighborhoods that have good access to transportation,” he said. “That way we’re part of the solution that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CONSENSUS CALCULATIONS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In settling on the per capita metric, state air-quality officials acknowledged that it would not yield as far-reaching results as they originally had hoped for, but that more aggressive goals might not be achievable with current levels of government funding, local zoning laws, existing land ownership patterns and expectations for economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2009, a 19-member panel of volunteer stakeholders convened a roundtable meeting at the headquarters of the California Environmental Protection Agency in Sacramento to review the rules, as the law required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the table were local elected officials and planners, private groups, including the powerful pro-industry Bay Area Council, and transportation and environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nine months of sometimes heated negotiations, the panel unanimously agreed to let regulators track greenhouse gas reductions from cars and light trucks across California, using one of two “relative” measures instead of gauging total annual emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other relative measure they considered for regional emissions reporting was to assess progress against hypothetical “business as usual” scenarios — what economists think might happen over the next 20 years without the policy. That measure, also called the “baseline” projection, is what the California Air Resources Board uses most often in public outreach to claim that pollution from vehicles and light trucks will decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they often neglect to say is that total emissions will rise compared with actual, measured emissions. For the state, that means a big difference: comparing the 2035 goal with economists’ business-as-usual estimate, emissions will fall by 9.9 percent. But compared with the actual emissions in 2005, before the climate legislation was passed, emissions will have risen 18.2 percent by 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it is the regional “per capita” figures and statewide comparisons with “business as usual” that get repeated year after year in news stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both methodologies make it hard to measure progress against the total reductions required by the Global Warming Solutions Act, which uses absolute emissions targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allowing emissions to grow in the transportation sector presents a challenge to the state’s overall climate change goals. Other strategies — energy efficiency, alternative fuels, changes in automobile engines and the cap-and-trade carbon market — will have to make steeper cuts to make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Clegern, a spokesman for the Air Resources Board who works on climate change issues, acknowledged that despite the per capita reductions, the Sustainable Communities Strategy will not prevent an increase in total carbon emissions from passenger vehicles through 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some parts of the state, greenhouse gases will go up, but you have to look at how much they would go up if it were business as usual, without this law,” Clegern said. “Increases might be 18 percent, but it would have been 40 or 50 percent without the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall transportation accounts for about 38 percent of statewide emissions, with cars and light trucks making up a smaller slice of the overall pie — 9.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clegern said the possible carbon savings from passenger vehicles represented a small “sliver” of the state’s reduction goals. According to the latest Air Resources Board figures, that would be 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, out of the total 126 million goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that the per capita standard allows each part of the state to use uniform measures of progress. Planners from across the state’s 18 regions are looking to the 166-page Plan Bay Area’s goals and methods to set their own policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ECONOMIC PRESSURES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">Some environmental advocates who participated in the meetings said that persuading business and government leaders to limit the growth of emissions at all was a step forward. Officials emphasized that regional plans must be re-evaluated every four years, so the metric can be revisited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important point is that these are real, meaningful targets,” said Amanda Eaken, deputy director of the Sustainable Communities, Energy and Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This was the first time that the state has done anything like this. We’re realizing that the greenhouse gas reduction we can achieve is probably greater than we’d originally thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakeholders at the 2009 meeting in Sacramento agreed that with state population expected to grow by 12.8 million people between 2005 and 2035, overall emissions would have to grow substantially. The Bay Area alone is expected to grow by 2.1 million, to a total of 9 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State air officials said setting absolute carbon reduction targets could deter economic growth. It should be possible to design cities that can still develop while fighting vehicle emissions, said Daniel Sperling, a member of the Air Resources Board and director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that the best metric to measure reductions was per capita because it would not penalize growth,” Sperling said. “Emissions are going to be lower than what they’d otherwise be. It’s a starting point that puts the state on the right trajectory to create a policy framework that’s never existed before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final draft of Plan Bay Area was expected to be released in mid-July. A March draft of the plan uses the term “per capita” liberally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the two agencies leading the process, have published dozens of press releases and newspaper opinion pieces citing the 15 percent per capita goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the popular understanding of the plan seems murky — often the “per capita” caveat gets dropped. In late May, a San Jose Mercury News op-ed piece by local environmental and civic activists stated incorrectly: “This regional transportation and land-use plan must reduce greenhouse gases 15 percent by 2035.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UNDERFUNDED PLANS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisa Barbour, a planning doctoral student at UC Berkeley, said the problem with Plan Bay Area is that the lack of financial incentives for cities makes the policy weak. Each city controls its own development, so incentives must be available for cities to concentrate development in compact, walkable and transit-friendly neighborhoods. And the regional agencies need the authority to mandate standards for things like environmentally friendly zoning laws, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2008 law that set the process in motion, Barbour said, “calls for a more efficient land use and transportation pattern to reduce greenhouse gases. But it’s not clear that the process is actually on track to achieving those goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plan Bay Area sets aside money for cities to help developers build new housing and jobs near BART, Caltrain and local transit lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of the plan is transportation and land use, so it’s fair to say that it is a very modest bill in terms of climate change,” said Rebecca Long, a legislative analyst at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the plan, Bay Area cities and counties will receive $800 million in grant funding through 2016 from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Sixty of the region’s 101 cities and all nine counties have applied and are developing 169 “priority development areas,” where growth is supposed to concentrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said the dissolution of all 400 state redevelopment agencies and recent federal transportation cuts have “crippled” his agency, so there is little money or political power to fully carry out the plan. The agency distributes toll, gas tax and other revenues for transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the law did was require us to adopt a strategy,” Heminger said. “We’ve done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg’s office said the 2008 law must be strengthened. Without real teeth, the senator said, the effort to redesign cities to encourage people to drive less could fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change was not only important, it was crucial,” Steinberg said. “We were able to make the transportation and land-use part successful because we had the added element of climate change in the mix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regional planners project that the Bay Area will need 660,000 additional homes and 1.1 million more jobs to support the anticipated population growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kip Lipper, Steinberg’s chief policy adviser for energy, natural resources and the environment, said more important than reducing greenhouse gases in California is developing effective land-use planning that actually works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103298\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 214px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/10/berkeley-to-collect-more-plastics-in-its-curbside-collections/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103298 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/recycling-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"A wider variety of plastics will now be collected by Berkeley’s Ecology Center in its curbside collections. (Berkeleyside)\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wider variety of plastics will now be collected by Berkeley’s Ecology Center in its curbside collections. (Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Camille Baptista\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/07/10/new-yelp-feature-shines-fun-light-on-berkeley-hotspots/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/\">Ecology Center\u003c/a> announced today that it will now collect more types of plastic items, expanding its curbside collection and processing to handle things like dairy tubs, tupperware, vitamin bottles, plastic cups and trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of been a long time coming,” said Martin Bourque, executive director of the Ecology Center, which has managed Berkeley’s recycling for 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the center’s weekly curbside pickup accepts only those plastic products indicated with a No. 1 or No. 2 triangle, and, among those, only narrow-neck designs like disposable water bottles and milk jugs. Bourque said this is because containers with different designs, like yogurt cups, have different chemical compositions and must be processed separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plastics that we’re adding are plastics that some people put in anyway, so we’ve been sorting them out and selling them instead of sending them to the landfill,” he said.\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wide-neck No. 1 and No. 2 containers will now be accepted in the blue curbside carts, along with some No. 4 and No. 5 items. Read \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/eliminate-plastic.pdf\">the center’s tips for reducing plastic consumption\u003c/a>, which includes an explanation of the numbering system.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are still certain plastic items that the center will not collect and which need to be dropped off at recycling centers. These include styrofoam items, coffee lids, and plastic utensils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a press release issued today by the Ecology Center, “The recycling arrows stamped on plastic products lead many people to believe that all plastic products are recyclable and being recycled, but that’s not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103300\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-103300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Recycling-truck-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"An Ecology Center truck makes its rounds. 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The center has consistently collected No. 1 and No. 2 because, according to Bourque, “they have end uses that we’re quite familiar with.” No. 1 plastics go into making fibers for carpet and clothing and are sometimes remade into plastic bottles, while No. 2 plastics are remade into many kinds of durable plastic and plastic lumber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Rosenau, an artist who works with found objects, said he supports the idea of expanding recycling as long as there is in fact a market for those recyclables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s really getting recycled, I’m thrilled,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Berkeley residents have pushed for increased plastics recycling for years, the Ecology Center has had to weigh the costs of processing and the market demand for recyclables before expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After collecting and sorting plastic items, the center typically sells plastics to firms in China for recycling. 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