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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CkwPS-Dc8ftWLCpcjDjRoSIIBcv_Tzo3/view\">\u003cem>Read the transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walk along the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Open-Space-Parks/Neighborhood-Parks/Baylands-Nature-Preserve\">Palo Alto Baylands\u003c/a>, I see what looks like a paddle-driven riverboat that you would typically see on the Mississippi River. What is that boat and why is it there?” asked Agnes Veith of Sunnyvale. She’s a volunteer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.environmentalvolunteers.org/ecocenter/\">Environmental Volunteers\u003c/a>, a nonprofit housed in a building that really does look like a boat, and wanted to know more about its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a fan of art deco buildings in the Bay Area, you probably know of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/nat2007001468.asp\">Coit Tower\u003c/a>. Or Oakland’s beloved \u003ca href=\"https://www.paramountoakland.org/history_news\">Paramount Theatre\u003c/a>. Or the iconic \u003ca href=\"https://www.destinationhotels.com/hotel-de-anza/hotel-de-anza-blog/spend-the-night-at-legendary-hotel-de-anza\">Hotel de Anza\u003c/a> in downtown San José. There aren’t a lot of these nostalgic throwbacks to the 1930s still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But art deco doesn’t really describe the building Veith is thinking of. It’s in a subcategory of art deco called streamline moderne, or nautical moderne. Which is to say: horizontal orientation, rounded edges and porthole-shaped windows. There’s something that looks like a navigation bridge popping out onto a third story. A rainbow flag flies high and proud from a hoist at the top of the building. The paint job is a white that Benjamin Moore might describe as “sand dollar” or “dune,” with French blue accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whimsy or cheese? I’m going with whimsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was designed for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>, a maritime program of the Boy Scouts of America, by architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/birge-clark.php\">Birge Clark.\u003c/a> He’s the one behind the Palo Alto Post Office, the President Hotel and several Stanford buildings. Clark reportedly took his inspiration for the Sea Scout building from the pilot house of an old paddle wheel steamer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s the story of what hits your eyeballs as you’re walking in the Baylands. The history of the building is just as compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2139px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photograph shows rows of young men in maritime uniforms in front of an Art Deco building that looks like a boat. What looks like a military band plays in foreground.\" width=\"2139\" height=\"1714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg 2139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1536x1231.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-2048x1641.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1920x1539.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2139px) 100vw, 2139px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palo Alto Sea Scout Base was commissioned in May of 1941. That’s the Stanford Band in the foreground. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyde Forbes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto philanthropist Lucie Stern commissioned it as a home base for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>. The building opened in 1941 to great fanfare, especially given the ongoing hostilities of World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a pivotal moment for the local chapter, which taught teenagers from as far north as Redwood City and as far south as San José. Their counterparts in the Girl Scouts were called the Mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Murray was a Sea Scout. He joined in 1974, at the age of 14, and rose up through the ranks from apprentice to vice commodore for the western region. Over the years, he also became an amateur historian of the Sea Scouts on the Peninsula. He’s talked to old-timers before they died about \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/the-palo-alto-yacht-harbor.php\">the start of the harbor in 1928\u003c/a>, and the decades of fun and education that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That harbor was alive and well. It was teeming with families, with teenagers, a bunch of sailboats. Aww, man, it was a whole other world,” Murray said. “Imagine right in front of that building, an 85-foot PT boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PT boat, by the way, was a motorized torpedo boat used by the Navy in World War II: small, fast and cheap to build. They were cheap to give away, too, to programs like the Sea Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg\" alt=\"A class photo taken outdoors of young, teenage boys looking jaunty in sailor outfits.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto Sea Scouts after a coastal summer cruise from PA to San Diego and return, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Skipper George Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here I was, a 14-year-old kid, and they put me on a WWII, 64-foot tugboat. I started as a deckhand and then I graduated to become an engineer, working on an engine the size of a train. So the first thing I noticed was we were being treated as men, not little boys anymore,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were adventurous trips to San Francisco and even Alaska. There were regattas and dances and lifelong friendships formed. Murray credits his time in the Sea Scouts for turning him into an educator. He was a political science professor for 30 years before he retired. Most of his brothers went into education, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times change and so do social attitudes toward the environment. The dredging that made Palo Alto’s harbor operational stopped after a contentious citywide vote in 1986, to allow for the area to return to its original state as wetlands. Then in 1994, the Palo Alto and San Mateo County Sea Scout councils merged, and in 2002, they gave up the lease on the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, while sitting empty, the foundation sank three feet into the mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come inside and you look at the floorboards, you can actually see the original floorboards and see some of the blackening as a result of some of that constant tide flow and flooding,” said Toby Goldberg, director of programs and partnerships at Environmental Volunteers. The local nonprofit where Goldberg works, and where Agnes Veith (our Bay Curious question-asker) volunteers, hosts field trips for some 50 schools in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940613 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"A gray goose, with a long black neck, white and black head, and wings outstretched, lifts off from a rippling, brown lake, three splashes from its feet behind it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a-160x83.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canada goose takes flight in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Agnes Veith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization got hold of the building in the 2000s and lined up grant money to renovate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refurbished Sea Scout building sits 4 feet higher than its forebear, to prevent future flooding due to tidal influx as well as sea level rise. But 4 feet may not be enough. “During particular times of the year, especially king tides, if there’s a storm, the water actually does come up sometimes over the deck. So we have had instances where there was a question of, ‘Did we need our kayaks for getting into work today?'” Goldberg said.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]You might think that a building that looks like a boat circa World War II would be an odd choice for an outfit that teaches about wetlands. But somehow, it just feels right when you’re out there. Especially standing on the deck in the back and looking out over a calm expanse of mud and pickleweed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940614 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-scaled.jpeg\" alt='A big sign by a building that looks like a boat says \"Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6014-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hazel Watson, a former science educator now with Environmental Volunteers, can wax more poetic: “A whole vista of cordgrasses and the pickleweeds, with the channels that still remain here. Today, we’ve got lots of Northern shoveler ducks and Ridgeway’s rails. Sunset is beautiful here. It’s certainly the best part of the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldberg added that the wetlands act like a nursery for a lot of organisms. “So we see things like bat rays, and we’ll see harbor seals occasionally coming through. Birds galore, [depending on] the season. So every time you come out here, you’re going to be seeing different things, different birds, different insects. You can see that all from the deck of this building that looks like a boat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t wait for the Sea Scout building to sink into the mud again. Make tracks and come see it, across from the duck pond, and bring your camera and a pair of binoculars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whimsy or cheese? I’m going with whimsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was designed for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>, a maritime program of the Boy Scouts of America, by architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/birge-clark.php\">Birge Clark.\u003c/a> He’s the one behind the Palo Alto Post Office, the President Hotel and several Stanford buildings. Clark reportedly took his inspiration for the Sea Scout building from the pilot house of an old paddle wheel steamer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s the story of what hits your eyeballs as you’re walking in the Baylands. The history of the building is just as compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2139px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photograph shows rows of young men in maritime uniforms in front of an Art Deco building that looks like a boat. What looks like a military band plays in foreground.\" width=\"2139\" height=\"1714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts.jpg 2139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1536x1231.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-2048x1641.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/disk-022-IMG0081-adj-sea-scouts-1920x1539.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2139px) 100vw, 2139px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Palo Alto Sea Scout Base was commissioned in May of 1941. That’s the Stanford Band in the foreground. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hyde Forbes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto philanthropist Lucie Stern commissioned it as a home base for the \u003ca href=\"https://seascout.org\">Sea Scouts\u003c/a>. The building opened in 1941 to great fanfare, especially given the ongoing hostilities of World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a pivotal moment for the local chapter, which taught teenagers from as far north as Redwood City and as far south as San José. Their counterparts in the Girl Scouts were called the Mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Murray was a Sea Scout. He joined in 1974, at the age of 14, and rose up through the ranks from apprentice to vice commodore for the western region. Over the years, he also became an amateur historian of the Sea Scouts on the Peninsula. He’s talked to old-timers before they died about \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloaltohistory.org/the-palo-alto-yacht-harbor.php\">the start of the harbor in 1928\u003c/a>, and the decades of fun and education that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That harbor was alive and well. It was teeming with families, with teenagers, a bunch of sailboats. Aww, man, it was a whole other world,” Murray said. “Imagine right in front of that building, an 85-foot PT boat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A PT boat, by the way, was a motorized torpedo boat used by the Navy in World War II: small, fast and cheap to build. They were cheap to give away, too, to programs like the Sea Scouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11940611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg\" alt=\"A class photo taken outdoors of young, teenage boys looking jaunty in sailor outfits.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/6-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palo Alto Sea Scouts after a coastal summer cruise from PA to San Diego and return, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Skipper George Moore)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Here I was, a 14-year-old kid, and they put me on a WWII, 64-foot tugboat. I started as a deckhand and then I graduated to become an engineer, working on an engine the size of a train. So the first thing I noticed was we were being treated as men, not little boys anymore,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were adventurous trips to San Francisco and even Alaska. There were regattas and dances and lifelong friendships formed. Murray credits his time in the Sea Scouts for turning him into an educator. He was a political science professor for 30 years before he retired. Most of his brothers went into education, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times change and so do social attitudes toward the environment. The dredging that made Palo Alto’s harbor operational stopped after a contentious citywide vote in 1986, to allow for the area to return to its original state as wetlands. Then in 1994, the Palo Alto and San Mateo County Sea Scout councils merged, and in 2002, they gave up the lease on the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, while sitting empty, the foundation sank three feet into the mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come inside and you look at the floorboards, you can actually see the original floorboards and see some of the blackening as a result of some of that constant tide flow and flooding,” said Toby Goldberg, director of programs and partnerships at Environmental Volunteers. The local nonprofit where Goldberg works, and where Agnes Veith (our Bay Curious question-asker) volunteers, hosts field trips for some 50 schools in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940613 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"A gray goose, with a long black neck, white and black head, and wings outstretched, lifts off from a rippling, brown lake, three splashes from its feet behind it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a.jpeg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/AF5A903D-EFC1-4C58-9728-9352E8236814_1_201_a-160x83.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canada goose takes flight in the Palo Alto Baylands. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Agnes Veith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization got hold of the building in the 2000s and lined up grant money to renovate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refurbished Sea Scout building sits 4 feet higher than its forebear, to prevent future flooding due to tidal influx as well as sea level rise. 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"content": "\u003cp>Opponents of a state law limiting oil and gas drilling near schools, homes and other residential areas recently gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the November 2024 ballot, setting the stage for an epic political battle that could shatter campaign spending records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1137\">SB 1137\u003c/a>, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, which prohibits oil and gas drilling within about a half mile — 3,200 feet — of “sensitive receptors,” including homes, hospitals, medical clinics, community centers and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To environmental and health advocates, the hard-fought restrictions are long overdue. But oil and gas companies — or “Big Oil,” as the governor calls them — argue that the limits are not based in science and will only force California to import oil from other states with weaker health and environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has a lot of ramifications,” said Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, which is among a coalition of industry groups that together spent roughly $20 million to put the issue on the ballot. “Employment ramifications, tax ramifications. And it’s worse for the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing’s for sure: By qualifying the referendum for the ballot, opponents of the law have placed it on hold for almost two years, until voters have a chance to weigh in. A simple majority vote is required to scrap the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing for Big Oil to make record profits as they rip off Californians at the pump,” Newsom said last week, after it was announced that the referendum had qualified for the ballot. “It’s quite another to push to continue harmful drilling near day cares and schools and our homes. Greedy oil companies know that drilling results in more kids getting asthma, more children born with birth defects, and more communities exposed to toxic, dangerous chemicals — but they would rather put our health at risk than sacrifice a single cent of their billions in profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/epdf/10.1289/EHP1535\">More than 2 million Californians\u003c/a>, many of them people of color, live within a mile of an active oil or gas well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of studies have found that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32069745/\">people living near active oil or gas wells are more likely to suffer from serious health issues\u003c/a>, including including \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11092\">cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118306339\">cardiovascular\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825956/\">respiratory diseases\u003c/a> and chronic cases of \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP281\">fatigue, nosebleeds and headaches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional research also suggests that pregnant people living near active wells are at greater risk of having \u003ca href=\"https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/Fulltext/2020/08000/Oil_and_gas_production_and_spontaneous_preterm.1.aspx?context=LatestArticles\">spontaneous preterm birth\u003c/a>, increasingly the likelihood of their babies having birth defects and lifelong health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those outcomes for newborns can have repercussions for the health of the child throughout the life, because being born of low birth weight or preterm puts you at increased risk of other health problems down the line,” said Rachel Morello-Frosch, a UC Berkeley environmental health scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat from Long Beach, who helped introduce the setback law, said the oil industry simply wants to maintain the status quo, which is “not shocking, but very disappointing” and “not sufficient anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Embracing the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kobi Naseck, coalition coordinator with the environmental justice advocacy group Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, fought for the setback law and says the oil and gas industry is using the ballot to upend good policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing big corporations spend money in an unheard-of way to undo a regulation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp>In November, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-stringify-link=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a> reported that Bay Area canvassers employed by the oil industry used misleading tactics when gathering signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. Some voters said they were told the referendum would ban new oil and gas wells near homes, the exact opposite of what it would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oil-drilling\"]The ballot challenge to the drilling law will be the second referendum to go before voters in 2024. Opponents of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a>, a law signed by Newsom that aims to increase pay and improve working conditions for the state’s fast-food workers, also recently submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to referendum laws was added to the California Constitution in 1912 as a way for citizens to fight the considerable clout that powerful industries like the railroads enjoyed in Sacramento in the early part of the 20th century. But in recent years, that tool has increasingly been used by deep-pocket interests to overturn laws unfavorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 31, an effort by tobacco companies to undo a new law banning flavored tobacco. But, says veteran campaign consultant Gale Kaufman, sometimes the goal isn’t to totally reject a law, but rather to delay its implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s different now. They [corporations] know from Day One that they’re going to try a referendum to stop a law. Tobacco — they didn’t even run a campaign, they just delayed it to give them time,” Kaufman told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure killing the bill is the goal. It’s stopping it for two years until they figure out what they’re going to do next,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2020-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/proposition-25-referendum-overturn-2018-law-replaced-money-bail-system-system-based-public-safety-risk\">bail bond industry poured millions of dollars into a successful referendum campaign\u003c/a> to overturn SB 10, a law that would have replaced cash bail with risk assessments for those detained and awaiting trial. Ultimately, 56% of voters supported the referendum, and the law was scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufman, who ran the campaign against the cash bail referendum effort, says that preserving the law was an uphill battle for a number of reasons, including the fact that unlike limitations on oil drilling, voters needed more education to understand what bail was and why it was unfair to lower-income defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this [drilling law referendum], it’s easy to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. People are pissed at gas prices and high oil prices. That’s all you have to say,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High gas prices: an argument for both sides\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Referendums are a different beast [from other ballot measures] because you have to figure out what ‘yes’ means. People get confused. That’s half the battle,” said political consultant Steve Maviglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for this referendum, like others before, the voting rules are somewhat counterintuitive: Voters are asked to vote “no” if they want to invalidate the new drilling law and a “yes” to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides make it confusing and it’s so hard to win a campaign when you’re advocating a ‘yes’ vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio predicts the oil industry and its supporters will spend $50 million to $100 million to invalidate the law, largely by reinforcing the argument that restricting drilling will only further increase gas prices and hurt drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the other side is going to have much money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio said that while voters may not like oil companies, they might also question supporters of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look how much trouble the governor is having on a bill right now” to impose a penalty on excessive oil company profits, he said. “There’s distrust of oil but also of environmentalists, who want to put everyone in an electric car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office seems keenly attentive to the issue of gas prices. On Friday, his team blasted out a press release accusing oil companies of “misleading” Californians about the price of gas across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1624109336745353217?s=20&t=m5I80ews5BEaCWJGb4ITYA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hector Barajas, a consultant for supporters of the referendum, said that Newsom and the Legislature pushed the buffer-zone law without adequate analysis and testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislative process, with public hearings, notices and the opportunity for public discourse, exists for an important reason — to allow experts, members of the public, science and health leaders, and the impacted industries to provide testimony, ask essential questions, provide evidence or solutions in the public arena,” Barajas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an argument that has some resonance with Democrats in the Legislature, like Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat, who declined to vote on the original legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California listen to science. We should listen to science. But that then also means you have to wait for the scientists to tell us what their decisions are,” said Arambula, a former emergency room physician. Lawmakers, he added, somewhat arbitrarily chose the 3,200-foot standard for drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always will lean towards the public health side of things, as I believe it’s important for us when you live in the worst air basin in America,” he said, referring to the Central Valley area he represents. But he added that he would “wait for the scientists” before deciding how to vote on the referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at the end of the day,” he said, “we’re going to have to take steps to limit for our communities of color their exposure to many of the harmful air that is in my community.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Hector Barajas, a consultant for supporters of the referendum, said that Newsom and the Legislature pushed the buffer-zone law without adequate analysis and testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislative process, with public hearings, notices and the opportunity for public discourse, exists for an important reason — to allow experts, members of the public, science and health leaders, and the impacted industries to provide testimony, ask essential questions, provide evidence or solutions in the public arena,” Barajas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an argument that has some resonance with Democrats in the Legislature, like Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat, who declined to vote on the original legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California listen to science. We should listen to science. But that then also means you have to wait for the scientists to tell us what their decisions are,” said Arambula, a former emergency room physician. Lawmakers, he added, somewhat arbitrarily chose the 3,200-foot standard for drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always will lean towards the public health side of things, as I believe it’s important for us when you live in the worst air basin in America,” he said, referring to the Central Valley area he represents. But he added that he would “wait for the scientists” before deciding how to vote on the referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Driving through the coastal city of Morro Bay, it’s hard to miss the 600-foot-tall volcanic rock sticking out of the ocean and towering over the city. The local landmark is commonly known as Morro Rock, a Spanish word with several meanings including “snout” or “round hill.” But Indigenous people of the area call it by other names: Lisamu’ by the Chumash and Lesa’mo’ by the Salinan.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Kiserotti, member, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation\"]‘Nothing good happens without community, and nothing really good happens without teamwork and without inclusiveness.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rock is sacred to both tribes, a central figure in their mythology, although the two groups have ongoing tension over whether the rock should be climbed. The Chumash object to the Salinan tradition of scaling the rock twice a year, on the winter and summer solstices. But what both tribes have in common is a painful history of the sacred rock’s desecration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1889, the Army Corps of Engineers started heavily quarrying Morro Rock, blasting 250,000 tons of rock over the course of 80 years. They used it to create breakwaters in Morro Bay and nearby Avila Beach, a deeply painful history to the Chumash and Salinan. Blasted pieces of the rock were also used in buildings around San Luis Obispo County and for the road to the rock itself, which used to be an island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white archival photo of three men standing on a large rock.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo taken between 1885 and 1899. The three men mining Morro Rock are Captain AA Polhamus, contractor; John Schneider, engineer; and Lester Van Fleet, foreman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the History Center of San Luis Obispo County)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rock is now about two-thirds of its original size, and shaped differently from how even some living tribal elders remember it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Road to reunion\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the Army Corps of Engineers started looking at repairing the nearby Port San Luis breakwater. They reached out to the Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC) to get input on what should happen to the granite that originally came from Morro Rock. Fred Collins chaired the council at the time, and told them he wanted it back.[aside postID=\"news_11933852,news_11928364\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“He wanted them to put it back together,” said Violet Sage Walker, the current chairwoman of the NCTC, and Collins’ daughter. “I imagine him thinking that they’re gonna, like, glue the rock back together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps eventually put the project on hold after deciding it wasn’t feasible. But then in 2021, they contacted the Chumash — and the Salinan, who did not get involved and didn’t want to comment on it for this story — and told them they’d found a way to extract some of Morro Rock’s stones from the breakwater and return them to the tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reuniting the rock\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In August of 2022, the NCTC brought the various Chumash tribes together to return recovered pieces of Lisamu’ to their source in a ceremony called Reunite the Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11940498 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stand by a boat near the shore with people sitting down on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional wooden canoes called tomols approach the shore on Aug. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tribal members rowed traditional wooden canoes called tomols to the sandy shore below the rock. The rowers were greeted on the shore by more tribal members who cheered and sang songs. About a hundred people from all parts of the Morro Bay community looked on excitedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation member Michael Kiserotti invited everyone — not just tribal members — to form a human chain to pass the stones from the beached tomols to the base of Lisamu’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing good happens without community, and nothing really good happens without teamwork and without inclusiveness,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A seat at the table\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Violet Sage Walker described that day as “spectacular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad always would tell people, we can do better. And that’s an example of us doing better, doing things with more care and consideration and empathy for other people. It was a pretty amazing event,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it was meaningful to have the Army Corps “stand with us and give us back our rocks, and apologize for things that happened in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"An archival black and white photo of a section of a large rock being blown up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in the summer of 1895, this archival photo shows Morro Rock being actively blown up. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the History Center of San Luis Obispo County)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While she appreciated the symbolism of returning the rocks, she said it doesn’t wash away the painful and violent history of this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rock was blown up right about the time our people and our culture were, too,” she said. “In the 1880s, our people were being killed, [with] state-sanctioned killing of Indigenous people. It was after the mission system, so they were already displaced from their land, and then our sacred places were being blown up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a legacy of violence, and one that is still very much in the minds of Indigenous people here. But Sage Walker said her tribe now has a “seat at the table” when decisions are made, a hopeful sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940501\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of people form a line at the base of a large rock outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people participated in Reunite the Rock’s human chain, passing recovered fragments of Morro Rock one by one to the base of the rock on Aug. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, a massive offshore wind farm is planned for Morro Bay, as is the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary in the waters south of Morro Bay. While the tribe doesn’t control those projects, they are being consulted on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bittersweet,” Sage Walker said. “These people, my ancestors, people that have suffered so much aren’t here to see things like this happen. But it hopefully will be easier on the next generation, that they won’t have to go through some of the things that we’ve gone through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps’ breakwater project will likely pick back up in the spring. The rocks’ return was a symbolic gesture, but for Sage Walker, it’s an indication the Chumash are finally being heard, listened to and included — a small step toward healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rock is sacred to both tribes, a central figure in their mythology, although the two groups have ongoing tension over whether the rock should be climbed. The Chumash object to the Salinan tradition of scaling the rock twice a year, on the winter and summer solstices. But what both tribes have in common is a painful history of the sacred rock’s desecration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1889, the Army Corps of Engineers started heavily quarrying Morro Rock, blasting 250,000 tons of rock over the course of 80 years. They used it to create breakwaters in Morro Bay and nearby Avila Beach, a deeply painful history to the Chumash and Salinan. Blasted pieces of the rock were also used in buildings around San Luis Obispo County and for the road to the rock itself, which used to be an island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940503\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-800x512.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white archival photo of three men standing on a large rock.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-1020x653.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62636_1990_040_-68-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An archival photo taken between 1885 and 1899. The three men mining Morro Rock are Captain AA Polhamus, contractor; John Schneider, engineer; and Lester Van Fleet, foreman. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the History Center of San Luis Obispo County)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rock is now about two-thirds of its original size, and shaped differently from how even some living tribal elders remember it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Road to reunion\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the Army Corps of Engineers started looking at repairing the nearby Port San Luis breakwater. They reached out to the Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC) to get input on what should happen to the granite that originally came from Morro Rock. Fred Collins chaired the council at the time, and told them he wanted it back.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He wanted them to put it back together,” said Violet Sage Walker, the current chairwoman of the NCTC, and Collins’ daughter. “I imagine him thinking that they’re gonna, like, glue the rock back together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps eventually put the project on hold after deciding it wasn’t feasible. But then in 2021, they contacted the Chumash — and the Salinan, who did not get involved and didn’t want to comment on it for this story — and told them they’d found a way to extract some of Morro Rock’s stones from the breakwater and return them to the tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reuniting the rock\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In August of 2022, the NCTC brought the various Chumash tribes together to return recovered pieces of Lisamu’ to their source in a ceremony called Reunite the Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11940498 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stand by a boat near the shore with people sitting down on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62629_beachgreeting2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional wooden canoes called tomols approach the shore on Aug. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tribal members rowed traditional wooden canoes called tomols to the sandy shore below the rock. The rowers were greeted on the shore by more tribal members who cheered and sang songs. About a hundred people from all parts of the Morro Bay community looked on excitedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation member Michael Kiserotti invited everyone — not just tribal members — to form a human chain to pass the stones from the beached tomols to the base of Lisamu’.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing good happens without community, and nothing really good happens without teamwork and without inclusiveness,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A seat at the table\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Violet Sage Walker described that day as “spectacular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad always would tell people, we can do better. And that’s an example of us doing better, doing things with more care and consideration and empathy for other people. It was a pretty amazing event,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it was meaningful to have the Army Corps “stand with us and give us back our rocks, and apologize for things that happened in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"An archival black and white photo of a section of a large rock being blown up.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-800x580.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62634_1990.040.042-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in the summer of 1895, this archival photo shows Morro Rock being actively blown up. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the History Center of San Luis Obispo County)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While she appreciated the symbolism of returning the rocks, she said it doesn’t wash away the painful and violent history of this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rock was blown up right about the time our people and our culture were, too,” she said. “In the 1880s, our people were being killed, [with] state-sanctioned killing of Indigenous people. It was after the mission system, so they were already displaced from their land, and then our sacred places were being blown up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a legacy of violence, and one that is still very much in the minds of Indigenous people here. But Sage Walker said her tribe now has a “seat at the table” when decisions are made, a hopeful sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940501\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of people form a line at the base of a large rock outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS62632_humanchain6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people participated in Reunite the Rock’s human chain, passing recovered fragments of Morro Rock one by one to the base of the rock on Aug. 20, 2022. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Purper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, a massive offshore wind farm is planned for Morro Bay, as is the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary in the waters south of Morro Bay. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Monday (Jan. 30, 2023):\u003c/strong> Damian Breen, a senior official at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, retired from his position effective Jan. 13, according to an agency representative. The announcement comes after Breen, who worked for the district for 24 years, was accused of uttering a racist, sexist slur during a confrontation with a security guard at the agency's headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veronica Eady, the district's senior deputy executive officer of policy and equity, is now overseeing operations and enforcement duties, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Dec. 6, 2022:\u003c/strong> One of the top officials at the agency that regulates Bay Area pollution is on paid leave after he allegedly used a racist, sexist slur in a confrontation with a security official at the district’s headquarters in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Breen, senior deputy executive officer of operations at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, told the official during a brief exchange Oct. 5, “I don’t have time for this, you Black b----,\" according to documents obtained by KQED through a California Public Records Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the alleged incident involving Breen, who is white, and the security employee, who is Black, an air district representative confirmed he was on leave. The agency has declined to provide more information, citing policy not to comment on personnel matters except to confirm employment status. In response, KQED filed the records request, and has since learned details of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The episode involving Breen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/air-district-leadership\">whom the district lists among its half-dozen top executives\u003c/a>, comes after a series of changes in the agency's senior leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, the air district fired Jeff McKay, its chief financial officer. Along with Breen, the agency’s chief administrative officer, Rex Sanders, is currently on leave. Jack Broadbent, the district’s long-time executive officer, retired in June. Last year Brian Bunger, the agency's top lawyer for more than 20 years, also retired, leaving the agency in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen played a leading role in two of the agency’s higher-profile pollution enforcement actions this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January the air district disclosed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">Valero’s Benicia refinery released excessive levels of hazardous chemicals\u003c/a> for more than 15 years before the agency discovered the emissions. Breen was the agency’s main voice when it disclosed the releases to the public. He also apologized to Benicia city officials, who were upset it took the agency three years to tell them about the emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the district moved to shut down a set of giant diesel generators that had been used for more than a year and a half to power a major cannabis growing facility in East Oakland, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911263/regulator-moves-to-shut-down-diesel-generators-at-east-oakland-cannabis-facility\">Green Sage\u003c/a>. Breen was quoted multiple times in news stories and the agency’s press release about its enforcement actions against the company.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11932420,news_11928625,news_11920452\"]The alleged October incident involving Breen was recounted in several documents released in response to KQED's records request. The Oct. 5 encounter, which lasted about 20 seconds, was captured on a building security camera. The video, also obtained through a records request, does not include audio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents include brief incident reports from the security firm serving the \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/about-mtc/authorities/bay-area-headquarters-authority/bay-area-metro-center\">Bay Area Metro Center\u003c/a>, a Beale Street building that houses the air district and several other regional agencies, and emails from Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate company that manages the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those accounts say Breen and an unidentified woman were walking through a security checkpoint at around 3 p.m. on Oct. 5 when a security guard asked the woman for her badge. Breen showed the guard his badge and told the officer, “She’s with me.” The two then continued down a hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security director noticed the interaction and told the unidentified woman she had to check in with security on the first floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And who the hell are you to tell me anything?” Breen asked, according to the director’s email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stated to him that I am the security director, and your visitor must check in with security if you would like to show her around the building,” the unidentified director wrote, adding that the woman with Breen said she would leave and started walking away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked the employee his name and he stated ‘I don’t have time for this you black bitch’ as he was walking to badge his badge on the Harrison garage door leading out near FasTrak hallway,” the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Damien [sic] was exceptionally rude,” one incident report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, a Cushman & Wakefield employee emailed facilities staff about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an incident a little while ago with an BAAQMD employee Damien [sic] Breen,” the email said. The incident was also referred to the air district’s head of human resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long pressured the air district to do more to fight environmental racism and support Bay Area communities of color that have been disproportionately affected by pollution. The district has adopted a resolution supporting racial justice and established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\">Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion \u003c/a>that says the air district is committed to “zero tolerance of all forms of discrimination and harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breen could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, an air district representative declined to answer several questions about the incident involving him and the causes for changes in agency leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All personnel matters are confidential,” said spokesperson Kristine Roselius, adding that the district would not make any staff members, including Breen, available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The air district’s commitment to public health, air quality, the global climate and the vigorous enforcement of all air quality regulations continues unabated,” Roselius said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is getting close to the end of its recruitment process for a new executive officer. The district’s board is expected to interview the final candidates for the position in closed session on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the company that employs the unidentified security official who was the focus of Breen’s alleged actions, Allied Universal, praised her in a statement emailed by Kari Garcia, the firm’s director of public affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allied Universal commends our employee’s actions. Our security professionals go through extensive training in dealing with a wide range of situations including de-escalation training,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Correction: This story has been revised to correct attribution to the reports that recount the Oct. 5, 2022, incident at the Bay Area Metro Center building in San Francisco. In addition, the name of a property management employee who played only an incidental role in the episode has been removed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The authors also \u003ca href=\"https://sfei.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/portfolio/index.html?appid=2ab0c998497f4f7398aa54f176a6fb26\">created maps\u003c/a> to provide a high-level overview of this challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>12-inch sea level rise scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938217\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1177px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938217 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/12.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing light flooding along the shores of San Francisco Bay.\" width=\"1177\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/12.jpg 1177w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/12-800x485.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/12-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/12-160x97.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mapping covers both current conditions and projected future conditions with sea level rise. The darker the color, the more imminent the risk of groundwater rising. \u003ccite>(Pathways Climate Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Now the public can go and look at these tools and see how different levels of sea level rise could affect everything from flooding in their basements to reducing the capacity of sewer systems to potential infrastructure damage to bridges and tall buildings,” Covert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless the world curbs greenhouse gases exponentially globally, the authors find, the region could be in store for a wetter future. 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It’s going to change everything related to how we design buildings, freeways and sewer infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>36-inch sea level rise scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938218 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/36.jpg\" alt=\"A map shows moderate flooding in a few areas, mostly Novato and some southern parts of the Bay Area.\" width=\"1072\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/36.jpg 1072w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/36-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/36-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/36-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May said the project is the first of its kind for the region, but the data is limited, and “our mapping could already be a significant underestimate of the problem.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christine May, founder, Pathways Climate Institute\"]‘It has really big implications. It’s going to change everything related to how we design buildings, freeways and sewer infrastructure.’[/pullquote]The authors said decision-makers should treat the research as a warning sign of what’s to come in a warming world. May said there are hundreds, if not thousands, of contaminated sites around the Bay — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development\">remnants of the region’s industrial past\u003c/a> — and if groundwater rises, it could all come in contact with this pollution buried throughout the shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime you’re leaving contamination in the ground, if those conditions change, such as the water table is rising, that provides the potential to remobilize contaminants and create a new exposure pathway that could impact the environment or public health,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risks of contaminants resurfacing disproportionately affect lower-income communities and communities of color because historical injustices mean that they are more likely to live near contaminated sites, said Kristina Hill, professor at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even a few inches of groundwater rise may mobilize contaminants or change flow directions, causing contaminants in the soil to spread,” she said. “Existing remediation plans don’t account for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>66-inch sea level rise scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/66.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing more intense flooding along the southern Bay Area such as Palo Alto, Redwood City and Fremont.\" width=\"1012\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/66.jpg 1012w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/66-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/66-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These initial findings could give water agencies more power to enforce cleanup, said Lisa Horowitz McCann, assistant director of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives us strong evidence to start making requirements where we have another layer of science that supports that there’s a risk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board recently made a pivotal move in revising regulations by requiring bayfront landfills to pinpoint methods for protecting landfills from rising groundwater in their long-term flood protection plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While previous studies have looked at groundwater rise in the Bay Area, this new vetted data set provides the information decision-makers need to understand how to adapt planning decisions for groundwater rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Hamlat, principal resilience analyst in San Francisco’s Office of Resilience and Capital Planning, said the city has “photographic evidence of where there’s already emerging groundwater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’ll make us build smarter,” she said. “We want to make sure that we’re protecting our assets, and I am sure property owners do, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>108-inch sea level rise scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/108-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing intense flooding all along the shores of the Bay Area.\" width=\"986\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/108-Copy.jpg 986w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/108-Copy-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/108-Copy-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is already using the study’s findings for capital improvement projects. 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A widely publicized estimate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/california-storm-costs-could-add-up-to-nations-first-billion-dollar-disaster-of-2023\">price tag on the three weeks of storms could top $1 billion\u003c/a>. Other estimates have put the \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/01/12/california-storm-losses-estimated-at-more-than-30-billion/\">potential cost in the tens of billions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widespread power outages are part of that damage assessment. PG&E said Monday it has restored electricity to about 2.6 million customers who have lost power for varying periods since Dec. 30. The utility says about 6,500 are still without power. 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The only period that surpassed the recent series of storms came in January 1862, in the midst of the wettest recorded winter in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ggweather/status/1615026485932486657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday and Tuesday’s lull in the rainy onslaught is allowing rivers and streams throughout the state to drop below flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a briefing Monday, the California Department of Water Resources said the series of storms — each of which wrung heavy precipitation out of a series of atmospheric rivers wafting in to the California coast from the southwest — has given a much-needed boost to the state’s reservoirs and snowpack after two very dry winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1615077858673856513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Climatologist Michael Anderson said the snowpack, the “frozen reservoir” that in a “normal” year provides one-third of the state’s water supply, is at “epic levels.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11937849,science_1981234,news_11937367\"]Anderson noted that the storms that began rolling in after Dec. 26 were relatively cold. That meant virtually all of the precipitation that fell at higher elevations came down as snow. The result is a statewide snowpack that is currently 247% of average for this time of year — and 120% of its average level on April 1 — traditionally considered the peak date for the Sierra snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ahead of the record snowpack of 1982–83,” Anderson said. He added that the huge surplus of water currently locked up as snow in the mountains could pose a challenge later in the wet season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking to the future, this does set the stage for potentially dealing with flood issues as we move through the snowmelt season,” Anderson said. 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"content": "\u003cp>The new year in California has gotten off to a very wet, rocky start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two weeks, the state has experienced an unrelenting and deadly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937216/calm-before-the-next-storms-a-reeling-california-braces-for-back-to-back-atmospheric-rivers\">series of storms\u003c/a> — or “bomb cyclones” — that have delivered an onslaught of flooding, landslides, fallen trees and power outages, inflicting an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/us/california-storm-damage.html\">billion dollars of damage\u003c/a>, and causing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/tracking-the-deaths-from-californias-winter-storms\">least 19 deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the barrage isn’t over, as \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11938002/bay-area-weekend-weather-a-new-round-of-winter-storms-is-coming\">yet another series of storms move in \u003c/a>over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938026\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456047532-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a reservoir at full capacity.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456047532-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456047532-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456047532-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456047532.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicasio Reservoir is one of seven reservoirs in Marin County that is now at 100% capacity, on Jan. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there is a silver lining to these so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a>: They’ve delivered a much-needed resource that our perennially dehydrated state, ironically, needs much more of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927120/california-drought-enters-fourth-year-with-little-respite-on-the-horizon\">For the last four years\u003c/a>, California has experienced a devastating \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-09/drought-california-oroville-shasta-reservoirs-critically-low\">drought that has depleted its reservoirs\u003c/a>, forced officials to plead with residents to conserve water and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11933826/california-cities-struggle-to-get-water-from-state-as-drought-conditions-continue\">constrained supplies\u003c/a> to municipalities and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934697/how-californias-drought-is-changing-the-politics-of-the-nations-largest-notoriously-thirsty-farming-district\">vital farmland\u003c/a>. Now, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936767/california-snowpack-increases-amid-severe-drought\">the snowpack at 174% of the historical average\u003c/a> this year — the third-best measurement in the past four decades — Californians could be forgiven for thinking the drought may soon be over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the recent massive dump of precipitation has already helped alleviate drought conditions and replenish reservoirs — with the storms pushing much of the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.drought.gov/states/california\">out of the “extreme drought”\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain\"> category\u003c/a> — experts say that positive impact will likely be ephemeral, and fall far short of pulling California out of its protracted state of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981234/climate-change-makes-heat-waves-storms-and-droughts-worse-report-confirms\">climate-change fueled drought\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101891818,news_11936767,science_1981241\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“These storms have not ended the drought,” said Molly White, water operations manager for the State Water Project. Despite the jaw-dropping amount of rain — and in the mountains, snow — that has fallen on the state in recent weeks, she said, “major reservoir storage remains below average, and conditions could turn dry again this winter, offsetting recent rain and snow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some have begun to fill at a rapid pace, especially those near the hard-hit Sacramento region and parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve got so far puts us in good shape, probably for at least the next year,” said Alan Haynes, the hydrologist in charge of the California Nevada River Forecast Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snowpack is its own type of reservoir, storing moisture that ideally melts slowly into reservoirs, supplying residents with water during the drier months of summer and fall. But now that snowpack often melts too quickly and reservoirs aren’t able to capture enough of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California system was built for a climate we don’t have any more,” said Laura Feinstein, who leads work on climate resilience and environment at SPUR, a public policy nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where could the storms fall short?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s still early in the winter and it’s unclear what the next few months will bring. Last year, statewide snowpack around this time also looked promising. But a few warm, dry months followed, and when snowpack was supposed to peak in early April, it was just 38% of the historic average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the drought yet,” said Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the storms haven’t dropped as much water on northern California. The state’s largest reservoir at \u003ca href=\"https://shasta.uslakes.info/Level/\">Lake Shasta that was at 55% of its historical average during the winter holidays had risen to 70% by Tuesday\u003c/a> — an improvement, but still well below historical averages due to years of water scarcity, according to Haynes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheric rivers aren’t striking everywhere. They move around “like a garden hose if you are spraying it across the yard,” said David Gochis, an expert in how water affects the weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those biggest reservoirs are just so massive it is probably going to take awhile for them to fill,” he said. For some of the biggest, most crucial reservoirs, it may take take five or six such drenchings, he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alan Haynes, hydrologist, California Nevada River Forecast Center\"]‘What we’ve got so far puts us in good shape, probably for at least the next year.’[/pullquote]David Novak, director of the National Weather’s Service’s Weather Prediction Center, says the atmospheric rivers still to come will likely be weaker. The problem is the already wet ground won’t be able to absorb much more water, creating problems with runoff. In about 10 days, weather patterns may shift and finally “turn off the spigot,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Colorado River, a major source of water for Southern California, has also been stricken by drought that has depleted major reservoirs on that river. The recent storms won’t fix that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michael Anderson, state climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, says that there’s still a long way to go before larger reservoirs are filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smaller water systems probably got their fill and then some with these storms, larger projects [like] the two big ones, Oroville and Shasta, are still trying to recover storage,” said Anderson on a recent episode of KQED Forum. “Depletion of those reservoirs was so great, that even gaining half-a-million acre-feet still leaves them with another half-million to a million acre-feet to recover before they get back to where they would be considered average for this time of year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson urged people to have a conservation mindset and understand that the current wet weather may not cure all the challenges that have been set into place due to drought conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">⚠️ Long-term drought, dating back to winter 2019-2020, continues across California, the Great Basin, & parts of the Pacific Northwest. However, intense precip in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA\u003c/a> the past few weeks has significantly reduced \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/drought?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#drought\u003c/a> intensity in California. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hs7rCpQMsY\">https://t.co/hs7rCpQMsY\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/9mIwB8xP3V\">pic.twitter.com/9mIwB8xP3V\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA NCEI (@NOAANCEI) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAANCEI/status/1613963027618856965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Bean, a specialist with the state’s Water Rights Division, says capturing rainwater is a crucial solution, alongside water recycling. The Water Rights Division is streamlining permits for agencies to recharge their groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t going to be a silver bullet. Whether or not you like the analogy, it’s more like silver buckshot,” said Bean. “If we’re going to go after something, we need to do many different things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about long-term issues like climate change?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many farmers in California pump water from underground, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936313/as-drought-continues-many-in-central-valley-drill-deeper-for-water\">with the enormous amounts pulled from aquifers depleting groundwater\u003c/a>. Some wells are running dry. It is an entrenched problem and it isn’t going to be solved by a short-term series of storms, experts said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jeanine Jones, interstate resources manager, California Department of Water Resources\"]‘[T]his series of storms really is kind of just a drop in the bucket.’[/pullquote]“Our management of land has prevented it from being recharged very well,” said Mike Antos, a watershed specialist at Stantec, a consulting company. He says the Central Valley needs more places for water flows to seep down and replenish aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California is facing a long-term problem. Although there have been some wet years mixed in, California’s drought has been going on for roughly two decades. Climate change is creating drier, hotter conditions. Water evaporates faster. California officials predict there will be less water in the state’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in that big picture, this series of storms really is kind of just a drop in the bucket,” said Jeanine Jones, the interstate resources manager at California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Phillis from The Associated Press and KQED’s Sara Hossaini and Alexis Madrigal contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Decades of research by scientists at \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063\">Exxon accurately predicted how much global warming would occur from burning fossil fuels\u003c/a>, according to a new study in the journal \u003cem>Science.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings clash with an enormously successful campaign that Exxon spearheaded and funded for more than 30 years that cast doubt on human-driven climate change and the science underpinning it. That narrative helped delay federal and international action on climate change, even as the impacts of climate change worsened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few years, journalists and researchers revealed that Exxon did in-house research that showed it knew that human-caused climate change is real. The new study looked at Exxon's research and compared it to the warming that has actually happened.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11933853,science_1921232\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research analyzed Exxon's climate studies from 1977 to 2003. The researchers show the company, now called ExxonMobil, produced climate research that was at least as accurate as work by independent academics and governments — and occasionally surpassed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important because ExxonMobil and the broader fossil fuel industry face lawsuits nationwide claiming they misled the public on the harmful effects of their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line is we found that they were modeling and predicting global warming with, frankly, shocking levels of skill and accuracy, especially for a company that then spent the next couple of decades denying that very climate science,\" says lead author Geoffrey Supran, who now is an associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures\">Earth already has warmed a little more than 1 degree Celsius\u003c/a> (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial times of the late 1800s. 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The researchers found, for example, that Exxon's own modeling charted this kind of temperature increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Specifically, what we've done is to actually put a number for the first time on what Exxon knew, which is that the burning of their fossil fuel products would heat the planet by something like 0.2 [degrees] Celsius every single decade,\" Supran says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://apps.npr.org/datawrapper/44gcY/6/?initialWidth=763&childId=responsive-embed-44gcY&parentTitle=Exxon%20scientists%20accurately%20predicted%20global%20warming%20from%20burning%20fossil%20fuels.%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2023%2F01%2F12%2F1148376084%2Fexxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ExxonMobil's response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While ExxonMobil has not addressed the specifics in this paper, the company did respond before the research was published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue has come up several times in recent years and, in each case, our answer is the same: those who talk about how 'Exxon Knew' are wrong in their conclusions,\" wrote ExxonMobil spokesperson Todd Spitler in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to reveal what ExxonMobil knew and when has coalesced on social media under the hashtag #ExxonKnew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"ExxonMobil's understanding of climate science has developed along with that of the broader scientific community,\" said Spitler. He said \"well intended, internal policy debates\" have been recast by some \"as an attempted company disinformation campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitler pointed to a related 2019 case ExxonMobil won in New York and specifically highlighted a section on page 37 of the \u003ca href=\"https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/global/files/climate-change/nyag-verdict-dec-2019.pdf?la=en&hash=F637D3B0273F4FFA7816E3766A1A49F0AEB8666E\">55-page ruling (PDF)\u003c/a>, in which Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York State Supreme Court wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What the evidence at trial revealed is that ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible. ... The testimony of these witnesses demonstrated that ExxonMobil has a culture of disciplined analysis, planning, accounting, and reporting.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In that case, the New York Attorney General's Office failed to show that the company broke state law and deceived investors by allegedly downplaying the effects climate change would have on ExxonMobil's finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/780317799/exxon-wins-new-york-climate-change-case\">NPR reported at the time\u003c/a>, Ostrager also wrote, \"Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve ExxonMobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change through the emission of greenhouse gasses in the production of its fossil fuel products.\" And Ostranger added, \"this is a securities fraud case, not a climate change case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research could aid climate lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ExxonMobil has a lot at stake in arguing that it did not mislead investors or the public about what it knew about the climate-warming effects of fossil fuels, and when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company faces more than 20 lawsuits brought by states and local governments for damages caused by climate change. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075560742/oil-lawsuit-climate-change-baltimore\">Baltimore was among the first.\u003c/a> And last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says?ICID=ref_fark\">cities in Puerto Rico filed a racketeering lawsuit against fossil fuel companies\u003c/a>, industry groups and others claiming they conspired to mislead the public about climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new research could provide more evidence for those cases as they progress through the courts, says Karen Sokol, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What Exxon scientists found and what they communicated to company executives was nothing short of horrifying,\" says Sokol. Given how science works, she says that should have prompted the company to raise an alarm to the public and policymakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imagine that world and the different trajectory that consumers, investors and policymakers would have taken when we still had time, versus now when we're entrenched in a fossil fuel-based economy that's getting increasingly expensive and difficult to exit,\" says Sokol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that provides \"significant evidence\" of the kind of deception and law-breaking that many of the lawsuits are based on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://climateintegrity.org/news/new-report-pushing-preemption\">ExxonMobil and the broader fossil fuel industry have sought to stop lawsuits\u003c/a> by getting states to pass laws to block municipalities from suing, according to the watchdog group Center for Climate Integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry also has tried to move the cases to potentially friendlier federal courts, arguing they're of national significance. 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The yard is a mess, and our beautiful garden is pretty much kaput.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fence line is a mess. The yard is a mess, and our beautiful garden is pretty much kaput,” Barnes told families in a video message. “We are working hard to get things back together as best we can and ready for Jan. 9. The idea is to open on Jan. 9 and welcome your children in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An atmospheric river storm brought heavy rain and snowfall and high winds to California over the New Year’s holiday weekend. The result was flooding, downed trees and power outages that threatened to delay the reopening of school after the winter holiday break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Sunol Glen community helped with cleanup on the campus that houses the 270 students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade. The campus, which shares Main Street with a mini-mart, a barbershop and a restaurant, has been a school and community hub, hosting community meetings, plays and events, since it was built in 1925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although many volunteers pitched in to help, including a father with a backhoe, much of the work is being completed by a restoration management company. Insurance adjusters will determine how much of the damaged property can be salvaged and what is a loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear how many other schools in the state were damaged by last weekend’s storm. In many cases, school staff are still inspecting properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-school district, and others in flood-prone areas of the state, are preparing for the next big storm, expected to arrive today. The storm and atmospheric river could bring more heavy rain, causing flooding in urban areas and around rivers, streams and creeks, according to the National Weather Service. 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They offer up-to-date information about the emergency from the state operations center briefings they attend daily, give technical assistance about accessing government funds, connect school officials with needed resources and offer them advice on how to safely reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there is a significant storm front that’s rolling in on Wednesday and Thursday, so we’ll be monitoring those impacts statewide,” Wolf said. “We will be trying to determine what level of support may be needed on the local and county front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predicting where problems will pop up is difficult, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t actually know where the rain is going to fall,” Wolf said. “And then you have counties like Alameda and Sacramento, where there’s a lot of channels, a lot of rivers, creeks and streams that are floating through. 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