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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area nonprofits, counties and cities with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032873/hundreds-rally-sf-support-epa-trump-cuts-climate-funds\">environmental justice\u003c/a> projects are searching for new funding after the Trump administration terminated the grants that funded their work in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least three nonprofits, Contra Costa County and the city of San José received emails from the administration, primarily from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, stating “the objectives of the award are no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.” The grant terminations came as the administration has sought to eliminate any focus on environmental justice at the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grant recipients had planned to establish a bike-share program in East San José, provide food to low-income families in Vallejo, purchase air purifiers for families with asthmatic children along the peninsula, enable San Rafael residents to prepare their neighborhoods for flooding and create a resilience hub with a 24/7 emergency shelter and plant trees in North Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, staff from each city, county and nonprofit are figuring out how to accomplish their goals without help from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that environmental justice has been used as an “excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, EPA officials said the agency would terminate $20 billion in climate grants issued by the Biden administration. Among the billions of dollars in funding on the chopping block by the agency in recent months were 63 grants representing nearly $260 million for projects and organizations across California, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996483/never-before-seen-documents-reveal-epa-canceled-63-grants-across-california\">a KQED analysis\u003c/a> of a list compiled by a group of Democratic senators. Many of the groups received a final termination email in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re hoping that our communities will back us up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Resilient Communities executive director Violet Wulf-Saena at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo Alto on March 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, planned to buy in-home air purifiers with its $500,000 EPA grant to help families whose children have asthma. The nonprofit also lost a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant meant to complete the final year of a five-year study engaging 320 households to understand how they respond to climate hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director, said the nonprofit has enough funds to keep operating for about three months. She hopes to raise $5 million to fill the gap and fund its next fiscal year, beginning in July, and plans to hold a fundraiser to match a $300,000 gift from a private foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to fundraise, we’re going to distribute air purifiers to families,” Wulf-Saena said. “I’m trying to keep my team together. We’re all vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is optimistic that private funders or state grants, potentially through a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\"> $10 billion climate bond\u003c/a> passed by California voters in November, will help keep her nonprofit afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that our communities will back us up,” Wulf-Saena said of her 15-person organization. “I’m going to find a way to ride through it, and with all the effort that went into building up the work that we do now, it will be reckless of me to give up easily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1996746 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/03/RS48091_GettyImages-507138914-qut-1020x686.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the EPA also terminated a nearly $500,000 grant for the Canal Alliance, a San Rafael nonprofit that planned to use the money to recruit residents to create a plan for the Canal neighborhood to adapt to the effects of climate change, as well as long-standing issues like a lack of transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Canal community is at the front lines of sea level rise,” said Aaron Burnett, director of policy and civic engagement at the Canal Alliance. “It’s the most prone to flooding as a result of sea level rise in any community in the entire Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnett said the nonprofit plans to continue the work and is looking for new funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it presents a very significant and immediate harm to our ability to ensure that we can have a holistic and successful process,” he said. “But in the long term, the Canal Alliance is in a position where we can make it work regardless of the funding. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other EPA grantees are still unsure about the status of their grants. In March, the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project received a termination letter from the EPA for a $500,000 grant to study air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been locked out of the invoicing system since then and have not been paid for outstanding work as a result,” said Jess Sand, the group’s director of content and digital programs. “We have had no communication from the EPA in response to our inquiries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also has a $90,000 service contract for analyzing local air quality that’s in limbo. Sand said the EPA reduced it “without our consent,” and while the organization’s EPA contract manager said “it is being canceled,” it has not yet received a termination notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re exploring legal options’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11283357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11283357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1.jpg\" alt=\"The view of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge is partially obscured by hazy smoke-filled air in June 2008, when Northern California suffered from numerous wildfires.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/GettyImages-81708081-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge is partially obscured by hazy smoke-filled air in June 2008, when Northern California suffered from numerous wildfires. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José lost a million-dollar EPA grant to extend its electric bike-share program from the city’s downtown into the community of East San José. The funds would have established up to a dozen bike docking stations in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be able to provide better transportation options to our community residents, especially those who are car insecure or don’t have a car at all,” said Daniela Castañeda, the city’s clean mobility and community engagement lead. “This forces us to reevaluate how we do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda said the city will not dip into other funds for the project, and the loss of the grant means “we’re not going to go as deep into East San José as we had originally hoped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also defunded two projects in Contra Costa and Solano counties. The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano lost a $150,000 EPA grant for grocery rescue in Vallejo. Caitlin Sly, president and CEO of the food bank, said she initially found out the grant was at risk in the news media, and then last week, the EPA cut the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have a lot of impact, both to reduce food waste and to feed our hungry neighbors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1996728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SanFranciscoSinkingGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Sly said the Federal Emergency Management Agency indefinitely paused a $160,000 grant to fund its schools and senior programs. She said the United States Department of Agriculture also chose not to renew a grant to purchase fresh produce. In addition, 11 truckloads of USDA food were recently canceled “without warning,” which would have provided 250,000 meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will likely be less food rescued and less food going into the hands of the people that need it most,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also dropped a more than $19 million grant for Contra Costa County. The county planned to use the funds to bolster the community of North Richmond by making homes energy efficient, removing asphalt, planting trees, establishing a resiliency center, creating a community farm and other initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those cases where the EPA is robbing the community of a benefit that it deserves,” said county supervisor John Gioia, whose district includes Richmond. “This community, which is adjacent to a chemical plant and oil refinery, is in need of this type of investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at least one court case ruled that certain EPA \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01052025/trump-epa-funding-cuts-target-disadvantaged-communities/#:~:text=Now%2C%20the%20grantees'%20lawsuit%20to,a%20giveaway%2C%E2%80%9D%20Wilson%20said.\">grant cancellations violate federal law\u003c/a>, the Bay Area groups still lost funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re exploring legal options, but in the meantime, we are robbed of the money,” Gioia said. “Unfortunately, all we can do is pursue this in court and hope that if there is a future administration, things will change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Senate is weighing whether to roll back \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995370/federal-government-approves-californias-ban-on-the-sale-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\">California’s long-standing authority to set its own air quality standards\u003c/a>. The congressional move wades into murky legal waters, with potential impacts in the Bay Area ranging from increased air pollution to fewer choices when buying a new car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three rules in question regulate cars, trucks and buses, pushing them to pollute less. The most buzzworthy is a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035, which President Donald Trump vehemently opposes. The other two aim to reduce pollution from heavy duty trucks and buses, and require truck makers to start selling more electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s approvals of the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a surprise to many environmentalists, the vote did not fall strictly along party lines: 35 House Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the repeal of California’s rules. Democrats who opposed the state’s policies cited concerns about the affordability and practicality of electric vehicles, while environmentalists questioned the potential influence of oil and gas lobbying on the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Senate takes up California’s clean air rules, it remains unclear whether Congress has the authority to intervene — or whether California would comply with any decision lawmakers make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-graphs\">California’s\u003c/a> planet-warming emissions come from transportation — the same is true \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">nationwide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been regulating its own vehicle pollution since the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/history#:~:text=In%201966%20California%20established%20the,Air%20Resources%20Board%20was%20established.\">1960s\u003c/a>, before the Clean Air Act was signed into law in 1970. Due to the state’s historically horrendous air pollution, California was granted authority to set its own emissions standards, as long as they were stricter than federal rules. The state rules would then require approval from the EPA through “waivers” for the final stamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other states can voluntarily adopt California’s rules, which a handful have done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037646 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress invoked the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to undo recent regulations with a simple majority vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Senate Parliamentarian, who serves as Congress’s referee, and the Government Accountability Office, an independent agency overseeing the government, say California’s clean air waivers are outside their jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Air Resources Board, which wrote the rules, insists Congress doesn’t have the power to take away their oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vote does not change CARB’s authority,” CARB spokesperson David Clegern wrote in a statement. “CARB will continue its mission to protect the public health of Californians impacted by harmful air pollution,” he wrote in response to a question about whether the agency will continue to enforce its rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how the Senate votes, will the state’s rules be enforced? And what will this mean for the Bay Area in the years ahead? We put the question to experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Uncertainty for vehicle manufacturers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The opposing positions of the national and state government create unpredictability for the companies that make vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That creates uncertainty for industry and could help ensure that we’re burning more fossil fuel and more gas guzzlers can be produced in the meantime,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at the UC Berkeley School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Maas, president of the California New Car Dealers Association, is not taking a stance on Congress’s actions, but he has been advocating for a pause on California’s clean vehicle regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ninety-five percent of the manufacturers aren’t going to be able to comply when the mandate kicks in for the 2026 model year, which is happening this summer,” Maas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that as the rules get enforced, some of which require a certain percentage of vehicle sales to be zero-emission, dealers will limit the amount of gas cars and trucks they sell so they comply with regulations, making fewer gas vehicles available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fallout would likely impact the range of cars available for purchase at car dealerships: both gas and electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If California’s rules are repealed, Elkind said automakers that are not committed to electric vehicles may abandon those models. “So that means that we’ll have less choice, fewer options for electric models,” he said. And potentially higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, if the rules are enforced, there will be “disruptions in the number and type of internal combustion engine vehicles that will be available for purchase,” Maas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, according to Maas, is that while Californians purchase far more electric vehicles than residents of other states, demand isn’t growing at the same pace as what is required of sales of electric-vehicles written into California’s regulations, which slowly ratchets up the percentage of zero-emission vehicles that must be sold annually, starting with 35% in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1536x974.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1920x1217.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diesel truck moves along a freeway on March 31, 2023, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unhealthy air for overburdened communities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The longer it takes for rules reducing air pollution to go into effect, the longer communities will be breathing polluted air. East and West Oakland and Richmond are exposed to air pollution due to highways, ports and manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact is going to be felt by the low-income disadvantaged communities and communities of color,” said Roman Partida-Lopez, senior legal counsel at equity organization The Greenlining Institute. “We have an opportunity to continue to push on ensuring that we’re creating a healthier, more equitable future for our communities and by denying these waivers, we’re doing the opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the state’s rules addresses reducing pollution from diesel engines, which “produce a public health impact that’s 10 times greater than what gasoline engines produce,” said Ray Minjares, program director for heavy-duty vehicles at the International Council on Clean Transportation, an independent research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “Diesel engines emit far higher levels of dangerous particulate matter, and other nitrogen oxide pollutants that are what contributes to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, childhood asthma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Higher public transit costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California has \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/innovative-clean-transit-ict-regulation-fact-sheet\">a rule\u003c/a> requiring all public transit agencies to transition to zero-emission buses, with all new bus purchases mandated to be zero-emission by 2029; that rule is not one being considered for repeal. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-trucks\">One\u003c/a> of California’s clean air act rules that Congress is discussing impacts production of large electric vehicles, including buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule “actually increases the choices these transit bus fleets have, and it puts downward pressure on the prices that they would pay,” Minjares said. Without it, public transit agencies would have fewer and more expensive electric bus options, which could translate to higher public transit fees, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Delayed deployment of electric trucks\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Minjares and Elkind expressed concern that rolling back California’s rules would significantly slow the development of electric trucks, especially heavy-duty, long-haul models. 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And potentially higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, if the rules are enforced, there will be “disruptions in the number and type of internal combustion engine vehicles that will be available for purchase,” Maas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, according to Maas, is that while Californians purchase far more electric vehicles than residents of other states, demand isn’t growing at the same pace as what is required of sales of electric-vehicles written into California’s regulations, which slowly ratchets up the percentage of zero-emission vehicles that must be sold annually, starting with 35% in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-800x507.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1536x974.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/CaliforniaDieselGetty-1920x1217.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A diesel truck moves along a freeway on March 31, 2023, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Unhealthy air for overburdened communities\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The longer it takes for rules reducing air pollution to go into effect, the longer communities will be breathing polluted air. 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"content": "\u003cp>Parishioner Bob Schaper knew what he was looking for had to be there somewhere in Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">Altadena \u003c/a>— although there wasn’t much that remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what’s left,” Schaper said, as he pointed to a blackened entryway that, since the devastating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a>, now opened to a charred field of destruction. “The church burned down through the floors to the subsequent [kindergarten] school rooms below. Organ, pews, the beams, roof — everything is just gone, simply gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elementary school serving some 300 students, renovated just a few years ago, was also immolated, along with a two-story suite of parish offices and a day care center. But none of the destruction deterred Schaper from his mission. Without telling a soul, he zipped up a hazmat suit, slipped on a mask, laced up some heavy boots and got to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in there with full gear, a sledgehammer and saws, cutting away pipe and chicken wire and finally through a hole about as big as a dinner plate. I look [through it] and there’s the words: ‘To the Glory of God,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just like, oh! There’s the bell!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s brass bell was a gift from the family of Dean Howe, a young parishioner who died from cancer at age 15. For nearly 60 years, it rang out at the start of Sunday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt remains of Saint Mark’s Church, in Altadena, on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Matt Wright, another parishioner who helped lift the bell from the ashes, its discovery signaled hope for the church’s uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bell will make its return when Saint Mark’s makes its return to Altadena Drive,” Wright said. “The bell will be a centerpiece of the new church sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second Sunday after the fire, Pastor Carri Grindon was leading the Saint Mark’s congregation at its new temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles — a roughly 20-minute drive from the Altadena campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s still processing the loss while making sure that everyone in the church community, many if not most of whom either lost homes or were temporarily displaced, is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been in this mode of, do the next thing, just take care of the next person, just plan the next gathering,” she said, speaking on the porch of the Saint Barnabas parish house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parishioner shared a video of the church engulfed in flames, while the Eaton Fire continued its furious march across the expanse of this tight-knit foothill community. Altadena is known for its hardiness and a wild, feral spirit. But this was too much. Grindon refused to believe her eyes until she arrived on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was something about standing on the site,” she said. “A church is a particular kind of loss because it [represents] all of these big moments in people’s lives. It’s unimaginable to not be able to be there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena lost more than a dozen places of worship in the Eaton Fire, including large campuses like Saint Mark’s and Altadena United Methodist, and storefront churches like Abounding Faith Ministries. Most have publicly expressed determination to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if rebuilding a home is challenging, rebuilding a faith community and its sanctuary is even harder, involving shared commitment, fundraising and a re-evaluation of priorities — all while maintaining a community that’s been scattered like embers blown by Santa Ana winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church of Altadena prepares to hold Easter services in their temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charlie Cutler has seen it before, as president of ChurchWest, which provides property and other insurance to ministries across California, Nevada and Arizona, including two other churches destroyed in the Eaton Fire. One of those churches — the Altadena Community Church, another historic sanctuary and school — was directly across the street from Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We work with over 4,000 ministries in California, and we have at least one church that is a total loss every year,” he said. “And every single time the church says we want to rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Altadena churches that ChurchWest covered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wanting to rebuild and actually doing it are very different things, he cautioned. Cutler said that before any blueprints are drawn up or any concrete is poured, each church community should ask itself some difficult questions. Is rebuilding really the best idea? Or even possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-113-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a ChurchWest client that lost its sanctuary in the 2018 Camp Fire, which largely destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise. For that church, survival meant not rebuilding at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there’s no people, because all the people have been displaced, and the members of the congregation had gone to Chico or moved out of the area completely, they saw a decline in attendance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile, there was a church down the street with similar beliefs and (the churches) consolidated,” he continued. “I think they created a very healthy church — they are now one congregation that’s come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation of Saint Mark’s Episcopal is a vibrant mix of ages, income levels and ethnicities. That’s helped by having an elementary school and kindergarten, which attracts young families and new parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 4, some 300 Saint Mark’s Elementary school kids sang the R&B classic “Stand by Me” for hundreds of parents, school officials and elected leaders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new, temporary teaching space at EF Academy private school in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Grindon holds Easter services for the congregation of St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena in their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new, “Saint Mark’s Village” offers over 2-dozen classrooms, administrative offices, and plenty of outdoor space on the Academy’s 16 acres — all at no cost to Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with such generosity, Pastor Grindon recognizes the immense challenges that lie ahead. Yes, the insurance money is in the bank. But even with that, she estimates a roughly $20 million shortfall and a rebuilding master plan that could span over two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the perfect campus,” Grindon said. “It’s beloved, but now that it’s gone, what would we do differently? We know that it’ll cost a lot to rebuild the church and school, and those costs are only going to go up. But we want to get back there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grindon envisions a 20-year reconstruction and a roughly $20 million shortfall. She imagines fundraising over time, in phases. “There’s no way that we, just in a straight capital campaign within the community, are we going to get there,” she said, “unless some major angels show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaper, who located Saint Mark’s church bell, said that the arduous process of rebuilding should not consume the spirit of the people who still fill the pews every Sunday at its temporary location in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at church now, we’re doing church now,” Schaper said. “Saint Mark’s is going to continue to be a church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in his retirement years, Schaper doesn’t know if he’ll be around when the new Saint Mark’s rises again. But it’s not something he’s given much thought to, choosing instead to focus on the hard work of keeping his church family’s head up, day by day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must protect and keep our arms around the people themselves. We must maintain that as number one and then put a building around that,” he said. “We have to keep going because this is going to take longer than anyone thinks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1536x516.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1920x645.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena congregation hunt for Easter eggs at their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Schaper uncovered the church’s bronze bell, three other parishioners helped him dislodge it. Once free, they attached it to a pair of iron bars to carefully carry it from the ruins, “like Cleopatra” in her chair, parishioner Tom Horner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bell was carefully washed, the crew lifted it once more. Then, they rang it, for the first time since January 5, the Sunday before the Eaton Fire took almost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California plans to erase parts of a rule created to clean up the state’s dirty air from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032217/caltrans-launches-long-awaited-study-on-i-580-truck-ban-and-pollution-impact\">truck pollution\u003c/a>. The action comes in response to a lawsuit from the California Trucking Association and strong headwinds from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-fleets\">Advanced Clean Fleet rule\u003c/a>, adopted in 2023, would have phased out diesel trucks used by large companies, state and local governments, as well as ports and railroad yards. It would have eliminated new gas-fueled truck sales by 2036 and mandated that large trucking fleets go electric or hydrogen-powered by 2042.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the trade group’s lawsuit, the California Air Resources Board plans to propose repealing parts of the rule that applies to trucks serving ports, rail yards and large companies this year. California’s requirements that state and local governments increasingly move towards all-electric vehicles — and that all new truck sales be electric by 2036 — will remain, so long as the federal government approves that policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state adopted the clean truck regulation during the Biden administration, but did not get the necessary green light from the EPA before the Trump Administration took office this year. State officials withdrew their request for federal approval in January, meaning the state was largely unable to enforce the truck rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB confirmed the legal updates to KQED and a spokeswoman wrote that the agency “remains committed to protecting public health using new and alternative approaches,” in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased to have reached agreement with the Air Resources Board on this stipulation,” Eric Sauer, head of the California Trucking Association, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11930567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of a hydrogen fuel cell truck driving on a road. According to the California Air Resources Board, heavy-duty fossil-fuel trucks spew 70% of the state’s smog-forming gases and 80% of carcinogenic diesel pollutants. \u003ccite>(Aranga87/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sam Wilson, who works on clean transportation at the Union of Concerned Scientists, called the move “disappointing,” but “more of an administrative action than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repeal of Advanced Clean Fleets has nothing to do with the rule’s real-world viability, but rather the political climate we find ourselves in today,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the rule would have accelerated the state’s transition to clean vehicles, Wilson is “confident that commercial vehicle electrification will continue, although at a slower pace.” The state can use other incentives to spur electric truck adoption, like requiring warehouses to track pollution and reduce it through electric heavy-duty vehicles, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court order between CARB and the California Trucking Association noted that the state will not require that new truck sales must be electric by 2036 without the approval of the federal government.[aside postID=news_12036063 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg']Wilson viewed the mention of the 2036 goal positively — a sign CARB officials were not abandoning the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the state officially remove the entire rule from California’s regulatory code, it would need to entirely rewrite a new version and relaunch a lengthy regulatory process to pursue similar actions in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB is also resolving litigation from trade groups representing railroads, which would have limited idling times and retired older locomotives, among other things. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/reducing-rail-emissions-california/locomotive-fact-sheets\">rule\u003c/a> was aimed at reducing pollution from diesel-powered trains, but it also failed to receive EPA approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of planet-warming emissions produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">U.S.\u003c/a> come from transportation, and the same is true for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-graphs\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to regulate tailpipe emissions in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/history#:~:text=In%201966%20California%20established%20the,Air%20Resources%20Board%20was%20established.\">1960s\u003c/a>, as it struggled to bring harmful air pollution under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law in 1970, giving the EPA the authority to regulate air pollution from cars. The law bars states from enacting their own regulations, except California, given its unique air pollution problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11880116\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880.jpg\" alt=\"Cars and trucks fill the lanes on I-80 near Berkeley on June 28, 2021. A ban against heavy trucks on I-580, another freeway running through Oakland, pushes most diesel truck traffic onto I-880.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/trucks-I880-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars and trucks fill the lanes on I-80 near Berkeley on June 28, 2021. A ban against heavy trucks on I-580, another freeway running through Oakland, pushes most diesel truck traffic onto I-880. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s standards must be at least as strict as federal law and are considered necessary “to meet compelling and extraordinary conditions.” While other states can’t set their own standards, they can adopt California’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has granted California waivers for decades, with only one of its requests being initially denied in 2008 by the George W. Bush administration, then later granted by the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s EPA first revoked California’s waiver for tailpipe emissions in his first term, but California sued in response. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/04/22/secret-deal-in-california-would-weaken-regulations-for-oil-refineries/\">article\u003c/a> was originally published by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/\">\u003cem>Public Health Watch\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a> cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers and other workers who had been trying to fix what had been a small leak in the pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them went to ground, unable to see past their hands; most ran or crawled out of the way. Then the vapor ignited, trapping a firefighter in a truck. He, too, ran out, through what eyewitnesses called a wall of flame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the beginning. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/73746/new-photos-chevron-refinery-fire-and-its-aftermath\">The fire burned for hours\u003c/a>; the smoke choked the Bay Area for days. Fifteen thousand people sought medical care for breathing problems and exposure to the toxic plume; hospitals admitted 20, including one refinery worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigators \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/17/chevron_final_investigation_report_2015-01-28.pdf?15397\">concluded\u003c/a> that the fire could have been prevented if Chevron had heeded its own inspectors’ pleas to replace the decaying pipe, and if federal and California regulations had mandated better safety practices. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown convened a working group of 13 state agencies and departments to appraise the safety of California’s refineries, clustered in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety measures rolled out over the next five years were among the strongest in the nation, giving workers unprecedented power to halt operations they felt were unsafe. Other rules were designed to protect communities near refineries from accidental chemical releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037033 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB.png 1586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-800x547.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1020x697.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PHOTO-2-Chevron-RUPTURED-PIPELINE-CSB-1536x1050.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aug. 6, 2012, fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, began near the rupture of this 8-inch pipe, shown in this photo included in the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s final investigative report. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of U.S. Chemical Safety Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, more than 12 years after the Chevron fire, regulators are poised to weaken two key regulations that had been challenged in court by the Western States Petroleum Association, or WSPA, a trade association that lobbies heavily in California. A settlement of two lawsuits reached behind closed doors in September calls for easing some of those rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders and community advocates — who were excluded from the settlement negotiations — say the proposed changes would put workers and the public at greater risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be looking at the possibility of rolling back these regulations is dangerous and alarming for our communities,” said Marie Choi, communications director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, or APEN, a watchdog group. “We can’t let industry write the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1IWp_ArXOUH-HGhBlVqnqw8n3IFJPXAs&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1\" width=\"675\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Environmental Protection Agency, known as CalEPA, set a Tuesday deadline to \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Final-CalARP-Notice-of-Proposed-Rulemaking.pdf\">accept public comment\u003c/a> on proposed changes to its accidental release program. The agency will make an internal decision afterward on whether to accept the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, part of the Department of Industrial Relations, or DIR, is independently considering changes to safety rules affecting workers. A decision by the board may not come until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalEPA said that the revisions are needed to provide clarity and consistency in applying the rules.[aside postID=news_12036242 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/ValeroBenicia-1020x765.jpg']“Petroleum refineries have stated that certain terms and provisions of the [accidental release program] regulations are vague and confusing, making it difficult for them to comply,” the agency wrote in a statement accompanying the proposed amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>Public Health Watch\u003c/em>, a spokeswoman for DIR wrote that the agency and CalEPA “remain committed to protecting refinery workers and ensuring refinery operations meet all safety and environmental standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose office represented the state in the two lawsuits, responded to requests for comment from \u003cem>Public Health Watch\u003c/em> by referring the questions to the affected agencies. WSPA did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves have left environmental and labor advocates questioning the transparency of the negotiations. Lawyers for the Steelworkers were asked to sign off on the settlement of the lawsuit last September. They refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, our biggest thing was that we were left out of a process in which we had the right to participate,” said Mike Smith, who heads the Steelworkers’ National Oil Bargaining Program in Pittsburgh and was a union staff representative for six years at Local 5 in Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t understand how this happened,” said Julia May, a senior scientist with Communities for a Better Environment, an advocacy group that helped craft the original process safety management rule. “We’ve had a bad history of [refinery] accidents in California due to cutting corners on maintenance, due to not listening to the workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the full story at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/\">\u003cem>Public Health Watch\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:28 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000709/push-to-build-more-homes-on-california-coast-stifled-after-lawmakers-derail-housing-bills\">California Coastal Commission\u003c/a> voted Thursday to fine a Texas-based oil company $18.2 million for what officials say is unpermitted construction on a dormant offshore drilling operation, a landmark decision that could affect future coastal oil projects in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to go out and try to supersede the people of the state of California, we’re going to stand up for ourselves,” said Justin Cummings, chair of the commission. “I believe this action will demonstrate to folks that we take these matters extremely seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is oil company Sable Offshore’s intent to resurrect oil production off the Gaviota Coast on the so-called Santa Ynez Unit, nearly a decade after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10532669/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\">a section of corroded pipe ruptured\u003c/a> there, spilling more than 100,000 gallons of oil in the waters off Santa Barbara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Sable began restoring the pipelines responsible for the 2015 spill — which occurred under different ownership — over demands from the Coastal Commission to halt construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area where the company would eventually pump oil once again is within federal waters. However, to get the oil back onshore, the company must send it through a pipeline jutting through state waters and onto land, which is why the commission is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2025/4/Th8.1-Th8.3/Th8.1-Th8.3-4-2025-report.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> issued ahead of Thursday’s hearing in Santa Barbara, the commission staff recommended a $14.9 million administrative penalty against Sable, a cease and desist order to halt construction activity until the company complies with permitting laws and a restoration order to remedy negative environmental impacts from the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10536991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10536991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/4740295661-e1432675744436.jpg\" alt=\"Oil surrounds the feet of local resident Morgan Miller as he patrols the beach for oiled wildlife on May 19, 2015. north of Goleta, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil surrounds the feet of a resident as he patrols the beach for oiled wildlife on May 19, 2015, north of Goleta, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, the commission passed all staff recommendations but raised the fine to the maximum amount. If the company aligns itself with its permitting process, it will reduce the fine back to the original amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sable’s refusal to comply is a refusal to follow the law; their refusal, in a very real sense, is a subversion of the will of the people of the state of California,” said Commissioner Meagan Harmon, who represents the south central coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone wants to stop repairs that are going to keep us safe, but they have to be done in the right way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing in Santa Barbara, opponents to the staff findings were given the first opportunity to address the commission. A number of people and Sable staff defended the company’s reputation, bringing “well-paying jobs” to the region and described the commission’s decision as unnecessary jurisdictional overreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much of our taxpayer dollars are going to be continued to be wasted by the commission staff fighting the very local agencies that they delegated jurisdiction to?” said Trent Fontenot with Sable. “This continuing power grab must stop and stop wasting taxpayer money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10543893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10543893\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coast Guard crews working on Santa Barbara oil spill near Refugio State Beach on May 19, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer David Mosely)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hannah Beth-Jackson, former state senator for the Santa Barbara area who witnessed the 2015 oil spill, urged the commission to punish Sable for its “arrogance” to continue work without commission permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pipeline is significantly corroded,” she said. “All of these efforts that we’ve heard about remind me of the expression that you can’t put lipstick on a pig. This pipeline is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of supporters of the commission’s decision packed the hearing, including students from Santa Barbara Middle School. Ninth grader Gus Larsen called Sable’s willingness to “gamble another huge oil spill disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t just think about the money,” he said. “Think about the fish, the animals and think about the children, who might never get to see the beauty of Santa Barbara. Think about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sable officials said in a statement that the company is “dedicated to restarting project operations in a safe and efficient manner.” They added that “no California business should be forced to go through a protracted and arbitrary permitting process when it already has valid permits for the work it performed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘They’ll only stop if a court makes them’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During an overflowing town hall to discuss the pipeline construction in mid-March, Cassidy Teufel, deputy director of the Coastal Commission, said the work is “very problematic” and occurred during bird nesting season as well as the breeding season for federally endangered species like steelhead salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission alleged Sable started the work without its approval, refused to apply for a coastal development permit and ignored demands to stop its work — including two cease and desist orders in November and February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time in the agency’s history that we have had a party blatantly ignore a cease and desist order like this and refuse to submit a permanent application,” Teufel said. “Sable’s representatives have told us they’ll only stop if a court makes them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014622 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teufel said the commission is working with the California attorney general’s office “to move in that direction.” He said the situation is complicated because the Santa Barbara County Planning Department’s position is that the “work is covered by a permit issued nearly 40 years ago,” though the commission disputes that claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people crowded the town hall, including at least one celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can smell a rat, and this project is a rat,” Santa Barbara resident and actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus said at the town hall. “If I violated a stop-work order on my own property, I would get arrested. But these guys from Texas get a pass?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its March 28 report, the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2025/4/Th8.1-Th8.3/Th8.1-Th8.3-4-2025-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commission staff alleges (PDF)\u003c/a> that the company’s onshore and offshore activities violate the California Coastal Act and “have adversely impacted, and continue to adversely impact, coastal resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent Friday to the commission and posted on the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://sablecaliforniaenergy.com/coastalcommission/\">website,\u003c/a> Sable officials said they “vehemently” disagree with the commission’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work on these existing facilities is substantially identical to work that has taken place here for the past 30 years, without a need for new Coastal Act authorizations,” Steve Rusch, vice president of environmental and governmental affairs, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://sableoffshore.com/news/news-details/2025/Sable-Offshore-Corp--Statement-on-Response-to-California-Coastal-Commission-/default.aspx\">statement\u003c/a>. “Commission staff continues to exaggerate the project’s impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘No one is above the law’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many along the Central Coast, the 2015 spill had worrying parallels to another offshore oil disaster nearly five decades earlier. That 1969 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721584/how-californias-worst-oil-spill-turned-beaches-black-and-the-nation-green\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> helped to ignite the modern environmental movement — leading to the first Earth Day — and create the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/coastalvoices/IntroductionToCoastalAct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Coastal Act (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists and environmentalists say they worry that resurrecting oil production could result in another spill that harms life and livelihoods on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10551819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10551819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/GettyImages-475023982-e1433514086177.jpg\" alt=\"A surfer ignored a warning to stay out of the water in Manhattan Beach last week as much of coastline near Los Angeles was closed amid continuing cleanup efforts to remove an unidentified tarlike substance that began washing ashore after an oil spill near Santa Barbara.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1186\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfer ignored a warning to stay out of the water in Manhattan Beach on June 5, 2015, as much of the coastline near Los Angeles was closed amid continuing cleanup efforts to remove an unidentified tarlike substance that began washing ashore after an oil spill near Santa Barbara. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. Brown/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Linda Krop, chief counsel for the Environmental Defense Center, would like the state to take swift enforcement action against Sable to send a message that “no one is above the law.” She insists any movement on the project must include environmental review and formal public input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Sable is allowed to violate the law and these orders, what message does that send to every other business in California?” Krop said. “If restarted, this would be the largest oil project in California and the biggest threat to the California coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Valentine, professor of microbiology and geochemistry at UC Santa Barbara\u003cem>, \u003c/em>said there have been four significant oil spills in the region over the last seven decades and that renewing the oil wells could establish production for nearly a century near critical habitats and beloved beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an ideal situation, especially if something goes wrong,” Valentine said. “The idea that production is going to resume and suddenly there’s going to be large volumes of oil flowing through this pipeline again is very concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s vote could also have implications for the Coastal Commission’s authority over the state’s coastline at a time when the Trump administration is planning to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/\">open federal waters to more oil and gas production\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How well the Coastal Commission is able to push back and control the coastline in the interest of California is going to be important,” said Ronald Tjeerdema, an environmental toxicologist at UC Davis who has studied oil spills for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the commission can’t and the feds just sort of run over them, then that’s going to set a precedent that will impact California in the future and probably other coastal states where they’re looking to drill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Sable began restoring the pipelines responsible for the 2015 spill — which occurred under different ownership — over demands from the Coastal Commission to halt construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area where the company would eventually pump oil once again is within federal waters. However, to get the oil back onshore, the company must send it through a pipeline jutting through state waters and onto land, which is why the commission is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2025/4/Th8.1-Th8.3/Th8.1-Th8.3-4-2025-report.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> issued ahead of Thursday’s hearing in Santa Barbara, the commission staff recommended a $14.9 million administrative penalty against Sable, a cease and desist order to halt construction activity until the company complies with permitting laws and a restoration order to remedy negative environmental impacts from the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10536991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10536991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/4740295661-e1432675744436.jpg\" alt=\"Oil surrounds the feet of local resident Morgan Miller as he patrols the beach for oiled wildlife on May 19, 2015. north of Goleta, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil surrounds the feet of a resident as he patrols the beach for oiled wildlife on May 19, 2015, north of Goleta, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, the commission passed all staff recommendations but raised the fine to the maximum amount. If the company aligns itself with its permitting process, it will reduce the fine back to the original amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sable’s refusal to comply is a refusal to follow the law; their refusal, in a very real sense, is a subversion of the will of the people of the state of California,” said Commissioner Meagan Harmon, who represents the south central coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone wants to stop repairs that are going to keep us safe, but they have to be done in the right way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing in Santa Barbara, opponents to the staff findings were given the first opportunity to address the commission. A number of people and Sable staff defended the company’s reputation, bringing “well-paying jobs” to the region and described the commission’s decision as unnecessary jurisdictional overreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much of our taxpayer dollars are going to be continued to be wasted by the commission staff fighting the very local agencies that they delegated jurisdiction to?” said Trent Fontenot with Sable. “This continuing power grab must stop and stop wasting taxpayer money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10543893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10543893\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/refugio-clean-up-2-boats-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coast Guard crews working on Santa Barbara oil spill near Refugio State Beach on May 19, 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer David Mosely)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hannah Beth-Jackson, former state senator for the Santa Barbara area who witnessed the 2015 oil spill, urged the commission to punish Sable for its “arrogance” to continue work without commission permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pipeline is significantly corroded,” she said. “All of these efforts that we’ve heard about remind me of the expression that you can’t put lipstick on a pig. This pipeline is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of supporters of the commission’s decision packed the hearing, including students from Santa Barbara Middle School. Ninth grader Gus Larsen called Sable’s willingness to “gamble another huge oil spill disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t just think about the money,” he said. “Think about the fish, the animals and think about the children, who might never get to see the beauty of Santa Barbara. Think about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sable officials said in a statement that the company is “dedicated to restarting project operations in a safe and efficient manner.” They added that “no California business should be forced to go through a protracted and arbitrary permitting process when it already has valid permits for the work it performed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘They’ll only stop if a court makes them’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During an overflowing town hall to discuss the pipeline construction in mid-March, Cassidy Teufel, deputy director of the Coastal Commission, said the work is “very problematic” and occurred during bird nesting season as well as the breeding season for federally endangered species like steelhead salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission alleged Sable started the work without its approval, refused to apply for a coastal development permit and ignored demands to stop its work — including two cease and desist orders in November and February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time in the agency’s history that we have had a party blatantly ignore a cease and desist order like this and refuse to submit a permanent application,” Teufel said. “Sable’s representatives have told us they’ll only stop if a court makes them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But these guys from Texas get a pass?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its March 28 report, the \u003ca href=\"https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2025/4/Th8.1-Th8.3/Th8.1-Th8.3-4-2025-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commission staff alleges (PDF)\u003c/a> that the company’s onshore and offshore activities violate the California Coastal Act and “have adversely impacted, and continue to adversely impact, coastal resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent Friday to the commission and posted on the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://sablecaliforniaenergy.com/coastalcommission/\">website,\u003c/a> Sable officials said they “vehemently” disagree with the commission’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work on these existing facilities is substantially identical to work that has taken place here for the past 30 years, without a need for new Coastal Act authorizations,” Steve Rusch, vice president of environmental and governmental affairs, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://sableoffshore.com/news/news-details/2025/Sable-Offshore-Corp--Statement-on-Response-to-California-Coastal-Commission-/default.aspx\">statement\u003c/a>. “Commission staff continues to exaggerate the project’s impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘No one is above the law’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many along the Central Coast, the 2015 spill had worrying parallels to another offshore oil disaster nearly five decades earlier. That 1969 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721584/how-californias-worst-oil-spill-turned-beaches-black-and-the-nation-green\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> helped to ignite the modern environmental movement — leading to the first Earth Day — and create the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/coastalvoices/IntroductionToCoastalAct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Coastal Act (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists and environmentalists say they worry that resurrecting oil production could result in another spill that harms life and livelihoods on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10551819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10551819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/GettyImages-475023982-e1433514086177.jpg\" alt=\"A surfer ignored a warning to stay out of the water in Manhattan Beach last week as much of coastline near Los Angeles was closed amid continuing cleanup efforts to remove an unidentified tarlike substance that began washing ashore after an oil spill near Santa Barbara.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1186\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfer ignored a warning to stay out of the water in Manhattan Beach on June 5, 2015, as much of the coastline near Los Angeles was closed amid continuing cleanup efforts to remove an unidentified tarlike substance that began washing ashore after an oil spill near Santa Barbara. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a geochemistry professor at Caltech in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021777/reporters-notebook\">Pasadena\u003c/a>, Francois Tissot normally spends his time studying rocks formed at the beginning of the universe. But ever since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">wildfires \u003c/a>tore through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> in January, burning thousands of homes, the Big Bang has taken a back seat in the professor’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tissot, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">Altadena \u003c/a>resident, has dedicated much of his lab’s resources to studying the toxic aftermath of the Eaton fire. He’s spent the last few months testing the ash that blanketed surviving homes for harmful contaminants like lead, cadmium, and arsenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all the equipment. We have all the expertise. We’re right there,” Tissot said. “If we didn’t do it, it would be criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of graduate students, led by Tissot, has visited the homes of over 50 people who volunteered to have their properties tested. The scientists swab surfaces with wet wipes and bring samples back to the lab for analysis. All the work is done in an ultra-clean room to ensure accuracy. It even requires a uniform: lab coat, hairnet and Crocs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust from each sample gets dissolved in a vial and sucked up through a machine called a mass spectrometer, which spits out data on a spreadsheet. \u003ca href=\"https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/ask-expert-sustainability/ask-expert-fires/francois-tissot-lead-water-soil-ash-eaton-fire/lead-dust-ash-water-eaton-fire-francois-tissot\">The results are a wake-up call.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Francois Tissot holds samples taken from debris left by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., which are now being studied for the potential risks of living amid environmental contamination. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The answer is there’s a lot of lead everywhere,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside more than half of the homes tested, lead was detected at levels over the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. One home even had 30 times the limit. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there’s no safe level of lead exposure for children, and even small amounts can directly hinder children’s brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results from Caltech’s study are personally disturbing for Tissot—his own home was one of the first tested by the lab. It survived the fire, while the rest of his block was leveled. Since January, Francois has thrown himself into this project and is treating his house like any other testing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the house without having to do anything is so depressing,” Tissot said. “This project gives a sense of purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contamination close to home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tissot and his family have lived in faculty housing near campus since they evacuated during the Eaton fire in January. Outside his house in Altadena, Christmas lights are still up, and there’s a rotting box of subscription produce on the doorstep. It was eerily quiet as we drove down his empty street in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like two parallel worlds,” Tissots said, taking in the sight of his mid-century home. “I can remember exactly how it used to look and everything. Every time I visit, it’s like overprinting a nice memory with an image of devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the house seemed okay, but closer inspection revealed the extent of the damage. What used to be astroturf is now a bubbly black puddle of plastic. The walls of the house cracked, plastic window frames melted, and the roof got so hot it dripped molten tar into the attic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So clearly the house has sustained a very intense thermal event. It went through hell,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To add insult to injury, the place has been looted. But that’s actually the least of Tissot’s problems because, based on the tests conducted in his lab, the house is chemically compromised. Every room contains lead that is over the EPA limit. His youngest daughter’s room is especially bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no cleaning her stuffed animals. There is no getting her clothes back,” Tissot said. “That room is completely contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the lead testing project and his usual geochemistry research, Francois is spending almost every day on the phone with his home insurance, struggling to get professional remediation services and follow-up lead testing covered. He’s been told that once cleaning is complete, it means the house is clean—no follow-up testing necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A board outlining the research project led by Professor Francois Tissot, in collaboration with graduate student Merrit McDowell, is displayed inside Tissot’s office at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a scientist, that’s not sufficient,” Tissot said. “I’m not going to put my kids back in a house that they haven’t demonstrated is fully clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ongoing frustration with his insurance, Tissot is committed to staying in Altadena, the place he’s called home for the last six years. He was drawn to the area because it reminded him of the French countryside where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get bobcats and coyotes. There’s something very primal to being connected to nature that way, which I greatly enjoy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his home isn’t proven to be lead-free, Tissot said he is willing to demolish and rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The results are in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The map of homes tested by Caltech is a collection of red, orange, and yellow squares, representing homes with elevated levels of lead, and green squares, with minimal levels of the element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chan’s house in Glendale — a 20-minute drive from the burn scar in Altadena — is an orange square. She has a four-year-old daughter and isn’t thrilled by the results, which indicated high levels of lead are present all over the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035420\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Altadena and Pasadena, Caltech scientists found a dangerous blanket of lead on most indoor surfaces that had been left undisturbed since the Eaton Fire in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m more worried because I thought everything was okay,” Chan said. “But there hasn’t been any kind of guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tissot met up with Chan to talk through the best course of action. According to the professor, because the extent of lead detected inside is less than in some other houses — and, under the EPA limit — Chan may be able to clean surfaces with a wet wipe rather than pay for professional remediation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1389\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltech scientists swabbed patio furniture, kid’s toys and tool sheds to determine the amount of lead coating outdoor surfaces in the Los Angeles area after the Eaton Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, Tissot admits, administering this kind of advice is outside of his expertise. So, he’s sharing his testing with Pasadena and L.A. County Departments of Public Health so they can issue official recommendations for addressing this invisible chemical danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Caltech’s results, a spokesperson for the City of Pasadena shared a statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These independent data collection efforts offer important pieces of the puzzle, valuable to the overall assessment of environmental conditions in Pasadena and throughout the region. We are tracking these studies closely and issuing relevant public health guidance when needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They linked to a guide on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpasadena.net/eaton-fire/#returning-home-faqs\">Returning Home After a Fire\u003c/a>” and recommend that homeowners consult a remediation professional to determine individualized guidance. The L.A. County Department of Public Health directs residents to \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Wildfire/\">their own post-wildfire safety guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Altadena residents are mapping a “Toxic Soup”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scientists aren’t the only ones keeping tabs on lead in the community. A coalition of Altadena residents called Eaton Fire Residents United (EFRU) has published their own map visualizing the results of commercially conducted contaminant tests, some paid for by people’s insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena resident and data scientist Nicole Maccalla developed the map. She’s collaborating with Tissot to incorporate Caltech’s data and highlight the common theme between their findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story is there is widespread contamination, and it goes well beyond the burn zone, way further than just Pasadena,” Maccalla said. “I don’t think the public knows that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=16rCPm17KBRKnxRTX37hf5DBeY7yy9Vw&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, new residents are emailing EFRU to share their own testing results for the map. That’s keeping Maccalla busy, on top of dealing with her own house in Altadena, which is currently unliveable, a situation shared by many members of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m behind on everything in life right now,” Maccalla said. “We’re all juggling multiple things, plus trying to take care of our displaced families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s proud of the community engagement represented by the project but is disappointed in what she feels is a lack of government response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not our day job,” Maccalla said. “I think it’s ridiculous that it’s not the public health department or the county or the state or insurance companies sharing information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maccalla would like to see public health officials going door-to-door to ensure everyone is safe from toxic chemicals, including lead as well as other hazards, like asbestos. According to Maccalla, elders and non-English speakers are particularly vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody even knows you need to clean or what cleaning entails. We won’t know if cleaning works unless we test,” Maccalla said. “Why is this on individual residents? Why are we going to let our community sit under a toxic soup?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EFRU map is set to be updated on a weekly basis as more results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postdoctoral researcher Theo Tacali works inside the Mass Spec Room, analyzing data from the project he leads at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltech received over 400 requests from volunteers hoping to have their properties tested by the school. Tissot is still fielding regular emails from people asking for his help. While the Caltech study is at capacity, other universities, \u003ca href=\"https://publicexchange.usc.edu/la-wildfire-soil-testing/\">including USC\u003c/a>, are also collecting contamination samples. The L.A. County Department of Public Health is publishing the \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/wildfire/post_fire_assessment_plan.htm\">results from these institutions’ efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Tissot’s team plans to retest the same 50 homes included in his study – once debris removal is complete – to track the extent of contamination over time. He’s prepared to spend the next several years studying and publicizing the results, no matter how uncomfortable they may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Science is forcing yourself to always reevaluate what you think you know,” Tissot said. “I hope the data that we produce will be looked at very closely by the city, the state, and the appropriate response will be built from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of graduate students, led by Tissot, has visited the homes of over 50 people who volunteered to have their properties tested. The scientists swab surfaces with wet wipes and bring samples back to the lab for analysis. All the work is done in an ultra-clean room to ensure accuracy. It even requires a uniform: lab coat, hairnet and Crocs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust from each sample gets dissolved in a vial and sucked up through a machine called a mass spectrometer, which spits out data on a spreadsheet. \u003ca href=\"https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/sustainability/ask-expert-sustainability/ask-expert-fires/francois-tissot-lead-water-soil-ash-eaton-fire/lead-dust-ash-water-eaton-fire-francois-tissot\">The results are a wake-up call.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-104-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Francois Tissot holds samples taken from debris left by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., which are now being studied for the potential risks of living amid environmental contamination. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The answer is there’s a lot of lead everywhere,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside more than half of the homes tested, lead was detected at levels over the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. One home even had 30 times the limit. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there’s no safe level of lead exposure for children, and even small amounts can directly hinder children’s brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results from Caltech’s study are personally disturbing for Tissot—his own home was one of the first tested by the lab. It survived the fire, while the rest of his block was leveled. Since January, Francois has thrown himself into this project and is treating his house like any other testing site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being in the house without having to do anything is so depressing,” Tissot said. “This project gives a sense of purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contamination close to home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tissot and his family have lived in faculty housing near campus since they evacuated during the Eaton fire in January. Outside his house in Altadena, Christmas lights are still up, and there’s a rotting box of subscription produce on the doorstep. It was eerily quiet as we drove down his empty street in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like two parallel worlds,” Tissots said, taking in the sight of his mid-century home. “I can remember exactly how it used to look and everything. Every time I visit, it’s like overprinting a nice memory with an image of devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the house seemed okay, but closer inspection revealed the extent of the damage. What used to be astroturf is now a bubbly black puddle of plastic. The walls of the house cracked, plastic window frames melted, and the roof got so hot it dripped molten tar into the attic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So clearly the house has sustained a very intense thermal event. It went through hell,” Tissot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To add insult to injury, the place has been looted. But that’s actually the least of Tissot’s problems because, based on the tests conducted in his lab, the house is chemically compromised. Every room contains lead that is over the EPA limit. His youngest daughter’s room is especially bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no cleaning her stuffed animals. There is no getting her clothes back,” Tissot said. “That room is completely contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the lead testing project and his usual geochemistry research, Francois is spending almost every day on the phone with his home insurance, struggling to get professional remediation services and follow-up lead testing covered. He’s been told that once cleaning is complete, it means the house is clean—no follow-up testing necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-144-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A board outlining the research project led by Professor Francois Tissot, in collaboration with graduate student Merrit McDowell, is displayed inside Tissot’s office at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a scientist, that’s not sufficient,” Tissot said. “I’m not going to put my kids back in a house that they haven’t demonstrated is fully clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ongoing frustration with his insurance, Tissot is committed to staying in Altadena, the place he’s called home for the last six years. He was drawn to the area because it reminded him of the French countryside where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get bobcats and coyotes. There’s something very primal to being connected to nature that way, which I greatly enjoy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his home isn’t proven to be lead-free, Tissot said he is willing to demolish and rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The results are in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The map of homes tested by Caltech is a collection of red, orange, and yellow squares, representing homes with elevated levels of lead, and green squares, with minimal levels of the element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Chan’s house in Glendale — a 20-minute drive from the burn scar in Altadena — is an orange square. She has a four-year-old daughter and isn’t thrilled by the results, which indicated high levels of lead are present all over the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035420\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-1-scaled-e1744312755484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Altadena and Pasadena, Caltech scientists found a dangerous blanket of lead on most indoor surfaces that had been left undisturbed since the Eaton Fire in January. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m more worried because I thought everything was okay,” Chan said. “But there hasn’t been any kind of guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tissot met up with Chan to talk through the best course of action. According to the professor, because the extent of lead detected inside is less than in some other houses — and, under the EPA limit — Chan may be able to clean surfaces with a wet wipe rather than pay for professional remediation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035423\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Lead-concentration-2-e1744312836350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1389\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltech scientists swabbed patio furniture, kid’s toys and tool sheds to determine the amount of lead coating outdoor surfaces in the Los Angeles area after the Eaton Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, Tissot admits, administering this kind of advice is outside of his expertise. So, he’s sharing his testing with Pasadena and L.A. County Departments of Public Health so they can issue official recommendations for addressing this invisible chemical danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Caltech’s results, a spokesperson for the City of Pasadena shared a statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These independent data collection efforts offer important pieces of the puzzle, valuable to the overall assessment of environmental conditions in Pasadena and throughout the region. We are tracking these studies closely and issuing relevant public health guidance when needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They linked to a guide on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpasadena.net/eaton-fire/#returning-home-faqs\">Returning Home After a Fire\u003c/a>” and recommend that homeowners consult a remediation professional to determine individualized guidance. The L.A. 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She’s collaborating with Tissot to incorporate Caltech’s data and highlight the common theme between their findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story is there is widespread contamination, and it goes well beyond the burn zone, way further than just Pasadena,” Maccalla said. “I don’t think the public knows that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=16rCPm17KBRKnxRTX37hf5DBeY7yy9Vw&ehbc=2E312F\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, new residents are emailing EFRU to share their own testing results for the map. That’s keeping Maccalla busy, on top of dealing with her own house in Altadena, which is currently unliveable, a situation shared by many members of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m behind on everything in life right now,” Maccalla said. “We’re all juggling multiple things, plus trying to take care of our displaced families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s proud of the community engagement represented by the project but is disappointed in what she feels is a lack of government response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not our day job,” Maccalla said. “I think it’s ridiculous that it’s not the public health department or the county or the state or insurance companies sharing information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maccalla would like to see public health officials going door-to-door to ensure everyone is safe from toxic chemicals, including lead as well as other hazards, like asbestos. According to Maccalla, elders and non-English speakers are particularly vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody even knows you need to clean or what cleaning entails. We won’t know if cleaning works unless we test,” Maccalla said. “Why is this on individual residents? Why are we going to let our community sit under a toxic soup?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EFRU map is set to be updated on a weekly basis as more results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-149-ZS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postdoctoral researcher Theo Tacali works inside the Mass Spec Room, analyzing data from the project he leads at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on April 4, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez for KQED \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltech received over 400 requests from volunteers hoping to have their properties tested by the school. Tissot is still fielding regular emails from people asking for his help. While the Caltech study is at capacity, other universities, \u003ca href=\"https://publicexchange.usc.edu/la-wildfire-soil-testing/\">including USC\u003c/a>, are also collecting contamination samples. The L.A. County Department of Public Health is publishing the \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/wildfire/post_fire_assessment_plan.htm\">results from these institutions’ efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Tissot’s team plans to retest the same 50 homes included in his study – once debris removal is complete – to track the extent of contamination over time. He’s prepared to spend the next several years studying and publicizing the results, no matter how uncomfortable they may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Science is forcing yourself to always reevaluate what you think you know,” Tissot said. “I hope the data that we produce will be looked at very closely by the city, the state, and the appropriate response will be built from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A rarely spotted juvenile minke whale that stranded itself on a mudflat in the San Francisco Bay near Emeryville was euthanized on Tuesday, marking the fourth whale death in the area in less than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teams have made the difficult decision to humanely euthanize this animal to relieve its suffering,” said Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. He noted that the whale had beached itself on several different occasions in recent days and was found almost completely out of the water, suffering from severe sunburns and struggling to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can relieve an animal of its suffering, from an animal welfare point of view, we take that with incredible sincerity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-foot-long whale — only the fifth documented minke whale sighting in the bay since 2009 — was seen stranded on Monday afternoon. The incoming tide helped it move to deeper waters on Tuesday morning, but it got stuck in the mud again, within 20 feet from shore, later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County firefighters laid down wooden planks in the mud to reach the animal but were unable to rescue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rulli said the center planned to conduct a necropsy — or animal autopsy — to try to determine why the animal was “showcasing these symptoms and behavioral patterns that are just very abnormal for a live, fully healthy functioning whale.” Results will take several weeks, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists prepare to humanely euthanize a stranded juvenile minke whale in Emeryville after efforts to save it proved unsuccessful. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sean Hathorn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a rough couple of weeks for whales in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three dead gray whales were discovered in different locations in and around the bay last week, including an emaciated “subadult” female seen near Alcatraz on April 1 and another floating east of Angel Island State Park the following day. A third was spotted on Friday, off San Francisco’s Fort Point Rock Beach, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what killed the gray whales, Rulli said, noting that two were found in relatively good shape. The third, however, had six fractured vertebrae, suggesting it had been struck by a vessel, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have four dead whales in a week and a half is very high,” Rulli said, noting that the center hasn’t responded to a high-mortality event like this since April 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2021/04/11/whales-sf-bay-beaches/\">four gray whales were found dead\u003c/a> in the Bay Area in the span of eight days. “It’s extremely difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he cautioned against drawing correlations between the gray whale and minke whale fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002077 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings2-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are two very different species,” he said. “The going theory is that … the factors involved are suspected to be quite different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas sightings of minke whales are exceedingly rare in the Bay Area, gray whales have, in recent years, become an increasingly common presence between late February and May, using the calm waters of the bay as a resting stop during their vast annual northern migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ferry services and commercial vessels have even adjusted their routes to avoid hitting the whales, Rulli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another minke whale was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-06/minke-whale-trapped-long-beach-harbor-dies-officials-say\">found dead on Sunday\u003c/a> in Long Beach Harbor in Southern California, where an algal bloom is producing a surge in domoic acid. The naturally occurring marine neurotoxin, which can induce lethargy and erratic behavior, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-24/domoic-acid-sea-lions-dolphins-stranded-southern-california-coast\">poisoned more than 100 sea lions and dozens of dolphins\u003c/a> in that region and may have played a role in the whale’s demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rulli said that while the minke whale his organization euthanized on Tuesday would be tested for the neurotoxin, there’s so far been little presence of it in the waters off the coast of Central and Northern California.\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>KQED’s Katherine Monahan contributed reporting.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A rarely spotted juvenile minke whale that stranded itself on a mudflat in the San Francisco Bay near Emeryville was euthanized on Tuesday, marking the fourth whale death in the area in less than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teams have made the difficult decision to humanely euthanize this animal to relieve its suffering,” said Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. He noted that the whale had beached itself on several different occasions in recent days and was found almost completely out of the water, suffering from severe sunburns and struggling to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can relieve an animal of its suffering, from an animal welfare point of view, we take that with incredible sincerity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-foot-long whale — only the fifth documented minke whale sighting in the bay since 2009 — was seen stranded on Monday afternoon. The incoming tide helped it move to deeper waters on Tuesday morning, but it got stuck in the mud again, within 20 feet from shore, later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County firefighters laid down wooden planks in the mud to reach the animal but were unable to rescue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rulli said the center planned to conduct a necropsy — or animal autopsy — to try to determine why the animal was “showcasing these symptoms and behavioral patterns that are just very abnormal for a live, fully healthy functioning whale.” Results will take several weeks, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/WhaleDeath-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists prepare to humanely euthanize a stranded juvenile minke whale in Emeryville after efforts to save it proved unsuccessful. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sean Hathorn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been a rough couple of weeks for whales in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three dead gray whales were discovered in different locations in and around the bay last week, including an emaciated “subadult” female seen near Alcatraz on April 1 and another floating east of Angel Island State Park the following day. A third was spotted on Friday, off San Francisco’s Fort Point Rock Beach, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what killed the gray whales, Rulli said, noting that two were found in relatively good shape. The third, however, had six fractured vertebrae, suggesting it had been struck by a vessel, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have four dead whales in a week and a half is very high,” Rulli said, noting that the center hasn’t responded to a high-mortality event like this since April 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2021/04/11/whales-sf-bay-beaches/\">four gray whales were found dead\u003c/a> in the Bay Area in the span of eight days. “It’s extremely difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he cautioned against drawing correlations between the gray whale and minke whale fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are two very different species,” he said. “The going theory is that … the factors involved are suspected to be quite different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas sightings of minke whales are exceedingly rare in the Bay Area, gray whales have, in recent years, become an increasingly common presence between late February and May, using the calm waters of the bay as a resting stop during their vast annual northern migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ferry services and commercial vessels have even adjusted their routes to avoid hitting the whales, Rulli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another minke whale was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-06/minke-whale-trapped-long-beach-harbor-dies-officials-say\">found dead on Sunday\u003c/a> in Long Beach Harbor in Southern California, where an algal bloom is producing a surge in domoic acid. The naturally occurring marine neurotoxin, which can induce lethargy and erratic behavior, recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-24/domoic-acid-sea-lions-dolphins-stranded-southern-california-coast\">poisoned more than 100 sea lions and dozens of dolphins\u003c/a> in that region and may have played a role in the whale’s demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rulli said that while the minke whale his organization euthanized on Tuesday would be tested for the neurotoxin, there’s so far been little presence of it in the waters off the coast of Central and Northern California.\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>KQED’s Katherine Monahan contributed reporting.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“It woke you up in a way where you felt your humanity and you felt the humanity of the people around you. You understood what it felt like to really love people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t stop thinking about this line from my friend Tara Zorthian. I was interviewing her about her former home, the Zorthian Ranch, which burned down in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\"> the Eaton Canyon fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was searching to capture the meaning of a place that is impossible to define.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came back as frequently as I could, driven by some deep impulse that what I experienced there was magic. I couldn’t quite define the feeling, but I knew I wanted more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, I got to know the place and its people in a more intimate way. Words are a poor substitute for what I experienced there, but it involved strange art performances, puppet shows,\u003ca href=\"https://slamgranderson.substack.com/p/zorthian-ranch-pizza-party\"> pizza parties\u003c/a> and surrealist dinners, costumes and music of all types, deep conversations, sleepovers with friends, staying up all night until the sunrise and a profound sense of love and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Tara said, it woke you up. You felt your humanity. You understood what it meant to really love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My experience is but a small fraction of what the Zorthian Ranch really was — and is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch has been around for nearly a century. It was founded by Jirayr Zorthian, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, who over the years developed a unique space that was both homestead and social scene. It became a magnet for bohemian artists in the ’50s and ’60s. It hosted countless parties, shows and performances, and over the years what happened to me — the discovery of magic within myself — happened to hundreds, if not thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_23-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Zorthian, a granddaughter of founder Jirayr Zorthian, at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. She lived on the ranch for eight years before moving away two years ago. The Eaton fire destroyed several structures as well as vegetation on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cliche is that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. But I think we did know. All of us who lived, visited and participated in the Ranch came away with a sense of how special it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the course of producing this non-narrated radio piece, I set out to capture that sense of specialness. And I knew that would be a challenge from the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the 20 people who used to live here are now displaced. The community has scattered. Where previously I could simply show up and find several people to talk to, now I had to go about tracking them down to the various friend’s houses (and couches) where they were staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge was trying to wrap my arms around such a sprawling subject. I understood that ultimately, any attempt to tell the entire story of the Zorthian Ranch in a single piece would be doomed to failure. I myself had actually tried — and failed — before. Along with a colleague of mine, I set out to uncover the fate of The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training, which is the most enduring mystery of the Zorthian Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes that Jirayr Zorthian created his greatest artwork of all time — a true masterpiece — in the form of a 157-foot mural that was first installed at the Pentagon, then possibly shuffled around other military locations, before it was lost forever.[aside postID=news_12029129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/0A4A3428-1020x680.jpg']The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. And unfortunately, that kind of magic is not available to very many people these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devastating fire that destroyed Altadena — and most of the Zorthian Ranch — exposed the fragility of so many broken systems in the Western way of life: the lack of affordable housing or any real social safety net, the way we’ve ravaged our ecosystem and ignored Indigenous knowledge around fire, the lack of access to green open spaces for city dwellers and the difficulty of sourcing local and sustainable food products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193000280-1020x653.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among the most important gaps in our current way of life is cultivating places to gather together, with the people you love, and experience what it is to be a human in communion with other humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that way, the Zorthian Ranch is more than a place in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026093/they-want-to-rebuild-after-the-eaton-fire-but-first-comes-the-struggle-to-survive\">Altadena\u003c/a>. It’s an idea. And ideas cannot be destroyed by fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My hope is that by sharing stories about places like the Ranch, we keep alive the idea that cultivating spaces for community to gather together in love and creativity is among the most important things we will ever do in our lifetimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m excited to watch how the Zorthians choose to rebuild. If you want to help contribute to those efforts, you can\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/Support-zorthian-ranch\"> support their fundraiser\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this place that transformed the lives of so many people is undergoing a great transformation of its own. Jirayr’s son Alan is steadfast in his commitment to rebuilding. Cleanup efforts are ongoing, and some residents have already begun to move back to the Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the past is any indication, the future of the Zorthian Ranch will be something special to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a ranch. An artist community. A homestead. A portal to a different way of life. But there’s something else going on there. A sense of magic, hidden in the mountains, that reveals itself to those who leave behind the trappings of modern urban life and surrender to the silliest, most whimsical, most open version of themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have witnessed this place transform people. It even happened to me, a journalist from New Jersey with a rather serious disposition. I only lived at the Ranch for a matter of months, but have been a visitor for much longer. And during that time, I unlocked a new version of myself that I didn’t know existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_06_duo-1920x1189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Writer Sam Anderson outside a burned out bus at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. (Right) One of the burned vehicles on the ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time I came to the Ranch was in 2019 for a volunteer workday. As my tiny Volkswagen rattled across the precarious bridge and up the windy dirt road, I felt nervous with anticipation. What is this place? How does it possibly exist among the dense urban sprawl of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I arrived at the top of the road to find a rambling property filled with strange buildings and objects. Art was everywhere. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I joined a group of twenty or so people engaged in some form of toiling. I can’t remember what we did that day – probably pulled weeds or tossed some rocks into a pile or something similar. It was a sweltering summer day and by the afternoon everyone was covered in dirt and sweat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s emblazoned in my memory forever is what happened after the work was done. Everyone stripped completely naked and jumped in the pool. Music turned on. Drinks appeared. A raucous party began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pool was perched on top of a mountain with a panoramic view of Los Angeles. As the sun began to set over the hills, brilliant shades of orange and pink blazed across the sky and I had an indescribable feeling that I tapped into something special. What was this community I had encountered, filled with such creative, brilliant people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The piece depicted the training and recruitment process of the military in not uncritical terms (could that be a motivation behind its disappearance?) and while the original has never been found, there is at least\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFV1Mp1Nc4\"> a video\u003c/a> documenting what it looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suffice it to say my documentary about this missing art piece didn’t pan out. But the particular rabbit hole it sent me down — playfully referred to as “the Zortex” by those who live here — only reinforced my enduring fascination with the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several talented individuals have contributed to telling the story of the Zorthian Ranch, and while no one’s produced a truly definitive documentary about the place, there are several great attempts currently available to view (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-GOuEZBUk\">such as this one, directed by Elisabeth de LeDoulx)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Zorthian fashion, it becomes not about the efforts of one individual, but rather a collective effort spanning decades to document our own community, and articulate why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own small way, I hope to contribute to those efforts. But where most efforts to tell this story have been celebratory, this one is a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034252\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_05-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorthian community members volunteer to clean up the rubble that remains after Eaton Fire destroyed The Barn, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes used to be held on the Ranch. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Interviewing members of the community in the aftermath of this fire was a difficult and emotional experience for everyone involved. But in spite of the grim circumstances, I am surprised at how much cohesion emerged from what appeared to be a rather difficult and chaotic subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Themes like community, friendship, and love rose to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after spending the last few weeks trying to document that ethereal feeling I experienced in my first visit to the Ranch in 2019, I’ve arrived at a simpler explanation for why it all matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ranch was a space where community could gather. Where artists, musicians and performers could live for very low rent. Where humans could coexist and care for the land and the plants and animals that call it home, like our ancestors did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, life at the Ranch couldn’t be more simple. But in a city that often feels trapped in the vice of late stage capitalism, the Ranch became a radical idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_11-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What remains of the kitchen in Julia Zorthian and Gunner Sixx’s home, photographed on March 28, 2025 in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_30_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) The former site of The Barn at Zorthian Ranch on March 28 in Altadena, California. The Barn is where art shows and classes were held before the fire. (Right) Robert “Blobbie” Kirkhuff among the ruins of the Watchtower at Zorthian Ranch. The Watchtower was his home before the Eaton fire destroyed it. The skyline of downtown Los Angeles is visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Stella Kalinina for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when you create a space for community to live and gather together, to be in harmony with nature and to create and cultivate our own resources, both materially and spiritually?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer is magic. 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