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"content": "\u003cp>Zawadi Namagazuzyo was about 12 when she was forced to flee her native Congo. Her mother and many family members were dead. Her father wanted her to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was fighting, a lot of fighting,” she said, recalling how the two of them ended up at a refugee camp in Zambia. She grew up there for 13 years -- getting married, giving birth and always waiting to be resettled somewhere else in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 10 months ago, Namagazuzyo and her family were resettled in San Diego County, where her father had been living for a few months. And under a brilliant sun on a recent Friday, she joined other refugees at a picnic to celebrate their graduation from a 12-week English intensive class. Drumming reverberated through the park, Congolese and Somali dishes were spread out alongside pizza -- and a red, white and blue cake anchored the dessert section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ask questions about the life in San Diego, about the rent, bills, electricity,” said Namagazuzyo, who was surprised to find so many fellow African immigrants in her new home. “We speak together the language, we are many in San Diego. I feel good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They've had to flee some of the most horrific things human beings have to offer.'\u003ccite>David Murphy, International Rescue Committee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For nearly a decade, no California county has received more refugees than San Diego County, followed by Los Angeles and Sacramento, according to state and federal data. A large number of refugees are assigned to San Diego because of its concentration of four resettlement agencies and the existence of several rooted immigrant communities already in the area. The trend dates back to the Vietnam War, when hundreds of thousands of Southeast Asians landed at Camp Pendleton for U.S. resettlement. Many stayed, helping make the area a beacon for people fleeing from violence, hunger and instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Diego historically has been a very welcoming county,” said David Murphy, executive director of the International Rescue Committee there that resettled Namagazuzyo’s family and hosted the English class. “There is now a vibrant multicultural population living in San Diego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when President Trump cites terrorism as justification to crack down on immigration -- the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-supreme-court.html\">upheld\u003c/a>, for now, key provisions of his ban on refugees -- California lawmakers are working to extend the Golden State’s welcome to the world’s displaced people. Democratic legislators from counties with significant refugee populations are pushing bills to help with education and employment, and secured a $10 million budget \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB99\">allocation\u003c/a> to help refugee children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a warm place and not just the weather but our hearts, and the legacy of that continues,” said Democratic Assemblyman Kevin McCarty of Sacramento, lead author of the refugee bills. “We welcome refugees who are escaping war and persecution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Ramazani Ali leads refugees in a graduation dance at a San Diego park. His wife, Zawadi, is behind him in a yellow headscarf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-1180x904.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-960x736.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramazani Ali leads refugees in a graduation dance at a San Diego park. His wife, Zawadi, is behind him in a yellow headscarf. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states\">executive order\u003c/a> states that more than 300 people who entered the United States as refugees are currently under FBI counterterrorism investigation, and cites two examples of convictions -- including a Somali man brought to the U.S. as a child refugee and sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the plot to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. It also would cut the number of refugees admitted this fiscal year from 110,000 to no more than 50,000, saying any more would be “detrimental” to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what that means for refugees from countries that the order singled out for a broader ban: Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenges to the order this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve had to flee some of the most horrific things human beings have to offer, they are escaping war, they are escaping terrorists, they are escaping ISIS, they have been vetted and now we are putting them through another merry-go-round of uncertainty,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZG3UCstOqgnLGmQ6OQ4oNOa9X0feli30\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the U.S. admitted nearly 85,000 refugees. More than half went to just 10 states, including Texas and New York, but the largest group, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/Arrivals2016_by_county.pdf?ver=2017-03-08-154727-590\">7,908 refugees\u003c/a>, settled in California, according to a Pew Research \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/06/just-10-states-resettled-more-than-half-of-recent-refugees-to-u-s/\">study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 3,100 of those landed in San Diego County, along with another 520 military interpreters on special immigrant visas, who are also classified as refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the end of the Vietnam War, California has \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/arrivals_by_county_and_year_since_1975.pdf?ver=2017-03-08-144555-390\">welcomed\u003c/a> 732,000 refugees, according to state data. During that time, San Diego resettled more than 85,000 refugees -- roughly equal to the entire population of cities such as Chico or Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Mazani Ali, age 2, takes to the drums at a picnic in San Diego, home to the state’s largest cluster of refugees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mazani Ali, age 2, takes to the drums at a picnic in San Diego, home to the state’s largest cluster of refugees. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You see it, hear it and feel it as you walk the streets of the City Heights neighborhood east of downtown San Diego, where shoppers throng Somali, Ethiopian and assorted Asian restaurants and a cacophony of languages ricochets in the air. In the nearby city of El Cajon, where Arabic speakers do a brisk business in shops along Main Street, Iraqi Christians known as Chaldeans number an estimated 60,000. Many arrived as refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Diego has the fault of having the best weather in the world,” said Bishop Bawai Soro of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church, which is now looking for a third location in which to hold its overflow services. Soro himself arrived in Chicago as a refugee 40 years ago, and today he ministers to the infusion of Iraqi refugees in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wars that took place in Iraq didn’t just destroy buildings and bridges and infrastructure -- they destroyed the human soul as well,” he said. “These Iraqis are the luckiest people in the world because they came to America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">United Nations High Commission\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">er\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">for \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">Refugees\u003c/a> defines a refugee as someone who has “been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence.” The U.S. government further defines a refugee as someone who may “face persecution based on religion, political opinion, race, nationality or membership in a particular social group.” As a result, waves of refugees tend to reflect global conflict zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once refugees have \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2017/266447.htm\">applied\u003c/a> for refugee status from the U.N., the agency, the U.S. Embassy or other nongovernmental agencies may refer refugees for resettlement in the U.S. That referral kicks off an application process that can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average wait time in a refugee camp is 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/top_10_refugee_receiving_states\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering a refugee, the U.S. conducts one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2017/266447.htm\">rigorous\u003c/a> vetting processes of any person allowed into the country, according to the U.S. Department of State. Accepted refugees have little say about to which state or county they will be sent. Two factors play a role: if a refugee has family members in a certain locale, and if a large community of refugees from the same country has already settled in a given area. The idea, Murphy said, is to provide a home where refugees will find support and a network to help them settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two-thirds of refugees, he said, do have some sort of family connection in the States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees enter the U.S. on refugee status and after a year they must apply to become a legal permanent resident, which grants them a green card. After five years in the U.S. they can apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, the majority of recent refugees are from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdrefugeeforum.org/\">San Diego Refugee Forum\u003c/a>, a collaboration between the four resettlement agencies in the county -- IRC, Catholic Charities, Jewish Family Services, and the Alliance for African Assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want California to put out the welcome mat for refugees, many of whom assisted our military as interpreters overseas, to help them normalize their lives and be more productive members of our communities,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego and co-author of the refugee bills currently being considered in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/refugees_resettled_in_california\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators have claimed one victory already -- the final state budget approved in June allocates $10 million to be used over three years for high-refugee-population school districts to help support and integrate refugee children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these kids come from heartbreaking and extreme trauma-filled circumstances,” said McCarty, the assemblyman from Sacramento. “Certainly counseling and mental health support is critical, and most school districts need extra translation services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government funds the bulk of refugee costs, funneled through resettlement agencies. This year $37 million of that came to California. The funds pay for initial housing costs and then provide cash aid for the refugees for about 90 days, until refugees must begin paying their own expenses. Refugees are required to pay back the organization that transports them for the travel expenses incurred in getting them to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JmdlcvLRQllU5KDDnJV9jw1oap43B23x\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, refugees may receive help from programs such as CalWORKs (cash and food assistance) and Medi-Cal (health care) that are funded by both the state and the federal government, according to the state Social Services Department. The agency does not keep data specifically on what those costs are for this group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB343\">bills\u003c/a> would allow refugees and special immigrant visa holders to pay in-state tuition rates upon arrival at public colleges. No one voted against it in the Assembly, although 15 members skipped the vote, and it’s now before the Senate Appropriations Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB349\">proposal\u003c/a> would allow special immigrant visa holders who pass certain tests to move to the top of hiring lists for particular government jobs. It’s on hold until next year, McCarty says, while sponsors work out details. Among opponents: the Service Employees International Union Local 1000, which complained that it went too far by offering refugees special consideration otherwise reserved exclusively for U.S. veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, such as the organization \u003ca href=\"https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/\">Refugee Resettlement Watch\u003c/a>, insist the program disregards the impact refugees have on U.S. natural resources. They also contend that it’s wrong for the U.S. to welcome refugees that will provide cheap labor for certain industries and end up receiving welfare and other taxpayer-funded aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"In the community garden down the street from the International Rescue Committee, Idzai Mubaiwa, originally from Zimbabwe, harvests collard greens, batching them for sale the following day at a street market. \" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-960x619.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the community garden down the street from the International Rescue Committee, Idzai Mubaiwa, originally from Zimbabwe, harvests collard greens, batching them for sale the following day at a street market. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When refugees arrive in the U.S., resettlement agencies work with them for an intense 90 days to help them find jobs, open bank accounts, register their children for school and set up their lives. After that, the agencies offer other services that refugees can apply for, such as auto and business loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in City Heights at IRC’s New Roots Community Garden, where mainly refugees tend some 95 plots, the greenhouses are filled with edibles rustling in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idzai Mubaiwa, 51, stretches her arms out over her three lush plots, bursting with kale, collard greens and sugar cane stalks. She arrived in San Diego 15 years ago from Zimbabwe, and remembers being the newbie absorbing the cultural shocks of American life, such as how children don’t have to wear school uniforms. Now her daughters are graduates of or are in college -- one on a scholarship at Vassar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moment I got this garden it was gold for me. It just brings me close to home,” she said. “It made a huge difference because this is part of my income, it helps me sustain my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grows corn as her family’s chief food source, but the rest of the rows she plants to sell at local farmers markets under the name African Sisters Produce. She picked up on what people are looking for. Kale has been hot. And that’s why this year she’s finally trying her green thumb on a California staple: strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Democratic legislators from counties with significant refugee populations are pushing bills to help with education and employment, and secured a $10 million budget \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB99\">allocation\u003c/a> to help refugee children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a warm place and not just the weather but our hearts, and the legacy of that continues,” said Democratic Assemblyman Kevin McCarty of Sacramento, lead author of the refugee bills. “We welcome refugees who are escaping war and persecution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Ramazani Ali leads refugees in a graduation dance at a San Diego park. His wife, Zawadi, is behind him in a yellow headscarf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-800x613.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-1180x904.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-960x736.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-240x184.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-375x287.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RefugeesDance-520x398.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramazani Ali leads refugees in a graduation dance at a San Diego park. His wife, Zawadi, is behind him in a yellow headscarf. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states\">executive order\u003c/a> states that more than 300 people who entered the United States as refugees are currently under FBI counterterrorism investigation, and cites two examples of convictions -- including a Somali man brought to the U.S. as a child refugee and sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the plot to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. It also would cut the number of refugees admitted this fiscal year from 110,000 to no more than 50,000, saying any more would be “detrimental” to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what that means for refugees from countries that the order singled out for a broader ban: Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenges to the order this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve had to flee some of the most horrific things human beings have to offer, they are escaping war, they are escaping terrorists, they are escaping ISIS, they have been vetted and now we are putting them through another merry-go-round of uncertainty,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the U.S. admitted nearly 85,000 refugees. More than half went to just 10 states, including Texas and New York, but the largest group, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/Arrivals2016_by_county.pdf?ver=2017-03-08-154727-590\">7,908 refugees\u003c/a>, settled in California, according to a Pew Research \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/06/just-10-states-resettled-more-than-half-of-recent-refugees-to-u-s/\">study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And 3,100 of those landed in San Diego County, along with another 520 military interpreters on special immigrant visas, who are also classified as refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the end of the Vietnam War, California has \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Refugee/Arrivals/arrivals_by_county_and_year_since_1975.pdf?ver=2017-03-08-144555-390\">welcomed\u003c/a> 732,000 refugees, according to state data. During that time, San Diego resettled more than 85,000 refugees -- roughly equal to the entire population of cities such as Chico or Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Mazani Ali, age 2, takes to the drums at a picnic in San Diego, home to the state’s largest cluster of refugees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/BoyDrum-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mazani Ali, age 2, takes to the drums at a picnic in San Diego, home to the state’s largest cluster of refugees. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You see it, hear it and feel it as you walk the streets of the City Heights neighborhood east of downtown San Diego, where shoppers throng Somali, Ethiopian and assorted Asian restaurants and a cacophony of languages ricochets in the air. In the nearby city of El Cajon, where Arabic speakers do a brisk business in shops along Main Street, Iraqi Christians known as Chaldeans number an estimated 60,000. Many arrived as refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Diego has the fault of having the best weather in the world,” said Bishop Bawai Soro of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church, which is now looking for a third location in which to hold its overflow services. Soro himself arrived in Chicago as a refugee 40 years ago, and today he ministers to the infusion of Iraqi refugees in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wars that took place in Iraq didn’t just destroy buildings and bridges and infrastructure -- they destroyed the human soul as well,” he said. “These Iraqis are the luckiest people in the world because they came to America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">United Nations High Commission\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">er\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">for \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/history-of-unhcr.html\">Refugees\u003c/a> defines a refugee as someone who has “been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence.” The U.S. government further defines a refugee as someone who may “face persecution based on religion, political opinion, race, nationality or membership in a particular social group.” As a result, waves of refugees tend to reflect global conflict zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once refugees have \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2017/266447.htm\">applied\u003c/a> for refugee status from the U.N., the agency, the U.S. Embassy or other nongovernmental agencies may refer refugees for resettlement in the U.S. That referral kicks off an application process that can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average wait time in a refugee camp is 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/top_10_refugee_receiving_states\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering a refugee, the U.S. conducts one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/factsheets/2017/266447.htm\">rigorous\u003c/a> vetting processes of any person allowed into the country, according to the U.S. Department of State. Accepted refugees have little say about to which state or county they will be sent. Two factors play a role: if a refugee has family members in a certain locale, and if a large community of refugees from the same country has already settled in a given area. The idea, Murphy said, is to provide a home where refugees will find support and a network to help them settle in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two-thirds of refugees, he said, do have some sort of family connection in the States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees enter the U.S. on refugee status and after a year they must apply to become a legal permanent resident, which grants them a green card. After five years in the U.S. they can apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, the majority of recent refugees are from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdrefugeeforum.org/\">San Diego Refugee Forum\u003c/a>, a collaboration between the four resettlement agencies in the county -- IRC, Catholic Charities, Jewish Family Services, and the Alliance for African Assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want California to put out the welcome mat for refugees, many of whom assisted our military as interpreters overseas, to help them normalize their lives and be more productive members of our communities,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat from San Diego and co-author of the refugee bills currently being considered in the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://infogram.com/refugees_resettled_in_california\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislators have claimed one victory already -- the final state budget approved in June allocates $10 million to be used over three years for high-refugee-population school districts to help support and integrate refugee children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these kids come from heartbreaking and extreme trauma-filled circumstances,” said McCarty, the assemblyman from Sacramento. “Certainly counseling and mental health support is critical, and most school districts need extra translation services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government funds the bulk of refugee costs, funneled through resettlement agencies. This year $37 million of that came to California. The funds pay for initial housing costs and then provide cash aid for the refugees for about 90 days, until refugees must begin paying their own expenses. Refugees are required to pay back the organization that transports them for the travel expenses incurred in getting them to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, refugees may receive help from programs such as CalWORKs (cash and food assistance) and Medi-Cal (health care) that are funded by both the state and the federal government, according to the state Social Services Department. The agency does not keep data specifically on what those costs are for this group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB343\">bills\u003c/a> would allow refugees and special immigrant visa holders to pay in-state tuition rates upon arrival at public colleges. No one voted against it in the Assembly, although 15 members skipped the vote, and it’s now before the Senate Appropriations Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB349\">proposal\u003c/a> would allow special immigrant visa holders who pass certain tests to move to the top of hiring lists for particular government jobs. It’s on hold until next year, McCarty says, while sponsors work out details. Among opponents: the Service Employees International Union Local 1000, which complained that it went too far by offering refugees special consideration otherwise reserved exclusively for U.S. veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, such as the organization \u003ca href=\"https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/\">Refugee Resettlement Watch\u003c/a>, insist the program disregards the impact refugees have on U.S. natural resources. They also contend that it’s wrong for the U.S. to welcome refugees that will provide cheap labor for certain industries and end up receiving welfare and other taxpayer-funded aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11591879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"In the community garden down the street from the International Rescue Committee, Idzai Mubaiwa, originally from Zimbabwe, harvests collard greens, batching them for sale the following day at a street market. \" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-960x619.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-375x242.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/PickingGreesRefugees-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the community garden down the street from the International Rescue Committee, Idzai Mubaiwa, originally from Zimbabwe, harvests collard greens, batching them for sale the following day at a street market. \u003ccite>(Peggy Peattie/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When refugees arrive in the U.S., resettlement agencies work with them for an intense 90 days to help them find jobs, open bank accounts, register their children for school and set up their lives. After that, the agencies offer other services that refugees can apply for, such as auto and business loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in City Heights at IRC’s New Roots Community Garden, where mainly refugees tend some 95 plots, the greenhouses are filled with edibles rustling in the breeze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idzai Mubaiwa, 51, stretches her arms out over her three lush plots, bursting with kale, collard greens and sugar cane stalks. She arrived in San Diego 15 years ago from Zimbabwe, and remembers being the newbie absorbing the cultural shocks of American life, such as how children don’t have to wear school uniforms. Now her daughters are graduates of or are in college -- one on a scholarship at Vassar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The moment I got this garden it was gold for me. It just brings me close to home,” she said. “It made a huge difference because this is part of my income, it helps me sustain my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grows corn as her family’s chief food source, but the rest of the rows she plants to sell at local farmers markets under the name African Sisters Produce. She picked up on what people are looking for. Kale has been hot. And that’s why this year she’s finally trying her green thumb on a California staple: strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The former vice president and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/\">Nobel Peace Prize recipient\u003c/a> Al Gore greeted a boisterous San Francisco audience around midday today at the Commonwealth Club. Gore is in town to promote his new documentary “\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6322922/\">An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film highlights what he calls, the real energy revolution. He’s optimistic sustainable trends can help fend off the dark warnings he made a decade ago in his first film “\u003ca href=\"https://www.algore.com/library/an-inconvenient-truth-dvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Inconvenient Truth\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the lights dimmed on a packed crowd, the new films’ trailer opened with Gore thundering, “It is right to save humanity! It is wrong to pollute planet Earth. It is right to give hope to future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘California has shown that when you show leadership on climate, it helps the economy.’\u003ccite>Former Vice President Al Gore\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The film follows Gore around the globe while he reports on the calamities of climate change but also illustrates places where renewable energy is taking hold. A key moment illustrates his role in convincing India to sign onto the \u003ca href=\"http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 Paris Climate Agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is interspersed with clips from President Donald Trump actively questioning the existence of global warming. There’s a cut of Trump on the campaign trail bellowing, “Our plan will end the EPA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sold out crowd was delighted when Commonwealth Club emcee \u003ca href=\"https://climateone.org/people/greg-dalton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Dalton\u003c/a> stumbled over Trump’s name, Gore joked, “you almost choked on that”. The room filled with snickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dalton asked Gore about Trump pulling out of the Paris agreement, the former vice president lowered his eyes, “I was very worried,” Gore said. “I thought there was a chance he would come to his senses, but I was wrong. When he made his speech I was deeply concerned that other countries might use it as an excuse to pull out of the agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore said he was surprised and relieved that wasn’t the case. “It’s almost as if they [other countries] were saying ‘We’ll show you Donald Trump.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore praised California’s environmental efforts both at the event and this morning while speaking on KQED’s morning talk show “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/07/21/al-gore-spotlights-new-climate-challenges-with-an-inconvenient-sequel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum\u003c/a>.” He commended California’s ‘political defiance’ under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has shown that when you show leadership on climate, it helps the economy,” adding, “we’re going to win this in spite of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He highlighted several local examples like Jerry Brown’s extension last week on the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/capandtrade.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cap-and-Trade Program\u003c/a>, and the commitment from both Apple and Google to honor the tenets of the Paris climate agreement regardless of what’s happening at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All over the world we are seeing that the sustainability revolution and the renewable energy and efficiency actually represents the brightest potential for creating tens of millions of new jobs and restoring some dynamism for sustainable growth,” said Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former vice president ended on a note of optimism. “We’re gonna win this,” Gore said about fighting climate change. “The question is whether we win this in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd stood and cheered as they clutched copies of the film’s companion book ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Sequel-Truth-Power/dp/1635651085/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500929325&sr=8-1&keywords=truth+to+power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truth to Power\u003c/a>‘ as Gore waved and walked off stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“An Inconvenient Sequel” is showing at \u003ca href=\"https://sfjff.org/films/film-guide/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power\">7:30 tonight at the Castro theater\u003c/a> as part of the Jewish Film Festival.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sold out crowd was delighted when Commonwealth Club emcee \u003ca href=\"https://climateone.org/people/greg-dalton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Dalton\u003c/a> stumbled over Trump’s name, Gore joked, “you almost choked on that”. The room filled with snickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dalton asked Gore about Trump pulling out of the Paris agreement, the former vice president lowered his eyes, “I was very worried,” Gore said. “I thought there was a chance he would come to his senses, but I was wrong. When he made his speech I was deeply concerned that other countries might use it as an excuse to pull out of the agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore said he was surprised and relieved that wasn’t the case. “It’s almost as if they [other countries] were saying ‘We’ll show you Donald Trump.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore praised California’s environmental efforts both at the event and this morning while speaking on KQED’s morning talk show “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/07/21/al-gore-spotlights-new-climate-challenges-with-an-inconvenient-sequel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum\u003c/a>.” He commended California’s ‘political defiance’ under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has shown that when you show leadership on climate, it helps the economy,” adding, “we’re going to win this in spite of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He highlighted several local examples like Jerry Brown’s extension last week on the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/capandtrade.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cap-and-Trade Program\u003c/a>, and the commitment from both Apple and Google to honor the tenets of the Paris climate agreement regardless of what’s happening at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All over the world we are seeing that the sustainability revolution and the renewable energy and efficiency actually represents the brightest potential for creating tens of millions of new jobs and restoring some dynamism for sustainable growth,” said Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former vice president ended on a note of optimism. “We’re gonna win this,” Gore said about fighting climate change. “The question is whether we win this in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd stood and cheered as they clutched copies of the film’s companion book ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Sequel-Truth-Power/dp/1635651085/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500929325&sr=8-1&keywords=truth+to+power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truth to Power\u003c/a>‘ as Gore waved and walked off stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“An Inconvenient Sequel” is showing at \u003ca href=\"https://sfjff.org/films/film-guide/an-inconvenient-sequel-truth-to-power\">7:30 tonight at the Castro theater\u003c/a> as part of the Jewish Film Festival.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>Update, July 18, 2017:\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">More than 25 years after the state determined that 1,2,3-TCP causes cancer, the State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve a standard for the chemical in drinking water. They set the limit at 5 parts per trillion, a level supported by clean water and pesticide reform advocates. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">The state will now start water systems to test all of their wells every month starting in January. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Board chair Felicia Marcus called the vote, “a very important day for public health.” \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“It’s a very serious public health threat,” agreed board Vice-Chair Steven Moore. “California officially determined that this is a carcinogen. And when you look at the science and the experiments and all that was done to show it, it is disquieting how serious and insidious this chemical is.” \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, June 20, 2017:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The state water board has proposed a standard for 1,2,3-TCP and held a \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/123-tcp/phtcp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing\u003c/a> to receive public comment. The state is proposing that the maximum contamination for 1,2,3-TCP in drinking water be set at 5 parts per trillion. The nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, which advocates for safe, clean drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley, testified in support of the proposed standard.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>State water officials have not yet formally implemented the standard, but they have issued an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/123-tcp/123tcp_map_5ppt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated map\u003c/a> showing contaminated wells.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fresno City Council \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/fresno-takes-first-step-toward-ridding-water-toxic-123-tcp#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has authorized\u003c/a> a study to find out how to remove 12,3-TCP from the city’s water supply. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, January 2, 2017:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In January, The State Water Resources Control Board is expected to roll out the draft of a first-ever enforceable standard for 1,2,3-TCP in California drinking water.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In December, the city of Clovis, in Fresno County, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article122257349.html\">won a $22 million court judgment\u003c/a> against Shell Oil Co., for TCP contamination in wells. More than 40 other cases remain open.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story, March 7, 2016:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to admit, after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I’m a little freaked out about what’s in my tap water. So when I opened my water bill from the city of Fresno recently, I decided to actually read the “consumer confidence report” for drinking water. And I found this footnote in tiny print:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch2>Consumer Confidence Report Footnote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>123 Trichloropropane has been detected in 29 wells in Fresno…. Some people who use water containing it over many years may have an increased risk of getting cancer, based on studies in laboratory animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wait…what? I have two little kids, and my family drinks the tap water. And it might cause cancer? I decided to fork out $200 to get mine tested. And to start digging into how 1,2,3-TCP got into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it’s not just Fresno. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/123TCP.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a>, 1,2,3-TCP has been found in about a hundred public water systems across California, mostly in the Central Valley but also in counties like Santa Cruz, Monterey, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Californians don’t know whether this stuff is in their water, because neither the state nor the federal EPA regulates 1,2,3-TCP in drinking water. So that means public utilities don’t have to test for it, filter it out, or advise their customers if it’s in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>123-TCP IN ACTIVE COMMUNITY WELLS\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch4>Water systems where significant levels of contaminant 123-TCP have been detected.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_561928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-561928 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"TCP_FinalGraphic\" width=\"700\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic-400x446.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD, MAP: Teodros Hailye, KQED Science\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s even though the state determined it was a carcinogen back in 1992. And the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) set a very low \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/pdf/082009TCP_phg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public health goal \u003c/a>for 1,2,3-TCP in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no absolutely no question that is a genotoxic carcinogen,” says Robert Howd, a toxicologist who led the scientific review for OEHHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no studies of 1,2,3-TCP’s effect on humans, but animal studies showed multiple tumors at multiple sites in both rats and mice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data are very clear,” Howd says. “Virtually nobody is disputing that. There’s just no controversy about this being a DNA reactive carcinogen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howd’s team set the public health goal at .7 parts per trillion (.0007 parts per billion) The only carcinogen with a lower state public health goal for drinking water is dioxin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>How Did It Get Into the Water? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">“This whole story begins in the 1930s, the dawn of the age of chemical agriculture” says San Francisco attorney \u003ca href=\"http://rbwaterlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Daily-Journal-Article_8.20.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd Robins\u003c/a>. He represents about 30 communities around the state who are suing over 1,2,3-TCP contamination, and he’s spent the last decade trying to track how it leached into groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Shell saw a huge opportunity to take a hazardous waste stream from their chemical plants…and start putting it in barrels, and selling it to farmers.”\u003ccite>San Francisco attorney Todd Robins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Somebody at the Pineapple Research Institute in Honolulu got ahold of this sample of what was essentially hazardous waste from a chemical production process at Shell,” he says, “and he used it in some experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiments, Robins says, were to figure out how to control nematodes, tiny microscopic worms in the soil that attack a plant’s roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shell saw a huge opportunity to take a hazardous waste stream from their chemical plants … and start putting it in barrels, and selling it to farmers,” says Robins. “Then Dow soon followed suit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies sold the product to farmers as a fumigant, which is injected into the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins has compiled a huge stack of documents that show neither Dow Chemical nor Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000464-00240-19741121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed 1,2,3-TCP\u003c/a> on their \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000201-00253-19690414.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">product labels\u003c/a>, even though it was one of several ingredients. One of Dow’s own scientists \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted\u003c/a> that the compound had served no function killing nematodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins shows me a 1974 memo where Dow describes some of the fumigant components as “garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_562003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-562003\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Gutierrez says Shell and Dow should pay to clean 1,2,3-TCP out of Woodville's water.\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez.jpg 4272w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Gutierrez says Shell and Dow should pay to clean 1,2,3-TCP out of Woodville’s water. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some of the most startling information is how clearly the companies understood from a scientific perspective the amount of garbage they were putting into these products,” says Robins, “and knowingly having farmers essentially dispose of their hazardous waste for them on farm fields throughout our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few cases, Dow and Shell have paid to clean up groundwater with 1,2,3-TCP. But in the more than 3 dozen cases filed against the companies over the contamination, they’ve never admitted any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Dow and Shell declined my request for a taped interview. They sent me emails saying they couldn’t comment on active litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow spokesman Randy Fishback wrote that fumigants with 1,2,3-TCP were part of what he called “historical, highly beneficial agricultural products” that “controlled agricultural pests that otherwise would have caused millions of dollars in annual crop losses.” He added those products have been off the market for several decades, and that “TCP is also associated with certain industrial processes in which Dow had no involvement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tiny Communities Can’t Afford Cleanup\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_562005\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-562005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Woodville is a small farming community in Tulare County, where the 1,2,3-TCP in the drinking water is ten times the state's public health goal. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1.jpg 4272w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodville is a small farming community in Tulare County, where the 1,2,3-TCP in the drinking water is ten times the state’s public health goal. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the communities suing Dow and Shell have only a few hundred households, like Woodville in rural Tulare County. Ralph Gutierrez runs the water system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the meter reader, I’m the sewer line cleaner, I do the budget,” says Gutierrez, grinning in his cowboy boots and Dodger hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He unlocks the gate to show me one of the town’s two drinking water wells, surrounded by orchards and cow pastures. These wells serve a total of 467 households, and 1,2,3-TCP has been detected in the water at 7 parts per trillion, ten times the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dow and Shell are the ones that put this into the system,” Gutierrez says. “Obviously, they have money to attack their problems, but when you come to communities like this, they’re all farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez says there’s no way he can raise water rates high enough to pay for expensive carbon filtration to keep the carcinogen from reaching people’s taps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t want my kids drinking it,” he says. “Would Dow Chemical or Shell like their people to be drinking this water? I don’t think so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Results From My Tap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out the sample from my kitchen tap comes in at 2.2 parts per trillion. That’s three times the state public health goal for 1,2,3-TCP.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It’s been a high priority for us to develop regulations.”\u003ccite>Cindy Forbes, State Water Resources Control Board \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>OEHHA sets its goal to try to reduce the lifetime cancer risk to less than one in 1 million. So my risk is three in 1 million, over a lifetime drinking my tap water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, my overall risk of getting cancer from any source is much higher; it’s more like one in three. Truth is, I should probably be more worried about secondhand smoke, or Fresno’s notoriously dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not taking any chances with my kids. I’ve installed an undersink filter that says it takes out Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). But there’s no guarantee it takes out 1,2,3-TCP, because without a government standard, it’s not rated for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Regulation On Its Way\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some water systems in the Central Valley have levels of 1,2,3-TCP that push the potential cancer risk to roughly one in 6,000. And a grassroots group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/cwc_kicks_off_2016_123tcp_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Water Center\u003c/a> is pressuring the state to set a maximum contaminant level for the compound. That’s an enforceable standard, unlike the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 25 years after California declared 1,2,3-TCP to be a carcinogen, drinking water regulators are planning to set that level by next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a high priority for us to develop regulations, but we have had so many other regulations with limited resources to work on, that we haven’t been able to get it over the finish line,” says Cindy Forbes, deputy director for the water board’s drinking water program. “There are a lot of pieces to setting a new maximum contaminant level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like conducting their own peer-reviewed science, taking public comment, and evaluating the cost of detection and cleanup — not just the health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our number one priority,” says Forbes. “It’s my priority, it’s the board’s priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sasha Khokha has since moved from Fresno to the Bay Area, where she hosts KQED’s weekly edition of \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/\">The California Report\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, which advocates for safe, clean drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley, testified in support of the proposed standard.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>State water officials have not yet formally implemented the standard, but they have issued an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/123-tcp/123tcp_map_5ppt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated map\u003c/a> showing contaminated wells.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fresno City Council \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/fresno-takes-first-step-toward-ridding-water-toxic-123-tcp#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has authorized\u003c/a> a study to find out how to remove 12,3-TCP from the city’s water supply. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, January 2, 2017:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In January, The State Water Resources Control Board is expected to roll out the draft of a first-ever enforceable standard for 1,2,3-TCP in California drinking water.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In December, the city of Clovis, in Fresno County, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article122257349.html\">won a $22 million court judgment\u003c/a> against Shell Oil Co., for TCP contamination in wells. More than 40 other cases remain open.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Story, March 7, 2016:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to admit, after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I’m a little freaked out about what’s in my tap water. So when I opened my water bill from the city of Fresno recently, I decided to actually read the “consumer confidence report” for drinking water. And I found this footnote in tiny print:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch2>Consumer Confidence Report Footnote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>123 Trichloropropane has been detected in 29 wells in Fresno…. Some people who use water containing it over many years may have an increased risk of getting cancer, based on studies in laboratory animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wait…what? I have two little kids, and my family drinks the tap water. And it might cause cancer? I decided to fork out $200 to get mine tested. And to start digging into how 1,2,3-TCP got into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it’s not just Fresno. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/123TCP.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a>, 1,2,3-TCP has been found in about a hundred public water systems across California, mostly in the Central Valley but also in counties like Santa Cruz, Monterey, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Californians don’t know whether this stuff is in their water, because neither the state nor the federal EPA regulates 1,2,3-TCP in drinking water. So that means public utilities don’t have to test for it, filter it out, or advise their customers if it’s in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>123-TCP IN ACTIVE COMMUNITY WELLS\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch4>Water systems where significant levels of contaminant 123-TCP have been detected.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_561928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-561928 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"TCP_FinalGraphic\" width=\"700\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_FinalGraphic-400x446.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD, MAP: Teodros Hailye, KQED Science\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s even though the state determined it was a carcinogen back in 1992. And the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) set a very low \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/pdf/082009TCP_phg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public health goal \u003c/a>for 1,2,3-TCP in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no absolutely no question that is a genotoxic carcinogen,” says Robert Howd, a toxicologist who led the scientific review for OEHHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no studies of 1,2,3-TCP’s effect on humans, but animal studies showed multiple tumors at multiple sites in both rats and mice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data are very clear,” Howd says. “Virtually nobody is disputing that. There’s just no controversy about this being a DNA reactive carcinogen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howd’s team set the public health goal at .7 parts per trillion (.0007 parts per billion) The only carcinogen with a lower state public health goal for drinking water is dioxin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>How Did It Get Into the Water? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">“This whole story begins in the 1930s, the dawn of the age of chemical agriculture” says San Francisco attorney \u003ca href=\"http://rbwaterlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Daily-Journal-Article_8.20.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd Robins\u003c/a>. He represents about 30 communities around the state who are suing over 1,2,3-TCP contamination, and he’s spent the last decade trying to track how it leached into groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Shell saw a huge opportunity to take a hazardous waste stream from their chemical plants…and start putting it in barrels, and selling it to farmers.”\u003ccite>San Francisco attorney Todd Robins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Somebody at the Pineapple Research Institute in Honolulu got ahold of this sample of what was essentially hazardous waste from a chemical production process at Shell,” he says, “and he used it in some experiments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiments, Robins says, were to figure out how to control nematodes, tiny microscopic worms in the soil that attack a plant’s roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shell saw a huge opportunity to take a hazardous waste stream from their chemical plants … and start putting it in barrels, and selling it to farmers,” says Robins. “Then Dow soon followed suit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies sold the product to farmers as a fumigant, which is injected into the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins has compiled a huge stack of documents that show neither Dow Chemical nor Shell \u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000464-00240-19741121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed 1,2,3-TCP\u003c/a> on their \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000201-00253-19690414.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">product labels\u003c/a>, even though it was one of several ingredients. One of Dow’s own scientists \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/TCP_memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted\u003c/a> that the compound had served no function killing nematodes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins shows me a 1974 memo where Dow describes some of the fumigant components as “garbage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_562003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-562003\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Gutierrez says Shell and Dow should pay to clean 1,2,3-TCP out of Woodville's water.\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez.jpg 4272w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/ralph-gutierrez-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Gutierrez says Shell and Dow should pay to clean 1,2,3-TCP out of Woodville’s water. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some of the most startling information is how clearly the companies understood from a scientific perspective the amount of garbage they were putting into these products,” says Robins, “and knowingly having farmers essentially dispose of their hazardous waste for them on farm fields throughout our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few cases, Dow and Shell have paid to clean up groundwater with 1,2,3-TCP. But in the more than 3 dozen cases filed against the companies over the contamination, they’ve never admitted any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Dow and Shell declined my request for a taped interview. They sent me emails saying they couldn’t comment on active litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow spokesman Randy Fishback wrote that fumigants with 1,2,3-TCP were part of what he called “historical, highly beneficial agricultural products” that “controlled agricultural pests that otherwise would have caused millions of dollars in annual crop losses.” He added those products have been off the market for several decades, and that “TCP is also associated with certain industrial processes in which Dow had no involvement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tiny Communities Can’t Afford Cleanup\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_562005\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-562005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Woodville is a small farming community in Tulare County, where the 1,2,3-TCP in the drinking water is ten times the state's public health goal. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1.jpg 4272w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/03/woodville-3-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodville is a small farming community in Tulare County, where the 1,2,3-TCP in the drinking water is ten times the state’s public health goal. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the communities suing Dow and Shell have only a few hundred households, like Woodville in rural Tulare County. Ralph Gutierrez runs the water system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the meter reader, I’m the sewer line cleaner, I do the budget,” says Gutierrez, grinning in his cowboy boots and Dodger hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He unlocks the gate to show me one of the town’s two drinking water wells, surrounded by orchards and cow pastures. These wells serve a total of 467 households, and 1,2,3-TCP has been detected in the water at 7 parts per trillion, ten times the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dow and Shell are the ones that put this into the system,” Gutierrez says. “Obviously, they have money to attack their problems, but when you come to communities like this, they’re all farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez says there’s no way he can raise water rates high enough to pay for expensive carbon filtration to keep the carcinogen from reaching people’s taps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t want my kids drinking it,” he says. “Would Dow Chemical or Shell like their people to be drinking this water? I don’t think so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Results From My Tap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out the sample from my kitchen tap comes in at 2.2 parts per trillion. That’s three times the state public health goal for 1,2,3-TCP.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“It’s been a high priority for us to develop regulations.”\u003ccite>Cindy Forbes, State Water Resources Control Board \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>OEHHA sets its goal to try to reduce the lifetime cancer risk to less than one in 1 million. So my risk is three in 1 million, over a lifetime drinking my tap water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, my overall risk of getting cancer from any source is much higher; it’s more like one in three. Truth is, I should probably be more worried about secondhand smoke, or Fresno’s notoriously dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not taking any chances with my kids. I’ve installed an undersink filter that says it takes out Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). But there’s no guarantee it takes out 1,2,3-TCP, because without a government standard, it’s not rated for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Regulation On Its Way\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some water systems in the Central Valley have levels of 1,2,3-TCP that push the potential cancer risk to roughly one in 6,000. And a grassroots group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/cwc_kicks_off_2016_123tcp_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Water Center\u003c/a> is pressuring the state to set a maximum contaminant level for the compound. That’s an enforceable standard, unlike the public health goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 25 years after California declared 1,2,3-TCP to be a carcinogen, drinking water regulators are planning to set that level by next spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a high priority for us to develop regulations, but we have had so many other regulations with limited resources to work on, that we haven’t been able to get it over the finish line,” says Cindy Forbes, deputy director for the water board’s drinking water program. “There are a lot of pieces to setting a new maximum contaminant level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like conducting their own peer-reviewed science, taking public comment, and evaluating the cost of detection and cleanup — not just the health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our number one priority,” says Forbes. “It’s my priority, it’s the board’s priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Crews contending with triple-digit temperatures slowed the spread of an aggressive wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in a rural area of California near Yosemite National Park, officials said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze burning for a week has scorched just over 119 square miles (308 square kilometers) of dense brush and dead trees in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Many evacuated residents were allowed to return, but flames continue to threaten about 1,500 homes in Mariposa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was 50 percent contained, but officials said it could take crews another two weeks to fully surround it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are still out in front of an uncontrolled fire, but the fire isn’t moving at 30 mph (48 kph). The fire is crawling along,” fire spokesman Brandon Vaccaro said Saturday. Flames spared Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush-era town, but more than 130 buildings, including 63 homes, were destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,000 firefighters fought the blaze using air tankers and fleets of helicopters and bulldozers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire grew by up to 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) a day at its peak. But by the weekend, the growth rate was slowed despite dry, blistering weather, Vaccaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11590091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11590091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Flames approach a home as the Detwiler Fire burns through brush on July 19, 2017 in Mariposa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-960x632.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DetwilerHome-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames approach a home as the Detwiler Fire burns through brush on July 19, 2017, in Mariposa. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The smoke blurred the scenic vistas of Yosemite National Park, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of the fire. Tourists expecting the grandeur of falls and granite peaks instead saw hazy gray silhouettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some roads remained closed. But Mariposa, with a population of about 2,000, was coming back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Valdez was back at work Saturday at a hardware store despite losing his home of 17 years to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people out there who depend upon us to get power, to get water, to get their equipment fixed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez, 60, and his wife had 20 minutes to grab a few photographs, bills and some family Bibles before they fled the encroaching flames. When they returned, only the home’s chimney was still standing. They plan to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was one of more than a dozen that have ravaged California in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, officials have finally lifted all remaining evacuations in a stubborn fire burning for more than two weeks in the mountains of Santa Barbara County. The blaze, which destroyed 16 homes, is 87 percent and hasn’t grown in size for several days.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>No one thought David Perlman would ever leave his post at the San Francisco Chronicle. Or at least, that’s what we hoped. But this week word filtered out of the newsroom that Perlman had decided that 60 years or so was enough. The Chronicle says he plans to retire in early August, “around his 99th birthday.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED produced this profile of the ultra-marathon writer in 2014, when he was a mere pup of 95.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/01/20140120science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The long view is in short supply these days and the media is often found wanting in that respect. But there’s no shortage of historical perspective from one Bay Area journalist. The San Francisco Chronicle’s science editor has been on the job for more than a half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/david-perlman/\">David Perlman\u003c/a> turned 95. We’ll do the math for you. That means Perlman was born in 1918, right at the tail end of a world war — the first one. Perlman says today, young people have trouble enough envisioning the second one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I say World War II, ‘When was that?’ That’s the kind of reaction I get.” He laughs ironically. “It’s sad because it just means that nobody’s teaching history properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1866944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427.jpg\" alt=\"There was no mistaking Perlman's work space, piled high with research.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-768x486.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-1020x645.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-1920x1214.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-1180x746.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-960x607.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-240x152.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-375x237.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_0427-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was no mistaking Perlman’s work space, piled high with research. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First-Hand History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman got some of his own history lessons first-hand. The New York native was a copy boy at the Chronicle when reports came in of an attack on Pearl Harbor. But he admits that his early inspiration to be a journalist came from a screwball comedy: a play about fast-talking, hard-nosed newspaper reporters called \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XnfQuzu7g\">The Front Page\u003c/a>. The 1931 film adaptation was loaded with rapid-fire lines like, “Hey, listen you crazy baboon, get a pencil and paper and take this down because it’s important!” Perlman can’t quote the film but he can still quote the playwright’s description of this odd breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13317\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Perlman_6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13317 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Perlman_6.jpg\" alt=\"Perlman in the field in 1955. (Art Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"343\" height=\"437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perlman in the field in 1955. (Art Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He called them, ‘seedy, catatonic Paul Reveres, full of strange oaths and a touch of childhood.’ I wanted to be like that,” Perlman recalls. “And as a matter of fact, I got to be like that. I think I got more than a touch of childhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s always retained a childlike wonder, covering the frontiers of science through five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human evolution, let’s say — that’s a great topic,” Perlman offered, recalling the 1974 \u003ca title=\"Nat Geo - post\" href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html\">discovery of “Lucy,”\u003c/a> the skeletal remains of a female hominid from more than three million years ago. Perlman seems to have mastered the art of evolution himself, deftly negotiating the long path from manual typewriters to Twitter. (Yes, he does on occasion, tweet from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveperlman\">@daveperlman\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Final Frontier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space is clearly one of his passions. “The universe and planets and stars and galaxies, and all the nature of the universe into which we are born.” It was space that launched Perlman’s career as a science writer, in the late 1950s. Hobbled by a skiing mishap, he found himself surprisingly engrossed in a book by British astronomer \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Fred Hoyle\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle\">Sir Fred Hoyle\u003c/a>, “The Nature of the Universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I got kind of curious about what-all astronomers do — what’s all that about?” he wondered. That led him to \u003ca title=\"Lick Observatory - main\" href=\"http://www.ucolick.org/\">Lick Observatory\u003c/a>, outside San Jose, and the first of his own science writing, an article on the birth of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have a science writer at the time, so I got to be one,” Perlman said, matter-of-factly. “And it’s been a learning experience for me ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13175\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/PerlmanScan_PCBs_1969_crop-e1389835829286.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13175 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/PerlmanScan_PCBs_1969_crop-e1389835829286.jpg\" alt=\"Perlman had already been covering science for a decade when he filed this 1969 piece about the newly-discovered family of toxic chemicals: PCBs. (San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"320\" height=\"377\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perlman had already been covering science for a decade when he filed this 1969 piece about an emerging family of toxic chemicals: PCBs. (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s a bit of an understatement. Perlman has churned out thousands of articles over the years. Not only has he won numerous science journalism awards, there are two named \u003cem>for\u003c/em> him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s life has spanned whole epochs in science: the launch of the space age, the entire unfolding of the computer age and, as the Los Angeles Times \u003ca title=\"LAT - post\" href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/21/local/la-me-perlman-20130222\">noted in a profile\u003c/a>, Pluto’s entire life as a planet, from its discovery in 1930, to its recent demotion to subplanet. Now he finds himself at the dawn of the “Anthropocene,” in which this planet starts to convulse from effects of the human presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that I see in scientific journals or talking to scientists, I have to say that climate change—global warming, whatever you call it—is real and dangerous and is going to deprive us of our sources of what we eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How times have changed. He remembers the Apollo days, when it seemed like science-driven optimism had infected the whole nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do remember those days, and they were gripping. Everybody got excited about it,” he recalls. “And of course the President’s call for a space race, in a sense, and we were trying to beat the Soviets to the Moon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It disturbs him that some of that excitement has waned, as we’ve passed into a new era of scientific pragmatism. As we spoke, budget cuts \u003ca title=\"Merc - post\" href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24734951/lick-observatorys-astronomy-research-could-end\">threatened to close Lick Observatory\u003c/a>, the birthplace of Perlman’s own science career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of absurd,” he opined. “I mean there’s a new telescope that has just been installed or developed at Lick Observatory, and it’s looking for planets far out in the Milky Way galaxy. I think it’s an extremely important telescope and why they would close the observatory just as they got a new telescope, it defeats me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s been following closely the adventures of a remote-controlled \u003ca title=\"Quest - post\" href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/08/24/nasas-new-mars-rover-armed-and-curious/\">rover called Curiosity\u003c/a>, which recently found a spot on Mars where conditions once could have nurtured life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a great discovery.” Perlman thinks it might be a step toward the ultimate discovery. “Sooner or later on that planet or elsewhere, somebody’s gonna discover some micro-organisms: microbes that are actually alive. Just think of that. That turns me on. I hope it turns other people on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d like to be around to write that story. “Oh, yeah! 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The 1931 film adaptation was loaded with rapid-fire lines like, “Hey, listen you crazy baboon, get a pencil and paper and take this down because it’s important!” Perlman can’t quote the film but he can still quote the playwright’s description of this odd breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13317\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Perlman_6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13317 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/Perlman_6.jpg\" alt=\"Perlman in the field in 1955. (Art Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"343\" height=\"437\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perlman in the field in 1955. (Art Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He called them, ‘seedy, catatonic Paul Reveres, full of strange oaths and a touch of childhood.’ I wanted to be like that,” Perlman recalls. “And as a matter of fact, I got to be like that. I think I got more than a touch of childhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s always retained a childlike wonder, covering the frontiers of science through five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human evolution, let’s say — that’s a great topic,” Perlman offered, recalling the 1974 \u003ca title=\"Nat Geo - post\" href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html\">discovery of “Lucy,”\u003c/a> the skeletal remains of a female hominid from more than three million years ago. Perlman seems to have mastered the art of evolution himself, deftly negotiating the long path from manual typewriters to Twitter. (Yes, he does on occasion, tweet from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveperlman\">@daveperlman\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Final Frontier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Space is clearly one of his passions. “The universe and planets and stars and galaxies, and all the nature of the universe into which we are born.” It was space that launched Perlman’s career as a science writer, in the late 1950s. Hobbled by a skiing mishap, he found himself surprisingly engrossed in a book by British astronomer \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Fred Hoyle\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle\">Sir Fred Hoyle\u003c/a>, “The Nature of the Universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I got kind of curious about what-all astronomers do — what’s all that about?” he wondered. That led him to \u003ca title=\"Lick Observatory - main\" href=\"http://www.ucolick.org/\">Lick Observatory\u003c/a>, outside San Jose, and the first of his own science writing, an article on the birth of stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have a science writer at the time, so I got to be one,” Perlman said, matter-of-factly. “And it’s been a learning experience for me ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13175\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/PerlmanScan_PCBs_1969_crop-e1389835829286.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13175 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/PerlmanScan_PCBs_1969_crop-e1389835829286.jpg\" alt=\"Perlman had already been covering science for a decade when he filed this 1969 piece about the newly-discovered family of toxic chemicals: PCBs. (San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"320\" height=\"377\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perlman had already been covering science for a decade when he filed this 1969 piece about an emerging family of toxic chemicals: PCBs. (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s a bit of an understatement. Perlman has churned out thousands of articles over the years. Not only has he won numerous science journalism awards, there are two named \u003cem>for\u003c/em> him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s life has spanned whole epochs in science: the launch of the space age, the entire unfolding of the computer age and, as the Los Angeles Times \u003ca title=\"LAT - post\" href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/21/local/la-me-perlman-20130222\">noted in a profile\u003c/a>, Pluto’s entire life as a planet, from its discovery in 1930, to its recent demotion to subplanet. Now he finds himself at the dawn of the “Anthropocene,” in which this planet starts to convulse from effects of the human presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that I see in scientific journals or talking to scientists, I have to say that climate change—global warming, whatever you call it—is real and dangerous and is going to deprive us of our sources of what we eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How times have changed. He remembers the Apollo days, when it seemed like science-driven optimism had infected the whole nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do remember those days, and they were gripping. Everybody got excited about it,” he recalls. “And of course the President’s call for a space race, in a sense, and we were trying to beat the Soviets to the Moon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Times\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It disturbs him that some of that excitement has waned, as we’ve passed into a new era of scientific pragmatism. As we spoke, budget cuts \u003ca title=\"Merc - post\" href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24734951/lick-observatorys-astronomy-research-could-end\">threatened to close Lick Observatory\u003c/a>, the birthplace of Perlman’s own science career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of absurd,” he opined. “I mean there’s a new telescope that has just been installed or developed at Lick Observatory, and it’s looking for planets far out in the Milky Way galaxy. I think it’s an extremely important telescope and why they would close the observatory just as they got a new telescope, it defeats me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman’s been following closely the adventures of a remote-controlled \u003ca title=\"Quest - post\" href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/08/24/nasas-new-mars-rover-armed-and-curious/\">rover called Curiosity\u003c/a>, which recently found a spot on Mars where conditions once could have nurtured life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a great discovery.” Perlman thinks it might be a step toward the ultimate discovery. “Sooner or later on that planet or elsewhere, somebody’s gonna discover some micro-organisms: microbes that are actually alive. Just think of that. That turns me on. I hope it turns other people on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d like to be around to write that story. “Oh, yeah! 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"content": "\u003cp>An uncertain future faces the beloved landscape of the Point Reyes National Seashore. Here, amid rolling hills, a quarter of the seashore’s land is used for ranching and some environmental groups want cattle erased from the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.westernwatersheds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pt-Reyes-settlement-FILED.pdf\">settlement\u003c/a> reached July 12, between the National Park Service and environmental groups, requires the park to assess the impact of cattle grazing on the park’s ecosystems and halt the process of issuing long-term leases to the ranchers. Some worry it may set the gears in motion for a complete phase-out of ranching in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict highlights fundamentally opposing views over the question of the purpose of protected land: native wildlife and recreation, or should it also preserve iconic human landscapes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866426\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866426\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch-520x344.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/cowsgoinghome-Kranch.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cows going home to J Ranch \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>’s Worth Saving? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Molvar, the Executive Director of the Western Watersheds Project, thinks the natural elements of the park should be the priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d like to see the Pt. Reyes National Seashore return to the point where you have native plants and wildflowers,” he says. “Where you have the rare Tule elk thriving across the entire length and breadth of the national seashore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others believe that the historic character of the park should also have a role and the mix of ranches and wild land is what makes Pt. Reyes so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is land that was being used for agricultural purposes for a long time at the time of the creation of this park,” says Nicolette Hahn Niman of BN Ranch, who raises cattle in Pt. Reyes and was a co-defendant with the National Park Service in the lawsuit, along with other ranchers. “It’s very much part of the human history of this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down at Home Bay \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict Over the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers have grazed cattle in the area since the mid-1800s. Early European settlers found prime grazing land abundant with grasses and forbs. These coastal grasslands were most likely maintained by indigenous people, such as the Coast Miwok and their ancestors, who managed the land for thousands of years by burning, pruning and harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1960s, a combination of unfavorable economics, competition, labor costs, environmental regulation, taxes and land values threatened to put ranchers out of business. The NPS petitioned Congress for the creation of a federally protected area, after arrangements were made to keep existing ranches in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"“pullquote alignright\">‘If done right, it’s going to be a huge public service — it’s going to resolve controversies.‘ \u003ccite>Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Farming in the park takes a lot of water during drought years, which means less for wildlife, which are then producing polluted water which gets into estuaries, wetlands, and streams” says Jeff Miller, Conservation Advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs for the case. “There are too many animals out there and it’s having an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molvar would like to see the removal of cattle from the landscape; he refers to them as an ‘invasive species.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take the grazing pressure down a notch, the native grasses, forbs and wildflowers have some time to recover,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it is not universally accepted that removing the cattle would be better for the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes farming can be helpful to an ecosystem and sometimes it can be harmful,” says Laura Watt, professor of environmental history and planning at Sonoma State University and author of \u003cem>The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/em>. She cites ecological benefits such as keeping down tall grasses that pose a fire hazard. “To say blanketly that is it good or bad is always going to be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866424\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-768x605.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-960x756.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-240x189.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-375x295.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-520x410.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tule elk wander into a cattle pasture on the Home Ranch \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is also an aesthetic value to ranching as a hallmark aspect of the Pt. Reyes landscape, Watt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cattle grazing were to stop all-together, the primary grazer left on the land would be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj2sMXwm5TVAhUCwFQKHfIhBrAQFggoMAA&url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nps.gov%252Fpore%252Flearn%252Fnature%252Ftule_elk.htm&usg=AFQjCNHpkFi0ynggHEJOlpvs9NZm37Dcpw\">Tule elk\u003c/a>. This native species went extinct from the area in the 1850s (largely because of uncontrolled hunting) and were reintroduced to the park multiple times in the past decades, once in 1978 and again in 1998. However, Tule elk compete with cattle for forage and are susceptible to the same diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the latest reintroduction, the elk have made a remarkable recovery, even becoming a victim of their own success. The park’s management of the elk has been a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/06/16/tule-elk-breed-problems-for-national-park-management/\">flashpoint\u003c/a> for controversy in recent years, sprouting much debate about how to control population size and disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Everybody Wins?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are hesitantly declaring the settlement a victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements by their nature are compromises, which means nobody gets what they really want,” says Molvar, “but I think that it is certainly a step forward…from an openness and public process perspective. Now everyone will get a chance to provide their input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has five years to conduct impact statements and create a general management plan to articulate their plan, and how ranching either fits or conflicts with those goals. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnps.org/files/pdf/Mgmt_Docs/Park_Specific_Pages/PORE/PORE_1980_GMP.pdf\">previous\u003c/a> plan was created in 1980 and, according to all parties, is in desperate need of an update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-1180x794.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-960x646.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-520x350.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake’s Beach. The National Seashore was originally founded in part to provide public beach access to urban people in the Bay Area \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good deal all around,” says Miller. “It focuses on the issues that are most contentious right now, everyone can weigh in, and the park service can decide appropriate uses under what conditions moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end goal is certainly not to maximize commercial endeavors for private parties. That’s not the highest use of National Park public land. Our end goal is to have a plan amendment that looks at these issues that is based on good science and information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman agrees that there are upsides to the settlement. “These are the conversations about management that are taking place more now because of this legal action,” she says. “To me that’s the silver lining of this whole process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unusual aspect of the settlement is that it requires the NPS to assess the impact of different ranching scenarios in the park, including ending ranching completely. Some worry this could be the first steps towards phasing it out. This would follow a trend of commercial operations being booted from the seashore, such as Drakes Bay Oyster Co., which was required to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/07/31/commercial-operations-close-at-drakes-bay-oyster-company/\">end its operations\u003c/a> after legal action in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything is going to stay the same. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>That was one of the things that everyone could agree to in the settlement. During this time, ranches can receive short-term five-year leases. In the next four years the park will hold numerous public hearings, in addition to a public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If done right, it’s going to be a huge public service,” says Miller, “it’s going to resolve controversies.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d like to see the Pt. Reyes National Seashore return to the point where you have native plants and wildflowers,” he says. “Where you have the rare Tule elk thriving across the entire length and breadth of the national seashore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others believe that the historic character of the park should also have a role and the mix of ranches and wild land is what makes Pt. Reyes so special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is land that was being used for agricultural purposes for a long time at the time of the creation of this park,” says Nicolette Hahn Niman of BN Ranch, who raises cattle in Pt. Reyes and was a co-defendant with the National Park Service in the lawsuit, along with other ranchers. “It’s very much part of the human history of this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9818-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down at Home Bay \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict Over the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers have grazed cattle in the area since the mid-1800s. Early European settlers found prime grazing land abundant with grasses and forbs. These coastal grasslands were most likely maintained by indigenous people, such as the Coast Miwok and their ancestors, who managed the land for thousands of years by burning, pruning and harvesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1960s, a combination of unfavorable economics, competition, labor costs, environmental regulation, taxes and land values threatened to put ranchers out of business. The NPS petitioned Congress for the creation of a federally protected area, after arrangements were made to keep existing ranches in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"“pullquote alignright\">‘If done right, it’s going to be a huge public service — it’s going to resolve controversies.‘ \u003ccite>Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Farming in the park takes a lot of water during drought years, which means less for wildlife, which are then producing polluted water which gets into estuaries, wetlands, and streams” says Jeff Miller, Conservation Advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs for the case. “There are too many animals out there and it’s having an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molvar would like to see the removal of cattle from the landscape; he refers to them as an ‘invasive species.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take the grazing pressure down a notch, the native grasses, forbs and wildflowers have some time to recover,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it is not universally accepted that removing the cattle would be better for the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes farming can be helpful to an ecosystem and sometimes it can be harmful,” says Laura Watt, professor of environmental history and planning at Sonoma State University and author of \u003cem>The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/em>. She cites ecological benefits such as keeping down tall grasses that pose a fire hazard. “To say blanketly that is it good or bad is always going to be wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866424\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-800x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-768x605.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-1180x929.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-960x756.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-240x189.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-375x295.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180-520x410.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/IMG_9795-e1500585369180.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tule elk wander into a cattle pasture on the Home Ranch \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is also an aesthetic value to ranching as a hallmark aspect of the Pt. Reyes landscape, Watt says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If cattle grazing were to stop all-together, the primary grazer left on the land would be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj2sMXwm5TVAhUCwFQKHfIhBrAQFggoMAA&url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nps.gov%252Fpore%252Flearn%252Fnature%252Ftule_elk.htm&usg=AFQjCNHpkFi0ynggHEJOlpvs9NZm37Dcpw\">Tule elk\u003c/a>. This native species went extinct from the area in the 1850s (largely because of uncontrolled hunting) and were reintroduced to the park multiple times in the past decades, once in 1978 and again in 1998. However, Tule elk compete with cattle for forage and are susceptible to the same diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the latest reintroduction, the elk have made a remarkable recovery, even becoming a victim of their own success. The park’s management of the elk has been a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/06/16/tule-elk-breed-problems-for-national-park-management/\">flashpoint\u003c/a> for controversy in recent years, sprouting much debate about how to control population size and disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Everybody Wins?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are hesitantly declaring the settlement a victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Settlements by their nature are compromises, which means nobody gets what they really want,” says Molvar, “but I think that it is certainly a step forward…from an openness and public process perspective. Now everyone will get a chance to provide their input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has five years to conduct impact statements and create a general management plan to articulate their plan, and how ranching either fits or conflicts with those goals. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnps.org/files/pdf/Mgmt_Docs/Park_Specific_Pages/PORE/PORE_1980_GMP.pdf\">previous\u003c/a> plan was created in 1980 and, according to all parties, is in desperate need of an update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1866427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1866427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-1180x794.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-960x646.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach-520x350.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/drakesbeach.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake’s Beach. The National Seashore was originally founded in part to provide public beach access to urban people in the Bay Area \u003ccite>(Laura Watt / Sonoma State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good deal all around,” says Miller. “It focuses on the issues that are most contentious right now, everyone can weigh in, and the park service can decide appropriate uses under what conditions moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The end goal is certainly not to maximize commercial endeavors for private parties. That’s not the highest use of National Park public land. Our end goal is to have a plan amendment that looks at these issues that is based on good science and information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman agrees that there are upsides to the settlement. “These are the conversations about management that are taking place more now because of this legal action,” she says. “To me that’s the silver lining of this whole process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unusual aspect of the settlement is that it requires the NPS to assess the impact of different ranching scenarios in the park, including ending ranching completely. Some worry this could be the first steps towards phasing it out. This would follow a trend of commercial operations being booted from the seashore, such as Drakes Bay Oyster Co., which was required to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/07/31/commercial-operations-close-at-drakes-bay-oyster-company/\">end its operations\u003c/a> after legal action in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, everything is going to stay the same. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>That was one of the things that everyone could agree to in the settlement. During this time, ranches can receive short-term five-year leases. In the next four years the park will hold numerous public hearings, in addition to a public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tim Diebert has been a regular at Hobee’s Restaurant in Palo Alto for the past 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in good food. They have great food here,” Diebert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s especially partial to the chorizo scramble with onions, garlic and runny scrambled eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just the food that’s kept him coming back to the restaurant for breakfast every day since he retired two years ago. The staff at Hobee’s know Diebert, and he says it’s one of the few places in the area that still has that old familiar feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobee’s has been owned and operated by the same family since opening in 1974. So he was understandably concerned when he saw a big yellow sign go up in the restaurant’s window in mid-June announcing a change in ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26043_DSC_1231-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Diebert sits at his favorite table at Hobee’s Restaurant in Palo Alto. Diebert has been a Hobee’s regular for 30 years, and he’s been coming almost every day since he retired two years ago. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Then I learned that it was Danny and Camille, and when I learned that they were going to acquire the place, I knew things weren’t going to change,” Diebert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny and Camille Chijate aren’t part of a big private equity firm or venture capitalists trying to make it big in Silicon Valley. They’ve been working at Hobee’s — Danny in the kitchen and Camille as a waitress and manager — for the past 28 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille and Danny met while working at a Hobee’s in San Jose, married and grew with the restaurant chain, which has five locations across the Peninsula and South Bay. They were tapped to open a new San Jose location in the late 1990s, and Camille was eventually promoted to the corporate office, while Danny runs the kitchen in Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This opportunity was amazing for us because it was our lifelong dream to be able to do this,” Camille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/07/HobeesFIX.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26047_DSC_1214-qut-1920x1272.jpg\" Title=\"In a Startup and Cash-Out World, One Silicon Valley Restaurant Keeps It Homespun\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keeping it in the Family\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hobee’s was founded by a Hawaii transplant named Paul Taber in 1974. It started as a single hamburger shop in Mountain View but quickly morphed and grew into a popular, quirky, family-run chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you knew it, we were throughout Silicon Valley serving the best breakfasts in the area,” says Ed Fike, Paul’s son-in-law and one of the current owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Taber — Ed’s husband and Paul’s son — helped his dad run the family business for years. In 2005, Peter passed daily operating duties over to Ed, and this year, after running the restaurant for decades, the family decided they were ready for a change and started preparing to sell the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family looked at a few buyers, but nobody felt right. They didn’t want the new owners to just see Hobee’s as a balance sheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never wanted to be slick,” Ed said. “It’s just not a slick operation. It’s very homespun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, they turned to Danny and Camille.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Fike (R) and his family sold Hobee’s Restaurants to Camille Chijate (L) this summer. Hobee’s has been owned by the same family since it opened in 1974, and the Chijates have worked for the chain for almost 30 years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have heirs, and it couldn’t have gone to our family,” Ed says. “But certainly Camille and Daniel are like our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t easy for two restaurant workers to come up with the cash to buy a Silicon Valley restaurant chain. The Chijates used up their life savings, took a loan out against their house and borrowed from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have some plans to modernize the restaurant’s technology and increase the number of locally sourced ingredients it uses, but Camille says the homey vibe that’s defined Hobee’s for decades won’t change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of keep one foot really firmly planted in sort of the legacy and the concept of the Hobee’s that people are comfortable with, and that other foot sort of testing the waters of what new things people might be interested in,” Camille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Mile-High Coffee Cake’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578274\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-800x1208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-1020x1540.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-1180x1781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-375x566.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-520x785.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pans of Hobee’s famous blueberry coffee cake cool in the kitchen in the Palo Alto location. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping his dad run the restaurant, Peter Taber also created Hobee’s signature item: its blueberry coffee cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically it is a mile-high piece of coffee cake with blueberries on the inside,” Camille says, “and our famous streusel topping on top, which our customers always want more of because that’s the best part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Camille’s corporate office job is going to the different locations to make sure everything tastes how it’s supposed to, including the coffee cake. She estimates she’s eaten around 2,500 pieces of coffee cake in her time at Hobee’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m at the kids’ high school or soccer games, people are like, ‘Oh, you’re the coffee cake lady.’ This is what we’re known for,” Camille says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of that coffee cake has been made by Juan Carlos Zaragosa. He’s been working at Hobee’s for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He uses a small metal bowl to scoop frozen blueberries out of a box and sprinkles them on the cake batter. Then he takes handfuls of streusel topping and carefully adds it on top, gently spreading it out with a flat hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like watching an artist at work. And it makes him happy knowing that people come in just for his coffee cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578272\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlos Zaragosa sprinkles cinnamon streusel topping on Hobee’s famous blueberry coffee cake. Zaragosa has been making coffee cake at Hobee’s for 25 years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People come in and they ask, ‘Who’s in the kitchen? Oh Juan Carlos!’ ” he says, a big smile plastered on his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobee’s is filled with people like Zaragosa who have worked there for decades, and people like Tim Diebert who have been eating there just as long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that we’re still successful is because people want a place that’s familiar,” Camille says. “It’s kind of like the old ‘Cheers’ thing. They want to be recognized. They want you know to know their name. They want to know the employees. You know people come in here, and they hug employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as if on cue, Diebert gets up from his favorite table and gives Camille a hug.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keeping it in the Family\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hobee’s was founded by a Hawaii transplant named Paul Taber in 1974. It started as a single hamburger shop in Mountain View but quickly morphed and grew into a popular, quirky, family-run chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before you knew it, we were throughout Silicon Valley serving the best breakfasts in the area,” says Ed Fike, Paul’s son-in-law and one of the current owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Taber — Ed’s husband and Paul’s son — helped his dad run the family business for years. In 2005, Peter passed daily operating duties over to Ed, and this year, after running the restaurant for decades, the family decided they were ready for a change and started preparing to sell the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family looked at a few buyers, but nobody felt right. They didn’t want the new owners to just see Hobee’s as a balance sheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never wanted to be slick,” Ed said. “It’s just not a slick operation. It’s very homespun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, they turned to Danny and Camille.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578268\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26048_DSC_1218-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Fike (R) and his family sold Hobee’s Restaurants to Camille Chijate (L) this summer. Hobee’s has been owned by the same family since it opened in 1974, and the Chijates have worked for the chain for almost 30 years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have heirs, and it couldn’t have gone to our family,” Ed says. “But certainly Camille and Daniel are like our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t easy for two restaurant workers to come up with the cash to buy a Silicon Valley restaurant chain. The Chijates used up their life savings, took a loan out against their house and borrowed from friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have some plans to modernize the restaurant’s technology and increase the number of locally sourced ingredients it uses, but Camille says the homey vibe that’s defined Hobee’s for decades won’t change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of keep one foot really firmly planted in sort of the legacy and the concept of the Hobee’s that people are comfortable with, and that other foot sort of testing the waters of what new things people might be interested in,” Camille said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Mile-High Coffee Cake’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578274\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-800x1208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-1020x1540.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-1180x1781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-375x566.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485-520x785.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26045_DSC_1230-qut-e1500602589485.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pans of Hobee’s famous blueberry coffee cake cool in the kitchen in the Palo Alto location. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to helping his dad run the restaurant, Peter Taber also created Hobee’s signature item: its blueberry coffee cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically it is a mile-high piece of coffee cake with blueberries on the inside,” Camille says, “and our famous streusel topping on top, which our customers always want more of because that’s the best part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Camille’s corporate office job is going to the different locations to make sure everything tastes how it’s supposed to, including the coffee cake. She estimates she’s eaten around 2,500 pieces of coffee cake in her time at Hobee’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I’m at the kids’ high school or soccer games, people are like, ‘Oh, you’re the coffee cake lady.’ This is what we’re known for,” Camille says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of that coffee cake has been made by Juan Carlos Zaragosa. He’s been working at Hobee’s for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He uses a small metal bowl to scoop frozen blueberries out of a box and sprinkles them on the cake batter. Then he takes handfuls of streusel topping and carefully adds it on top, gently spreading it out with a flat hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like watching an artist at work. And it makes him happy knowing that people come in just for his coffee cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11578272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11578272\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS26046_DSC_1226-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlos Zaragosa sprinkles cinnamon streusel topping on Hobee’s famous blueberry coffee cake. Zaragosa has been making coffee cake at Hobee’s for 25 years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People come in and they ask, ‘Who’s in the kitchen? Oh Juan Carlos!’ ” he says, a big smile plastered on his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hobee’s is filled with people like Zaragosa who have worked there for decades, and people like Tim Diebert who have been eating there just as long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that we’re still successful is because people want a place that’s familiar,” Camille says. “It’s kind of like the old ‘Cheers’ thing. They want to be recognized. They want you know to know their name. They want to know the employees. You know people come in here, and they hug employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Each of the studies has included analyses performed by a wide array of independent researchers -- some of whom first posted their findings and speculations in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Republic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.metabunk.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metabunk\u003c/a> online communities -- and reviewed by Bea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report released Thursday also delves into ongoing maintenance issues at the dam, citing years of DWR inspection reports that have documented possible problems with the massive concrete structure that supports the spillway gates and with an area of persistent moisture -- which has come to be known in official documents as \"the green spot\" -- on the downstream face of the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study suggests those issues put the entire dam complex at risk of failure. 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In the meantime, we welcome additional analyses and studies and will ensure this report is shared with the forensic team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FERC did not respond immediately to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bea's second report, delivered in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898955-Bea-May-11-Testimony-Report-Rev-1-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testimony\u003c/a> to the Legislature in May, included a series of recommendations to overhaul the DWR's project management, inspection and maintenance practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three reports were produced under the auspices of UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://ccrm.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Catastrophic Risk Management\u003c/a>. 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