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"content": "\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zeUjeOeM24s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUjeOeM24s\">recording of a recent city council meeting\u003c/a> to Chevron executives documenting the concerns local residents have about a significant malfunction the oil giant's refinery recently experienced that has led the facility to send gases to its flares on and off for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to send the video to the company, which passed unanimously last Tuesday night, came after two Chevron officials gave a presentation to the city council about the accident that took place during last month's massive storm, which triggered the facility to belch out flames and smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the city council and local residents said at the meeting they were dissatisfied by the explanation and are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Chevron presentation was a lot of talk and nothing was learned,\" said Randy Joseph, who lives in Richmond. \"There were a bunch of non-answers. We've learned nothing about what happened during the flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">problems began Oct. 4\u003c/a>, when an \"atmospheric river\" brought strong rain and wind to the Bay Area. The refinery says it lost some power and steam production, leading to a small fire and several process units going offline. That triggered a safety technique, known as flaring, in which the facility sends gases to its flares to relieve pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Richmond resident Floy Andrews said she could smell what seemed like fuel from her porch. \"I was basically slammed with this petroleum odor. 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It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tom Butt, mayor of Richmond\"]'I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this.'[/pullquote]Councilmember Nate Bates proposed that the city send a recording of the meeting to Chevron executives so they could see and hear the concerns from members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to understand how serious this community is about flaring,\" Bates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city then sent a link of a one-hour portion of the meeting to Chevron. A top company executive said he watched the video and would share it with others at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After decades working in refining, I understand that flaring can be a concern to some that aren't familiar with its essential function in protecting people and the environment,\" Chris Cavote, a Chevron executive, wrote to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote said a key refinery official, a facility manager, couldn't make it to the meeting because the closed session of the hearing ran longer than expected and the manager had to leave for a personal matter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Karly Hampshire, a medical student at UCSF who attended the march, the climate is directly related to health. “Climate solutions are health solutions, and the health of every person alive today on the planet will be fundamentally affected by climate change,” she said. “Health institutions need to join together and start taking climate change seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the state level, Lauren Sanchez, Gov. Newsom’s senior climate adviser, also sees climate as a multilayered issue. “Truly tackling this crisis means integrating this issue into everything we do: the governor’s entire agenda on health care, on immigration, on education, and so much more,” she said. “We know that climate justice can deliver social and economic justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez told KQED on Wednesday through a recorded message from Glasgow that her top agenda item is “to save the planet from our certain doom.” Sanchez said the state of California brings two important messages to the global stage and world leaders in Scotland: “One is around hope and the other around the urgency of this crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said she’s been to many of these conferences, this one “feels different,” because of the sense of urgency. Her top concern when it comes to climate change is “the disproportionate impacts that we know this crisis has on low-income Californians and our communities of color that are already suffering from too many environmental and social burdens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking alongside Sanchez from Glasgow, Jared Blumenfeld, the secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency echoed the importance of taking action quickly.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/span>“We’re kind of running out of time,” he said. The governor and the whole state are balancing the immediate emergency response to wildfires and heat waves alongside tackling the root causes of climate change, “and we need to do it really, really quickly,” he said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/\">Many of the changes to the climate are unprecedented\u003c/a>, and some changes — like sea-level rise — are irreversible in our lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade Crowfoot, California’s natural resources secretary, who spoke with KQED just before leaving for Scotland, put it in slightly starker terms: “This is an all-hands-on-deck response to a five-alarm fire, and that’s the level of urgency that we’re bringing from California to Scotland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to maintain hope and we maintain hope through taking action,” he said. From his perspective, he sees that the only option is to understand the threat, and take the level of action that is needed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blumenfeld also noted the importance of action at both the local and state levels, referencing what seems to be a glimmer of hope, should the pledges swiftly be converted into policy: “If the promises made actually can be turned into action, we can turn this crisis around,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the promises to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59088498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end deforestation\u003c/a>, “for Californians who look outside their window during fire season,” Sanchez said, “we’re not doing enough and there’s so much more the state and communities and global leaders need to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Blumenfeld, it’s all about accountability. “These leaders go home, and you never hear about what happens next,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, California is unique because \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/climate-action/#icat\">the state is tracking each of the goals\u003c/a>, which allows the public to see what’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many other states and countries, “there’s a lot of speeches … but really, what we need is action,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Monica Lam contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nations around the globe this week have pledged to tackle two thorny and critical threats to Earth’s climate: methane, which is the most potent planet-warming pollutant, and widespread destruction of forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these are major contributors to climate change that California has tried — yet struggled — to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_21_5766\">100 countries inched toward progress on tackling climate change by signing an international pledge\u003c/a>, launched Tuesday at the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/10/california-climate-change-newsom-pulls-out-conference/\">United Nations’ climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland\u003c/a>, to slash methane pollution by nearly a third over the next 10 years. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wade Crowfoot, California's Resource Secretary \"]‘The role of nature has been underappreciated as a part of our climate solution.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nations also promised to end worldwide deforestation — a widespread practice that warms the planet — in the same time period, an ambitious goal that would be backed by nearly $20 billion in public and private funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/02/remarks-by-president-biden-at-an-event-highlighting-the-progress-of-the-global-methane-pledge/\">President Biden paired the pledges with an announcement\u003c/a> of an expansive \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\">strategy to cut methane\u003c/a>, following the lead of states, including California, that years earlier began crafting policies to stop it from seeping into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was remarkable to be able to already have a great outline of a methane action plan,” National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said at the international summit. “We can do this because of the work that has been done by everyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has long-standing rules tackling methane from landfills, the oil and gas industry, dairies and other major sources. But it’s also home to a large \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/regulatory-services/safety/pipeline-safety/aliso-canyon-well-failure\">natural gas storage facility that had a major leak\u003c/a> starting in 2015. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-helps-ensure-energy-reliability-for-southern-california\">State officials voted Thursday to increase natural gas storage at the facility while they evaluate how to shut it down.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/data/tables/ghg_inventory_sector_sum_2000-19ch4.pdf\">California’s methane emissions largely haven’t increased\u003c/a> over the past decade, but they also haven’t dropped significantly — signaling the challenge ahead for governments that signed on to the pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pledge from the U.N. nations “is sort of the lowest common denominator that you could get everyone to agree to,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.utexas.edu/facultystaff/faculty-directory/ravikumar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arvind Ravikumar\u003c/a>, an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “That said, 30% does not mean it’s easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to forests, California’s trees are losing their ability to store planet-warming carbon. The state’s forests are no longer burned or razed to clear land for agriculture, as is common in the Global North, but large tracts are burning nonetheless — from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of nature has been underappreciated as a part of our climate solution,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s forests are burning up,” he said. “In the Southern Hemisphere it’s through a policy of land clearing. In California our forests are burning as a result of climate change or forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895332 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a pump against a yellowish smoggy-looking sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumping jacks at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey shale formation near Lost Hills, California, in 2014. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-cows-and-landfills\">Cows and landfills\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02287-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">key ingredient in natural gas\u003c/a>, is a shorter-lived but more powerful greenhouse gas than the more-infamous carbon dioxide. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\">It makes up about 10% of greenhouse gases that people pump out across the United States\u003c/a>, but accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about 30% of today’s warming\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s largely regulated by the federal government, except where states have stepped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s new plans include \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-sharply-cut-methane-pollution-threatens-climate-and-public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposing a rule under the Clean Air Act\u003c/a> to cut methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas facilities, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news/new-federal-regulations-add-more-400000-miles-gas-gathering-pipelines-under-federal-oversight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finalizing another\u003c/a> that would increase oversight of certain natural gas pipelines. The White House also said \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/02/fact-sheet-president-biden-tackles-methane-emissions-spurs-innovations-and-supports-sustainable-agriculture-to-build-a-clean-energy-economy-and-create-jobs/\">state agencies would ramp up incentives\u003c/a> and other efforts to curb methane from landfills and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-11/2021-oil-and-gas-proposal.-overview-fact-sheet.pdf\">Environmental Protection Agency’s draft oil and gas rule\u003c/a>, expected to be finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-sharply-cut-methane-pollution-threatens-climate-and-public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by the end of 2022\u003c/a>, is one more example of the regulatory whiplash that industries have faced over the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No sooner had President Barack \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/05/12/administration-takes-historic-action-reduce-methane-emission-oil-and-gas-sector\">Obama finalized in 2016\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/12/obama-administration-announces-historic-new-regulations-for-methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first-ever federal rules\u003c/a> to directly regulate methane from \u003ca href=\"https://archive.epa.gov/epa/newsreleases/epa-releases-first-ever-standards-cut-methane-emissions-oil-and-gas-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new and modified oil and gas sources\u003c/a>, than President \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/17-1145/17-1145-2017-07-03.html\">Donald Trump’s administration began trying to undo them\u003c/a>. Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/climate/climate-change-methane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">undid the Trump administration’s rollbacks\u003c/a> this year, and now even more stringent rules are set to take their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/10/california-climate-change-conference-newsom/\">On methane, specifically for oil and gas companies, they have seen quite a bit of change in Washington\u003c/a>,” Lauren Sanchez, senior adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom on climate, told CalMatters from Scotland. “What California brings is kind of a consistency in message and, for them, consistency in business direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out how the federal proposal and California’s existing methane rules overlap, said Carolyn Lozo, who leads the air board’s oil and gas and greenhouse gas mitigation branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many ways, the state methane rule has very similar controls to what the EPA proposal has,” said Lozo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the landmark \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/ab-32-global-warming-solutions-act-2006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Global Warming Solutions Act passed in 2006\u003c/a>, the state has adopted a number of methane policies: \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/landfill-methane-regulation/about\">rolling out\u003c/a> requirements for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2009/landfills09/landfillfinalfro.pdf\">methane capture\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/ca-state-plan-landfills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landfills\u003c/a>, increasing oversight and monitoring to prevent leaks \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in natural gas pipelines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">storage facilities\u003c/a>, and setting a statewide target \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1383\">to cut methane pollution to 40% below 2013 levels by 2030\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/oil-and-gas-methane-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air board adopted regulations\u003c/a> in 2017 requiring regular monitoring, leak detection and repair at both new and existing oil and gas facilities, and the setting of emissions standards and other requirements for certain oil and gas equipment. The rules expanded on a patchwork of existing policies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/08/f66/California_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prevent toxic compounds and gases escaping from wells\u003c/a> enacted by some air districts, which can also reduce methane emissions, Lozo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to dig down a little deeper and see, is there a delta? Is there a place that we need to shore up the state regulation?” Lozo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Slagle, a spokesperson for the influential Western States Petroleum Association, said it’s too soon to contrast California’s program and the yet-to-be finalized EPA rules, which he said they will review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2021/11/02/epa-methane-regulations#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20support%20the%20direct%20regulation,reviewing%20it%20in%20its%20entirety.\">American Petroleum Institute\u003c/a>, he said, “We support the direct regulation of methane from new and existing sources and are committed to building on the progress we have achieved in reducing methane emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More controversial is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-slcp-inventory\">California’s approach to regulating methane from the dairy industry\u003c/a>, which accounted for nearly half of the state’s methane emissions in 2013. California’s regulators tackle those emissions entirely with incentive programs, funding efforts to harness and convert methane emissions from manure into fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice groups say these incentives encourage the persistence of large-scale farming operations near communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer and ratepayer money into programs that benefit the factory farm and gas industries and that do not address either the air quality or water quality or climate crises impacting San Joaquin Valley residents,” said Phoebe Seaton, co-director of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. “It’s past time to take our dairy problem seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like California, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\">Biden administration’s plans rely largely on voluntary incentive programs\u003c/a> for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“USDA does not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector,” said Mirvat Sewadeh, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Agriculture. “Our climate strategy is farmer, rancher and landowner led and will ensure that rural America plays a key role in our transition to cleaner sources of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, said Jamie Katz, staff attorney at the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. The Biden administration is “failing to learn from the mistakes that California has made over the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And methane pollution continues. \u003ca href=\"https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/33/which-is-a-bigger-methane-source-cow-belching-or-cow-flatulence/#:~:text=Contrary%20to%20common%20belief%2C%20it%27s,as%20a%20by%2Dproduct.)\">Cows’ digestive tracts produce methane\u003c/a>, and the gas released by their belches is unregulated in California, which could \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/draft-2030-dairy-livestock-ch4-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hinder future methane reductions\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/california-satellite-partnership/california-methane-surveys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an aerial survey\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003c/em>reported\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1720-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive plumes of methane\u003c/a> released by some landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California’s climate regulators say there’s more progress ahead. State law requires \u003ca href=\"https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp\">diverting 75% of all rotting, methane-spewing organic waste\u003c/a> from landfills by 2025. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carbon-mapper-launches-satellite-program-pinpoint-methane-and-co2-super-emitters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air board announced a collaborative plan\u003c/a> to launch a flock of carbon-sniffing satellites to detect methane and other gases. More incentive-funded manure-digesters are expected to come online, and scientists are working to crack the problem of bovine belches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to do is really deploy more dairy digesters, cap more fugitive methane emissions, move off of fossil natural gas — which will hopefully reduce our fossil fugitive methane emissions as well,” said Matthew Botill, chief of the air board’s Industrial Strategies Division. “And doing that, over this next decade, is really pivotal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-protecting-forests-to-protect-climate\">Protecting forests to protect climate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José, says the state hasn’t gone far enough to address deforestation, including on an international scale. He sponsored a bill that would have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB416\">required companies doing business with the state to certify their products were not harvested from areas where tropical deforestation occurred\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed but was vetoed by Newsom last month. Kalra said he welcomes the international pledges to end deforestation and attention to the problem but “we can do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of countries make pledges, and you don’t see much follow-up. I’m not interested in pledges, I’m interested in action to save this planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land use practices, including agriculture and burning forests for development, account for about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a>, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a circular problem: Burning forests to clear land releases carbon. And losing trees means losing their ability to pull carbon from the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California policymakers came to the same conclusion. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10.07.2020-EO-N-82-20-.pdf\">An executive order signed by Newsom last year\u003c/a> made it a priority to harness natural landscapes to promote biodiversity and “accelerate natural removal of carbon and build climate resilience in our forests … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative is still in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2019-06/draft-nwl-ip-040419.pdf\">draft form\u003c/a> but much of the focus is on forest loss through wildfires and will set goals for carbon storage in forests and soils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/ca_ghg_wildfire_forestmanagement.pdf\">The state has increased its measurements\u003c/a> of both carbon stored — or sequestered — in California’s forests and the alarming increase in emissions from severe fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our challenge in California is to restore the health of our forests to enable them to be carbon sinks instead of carbon sources,” Crowfoot said.[aside tag=\"climate-change, cop26\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew D. Hurteau of the University of New Mexico has been studying forests in the southern Sierra Nevada, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hurteaulab.org/serdp.html\">measuring climate change and fire\u003c/a> and their impact on healthy forest function. His research has been used as the underpinning for much of California’s forest and fire management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has a forest loss problem,” he said. “These significant tree-killing wildfire events are happening in the context of ongoing drought and high temperatures. It impedes the ability of new trees to grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He modeled historical, low-severity burns that occurred every 17 years. Those moderate fires took out smaller trees and emitted carbon, but that was offset by the surviving larger trees, which absorbed the carbon from the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big trees are where the carbon uptake happens,” Hurteau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the practice by fire agencies of thinning forests with low-intensity burns that target the removal of smaller trees achieves the twin goals of making forests more fire-resistant and maintaining their ability to store carbon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using forests and other lands to address the climate crisis is overdue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve paid lip service to the role of natural systems in helping to regulate the climate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was remarkable to be able to already have a great outline of a methane action plan,” National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said at the international summit. “We can do this because of the work that has been done by everyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has long-standing rules tackling methane from landfills, the oil and gas industry, dairies and other major sources. But it’s also home to a large \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/regulatory-services/safety/pipeline-safety/aliso-canyon-well-failure\">natural gas storage facility that had a major leak\u003c/a> starting in 2015. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-helps-ensure-energy-reliability-for-southern-california\">State officials voted Thursday to increase natural gas storage at the facility while they evaluate how to shut it down.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/data/tables/ghg_inventory_sector_sum_2000-19ch4.pdf\">California’s methane emissions largely haven’t increased\u003c/a> over the past decade, but they also haven’t dropped significantly — signaling the challenge ahead for governments that signed on to the pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pledge from the U.N. nations “is sort of the lowest common denominator that you could get everyone to agree to,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.utexas.edu/facultystaff/faculty-directory/ravikumar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arvind Ravikumar\u003c/a>, an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “That said, 30% does not mean it’s easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to forests, California’s trees are losing their ability to store planet-warming carbon. The state’s forests are no longer burned or razed to clear land for agriculture, as is common in the Global North, but large tracts are burning nonetheless — from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The role of nature has been underappreciated as a part of our climate solution,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s forests are burning up,” he said. “In the Southern Hemisphere it’s through a policy of land clearing. In California our forests are burning as a result of climate change or forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11895332 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The silhouette of a pump against a yellowish smoggy-looking sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-480337041.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumping jacks at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey shale formation near Lost Hills, California, in 2014. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-cows-and-landfills\">Cows and landfills\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02287-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">key ingredient in natural gas\u003c/a>, is a shorter-lived but more powerful greenhouse gas than the more-infamous carbon dioxide. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\">It makes up about 10% of greenhouse gases that people pump out across the United States\u003c/a>, but accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about 30% of today’s warming\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s largely regulated by the federal government, except where states have stepped in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s new plans include \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-sharply-cut-methane-pollution-threatens-climate-and-public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposing a rule under the Clean Air Act\u003c/a> to cut methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas facilities, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news/new-federal-regulations-add-more-400000-miles-gas-gathering-pipelines-under-federal-oversight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finalizing another\u003c/a> that would increase oversight of certain natural gas pipelines. The White House also said \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/02/fact-sheet-president-biden-tackles-methane-emissions-spurs-innovations-and-supports-sustainable-agriculture-to-build-a-clean-energy-economy-and-create-jobs/\">state agencies would ramp up incentives\u003c/a> and other efforts to curb methane from landfills and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-11/2021-oil-and-gas-proposal.-overview-fact-sheet.pdf\">Environmental Protection Agency’s draft oil and gas rule\u003c/a>, expected to be finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-sharply-cut-methane-pollution-threatens-climate-and-public-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by the end of 2022\u003c/a>, is one more example of the regulatory whiplash that industries have faced over the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No sooner had President Barack \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/05/12/administration-takes-historic-action-reduce-methane-emission-oil-and-gas-sector\">Obama finalized in 2016\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/12/obama-administration-announces-historic-new-regulations-for-methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first-ever federal rules\u003c/a> to directly regulate methane from \u003ca href=\"https://archive.epa.gov/epa/newsreleases/epa-releases-first-ever-standards-cut-methane-emissions-oil-and-gas-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new and modified oil and gas sources\u003c/a>, than President \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/17-1145/17-1145-2017-07-03.html\">Donald Trump’s administration began trying to undo them\u003c/a>. Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/climate/climate-change-methane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">undid the Trump administration’s rollbacks\u003c/a> this year, and now even more stringent rules are set to take their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/10/california-climate-change-conference-newsom/\">On methane, specifically for oil and gas companies, they have seen quite a bit of change in Washington\u003c/a>,” Lauren Sanchez, senior adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom on climate, told CalMatters from Scotland. “What California brings is kind of a consistency in message and, for them, consistency in business direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out how the federal proposal and California’s existing methane rules overlap, said Carolyn Lozo, who leads the air board’s oil and gas and greenhouse gas mitigation branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many ways, the state methane rule has very similar controls to what the EPA proposal has,” said Lozo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the landmark \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/ab-32-global-warming-solutions-act-2006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Global Warming Solutions Act passed in 2006\u003c/a>, the state has adopted a number of methane policies: \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/landfill-methane-regulation/about\">rolling out\u003c/a> requirements for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2009/landfills09/landfillfinalfro.pdf\">methane capture\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/ca-state-plan-landfills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landfills\u003c/a>, increasing oversight and monitoring to prevent leaks \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in natural gas pipelines\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">storage facilities\u003c/a>, and setting a statewide target \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1383\">to cut methane pollution to 40% below 2013 levels by 2030\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/oil-and-gas-methane-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air board adopted regulations\u003c/a> in 2017 requiring regular monitoring, leak detection and repair at both new and existing oil and gas facilities, and the setting of emissions standards and other requirements for certain oil and gas equipment. The rules expanded on a patchwork of existing policies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/08/f66/California_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prevent toxic compounds and gases escaping from wells\u003c/a> enacted by some air districts, which can also reduce methane emissions, Lozo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to dig down a little deeper and see, is there a delta? Is there a place that we need to shore up the state regulation?” Lozo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Slagle, a spokesperson for the influential Western States Petroleum Association, said it’s too soon to contrast California’s program and the yet-to-be finalized EPA rules, which he said they will review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2021/11/02/epa-methane-regulations#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20support%20the%20direct%20regulation,reviewing%20it%20in%20its%20entirety.\">American Petroleum Institute\u003c/a>, he said, “We support the direct regulation of methane from new and existing sources and are committed to building on the progress we have achieved in reducing methane emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More controversial is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-slcp-inventory\">California’s approach to regulating methane from the dairy industry\u003c/a>, which accounted for nearly half of the state’s methane emissions in 2013. California’s regulators tackle those emissions entirely with incentive programs, funding efforts to harness and convert methane emissions from manure into fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice groups say these incentives encourage the persistence of large-scale farming operations near communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer and ratepayer money into programs that benefit the factory farm and gas industries and that do not address either the air quality or water quality or climate crises impacting San Joaquin Valley residents,” said Phoebe Seaton, co-director of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. “It’s past time to take our dairy problem seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like California, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/US-Methane-Emissions-Reduction-Action-Plan-1.pdf\">Biden administration’s plans rely largely on voluntary incentive programs\u003c/a> for agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“USDA does not regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector,” said Mirvat Sewadeh, a spokesperson for the United States Department of Agriculture. “Our climate strategy is farmer, rancher and landowner led and will ensure that rural America plays a key role in our transition to cleaner sources of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, said Jamie Katz, staff attorney at the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. The Biden administration is “failing to learn from the mistakes that California has made over the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And methane pollution continues. \u003ca href=\"https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/33/which-is-a-bigger-methane-source-cow-belching-or-cow-flatulence/#:~:text=Contrary%20to%20common%20belief%2C%20it%27s,as%20a%20by%2Dproduct.)\">Cows’ digestive tracts produce methane\u003c/a>, and the gas released by their belches is unregulated in California, which could \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/draft-2030-dairy-livestock-ch4-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hinder future methane reductions\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/california-satellite-partnership/california-methane-surveys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an aerial survey\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003c/em>reported\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1720-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive plumes of methane\u003c/a> released by some landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California’s climate regulators say there’s more progress ahead. State law requires \u003ca href=\"https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp\">diverting 75% of all rotting, methane-spewing organic waste\u003c/a> from landfills by 2025. California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carbon-mapper-launches-satellite-program-pinpoint-methane-and-co2-super-emitters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air board announced a collaborative plan\u003c/a> to launch a flock of carbon-sniffing satellites to detect methane and other gases. More incentive-funded manure-digesters are expected to come online, and scientists are working to crack the problem of bovine belches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need to do is really deploy more dairy digesters, cap more fugitive methane emissions, move off of fossil natural gas — which will hopefully reduce our fossil fugitive methane emissions as well,” said Matthew Botill, chief of the air board’s Industrial Strategies Division. “And doing that, over this next decade, is really pivotal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-protecting-forests-to-protect-climate\">Protecting forests to protect climate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a Democrat from San José, says the state hasn’t gone far enough to address deforestation, including on an international scale. He sponsored a bill that would have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB416\">required companies doing business with the state to certify their products were not harvested from areas where tropical deforestation occurred\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed but was vetoed by Newsom last month. Kalra said he welcomes the international pledges to end deforestation and attention to the problem but “we can do more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of countries make pledges, and you don’t see much follow-up. I’m not interested in pledges, I’m interested in action to save this planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land use practices, including agriculture and burning forests for development, account for about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a>, according to the U.N. 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In a major expansion, these new rules also will apply to existing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America is back and leading by example in confronting the climate crisis with bold ambition,” said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His agency estimates the proposed regulations would reduce 41 million tons of methane emissions by 2035, more than the equivalent carbon dioxide emitted from all passenger cars and commercial aircraft in the country in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), is issuing a final rule that expands federal oversight of more natural gas pipelines. For the first time, more than 425,000 miles of “gathering pipelines” that move gas from production sites to interstate pipelines will be regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After years in development, these new regulations represent a major step to enhance and modernize pipeline safety and environmental standards,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior administration official says that next year PHMSA also will propose a safety rule to regulate methane leaks from 2.3 million miles of distribution pipelines in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The oil industry is split on strict methane regulation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The oil, gas and coal industries are the \u003ca href=\"https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4799\">largest source of human-caused methane emissions\u003c/a>. A study from organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund found that \u003ca href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abf9c8/pdf\">cutting methane emissions now could slow the near-term rate of global warming by as much as 30%\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"climate-change\"]But the industry is split on whether there should be more government regulations. Big oil companies are generally supportive of more rules, while smaller ones typically oppose them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large companies are heavily invested in natural gas. They worry that if methane emissions aren’t controlled, that could undermine arguments that gas is cleaner-burning than coal for generating electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BP says it “applauds the EPA for proposing new rules aimed at reducing methane emissions.” In a statement, BP America Chair and President David Lawler says the company “supports the direct federal regulation of methane emissions from new and existing sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But smaller drillers worry the new rules will make it harder for them to stay in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The methane regulations proposed today by EPA will likely result in significant new costs associated with compliance,” says Anne Bradbury, CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council. Hinting at a possible legal challenge, Bradbury says her group will work with the EPA to craft regulations that “are cost-effective and workable” and “can withstand legal scrutiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpr.org/2021/11/01/colorado-oil-and-gas-methane-emissions-testing/\">Colorado was the first state to regulate methane\u003c/a> produced by the oil and gas industry. Since then, the state has found — based on reports from oil and gas companies — that methane emissions have increased more slowly than oil production. But in Boston, a new study using a different method finds that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/10/25/emissions-of-climate-changing-methane-are-6-times-higher-in-boston-than-state-estimates-study-finds\">methane leaks along smaller distribution lines are six times higher than state estimates\u003c/a>. The study authors indicate \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/118/44/e2105804118\">methane leaks in other cities may also be higher\u003c/a> than what the EPA has estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Methane is getting more attention globally\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carbon dioxide gets most of the attention when it comes to greenhouse gases, but lately there’s been an increasing focus on methane. In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/global-assessment-urgent-steps-must-be-taken-reduce-methane\">a U.N. report urged immediate cuts in methane\u003c/a>, calling it “the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As President Biden seeks to pass budget legislation to support his climate change plans, Democrats have drafted several forms of a methane fee. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-float-new-methane-fee-spending-bill-2021-10-29/\">details are still being worked out in Congress\u003c/a>, but essentially the fee would charge oil and gas companies for releasing certain amounts of methane and potentially pay them to monitor and reduce emissions. Past methane-fee proposals have faced opposition from the oil industry and even Democrats in fossil fuel states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Glasgow, the U.S. and the European Union are leading an effort for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/18/joint-us-eu-press-release-on-the-global-methane-pledge/\">Global Methane Pledge\u003c/a>. Countries that sign it commit to collectively reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the most potent greenhouse gases there is,” said Biden as he addressed the U.N. climate meeting Tuesday. “It amounts to about half — half the warming we’re experiencing today — just methane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House says meeting that goal would reduce warming by at least 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 countries have signed the pledge so far. Notably absent are some of the world’s largest methane emitters, including China, India and Russia. Biden didn’t mention those countries specifically, but he did encourage more countries to sign on to the pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long this potent super-pollutant has fallen off the agenda at major climate summits while its emissions have risen to all-time highs,” said Sarah Smith of the Clean Air Task Force. 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They worry that if methane emissions aren’t controlled, that could undermine arguments that gas is cleaner-burning than coal for generating electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BP says it “applauds the EPA for proposing new rules aimed at reducing methane emissions.” In a statement, BP America Chair and President David Lawler says the company “supports the direct federal regulation of methane emissions from new and existing sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But smaller drillers worry the new rules will make it harder for them to stay in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The methane regulations proposed today by EPA will likely result in significant new costs associated with compliance,” says Anne Bradbury, CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council. 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The study authors indicate \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/118/44/e2105804118\">methane leaks in other cities may also be higher\u003c/a> than what the EPA has estimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Methane is getting more attention globally\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carbon dioxide gets most of the attention when it comes to greenhouse gases, but lately there’s been an increasing focus on methane. In May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/global-assessment-urgent-steps-must-be-taken-reduce-methane\">a U.N. report urged immediate cuts in methane\u003c/a>, calling it “the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As President Biden seeks to pass budget legislation to support his climate change plans, Democrats have drafted several forms of a methane fee. 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"content": "\u003cp>Indigenous nations across the U.S. have lost nearly 99% of their historical land base over time. And it’s not just the quantity of land that matters, but the quality, too: Tribes were displaced to areas that are now more exposed to a wide variety of climate change risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are among the key findings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe4943\">a multiyear study published last week in the journal “Science.” Researchers at Yale University\u003c/a>, Colorado State University and the University of Michigan constructed a first-of-its-kind data set to quantify the history of land dispossession and forced migration in the U.S., and examine its long-term environmental and economic impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the near-total loss of their tribal lands, the researchers say, Indigenous people are forced to live in areas that are, on average, more exposed to climate change hazards like extreme heat and decreased precipitation. Those lands are also less likely to lie over valuable subsurface oil and gas resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about how to address climate change, we sometimes forget that past U.S. policies and actions have led to conditions in which some groups are burdened more by climate change than others,” said Justin Farrell, a professor at the\u003ca href=\"https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/near-total-loss-historical-lands-leaves-indigenous-nations-us-more-vulnerable-climate\"> Yale School of the Environment\u003c/a> and the study’s lead author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when we’re talking about Native land dispossession [and] forced migration, in the American narrative at least, it’s this story of past harm done … There’s less attention to, how is this an ongoing story about current climate risk? How is this an ongoing story about future climate risk?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many tribes are facing more extreme environmental conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894739 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg\" alt=\"A brown tree with most of its branches broken off and lying on the ground, in a desert landscape at twilight.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dying Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree National Park on Nov. 22, 2015. California’s epic drought is having a devastating effect on the iconic trees, which normally can live to 200 years and are native only to the Mojave Desert region. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We know that European and American settlers forced Indigenous people off their lands and that colonialism laid the groundwork for systemic inequalities that persist to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts have not previously been able to fully quantify the extent of that displacement, or measure how contemporary Indigenous lands compare to those that they lost in terms of environmental conditions and economic potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study offers one of the most complete accountings of that history, and presents a stark illustration of how, more than two centuries later, the legacy of displacement has compounded the challenges faced by Indigenous groups as they confront the growing threat posed by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous nations in the U.S. have lost 98.9% of their historical land base since Europeans began colonizing the continent, the researchers found.[aside postID=news_11883520,news_11888310,news_11877591 label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 42% of tribes from the historical period now have no federally or state-recognized land, and the present-day lands that tribes do possess are an average of 2.6% the size of their estimated historical area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Present-day lands are also generally far from historical lands, averaging a distance of roughly 150 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of climate change, the analysis found that tribes’ current lands face more extreme heat and less precipitation. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortmojaveindiantribe.com/\">Fort Mojave Indian Tribe\u003c/a> (along the Colorado River), for example, experiences an average 62 more days of extreme heat per year than it did on its historical lands. Nearly half of tribes experience heightened wildfire hazard exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that Native lands are less likely to include economically valuable oil and gas resources. 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But it’s no accident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why tribal nations are located in the places they are is because the U.S. tried to remove them and get them out of the way, so that the U.S. could build this massive industrial economy, that we now know contributes to increased concentrations of increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said there was no knowledge of rising temperatures at the time, but that colonizers’ economic interests motivated them to push tribes to areas they viewed as “less important” to the building of a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The study was seven years in the making\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To arrive at their findings, the researchers examined everything from Indigenous nations’ archives and territory maps to federal records and digitized treaties. This data is now publicly available in the \u003ca href=\"https://nativeland.info/\">Native Land Information System\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They classified each tribe’s land base data within the historical and present-day periods, then turned to statistical models to answer their driving questions: What was the full extent of land dispossession and forced migration for tribes, and did their new lands offer improved or reduced environmental conditions and economic opportunities over time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project took seven years, and meant having to navigate myriad methodological and ethical challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Farrell said that accurately representing the ways in which Indigenous nations see their relationship with land meant resisting the more traditional academic approach of imposing strict boundary lines on tribes (and instead allowing for the fact that multiple tribes may occupy the same land). He also noted that most of their historical sources came from colonizer records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four mature desert bighorn rams are seen in the Trilobite Wilderness region of Mojave Trails National Monument on Aug. 27, 2017, near Essex, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s a limitation in the study, and why we see this collection as more of a start than a finish,” Farrell explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whyte, a professor at the University of Michigan and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, also noted that the number of Native American professors is relatively small, and that few non-Native scholars are interested — or qualified — in documenting complex situations of land dispossession.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The authors want the public’s help in painting a fuller picture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade of work on the project, the researchers are now making their data public in the hopes that other scholars and members of Indigenous nations will review and improve upon their findings to provide an even more specific picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that information is crucial for establishing policies aimed at mitigating future impacts of climate change, as well as remediating the land dispossession that caused these vulnerabilities in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Whyte said that the tools and data sets that the federal government has historically used to assess environmental justice issues facing Indigenous people have been lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks this new data offers tribes an important tool in being able to articulate the land loss issues that they face and argue for greater support for tribal sovereignty and the capacity to manage their own lands — including so that they can deal with the effects of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he said, it could help identify the tribal communities that would benefit from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/07/20/the-path-to-achieving-justice40/\">Biden administration pledge to deliver at least 40% of the overall benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to marginalized communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also holds important takeaways for those outside the Indigenous community and federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whyte, who serves as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, encouraged the general public to advocate for the importance of the federal government engaging in “nation-to-nation consultation with tribes,” noting that voters don’t typically evaluate politicians based on their track records for working with tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our study shows that the U.S. needs to strengthen its consultative work with tribes to figure out — for each tribe — how to deal with the effects of land dispossession, how to engage in landback and how to promote self-governance and sovereignty of Native people,” he said. “Readers need to hold the government accountable for that whether they live in Indian country or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Indigenous nations across the U.S. have lost nearly 99% of their historical land base over time. And it’s not just the quantity of land that matters, but the quality, too: Tribes were displaced to areas that are now more exposed to a wide variety of climate change risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are among the key findings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe4943\">a multiyear study published last week in the journal “Science.” Researchers at Yale University\u003c/a>, Colorado State University and the University of Michigan constructed a first-of-its-kind data set to quantify the history of land dispossession and forced migration in the U.S., and examine its long-term environmental and economic impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the near-total loss of their tribal lands, the researchers say, Indigenous people are forced to live in areas that are, on average, more exposed to climate change hazards like extreme heat and decreased precipitation. Those lands are also less likely to lie over valuable subsurface oil and gas resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we think about how to address climate change, we sometimes forget that past U.S. policies and actions have led to conditions in which some groups are burdened more by climate change than others,” said Justin Farrell, a professor at the\u003ca href=\"https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/near-total-loss-historical-lands-leaves-indigenous-nations-us-more-vulnerable-climate\"> Yale School of the Environment\u003c/a> and the study’s lead author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when we’re talking about Native land dispossession [and] forced migration, in the American narrative at least, it’s this story of past harm done … There’s less attention to, how is this an ongoing story about current climate risk? How is this an ongoing story about future climate risk?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many tribes are facing more extreme environmental conditions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894739 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg\" alt=\"A brown tree with most of its branches broken off and lying on the ground, in a desert landscape at twilight.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-498470006-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dying Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree National Park on Nov. 22, 2015. California’s epic drought is having a devastating effect on the iconic trees, which normally can live to 200 years and are native only to the Mojave Desert region. \u003ccite>(Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We know that European and American settlers forced Indigenous people off their lands and that colonialism laid the groundwork for systemic inequalities that persist to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts have not previously been able to fully quantify the extent of that displacement, or measure how contemporary Indigenous lands compare to those that they lost in terms of environmental conditions and economic potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study offers one of the most complete accountings of that history, and presents a stark illustration of how, more than two centuries later, the legacy of displacement has compounded the challenges faced by Indigenous groups as they confront the growing threat posed by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous nations in the U.S. have lost 98.9% of their historical land base since Europeans began colonizing the continent, the researchers found.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 42% of tribes from the historical period now have no federally or state-recognized land, and the present-day lands that tribes do possess are an average of 2.6% the size of their estimated historical area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Present-day lands are also generally far from historical lands, averaging a distance of roughly 150 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of climate change, the analysis found that tribes’ current lands face more extreme heat and less precipitation. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortmojaveindiantribe.com/\">Fort Mojave Indian Tribe\u003c/a> (along the Colorado River), for example, experiences an average 62 more days of extreme heat per year than it did on its historical lands. Nearly half of tribes experience heightened wildfire hazard exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that Native lands are less likely to include economically valuable oil and gas resources. And about half of tribes saw an increase in their proximity to federal lands, leaving them limited in how they can manage and use the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Researchers say this isn’t necessarily a coincidence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894738 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480.jpg\" alt=\"A teenager in a dark blue T-shirt and shorts crouches as he seems to leap out of a conical-shaped hut as sunlight dapples the dusty ground beyond a chain-link fence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-469919480-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boy emerges from a hut made of native desert palm fronds at the Malki Museum during the annual traditional agave roast on the Morongo Reservation near Banning, California, April 11, 2015. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the climate change vulnerabilities of today, Kyle Whyte, one of the study’s co-authors, said many people mistakenly perceive the situation as one of tribes being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But it’s no accident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why tribal nations are located in the places they are is because the U.S. tried to remove them and get them out of the way, so that the U.S. could build this massive industrial economy, that we now know contributes to increased concentrations of increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said there was no knowledge of rising temperatures at the time, but that colonizers’ economic interests motivated them to push tribes to areas they viewed as “less important” to the building of a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The study was seven years in the making\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To arrive at their findings, the researchers examined everything from Indigenous nations’ archives and territory maps to federal records and digitized treaties. This data is now publicly available in the \u003ca href=\"https://nativeland.info/\">Native Land Information System\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They classified each tribe’s land base data within the historical and present-day periods, then turned to statistical models to answer their driving questions: What was the full extent of land dispossession and forced migration for tribes, and did their new lands offer improved or reduced environmental conditions and economic opportunities over time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project took seven years, and meant having to navigate myriad methodological and ethical challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Farrell said that accurately representing the ways in which Indigenous nations see their relationship with land meant resisting the more traditional academic approach of imposing strict boundary lines on tribes (and instead allowing for the fact that multiple tribes may occupy the same land). He also noted that most of their historical sources came from colonizer records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11894740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-840307466-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four mature desert bighorn rams are seen in the Trilobite Wilderness region of Mojave Trails National Monument on Aug. 27, 2017, near Essex, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s a limitation in the study, and why we see this collection as more of a start than a finish,” Farrell explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whyte, a professor at the University of Michigan and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, also noted that the number of Native American professors is relatively small, and that few non-Native scholars are interested — or qualified — in documenting complex situations of land dispossession.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The authors want the public’s help in painting a fuller picture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade of work on the project, the researchers are now making their data public in the hopes that other scholars and members of Indigenous nations will review and improve upon their findings to provide an even more specific picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that information is crucial for establishing policies aimed at mitigating future impacts of climate change, as well as remediating the land dispossession that caused these vulnerabilities in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Whyte said that the tools and data sets that the federal government has historically used to assess environmental justice issues facing Indigenous people have been lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks this new data offers tribes an important tool in being able to articulate the land loss issues that they face and argue for greater support for tribal sovereignty and the capacity to manage their own lands — including so that they can deal with the effects of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he said, it could help identify the tribal communities that would benefit from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/07/20/the-path-to-achieving-justice40/\">Biden administration pledge to deliver at least 40% of the overall benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to marginalized communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also holds important takeaways for those outside the Indigenous community and federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whyte, who serves as a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, encouraged the general public to advocate for the importance of the federal government engaging in “nation-to-nation consultation with tribes,” noting that voters don’t typically evaluate politicians based on their track records for working with tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our study shows that the U.S. needs to strengthen its consultative work with tribes to figure out — for each tribe — how to deal with the effects of land dispossession, how to engage in landback and how to promote self-governance and sovereignty of Native people,” he said. “Readers need to hold the government accountable for that whether they live in Indian country or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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The action, he said, “will demonstrate to the world,” that the U.S. is “not only back at the table” but will “hopefully lead by the power of our example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it hasn’t been the case,” Biden said pointedly, adding that his administration “is working overtime to show that our climate commitment is action, not words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden told delegates at the COP26 summit that the U.S. will also seek to become a “net-zero-emissions economy” by no later than 2050. “We want to do more to help countries around the world, especially developing countries, accelerate their clean energy transition, address pollution and ensure the world we all must share a cleaner, safer, [healthier] planet,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden touted his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/1047975012\">legislative proposals, still awaiting passage by his fellow Democrats in Congress, that would allocate more than $500 billion to addressing climate change\u003c/a>, which he called “the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis that any advanced nation has made. Ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden concluded his 11-minute speech with a twist on his usual closing sentiments, saying, “God bless you all, and may God save the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>There’s a lot more work ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Biden cast the summit as a historic inflection point, his top national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, had a more pragmatic take, saying that Glasgow was only a starting point to reach climate goals. “We’re going to have to come back in ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25, ’26, ’27, ’28, ’29, and ’30 to ultimately be able to achieve what’s necessary to achieve,” he told reporters traveling to Scotland with Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s national climate adviser Gina McCarthy earlier said that the carbon-reduction plan “illustrates how, within three decades, the U.S. can meet our global climate commitments by decarbonizing the power sector, electrifying transportation and buildings, transforming industry, reducing non-CO2 emissions and reinvigorating our natural lands,” she said.[aside postID=news_11894391,news_11894453,news_11894513 label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden also plans to launch a new program to help countries with emerging economices adapt to climate change that he hopes will provide $3 billion in financing per year by fiscal year 2024, the White House said. 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Democrats, who hold a narrow majority in the U.S. Congress, have not yet agreed to the size and scope of the package, though Biden said he was confident they would vote on it in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Still to come during this year’s summit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The summit, known as COP26, lasts for two weeks. Biden is in Glasgow for two days, meeting with leaders to press them to take bigger steps to cut their emissions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Climate demonstrators gathered outside the San Francisco headquarters of investment management company BlackRock on Friday, as part of a global day of action demanding financial institutions “\u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defund climate chaos\u003c/a>” — end funding of corporations that perpetuate climate destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day of action, which took place in at least 100 cities around the world, was timed ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-change-conference-october-november-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COP26\u003c/a>, the United Nations climate conference beginning in Glasgow on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A drawn picture of a fist with a carrot can be seen, and several people paint and do art on the street \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52223_002_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Urban Tilth paint a mural on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://bankonourfuture.org/defund-climate-chaos/home/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank on Our Future\u003c/a> campaign says that stopping the funding of asset managers like BlackRock would help stop the flow of funding for oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 200 kids left school in a climate strike, joined by survivors of wildfires across the state and Indigenous leaders. Eight demonstrators blocked the entrances to BlackRock’s building throughout the day, and two were arrested after hanging a banner saying, “Investments set the world on fire from CA to Amazon #DefundClimateChaos” from the nearby Salesforce Transit Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a march and rally, participants painted a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ash. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youth Vs. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Solwazi Allah, Richmond resident who works for Urban Tilth\"]‘The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fossil fuel industry is enemy No. 1 for us personally,” Allah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BlackRock representatives did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many young people decided to take the day to strike, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/\">organizers included a school excusal notice on their website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asthma is the most common reason for school absences, and climate change is linked to several well-known asthma triggers, including extreme heat, air pollution, allergies, and mold,” the note reads. “Students around the world are asserting their right to inherit a livable planet, and we stand with them in this fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen-year-old Lizbeth Ibarra, a high school student and organizer with Youth vs. Apocalypse, said, “Investments in the fossil fuel industry are also investments in the destruction of my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loryan Boyette Tindall, a fifth grader at Manzanita SEED Elementary School in Oakland, said he has asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t help when there are smoky days,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyette Tindall came with parent chaperones and classmates to send the message that young people are invested in keeping fossil fuels in the ground. He said he plans to be a climate activist for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11894466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman in a purple skirt paints with green on a San Francisco street as part of a climate rally\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52224_001_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Hoover paints a mural that says ‘Water Is Life,’ along with the group Idle No More SF Bay, on the 400 block of Howard Street in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2021, part of a climate strike in advance of the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many demonstrators took aim at BlackRock, where CEO Larry Fink helms \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/12/top-three-asset-managers-fossil-fuel-investments\">one of the world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, worth $87 billion\u003c/a>. Fink pushed BlackRock to vote against shareholder resolutions that were pro-climate, according to The Guardian. Other reports say the company has\u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-larry-fink-climate-letter-greenwashing-reclaim-finance-urgewald-070023916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> $85 billion invested in coal\u003c/a>. As of 2019, BlackRock also was one of the the largest investors in PG&E.[aside tag=\"climate-change\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By now, it should be no surprise to Larry Fink that we are at the doorsteps of BlackRock here in San Francisco,” said Isabella Zizi of \u003ca href=\"http://www.idlenomoresfbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Idle No More SF Bay\u003c/a>, in a press release ahead of the event. “Yet again, we continue to demand he take initiative on climate change and make immediate and needed decisions that are going to ensure a clean and safe future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink has been called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/dealbook/blackrock-shareholder-voting-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the world’s most powerful investor\u003c/a> as well as one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America’s top climate villains\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors of California’s many wildfires made their voices heard at the protest. “How many more disasters must we witness, must our kids witness?” asked Wendy McCall, who said she lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894464\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894464 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman stands back to camera with a \"youth vs apocalypse\" sign on her back and holding a bullhorn.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52244_022_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people, primarily youth, march through downtown San Francisco in a youth-led protest against fossil fuels on Oct. 29, 2021, as a part of a global day of climate action in advance of COP26, the Glasgow climate summit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allen Myers, who was born and raised in Paradise and who founded an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.regeneratingparadise.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regenerating Paradise\u003c/a> in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, also turned out in support. He previously delivered ashes from his hometown to Senator Dianne Feinstein and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today to call upon corporations like BlackRock and elected leaders to stop extracting fossil fuels,” Myers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah Wilson-James, who lost her family home in the CZU Complex Fire of August 2020, echoed other fire survivors and emphasized the importance of taking action immediately. “Unless BlackRock takes meaningful action now to drive down emissions, more towns will burn, and our pain and dispossession will be the price paid for their profits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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