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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Education has launched investigations into 52 universities in 41 states, accusing the schools of using “racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the department’s Office of Civil Rights said that 45 schools, particularly their graduate programs, violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act by partnering with \u003ca href=\"https://phdproject.org/\">The PhD Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that helps students from underrepresented groups earn doctoral degrees in business. The program focuses on supporting Black, Latino and Native American students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Education Department alleges that The PhD Project limits eligibility based on the race of participants, and therefore, universities involved with the organization are engaging in “race-exclusionary practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">in a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations, The PhD Project told NPR, “Our vision is to create a broader talent pipeline of current and future business leaders…” The organization added, “This year, we have opened our membership application to anyone who shares that vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools under investigation include dozens of state schools and two Ivy Leagues, namely Cornell and Yale. A number of private schools are also facing scrutiny, include Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Rice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University. The full list of schools is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six additional institutions of higher education are being probed for awarding alleged “impermissible race-based scholarships.” Another one has been accused of “administering a program that segregates students on the basis of race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven schools affected are: Grand Valley State University; Ithaca College; New England College of Optometry; University of Alabama; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; University of South Florida; and University of Oklahoma,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Tulsa School of Medicine. The Department of Education did not respond to NPR’s request to clarify which school is being accused of segregation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lynn Pasquerella, the president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, told NPR that she has been talking to administrators from schools named in the inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re feeling beleaguered. They’re feeling overwhelmed,” she said. “There’s a deep sense of moral distress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pasquerella said the Education Department is conflating efforts to provide an inclusive learning environment with violating civil rights obligations. “ It’s another example of governmental overreach into institutional autonomy, into academic freedom, in ways that go against what’s already established legal precedent,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s inquiries come a month after it issued a letter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5300992/the-department-of-education-has-given-schools-a-deadline-to-eliminate-dei-programs\">warning institutions\u003c/a> to stop using “race-based preferences” in admissions, financial aid, hiring, training and other areas or risk losing federal funding. The directive specifically accused American educational institutions of discriminating against white and Asian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the country’s largest teacher unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — have filed separate federal lawsuits against the Education Department memo, arguing that it was unfounded and vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter and the onslaught of investigations are all part of the Trump administration’s aim to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the name of fighting “wokeness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Education Department has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigating 60 universities\u003c/a> over allegations of antisemitic discrimination. A handful of schools are involved in both sets of investigations, including Cornell, George Mason, Rutgers, Yale, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of Washington-Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the department warned that universities could face “potential enforcement actions” if officials determine that schools failed to protect Jewish students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing number of investigations against higher education institutions also comes as the Education Department faces drastic cuts in staff. This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325854/trump-education-department-layoffs-civil-rights-student-loans\">at least 240 employees\u003c/a> in the department’s Office for Civil Rights were laid off, many of whom were attorneys who investigate complaints from families who believe a school has discriminated against their child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent op-ed published to \u003ca href=\"https://www.highereddive.com/news/college-presidents-resisting-federal-attacks-higher-education/742074/\">Higher Ed Dive\u003c/a>, Marjorie Hass, the president of the Council of Independent Colleges, said “hundreds — maybe thousands — of college leaders have been on Capitol Hill in the last few weeks” in an effort to fight the threats facing higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“College presidents are not a monolith,” Hass wrote. “But the ones I know care deeply about protecting the things that are essential for student success: financial aid, a climate of free inquiry, support for students of all identities, and free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks of actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meant to tear up regulations, eviscerate its climate research and eliminate any focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023983/sf-state-1st-to-require-climate-justice-course-all-students\">environmental justice\u003c/a> have left Bay Area nonprofits reeling and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding was cut, or at least frozen, for work including planting hundreds of trees, developing local air quality monitoring and bolstering a youth climate collective, but nonprofit leaders in East Palo Alto, West Oakland and South San Francisco have already hired staff to fulfill grants, paid graduate student stipends for research and spent years developing a sweeping range of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have to lay them off,” said Brian Beveridge, co-executive director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, which hired at least one staff member to help fulfill a grant analyzing local air quality. “There are real impacts for real humans. It’s not just about a bunch of money being thrown around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local nonprofits are scrambling to operate without federal funding and to fulfill their missions — centered on climate science and the health of communities of color — as the Trump administration is pulling grants from organizations grounded in environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just a wholesale onslaught on anything that has to do with our environment,” U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff said in an interview with KQED. The administration wants “to weaken our clean water, clean air rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration, many of which were meant to finance clean energy and climate projects through a green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have also targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying that what they call wasteful spending needs to be cut to align with President Trump’s orders. Over the past few months, the EPA cut or froze hundreds of grants, including some in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also announced it will disassemble all of its environmental justice offices across the country. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the cuts will eliminate “forced discrimination programs” and “serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday announcing the termination of the offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has not responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community-focused work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, EPA environmental justice workers have fought pollution in lower-income communities of color, who experience that burden most acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods sprung up along smoggy highways, next to power plants, busy ports and other polluting industries that belch toxic gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck with a label that is labeled ‘Toxic’ stops on 7th Street in West Oakland on March 4, 2022. The route is a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their growth largely followed discriminatory redlining by financial institutions that denied people housing opportunities based on race, perpetuating wealth gaps and segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David González, an assistant professor of public health at UC Berkeley, said he wishes Zeldin understood the “long-term persistent life expectancy gaps when we look at different racial and ethnic groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029553 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/cleaner-1180x787.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t talk about racism, then we can’t address what we see when we look at the data,” he said. “Black people are more likely to have poor health and more likely to have shorter lives. Why does that happen? We need to be able to talk about it so that we can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Carrasquillo, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Berkeley, said the federal government is sending “a clear message — all puns intended — about whose lives matter and whose lives don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge blow,” she said, adding that this is a moment for California to double down on its support of environmental justice. “So many people are rallying around these organizations, and I hope we’ll continue to rally around them. In the past, we have found creative ways to get the work done. And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. The federal government froze that money in late January but later restored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beveridge’s West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project was awarded a $500,000 EPA grant last year to study air quality, he said the federal payment system for grants was frozen and then unfrozen around 36 hours later in January. However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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\">\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>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. With that said, we are still reviewing all programs to ensure alignment with the President’s priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeze surprised Garcia initially, but when the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words for his administration to limit or avoid, like climate science, environmental justice and Latinx, he knew the decision would thwart his work. The group’s mission statement includes at least two banned words: equity and intersectional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, examines a recently planted tree in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the changes on the federal level will likely impact how the organization pitches to private funders because “donors are scared about where they’re donating” and will think twice about funding climate change initiatives or organizations fighting for environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants and people of color may “go back to not having an opinion” in decision-making, he said because they won’t attend public meetings out of fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a couple of presentations at the end of February, and fewer people showed up,” he said. “Those are the communities more affected by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The administration wants “to weaken our clean water, clean air rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration, many of which were meant to finance clean energy and climate projects through a green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have also targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying that what they call wasteful spending needs to be cut to align with President Trump’s orders. Over the past few months, the EPA cut or froze hundreds of grants, including some in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also announced it will disassemble all of its environmental justice offices across the country. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the cuts will eliminate “forced discrimination programs” and “serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday announcing the termination of the offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has not responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community-focused work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, EPA environmental justice workers have fought pollution in lower-income communities of color, who experience that burden most acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods sprung up along smoggy highways, next to power plants, busy ports and other polluting industries that belch toxic gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck with a label that is labeled ‘Toxic’ stops on 7th Street in West Oakland on March 4, 2022. The route is a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their growth largely followed discriminatory redlining by financial institutions that denied people housing opportunities based on race, perpetuating wealth gaps and segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David González, an assistant professor of public health at UC Berkeley, said he wishes Zeldin understood the “long-term persistent life expectancy gaps when we look at different racial and ethnic groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t talk about racism, then we can’t address what we see when we look at the data,” he said. “Black people are more likely to have poor health and more likely to have shorter lives. Why does that happen? We need to be able to talk about it so that we can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Carrasquillo, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Berkeley, said the federal government is sending “a clear message — all puns intended — about whose lives matter and whose lives don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge blow,” she said, adding that this is a moment for California to double down on its support of environmental justice. “So many people are rallying around these organizations, and I hope we’ll continue to rally around them. In the past, we have found creative ways to get the work done. And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. The federal government froze that money in late January but later restored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beveridge’s West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project was awarded a $500,000 EPA grant last year to study air quality, he said the federal payment system for grants was frozen and then unfrozen around 36 hours later in January. However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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\">\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>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. With that said, we are still reviewing all programs to ensure alignment with the President’s priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeze surprised Garcia initially, but when the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words for his administration to limit or avoid, like climate science, environmental justice and Latinx, he knew the decision would thwart his work. The group’s mission statement includes at least two banned words: equity and intersectional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, examines a recently planted tree in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the changes on the federal level will likely impact how the organization pitches to private funders because “donors are scared about where they’re donating” and will think twice about funding climate change initiatives or organizations fighting for environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants and people of color may “go back to not having an opinion” in decision-making, he said because they won’t attend public meetings out of fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a couple of presentations at the end of February, and fewer people showed up,” he said. “Those are the communities more affected by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>AI can get rid of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009822/stanford-ai-model-helps-locate-racist-deeds-in-santa-clara-county\">racist restrictions in housing covenants\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report285-Final.pdf\">help people access government benefits (PDF)\u003c/a>, or it can \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/lawsuit-unitedhealth-artificial-intelligence-care-denials-medicare-advantage-moves-forward/\">deny people health care\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/denied/2021/08/25/dozens-of-mortgage-lenders-showed-significant-disparities-here-are-the-worst\">a mortgage because of their race\u003c/a>. That’s why, last month, for the third year in a row, Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/rebecca-bauer-kahan-165035\">Rebecca Bauer-Kahan\u003c/a> of San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1018\">proposed a bill\u003c/a> to protect people from automated discrimination and AI that makes consequential decisions with the power to change a person’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, Assembly Bill 1018 will require the makers of AI to evaluate how the tech performs before it’s used and to notify people before AI makes decisions about employment, education, housing, health care, finance, criminal sentencing, and access to government services. It would also give people the right to opt-out of AI use and appeal a decision made by an AI model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, California lawmakers like Bauer-Kahan are surging forward with 30 bills to regulate how AI impacts individuals and society, and some of the most high profile efforts are ones that the lawmakers attempted last year only to see them vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom or fail to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the bill that guards against automated discrimination, lawmakers will again consider other legislation to protect society from AI, including a bill that requires a human driver in commercial vehicles and a new version of a measure to previously intended compel companies to better examine whether AI can cause harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new wave of proposals follows a batch of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/09/california-ai-safety-regulations-bills/\">more than 20 AI laws Newsom signed last year\u003c/a>, but they are moving forward in a very different political environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Biden administration supported measures to protect people from bias and discrimination and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-safety-bill-california-legislature/\">major companies signed pledges to responsibly develop AI\u003c/a>, but today the White House under President Donald Trump opposes regulation and companies including Google are \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/technology/ai/responsible-ai-2024-report-ongoing-work/\">rolling back their own responsible AI rules\u003c/a>. On his first day in office, Trump rescinded a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/joe-bidens-executive-order-ai-us-government-chatgpt/\">Biden executive order\u003c/a> intended to protect people and society from AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dissonance could ultimately help the California lawmakers who want more AI protections. In a world of rapid-fire White House executive orders and chaotic, AI-driven decision-making by DOGE, there’s going to be more appetite for state lawmakers to regulate AI, said Stephan Aguilar, associate director of the Center for Generative AI and Society at the University of Southern California.[aside postID=news_12007087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-2171266139-1020x680.jpg']“I think California in particular is in position to say, ‘Okay we need mitigants [\u003cem>sic\u003c/em>] in place now that folks are coming in with a wrecking ball,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills will need to get through Newsom, who last year vetoed bills intended to protect people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258349/california-governor-signs-veto-autonomous-vehicle-law\">self-driving trucks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2681\">weaponized robots\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb892\">set standards for AI contracts signed by state agencies\u003c/a>. Most notably, Newsom vetoed what was billed as the single-most comprehensive effort to regulate AI by compelling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-regulation-showdown/\">testing of AI models\u003c/a> to determine whether they would likely lead to mass death, endanger public infrastructure, or enable severe cyberattacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the self-driving trucks and AI testing bills in part on the grounds that the bills could hinder innovation. He then created an AI working group to balance innovation with guardrails. That group should \u003ca href=\"https://hai.stanford.edu/news/update-from-the-co-leads-of-the-joint-california-policy-working-group-on-ai-frontier-models\">release recommendations\u003c/a> about how to strike that balance in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who carried the prominent AI bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb53\">reintroduced a version of that proposal last month\u003c/a>. Compared to last year, the bill is scaled back to protections for AI whistleblowers and establishment of a state cloud to enable research in the public interest. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-regulation-showdown/\">former OpenAI employee who witnessed violation of internal safety policy told CalMatters\u003c/a> that whistleblower protections are needed to keep society safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/042924-State-Capitol-Session-MG-CM-19-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan speaks in support of SCR 135, which would designate May 6, 2024 as California Holocaust Memorial Day on the Assembly floor at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan was the first state lawmaker to propose legislation that contains the \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/\">AI Bill of Rights,\u003c/a> a set of principles that the Biden administration and tech justice researchers called foundational to protecting people’s rights in the age of AI including the right to live free from discrimination, the right to know when AI makes important decisions about your life, and the right to know when an automated system is being used.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It didn’t become law, but roughly a dozen states have passed or are considering similar bills, according to Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press conference to reintroduce her bill, Bauer-Kahan said the Trump administration’s stance on AI regulation changes “the dynamic for the states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is on us more,” she said, pointing to his repeal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-addressing-ai-risks-2025-01-21/\">an executive order\u003c/a> influenced by the AI Bill of Rights and the stall of the AI Civil Rights Act in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The tale of two administrations in Paris\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dueling perspectives on how the U.S and the rest of the world should regulate AI were on display earlier this month in Paris at a summit attended by CEOs and heads of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments at a private “working dinner” hosted by President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, alongside people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, AI Bill of Rights author and former director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Alondra \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/three-fallacies-alondra-nelsons-remarks-at-elyse-palace-on-the-occasion-of-the-ai-action-summit/\">Nelson urged business and government leaders\u003c/a> to discard misconceptions about AI like that its purpose is scale and efficiency. AI can accelerate growth, but its purpose is to serve humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits,” she said in remarks at the event. “We can create systems that expand opportunity rather than concentrate power. We can build technology that strengthens democracy rather than undermines it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/062923_Artificial_Intelligence_AI_REUTERS_CM_02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Technology leaders attend a generative artificial intelligence meeting in San Francisco on June 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Carlos Barria/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Vice President J.D. Vance at the same event said the United States will fight \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/paris-ai-summit-vance-1d7826affdcdb76c580c0558af8d68d2\">what he called excessive AI regulation\u003c/a>. The U.S. refused to sign an international declaration to “ensure AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s position that regulation is a threat to AI innovation mirrors the talking points of major companies such as\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-regulation-showdown/\"> Google, Meta, and OpenAI\u003c/a> that lobbied against regulation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debate about whether to regulate AI comes at a time when Elon Musk, President Trump, and a small group of technologists seek to build and use AI within numerous federal agencies to improve efficiency and save money.[aside postID=news_11947039 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/SurveillancePricingBillsgGetty.jpg']Those efforts risk cutting benefits to people who depend on them. A report released in late 2024 by California-based nonprofit TechTonic Justice found that AI influences government services \u003ca href=\"https://www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai\">for tens of millions of lower-income Americans\u003c/a>, often cutting benefits they’re entitled to and making opportunities harder to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of global venture capital investment and lots of talent and major companies are in the Bay Area, so California has more to gain or lose in regulatory debates than anywhere else in the world, said Matt Regan, a vice president for Bay Area Council, an advocacy group for more than 300 companies including tech giants Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. The Bay Area Council hasn’t taken a position on bills proposed in this session, but last year opposed Wiener’s AI testing proposal and the anti-discrimination bill proposed by Bauer-Kahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regan said California regulators have proposed “over engineered protections and audits” that make the technology functionally useless and hamper businesses. The business group Chamber of Progress estimates that compliance with anti-discrimination bills in California, Colorado, and Virginia, could cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political landscape has moved toward the center since California lawmakers proposed AI bills a year ago, which is why he thinks Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas urged his colleagues to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/california-affordability-housing-costs-legislation/\">focus on pocketbook issues\u003c/a>. Due to those shifts, he thinks that in order for bills to avoid a veto like the kind that killed Wiener’s measure, Regan said lawmakers must draft bills that reach a “goldilocks zone,” balancing consumer protections with buy-in from business leaders. The forthcoming report from the working group convened by Gov. Newsom may offer tips on how to reach a goldilocks zone between making AI useful and punishing bad actors for abusing the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>AI regulation with teeth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/10/2024-carnegie-california-global-affairs-survey?lang=en\">Carnegie California report\u003c/a> found that a majority of Californians support an international agreement on AI standards as a way to protect human rights. But virtually every international agreement signed by tech companies is voluntary or has no legally-binding bite, said David Evan Harris in a presentation at an\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/btlj-bclt-spring2025/\"> AI governance symposium held by UC Berkeley\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he encourages civil society groups who want to make change to speak with California lawmakers. Harris is on the advisory board member at the California Initiative for Technology and Democracy, a group that\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/09/california-ai-safety-regulations-bills/\"> cosponsored laws to protect people from deepfakes\u003c/a> that is getting\u003ca href=\"https://fortune.com/2024/09/19/california-deepfake-laws-challenged-court-creator-kamala-harris-parody-videos/\"> challenged in court\u003c/a> by Elon Musk’s company X, formerly Twitter. Previously he was part of responsible AI and civic integrity teams at Meta.[aside postID=news_12020857 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Last year he testified about AI 11 times in the California Legislature, and while he describes California as among the only places in the world where AI regulation is legally binding, he saw a frustrating pattern repeat itself: Lawmakers introduce AI bills, they get assigned to committees, and then “the bills get revised and completely rewritten by the tech companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this, he said, comes from a bill that attempted to fine social media companies for harming children. When it was introduced it had bipartisan support, but tech companies opposed the bill, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/30/california-bill-penalizing-social-media-harms-to-kids-is-shelved-00176892\">got weakened then shelved\u003c/a> in a committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech companies depend on nobody watching that happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lili Gangas is chief technology community officer at the Kapor Center, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland that focuses on issues at the intersection of equity and technology, and follows policy developments in California and Congress. Given our current political environment and the elimination of AI protections by the White House, Gangas thinks there may be more support for passage of anti-discrimination bills in California and public support for such protections may be on the rise. Still, she worries that it may be difficult to pass AI regulation because of stepped-up lobbying in Sacramento by tech companies that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/02/california-lobbying-state-government/\">set a record last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also questions whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/03/scott-wiener-pelosi-elections-california-00161159\">politicians with ambitions for higher office\u003c/a> will put implementation ahead of drafting legislation that’s intended to bolster their careers. If lawmakers can overcome those challenges and keep costs low, she believes California can lead the way despite failures to do so by Congress and the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that [rescinded executive order and failure to pass a law in Congress] makes it even more important now at the California level,” she said. “We can hold the line, center civil rights protections, and give the attorney general and individuals the opportunity to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seal above the offices of the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>States often pressure the federal government to protect people and their civil rights from emerging technology, said Alex Ault, policy counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The racial justice nonprofit endorsed the Eliminating Bias in Algorithmic Systems Act in 2023 and AI Civil Rights Act in 2024 in Congress, two bills with similar principles to the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and the anti-discrimination bill proposed in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/10/2024-carnegie-california-global-affairs-survey?lang=en\">Carnegie California poll\u003c/a> of 1,500 people released last fall named \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> one of six major issues facing Californians alongside climate change and infectious disease. Half of respondents said they’re worried or pessimistic about AI and 35% percent say they’re optimistic or excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would behoove state legislatures who are looking at what’s happening federally to say ‘Okay, what do we have control over?” Ault said. “How do we protect people’s rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Wiener, Bauer-Kahan did not water down her vision for AI regulation. As chair of the consumer privacy and protection committee, she’s one of the most powerful regulators of technology in the California Legislature, but last year the bill faced opposition by tech companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI as well as business interests in other industries like hospital administrators, real estate agents, and hotel owners. After getting amended to focus on employment only, Bauer-Kahan chose to hold the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we had the votes for passage, getting the policy right is priority one,” she said in a statement last year. “This remains a critical issue and one I refuse to let California get wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think California in particular is in position to say, ‘Okay we need mitigants [\u003cem>sic\u003c/em>] in place now that folks are coming in with a wrecking ball,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bills will need to get through Newsom, who last year vetoed bills intended to protect people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258349/california-governor-signs-veto-autonomous-vehicle-law\">self-driving trucks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2681\">weaponized robots\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb892\">set standards for AI contracts signed by state agencies\u003c/a>. Most notably, Newsom vetoed what was billed as the single-most comprehensive effort to regulate AI by compelling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-regulation-showdown/\">testing of AI models\u003c/a> to determine whether they would likely lead to mass death, endanger public infrastructure, or enable severe cyberattacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the self-driving trucks and AI testing bills in part on the grounds that the bills could hinder innovation. He then created an AI working group to balance innovation with guardrails. That group should \u003ca href=\"https://hai.stanford.edu/news/update-from-the-co-leads-of-the-joint-california-policy-working-group-on-ai-frontier-models\">release recommendations\u003c/a> about how to strike that balance in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who carried the prominent AI bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb53\">reintroduced a version of that proposal last month\u003c/a>. Compared to last year, the bill is scaled back to protections for AI whistleblowers and establishment of a state cloud to enable research in the public interest. 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AI can accelerate growth, but its purpose is to serve humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits,” she said in remarks at the event. “We can create systems that expand opportunity rather than concentrate power. 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Vance at the same event said the United States will fight \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/paris-ai-summit-vance-1d7826affdcdb76c580c0558af8d68d2\">what he called excessive AI regulation\u003c/a>. The U.S. refused to sign an international declaration to “ensure AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s position that regulation is a threat to AI innovation mirrors the talking points of major companies such as\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-regulation-showdown/\"> Google, Meta, and OpenAI\u003c/a> that lobbied against regulation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debate about whether to regulate AI comes at a time when Elon Musk, President Trump, and a small group of technologists seek to build and use AI within numerous federal agencies to improve efficiency and save money.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last year he testified about AI 11 times in the California Legislature, and while he describes California as among the only places in the world where AI regulation is legally binding, he saw a frustrating pattern repeat itself: Lawmakers introduce AI bills, they get assigned to committees, and then “the bills get revised and completely rewritten by the tech companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this, he said, comes from a bill that attempted to fine social media companies for harming children. When it was introduced it had bipartisan support, but tech companies opposed the bill, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/30/california-bill-penalizing-social-media-harms-to-kids-is-shelved-00176892\">got weakened then shelved\u003c/a> in a committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech companies depend on nobody watching that happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lili Gangas is chief technology community officer at the Kapor Center, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland that focuses on issues at the intersection of equity and technology, and follows policy developments in California and Congress. Given our current political environment and the elimination of AI protections by the White House, Gangas thinks there may be more support for passage of anti-discrimination bills in California and public support for such protections may be on the rise. Still, she worries that it may be difficult to pass AI regulation because of stepped-up lobbying in Sacramento by tech companies that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/02/california-lobbying-state-government/\">set a record last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also questions whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/03/scott-wiener-pelosi-elections-california-00161159\">politicians with ambitions for higher office\u003c/a> will put implementation ahead of drafting legislation that’s intended to bolster their careers. If lawmakers can overcome those challenges and keep costs low, she believes California can lead the way despite failures to do so by Congress and the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that [rescinded executive order and failure to pass a law in Congress] makes it even more important now at the California level,” she said. “We can hold the line, center civil rights protections, and give the attorney general and individuals the opportunity to take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/041922-ATTORNEY-GENERAL-OFFICE-MHN-03-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seal above the offices of the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>States often pressure the federal government to protect people and their civil rights from emerging technology, said Alex Ault, policy counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 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Half of respondents said they’re worried or pessimistic about AI and 35% percent say they’re optimistic or excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would behoove state legislatures who are looking at what’s happening federally to say ‘Okay, what do we have control over?” Ault said. “How do we protect people’s rights?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Wiener, Bauer-Kahan did not water down her vision for AI regulation. As chair of the consumer privacy and protection committee, she’s one of the most powerful regulators of technology in the California Legislature, but last year the bill faced opposition by tech companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI as well as business interests in other industries like hospital administrators, real estate agents, and hotel owners. 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Combined with nearly 600 employees who have accepted voluntary buy-outs or resignations since President Trump took office, that constitutes a cut of almost 50% of the department’s workforce — what Education Secretary Linda McMahon \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369901522112\">told Fox News\u003c/a> was the first step to shutting down the department entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This en masse firing exceeds any statutory authority granted by Congress,” Bonta said at a press conference announcing the suit, joined by 20 other Democratic attorneys general on Thursday morning. “Alongside numerous other actions the Trump administration has taken, this sweeping mass firing is, simply put, illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created by Congress in 1979, the Department of Education administers federal education programs for K–12 schools and provides grants to local education agencies, including for special and early education services, among other duties. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65178/what-does-the-us-department-of-education-do-some-facts-about-its-role-in-schools\">Unwinding it fully\u003c/a> would almost certainly require an act of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s lawsuit alleges that the mass firings will impede the department’s ability to carry out those statutory functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reductions will also gut the department’s civil rights division, which enforces anti-discrimination laws in school districts. Seven of the division’s 12 offices, including the one in San Francisco, will be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12013319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12013319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/02052019_capitol_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Capitol Building on Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Zach Gibson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Office for Civil Rights protects students from race-based discrimination and sexual assault, and it supports students who have disabilities or are members of other protected classes — all obligations that Bonta said would be impossible for a diminished Department of Education to carry out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a congressionally required function of the Department of Education,” he said. “It must be fulfilled, and it is unlawful and unconstitutional for it to be dismantled the way that the Trump administration has sought to dismantle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear to what extent Bay Area schools will feel the effects of the cuts, but McMahon said that the department will retain the “right people” to ensure its grants and appropriations from Congress are being met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s public school budget for 2024–25 included more than $45 million in federal funding — including millions for both early child development and care and nutrition programs. That’s just short of 4% of the district’s $1.3 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12031166 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1020x664.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit follows another Bonta joined against the Department of Education last week, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">aimed to reverse funding cuts\u003c/a> for teacher training programs at universities, including eight California State and University of California campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun granted a temporary two-week restraining order blocking the Trump administration from terminating $600 million worth of Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) and Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grants. That funding supports residency programs that train K–12 teachers in difficult-to-staff regions and specialties, such as special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said Thursday he was prepared to take action if that order wasn’t followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general who have signed onto the suit against the mass firings also said the move was somewhat anticipatory, as the Trump administration has signaled that it will issue an executive order calling for McMahon to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5316227/trump-order-dismantling-education-department\">dismantle her agency\u003c/a> “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many ways, we’re getting ahead of what may come,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said. “What we know to be true is that you have a president and an education secretary where their goal is to dismantle this agency in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Number one, we are pointing out to this court and to the public that they do not have the authority to dismantle any agency that was created by Congress. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohammed \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] I definitely am one of those national parks lovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Sarah Mohamad is a producer and reporter covering science for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:24] I am on a mission to visit all 63 in the US. I think I’ve only done like 10 or 11. So yeah, definitely a big fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] Do you have a favorite in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:36] Oh man, I know this is gonna sound like everybody else’s favorite, but I do love Yosemite. I go every year. It’s the closest to where I live. And I’m on a mission to try to like do the Half Dome, which I know sounds kind of ambitious, but hopefully one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] Yeah, it’s, I mean, it’s everyone’s favorite for a reason, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] Well, I mean, Sarah, there’s been obviously headline after headline after headline over the last couple of weeks about the firings of federal workers all over the country. But how did you start to first hear a word of firings at the National Park Service specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:03:23] So I was scrolling Instagram, right, on President’s Day holiday and I saw a post by this person named “Ranger Wild” who’s also known as Alex Wild. 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So that program allows them to resign now, but then they still get benefits through September. All those people impacted make up about 10% of the park staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I mean, everyone loves national parks, especially here in California. Has there been any word from the Trump administration about why workers at the National Park Service have been laid off?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:05:26] So there hasn’t really been any clear reasoning by the administration about why they’re firing staff from the National Park Service. Within the national park system, we have over 400 national park sites across the country. So that includes not just parks that we are very familiar with, but also preserves and like other sites. So in the Bay Area, for example, we have the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is not a national park per se. but it’s managed by the National Park Service, and so it’s included in that list of 400 sites. These federal cuts in the National Park Service, there’s no evidence that it’s really gonna save money for the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] I know you talked with some folks who were starting to get these layoff notices. Who did you talk to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] Yeah, my name is Kenan Chan. It’s spelled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I spoke with a guy named Kenan Chan, who grew up in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:27] Biological science technician, fisheries diver, lead diver. 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Eventually, after a few minutes, he did get an email, basically, as you’ve probably seen the termination letter. I think I have it right here. We failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment because of our subject matter knowledge skills and abilities do not meet the department’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:08:34] The email that he got was similar to the email that other people had shared as well of how, you know, they were laid off because of incompetencies and things like that. But as he shared, he never really had issues with performance reviews, never had any red flags, basically, during his career. So definitely came as a surprise for him when he found out that he had to leave the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] I would say it happened very fast and unexpectedly, but also I think it was in all of the back of our minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] I mean, you mentioned Kenan being part of studies that have been going on for 40 years now. 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Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:50] How was the National Park Service doing before these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:10:56] So in terms of visitation numbers, the parks have been doing really well. The National Park Service had a record-breaking visitation last year, over 330 million visitors that came to national parks across the nation. And so the numbers say that that’s about 6 million more than in 2023, but the National Park Service has always had staffing and budget challenges even before the layoffs. So over the past decade, reports showed that staffing at NPS has dropped by roughly 20 percent, while visitation has increased by about 16 percent. So these numbers mean that even though millions of Americans were flocking to the parks, the parks was already grappling with underfunding and understaffing issues that set the stage for further disruptions when even more cuts came into play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] Yeah, so say you’re planning a trip to one of these national parks in California. Actually, our producer, Jessica Kariisa, has a trip planned to Yosemite next month. I mean, what should someone like her expect to see or feel in terms of the impacts of these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:12:17] These layoffs have definitely impacted those public facing roles. Things like, you know, campsite maintenance, custodial teams, and even search and rescue personnel. So without these people, there can be extreme consequences for visitors safety and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Visitors should expect noticeable impacts and unfortunately they’re all the bad types of impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:12:38] I spoke to Neal Desai, who is the Pacific Regional Director at the National Parks Conservation Association. So that’s an independent, non-partisan organization advocating for the NPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] At like popular parks expect long lines and traffic like for example at Yosemite expect to be stuck in traffic for four hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] He says that people should expect unmaintained trails, toilets, trash overflowing, long lines and being stuck in traffic for longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Camping reservations at some parks like Yosemite have been pulled back because parks don’t know how to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Yeah, it seems like these are the things that we sort of take for granted when visiting these parks. Just like having a clean bathroom and having easy access to even just getting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] Yeah, exactly. And a lot of the people I spoke to were worried about safety and health mainly, but also are telling visitors to set their expectations before visiting a national park this year because it’s a little unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:43] And that’s what the public might be able to easily see. And then there’s all sorts of other impacts, like research programs to help protect water and wildlife in our parks are going to be disrupted because scientists have been laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] I mean, so it sounds like Neal is doing advocacy. What has his general reaction been to these layoffs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:14:05] Yeah, he thinks that these layouts have been unstrategic and bad politics, as he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:14:14] This is going to impact people like this will impact people who love parks. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, right? Like you’re not immune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:14:21] There was a poll conducted before Trump’s inauguration that shows that the majority of Americans across political parties approve of the National Park Service and USFS performance. So he’s definitely against it and he’s working hard with his organization to help staff impacted by the layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] If this is supposed to be about America first, this is a complete failure, right? Our national parks are loved by all Americans across the political spectrum. They’re one of the few nonpartisan issues that we see in our nation. And they happen to be equally owned by every single person. And so attacking this institution is bad politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] Well, Sarah, it sounds like there’s going to be these very obvious ways that visitors of the parks will feel the impact of these layoffs, but also these sort of less obvious ways like in the case of Kenan’s job. Can we expect more layoffs in the near future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] I haven’t heard any recent news after the thousand people layoff and the 700 people accepting the buyouts, but more recently, we’ve heard about how the Trump administration is planning to terminate national park service leases and close 34 offices across the country. 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I am also hoping to visit in a few months, and it’s definitely a time to be extra cautious when going to national parks right now. In terms of planning, I would advise people to check weather alerts in case of extreme conditions like heat. You wouldn’t want to be in Death Valley, for example, when the temperature is like in the hundreds, knowing that there may be a lack of park staff. Other things that experts have told me, bring first aid supplies, medicine, just in case there’s an emergency and there aren’t enough EMTs available. And it’s always a good idea to plan to arrive early during less crowded times. And if you’re planning to do some hiking at those parks, make sure to check those trail updates. So with that said, without these amazing folks, it’s more crucial now than ever that we kind of help keep our parks clean and safe when we visit. So, you know, it can be these small things like helping pick up trash at campsites and trails when we see it and helping others in need the best way we can. And so if you do go visit, don’t forget to appreciate the people at the park, working at the park. Don’t forget to thank the rangers and staff if you see them and just show them that, you know, that they’re valued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:05] Great tips for sure. Well, Sarah, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:16] That was Sarah Mohammed, a producer and reporter covering science for KQED. Thanks to KQED reporter Brian Kranz for some of the tape that you heard at the top of this episode. We heard from Coral, Belisi and Sue Gardner. This 20 minute conversation with Sarah was cut down and edited by producer Jessica Kariisa. 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There were like a dozen others sharing quite similar stories that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:07] Yeah, what were you hearing exactly about, I guess the extent of these firings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:14] So as of mid-February, Trump’s administration had fired over 1,000 National Park Service employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] It’s part of a broader effort to reduce the federal workforce. I heard about park rangers who had decades of experience working at NPS being fired, and search and rescue officers who had critical roles at the park being fired. We also lost the only locksmith in Yosemite from the layoffs. Then there are people like scientists, custodial workers, firefighters, a wide range of other roles impacted as well. And on top of that, there were about 700 park service workers who were participating in the administration’s buyout program. So that program allows them to resign now, but then they still get benefits through September. All those people impacted make up about 10% of the park staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] I mean, everyone loves national parks, especially here in California. Has there been any word from the Trump administration about why workers at the National Park Service have been laid off?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:05:26] So there hasn’t really been any clear reasoning by the administration about why they’re firing staff from the National Park Service. Within the national park system, we have over 400 national park sites across the country. So that includes not just parks that we are very familiar with, but also preserves and like other sites. So in the Bay Area, for example, we have the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is not a national park per se. but it’s managed by the National Park Service, and so it’s included in that list of 400 sites. These federal cuts in the National Park Service, there’s no evidence that it’s really gonna save money for the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] I know you talked with some folks who were starting to get these layoff notices. Who did you talk to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:17] Yeah, my name is Kenan Chan. It’s spelled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I spoke with a guy named Kenan Chan, who grew up in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:06:27] Biological science technician, fisheries diver, lead diver. It’s quite a mouthful, I know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:06:32] Kenan was a marine scientist at Channel Islands National Park, and that’s located in Southern California. 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Eventually, after a few minutes, he did get an email, basically, as you’ve probably seen the termination letter. I think I have it right here. We failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment because of our subject matter knowledge skills and abilities do not meet the department’s needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:08:34] The email that he got was similar to the email that other people had shared as well of how, you know, they were laid off because of incompetencies and things like that. But as he shared, he never really had issues with performance reviews, never had any red flags, basically, during his career. So definitely came as a surprise for him when he found out that he had to leave the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] I would say it happened very fast and unexpectedly, but also I think it was in all of the back of our minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] I mean, you mentioned Kenan being part of studies that have been going on for 40 years now. I mean, what is his layoff going to mean for the work that he was doing for the National Park Service?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:09:29] So with Kenan fired there is one less person in that small team of three, only three, doing the monitoring right now, which could impact the data collection and research moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kenan Chan \u003c/strong>[00:09:43] The public very well might not notice my absence, but there’s a lot of different programs that happen outside of the public view that are critical elements to maintaining that for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] How the Park Service was doing before these cuts, and how visitors can expect to feel the impact. 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So without these people, there can be extreme consequences for visitors safety and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Visitors should expect noticeable impacts and unfortunately they’re all the bad types of impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:12:38] I spoke to Neal Desai, who is the Pacific Regional Director at the National Parks Conservation Association. So that’s an independent, non-partisan organization advocating for the NPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:12:51] At like popular parks expect long lines and traffic like for example at Yosemite expect to be stuck in traffic for four hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:01] He says that people should expect unmaintained trails, toilets, trash overflowing, long lines and being stuck in traffic for longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] Camping reservations at some parks like Yosemite have been pulled back because parks don’t know how to staff them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:18] Yeah, it seems like these are the things that we sort of take for granted when visiting these parks. Just like having a clean bathroom and having easy access to even just getting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] Yeah, exactly. And a lot of the people I spoke to were worried about safety and health mainly, but also are telling visitors to set their expectations before visiting a national park this year because it’s a little unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neal Desai \u003c/strong>[00:13:43] And that’s what the public might be able to easily see. And then there’s all sorts of other impacts, like research programs to help protect water and wildlife in our parks are going to be disrupted because scientists have been laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:57] I mean, so it sounds like Neal is doing advocacy. 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Our national parks are loved by all Americans across the political spectrum. They’re one of the few nonpartisan issues that we see in our nation. And they happen to be equally owned by every single person. And so attacking this institution is bad politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:17] Well, Sarah, it sounds like there’s going to be these very obvious ways that visitors of the parks will feel the impact of these layoffs, but also these sort of less obvious ways like in the case of Kenan’s job. Can we expect more layoffs in the near future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] I haven’t heard any recent news after the thousand people layoff and the 700 people accepting the buyouts, but more recently, we’ve heard about how the Trump administration is planning to terminate national park service leases and close 34 offices across the country. 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I am also hoping to visit in a few months, and it’s definitely a time to be extra cautious when going to national parks right now. In terms of planning, I would advise people to check weather alerts in case of extreme conditions like heat. You wouldn’t want to be in Death Valley, for example, when the temperature is like in the hundreds, knowing that there may be a lack of park staff. Other things that experts have told me, bring first aid supplies, medicine, just in case there’s an emergency and there aren’t enough EMTs available. And it’s always a good idea to plan to arrive early during less crowded times. And if you’re planning to do some hiking at those parks, make sure to check those trail updates. So with that said, without these amazing folks, it’s more crucial now than ever that we kind of help keep our parks clean and safe when we visit. So, you know, it can be these small things like helping pick up trash at campsites and trails when we see it and helping others in need the best way we can. And so if you do go visit, don’t forget to appreciate the people at the park, working at the park. Don’t forget to thank the rangers and staff if you see them and just show them that, you know, that they’re valued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:05] Great tips for sure. Well, Sarah, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Mohamad \u003c/strong>[00:18:08] Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:16] That was Sarah Mohammed, a producer and reporter covering science for KQED. Thanks to KQED reporter Brian Kranz for some of the tape that you heard at the top of this episode. We heard from Coral, Belisi and Sue Gardner. This 20 minute conversation with Sarah was cut down and edited by producer Jessica Kariisa. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting “defend science, defend democracy,” hundreds of UC Berkeley scientists and their students emerged from their labs on Friday afternoon to protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the Trump administration’s \u003c/a>sweeping cuts to scientific research institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally on Sproul Plaza was part of a string of one-day demonstrations dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://standupforscience2025.org/\">Stand Up For Science\u003c/a> and held on university campuses across the country. The protest called for the restoration of federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health and condemned what many scientists are calling an all-out assault on scientific progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not be here without support from the National Institutes of Health,” Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley professor of biochemistry, told demonstrators on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Doudna speaks at a rally at UC Berkeley in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NIH, the largest biomedical funder in the world, spent $35 billion on grants for research last year. Doudna, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/doudna/facts/\">won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003c/a> for her pioneering work on CRISPR gene editing, said an NIH training grant allowed her to attend graduate school and ongoing support from the NIH is a key source of funding for her lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t take that support for granted. We have to be standing up for it,” she said. “We have to be informing our congressional representatives how important it is and encouraging them to reach out and stand up for what’s right in science — that science can only be done with the appropriate federal funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s rally comes just days after a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">extended an order\u003c/a> mandating the NIH to continue holding off on massive funding cuts for an array of scientific and medical research. The order, originally issued last month, stems from \u003ca href=\"https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zgpojbqxnvd/03052025nih_ruling.pdf\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by attorneys general from California and more than 20 other states to block the Trump administration from slashing the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the judge’s order, the Trump administration has used an arcane law to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/science/nih-research-funding-delays.html\">freeze huge amounts of funding\u003c/a> for biomedical research, which researchers say has already put hundreds of critical studies at a standstill, including work on pancreatic cancer, brain injuries and child health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029795 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/NOAA1-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last academic year alone, the University of California system said it received roughly $2.6 billion in NIH research funding, a significant portion of which would be slashed moving forward as part of the administration’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cut this size is nothing short of catastrophic for countless Americans who depend on UC’s scientific advances to save lives and improve healthcare,” UC President Michael Drake said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliet Christian Smith of El Cerrito said she showed up for the rally because federal funding for cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment saved her husband’s life after he was diagnosed with skin cancer eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the dream of parents to leave the world a better place for your children,” said Christian Smith, as demonstrators behind her chanted, “Science saves lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I know the scientists here around me, that’s what they work to do every single day — to cure diseases and to make people’s lives better,” she said. “It’s still so wild to know it’s a bipartisan issue, having a good life and having a long life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Dillon cheers at a rally at UC Berkeley in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the funding freezes, the Trump administration has dealt relentless blows to the nation’s scientific and medical establishments, often using executive orders to kill funding for global health programs, gut climate research, remove thousands of scientific datasets from government websites and fire more than a thousand workers across federal science agencies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">including the National Weather Service\u003c/a> and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Wilcox, an engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, attended the protest in a white lab coat and goggles. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chanting “defend science, defend democracy,” hundreds of UC Berkeley scientists and their students emerged from their labs on Friday afternoon to protest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the Trump administration’s \u003c/a>sweeping cuts to scientific research institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally on Sproul Plaza was part of a string of one-day demonstrations dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://standupforscience2025.org/\">Stand Up For Science\u003c/a> and held on university campuses across the country. The protest called for the restoration of federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health and condemned what many scientists are calling an all-out assault on scientific progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not be here without support from the National Institutes of Health,” Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley professor of biochemistry, told demonstrators on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Doudna speaks at a rally at UC Berkeley in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NIH, the largest biomedical funder in the world, spent $35 billion on grants for research last year. Doudna, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/doudna/facts/\">won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u003c/a> for her pioneering work on CRISPR gene editing, said an NIH training grant allowed her to attend graduate school and ongoing support from the NIH is a key source of funding for her lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t take that support for granted. We have to be standing up for it,” she said. “We have to be informing our congressional representatives how important it is and encouraging them to reach out and stand up for what’s right in science — that science can only be done with the appropriate federal funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last academic year alone, the University of California system said it received roughly $2.6 billion in NIH research funding, a significant portion of which would be slashed moving forward as part of the administration’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cut this size is nothing short of catastrophic for countless Americans who depend on UC’s scientific advances to save lives and improve healthcare,” UC President Michael Drake said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliet Christian Smith of El Cerrito said she showed up for the rally because federal funding for cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment saved her husband’s life after he was diagnosed with skin cancer eight years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the dream of parents to leave the world a better place for your children,” said Christian Smith, as demonstrators behind her chanted, “Science saves lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I know the scientists here around me, that’s what they work to do every single day — to cure diseases and to make people’s lives better,” she said. “It’s still so wild to know it’s a bipartisan issue, having a good life and having a long life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Dillon cheers at a rally at UC Berkeley in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the funding freezes, the Trump administration has dealt relentless blows to the nation’s scientific and medical establishments, often using executive orders to kill funding for global health programs, gut climate research, remove thousands of scientific datasets from government websites and fire more than a thousand workers across federal science agencies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">including the National Weather Service\u003c/a> and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Wilcox, an engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, attended the protest in a white lab coat and goggles. Scientific progress, he said, shouldn’t be stifled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody is contributing in various ways,” Wilcox said. “It’s a very interconnected process, and if you wreck one part of it, then the other parts suffer, and you don’t know what the impacts will be.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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In the past few weeks, they have had their fears increase about the war in Ukraine, and now they fear they’ll have to leave the safety and homes they have here in the U.S. I pray the U.S. doesn’t abandon them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ukrainians were granted temporary protection in the U.S. and work authorization under a Biden-era program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/2024_1104_dmo_plcy_uniting_for_ukraine_process_overview_and_assessment.pdf\">Uniting for Ukraine (PDF)\u003c/a>. President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/securing-our-borders/\">halted the program\u003c/a> on his first day in office but didn’t immediately revoke parole status for Ukrainians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-06/exclusive-trump-plans-to-revoke-legal-status-of-ukrainians-who-fled-to-us-sources-say\">Reuters first reported\u003c/a> that the administration was planning to terminate parole for Ukrainians as soon as April, as part of a plan to revoke humanitarian protection for 1.8 million people who obtained it under the Biden administration, including Afghans, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. The news agency cited four unnamed sources familiar with the matter, including a senior Trump administration official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oksana Demidenko hangs traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts at her home in Richmond on Dec. 17, 2024. Hanging from the closet is a sign made by her Uniting for Ukraine sponsor, Mary Wogec, welcoming her and her cats to the United States. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/PressSec/status/1897667362897219916\">disputed the report in a social media post\u003c/a>, calling it “fake news” and saying “no decision has been made at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, Reuters reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/\">Trump told reporters\u003c/a> in the Oval Office he would decide soon, saying, “We’re not looking to hurt anybody, we’re certainly not looking to hurt them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing insecurity over parole comes at a time when many Ukrainians in the U.S. are frantic over Trump’s halt to military aid and intelligence for Ukraine as Russia continues its bombardment, three years after invading the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Witnessing what this administration is doing against the victims is very painful,” said Ulyana Balaban, a lawyer from Ukraine who’s now a U.S. citizen raising a family in San José. “They are punishing Ukrainians. The people I know, my friends who came here, they work. They’re not using any taxpayers’ money. It’s just not fair to treat people like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balaban, 44, said her mother lives in a Russian-occupied area of the city of Kherson, and soldiers frequently come into her house and check every room. Her cousins, a maternity nurse and a fisherman, were tortured and murdered by Russian troops, she said.[aside postID=news_11986437 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240429-CENTRAL-AMERICAN-MINORS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']She fears her autistic brother, who is with her in San José under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019638\">a different humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a>, could be sent back there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They try to recruit young men to join the Russian Army. So my brother does not have a place to go back home,” Balaban said. “We’re desperate. I don’t know what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruslan Gurzhiy, the editor of the news organization Slavic Sacramento, said the majority of Ukrainians with parole are women with children who are now in local schools. At a recent online forum for leaders in California’s Ukrainian diaspora, many of those women voiced concerns and anxiety, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Psychologically, mentally, they’ve had traumas. They lost their homes. Some of them lost their husbands in Ukraine,” he said. “And now the United States would send them back to Ukraine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesia Kotova, a Bay Area software analyst, grew up in Zaporizhzhya, another Ukrainian city now occupied by Russia. She said she lived for years in Moscow before fleeing growing repression under President Vladimir Putin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in Palo Alto, she was able to sponsor her mother for parole under the Uniting for Ukraine program. But their family home in Zaporizhzhya was destroyed by bombs, leaving nothing to return to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called Trump’s withdrawal of support for Ukraine’s defense and threats to revoke humanitarian parole “ruthless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People feel fear,” she said. “And they’re really surprised by such ‘Russian behavior’ from the government of the best country in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her part, Balaban said she felt a sense of welcome when she became a U.S. citizen, but now she questions the promise of America as a place of refuge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought that this country was safe for other people … sort of like an umbrella for those who were seeking asylum and help,” she said. “And right now, I just don’t feel that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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