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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An oil spill that may have spewed out \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fiorechevronspill50mill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 50 million gallons of crude\u003c/a> has been flowing near Chevron wells in Kern County since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State oil and gas regulators are investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, during another Chevron “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761697/the-language-of-oops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surface expression\u003c/a>,” the long-running spill was flowing at a rate of 3,000 barrels of oil a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sure seems like an awful long time for Chevron and the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to do something about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:40 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State oil and gas regulators say they’re launching an investigation of operations in a Kern County oil field after a series of large, uncontrolled crude petroleum releases near Chevron wells — including one that has continued on and off for more than 16 years and may have spewed out more than 50 million gallons of crude oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, known as DOGGR, served Chevron with a notice of violation on Friday, ordering the company to stop major, uncontrolled surface flows at a site called Gauge Setting 5, or GS-5, in the Cymric oil field. Oil has been flowing from the location since March 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769242,news_11760192,news_11761141,news_11762422\" label=\"Chevron's Kern County Spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes as DOGGR says it’s stepping up enforcement of a regulation that took effect in April banning the uncontrolled surface flows, which the agency and petroleum operators call “surface expressions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such release occurred over the last three months near a damaged and abandoned Chevron well in an area of the Cymric oil field designated 1Y. The flows in that incident, which began in May and stopped earlier this month, dumped about 400,000 gallons of crude into a dry creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation so far in connection with the 1Y episode, the precise origin of which is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Putting an End’ to Surface Expressions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an email Sunday, agency spokeswoman Theresa Schilling said that in light of the April rules barring surface expressions, “DOGGR is looking to put an end to their occurrence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schilling also acknowledged that the driving force behind the surface expressions is an oil extraction method that Chevron and other operators in the Cymric field rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 11,000-acre Cymric field, in the Temblor Range foothills about 35 miles west of Bakersfield, is the scene of extensive steam injection operations— a technique in which high-pressure steam is forced deep into the ground to free oil trapped in underground formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, that freed crude petroleum is pumped to the surface through well bores and shipped by pipelines or tankers for processing. But that’s not what’s been happening around the leaking Chevron wells, where crude oil, steam and water have apparently moved laterally underground until they find a vent or create a sinkhole that allows the material to come to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The steam injection wells are the source of heat and pressure that drive surface expressions,” Schilling said Sunday. But she added that further investigation is needed to understand exactly how that underground heat and pressure is resulting in the surface flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNJOh6k4pk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to the bottom of the expressions, Schilling said, DOGGR “is exploring swift next steps to evaluate and investigate the oil field as a whole.” She said that investigation will include independent experts, including staff from Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncontrolled flows at sites GS-5 and 1Y — locations that are just 1,000 feet apart in an area studded with dozens of active and abandoned steam injection wells — will likely be at the center of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GS-5 is the site of a flow that began in March 2003 and has recurred in a series of surface expressions in the immediate vicinity. In response to the flows, Chevron built a collection facility in 2012 from which oil is pumped into a pipeline or sucked up by vacuum trucks for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>84 Million Gallons Released\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A Chevron spokeswoman said Sunday that about 2 million barrels of oil and water — 84 million gallons have come to the surface at GS-5 since March 2003. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told DOGGR last year that it estimated the liquid flowing at the site to be 60% to 80% oil. At At the lower concentration level — 60% oil — that would put the volume of crude that has come to the surface at about 50 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron data provided to DOGGR shows the amount of liquid flowing at GS-5 has increased dramatically in recent years, from an average of about 250 to 1,100 barrels a day. The flow appeared to spike this summer after the May 10 appearance of the new surface expression at site 1Y, at one point hitting 3,000 barrels — 126,000 gallons — a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11770580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1020x741.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators have issued notices of violation for three uncontrolled crude oil releases in Cymric oil field, west of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Carto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chevron’s operational priority is the prevention of all seeps,” company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said in an email. “We are committed to stop this seep and are working toward that goal. There has been no impact to personnel, groundwater, surface water, wildlife or agriculture” from the GS-5 releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR’s notice of violation for the GS-5 surface expressions came as yet another uncontrolled release appeared near a Chevron well in Cymric field. The new spill, consisting of about 14,000 gallons of oil and water, appeared late Aug. 21 about 750 feet from GS-5 and 1,800 feet from 1Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR issued a notice of violation against Chevron for the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/e5053a6535edfa038825845e002a602a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new spill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has ordered Chevron to explain what caused the most recent release and halt steam injection work 300 feet around it, among other orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Status of Cleanup\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769242/chevron-kern-county-cymric-mckittrick-oil-spill-clean-up\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that state regulators said they did not how how long it would take for crews to clean up the 1Y spill that started in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flows, from half a dozen separate points, dumped crude oil and water into about 1,000 feet of a stream bed that runs from the flank of the Temblor Range toward the San Joaquin Valley to the east. At the site of the spill, the seasonal creek runs through a maze of oil wells and pipes used in the steam injection and oil recovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drone video recorded last week shows that crews using bulldozers and other heavy equipment have removed contaminated soil from roughly 600 feet of the creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin said in emails over the weekend that work to clean up the rest of the befouled stream bed has been suspended for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cleanup operations have been on hold so that wells in the area can be diagnosed to determine the cause of the expressions,” Laughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigative work could lead to more releases, Laughlin said. Once the work is done, the cleanup will continue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have come under increased scrutiny for their oversight of oil and gas drilling in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-July Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired the head of DOGGR\u003c/a> in the wake of disclosures the agency had dramatically increased the number of fracking permits it was issuing and that some agency employees owned stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said his agency would investigate DOGGR’s issuance of so called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2019/08/13/california-natural-resources-secretary-probe-dummy-oil-gas-files-doggr/2001602001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dummy files\u003c/a>” to petroleum companies after the Desert Sun reported that the agency may have granted permits for steam injection oil operations without doing the required safety review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story updated at 3:40 p.m. Monday to clarify the source of Chevron’s estimate that the flow at site GS-5 is 60% to 80% oil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The flows in that incident, which began in May and stopped earlier this month, dumped about 400,000 gallons of crude into a dry creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation so far in connection with the 1Y episode, the precise origin of which is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Putting an End’ to Surface Expressions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an email Sunday, agency spokeswoman Theresa Schilling said that in light of the April rules barring surface expressions, “DOGGR is looking to put an end to their occurrence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schilling also acknowledged that the driving force behind the surface expressions is an oil extraction method that Chevron and other operators in the Cymric field rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 11,000-acre Cymric field, in the Temblor Range foothills about 35 miles west of Bakersfield, is the scene of extensive steam injection operations— a technique in which high-pressure steam is forced deep into the ground to free oil trapped in underground formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, that freed crude petroleum is pumped to the surface through well bores and shipped by pipelines or tankers for processing. But that’s not what’s been happening around the leaking Chevron wells, where crude oil, steam and water have apparently moved laterally underground until they find a vent or create a sinkhole that allows the material to come to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The steam injection wells are the source of heat and pressure that drive surface expressions,” Schilling said Sunday. But she added that further investigation is needed to understand exactly how that underground heat and pressure is resulting in the surface flows.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kuNJOh6k4pk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kuNJOh6k4pk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>To get to the bottom of the expressions, Schilling said, DOGGR “is exploring swift next steps to evaluate and investigate the oil field as a whole.” She said that investigation will include independent experts, including staff from Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncontrolled flows at sites GS-5 and 1Y — locations that are just 1,000 feet apart in an area studded with dozens of active and abandoned steam injection wells — will likely be at the center of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GS-5 is the site of a flow that began in March 2003 and has recurred in a series of surface expressions in the immediate vicinity. In response to the flows, Chevron built a collection facility in 2012 from which oil is pumped into a pipeline or sucked up by vacuum trucks for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>84 Million Gallons Released\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A Chevron spokeswoman said Sunday that about 2 million barrels of oil and water — 84 million gallons have come to the surface at GS-5 since March 2003. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told DOGGR last year that it estimated the liquid flowing at the site to be 60% to 80% oil. At At the lower concentration level — 60% oil — that would put the volume of crude that has come to the surface at about 50 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron data provided to DOGGR shows the amount of liquid flowing at GS-5 has increased dramatically in recent years, from an average of about 250 to 1,100 barrels a day. The flow appeared to spike this summer after the May 10 appearance of the new surface expression at site 1Y, at one point hitting 3,000 barrels — 126,000 gallons — a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11770580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1020x741.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators have issued notices of violation for three uncontrolled crude oil releases in Cymric oil field, west of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Carto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chevron’s operational priority is the prevention of all seeps,” company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said in an email. “We are committed to stop this seep and are working toward that goal. There has been no impact to personnel, groundwater, surface water, wildlife or agriculture” from the GS-5 releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR’s notice of violation for the GS-5 surface expressions came as yet another uncontrolled release appeared near a Chevron well in Cymric field. The new spill, consisting of about 14,000 gallons of oil and water, appeared late Aug. 21 about 750 feet from GS-5 and 1,800 feet from 1Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR issued a notice of violation against Chevron for the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/e5053a6535edfa038825845e002a602a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new spill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has ordered Chevron to explain what caused the most recent release and halt steam injection work 300 feet around it, among other orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Status of Cleanup\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769242/chevron-kern-county-cymric-mckittrick-oil-spill-clean-up\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that state regulators said they did not how how long it would take for crews to clean up the 1Y spill that started in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flows, from half a dozen separate points, dumped crude oil and water into about 1,000 feet of a stream bed that runs from the flank of the Temblor Range toward the San Joaquin Valley to the east. 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Supercomputing models show how those exhaust particles are likely to behave over 100,000 feet up from the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very complex environment,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/ams/2018/02-13-18.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Dalle\u003c/a>, a researcher Computational Aerosciences Branch who’s worked on Artemis and also development and testing of the Orion spacecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having more capacity with the new modular system is going to allow us to do this more routinely for more cases,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/ams/2019/04-09-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francois Cadieux\u003c/a>, a research scientist in the Computational Aerosciences Branch of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research Center. “We’ll run smaller simulations thousands of times for different scenarios, different parameter sweeps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38645_Screen-Shot-2019-08-23-at-4.47.27-PM-qut-800x549.jpg\" alt=\""This is a very complex environment," said Derek Dalle, a researcher Computational Aerosciences Branch who's worked on Artemis and also development and testing of the Orion spacecraft. 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He promised to work to “keep the House, flip the Senate, and to win back statehouses across the country next November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And most of all, I will be campaigning my ass off for whoever wins our nomination for 2020,” he said. “Donald Trump is going to be harder to beat than most people think. But we can and we must beat him because our country, our values and our future depends on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skipping the cattle call was former Vice President Joe Biden, the race’s perceived front-runner, who also chose to pass on another California Democratic event earlier this summer. Like the other candidates who didn’t make the trek, Biden — along with South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke — opted to send video messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here were some of the most interesting moments of the day, where each candidate was given just eight minutes to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘2020 Will Not Be 2016’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"California Sen. Kamala Harris got a hometown reception at the DNC's summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Kamala-Harris-DNC-San-Francisco.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. Kamala Harris got a hometown reception at the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris got a hometown reception. Dozens of her supporters packed the room and gave her an enthusiastic welcome. At one point, she asked them to tone it down so they didn’t eat into her time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris started by noting that she first ran for office in San Francisco, as a long-shot candidate for district attorney. She sprinkled her remarks with folksy references to her parents’ history as civil rights activists, noting that anytime she and her sister, Maya, came home complaining about something, her mother would ask, “Well, what are you going to do about it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I decided to run for president of the United States,” she said, to raucous applause from her supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris went on to argue for “prosecuting the case against four more years of Donald Trump,” her standard stump line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will take a prosecutor to do that — and I will tell you it’s a long rap sheet,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris outlined that case, including Trump’s trade policy and the impact it has had on farmers, auto workers and consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She argued that Democrats need to play to win in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This guy betrayed people, and so when pundits … keep comparing 2020 to 2016, I am here to say: 2020 will not be 2016. It will not be 2016, and 2018 proved that,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To anybody who was watching when we elected 100 women to the United States Congress, when we did the work of showing that we were woke and we were organized and we were on the ground … we will do whatever is necessary to make sure every person has a vote and that vote is counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Joining and Organizing and Sacrificing’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker speaks at the DNC's summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769724\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker-1200x755.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Cory-Booker.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Cory Booker speaks at the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was the first presidential candidate to speak to the afternoon session, and due to a technical glitch with the recorded announcement, the canned “voice of God” introduced him as Sen. Michael Bennet, who spoke several hours earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker rolled with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Michael Bennet but I am not Michael Bennet,” Booker said. “I am Dwayne Johnson the Rock!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker followed a stem-winding speech from the Rev. William J. Barber II, who preached unity, saying “this is not the time to turn on each other. It’s a time to turn to each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Election 2020\" tag=\"election-2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a message that syncs well with Booker’s fundamental appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Democrats because we have faith in the idea of joining and organizing and sacrificing together — it’s not just a feel-good exercise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker described this as “a time of a lot of pain and a lot of hurt,” including lead in too many urban water systems and a criminal justice system “that supervises more African Americans than there were slaves in 1865.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booker asserted that the way to beat Trump is “not by making it all about him. … That’s what he wants.” He added that “we don’t win by emulating or matching his tactics in the gutter, dividing, demeaning and degrading. This is a time to double down on our values … we have got to bring the light and the heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hometown of LGBTQ rights leader Harvey Milk, Booker quoted Milk’s admonition that “you need to give them hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This country is looking for our vision,” Booker said. “We’ve got to speak to our highest aspirations, to elect leaders who unite folks” and be the party of “vision of hope and love. That’s why I’m in this race,” Booker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Cannot Afford to Fail’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders reiterated his platform at the DNC's summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769727\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC-1200x808.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Bernie-Sanders-DNC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders reiterated his platform at the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t break much new ground in his remarks. In fairness, few of the candidates did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling this “the most important election in our lifetime,” Sanders stressed the importance of uniting to defeat “the most dangerous president in American history,” adding that “we cannot afford to fail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders said the path to victory for Democrats is “rallying an unprecedented grassroots uprising that sweeps Trump and what he represents out of office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let us be honest with one another — this is no longer between incrementalism and the transformative change working families are crying out for,” Sanders said, adding that “playing it safe is the most dangerous course of all — and could very well cost us this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders reiterated his platform, including his Medicare for All bill replacing private health insurance, making college free, eliminating student debt and taking on “Silicon Valley and Wall Street billionaires” who enrich themselves “while paying workers starvation wages. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking an implied shot at front-runner Biden, Sanders urged Democrats to make a pledge to “commit ourselves to being as bold and brave as the great Democratic Party was in past national emergencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Need to Fight Back’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for 'attacking corruption head-on' in her remarks to the DNC's summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769729\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Elizabeth-Warren-DNC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for ‘attacking corruption head-on’ in her remarks to the DNC’s summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren also stuck to her well-trodden stump speech, opening her remarks by noting that she knew, since second grade, that she wanted to be a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to line up my dollies and teach them. I had a reputation for being tough but fair,” she said. “By the time I graduated from high school we didn’t have the money in my family for a college application, much less to send me off for four years at a university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren noted that she was able to achieve her dream because of a community college where a semester cost only $50 — tuition she was able to pay for with a waitress job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got that opportunity because somebody invested in it,” she said. “I see an America today. It’s working great, working fabulously for a thinner and thinner slice at the top — it’s just not working much for anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren called for “attacking corruption head-on,” including: making all public candidates release their tax returns; ending the revolving door between Wall Street and Capitol Hill; making it easier to join and form unions; offering universal child care; erasing college debt; increasing teacher pay; rolling back voter suppression laws; and ending gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to call it out. We need to fight back,” she said. “I believe that this is our time and this is our way. It’s how we rebuild and strengthen our democracy. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Have to Keep The Heat On’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Tim Ryan at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Tim-Ryan-DNC.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Tim Ryan at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congressman Tim Ryan, of Ohio, took to the stage at the end of the morning on a mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan said he just came from a “tough couple days” in Dayton, Ohio, where a recent shooting killed nine people and injured 27 others. Ryan said he spoke with several people who had been present at other mass shootings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s starting to happen so often that the same human being is experiencing this multiple times, and I will tell you that we have to keep the heat on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan called for Democrats to be aggressive on gun control, on the economy, on workers’ rights, on climate change and on other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t let Mitch McConnell squirm his way out of this. We can’t let Donald Trump give us the Potomac two-step,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mitch McConnell: Get off your ass and pass gun reform in the United States Senate. Get off your ass and pass gun reform in the United States Senate. The ground has shifted underneath the Republican Party on this issue, and we are going to make sure that they either pass this legislation or they pay the price at the ballot box in 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The most recent footage, from earlier this week, shows heavy equipment continuing to work on an extensive section of the oil-soaked channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Kern County environmental activist called the video \"eye-opening\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This just shows a different perspective of ... what we're dealing with here locally,\" Gustavo Aguirre Jr., a Bakersfield project coordinator at Central California Environmental Justice Network, said after viewing the footage. \"You see the flow of this toxic crude and wastewater. 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But the region occasionally sees heavy rain, which would send runoff down the stream, including through the area polluted by Chevron's Cymric spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laughlin, the DFW spokesman, was asked whether state officials were concerned about well operations in the area in the event of strong rains in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron has contingency plans in place to handle heavy rains,\" he said in his email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the job ahead, Laughlin said crews will work to remove the contaminated soil \"until clean dirt is observed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have taken most of the soil that's been removed from the site to the McKittrick Waste Landfill, Laughlin said. Some of the material has been taken to two hazardous waste dumps -- Clean Harbors, west of the town of Buttonwillow, and Waste Management's King County facility in Kettleman Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre raised concerns that oil from the accident was being dumped closer to San Joaquin Valley communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes part of this bigger problem. You take one toxic substances from one location to another,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months state officials and Chevron have said that the spill did not affect wildlife in the area. They said that crews had worked to keep birds and animals from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week they said that had changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An oiled bird, a lesser nighthawk, was recovered from the site on Aug. 14. It was transported to a wildlife care center, where it later had to be euthanized,\" the Office of Spill Prevention and Response \u003ca href=\"https://calspillwatch.wordpress.com/tag/cymric-oil-field-incident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted\u003c/a> on the agency's site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has said the spill's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probable cause\u003c/a> is related to its work to seal off a damaged and abandoned oil well. The company said its attempts to confirm the source of the original leak and shut it down unleashed even higher flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources issued two notices of violation and ordered Chevron to \"take all measures\" to stop the flow and prevent a recurrence of the releases. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of youth held a rally at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in San Francisco on Friday, urging party leadership to host a debate on the threats posed by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally came a day after the DNC’s Resolution Committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/22/climate-debate-democratic-national-committee-fight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated a resolution on a 17-8 vote\u003c/a> to call for a presidential debate focused on the climate crisis. That decision was met with raucous protest Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769482\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led organization advocating for political action on climate change, held signs Friday that said: “It’s time for a Green New Deal,” “This is an emergency. Act like it” and “Our future is not a single issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They chanted “climate debate” and hung a banner outside a parking garage adjacent to the Union Square Hilton, where the meeting is being held, that said: “Dear DNC. This is an emergency. Climate debate now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls were in attendance at the DNC’s summer meeting, including Sens. 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Jay Inslee ended his presidential bid that he’d hinged on a pledge to make climate action the nation’s top priority. Inslee was able to attract more than 130,000 individual donors — the mark the DNC set as one qualifying metric for the September debate stage. But Inslee was well shy of an additional requirement to hit 2% support in at least four national or early nominating state polls from reputable pollsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'Honestly I've felt like a minority all my life: with being young, with being a female, with being Latino. I feel a lot for plants and animals and they don't have a voice. They feel like a minority [too] and I feel like I want to be their voice,' said protester Sofia Mesa in front of the Union Square Hilton in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 2019 during the DNC summer committee meeting. The youth-led Sunrise Movement urged Democratic leaders to hold a presidential debate on the threats posed by climate change.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769544\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Honestly I’ve felt like a minority all my life: with being young, with being a female, with being Latino. I feel a lot for plants and animals and they don’t have a voice. They feel like a minority [too] and I feel like I want to be their voice,’ said protester Sofia Mesa in front of the Union Square Hilton in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 2019 during the DNC summer committee meeting. The youth-led Sunrise Movement urged Democratic leaders to hold a presidential debate on the threats posed by climate change. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inslee had repeatedly called on Perez to dedicate a DNC-sponsored debate to climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez has stuck by his earlier decision not to hold “single-issue” debates, instead planning at least a dozen debates, six in 2019 and at least six in 2020, in partnership with television networks. The third of that series is set for Sept. 12 and potentially Sept. 13 if enough candidates qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez has argued that he wants the broadest audience possible to see Democratic candidates discuss a wide range of issues. His aides also noted that the party has received separate requests for single-issue debates on civil rights, guns, poverty and issues affecting older Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the party has barred its candidates from attending any non-DNC sponsored debate, which the chairman defines as candidates interacting on the same stage at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DNC instead has encouraged other groups to hold issue-based forums where candidates appear one at a time for more extended discussions with moderators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Marquardt, of the youth-led Sunrise Movement, helps lead a protest at the Hilton in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 2019 where they are asking the DNC to host a climate debate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/sunrise-movement-1920a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Marquardt, of the youth-led Sunrise Movement, helps lead a protest at the Hilton in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 2019, where they are asking the DNC to host a climate debate. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Annika Cline, Don Clyde and Stephanie Lister and the Associated Press contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric’s customers were warned about the cost of massive wildfires that it may have sparked. Even before California’s largest utility filed bankruptcy proceedings at the start of the year, lawyers, policymakers and consumer advocates all \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2018/11/what-happens-if-pge-goes-bankrupt/\">cautioned\u003c/a> that the company’s liabilities in those fires would, one way or another, hit the pocketbooks of its 16 million customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much could consumers throughout Northern and Central California be facing in higher costs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"pge\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t have a full picture yet. We do know PG&E is seeking double-digit rate increases to help reduce the risk of future fires. But there isn’t agreement yet on how much the company will be held financially responsible for the deadly and destructive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\">wildfires\u003c/a> in 2017 and 2018. And we don’t know how much of that liability might be passed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just recently, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/billionaires-hits-a-hard-patch-the-economy-is-on-a-roll-and-help-is-wanted-in-health-care/\">ruled\u003c/a> that a jury can decide whether the utility is liable in the Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County, even though investigators pinned the source on private electrical equipment, not PG&E (more on this later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is sure: Consumers will shoulder a big share of any liabilities. Here’s what we know so far about how much PG&E’s rates could go up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Much Does PG&E Charge?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s customers are already paying some of the highest electricity rates in the state, if not the country. The utility’s average rate is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/table10.pdf\">20.06\u003c/a> cents per \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.php?id=K\">kilowatt hour,\u003c/a> compared with an average \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/table4.pdf\">16.06\u003c/a> cents statewide and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/table4.pdf\">10.48\u003c/a> cents nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interestingly, those higher rates are offset by California’s higher efficiency. The state’s average monthly consumption is about 300 kilowatt hours less than the U.S. average, with California’s average monthly electricity bill at $101.49 compared to $111.67 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average residential PG&E customer pays $113.64 a month for electricity and $52.30 for gas, or about \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M250/K270/250270251.PDF#page=9\">$165.94\u003c/a> a month, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/1fb6fa14-deee-48c4-ae0b-3f90b81f80ca?src=embed\" title=\"Average utility rates in California\" width=\"800\" height=\"1470\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Much Have PG&E’s Rates Already Risen?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, the utility’s rates have been going up faster than inflation. 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This is because the utility is asking permission from state regulators — separately from the bankruptcy proceedings — to increase its revenue in two ways. Most, but not all, of the new revenue would be passed to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, PG&E has asked for a three-year increase totaling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=10432\">$2 billion\u003c/a>.That would include a 12.4% jump next year, a 4.7% increase the year after that and a 4.8% hike in 2022. That’s nearly a 22% rise. PG&E says much of the extra money is needed for fire-safety \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/california-wildfires/2019/06/scant-details-are-california-utilities-doing-enough-to-fireproof-their-equipment/\">improvements\u003c/a> such as more fire-resistant poles, covered power lines, new weather stations and high-definition field cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this scenario, for the average PG&E residential customer using both electricity and gas, the current bill of $165.94 a month would go up to $186.24 in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, PG&E wants to raise the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=12093\">guaranteed rate of return\u003c/a> for capital investments that it gets under California law from 10.25% to 12%. It had sought a return as high as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20190422_pge_submits_updated_financing_proposal_for_safety_and_reliability_infrastructure_investments_for_16_million_customers_commits_to_working_toward_long-term_policy_solutions_to_best_serve_interests_of_customers_utility_and_california\">16%\u003c/a> in April. PG&E is arguing that it needs to offer investors bigger profits to offset the financial risks of liability in major wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This request would add an additional $4.12 a month to the average residential bill. 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