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Since then, she’s pressed for a safer electric grid in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to forget the risk that we live in — until it happens to you,” said Moss, a longtime clean energy advocate. “All of us in California have to think about how we better prepare to survive disaster, which is only going to be more of a problem as the climate changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California’s power companies have been doing just that: insulating power lines and burying lines underground, trimming trees, deploying drones and using risk-detection technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abc0020\">wildfires across the U.S. intensify\u003c/a>, California is on the leading edge of efforts to prevent more deadly and destructive fires ignited by downed power lines and malfunctioning equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers have shouldered a hefty price for wildfire safety measures. From 2019 through 2023, the California Public Utilities Commission authorized the three largest utilities to collect $27 billion in wildfire prevention and insurance costs from ratepayers, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/office-of-governmental-affairs-division/reports/2024/2024-sb-695-report.pdf#page=56\">report\u003c/a> to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the costs are projected to keep rising: The three companies — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — continue to seek billions more from customers for wildfire prevention spending. Rates are expected to continue outpacing inflation\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/office-of-governmental-affairs-division/reports/2024/2024-sb-695-report.pdf#page=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> through 2027\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire safety projects are a big part of the reason that Californians pay the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\"> highest electric bills\u003c/a> in the nation outside of Hawaii. Other reasons include rooftop solar incentives, new transmission systems and upgrades for electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher electric bills have helped fuel a\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/766\"> statewide affordability crisis\u003c/a> alongside soaring housing prices, expensive groceries and costly gasoline. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/02/utility-rate-hikes-california/\">Small businesses\u003c/a> are feeling the burden, along with the state’s poorest residents:\u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/press-room/commentary/240311-setting-the-record-straight-fixed-charge\"> One in three\u003c/a> low-income households served by the three utilities fell behind in paying their power bills this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s three investor-owned utilities are regulated monopolies, so when they spend money on costs related to wildfires, they recover it through customers’ bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price of electricity has ignited debate about how much California families should bear for the cost of wildfire prevention, whether utilities are balancing risk and affordability and whether the money is being spent wisely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/9wC3J/29/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Lynch, a former head of the state utilities commission, said lack of oversight is a problem, with the commission “rubber-stamping outrageous costs” and allowing the companies to “address wildfires in the most expensive, least effective way possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest controversies is whether the utilities should be spending so much on burying power lines, an extremely costly and slow process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2022-115/index.html\">a state audit\u003c/a> concluded that the utilities commission and the state’s advocates office must do more to verify whether utilities were completing the work they sought payment for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three companies say the billions of dollars in spending is necessary as climate change worsens \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-wildfire-map-tracker/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADM7b5fFuSe1NT8oR5odtxgzBtp-K&gclid=CjwKCAiA0rW6BhAcEiwAQH28IjlGhALav1D1122TKnYxkFmzscYW2x42CGExP5nWM4kziIahkVFJ6hoCkmAQAvD_BwE\">wildfires across the state\u003c/a>. Utility equipment has caused less than 10% of the state’s fires but nearly half of its most destructive fires, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires\">according to the utilities commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M338/K725/338725560.PDF\">a few years ago came out of bankruptcy\u003c/a> triggered by its liability for several deadly, destructive fires, has adopted the stance that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support/wildfire-mitigation-plan-executive-summary.pdf#page=2\">“catastrophic wildfires shall stop.”\u003c/a> The company, which serves the most high-risk areas in California, is the state’s largest spender on wildfire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines in its highest-risk areas — work that is highly contentious because it is costly and slow. The company has buried \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/press-release-details.5943ff56-7c74-4c60-ab87-602de41c5054.html\">800 miles since 2021\u003c/a>, with each mile costing between $3 and $4 million. Last year, the commission approved a $3.7 billion plan for PG&E to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M520/K799/520799852.pdf#page=289\">bury 1,230 miles\u003c/a> of lines through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumeet Singh, PG&E’s chief operating officer, told CalMatters that the utility is concerned about rates, too. He said the company is “very committed to stabilizing our customer rates as we go forward without compromising safety. I think that’s clear that it’s a non-negotiable….There’s a pretty robust process and oversight that we are under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Geraghty, chief operating officer of SDG&E, called the wildfire spending process “the most highly-scrutinized, regulatory utility process I have ever been involved in, in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/30/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-tackling-rising-electric-bills/\"> issued an executive order\u003c/a> in October aimed at tackling the high costs of electricity, asking state agencies to evaluate their oversight of wildfire projects and ensure that the utilities are focused on “cost-effective” measures. He is seeking proposals for changes in rules or laws by Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-reduced-to-ash\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reduced to ash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The spark for the increased spending came seven years ago \u003ca href=\"https://ca.water.usgs.gov/california-drought/california-drought-comparisons.html\">after California suffered one of its worst droughts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/families-scour-burnt-ruins-for-missing-in-california-1507936103?mod=article_inline\">a series of devastating wildfires\u003c/a> in 2017 and 2018, many ignited by utility equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen fires were caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/safety-policy-division/reports/root-cause-analyses-of-the-2017-18-wildfires.pdf\">PG&E equipment\u003c/a> during a rash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires/october-2017-wildfires\">October 2017\u003c/a> fires that decimated Napa, Sonoma and other Northern California counties. That December, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/12/4/thomas-fire/\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, sparked by Southern California Edison equipment, engulfed parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the devastation of 2017 was only a prelude to an even graver year. On Nov. 8, 2018, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2018/11/8/camp-fire/\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> leveled the town of Paradise, killing 85 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire was caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.buttecounty.net/342/Camp-Fire\">failure of an old metal hook\u003c/a> attached to a PG&E transmission tower. An intense wind event pushed the fire at a rate of roughly 80 football fields per minute at its peak. The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for its role in the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day as the destruction in Paradise, another fire ignited some 470 miles south. In the Simi Hills of Ventura County, Southern California, Edison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/safety-and-enforcement-division/investigations-wildfires/sed-investigation-report---woolsey-fire---redacted.pdf\">wires in two separate locations\u003c/a> made contact with others, triggering “arc” flashes that rained hot metal fragments and sparks onto the dry brush below. These triggered two blazes, which soon merged to form the Woolsey Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Ana winds spread the conflagration across parched terrain, with swaths of the nationally protected Santa Monica Mountains reduced to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953264 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A burning structure with a firefighter in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise on Nov. 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moss, the clean energy advocate, evacuated her home with her son that day. Her husband, clinging to hope, stayed until the blaze threatened to swallow him whole. Their neighborhood near Malibu, with its heavily wooded surroundings, was no match for the inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband stayed until the last minute when it just — it looked like it could cost him his life,” Moss said. “Everybody else left, and just about all of us lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people died. Moss’ home was gone, reduced to a hollowed-out structure and charred rubble, along with about 100,000 acres of\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/management/2018-woolsey-fire.htm\"> parkland and wilderness\u003c/a>, more than any other fire in recorded history for that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, downed PG&E lines ignited Sonoma County’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-fight-california-fires-firefighters-seek-to-hold-the-line-in-sonoma-11572464115\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a>. Then, two years later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/13/dixie-fire/\">the Dixie Fire\u003c/a>, also caused by PG&E equipment, became the \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-largest-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=097f901c128347149e2614f2fca4f546&hash=27DDE83DFEF9A69E67C73765892A2B75\">second-largest wildfire\u003c/a> in California history, burning 963,000 acres north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 Dixie Fire, which claimed one life and destroyed 1,311 structures, was the last catastrophic wildfire in California confirmed to be caused by utility equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-it-just-takes-the-wrong-ignition\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>‘It just takes the wrong ignition’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of fires triggered by the companies’ equipment fluctuates from year to year, driven by the huge variability in California’s weather. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires\">data from 2014 through 2023\u003c/a> indicate there were substantially fewer fires last year than in other recent years. SDG&E equipment caused 16 fires after its high of 32 fires in 2015, Southern California Edison had 90 fires, compared to a 2021 high of 173, and PG&E reported 374 fires after a high of 510 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25355999/pges-2023-annual-report-on-compliance-revision-1-r1.pdf#page=6\">PG&E also reported\u003c/a> that fires in its highest-risk areas trended down every month of 2023 compared to the same months in previous years. But that progress reversed this year, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/pg-e-is-racing-to-stem-increasing-fires-ignited-by-its-power-lines-0228c556\">62 fires\u003c/a> reported by August in high-risk areas, compared to 65 in all of 2023. (PG&E would not provide 2024 fire data to CalMatters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705327 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg\" alt=\"The Woolsey Fire burns along the ridgeline off Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on the morning of Nov. 9, 2018 in Agoura Hills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Woolsey Fire burns along the ridgeline off Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on the morning of Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills. \u003ccite>(Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Thomas Jacobs, inaugural director of the state Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, established in 2021 to oversee utility safety, said progress can be hard to measure. Nevertheless, she said she has seen a cultural shift at electric companies in recent years, with a more focused approach in high-risk areas and an environment that empowers workers to prioritize safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-Va70l\" class=\"datawrapper-script-embed vis-height-fixed vis-d3-area\">\n\u003cp>“It just takes the wrong ignition … under the right conditions, to have a catastrophic fire,” Thomas Jacobs said. “But are we in a better place? The numbers seem to indicate we’re moving in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has installed more than 1,500 weather stations and 600 AI-enabled cameras to detect severe weather and ignitions, Singh said. Enhanced safety systems now cut power to lines within a tenth of a second. The utility has also cleared vegetation, ordered power shutoffs during high-risk times, insulated lines and buried some lines underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we see the greatest risk?” Singh said the company asks itself, and “What is the most cost-effective way to be able to reduce that risk for every dollar that’s spent?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Va70l/17/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Edison said since its investments began in 2019, the risk of catastrophic wildfire in its system has dropped between 85% and 90%. The company plans to bury 600 miles of lines in high-risk areas but it is relying much more on less-expensive insulating technology, which has already been used on more than 6,000 miles of lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDG&E began prioritizing wildfire prevention, including underground and insulated lines, a decade ahead of the other two utilities after its lines sparked three major fires in 2007. The company has avoided a catastrophic fire since 2007 despite operating in one of the nation’s most fire-prone regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to double down and do and do more tomorrow than we did yesterday,” said Brian D’Agostino, the utility’s vice president of wildfire and climate science. “We don’t take a single day without a fire for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfire spending — ‘an odd system’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say the scramble to address the wildfire crisis has left the state vulnerable to overspending by utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months before the Camp and Woolsey fires, outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018 signed a $1 billion plan to thin forests and clear out the tinderbox of California’s dead and dying trees. That measure came too late to prevent the devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it opened the door to increased spending by utilities beyond limits set in the highly deliberative process known as their general rate cases, which determine what Californians pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the Legislature in 2019 created a $21 billion wildfire fund paid for by Wall Street investors and California ratepayers to help PG&E exit bankruptcy and protect utilities from being financially threatened by the wildfires they cause. The utilities cannot access the state’s $21 billion fund unless the energy safety office approves their wildfire plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H4pTN/16/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem, critics say, is that the safety plans are approved by one government entity while the spending to carry them out is approved by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have this very odd system,” said Lynch, who served on the utilities commission from 2000 through 2004. “The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety reviews the plans, puts out guidelines, but then the (commission) still has to ratify the plans so that the utilities can take money from their ratepayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfire safety goes underground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a temperate, clear morning in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Placerville in October, a PG&E construction crew donned yellow jackets and safety helmets and went about the work of burying power lines along a narrow, wooded road. Overhead lines snaked through thick trees in this area — prime fire risk territory. The workers buried the lines in a trench that had been dug using a heavy piece of equipment designed to cut hard concrete and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once those power lines are buried and activated, their risk of fires is all but eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12016434 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marking tape covers a layer of sand in the trench. Photos by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Burying lines in high-risk areas improves reliability amid rising wildfire risks and extreme weather, PG&E’s Singh said. Though it’s pricier up front, it eliminates the yearly expense of trimming trees and vegetation, which makes it a better, long-run value for customers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underground is a no-brainer when you look at it from that lens,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the high cost and the time it takes to do the work have left some skeptical. The company has buried 800 miles of wires underground since 2021 and plans to bury more than 1,600 by the end of 2026. It aims to get the cost per mile down to $2.8 million by the end of 2026 from $3 million at the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Campbell, assistant deputy director of energy for the public advocates office, a state entity that represents utility customers, said PG&E should consider other means of preventing wildfire, like insulated wires, otherwise known as “covered conductors.” This can be deployed more quickly and at a lower cost, he said and is effective when combined with operational techniques like fast trip settings and power safety shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some areas, (burying power lines) really is the correct approach to minimize risk. But it’s also very slow and very expensive, and so there’s a need to address safety in as many miles as quickly as possible, to reduce overall risk,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities commission has taken a proof-of-concept approach: The commission scaled back PG&E’s plan to bury 2,000 miles through 2026 to 1,230. The commission approved installing covered conductors, or insulated power lines, over 778 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch is skeptical of utilities and their big projects because they can profit from them, and Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, says too much spending is going unchecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of urgency following fires paved the way for the multi-billion surge in spending. The commission authorized PG&E, for instance, to spend $4.66 billion on wildfire costs from 2020 through 2022, but the company ultimately spent $11.7 billion and is seeking payment through utility bills, according to The Utility Reform Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E employees and contractors stand next to a trench that was dug in Placer County so that electric cables can be buried to prevent wildfires. Burying lines costs PG&E ratepayers between $3 million and $4 million per mile. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Audits of nearly $2.5 billion in 2019 and 2020 wildfire spending found some costs from PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDG&E may already have been covered by previously approved rates, or more documentation was needed to confirm they had not been covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities challenged many of the findings, saying they didn’t plan to claim some of the costs, and disputed the auditor’s conclusions as well as some of their calculations. In interviews with CalMatters, representatives for all three utilities said the process in place to oversee wildfire spending at the utilities commission was robust and thorough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geraghty, of SDG&E, said the process is transparent, with public comment periods and hearings. Regarding critics who say wildfire prevention should be cheaper and faster, “every one of them had that voice, had that say, had that transparency through this entire process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some expenses, such as operating costs, have an immediate impact on how much people pay in their bills. But other costs, such as long-term investments in insulating or burying power lines, are stretched out over years, meaning they add to bills for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, these capital costs are growing due to factors like depreciation and the returns utilities are allowed to generate. This creates a compounding effect, meaning wildfire-related capital costs will take up an increasing share of what California customers are charged in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Feeling the pinch in Oakland, the fear near Malibu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The burden of the rising bills is hitting many Californians hard. Roshonda Wilson, of Oakland, couldn’t afford to pay her power bill even though she said she watches television only after sunset, refrains from running unnecessary appliances and is hyper-aware of every energy-consuming action in her household. At one point, PG&E turned her power off this year. “I couldn’t catch up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Moss — who has weathered not just the trauma of losing her home near Malibu but also the difficult process of rebuilding — says the expensive wildfire prevention work is critical to prevent more tragedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though (burying power lines) is costly and time-consuming, the cost and time of not doing it is starting to seem more devastating to a broader swath of people,” Moss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the rate hikes have alarmed climate activists who fear rising power bills in California may trigger a backlash against the state’s effort to switch to renewable energy and influence other states, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state, we fear, will start to lose the political will to keep pushing on,” said Mohit Chhabra, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The problem with that is not that California will be a few years late — we can handle that. But the impact on all the other states who are looking at California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett and Miguel Gutierrez Jr. contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the costs are projected to keep rising: The three companies — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — continue to seek billions more from customers for wildfire prevention spending. Rates are expected to continue outpacing inflation\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/office-of-governmental-affairs-division/reports/2024/2024-sb-695-report.pdf#page=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> through 2027\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire safety projects are a big part of the reason that Californians pay the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\"> highest electric bills\u003c/a> in the nation outside of Hawaii. Other reasons include rooftop solar incentives, new transmission systems and upgrades for electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher electric bills have helped fuel a\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/766\"> statewide affordability crisis\u003c/a> alongside soaring housing prices, expensive groceries and costly gasoline. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/02/utility-rate-hikes-california/\">Small businesses\u003c/a> are feeling the burden, along with the state’s poorest residents:\u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/press-room/commentary/240311-setting-the-record-straight-fixed-charge\"> One in three\u003c/a> low-income households served by the three utilities fell behind in paying their power bills this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s three investor-owned utilities are regulated monopolies, so when they spend money on costs related to wildfires, they recover it through customers’ bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price of electricity has ignited debate about how much California families should bear for the cost of wildfire prevention, whether utilities are balancing risk and affordability and whether the money is being spent wisely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/9wC3J/29/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Lynch, a former head of the state utilities commission, said lack of oversight is a problem, with the commission “rubber-stamping outrageous costs” and allowing the companies to “address wildfires in the most expensive, least effective way possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest controversies is whether the utilities should be spending so much on burying power lines, an extremely costly and slow process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://information.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2022-115/index.html\">a state audit\u003c/a> concluded that the utilities commission and the state’s advocates office must do more to verify whether utilities were completing the work they sought payment for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three companies say the billions of dollars in spending is necessary as climate change worsens \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-wildfire-map-tracker/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADM7b5fFuSe1NT8oR5odtxgzBtp-K&gclid=CjwKCAiA0rW6BhAcEiwAQH28IjlGhALav1D1122TKnYxkFmzscYW2x42CGExP5nWM4kziIahkVFJ6hoCkmAQAvD_BwE\">wildfires across the state\u003c/a>. Utility equipment has caused less than 10% of the state’s fires but nearly half of its most destructive fires, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires\">according to the utilities commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M338/K725/338725560.PDF\">a few years ago came out of bankruptcy\u003c/a> triggered by its liability for several deadly, destructive fires, has adopted the stance that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support/wildfire-mitigation-plan-executive-summary.pdf#page=2\">“catastrophic wildfires shall stop.”\u003c/a> The company, which serves the most high-risk areas in California, is the state’s largest spender on wildfire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E plans to bury 10,000 miles of power lines in its highest-risk areas — work that is highly contentious because it is costly and slow. The company has buried \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/press-release-details.5943ff56-7c74-4c60-ab87-602de41c5054.html\">800 miles since 2021\u003c/a>, with each mile costing between $3 and $4 million. Last year, the commission approved a $3.7 billion plan for PG&E to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M520/K799/520799852.pdf#page=289\">bury 1,230 miles\u003c/a> of lines through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sumeet Singh, PG&E’s chief operating officer, told CalMatters that the utility is concerned about rates, too. He said the company is “very committed to stabilizing our customer rates as we go forward without compromising safety. I think that’s clear that it’s a non-negotiable….There’s a pretty robust process and oversight that we are under.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Geraghty, chief operating officer of SDG&E, called the wildfire spending process “the most highly-scrutinized, regulatory utility process I have ever been involved in, in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/30/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-tackling-rising-electric-bills/\"> issued an executive order\u003c/a> in October aimed at tackling the high costs of electricity, asking state agencies to evaluate their oversight of wildfire projects and ensure that the utilities are focused on “cost-effective” measures. He is seeking proposals for changes in rules or laws by Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-reduced-to-ash\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reduced to ash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The spark for the increased spending came seven years ago \u003ca href=\"https://ca.water.usgs.gov/california-drought/california-drought-comparisons.html\">after California suffered one of its worst droughts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/families-scour-burnt-ruins-for-missing-in-california-1507936103?mod=article_inline\">a series of devastating wildfires\u003c/a> in 2017 and 2018, many ignited by utility equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixteen fires were caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/safety-policy-division/reports/root-cause-analyses-of-the-2017-18-wildfires.pdf\">PG&E equipment\u003c/a> during a rash of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires/october-2017-wildfires\">October 2017\u003c/a> fires that decimated Napa, Sonoma and other Northern California counties. That December, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2017/12/4/thomas-fire/\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a>, sparked by Southern California Edison equipment, engulfed parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the devastation of 2017 was only a prelude to an even graver year. On Nov. 8, 2018, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2018/11/8/camp-fire/\">Camp Fire\u003c/a> leveled the town of Paradise, killing 85 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire was caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.buttecounty.net/342/Camp-Fire\">failure of an old metal hook\u003c/a> attached to a PG&E transmission tower. An intense wind event pushed the fire at a rate of roughly 80 football fields per minute at its peak. The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for its role in the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day as the destruction in Paradise, another fire ignited some 470 miles south. In the Simi Hills of Ventura County, Southern California, Edison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/safety-and-enforcement-division/investigations-wildfires/sed-investigation-report---woolsey-fire---redacted.pdf\">wires in two separate locations\u003c/a> made contact with others, triggering “arc” flashes that rained hot metal fragments and sparks onto the dry brush below. These triggered two blazes, which soon merged to form the Woolsey Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Ana winds spread the conflagration across parched terrain, with swaths of the nationally protected Santa Monica Mountains reduced to ash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953264\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11953264 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A burning structure with a firefighter in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/110818-Paradise-Fire-AP-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise on Nov. 8, 2018. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moss, the clean energy advocate, evacuated her home with her son that day. Her husband, clinging to hope, stayed until the blaze threatened to swallow him whole. Their neighborhood near Malibu, with its heavily wooded surroundings, was no match for the inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband stayed until the last minute when it just — it looked like it could cost him his life,” Moss said. “Everybody else left, and just about all of us lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three people died. Moss’ home was gone, reduced to a hollowed-out structure and charred rubble, along with about 100,000 acres of\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/management/2018-woolsey-fire.htm\"> parkland and wilderness\u003c/a>, more than any other fire in recorded history for that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, downed PG&E lines ignited Sonoma County’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-fight-california-fires-firefighters-seek-to-hold-the-line-in-sonoma-11572464115\">Kincade Fire\u003c/a>. Then, two years later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/13/dixie-fire/\">the Dixie Fire\u003c/a>, also caused by PG&E equipment, became the \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-largest-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=097f901c128347149e2614f2fca4f546&hash=27DDE83DFEF9A69E67C73765892A2B75\">second-largest wildfire\u003c/a> in California history, burning 963,000 acres north of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2021 Dixie Fire, which claimed one life and destroyed 1,311 structures, was the last catastrophic wildfire in California confirmed to be caused by utility equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-it-just-takes-the-wrong-ignition\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>‘It just takes the wrong ignition’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The number of fires triggered by the companies’ equipment fluctuates from year to year, driven by the huge variability in California’s weather. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/wildfires\">data from 2014 through 2023\u003c/a> indicate there were substantially fewer fires last year than in other recent years. SDG&E equipment caused 16 fires after its high of 32 fires in 2015, Southern California Edison had 90 fires, compared to a 2021 high of 173, and PG&E reported 374 fires after a high of 510 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25355999/pges-2023-annual-report-on-compliance-revision-1-r1.pdf#page=6\">PG&E also reported\u003c/a> that fires in its highest-risk areas trended down every month of 2023 compared to the same months in previous years. But that progress reversed this year, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/pg-e-is-racing-to-stem-increasing-fires-ignited-by-its-power-lines-0228c556\">62 fires\u003c/a> reported by August in high-risk areas, compared to 65 in all of 2023. (PG&E would not provide 2024 fire data to CalMatters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11705327 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg\" alt=\"The Woolsey Fire burns along the ridgeline off Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on the morning of Nov. 9, 2018 in Agoura Hills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/WoolseyBurn-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Woolsey Fire burns along the ridgeline off Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on the morning of Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills. \u003ccite>(Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Thomas Jacobs, inaugural director of the state Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, established in 2021 to oversee utility safety, said progress can be hard to measure. Nevertheless, she said she has seen a cultural shift at electric companies in recent years, with a more focused approach in high-risk areas and an environment that empowers workers to prioritize safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"datawrapper-vis-Va70l\" class=\"datawrapper-script-embed vis-height-fixed vis-d3-area\">\n\u003cp>“It just takes the wrong ignition … under the right conditions, to have a catastrophic fire,” Thomas Jacobs said. “But are we in a better place? The numbers seem to indicate we’re moving in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has installed more than 1,500 weather stations and 600 AI-enabled cameras to detect severe weather and ignitions, Singh said. Enhanced safety systems now cut power to lines within a tenth of a second. The utility has also cleared vegetation, ordered power shutoffs during high-risk times, insulated lines and buried some lines underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do we see the greatest risk?” Singh said the company asks itself, and “What is the most cost-effective way to be able to reduce that risk for every dollar that’s spent?”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Va70l/17/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Edison said since its investments began in 2019, the risk of catastrophic wildfire in its system has dropped between 85% and 90%. The company plans to bury 600 miles of lines in high-risk areas but it is relying much more on less-expensive insulating technology, which has already been used on more than 6,000 miles of lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDG&E began prioritizing wildfire prevention, including underground and insulated lines, a decade ahead of the other two utilities after its lines sparked three major fires in 2007. The company has avoided a catastrophic fire since 2007 despite operating in one of the nation’s most fire-prone regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to double down and do and do more tomorrow than we did yesterday,” said Brian D’Agostino, the utility’s vice president of wildfire and climate science. “We don’t take a single day without a fire for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfire spending — ‘an odd system’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say the scramble to address the wildfire crisis has left the state vulnerable to overspending by utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months before the Camp and Woolsey fires, outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018 signed a $1 billion plan to thin forests and clear out the tinderbox of California’s dead and dying trees. That measure came too late to prevent the devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it opened the door to increased spending by utilities beyond limits set in the highly deliberative process known as their general rate cases, which determine what Californians pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the Legislature in 2019 created a $21 billion wildfire fund paid for by Wall Street investors and California ratepayers to help PG&E exit bankruptcy and protect utilities from being financially threatened by the wildfires they cause. The utilities cannot access the state’s $21 billion fund unless the energy safety office approves their wildfire plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/H4pTN/16/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem, critics say, is that the safety plans are approved by one government entity while the spending to carry them out is approved by another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We now have this very odd system,” said Lynch, who served on the utilities commission from 2000 through 2004. “The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety reviews the plans, puts out guidelines, but then the (commission) still has to ratify the plans so that the utilities can take money from their ratepayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wildfire safety goes underground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a temperate, clear morning in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Placerville in October, a PG&E construction crew donned yellow jackets and safety helmets and went about the work of burying power lines along a narrow, wooded road. Overhead lines snaked through thick trees in this area — prime fire risk territory. The workers buried the lines in a trench that had been dug using a heavy piece of equipment designed to cut hard concrete and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once those power lines are buried and activated, their risk of fires is all but eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12016434 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_07-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marking tape covers a layer of sand in the trench. Photos by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Burying lines in high-risk areas improves reliability amid rising wildfire risks and extreme weather, PG&E’s Singh said. Though it’s pricier up front, it eliminates the yearly expense of trimming trees and vegetation, which makes it a better, long-run value for customers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Underground is a no-brainer when you look at it from that lens,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the high cost and the time it takes to do the work have left some skeptical. The company has buried 800 miles of wires underground since 2021 and plans to bury more than 1,600 by the end of 2026. It aims to get the cost per mile down to $2.8 million by the end of 2026 from $3 million at the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Campbell, assistant deputy director of energy for the public advocates office, a state entity that represents utility customers, said PG&E should consider other means of preventing wildfire, like insulated wires, otherwise known as “covered conductors.” This can be deployed more quickly and at a lower cost, he said and is effective when combined with operational techniques like fast trip settings and power safety shutoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some areas, (burying power lines) really is the correct approach to minimize risk. But it’s also very slow and very expensive, and so there’s a need to address safety in as many miles as quickly as possible, to reduce overall risk,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities commission has taken a proof-of-concept approach: The commission scaled back PG&E’s plan to bury 2,000 miles through 2026 to 1,230. The commission approved installing covered conductors, or insulated power lines, over 778 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch is skeptical of utilities and their big projects because they can profit from them, and Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, says too much spending is going unchecked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of urgency following fires paved the way for the multi-billion surge in spending. The commission authorized PG&E, for instance, to spend $4.66 billion on wildfire costs from 2020 through 2022, but the company ultimately spent $11.7 billion and is seeking payment through utility bills, according to The Utility Reform Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/101724_PGE-Underground-Cables_MG_CM_09-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E employees and contractors stand next to a trench that was dug in Placer County so that electric cables can be buried to prevent wildfires. Burying lines costs PG&E ratepayers between $3 million and $4 million per mile. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Audits of nearly $2.5 billion in 2019 and 2020 wildfire spending found some costs from PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDG&E may already have been covered by previously approved rates, or more documentation was needed to confirm they had not been covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utilities challenged many of the findings, saying they didn’t plan to claim some of the costs, and disputed the auditor’s conclusions as well as some of their calculations. In interviews with CalMatters, representatives for all three utilities said the process in place to oversee wildfire spending at the utilities commission was robust and thorough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geraghty, of SDG&E, said the process is transparent, with public comment periods and hearings. Regarding critics who say wildfire prevention should be cheaper and faster, “every one of them had that voice, had that say, had that transparency through this entire process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some expenses, such as operating costs, have an immediate impact on how much people pay in their bills. But other costs, such as long-term investments in insulating or burying power lines, are stretched out over years, meaning they add to bills for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, these capital costs are growing due to factors like depreciation and the returns utilities are allowed to generate. This creates a compounding effect, meaning wildfire-related capital costs will take up an increasing share of what California customers are charged in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Feeling the pinch in Oakland, the fear near Malibu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The burden of the rising bills is hitting many Californians hard. Roshonda Wilson, of Oakland, couldn’t afford to pay her power bill even though she said she watches television only after sunset, refrains from running unnecessary appliances and is hyper-aware of every energy-consuming action in her household. At one point, PG&E turned her power off this year. “I couldn’t catch up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Moss — who has weathered not just the trauma of losing her home near Malibu but also the difficult process of rebuilding — says the expensive wildfire prevention work is critical to prevent more tragedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though (burying power lines) is costly and time-consuming, the cost and time of not doing it is starting to seem more devastating to a broader swath of people,” Moss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the rate hikes have alarmed climate activists who fear rising power bills in California may trigger a backlash against the state’s effort to switch to renewable energy and influence other states, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state, we fear, will start to lose the political will to keep pushing on,” said Mohit Chhabra, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The problem with that is not that California will be a few years late — we can handle that. 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But humbled by the results of the November election, in which Republicans made small gains in both houses of the legislature, Democratic leaders vowed to renew their focus on increasing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our constituents told us two very important things in November,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, they continue to believe deeply in California’s values of tolerance, of equality and of human rights,” said Rivas, who was reelected on a party-line vote to the Assembly’s top post. “But second, our constituents — they don’t feel that the state of California is working for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas pushed lawmakers to focus their energy on ideas to reduce the price of housing, household goods, and the cost of starting a business. The speaker said he would enforce that focus by limiting the number of bills each member is allowed to introduce over the course of the two-year session from 50 to 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our task this session is urgent, and it’s clear: we must chart a new path forward and renew the California Dream by focusing on affordability,” Rivas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016262 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/10.02.2024-SB1016-03-scaled-1-1020x663.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balancing resistance to federal overreach while addressing economic concerns will be an ongoing challenge for state leaders whose response to the incoming administration is sure to garner national attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation announced Monday would ready the state for potential legal battles with the federal government over issues such as immigration, reproductive rights and environmental regulations by setting aside $25 million for anticipated legal costs. A companion measure would allocate $500,000 for lawyers to immediately begin preparing cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we always hope to collaborate with our federal partners, California will be ready to vigorously defend our interests and values from any unlawful action by the incoming Trump Administration,” said Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), who authored both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special session to consider both proposals and establish a legal response strategy before Trump takes office on Jan. 20. During Trump’s first term in office, California filed more than 100 lawsuits challenging administration moves on health care, carbon emissions standards and protections for undocumented residents who arrived in the country as kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we think about the resistance, I really do believe that we have to get ready, and we are ready,” said Assemblymember Sade Elhawary, a Democrat newly elected from a Los Angeles district. “But in a real way, it can’t just be about resistance to the man in the White House … our constituents are most impacted by what we do, not by what’s done there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The special session will run alongside the regular legislative session, with the bulk of the work likely to take place when the legislature returns to Sacramento in January. However, bills passed in the special session can take effect more quickly than normal legislation — and Gabriel said he hoped the legal funding would be in place before Trump’s inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside Attorney General Rob Bonta, a handful of Democratic lawmakers also announced bills to protect the distribution of abortion medication. One bill would shield manufacturers and healthcare providers from liability within California if the federal government ended protections for pills such as mifepristone. Another bill would allow the state Attorney General to pursue penalties against cities that block abortion providers from opening in their jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The urge among Democratic lawmakers to fortify a resistance to the federal government risks sending the wrong message to voters after an election in which Trump gained ground in counties across the state, said Mike Gatto, a former Democratic Assembly member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there are so many issues that the public wants us to tackle, and I don’t think paying more lawyers is high atop that list,” said Gatto, while adding that the proposal for new legal resources could have been approved without a special session. “There’s no reason to focus on the funding for the attorney general’s office at this point unless you want a headline — and it is clear that a headline was secured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans largely criticized the moves to position the state in opposition to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a litany of issues that we need to work together on,” said Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez, a newly elected Republican representing Imperial County and parts of Riverside County. “To start off this legislative session saying ‘us and them’ — that’s not going to work out. 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Around the U.S., a conservative movement to limit DEI initiatives has been gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards, with officials in many states taking action against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement gained momentum last year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action at universities, which created a new legal landscape around diversity programs in the workplace and civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DEI’s emergence as a political rallying cry also has its roots on campus, with Republican opponents saying the programs are discriminatory and promote left-wing ideology. Trump has hinted at potential legislation to fine universities over diversity initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, legacy admissions, long seen as a perk for the white and wealthy at selective colleges, have come under fire in recent years following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action. By banning affirmative action but allowing legacy preferences, which favor the children of alumni and donors, critics say the court left admissions even more lopsided against students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades, universities gave preferential admission treatment to donors and their family members, while others tied to legacies of harm were ignored and at times outright excluded,” Bryan told the AP. “We have a moral responsibility to do all we can to right those wrongs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='reparations']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan said he is hopeful for approval of the measure, which is in line with recommendations developed by members of California’s Black Reparations Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing understanding of California’s role in perpetuating the inequalities that arose from slavery, and there’s a willingness to try to rectify that harm, to heal that harm,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black students made up about 4% of the California State University’s student population and about 4.7% at the University of California in 2023, according to the university systems’ latest reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal follows reparations efforts at the state level that have yielded mixed results. 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However, a series of long-range city planning efforts and a slew of ambitious development proposals envision the area reshaped into a haven of housing, entertainment, offices, shopping and dining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for office space and hotels has been sluggish in the wide wake of the pandemic, and large-scale developments have faced financing challenges, in part causing some sites to languish for years, while one recently approved project might not take shape for a decade or up to a quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of potential, but we’ve been talking about potential for the last 20 years,” Councilmember Kevin Park told KQED News. “What I want to see now is execution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the city council unanimously approved a developer’s plan for 3 million square feet of office or R&D space, along with anywhere from 1,800 to 2,600 apartments, with 15% of them required to be below market rates. 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Some people don’t understand that,” Gillmor told KQED. “When the market becomes available to finance these types of projects, believe me, they’re going to build. They will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reena Brilliot, the city’s director of economic development and sustainability, said when crafting the agreement, the city had to consider that the large project would likely need to be built across multiple market cycles and that it includes a significant portion of new office space, for which there is little to no demand currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware that the office market is quite soft, and there isn’t a clear trajectory on when that’s going to change with remote work being still in flux,” Brilliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approval allows the developer to shrink some of its office space plans in exchange for more housing units to help boost the viability of the project and meet market demands if needed. The contract also asks the developer to build valuable community benefits first, such as 90 of the affordable apartments by 2031, and either the child care facilities or a grocery store by the 10-year mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the developer meets those goals or chooses to pay a fee of $1 per square foot of unbuilt project square footage if it doesn’t, then it can request the first of three five-year extension options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re tying (the extensions) to the things that matter to us from a community benefit standpoint with the realization that they’re likely not going to build those in a standalone fashion,” Brilliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara is not new to big plans and indeed has laid out major growth blueprints all around the stadium. Just last week, the council approved the first 284 apartments of a potential 12,000 planned for a 74-acre area filled with offices that run along Patrick Henry Drive, sandwiched between Mission College and the Kylli development site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s major plans also include the Tasman East area, where some successes have already been notched. On the 45-acre plot just northeast of Levi’s, several developers are working on roughly 4,500 residential units, some of which are complete, some which are largely constructed and some are still in the pipeline, all following a 2018 plan approved by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Tasman East work has moved along relatively smoothly, the city has also seen its share of unexpected delays throwing a wrench into much-ballyhooed plans for major developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Related Companies, a massive New York City-based development firm, has long planned to build a landmark $8 billion project in Santa Clara directly across from Levi’s and Tasman East, known as Related Santa Clara, that was originally set to include a total of 9 million square feet of homes, offices, hotels and restaurants, all on 240-acres of city-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since its 2016 approval, some site work has been completed, but nothing has been built. The project faced lawsuits out of the gate from San José and later faced challenges about Related’s plan to pay workers less than prevailing wages, and requires careful environmental planning because much of it is being built on a former landfill site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also contended with the same market forces shifting other projects. Related was able to secure nearly $700 million in financing to build two projects in the Tasman East area in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenges aside, some leaders have grown frustrated with the lack of construction over eight years for the large project, especially because of the developer’s size.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12012008,news_12014393,news_12014710\"]“They’re Related,” Park said. At some point, if they can’t make a plan to build this, then who?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Related has, in the last year, submitted an alternate plan to replace millions of square feet of office space with industrial manufacturing uses on the site and consolidate some of the office space into other portions of the land, but the city is still reviewing that plan. The developer has continued to pay rent to the city annually during the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Related Santa Clara did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long holdup for Related Santa Clara gives Park concern about the extended timeline options for Kylli and other potential similar agreements that might undergird developments aimed at renewing the city’s north end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like long timelines. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once bird flu was detected in the state’s dairy herds, the California Department of Food and Agriculture began weekly testing at farms. With about one-third of California’s dairy herds now affected, local public health officials began inspections of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to CDPH, the County of Santa Clara Public Health Laboratory has been testing raw milk products in retail stores as a second line of consumer protection. On Nov. 21, a PCR test found genetic traces of bird flu in a jug of raw milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Raw Farm CEO Mark McAfee pointed out that the sample did not contain the live virus. He added that even if the genetic material could be cultured and grown into a live virus, there is no evidence that cow milk transmits bird flu to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember, the current thinking from the FDA is that this is a terrible virus. You don’t want to have anything to do with it because it may make you sick,” he said. “Well, there’s no evidence of that. Show me one person that’s gotten sick across the United States from consumption of raw milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has said that he drinks raw milk. In a May advisory on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/dangers-raw-milk-unpasteurized-milk-can-pose-serious-health-risk\">dangers of raw milk\u003c/a>, the FDA stated that unpasteurized milk “can harbor dangerous germs that can pose serious health risks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very inconvenient truth time, as Al Gore would say. This is a time of battle between RFK — Bobby Jr. Kennedy — and the FDA,” insisted McAfee, who said the company’s raw milk continues to sell. “We have never been worse off in America in our health because our gut microbiome, which is 80% of our immune system, is shot. We want to build that back better by building back all the elements found in raw milk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Pitesky, a bird flu expert and an associate professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, maintains that raw milk should not be sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, he has witnessed bird flu \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/77e38ab79bfe416ca6d72b796612ee83/\">spread\u003c/a> from a small cluster of cases among wild birds in eastern Canada to the West Coast, evolving along the way. It is now believed to cause not only respiratory symptoms but also conjunctivitis, commonly known as pink eye, which is likely transmitted through close contact with infected animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we going to put a little warning label that says, ‘Don’t rub this milk accidentally on your eyes?’” Pitesky said. “To me, that just seems like we’re playing with fire a little.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early October, California has reported 29 confirmed human cases of bird flu, according to CDPH. Of those cases, 28 people had direct contact with infected dairy cows and all cases had mild symptoms, primarily eye infections. None required hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California public health officials identified a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014955/bay-area-potential-first-bird-flu-case-reported-alameda-county-child\">possible case of bird flu in a child\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, there has been no person-to-person spread in the state or the country, according to CDPH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When he was 18, Chanthon Bun recalled, he was the lookout during a Los Angeles robbery in which no one was hurt. He was sentenced to 50 years in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated for 23 years, he was paroled in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bun had come to the United States as a refugee at age 6. He was born during the \u003ca href=\"https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/cambodia\">Cambodian Genocide\u003c/a> when millions of people were put into work camps, separated from their families and killed by the communist group Khmer Rouge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he’s a legal permanent resident of the United States, the 46-year-old is among the thousands of Californians who live in constant fear of deportation because of a past criminal conviction. That threat became even more serious earlier this month when Donald Trump was reelected. The president-elect has vowed to launch the biggest militarized mass deportation in U.S. history, and his team has since doubled down on those threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry about what’s going to happen to my kids,” Bun said. “It’s like you’re not even here. Your mind is in such fear that you can’t even enjoy breathing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration experts warn of an indiscriminate dragnet that could put almost anyone at risk, but some are in more immediate jeopardy than others. Those include noncitizens who have had contact with the criminal justice system, some 1.3 million people nationwide who have already received final orders of removal, and undocumented people who may live or work close to the other two groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks who have had contact with the criminal legal system will be of high priority,” said Nayna Gupta, the policy director at the left-leaning Washington think tank American Immigration Council. “Under current immigration law, that includes people who might have convictions from decades prior. There’s no statute of limitations on when the government can remove someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities closer to the border may be at greater risk early in the next Trump administration because that’s where more Customs and Border Protection agents and Border Patrol officials are located. Trump has said he plans to use those agencies to carry out his mass deportation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, advocates have been planning ways to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t own our states,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/naureen-shah\">Naureen Shah\u003c/a>, deputy director of government affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union. “And our states will be the frontline in the defense of our civil liberties and our civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, which has the country’s largest immigrant population, already has strong state laws to protect immigrant communities from mass deportations, although not as strong as Oregon and Illinois, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/state-map-immigration-enforcement-2024\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two states have comprehensive laws restricting transfers of people to ICE, whereas California state prison employees regularly contact the federal immigration enforcement agency about inmates in their custody, including United States citizens, public records show. Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a national nonprofit that provides legal training and does pro-immigrant policy work in California and Texas, estimates 70% to 75% of ICE arrests in the interior of the U.S. are handoffs from another law enforcement agency, such as local jails or state or federal prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, California led in resisting federal deportation of undocumented immigrants by becoming the first “sanctuary state” that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/how-california-went-from-anti-immigration-to-sanctuary-state/\">curbed local agencies’ cooperation\u003c/a> with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But before that law was signed, it was weakened to allow state prisons to continue their coordination with ICE and to give federal immigration agents access to interview people in prisons and jails. Protections that limited police agencies sharing data with ICE were also weakened \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-s-sanctuary-state-bill-protecting-immigrants-closer-approval-n801976\">to allow for information to be provided\u003c/a> if a person has been convicted of one of some 800 crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Trump’s second election, Gov. Gavin Newsom summoned the Legislature, dominated by his fellow Democrats, to a special session starting Dec. 2 — vowing to “protect California values” as the state braces for renewed clashes with the incoming administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There is no price tag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s political ascent was fueled by racist and xenophobic rhetoric about immigrants: At a December 2023 campaign rally in New Hampshire, for instance, he said they were “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141\">poisoning the blood of our country\u003c/a>.” He’s promised to expend massive federal resources on raids and sweeps in immigrant communities, especially in ‘sanctuary cities.’ One goal is to discourage future illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178\">he recently told NBC\u003c/a>. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of registered voters — 56% — agree with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/09/RE_2024.09.27_Voters-on-Immigration_REPORT.pdf\">enforcing mass deportations (PDF)\u003c/a> of immigrants living in the country illegally, according to the Pew Research Center. In a separate survey by Data for Progress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/10/25/mass-deportation-is-actually-very-unpopular\">67% of voters say they supported\u003c/a> deporting an undocumented person who has a criminal record for a non-violent offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, immigrant advocates want the state to step up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to California to provide leadership,” said Alex Mensing with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. “We fully expect California to stand up to ICE’s terror as a state. We fully expect the state to put as much creativity and as many resources as possible toward supporting a response that defends immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with CalMatters, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Friday his office is preparing legal challenges and bracing for “a full frontal assault on our immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ready to file,” he added. “We have been thinking about and preparing and readying ourselves for the possibility of this moment for months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his office has been carefully watching and listening to what the president-elect and his team say they are planning, “and, thankfully, he’s telling us what he’s going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration 1.0 told us one thing: that Trump is unable to not break the law. It’s his brand. He does what he wants to do, when he wants to and how he wants to, regardless of the Constitution or federal law. And by doing that, he breaks the law,” Bonta said. “That’s why our job is so important to be there when he does and to stop him from doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s attorney general office spent about $10 million a year in legal expenses fighting Trump during the last administration, Bonta acknowledged, but “you can’t put a price on freedom, on rights, on democracy. It is always the right time and the right thing to protect those rights.” During the last Trump administration, California’s attorneys successfully defended protections for people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Golden State has been increasing protections for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, California passed a law that will allow county health workers to inspect inside federal immigration detention centers where there has been a long documented history of medical neglect and worker safety violations. In 2023, the state fined the for-profit prison operator Geo Group \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1609228.015\">$100,000 for six workplace violations\u003c/a>, including lacking a plan to control COVID-19 spread and failure to provide information and training on hazardous chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detainees exercise at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto on Aug. 28, 2019. The expansion of such facilities would be necessary for President-elect Donald Trump to carry out his immigrant deportation plans. \u003ccite>(Chris Carlson, AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say more could be done, such as strengthening data protections in local police agencies and preventing state prison staff from coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor could pardon immigrants with old criminal records, shielding them from deportation. Newsom has done it when certain refugees faced removal due to old cases, like Bun’s, but Newsom’s clemency rate has been lower than that of other governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom has pardoned far fewer people than Gov. Brown,” said Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney of the San Francisco public defender’s office. “Thus far, in his six years in office, Gov. Newsom has granted \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/11/11/governor-newsom-grants-executive-clemency-11-11-24/\">186 pardons\u003c/a>, an average of 31 per year. By contrast, Gov. Brown issued \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/governor-jerrry-brown-pardon-record-number/\">1,332 pardons\u003c/a> during his third and fourth terms as governor, an average of 166 pardons per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limits to what California can do. Lots of legal issues remain unresolved and will be battled out in court. Most sanctuary laws have a caveat that says local law enforcement cannot cooperate with immigration authorities “unless required by a valid court order.” Experts said what constitutes a valid court order might become an issue for the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court let California’s sanctuary law stand in 2020 by not hearing a Trump challenge to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also can’t do much about military troops entering California. The president can \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10121\">federalize the National Guard\u003c/a>. In 2018, Trump sent nearly 6,000 active-duty service members to the border, authorizing them to perform “military protective activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to have to be fought out in the courts,” said Shawn VanDiver, a national security expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the avenues Trump is exploring to deploy the military, such as the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, would require an invasion by a foreign government, some lawyers say. Lee Gelernt, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union who argued challenges to immigration restrictions during Trump’s first term, said the president-elect’s plan to use the military is illegal, and the civil liberties organization was already preparing legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Immigration Coverage' tag='immigration']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is going to do everything that he can get away with,” Mensing said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are limits to what Trump can do, too, particularly based on the resources he’d need to deliver on some of his campaign promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president-elect has said he plans to carry out a million deportations a year. The highest number of deportations in a single fiscal year in recent history was fiscal year 2012 — during the Obama administration — with 407,821 deportations across the United States. During Trump’s first term, he was only able to carry out several hundred thousand removals a year, about on par with other presidents, at least partly because of California and other states’ new sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Immigration Council, the long-term cost of deporting one million people annually could average $88 billion annually, which would be higher than the Department of Homeland Security’s $62 billion budget in fiscal year 2025. It would also require massive expansions of federal immigration court systems and detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportations from California have reached record lows in recent years following the changes in state law and policy about ICE pick-ups and new federal regulations about COVID-19 testing before pick-ups at state prisons, public records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Power not panic’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates are emphasizing the need for community preparedness and organization to combat the anticipated crackdown on immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people actively preparing, and I think community members should take heart in that and also participate,” Mensing said. “Ultimately, that is what is going to prevent Trump from getting what he wants, which is to terrorize people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In immigrant communities across the state, advocates are helping those at risk of detention and deportation make emergency plans, including who will pick up their children from school and how to protect their assets in the United States. “Know your rights” workshops are being organized, and neighbors are helping each other get informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Power not panic” is a mantra Mensing and others often repeat. “Trump is going to attack sanctuary cities and sanctuary states because he is vindictive. Our main tools are to be organized and to be informed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S.-Mexico Border Program, a Quaker organization, said even people with some form of legal status and protection are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of worry and the amount of uncertainty that people have is just tremendous, and what I tell people is to find a supportive community and to not be alone at this time,” Rios said. He said he was asked to talk to a 6-year-old child “because what he had been hearing in his school terrified him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bun said his phone has also been ringing nonstop with urgent calls from fellow Cambodian refugees across the country. 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Trump has said he plans to use those agencies to carry out his mass deportation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, advocates have been planning ways to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t own our states,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/naureen-shah\">Naureen Shah\u003c/a>, deputy director of government affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union. “And our states will be the frontline in the defense of our civil liberties and our civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, which has the country’s largest immigrant population, already has strong state laws to protect immigrant communities from mass deportations, although not as strong as Oregon and Illinois, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/state-map-immigration-enforcement-2024\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two states have comprehensive laws restricting transfers of people to ICE, whereas California state prison employees regularly contact the federal immigration enforcement agency about inmates in their custody, including United States citizens, public records show. Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a national nonprofit that provides legal training and does pro-immigrant policy work in California and Texas, estimates 70% to 75% of ICE arrests in the interior of the U.S. are handoffs from another law enforcement agency, such as local jails or state or federal prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, California led in resisting federal deportation of undocumented immigrants by becoming the first “sanctuary state” that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/how-california-went-from-anti-immigration-to-sanctuary-state/\">curbed local agencies’ cooperation\u003c/a> with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But before that law was signed, it was weakened to allow state prisons to continue their coordination with ICE and to give federal immigration agents access to interview people in prisons and jails. Protections that limited police agencies sharing data with ICE were also weakened \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-s-sanctuary-state-bill-protecting-immigrants-closer-approval-n801976\">to allow for information to be provided\u003c/a> if a person has been convicted of one of some 800 crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Trump’s second election, Gov. Gavin Newsom summoned the Legislature, dominated by his fellow Democrats, to a special session starting Dec. 2 — vowing to “protect California values” as the state braces for renewed clashes with the incoming administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There is no price tag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s political ascent was fueled by racist and xenophobic rhetoric about immigrants: At a December 2023 campaign rally in New Hampshire, for instance, he said they were “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141\">poisoning the blood of our country\u003c/a>.” He’s promised to expend massive federal resources on raids and sweeps in immigrant communities, especially in ‘sanctuary cities.’ One goal is to discourage future illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178\">he recently told NBC\u003c/a>. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of registered voters — 56% — agree with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/09/RE_2024.09.27_Voters-on-Immigration_REPORT.pdf\">enforcing mass deportations (PDF)\u003c/a> of immigrants living in the country illegally, according to the Pew Research Center. In a separate survey by Data for Progress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/10/25/mass-deportation-is-actually-very-unpopular\">67% of voters say they supported\u003c/a> deporting an undocumented person who has a criminal record for a non-violent offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, immigrant advocates want the state to step up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking to California to provide leadership,” said Alex Mensing with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. “We fully expect California to stand up to ICE’s terror as a state. We fully expect the state to put as much creativity and as many resources as possible toward supporting a response that defends immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with CalMatters, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Friday his office is preparing legal challenges and bracing for “a full frontal assault on our immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are ready to file,” he added. “We have been thinking about and preparing and readying ourselves for the possibility of this moment for months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his office has been carefully watching and listening to what the president-elect and his team say they are planning, “and, thankfully, he’s telling us what he’s going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration 1.0 told us one thing: that Trump is unable to not break the law. It’s his brand. He does what he wants to do, when he wants to and how he wants to, regardless of the Constitution or federal law. And by doing that, he breaks the law,” Bonta said. “That’s why our job is so important to be there when he does and to stop him from doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s attorney general office spent about $10 million a year in legal expenses fighting Trump during the last administration, Bonta acknowledged, but “you can’t put a price on freedom, on rights, on democracy. It is always the right time and the right thing to protect those rights.” During the last Trump administration, California’s attorneys successfully defended protections for people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Golden State has been increasing protections for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, California passed a law that will allow county health workers to inspect inside federal immigration detention centers where there has been a long documented history of medical neglect and worker safety violations. In 2023, the state fined the for-profit prison operator Geo Group \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1609228.015\">$100,000 for six workplace violations\u003c/a>, including lacking a plan to control COVID-19 spread and failure to provide information and training on hazardous chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/112224-Immigration-Detention-Center-CC-AP-02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detainees exercise at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto on Aug. 28, 2019. The expansion of such facilities would be necessary for President-elect Donald Trump to carry out his immigrant deportation plans. \u003ccite>(Chris Carlson, AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates say more could be done, such as strengthening data protections in local police agencies and preventing state prison staff from coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor could pardon immigrants with old criminal records, shielding them from deportation. Newsom has done it when certain refugees faced removal due to old cases, like Bun’s, but Newsom’s clemency rate has been lower than that of other governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom has pardoned far fewer people than Gov. Brown,” said Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney of the San Francisco public defender’s office. “Thus far, in his six years in office, Gov. Newsom has granted \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/11/11/governor-newsom-grants-executive-clemency-11-11-24/\">186 pardons\u003c/a>, an average of 31 per year. By contrast, Gov. Brown issued \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/12/governor-jerrry-brown-pardon-record-number/\">1,332 pardons\u003c/a> during his third and fourth terms as governor, an average of 166 pardons per year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are limits to what California can do. Lots of legal issues remain unresolved and will be battled out in court. Most sanctuary laws have a caveat that says local law enforcement cannot cooperate with immigration authorities “unless required by a valid court order.” Experts said what constitutes a valid court order might become an issue for the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court let California’s sanctuary law stand in 2020 by not hearing a Trump challenge to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also can’t do much about military troops entering California. The president can \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10121\">federalize the National Guard\u003c/a>. In 2018, Trump sent nearly 6,000 active-duty service members to the border, authorizing them to perform “military protective activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to have to be fought out in the courts,” said Shawn VanDiver, a national security expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the avenues Trump is exploring to deploy the military, such as the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, would require an invasion by a foreign government, some lawyers say. Lee Gelernt, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union who argued challenges to immigration restrictions during Trump’s first term, said the president-elect’s plan to use the military is illegal, and the civil liberties organization was already preparing legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is going to do everything that he can get away with,” Mensing said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are limits to what Trump can do, too, particularly based on the resources he’d need to deliver on some of his campaign promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president-elect has said he plans to carry out a million deportations a year. The highest number of deportations in a single fiscal year in recent history was fiscal year 2012 — during the Obama administration — with 407,821 deportations across the United States. During Trump’s first term, he was only able to carry out several hundred thousand removals a year, about on par with other presidents, at least partly because of California and other states’ new sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Immigration Council, the long-term cost of deporting one million people annually could average $88 billion annually, which would be higher than the Department of Homeland Security’s $62 billion budget in fiscal year 2025. It would also require massive expansions of federal immigration court systems and detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportations from California have reached record lows in recent years following the changes in state law and policy about ICE pick-ups and new federal regulations about COVID-19 testing before pick-ups at state prisons, public records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Power not panic’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates are emphasizing the need for community preparedness and organization to combat the anticipated crackdown on immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people actively preparing, and I think community members should take heart in that and also participate,” Mensing said. “Ultimately, that is what is going to prevent Trump from getting what he wants, which is to terrorize people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In immigrant communities across the state, advocates are helping those at risk of detention and deportation make emergency plans, including who will pick up their children from school and how to protect their assets in the United States. “Know your rights” workshops are being organized, and neighbors are helping each other get informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Power not panic” is a mantra Mensing and others often repeat. “Trump is going to attack sanctuary cities and sanctuary states because he is vindictive. Our main tools are to be organized and to be informed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S.-Mexico Border Program, a Quaker organization, said even people with some form of legal status and protection are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of worry and the amount of uncertainty that people have is just tremendous, and what I tell people is to find a supportive community and to not be alone at this time,” Rios said. He said he was asked to talk to a 6-year-old child “because what he had been hearing in his school terrified him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bun said his phone has also been ringing nonstop with urgent calls from fellow Cambodian refugees across the country. Meanwhile, he’s been trying to figure out how to tell his own 3-year-old son that there might be a knock on the door, and he’ll be gone forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is like planning a life sentence,” he said. “How could you plan for that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960500/california-will-end-electric-car-rebates-to-subsidize-lower-income-car-buyers\">resurrect California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program\u003c/a> if President-elect Donald Trump cuts the federal tax credit for zero-emission vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had promised on the campaign trail to end the credit — which the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 expanded — and the right-wing policy agenda laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a> urges the next Republican administration to “end federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles” as part of ending “the war on fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, California is pushing to have zero-emission vehicles \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985611/is-california-still-on-track-to-meet-its-goal-of-100-clean-power-by-2045\">make up 100% of in-state sales of new vehicles by 2035\u003c/a> — a goal that would be complicated by the possible fight from the Trump administration and a potential state deficit of nearly $2 billion. 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It \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/clean-vehicle-rebate-project\">offered car buyers up to $7,500\u003c/a>, funded nearly 600,000 vehicles and saved more than 456 million gallons of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the revamped state program could come from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund through the state’s cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, bringing the program back will require the Legislature’s approval. Even though Newsom has vowed to fight Trump’s climate change-denying policies, the reality is that the state will simultaneously be dealing with a budget deficit that could limit how California pushes back. Though the estimated deficit is significantly smaller than in recent years, the \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939\">Legislative’s Analyst Office projects\u003c/a> that “revenues are unlikely to grow fast enough to catch up to atypically high spending growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240111-TransitFile-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom does bring back the state rebate program, Scott Moura, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley, hopes it will be available to people who want to lease a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the United States, more people lease cars than buy them outright,” he said. “That’s a loophole, a back door where people who don’t meet the income requirements can still gain access to an electric vehicle if they lease the vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moura said Newsom’s decision about electric vehicles must benefit all Californians because the rebates have “disproportionately gone to people with higher incomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the goal is to impact societally on health and climate, we need strong policies so that the lower 50% in terms of wealth distribution can access or use emission vehicles,” Moura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also unsure how Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, will fare for electric vehicle sales. 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State lawmakers granted the relief funds in the fall of 2023. The counties divided them into various pots to cover reimbursement for belongings and wages, home repair, business losses, and infrastructure improvements to prepare for the next storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this month, about $4 million of the $20 million in state aid designated for Planada had been spent, the bulk of that in direct payments to families, Merced County spokesperson Mike North said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pajaro, county officials working with nonprofits have handed out about $1.3 million of its $20 million share: $450,000 in grocery gift cards to residents whose food spoiled during the flooding, plus about another $800,000 to people and businesses with larger losses not covered by federal disaster aid or private insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela DiNovella, the executive director of Catholic Charities Diocese of Monterey — one of two organizations contracted with Monterey County to help Pajaro residents apply for the funds — said her organization’s three case workers were distributing an average of $30,000 per week to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main challenges, she said, was verifying eligibility for families who lacked a permanent address or lived in overcrowded conditions, such as when three families share a single apartment. Some people also struggled to document how much they had lost, so caseworkers were doing the painstaking labor of reviewing photographs and trying to estimate the dollar value of each item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is this is state funding that comes with a lot of requirements,” she said. “Our work is to be creative with the families and be on their side, but even that takes time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County set up an assistance center in a community park this past spring to help residents apply for the aid, DiNovella said. However, Danielle Rivera, an environmental planning professor at UC Berkeley who conducts fieldwork in the area, said many community members remain confused about where the state aid is going and how to benefit. And some, she said, may have moved away before they got any help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were displaced from the floods — they were renting and the landlord said, ‘This unit’s out of commission.’ Then that household tries to find housing somewhere else and maybe they came back to Pajaro, maybe they went to Watsonville, maybe they just left the Pajaro Valley entirely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in both communities who were undocumented could also qualify for a statewide Storm Assistance for Immigrants program aimed at helping California flood victims who were ineligible for federal emergency assistance. The $95 million statewide program for storm victims offered a flat stipend of $1,500 per qualifying adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jesús Padilla, Pajaro resident\"]‘It seems like the process is working. Just slowly.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions in additional aid from philanthropic groups, private insurance, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has also poured into Pajaro since the floods, county officials said — though residents’ ability to access that help varied based on whether they were homeowners or legal U.S. residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Planada, North said the county had nearly completed distributing funds for replacement of lost vehicles, personal property and business assets and was moving on to help with home repair. That work “takes more time as it’s dependent upon certain detailed inspections for issues like mold, foundation damage, asbestos testing, and could require structural engineering in some cases,” he said by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infrastructure projects are also moving forward, North said, though more slowly. The county has replaced a backup generator for the local community services district that failed during the floods and is commissioning a study on how to prevent future inundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of Pajaro’s $20 million is earmarked for infrastructure and emergency preparedness projects, and Monterey County spokesperson Nick Pasculli said the county had requested bids for about half the projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiNovella, whose organization also worked with families displaced by the 2020 fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains, said that communities often take years to recover from disasters and that the pace of aid in Pajaro, while slow, is sadly par for the course. The most recent batch of aid, while delayed, will give families a boost during the slow winter season when many farmworkers are barely scraping by, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='weather, floods' label='More Severe Weather Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Pajaro resident who got state help is Jesús Padilla, who’s lived in the town for 25 years, working the strawberry and blackberry harvests. When the floods hit, he and his family just had time to grab the three children’s birth certificates and run. They lost everything — furniture, clothes, kitchenware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he worries most about his family’s physical and mental health. Every time it rains, his children ask him, “If it keeps raining more, where will we go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family had already replaced many of their belongings, but the state grant that Catholic Charities helped him obtain reimbursed some of their expenses. 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