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But aside from material improvements, it said that accelerating the county’s timelines to comply with state required planning reports and studies could also make evacuations faster and smoother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires the county to complete a study identifying the transportation infrastructure that is needed in the county to deliver emergency services, but according to Sonoma’s general plan, it doesn’t expect to begin work on this until 2030. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the county has been lucky not to have major incidents in the last three years, since planning for evacuation, shelter, and coordinated communication are in sore need of upgrades, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the county has made an investment and the Department of Emergency Management is more able today than it was seven years ago, but the rest of the report essentially identifies there is additional progress that could and should be made,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that most of the county’s evacuation routes were incapable of handling the anticipated traffic in an emergency in a timely manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways 12 and 116, which are key for evacuating from the Sonoma Valley and western Sonoma County, respectively, have intersections that gridlock during heavy traffic, according to the report. Other critical roads along the Russian River are single lane — some of which are also located in spots \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025777/north-bay-rivers-flood-after-storm-little-time-prepare-next-round-rain\">vulnerable to mudslides\u003c/a> in flooding events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury also wrote that they were disheartened to learn in interviews with emergency officials that those roads aren’t likely to see significant upgrades in the near future: “The roads are the roads; improving them is expensive, complicated, and, in most cases, requires support from the State of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County’s main evacuation routes have been, and probably will continue to be, bottlenecks for future evacuations,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250225-Rebuilding-Electric-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remnants of Cathy Crowley and Paul Amlin’s home in Santa Rosa after it was burned down in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cathy Crowley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While they posed questions about the feasibility of prioritizing such improvements, the jury didn’t go so far as to include major revisions to the roadways in its recommendations. But aside from material improvements, it said that accelerating the county’s timelines to comply with state required planning reports and studies could also make evacuations faster and smoother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires the county to complete a study identifying the transportation infrastructure that is needed in the county to deliver emergency services, but according to Sonoma’s general plan, it doesn’t expect to begin work on this until 2030. It won’t develop required zoned emergency evacuation plans until the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, should we all just hope there are no emergencies?” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It recommends that county officials move up work on the study and evacuation plans to 2027, and include funding for the efforts in that year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the report recommends that the county improve its communication system for emergency alerts, which largely relies on access to the internet and power — resources that often disappear during natural disasters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Proponents of a growing movement in the construction industry are asking: Why tear down old buildings with wrecking balls when those materials can be mined for reusable materials?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice, called deconstruction, creates a circular economy of reuse for building materials. It keeps waste out of landfills and shrinks the carbon footprint of buildings and infrastructure. It’s the kind of idea that sounds like an obvious win-win. But as the built environment rapidly changes over from one generation to the next, communities may not yet have the infrastructure — the sorting facilities and reuse stores — to keep up with new demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deconstruction and reuse industries have taken flight in the past five to 10 years in cities like Portland, Ore., and Boulder, Colo., where much of the original aging housing stock is now being replaced to suit the tastes of a much wealthier 21st-century population. As old homes come down to make way for new ones, specialist contractors like Anna Perks are moving in to handle the materials left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our team is systematically unbuilding the structure,” said Perks, co-owner of Perks Deconstruction, a contracting company that disassembles buildings for parts. She was hired to make a snug three-bedroom, two-bath home near the top of a green, hilly street in Boulder disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perks Deconstruction co-owner Anna Perks walks past the remaining slab of an old farmhouse at a project in Aurora. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her crew worked quickly. After the first day on-site, the roof of the house disappeared. The siding, too. A crew wielding hammers and crowbars pried pieces of wood sheathing off the studs and carefully sorted materials. Others clawed nails out of two-by-sixes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a pretty good pile of lumber,” she said. “That’s all ceiling joists and floor joists. There’s a lot of good reusable lumber in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were trained to work precisely and with patience to keep the lumber as intact as possible as they removed it from the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, what happens is a bulldozer will come in, smash it all — it’ll all get trashed,” Perks said. “But deconstruction, we try to salvage and recycle as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck is piled with planks salvaged by Perks Deconstruction from an old farmhouse in Aurora. The wood will be transported to the company’s warehouse, where it will be sorted and priced for sale. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The carbon emissions embodied in buildings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea is to limit the climate impact of our built environment, which accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/2022-global-status-report-buildings-and-construction\">nearly 40%\u003c/a> of global greenhouse gas emissions. \u003ca href=\"https://carbonleadershipforum.org/the-embodied-carbon-benchmark-report/\">About half\u003c/a> of that comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://rmi.org/embodied-carbon-101/\">embodied carbon\u003c/a> of construction materials, according to Michelle Lambert, the policy and engagement manager at the nonprofit Carbon Leadership Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas emissions that are generated by the manufacturing, the transportation, the installation, all the way through to the disposal of construction materials that are used in buildings or in roads and other infrastructure projects,” Lambert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, experts have focused on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon-whats-the-difference-and-why-does-it-matter/\">climate impact\u003c/a> of building operations — the energy used to heat, cool and electrify spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the last five, 10 years, we’ve really started to understand that the materials and the processes that have created those materials are a really significant piece of the whole carbon footprint of buildings as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scout Wise, a Perks Deconstruction warehouse coordinator, walks through the company’s warehouse. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big promise of deconstruction is in creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/circular-economy\">circular economy\u003c/a> for building materials: harvesting lumber, say, from an old house, rather than a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making use of the materials that we have already manufactured is one of the most impactful ways that we can reduce embodied carbon,” Lambert said. “Eliminating all of those emissions that would’ve been required to create new materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The challenges of deconstruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Fellows, president of Colorado-based development company Resolute Strategies, hired Perks Deconstruction to dismantle a few crumbling farm buildings on a former homestead he’s now building out as a mixed-use residential neighborhood in Aurora. In his brief for the project, he included reusing as many of the original materials as possible on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bricks from the farmhouse and siding from the barn have been set aside in containers. They’ll be incorporated into a new community center for the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a place where there’s cool history and culture in the pioneers and the settlers that came out and did \u003ca href=\"https://www.drylandag.org/\">dryland farming\u003c/a>,” Fellows said. “We’re trying to honor that part of that culture and history of Colorado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows said he and his partners also liked deconstruction as a way to cut the carbon footprint of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to be good stewards of the land in terms of the climate and the environment,” he said. “So, to the extent that we could reuse and recycle any materials, we wanted to do that, so we don’t have to consume as much new material, nor do we have to take as much stuff to a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just because the interest is there doesn’t mean the execution is easy. A successful deconstruction program requires local infrastructure for processing and distributing salvaged materials, not to mention local end markets — people who want to buy and use those materials. Boulder, for instance, has a robust \u003ca href=\"https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cdrecyclingresourcesflyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deconstruction ecosystem\u003c/a> that includes expert contractors and recycling facilities for concrete, masonry and lumber, not to mention several building-materials reuse stores and donation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a project site in Boulder, a Perks Deconstruction crew pulls a metal gutter from a piece of roofing taken off a house. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a lot of places don’t have those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have a place to take all this material,” Perks said. “It gets really hard for contractors when there’s nowhere to take the material.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra cost of deconstruction can also make it a hard sell. Homeowners and developers may be motivated by environmental reasons, but the economic incentives aren’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows estimates that deconstruction increased project costs 35% to 40% and added at least a year to the schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we had to stage things carefully and do them in a certain sequence,” he said. “And we had to find the right people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Fellows said he’s glad they went for it and even thinks he’ll see an eventual return on the investment when eco-conscious homebuyers learn about the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to check back in three to five years. We’ll see if we think that’s happening,” he said. “But I think it was still the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.allforreuse.org/resources/policy-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of local governments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Zero-Waste/Zero-Waste-Requirements-Guidelines/Deconstruction-Ordinance\">Palo Alto, Calif.\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.leegov.com/solidwaste/recycling/constructiondebris\">Fort Myers, Fla.\u003c/a>, and counting, now either require some percentage of demolition waste be salvaged, reused or recycled, or incentivize those practices. Portland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/decon/about-decon\">an ordinance\u003c/a> has been on the books since 2016, was among the earliest deconstruction pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulder, more than 140 million pounds of materials have been kept out of landfills since a \u003ca href=\"https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/sustainable-deconstruction-requirements\">deconstruction ordinance\u003c/a> was adopted in 2020, according to the city of Boulder’s circular economy policy adviser, Emily Freeman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old wiring and pipe fittings are piled in the corner of a basement at a home in Boulder, where Perks Deconstruction is taking down the home and salvaging as much of its material as possible. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All residential and commercial buildings are required to be deconstructed,” Freeman said. “The ordinance requirements are that 75% or more of those building materials are diverted from landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has overshot that goal. Over the last five years, Freeman said, more than 83% of the construction waste generated in Boulder has been kept out of landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the movement matures, Perks said, the next frontier in deconstruction would be to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-06/documents/design_for_disassembly_in_the_built_environment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for disassembly\u003c/a> before a building ever got built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you either incorporate reclaimed materials into the new design, or when you’re designing, can you think about what’s this going to be like to take it down?” she said. “And when it gets taken down, can it be reused?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perks says the future of climate-conscious construction will be knowing exactly how you’ll take a building apart before you even put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deconstruction and reuse industries have taken flight in the past five to 10 years in cities like Portland, Ore., and Boulder, Colo., where much of the original aging housing stock is now being replaced to suit the tastes of a much wealthier 21st-century population. As old homes come down to make way for new ones, specialist contractors like Anna Perks are moving in to handle the materials left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our team is systematically unbuilding the structure,” said Perks, co-owner of Perks Deconstruction, a contracting company that disassembles buildings for parts. She was hired to make a snug three-bedroom, two-bath home near the top of a green, hilly street in Boulder disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perks Deconstruction co-owner Anna Perks walks past the remaining slab of an old farmhouse at a project in Aurora. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her crew worked quickly. After the first day on-site, the roof of the house disappeared. The siding, too. A crew wielding hammers and crowbars pried pieces of wood sheathing off the studs and carefully sorted materials. Others clawed nails out of two-by-sixes in the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a pretty good pile of lumber,” she said. “That’s all ceiling joists and floor joists. There’s a lot of good reusable lumber in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers were trained to work precisely and with patience to keep the lumber as intact as possible as they removed it from the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, what happens is a bulldozer will come in, smash it all — it’ll all get trashed,” Perks said. “But deconstruction, we try to salvage and recycle as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck is piled with planks salvaged by Perks Deconstruction from an old farmhouse in Aurora. The wood will be transported to the company’s warehouse, where it will be sorted and priced for sale. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The carbon emissions embodied in buildings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea is to limit the climate impact of our built environment, which accounts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/2022-global-status-report-buildings-and-construction\">nearly 40%\u003c/a> of global greenhouse gas emissions. \u003ca href=\"https://carbonleadershipforum.org/the-embodied-carbon-benchmark-report/\">About half\u003c/a> of that comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://rmi.org/embodied-carbon-101/\">embodied carbon\u003c/a> of construction materials, according to Michelle Lambert, the policy and engagement manager at the nonprofit Carbon Leadership Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Embodied carbon is the greenhouse gas emissions that are generated by the manufacturing, the transportation, the installation, all the way through to the disposal of construction materials that are used in buildings or in roads and other infrastructure projects,” Lambert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, experts have focused on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon-whats-the-difference-and-why-does-it-matter/\">climate impact\u003c/a> of building operations — the energy used to heat, cool and electrify spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the last five, 10 years, we’ve really started to understand that the materials and the processes that have created those materials are a really significant piece of the whole carbon footprint of buildings as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scout Wise, a Perks Deconstruction warehouse coordinator, walks through the company’s warehouse. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big promise of deconstruction is in creating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/circular-economy\">circular economy\u003c/a> for building materials: harvesting lumber, say, from an old house, rather than a forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making use of the materials that we have already manufactured is one of the most impactful ways that we can reduce embodied carbon,” Lambert said. “Eliminating all of those emissions that would’ve been required to create new materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The challenges of deconstruction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Fellows, president of Colorado-based development company Resolute Strategies, hired Perks Deconstruction to dismantle a few crumbling farm buildings on a former homestead he’s now building out as a mixed-use residential neighborhood in Aurora. In his brief for the project, he included reusing as many of the original materials as possible on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bricks from the farmhouse and siding from the barn have been set aside in containers. They’ll be incorporated into a new community center for the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a place where there’s cool history and culture in the pioneers and the settlers that came out and did \u003ca href=\"https://www.drylandag.org/\">dryland farming\u003c/a>,” Fellows said. “We’re trying to honor that part of that culture and history of Colorado.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows said he and his partners also liked deconstruction as a way to cut the carbon footprint of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to be good stewards of the land in terms of the climate and the environment,” he said. “So, to the extent that we could reuse and recycle any materials, we wanted to do that, so we don’t have to consume as much new material, nor do we have to take as much stuff to a landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just because the interest is there doesn’t mean the execution is easy. A successful deconstruction program requires local infrastructure for processing and distributing salvaged materials, not to mention local end markets — people who want to buy and use those materials. Boulder, for instance, has a robust \u003ca href=\"https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cdrecyclingresourcesflyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deconstruction ecosystem\u003c/a> that includes expert contractors and recycling facilities for concrete, masonry and lumber, not to mention several building-materials reuse stores and donation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At a project site in Boulder, a Perks Deconstruction crew pulls a metal gutter from a piece of roofing taken off a house. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But a lot of places don’t have those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have a place to take all this material,” Perks said. “It gets really hard for contractors when there’s nowhere to take the material.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra cost of deconstruction can also make it a hard sell. Homeowners and developers may be motivated by environmental reasons, but the economic incentives aren’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellows estimates that deconstruction increased project costs 35% to 40% and added at least a year to the schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we had to stage things carefully and do them in a certain sequence,” he said. “And we had to find the right people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Fellows said he’s glad they went for it and even thinks he’ll see an eventual return on the investment when eco-conscious homebuyers learn about the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to check back in three to five years. We’ll see if we think that’s happening,” he said. “But I think it was still the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.allforreuse.org/resources/policy-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful\u003c/a> of local governments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Zero-Waste/Zero-Waste-Requirements-Guidelines/Deconstruction-Ordinance\">Palo Alto, Calif.\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.leegov.com/solidwaste/recycling/constructiondebris\">Fort Myers, Fla.\u003c/a>, and counting, now either require some percentage of demolition waste be salvaged, reused or recycled, or incentivize those practices. Portland, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/decon/about-decon\">an ordinance\u003c/a> has been on the books since 2016, was among the earliest deconstruction pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulder, more than 140 million pounds of materials have been kept out of landfills since a \u003ca href=\"https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/sustainable-deconstruction-requirements\">deconstruction ordinance\u003c/a> was adopted in 2020, according to the city of Boulder’s circular economy policy adviser, Emily Freeman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old wiring and pipe fittings are piled in the corner of a basement at a home in Boulder, where Perks Deconstruction is taking down the home and salvaging as much of its material as possible. \u003ccite>(Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All residential and commercial buildings are required to be deconstructed,” Freeman said. “The ordinance requirements are that 75% or more of those building materials are diverted from landfill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has overshot that goal. Over the last five years, Freeman said, more than 83% of the construction waste generated in Boulder has been kept out of landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the movement matures, Perks said, the next frontier in deconstruction would be to \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-06/documents/design_for_disassembly_in_the_built_environment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for disassembly\u003c/a> before a building ever got built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you either incorporate reclaimed materials into the new design, or when you’re designing, can you think about what’s this going to be like to take it down?” she said. “And when it gets taken down, can it be reused?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perks says the future of climate-conscious construction will be knowing exactly how you’ll take a building apart before you even put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Few \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976542/bay-area-fun-summer-events-concerts-festivals-movies-2025\">summer activities\u003c/a> feel as wholesome — and satisfying — as picking your own fruit straight from the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the wider Bay Area, “u-pick” farms offer a chance to connect with California’s agricultural roots, support local growers and head home with a basketful of strawberries, cherries, peaches and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#where-to-go-fruit-picking-bay-area\">The Bay Area farms where you can pick your own cherries, berries and stone fruit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Eating fresh-picked fruits can offer nutritional benefits — and extra tastiness. Dr. Zubaida Qamar, associate professor of nutrition at San Francisco State University and lead of the campus farm, said produce picked at peak ripeness tends to have higher nutrient content and better flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The flavor is going to be much more enhanced if we are buying seasonally and locally — and you’re also supporting your local farmers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploring farms and buying produce at the local farmers’ markets is a great way to build food literacy and community connection, Qamar said. Programs like\u003ca href=\"https://marketmatch.org/\"> Market Match\u003c/a>, which doubles CalFresh (SNAP) benefits at participating farmers’ markets, also help make fresh fruit more accessible to low-income families. \u003ca href=\"https://www.localharvest.org/csa/\">Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)\u003c/a> boxes and home gardening offer additional local options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2070053979-scaled-e1749663302650.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043765\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2070053979-scaled-e1749663302650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strawberry cutout on pick up along the California coast at Highway 1 near Half Moon Bay, California on March 23, 2010. \u003ccite>(Thomas Winz for Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are very privileged to have access to different farms around us. And access to farmers markets, which run pretty much all year round,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Planning ahead: Tips before you go fruit picking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fruit picking seasons are short and can vary depending on the weather. Always check the farm’s website or social media before heading out — many update their availability daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some farms charge by the pound, while others charge by the bucket. Some require reservations and others allow walk-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring sun protection, water, and cash just in case cards are not accepted. If you’re planning to be out at the farm for the whole day, consider bringing an icebox or a container to store your fruits, which will help keep them fresher for even longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>U-pick\u003ca id=\"where-to-go-fruit-picking-bay-area\">\u003c/a> farms to visit in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where to pick cherries (May–June)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cherry-time.com/\">Cherry Time\u003c/a>: 1875 Walnut Blvd., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/5starcherries/\">5 Star Cherries\u003c/a>: 24782 Marsh Creek Road, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gsfarms.net/\">G&S Farms\u003c/a>: 2490 Sellers Ave., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Seko-Ranch-113607681999698\">Seko Ranch\u003c/a>: 487 Eureka Ave., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Mikes.U.Pick/\">Mike’s U-Pick\u003c/a>: 611 Payne Ave., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nunnbetterfarms.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadll-4ETZLVDtmGbO-OTgwIvj0l38dvUac_IKKP0Ko8aRYG6kK2932UXzEjEA_aem_XZD7jBDdihuD4J_03JTbiw\">Nunn Better U-Pick Farm\u003c/a>: 2777 Sellers Ave., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/freitascherryranch/\">Freitas Cherry Ranch\u003c/a>: 555 Hoffman Lane, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://maggioreranch.com/\">Maggiore Cherry Ranch\u003c/a>: 3017 Walnut Blvd., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where to pick strawberries, mulberries and other berries (June–July)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/berrybestfamilyfarm/?hl=en\">Berry Best Family Farm\u003c/a>: 7540 Balfour Road, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/verymulberry/\">Very Mulberry\u003c/a>: 501 Hoffman Lane, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liveearthfarm/\">Live Earth Farm\u003c/a>: 1275 Green Valley Road, Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://theboringfarm.com/\">Boring Farm\u003c/a>: 4200 Canfield Road, Sebastopol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duckworthfarmblueberries/?fbclid=IwAR3k3ciuogCR-7FLnL66edcFr3Cxh8LrUBjDv-_mIPeuc7ovzRaAM7aiAAA\">Duckworth Family Farm\u003c/a>: 2950 Canfield Road, Sebastopol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bluehousefarm/\">Blue House Farm\u003c/a>: 950 La Honda Road, San Gregorio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gizdich-ranch.com/\">Gizdich Ranch\u003c/a>: 55 Peckham Road, Watsonville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chaostrawberries/\">Chao’s Strawberries\u003c/a>: 2600 B Walnut Blvd, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where to pick stone fruit like peaches, nectarines, apricots and plums (June–August)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theurbanedgefarm/\">Urban Edge Farm\u003c/a>: 2017 Walnut Blvd., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/farmersdaughterproduce/?hl=en\">Farmers Daughter Produce\u003c/a>: 23151 Marsh Creek Road, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pomeroyfarm.net/\">Pomeroy Farm\u003c/a>: 1600 Eureka Ave., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://harvestforyou.com/members/moffatt-ranch-peaches/\">Moffatt Ranch\u003c/a>: 1870 Walnut Blvd., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mckinneyfarms.weebly.com/\">McKinney Farms\u003c/a>: 25221 Marsh Creek Road, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brentwood-u-pick.com/\">Airaya U-Pick Farm\u003c/a>: 25221 Marsh Creek Road, Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cloverfieldfarm.us/\">Cloverfield Organic Farm\u003c/a>: 501 La Paloma Road, El Sobrante\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bacchinis_farm/\">Bacchini’s Farm\u003c/a>: 2010 Walnut Blvd., Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wolferanchinbrentwood/\">Wolfe Ranch\u003c/a>: 2111 Concord Ave. Brentwood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-584939378-scaled-e1749662999415.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-584939378-scaled-e1749662999415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picking ladder in front of ripening cherry trees at U-pick farm in Brentwood California. Many small fruit orchards and vegetable farmers in the area have helped establish Brentwood as a #1 spot for u-pick farms in the rich agricultural land. \u003ccite>(Barbara Rich for Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The effects of climate change on fruit seasons\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s diverse microclimates — and increasingly erratic weather — play a significant role in determining which fruits can grow where, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.pampeirce.com/\">Pamela Peirce\u003c/a>, a Bay Area gardening expert and author of Golden Gate Gardening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the coast, for example, cool summers and low “chill hours” — \u003ca href=\"https://ucanr.edu/blog/hort-coco-uc-master-gardener-program-contra-costa/article/what-are-chill-hours\">the amount of time fruit is exposed to cold\u003c/a> — limit what can thrive.[aside postID=news_12040961 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-1312721999-1020x680.jpg']“Only things that can take very mild winters can grow,” Peirce said, so while apples, plums, lemons, and hardy citrus varieties do well, peaches, nectarines, and sweeter citrus need the longer heat spells of inland areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But climate change is blurring these boundaries. Warmer winters followed by sudden cold snaps can confuse fruit trees, causing early blooms and weaker yields. Inland, extreme heat can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0098847222004002\">shut down photosynthesis\u003c/a>, harming crops and even contributing to carbon emissions, Peirce said. In her own backyard, “our apple tree in 2017 bloomed in August. That’s not supposed to happen,” she said. “It’s supposed to bloom in April.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shifts in temperature are also altering pest activity, allowing some to linger year-round while reducing the population of pollinators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, climate change “is very confusing to the plants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The flavor is going to be much more enhanced if we are buying seasonally and locally — and you’re also supporting your local farmers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exploring farms and buying produce at the local farmers’ markets is a great way to build food literacy and community connection, Qamar said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040892/5-best-bay-area-hikes-things-to-do-memorial-day-weekend\">Memorial Day weekend\u003c/a> will usher in the summer season with mild \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/weather\">weather\u003c/a> as Bay Area temperatures lull between warm-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking to get some sun or a tan, you might need to head to the outer edges of the Bay, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures in the inland parts of Sonoma and Santa Clara counties could reach into the 80s on Saturday, but San Francisco and its surrounding counties will likely linger in the 60s throughout the holiday weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday temperatures will be cooler than earlier in the week, settling around the high 60s and low 70s in most Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Monterey County and parts of Sonoma could hit the 80s, Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office, warned that people trying to beat the heat with a trip to the beach won’t find a sunny coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The marine environment is going to be a bit on the rougher side,” he said. “Windy conditions, that can mean some sea breeze and sea spray, and then on top of that, the water is still pretty cold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028751\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod-800x439.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod-1020x559.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod-1536x842.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SuperPod-1920x1053.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of dolphins swim in the waters off Monterey in a still image from a video captured by boat captain Evan Brodsky on Feb. 21. \u003ccite>(Evan Brodsky/Monterey Bay Whale Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the sea surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean is about 50 degrees, Murdock said that unsuspecting swimmers could risk cold water shock. Boating is also going to be somewhat hazardous due to winds, he said. There will be small craft advisories and gale warnings, which indicate high winds, spanning the Bay Area’s coastline for much of the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for Memorial Day beachgoers, “I want to keep people kind of aware that as they go through the weekend that maybe the marine environment is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041127/dont-go-into-the-water-at-ocean-beach-sf-officials-urge-ahead-of-memorial-day-weekend\">not so much your friend\u003c/a>,” Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley, on the other hand, will be in top form for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970127/green-day-justin-timberlake-noah-kahan-to-headline-bottlerock\">BottleRock\u003c/a> this weekend, with warm but mild temperatures for the Napa area.[aside postID=news_12041127 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250210-SurferSewage-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Throughout the music festival, Napa is looking at low to mid-70s weather throughout the day, and slightly breezy, cool nights – perfect for dancing, drinking wine and bundling up after the sun goes down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend’s weather will also be right for barbecues, so long as people take proper fire precautions. Murdock said that on Thursday, the weather service recorded a fair number of fires as the Bay Area enters its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996980/californias-snowpack-shrinks-igniting-concerns-of-early-wildfires\">dry summer season\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On Memorial Day weekend, a lot of people get out and about, [and] unfortunately, sometimes that comes with some increased wildfire risk,” he told KQED. “We’re not going to be seeing the winds that hit the criteria for fire weather watch or even a red flag warning, but we still want people to be aware it is dry out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said grillers should keep an eye out for any sparks or coals that jump into the grass, and anyone out four-wheeling or dirt biking should stay on well-groomed paths, since the exhaust pipes on their bikes can easily spark a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, temperatures will rise to about the same highs as earlier this week, ushering in June with beautiful, sunny skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to reauthorize California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036063/california-doubles-down-key-emissions-program-after-trump-calls-radical\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> program has kicked off high-stakes negotiations over the state’s landmark climate initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade, which Newsom proposed renaming Cap-and-Invest last week, limits greenhouse gas emissions and raises billions of dollars annually through auctions where companies buy credits that allow them to pollute. But the system has come under fire, from both President Donald Trump — who targeted the program in \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/\">an executive order\u003c/a> last month — as well as progressives who argue it hasn’t been strict enough on oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extending cap-and-trade, which sunsets in 2030, raises key questions for state leaders: Should money raised from the program pay for environmentally-friendly projects or help Californians manage the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023129/how-climate-change-complicating-california-democrats-affordability-agenda\">mounting costs\u003c/a> of climate change? Will key decisions about the emissions cap be made by state lawmakers, many of whom are just learning the intricacies of the program, or by unelected state regulators with deeper expertise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how can the state balance global climate leadership by improving the air and water quality in communities located near major sources of pollution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a primer on the program and what’s at stake:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How does cap-and-trade work? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About three-quarters of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from sources covered under cap-and-trade, including oil refineries, steel and paper factories, electricity generators and cement plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, the California Air Resources Board sets a limit on carbon emissions for polluters. This “cap” decreases annually, helping the state meet its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goal of lowering emissions to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/11/16/california-releases-worlds-first-plan-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-pollution/\">40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% below 1990 levels\u003c/a> by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-30-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB then issues a number of tickets to pollute, known as allowances, equal to the cap. A little less than half of the allowances, around 46%, are sold to companies at auctions held four times a year. Roughly 37% are given to utilities such as PG&E, which are required to sell the allowances at auction and return most of the proceeds to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, about 15% are given to companies for free to help them comply with the law and prevent them from going out of business or leaving the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses can reduce emissions, use allowances to legally pollute or, in limited cases, pay for an emission-reduction project known as an “offset,” such as paying forest owners not to cut down trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where does the money raised through cap-and-trade go? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the quarterly auctions goes to the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF. Since its inception, cap-and-trade has brought $31.4 billion to the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the cap on emissions declines over time, allowance prices are expected to rise, adding more money to the fund. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that the total value of allowances from 2030 to 2045 could reach $260 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single largest recipient is California’s high-speed rail program, which receives 25% of the revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 20% is spent on building affordable housing near transit and 15% funds local transit. The remaining 40% pays for a variety of programs, including providing safe drinking water and forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there are the free allowances that utilities are required to auction off. Most of the proceeds pay for the California Climate Credit, a twice-annual credit on ratepayers’ bills — $58.23 for PG&E customers this April and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial image shows construction workers building the Hanford Viaduct over Highway 198 and past agricultural fields as part of the California High Speed Rail (CAHSR) transit project in Hanford, California, on Feb. 12, 2025. The Hanford Viaduct is the largest high-speed rail structure in the Central Valley over 6,000 feet long. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Does cap-and-trade regulate local air pollution? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not directly. The program allows businesses to decide how and, crucially, where to reduce carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">Assembly Bill 617\u003c/a>, which passed as part of the last cap-and-trade authorization in 2017, gave air regulators and residents new tools to reduce the release of particulate matter and air toxins in impacted communities such as West Oakland and Richmond.[aside postID=news_12040042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-002_qed-1020x680.jpg']In a letter written last month to legislative leaders, a coalition of environmental justice organizations said AB 617 had not delivered on promised improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Design flaws and lack of clarity in the legislation means that environmental justice communities are still waiting for the air pollution reductions they were promised,” the groups wrote. “The Legislature should strengthen AB 617 by improving accountability, community voice and funding, as well as the statewide pollution controls required in the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What changes is Gov. Newsom proposing to cap-and-trade? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not advocating for any major alterations to the design of the program as he seeks to extend cap-and-trade to 2045. A Newsom spokesperson said he “is focused on the program’s stability in an increasingly uncertain world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is seeking to change where cap-and-trade revenues are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is proposing to set aside $1.5 billion — it could grow to $1.9 billion by the 2029–30 fiscal year — from the GGRF to pay for Cal Fire, which Newsom billed Wednesday as a way to direct money paid by carbon polluters toward fighting fires made more powerful by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s more appropriate that the impacts related to the burning of fossil fuels — those impacts that come through the cap-and-trade program that are intended to be mitigated — that those impacts are having a direct result on the investments we need to make,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers on Thursday expressed some skepticism over the idea of paying for state firefighting with fluctuating auction revenue. But far sharper opposition could come in response to Newsom’s doubling down on his commitment to the construction of a high-speed rail line.[aside postID=news_12040025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg']While not officially in his budget plan, Newsom said last week he would ask the Legislature to set aside $1 billion each year from the GGRF for high-speed rail, allowing project planners to borrow against a fixed appropriation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday budget hearing, Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine) said the High-Speed Rail Authority would need to show a plan to move the beleaguered project forward before receiving a guaranteed cash flow from the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you are going to get … the Legislature just writing you a blank check because [the High-Speed Rail Authority] tells us, ‘Don’t worry, trust us, this time it’s different,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do state legislators want to see the program changed? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers haven’t yet released plans for a reauthorization of cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some support Newsom’s “clean” authorization proposal that grants CARB flexibility. Others want to write changes into law, as questions over the program’s price ceiling and free allowances will have trickle-down effects for gas and electricity prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly over my last decade in the Assembly, we’ve heard some frustration with the Air Resources Board, that the Legislature has not very much input except at times when we were reauthorizing,” Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, said. “This is a program that is going to be with us for the next 15 to 20 years, and I think it’s really important to take a deep look and make sure the Legislature has input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the spending side, lawmakers have discussed a handful of ideas to use cap-and-trade revenue to put more money back into the pockets of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could include using auction proceeds to increase the Climate Credit on utility bills, upgrade utility equipment to reduce wildfire risk — a major driver of electricity rates — or provide subsidies for homeowners insurance, which have risen due to wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not enough money to do high-speed rail, to do transmission infrastructure upgrades, to pay for wildfire costs, to pay for insurance reform, to do all of the big ideas I hear out there,” said University of Pennsylvania senior fellow Danny Cullenward, at a Senate hearing earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB then issues a number of tickets to pollute, known as allowances, equal to the cap. A little less than half of the allowances, around 46%, are sold to companies at auctions held four times a year. Roughly 37% are given to utilities such as PG&E, which are required to sell the allowances at auction and return most of the proceeds to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, about 15% are given to companies for free to help them comply with the law and prevent them from going out of business or leaving the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses can reduce emissions, use allowances to legally pollute or, in limited cases, pay for an emission-reduction project known as an “offset,” such as paying forest owners not to cut down trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where does the money raised through cap-and-trade go? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the quarterly auctions goes to the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF. Since its inception, cap-and-trade has brought $31.4 billion to the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the cap on emissions declines over time, allowance prices are expected to rise, adding more money to the fund. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that the total value of allowances from 2030 to 2045 could reach $260 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single largest recipient is California’s high-speed rail program, which receives 25% of the revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 20% is spent on building affordable housing near transit and 15% funds local transit. The remaining 40% pays for a variety of programs, including providing safe drinking water and forest management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there are the free allowances that utilities are required to auction off. Most of the proceeds pay for the California Climate Credit, a twice-annual credit on ratepayers’ bills — $58.23 for PG&E customers this April and October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2198598573-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial image shows construction workers building the Hanford Viaduct over Highway 198 and past agricultural fields as part of the California High Speed Rail (CAHSR) transit project in Hanford, California, on Feb. 12, 2025. The Hanford Viaduct is the largest high-speed rail structure in the Central Valley over 6,000 feet long. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Does cap-and-trade regulate local air pollution? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not directly. The program allows businesses to decide how and, crucially, where to reduce carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">Assembly Bill 617\u003c/a>, which passed as part of the last cap-and-trade authorization in 2017, gave air regulators and residents new tools to reduce the release of particulate matter and air toxins in impacted communities such as West Oakland and Richmond.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a letter written last month to legislative leaders, a coalition of environmental justice organizations said AB 617 had not delivered on promised improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Design flaws and lack of clarity in the legislation means that environmental justice communities are still waiting for the air pollution reductions they were promised,” the groups wrote. “The Legislature should strengthen AB 617 by improving accountability, community voice and funding, as well as the statewide pollution controls required in the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What changes is Gov. Newsom proposing to cap-and-trade? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not advocating for any major alterations to the design of the program as he seeks to extend cap-and-trade to 2045. A Newsom spokesperson said he “is focused on the program’s stability in an increasingly uncertain world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is seeking to change where cap-and-trade revenues are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is proposing to set aside $1.5 billion — it could grow to $1.9 billion by the 2029–30 fiscal year — from the GGRF to pay for Cal Fire, which Newsom billed Wednesday as a way to direct money paid by carbon polluters toward fighting fires made more powerful by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s more appropriate that the impacts related to the burning of fossil fuels — those impacts that come through the cap-and-trade program that are intended to be mitigated — that those impacts are having a direct result on the investments we need to make,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers on Thursday expressed some skepticism over the idea of paying for state firefighting with fluctuating auction revenue. But far sharper opposition could come in response to Newsom’s doubling down on his commitment to the construction of a high-speed rail line.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While not officially in his budget plan, Newsom said last week he would ask the Legislature to set aside $1 billion each year from the GGRF for high-speed rail, allowing project planners to borrow against a fixed appropriation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday budget hearing, Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine) said the High-Speed Rail Authority would need to show a plan to move the beleaguered project forward before receiving a guaranteed cash flow from the GGRF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you are going to get … the Legislature just writing you a blank check because [the High-Speed Rail Authority] tells us, ‘Don’t worry, trust us, this time it’s different,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do state legislators want to see the program changed? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers haven’t yet released plans for a reauthorization of cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some support Newsom’s “clean” authorization proposal that grants CARB flexibility. Others want to write changes into law, as questions over the program’s price ceiling and free allowances will have trickle-down effects for gas and electricity prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly over my last decade in the Assembly, we’ve heard some frustration with the Air Resources Board, that the Legislature has not very much input except at times when we were reauthorizing,” Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, said. “This is a program that is going to be with us for the next 15 to 20 years, and I think it’s really important to take a deep look and make sure the Legislature has input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the spending side, lawmakers have discussed a handful of ideas to use cap-and-trade revenue to put more money back into the pockets of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could include using auction proceeds to increase the Climate Credit on utility bills, upgrade utility equipment to reduce wildfire risk — a major driver of electricity rates — or provide subsidies for homeowners insurance, which have risen due to wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not enough money to do high-speed rail, to do transmission infrastructure upgrades, to pay for wildfire costs, to pay for insurance reform, to do all of the big ideas I hear out there,” said University of Pennsylvania senior fellow Danny Cullenward, at a Senate hearing earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Temperatures are expected to increase slightly on Sunday, with mostly clear skies expected throughout the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most of the Bay Area, this weekend’s stronger winds shouldn’t be too much of a cause for concern about significant wildfire danger, Gass said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240204-Storm-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of tourists walks through Alamo Square Park during a storm in San Francisco on Feb. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge.KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t anticipate any red flag warnings or anything like that,” he said. “The most we would issue would be a wind advisory, but we’re still several days out from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same system, however, prompted the NWS to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ016&warncounty=CAC101&firewxzone=CAZ216&local_place1=8%20Miles%20NW%20Tierra%20Buena%20CA&product1=Fire+Weather+Watch&lat=39.25&lon=-121.7505\">Fire Weather Watch\u003c/a> from Sunday morning through Monday evening for a large swath of the Central Valley, stretching from Redding to Modesto. It includes much of Solano County, where grasses have already started to dry out and are at heightened risk for rapid fire spread, amid strong winds and dry air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it is not planning any public safety power shut-offs this weekend, but noted that its meteorology team is forecasting “an elevated risk for wildfires for portions of PG&E’s service area this weekend and early next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility is enabling what it calls “enhanced powerline safety settings” on more than 600 electric circuits, which can automatically cut power within a tenth of a second to lines hit by a falling tree branch, for example.[aside postID=science_1996746 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/03/RS48091_GettyImages-507138914-qut-1020x686.jpg']This weekend’s winds are not the first since the end of the rainy season, Gass noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t anything too significant,” he said. “But it will continue to dry the fuels out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a mostly dry January, precipitation levels throughout the region this year were only slightly below average, with the notable exception of the South Bay, where rainfall in many areas was less than 70% of normal, Gass said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the windy weekend ahead should serve as a reminder that the region is entering its annual period of heightened fire risk, said Robert Foxworthy, a Cal Fire information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to get to those times where we want the public to be aware and folks to know those conditions are increasing, and be ready and be safe when you’re operating out in those areas,” he said. We’re starting to see an increase in fire behavior and fire activity, or at least a concern of that in Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foxworthy is resistant to declaring an official start of fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already had a lot of fires this year,” he said, noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/our-impact/statistics\">more than 63,000 acres\u003c/a> have burned across the state since January. “So I wouldn’t say it’s ‘the start of the fire season.’ Because we have the ability to have fires all the time throughout the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This weekend’s winds are not the first since the end of the rainy season, Gass noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t anything too significant,” he said. “But it will continue to dry the fuels out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a mostly dry January, precipitation levels throughout the region this year were only slightly below average, with the notable exception of the South Bay, where rainfall in many areas was less than 70% of normal, Gass said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the windy weekend ahead should serve as a reminder that the region is entering its annual period of heightened fire risk, said Robert Foxworthy, a Cal Fire information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to get to those times where we want the public to be aware and folks to know those conditions are increasing, and be ready and be safe when you’re operating out in those areas,” he said. We’re starting to see an increase in fire behavior and fire activity, or at least a concern of that in Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Foxworthy is resistant to declaring an official start of fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve already had a lot of fires this year,” he said, noting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/our-impact/statistics\">more than 63,000 acres\u003c/a> have burned across the state since January. “So I wouldn’t say it’s ‘the start of the fire season.’ Because we have the ability to have fires all the time throughout the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. While some electric passenger vehicles are nearly the same upfront price as gas cars — and likely will reach that point in the coming years — large trucks still need investment to become viable, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That market is very much in its infancy, whereas the light-duty market is much farther ahead, so we’d really be throttling the progress on clean trucks, and almost half of our smog is from trucks, from a diesel engine,” said Elkind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the size of California’s market, delays in developing affordable, clean trucks would affect the entire U.S. and slow the nationwide transition to zero-emission trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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