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This statewide campaign, dubbed “We Can’t Wait,” aims to align the bargaining sessions for more than 77,000 educators — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland\u003c/a> and San José — to demand smaller class sizes, more resources, better wages and benefits for teachers and improved mental health support for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us to be coordinating our fight at the same time right now is a unifying effort and a really powerful statement that we represent what the community of California needs, what students and families need,” said Cassondra Curiel, the president of United Educators in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, unions across the state saw that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">faced similar challenges,\u003c/a> such as understaffing and frequent changes to curriculum and school resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really also allowed us to see where and how many of our issues in our districts are so similar and what the benefit would be for us to put ourselves together on it. That’s essentially when we decided” to unify bargaining timelines, Curiel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and Oakland, budget shortfalls spurred plans to close or merge some schools last fall — proposals that were scaled back, delayed or called off amid intense controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the unions are mostly aligned on their overarching demands, how that looks in each district will be different, according to Curiel. She joined parents and other UESF members who traveled by motorized cable car to schools across the city to speak about their demands — like having Chinese-speaking parent liaisons, full-time school site nurses and dedicated social workers — at campuses from Chinatown to Hunter’s Point on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Gordon J. Lau for my students because of their teacher retention, strong leadership and low turnover rate,” said Brittany Cuartelon, a parent of three students at the elementary school. “I also chose Lau because of the access to enrichment programs and specialty teachers like arts, teachers, special ed teachers, speech pathologists and others … but we are seeing less and less of this as teachers are being let go, and these programs are being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has sparred with the San Francisco Unified School District in recent years, accusing it of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">incompetence in hiring\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight-sfusd\">botching a payroll system\u003c/a>, and sowing confusion and fear as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">considered closing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12025664 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Siniard, a fourth-grade teacher, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the start of this school year, there were about 100 classrooms across the district without permanent teachers. In 2022 and 2023, many educators went without proper pay and had insurance and tax-filing issues after the district introduced a new payroll system that proved a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is now preparing its 2025–2026 budget in the face of a massive deficit. While it shelved the controversial school closure plan in the fall, officials have said that without consolidations, school services will be pared down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, officials shared a version of a sparse new staffing formula with school principals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t look like the school sites we all work at, the school sites that our families and students expect,” Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independence High School Principal Anna Klafter asked SFUSD board members last week to address why there were no mental health providers, social workers, nurses or counselors included in the plan. Other speakers on Tuesday’s UESF school tour noted that assistant principals weren’t budgeted in the model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also announced a buy-out option for some staff, aimed at reducing layoffs and saving money spent on higher salaries for more experienced teachers, in December. The deadline for educators to take the deal is Feb. 21, but if fewer than 314 sign up, it will be voided. Curiel said if that’s the case, the union expects union members to receive pink slips this spring and is prepared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">fight layoffs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025665\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Blanca Fabiola Catalan speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UESF has called for necessary funding cuts to come from the district’s administration, pointing to high-salary positions in what it calls a “bloated” central office. But SFUSD said it has made the cuts it can away from children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darcie Chan Blackburn, an English learning specialist at Sheridan Elementary School, said the draft staffing formula includes cutting one teacher and adding a third combined class from her campus. She doesn’t know if her position will be budgeted for at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan already has combined second-third grade and fourth-fifth grade classes and will add a kindergarten-first grade combo next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_SSUTownHall_GC-5-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The third-grade students who are getting second-grade English language arts curriculum now are going to go up to a fourth-fifth class [next year],” Chan Blackburn said. “Well, the fourth-fifth is looping to the fifth-grade curriculum next year, so this third grader is going from second-grade English language arts to fifth-grade English language arts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just pushes our enrollment lower because what family really wants their child to be in a split grade level?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is in a similar situation, facing a $150 million budget deficit while its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">board refuses to vote on a school consolidation plan\u003c/a>. Last month, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative budget\u003c/a> for the first time in more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These districts are in these positions because they didn’t listen to us in the first place,” Curiel said. “We’ve been saying that central offices should prioritize spending on students — really centering families and students at school sites — and if they were doing that, then they wouldn’t be sitting on the millions and millions and millions of dollars in reserve that they currently have in their bank accounts right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Educators Association said it is seeking livable wages for the Bay Area, more paraeducator and mental health support, and keeping community schools open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OEA and UESF leaders will join Berkeley and West Contra Costa union members and Jeff Frietas, the president of the California Federation of Teachers, for a rally in the East Bay on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really hoping that this campaign … will bring a light to the circumstances that we work under to achieve what is the foundation of our democratic society every day,” Curiel said. “And what it needs to survive moving forward and how that represents what the families and the citizens of one of the biggest states in the country should really be expecting in public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s essentially when we decided” to unify bargaining timelines, Curiel told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In both San Francisco and Oakland, budget shortfalls spurred plans to close or merge some schools last fall — proposals that were scaled back, delayed or called off amid intense controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the unions are mostly aligned on their overarching demands, how that looks in each district will be different, according to Curiel. She joined parents and other UESF members who traveled by motorized cable car to schools across the city to speak about their demands — like having Chinese-speaking parent liaisons, full-time school site nurses and dedicated social workers — at campuses from Chinatown to Hunter’s Point on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I chose Gordon J. Lau for my students because of their teacher retention, strong leadership and low turnover rate,” said Brittany Cuartelon, a parent of three students at the elementary school. “I also chose Lau because of the access to enrichment programs and specialty teachers like arts, teachers, special ed teachers, speech pathologists and others … but we are seeing less and less of this as teachers are being let go, and these programs are being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF has sparred with the San Francisco Unified School District in recent years, accusing it of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">incompetence in hiring\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight-sfusd\">botching a payroll system\u003c/a>, and sowing confusion and fear as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">considered closing schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12025664 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Siniard, a fourth-grade teacher, speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the start of this school year, there were about 100 classrooms across the district without permanent teachers. In 2022 and 2023, many educators went without proper pay and had insurance and tax-filing issues after the district introduced a new payroll system that proved a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is now preparing its 2025–2026 budget in the face of a massive deficit. While it shelved the controversial school closure plan in the fall, officials have said that without consolidations, school services will be pared down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, officials shared a version of a sparse new staffing formula with school principals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t look like the school sites we all work at, the school sites that our families and students expect,” Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independence High School Principal Anna Klafter asked SFUSD board members last week to address why there were no mental health providers, social workers, nurses or counselors included in the plan. Other speakers on Tuesday’s UESF school tour noted that assistant principals weren’t budgeted in the model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also announced a buy-out option for some staff, aimed at reducing layoffs and saving money spent on higher salaries for more experienced teachers, in December. The deadline for educators to take the deal is Feb. 21, but if fewer than 314 sign up, it will be voided. Curiel said if that’s the case, the union expects union members to receive pink slips this spring and is prepared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">fight layoffs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025665\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parent Blanca Fabiola Catalan speaks during a press conference at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco’s Mission District on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UESF has called for necessary funding cuts to come from the district’s administration, pointing to high-salary positions in what it calls a “bloated” central office. 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It is returning asylum seekers — not just single adults, but families too — to countries where they face persecution or torture, without allowing them to invoke the protections Congress has provided,” the suit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order relies on Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which says that the president can “suspend the entry” of non-citizens when their entry “would be detrimental to the interest of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order classifies immigration at the southern border as an “invasion” and says that under Article IV of the Constitution, the president has the responsibility to protect the country. 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Ronald Cruz, an attorney at the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, said he hoped the demonstrations would show the economic benefits that immigrants and undocumented workers bring to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to resist Trump’s deportations and defend our friends, coworkers, families, neighbors and classmates,” Cruz told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station, around 100 people gathered Monday morning with signs that read “Immigrants Built This Country” and “No One is Illegal” and marched through the streets. Organizers encouraged residents to intervene on behalf of immigrant or undocumented neighbors if they saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to encourage people to build community defense guards,” said Jose Lagos, a community organizer with BAMN. “There’s a high chance we can stop those deportations if we’re prepared to act collectively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025470\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250203-DayWithoutAnImmigrant-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jovanna Diaz (right) and her niece, Lluvia, 15, march during a rally for immigrants’ rights in the Fruitvale district of Oakland on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The national day of action is traditionally held in May but was moved forward this year in light of the Trump administration’s threats of mass deportations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm is asking California regulators to approve a significant emergency rate hike, saying it is needed to avert a “dire situation for our customers and the insurance market in the state” accelerated by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025125/advice-to-those-recovering-from-wildfire-from-northern-californians-whove-been-there\">disastrous wildfires across Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, California’s largest insurance group, requested “urgent assistance” in a letter to Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday asking for the following average rate hikes to be effective May 1, 2025:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>22% increase in homeowners insurance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>15% increase in condominium owners insurance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>38% increase in renters insurance\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Farm General, the company’s California subsidiary, holds millions of policies and represents more than a million homeowners in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the company sought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992399/state-farm-seeks-enormous-rate-increases-in-california-to-prevent-insolvency\">a series of major rate increases to prevent insolvency\u003c/a>, which called its financial stability into doubt amid an ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">crisis in the state’s insurance market\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525-California-Wildfires-MT-AP-CM-01-copy-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While regulators are still investigating those requests, which would raise rates an average of 30% for homeowners insurance and 52% for renters insurance, Monday’s letter asked the state to take quick action on an “emergency interim approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“State Farm General’s rate filings raise serious questions about its financial condition,” Gabriel Sanchez, California Department of Insurance press secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1 in 5 homeowners have State Farm insurance in California, and that share has been growing in recent years, said Michael Wara, a climate and energy expert at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“State Farm isn’t very healthy financially because it has been really trying to stay in the California market and even grow in the California market as opposed to doing what most of the other companies have done, which is to shrink,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial health of State Farm is very significant, particularly to people in the fire footprint who now have claims to file,” Wara added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of State Farm employees have assisted victims of the L.A. fires, the company said, processing nearly 8,700 claims and paying out more than $1 billion to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we will ultimately pay out significantly more, as these fires will collectively be the costliest in the history of the company,” the State Farm letter said, noting that its reinsurance — basically insurance for insurance companies — will assist it in paying out claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the costs of these fires will further deplete its capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, one rating agency downgraded SFG and, with further capital deterioration as a result of the fires, additional downgrades could follow,” the letter said. “If that were to happen, customers with a mortgage might not be able to use State Farm General insurance as collateral backing for their mortgage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given State Farm’s obligations to policyholders who lost homes in the L.A. wildfires [and] their large share of the overall California market — if they provide data to the state Department of Insurance to substantiate their claim to have paid out their entire surplus already — it’s likely there will be some level of a negotiated emergency increase approval,” said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates for insurance consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:25 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After days of wet weather, two more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025049/bay-area-flood-watch-as-atmospheric-rivers-bring-heavy-rain-and-rising-river-levels\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> are forecast to drop heavy rain on Northern California this week, increasing flood potential in the Bay Area starting Monday and blanketing the Sierra Nevada with several feet of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists expect the first storm to deliver two rounds of rain starting Monday afternoon and potentially stalling over the Bay Area on Tuesday morning. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-weather-service\">National Weather Service\u003c/a> has issued a flood watch from 4 p.m. Monday to 4 a.m. Wednesday and a flood advisory is also in effect until 8:45 p.m. Monday for the area west of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a 15% chance that excessive rainfall could cause flash flooding in the North Bay and a 5% chance for the rest of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that the soils are saturated from this weekend’s rain event, we will probably get some flooding on roadway systems,” said Ryan Walbrun, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm could bring gusts up to 50 mph at higher elevations and along the coast, especially around Marin and the San Francisco peninsula. The weather service’s morning memo suggests the winds will “be more isolated in nature” and “short-lived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg\" alt=\"People look out over the ocean.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205-Tsunami-JY-001-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch for a tsunami at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It looks like the winds are going to be strongest in [locations like] Ocean Beach in San Francisco along the Great Highway all the way down south through Santa Cruz and Monterey,” Walbrun said. “Those places would be most prone to power outages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next atmospheric river is expected to bring a weaker storm by Thursday and Friday before drier conditions return this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters said the North Bay could receive as much as 6 inches of rain by the end of the week, and the rest of the Bay Area could expect up to 4 inches. The highest elevations in Sonoma County and Santa Cruz mountain areas could see up to 10 inches of rain in locations like Venado north of Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023983 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-YouthClimateProtest-09-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest risk right now would probably be in the North Bay in places that are typically pretty flood-prone,” Walbrun said. “The atmospheric river will spend more time over the North Bay, but the system is not nearly as wet or strong as the November event,” which caused record-breaking flooding in parts of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Powers, fire inspector for the city of Santa Rosa, said the city is prepared with sandbags for residents in low-lying areas, but the larger concern is downed trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the soil saturation that we’ve had, the big worry is with the wind coming in and downed trees,” Powers said. “As of right now, we’re not worried about major flooding, but more nuisance flooding and stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who lives in a flood-prone area should prepare to take action in case flooding occurs, Walbrun said. The weather service is monitoring several waterways that could reach flood thresholds this week: the Russian River, the Napa River, the San Lorenzo River, the Laguna de Santa Rosa, and Mark West Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, they aren’t forecast to go into flood stages because I don’t think the rain rates are there,” Walbrun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A one-two punch of winter weather’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say the cold systems will also bring rain and moderate to heavy snow across the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re expecting a one-two punch of winter weather,” said Matthew Chyba, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Reno office. “If you’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937204/lake-tahoe-weather-forecast-road-conditions-snow-chains\">traveling to the Tahoe area\u003c/a>, Wednesday might be your best bet, or wait until the weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SouthLakeTahoeHeavenlySkiGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Heavenly gondola of Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe, California, on Jan. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The highest peaks in the Sierra Nevada could see up to 5 feet of snow by the end of the week. 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That’s why it’s always so fun to have dynamic weather come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect a drying-out period this weekend but said there are signals that the second half of February could return to wet weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Towards the end of the month, we could get more storms, which is what we expect in February, especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024774/bay-areas-dry-january-ending-with-pair-atmospheric-river-storms\">after a very dry January\u003c/a>,” Walbrun said. “We’re at the point where we want to get a little bit of rain here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> code inspectors discovered a large illegal indoor cannabis operation on the property of former Rohnert Park Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum last year, according to records recently obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum is free on a $100,000 bond while awaiting sentencing for federal extortion, tax evasion and conspiracy charges connected to a string of marijuana seizures he conducted as a police officer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported by KQED in 2018\u003c/a>. Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2021 and is expected to testify at the trial of Joseph Huffaker, his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This looks bad, especially with my case being for the same issue,” Tatum told officials during the March 27, 2024, inspection, internal documents obtained by KQED show. “I made a mistake, I know. I’m just trying to make some money and get things squared away for my family before I go to prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s defense attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said his client was renting out a large barn on his multi-acre Santa Rosa property, but “he did not know they were growing pot.” According to Hanlon, Tatum “immediately reported” the enforcement action to his pretrial services officer, Josh Libby. In a phone call with a KQED reporter, Libby said he could not speak to the media. The United States Attorney’s office declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county cited both Tatum and his tenant, Kylie Bradley Hargis, for cannabis violations, documents show. Hargis could not immediately be reached for comment. Neither Hargis nor Tatum faced criminal action or further investigation, according to Sonoma County officials. Tatum paid a $7,500 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendan “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I personally know Tatum to have ruined the lives of dozens and dozens and dozens of marijuana farmers out there,” said defense and civil rights attorney Izaak Schwaiger, who represented many of Tatum’s victims. He said it is hard to see the lack of consequences as anything other than preferential treatment. “ At some point, the system has zero integrity if they refuse to follow through and put the hammer on this guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the latest twist in a legal saga that’s dragged on for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2013, Tatum was on Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction and civil asset forfeiture task force, which seized around $3.6 million and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana over five years. He was promoted to sergeant and honored as the “officer of the year” by Rohnert Park city leaders, even as whispers that Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">didn’t play by the rules\u003c/a> began to mount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11889861 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED reported on the allegations of eight motorists who claimed Tatum and his partners had unlawfully seized marijuana and cash from them during pretextual traffic stops. The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. Hoffman cited Tatum’s federal conviction related to “a series of traffic stops and marijuana robberies” and attached Tatum’s federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Shelly J. Averill signed the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-WARRANT.PDF.pdf\">inspection warrant (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement officials were accompanied by a Sonoma County deputy sheriff to search Tatum’s Santa Rosa property. Tatum told inspectors that “the front barn was being rented out to an acquaintance for the purpose of growing cannabis,” according to documents, and that he did not have the key. The barn’s electricity was supplied through an unpermitted trench running from Tatum’s 6,000-square-foot agricultural structure.[aside postID=news_11802870 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Rohnert-Park-Jacy-Tatum-Questionable-Marijaua-Cash-Seizures-Highway-101.jpg']“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. Hoffman cited Tatum’s federal conviction related to “a series of traffic stops and marijuana robberies” and attached Tatum’s federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Shelly J. Averill signed the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-WARRANT.PDF.pdf\">inspection warrant (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement officials were accompanied by a Sonoma County deputy sheriff to search Tatum’s Santa Rosa property. Tatum told inspectors that “the front barn was being rented out to an acquaintance for the purpose of growing cannabis,” according to documents, and that he did not have the key. The barn’s electricity was supplied through an unpermitted trench running from Tatum’s 6,000-square-foot agricultural structure.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve used ChatGPT to write a breakup text or figure out how to not burn the Christmas roast, you might’ve actually helped create jobs and profits in California, where the artificial intelligence tool was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, you’ve probably also contributed to climate change. Artificial intelligence is an energy hog, and every query to ChatGPT is like running a lightbulb for 20 minutes, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity\">research scientist recently told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is so wasteful, in fact, that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">flooding the state treasury with tax revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='nuclear-power']Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1995286,news_12020857,news_11987803\"]Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. Hoover said tech’s nascent nuclear interest may “allow for new conversations to happen,” while Wiener characterized the industry’s involvement as a “positive thing,” so long as companies participate in expanded clean energy initiatives that aren’t exclusively nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern, for his part, posited that tech’s interest “certainly doesn’t hurt the zeitgeist around nuclear being a less toxic and scary thing.” He added: “There’s some other incredible tech that, in a lot of cases, beats nuclear from a cost perspective. But it doesn’t quite make sense to me anymore that we don’t let nuclear compete in that contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve used ChatGPT to write a breakup text or figure out how to not burn the Christmas roast, you might’ve actually helped create jobs and profits in California, where the artificial intelligence tool was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, you’ve probably also contributed to climate change. Artificial intelligence is an energy hog, and every query to ChatGPT is like running a lightbulb for 20 minutes, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity\">research scientist recently told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artificial intelligence is so wasteful, in fact, that its rapid spread could endanger California’s goal of eliminating all carbon emissions by 2045 — even as AI companies may be \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/10/ca-corporate-tax-revenue-surge/\">flooding the state treasury with tax revenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conundrum has legislators considering what was once unthinkable: Bringing back nuclear power as a driver of innovation and economic growth, sort of like it was the 1960s all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are pushing for exemptions to the state’s 49-year-old moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants; they’re also mulling a possible future for the once-left-for-dead Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, the state’s last operational plant whose operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, said it is prepared for the possibility of the plant staying open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the signs of a subtle shift among state legislators and agencies, who just a few years ago seemed assured in their determination to close the book on nuclear power in California. They are being encouraged by a few outside influences: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18\">Sweating their own emissions goals,\u003c/a> the state’s Big Tech companies have begun national efforts to rejuvenate the carbon-neutral energy source. And last summer, federal lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act.html\">overwhelmingly passed a bill\u003c/a>, signed by President Biden, to accelerate the development of nuclear reactors and new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a couple times where there’s been momentum, where people use the word ‘renaissance’” around nuclear energy, said Maureen Zawalick, PG&E vice president of business and technical services. “But nothing like it is now, where there’s bipartisan support, a significant amount of federal funding, programs and incentives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic State Sen. Henry Stern, a member of the Senate Energy Committee and an environmental attorney, was mentored by anti-nuclear advocates/environmentalists and has been a critic of Diablo Canyon and PG&E. But he, too, believes “there’s going to be broader and broader bipartisan support to just put this stuff on the table,” he said, referencing certain forms of nuclear energy in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible artificial intelligence could grow more energy efficient, reducing the need for new power plants. Energy stocks \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/deepseek-is-upending-wall-streets-big-ai-power-trade-0e649925?st=agHiPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">recently sold off\u003c/a> after a Chinese company, DeepSeek, unveiled a powerful AI model it said was produced with a fraction of the resources used by its American rivals. The accuracy of those claims and how DeepSeek might change industry practices are hotly debated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even assuming AI continues to stoke demand for electricity, nuclear power remains anathema to much of the statehouse, which in the last legislative session kept a measure to partially lift the moratorium bottled up in committee. Reactors are consistent sources of energy but also incredibly expensive to build and maintain, requiring stringent regulatory oversight, staffing, and upkeep. Disposing of radioactive waste is a time-intensive process with potential environmental harms, and there are always concerns of catastrophic outcomes at nuclear facilities: reactor meltdowns, cyberattacks, and other security threats. Building new facilities in the state means lifting the moratorium and clearing not only the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission but also a thicket of California agencies like the Public Utilities Commission, Water Resources Control Board and, depending on site location, potentially the Coastal Commission and State Lands Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the reasons nuclear power skeptics are dubious of a comeback. Critics similarly question the merits of an emerging, allegedly safer form of nuclear power known as small modular reactors and whether tech companies are committed in their push for nuclear or if they’ll lose interest once they face the inevitable headwinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuclear is desperate to seem relevant, new, and improved,” said Sharon Squassoni, a research professor at George Washington University who specializes in the risks posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Of the use of nuclear power to power AI she added that “it’s a marriage that looks good on paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Big Tech ushers in a round of nuclear hype\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Renewed interest in nuclear harkens back to earlier times. President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/science/earth/19antinuke.html\">once called\u003c/a> for the construction of 1,000 nuclear reactors in the United States by the year 2000. That moonshot missed by roughly 900 reactors, and there are approximately 90 commercial reactors today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies have signaled that they’d like to boost those numbers — and they’ve already taken steps outside of California to harness nuclear power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/09/20/accelerating-the-addition-of-carbon-free-energy-an-update-on-progress/\">Citing the need\u003c/a> to add “carbon-free electricity and capacity in the grids where we operate,” \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/8f47ba63a7aab8831a7805dfde0e2c39\">Microsoft signed a deal\u003c/a> in late September to eventually get one of the reactors at Three Mile Island in southeastern Pennsylvania, site of a partial meltdown in 1979, back up and running. In mid-October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google\u003c/a> separately announced agreements with energy companies—one of which, Kairos Power, is based in California—that are in the business of designing small modular reactors. “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth,” \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/\">Google wrote\u003c/a> in a statement about its deal with Kairos Power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12/03/accelerating-the-next-wave-of-nuclear-to-power-ai-innovation/\">Meta announced\u003c/a> in early December that it was seeking proposals from nuclear energy developers who could help in the pursuit of “AI innovation and sustainability objectives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big tech’s ambitions for new plants are especially focused on small modular reactors. The idea behind the reactors is that they’d function as mini-reactors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs\">producing up to roughly one-third of the energy\u003c/a> as a conventional facility, but with factory-designed components that could be shipped to a predetermined location. This would, in theory, cut down on costs, allow for more flexible siting, and reduce the lengthy construction period typical for larger nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iaea.org/topics/small-modular-reactors\">characterized\u003c/a> proposed designs as simpler and safer than already-running reactors, and more recently, the Department of Energy\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-900-million-build-and-deploy-next-generation-nuclear\"> accepted applications\u003c/a> to help fund the design and development of these smaller reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that small reactors exist more in the abstract than in reality. “They’re totally unproven. They exist basically on a computer,” said Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under the Obama administration. “Nuclear reactors aren’t like software or social media products. They’re not fungible in the same way. … You can’t apply the tech bro mentality to these nuclear facilities, but that is what is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squassoni \u003ca href=\"https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.gwu.edu/dist/7/1053/files/2024/04/NewNuclearRisk_Report_2024_v4-1-0b59385f1c7d4153.pdf\">released a study in April 2024 (PDF)\u003c/a> noting that, “Although they are marketed as new and advanced, small modular reactors so far feature few true innovations among the scores of designs. Quite a few are old wine in new bottles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other than Microsoft’s Three Mile Island investment, and a Bill Gates-backed venture in Wyoming, it’s hard to say which other states could someday house the tech industry’s hypothetical nuclear facilities — small reactors or otherwise. California is currently one of the only states that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/Nuclear_Power_Reactors_in_California_ada.pdf\">In 1976\u003c/a>, a California law placed a moratorium on the development of additional nuclear facility sites in the state until the federal government could come up with a permanent nuclear waste disposal plan. The moratorium was largely in response to environmentalist and anti-nuclear groups in California. Almost five decades later, the federal government still has not figured out a permanent disposal method. Nowadays, spent fuel often ends up in dry casks, which are generally considered a solid, but interim, solution for storing radioactive waste. California remains one of nine states with a nuclear energy moratorium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium\">according to the Department of Energy\u003c/a>. Four states have repealed their moratoriums since 2016, and Illinois recently carved out an exemption for the construction of small modular reactors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Southern California Edison announced it would shutter reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-jun-07-la-me-0608-san-onofre-20130608-story.html\">due to defects in new steam generators\u003c/a>. That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, further limited California lawmakers’ appetite for nuclear energy. Diablo Canyon was scheduled to shut down beginning in 2024, but those plans have been postponed a half-decade. The site’s two remaining reactors are a vital part of California’s power grid, even more so because of environmental concerns brought about by climate change, as well as the state’s growing energy needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legislators trying to spark a chain reaction in the Capitol\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The world’s largest tech companies are racing to train and develop AI tools, which require immense amounts of electricity. The exact metrics, as far as total AI energy consumption is concerned, remain murky, largely because\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption\"> the tech industry has been murky\u003c/a> on the subject. It’s clear, though, that tech companies are reliant on big, windowless data centers to power AI, and that these data centers are extremely energy-intensive — and prevalent in California. The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-12/california-data-centers-could-derail-clean-energy-goals\">reported in August\u003c/a> that the state has at least 270 data centers, many clustered, perhaps unsurprisingly, in Silicon Valley. Tech companies have eyed dozens more data centers up and down the state, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sorts of statistics are a major concern for California lawmakers. “Tech is a new part of the equation because of data centers, AI, and all these things,” said Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover, a proponent of nuclear energy from the Sacramento suburbs. “The reality is that even before all of that, our grid was not nearly prepared for the energy demands of a clean energy future. And so I am a big believer that nuclear energy needs to be part of that conversation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hoover is referring to California’s power grid and the state’s mandatory transition to 100% carbon-free energy by 2045, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-renewable-energy-law-signed-20180910-story.html\">under a 2018 measure\u003c/a>. California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/08/california-clean-power-progress-grid/\">made significant strides\u003c/a> toward the target but \u003ca href=\"https://gridclue.com/StateProfile?rs=California\">scores a low D- rating\u003c/a> for its resilience to extreme weather events and other disruptive threats, according to measurements by the nonprofit Grid Clue. Despite an ongoing shift to renewables, California is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and its grid is increasingly under peril because of wildfires, heat waves, and other weather events linked to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon provides roughly 9% of the state’s electricity, which is partly why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/03/02/photos-governor-newsom-visits-diablo-canyon-power-plant/\">supported extending the use of its reactors to 2029 and 2030\u003c/a>. “That struck me as a courageous decision and the right decision, and I would hope that that’s reflective of his belief to look at all different energy sources,” said Republican Assemblymember Diane Dixon, who represents Newport Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for PG&E, which owns and operates Diablo Canyon, have typically adopted a defensive posture when asked about their nuclear facility and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-bills-diablo-canyon-19821155.php\">cost overruns\u003c/a> it routinely incurs. But the utility company has been singing a different tune lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawalick, the PG&E vice president, demurred when asked if she thinks Diablo Canyon will ultimately stay open past the station’s latest deadline. “We have to be asked by the state legislators to go longer than 2030,” she said. “But we will be ready, is what I say. And we’re planning to be.” She told CalMatters she hasn’t had any “formal” conversations with tech companies about Diablo Canyon’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern described Diablo Canyon as a “cost-suck” and “old,” adding, “If you were building new nuclear, you would not build it like Diablo Canyon.” But Stern conceded that San Onofre’s shutdown strained the state’s energy grid (it also led to more greenhouse gas production), and he’s come to accept Diablo Canyon’s role, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, who represents Fresno and has co-sponsored nuclear energy legislation, also worries “about what would occur if a member of our energy portfolio was taken offline, how that would increase rates for the rest of us.” Hoover echoed Arambula’s view and said he wants Diablo Canyon to stay open indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An opening for small modular reactors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Diablo Canyon is one (complicated) piece of the nuclear puzzle. Then there’s the separate conundrum of whether to roll back all, or some, of the state’s nuclear energy moratorium. As it stands, Republican lawmakers are the political faction that has pushed to change the moratorium. Last year, Dixon was a cosponsor of \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2092\">Assembly Bill 2092\u003c/a>, which would’ve asked the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct a feasibility studies about the possible benefits and effects of small modular reactors by the beginning of 2027. The bill never got a vote on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have stretch goals,” Dixon said of the state’s zero emissions target. “But we have to be mindful of the impact on the local economy, on jobs, and driving businesses out of California. I want to at least start the process to study this important possible new alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another recent proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab65\">Assembly Bill 65,\u003c/a> would’ve created a moratorium exemption for the development of small modular reactors. Hoover and Arambula were co-sponsors on AB 65, and Arambula said he hopes to introduce a similar measure in the 2025–26 legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2023, the last time lawmakers debated the bill to allow small modular reactors, Arambula was one of few Democratic politicians to publicly back pro-nuclear legislation. Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Rick Zbur, for instance, told his colleagues he couldn’t support the measure because, while he “used to be someone who believed that nuclear was part of the solution to a carbon-free future,” he changed his views after the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster in Japan. “I don’t think that the California public supports this,” he continued. “I don’t think that we need this to get to a carbon-free future.” (Zbur confirmed to CalMatters that his stance hasn’t changed of late.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other prominent Democratic politicians are beginning to sound more bullish on nuclear energy sources. Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco told CalMatters that he’s noticed “a gradual increased openness among Democrats to nuclear,” and that he thinks nuclear “should certainly be part of the conversation.” Stern, the Senate environment committee member, said he’s interested in giving consideration to some nuclear power bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern previously authored a law that required the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state agencies, to write an assessment of commercially feasible energy sources. That assessment, \u003ca href=\"https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=21-ESR-01\">which was released in August 2024\u003c/a>, suggested more research and development into small modular reactors and recommended that the legislature pass a law to exempt such reactors from the state’s nuclear moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Newsom’s office left the door open to the possibility of small modular reactors and a nuclear moratorium exemption in California. “The Governor has always maintained an interest in new, promising technologies, including advancements in emerging nuclear power technologies, that follow strong safety, cost, and environmental considerations,” Newsom’s Deputy Director of Communications Daniel Villaseñor wrote to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Josh Becker, the new chair of the Senate Energy Committee, also left the door open to nuclear technologies in California: “Climate change is an urgent crisis demanding a comprehensive and proactive response,” the Silicon Valley Democrat wrote in a statement. “To address it effectively, we must consider every viable solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 2025–26 legislative session will be instructive in showing state lawmakers’ willingness to embrace nuclear energy. Any policy changes in California — followed by a hypothetical nuclear site selection process — would proceed at a slow, methodical pace, the exact opposite of how tech companies prefer to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to needing to get a carve-out from the state’s nuclear moratorium and approvals from various state and federal entities, nuclear plant builders could well face lawsuits and other pushback from anti-nuclear groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those factors in mind, the legislative session will \u003cem>also \u003c/em>reveal whether tech companies feel emboldened to push for nuclear energy sites in California, or if they’re satisfied pursuing their energy needs in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, just because many key AI companies are based in California doesn’t mean their data centers have to be. The recent failed bills to permit some kind of nuclear power in California were proposed shortly before tech’s fast and furious incursion into the nuclear energy space and thus weren’t part of the industry’s 2023–24 legislative lobbying efforts. Public support and lobbying for the two bills came from a handful of relatively small pro-nuclear advocacy groups, as well as a handful of labor groups, and the Nuclear Energy Institute, a pro-nuclear trade association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell how serious these tech firms are about promoting nuclear energy to power their electricity needs,” Squassoni said. “It could be a fad — it could be that once they get a real whiff of the costs and time it takes to build new plants, they may back off a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who spoke to CalMatters said they aren’t against tech companies joining in on broader policy debates around California’s energy grid. 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Transgender youth are also barred from bathrooms and sports teams that do not align with their biological sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">several anti-transgender and “anti-woke”\u003c/a> orders signed by Trump that have received backlash from state officials and residents who feel that the directives malign public schools and expose transgender youth to harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s most recent order instructs the U.S. Attorney General to partner with state attorneys general and local district attorneys to identify K–12 teachers who continue to advocate for transgender recognition and inclusive policies. 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Supportive schools and educators are vital to a child’s well-being, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump has chosen to target these children, including my wonderful child, with executive orders filled with ignorance, misinformation, bigotry and hatred,” Murphy said. “As a result of these executive orders, President Trump will be killing children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Trump’s directive, schools will also be required to teach a “patriotic” curriculum that celebrates United States history and the country’s founding principles. Nicholas Hite, an attorney at the nonprofit Lambda Legal, said the federal government has no jurisdiction over what educators teach their students, especially when it comes to revisionist versions of the country’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hite added that while public schools do receive some funding from the federal government, Trump’s administration has no legal authority to place restrictions or stipulations on money that’s already been earmarked for specific purposes, such as books or buses. He said courts that correctly apply the law will consider the order unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators and attorneys are preparing to challenge the order if federal agencies move to enforce it. 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But following the closed-door discussion, no vote was held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said that Democrats chose to revisit the bills before bringing them to the floor for a vote but did not say what, if any, changes would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The actions by Republicans in Washington this week jeopardize the programs and services Californians rely on most, from senior care to funding for veterans programs,” Rivas’s spokesperson said. “In the Assembly, we are going to look closely at the special session legal defense bills to ensure they are airtight and protect all Californians from these threats, and we will pass them soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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