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The loss of certification in Sonoma means California taxpayers will lose millions of dollars in federal funding that is dependent on assurances the facility is properly managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action comes after a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of stories\u003c/a> this year from California Watch documenting failures by the Office of Protective Services, an internal police force established specifically to protect and serve patients at these board-and-care centers. The police force has failed to perform basic tasks associated with crime investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the Sonoma center had evidence of a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/police-ignored-mishandled-sex-assaults-reported-disabled-18683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen sexual assaults\u003c/a>, but police investigators failed to order a single hospital-supervised examination for the alleged victims. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/watch-oprahs-interview-with-lance-armstrong-live-online/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Video: Armstrong admits to doping in interview w/ Oprah Winfrey\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first half of Oprah Winfrey’s much-anticipated interview with Lance Armstrong aired Thursday night. Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs while winning his record seven straight Tours de France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armstrong’s admissions, which came after years of denials, are stirring conversation inside and outside the world of sports, including on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301160900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>, which on Wednesday featured Daniel Coyle, coauthor of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345530411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs\u003c/a>.” Coyle described Armstrong as “a kind of Tony Soprano character”–the one who orchestrated his teams’ doping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Video: Armstrong’s public denials over the years\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zad68VOxr8g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s the one who had the best connections, he was the one who made the decisions, he was the one who decided what they were gonna do, worked out the program, hired the doctor,” said Coyle. “So for him to say that ‘I was just simply going along,’ is not true.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle said Armstrong was able to shut down the media, even after working openly with Dr. Michele Ferrari, an Italian physician widely suspected of being a doping mastermind.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Armstrong shut down the media … and ‘the myth kept rolling down the tracks.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Coyle said Armstrong’s open relationship with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Ferrari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferrari\u003c/a> “sent a big message. But so powerful was Armstrong at that point, and so powerful was the myth, that it sort of wasn’t really investigated. Armstrong fought back. In a famous press conference, he had a confrontation with (investigative reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article1192199.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Walsh\u003c/a>) where he said ‘Are you calling me a doper or are you calling me a liar?’ And with that aggression, with his ability to try to control the press, with the press’s unwillingness or inability to dig beneath that, the myth kept rolling down the tracks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Coyle, Armstrong’s doping saga–its intricacies, denials, and lawsuits–is a “perfect window in the way Lance’s mind works. A lot of people would say, and his lawyers would say, ‘Don’t put yourself at risk– it’s potentially tens, maybe even more, millions of dollars.’ But he looks at everything in a very binary way, he sees a path forward, he sees a goal and he just does it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle also said he believes a unique set of character traits drove Armstrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends how much risk you want to take, how entrepreneurial you are, how aggressive you are, how competitive you are,” Coyle said. “Lance was a guy who ticked all those boxes, he was the guy who was built to succeed in this world, and who pushed it. It’s one thing to just dope because other guys are doing it. It’s another thing to say, ‘We’re going to invent the wheel every single year. We’re going to push it every year. We’re like Silicon Valley.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as much as Coyle views Armstrong as the doping ringleader on his teams, he is equally adamant that doping has been part of the culture of cycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not that much difference between what happens on Wall Street and what happened in cycling during that era,” said Coyle. “You have very little regulation, you have very competitive people. … It’s easy to lose your way, especially when you’re determined to win at all costs. You know, that’s a phrase that we throw around a lot, but cycling in that era, and this story, shows us exactly what that means.” According to Coyle, his co-author Tyler Hamilton–himself a disgraced cycling doper–estimates that “90 percent of the guys on the Tour were doing something [illegal].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, says Coyle, “It was an honor to dope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle described Hamilton’s experience:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tyler [Hamilton] said that it felt like he was being picked for the A-team,” said Coyle. Hamilton says a friendly, white-haired doctor who had worked with champions told him, ” ‘You have to do this for your health. Don’t take this pill. Don’t take it tomorrow because you might get tested and get busted, but this will help you.’ And [Hamilton] did, and that was the start. And I’m sure that’s how Armstrong started, I’m sure that’s how all these guys started,” said Coyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just like these guys are taking an occasional syringe, this is an entire tapestry, it’s a whole secret world, it’s a soap opera,” said Coyle. “It’s sort of a mix of sports and some \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002110/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Bourne movie\u003c/a>. You’re transporting blood bags in a dog kennel to get during the race, and they’d go into a room and put plastic wrap over the toilet in case there was a microphone in there. They would tape up the smoke detector in case there was a camera in there. And they would do the transfusions. It was incredibly risky, it was incredibly lucrative, it was incredibly frightening. And that’s the world they were living in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coyle suggested that you shouldn’t get your hopes up for Armstrong to show all his cards in his Oprah interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telling the truth is difficult for these guys,” Coyle said. “It’s not like you can flip a switch and simply remove 15 years of denial…. So it’s sort of difficult to say, ‘Hey Oprah, I’m gonna tell you everything,’ because your brain doesn’t work that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s just hope for everyone’s sake, the interview is more conclusive and more satisying than the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/arts/television/12sopr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Soprano’s black screen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A dozen men and women spread out on the four corners of E. 18th Street and Park Boulevard, about a mile from Lake Merritt, holding signs that read “Stop the Violence” and “Peace on the Streets.” They came to bear witness to a random shooting in late October that \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21880391/one-killed-three-wounded-oakland-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed 27-year-old Clifford Mosby-Snead\u003c/a> soon after he exited a transit bus. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peace vigil was organized by members of True Vine Ministries and the SAVE coalition. The grassroots group is dedicated to building community partnerships and ending gun violence in Oakland, vowing to rally each week at a different location where a killing took place in order to raise awareness and support the surviving family members\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When my grandson was walking I said, ‘Y’know, you can’t walk like you used to a long time ago.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For an hour, Saturday, they chanted, prayed and handed out leaflets to any passing car that would stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the group said they were tired of the gun violence, calling it a public health crisis for the city and, in particular, its youth. “Say Something. Do Something” is their motto. In addition to lobbying for gun control and limits on ammunition, coalition members are also working to provide positive role models and programs through churches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes a lot of difference that somebody cares,” says SAVE organizer Teresa Butler. “We do care about your loss, we do, and we want you to rise above it, we want to make sure that you have hope, that there are people out here who will not let your loved one’s death be gone in vain, so we call out the names when we do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snead’s grandmother, 67-year-old Nolla Beasley, has been a resident of West Oakland since the 1950s. 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But in any event, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20121216_46_E1_CUTLIN180852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">success of the technology\u003c/a> means that companies are more confident in their ability to extract oil efficiently and economically, and they’re ready to bring these improved techniques to California, which boasts the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country’s largest shale oil resource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fracking debate heats up here, a few things to pay attention to, compiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212190900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Public Radio’s recent Forum show on the regulations\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. DOGGR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency that released the draft regulations is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources\u003c/a> — “DOGGR” to friends. DOGGR is calling the first version of the guidelines a “discussion draft.” What does that mean? According to its website: “It is a starting point for discussion by key stakeholders – industry, the environmental community, and other regulators, as well as interested members of the public – in preparation for the more formal process, which probably will begin in early 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are one of those interested members of the public, you can email your suggestions and concerns to comments@conservation.ca.gov. You can also sign up for updates on the regulation process and read the draft document \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Well Integrity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seemingly all sides of the fracking debate agree that the infrastructure of hydraulic fracturing, the wells themselves, is key to keeping the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/dep_home/5968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection\u003c/a>, said that well integrity is especially important in hydraulic fracturing because “the well actually goes through the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aquifer\u003c/a>; it goes past where you are drawing your drinking water from. So it is incredibly important that the well is developed properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinty says that many people worry about the injected fracturing fluids contaminating drinking water. Instead, she said, the focus needs to be on preventing gas or oil leakage from wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where water quality has been compromised is not in the fracturing fluids getting into the water, but in there being leaks in the well so that the gas or the oil migrates into the drinking water,” said McGinty. “That is a problem. It is preventable, and we ought to keep our eye on that ball.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole issue, really, around hydraulic fracturing focuses on the integrity of the well,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wspa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>. “If that is maintained then hydraulic fracturing is not any different than any other oil-stimulating production technique. Those regulations are in place, have been in place, and it’s the reason, frankly, there has been no evidence of groundwater contamination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Water Use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mark Twain said: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Nowhere is that more true than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When prompted by Forum guest host \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/scott-shafer.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> to name a safety control she would like to see in place that may not sit well with oil companies, McGinty brought up water conservation, not water pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the sustainability of the gas and oil industry needs to be going in a direction of very significantly reducing its water footprint,” said McGinty. “Not just not polluting the water, but actually going to zero net consumption of water. Cleaning water, conserving water, that would be a big challenge, but I have to believe in a place like California it would be vitally important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft regulations do not currently address water consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. The Upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/magazine/welcome-to-saudi-albany.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent article in the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a> quoted an analyst who says “that the natural gas industry will bring around three million new jobs to the United States by the end of this decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same article described natural gas extraction via fracking as “the economic equivalent of a gift from the heavens” for the American steel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s more than economic benefits at stake. \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/05/usa-energy-independence-renewable/1749073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy independence\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California only produces 30 percent of what it needs in crude oil, said Reheis-Boyd, which leaves us relying on foreign imports. According to Reheis-Boyd, 42 million gallons of gasoline and 11 million gallons of diesel are used daily for transportation in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have projections out to 2035 that 80 percent of our needs are going to be produced by coal, gas and oil,” said Reheis-Boyd. “If we stopped all of this tomorrow, we would have a revolution in California for people who expect to get up every day and drive from A to B affordably, to turn their lights on, and heat and cool their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And McGinty argues that increased natural gas production has actually led to lower greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have what’s called ‘coal to gas switching,'” said McGinty, “with a lot more natural gas coming on and that has led to a pretty significant drop — for the first time in decades — in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Trade Secret Exemptions: Big Loophole?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies will have to disclose what they’re injecting into the ground, which often includes diesel compounds and known carcinogens, unless they claim a ‘trade secret’ exemption,'” said KQED’s Lauren Sommer. Under the exemption, companies only have to disclose what family the injected chemicals are from. Critics say this is a loophole, one that has been taken for granted — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,000 times\u003c/a>, in fact — by companies in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over transparency doesn’t end there. People will only know about fracking at a specific location if they check a \u003ca href=\"http://fracfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated website\u003c/a>, most likely several days before the fracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no rule that says that oil companies actually have to notify land owners nearby,” said Sommer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not sit well with critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people who live in an oil drilling area look at the website every day to find out if a well is going to be drilled and fracked near them is basically absurd,” said Bill Allayaud, California Director of Government Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>. “Why can’t, when someone’s building a project in your neighborhood, you get a notice by mail?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reheis-Boyd defends the exemption: “Trade secrets are really not about oil companies as much as they are in promoting competition, and that competition always benefits the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Interagency Coordination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR acknowledges environmental concerns about groundwater, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions but isn’t quite sure if they fall under its jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, there is a big concern with air pollution and methane, which is a pretty potent greenhouse gas which comes out of wells,” said Sommer. “And there is obviously a concern with groundwater supply. But [DOGGR] is saying they’re in discussions with other agencies about how to deal with those issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So keeping up on California’s fracking regulations means following the bureaucratic bridges between DOGGR, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air Resources Board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued draft regulations\u003c/a> for fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, an increasingly popular but controversial method of oil and natural gas retrieval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does fracking work? KQED Science’s Lauren Sommer \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Millions of gallons of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, are injected underground at high pressure. That cracks the rocks, letting the oil out. Around the country, hydraulic fracturing has led to record levels of oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83253\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/fracking.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83253\" title=\"With AFP Story by Veronique DUPONT: US-E\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/fracking-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers change the pipes in a fracking operation in Waynesburg, PA. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While fracking has been big news for a while in Pennsylvania, North Dakota and elsewhere in the country, it has yet to become a popular topic of dinner conversation in California. That’s likely going to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Gautier, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told Lauren Sommer that while fracking has actually been used in California for decades, “a bit of a Gold Rush mentality concerning shale oil” currently exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is new right now is that the price of oil is reasonably high,” Gautier said. “This technology has become very sophisticated. So these explorationists are justifiably optimistic about the idea of being able to get out oil that couldn’t have been accessed just a few decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some environmentalists aren’t happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely a danger of California being transformed almost overnight, as other areas of the country have been when the fracking boom hits,” Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity, told Lauren Sommer. “In other parts of the country, we’ve seen contaminated water. We’ve seen people who live near oil and gas wells complaining of health effects.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether those impacts are specifically caused by fracking is under debate, says Sommer. But in any event, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20121216_46_E1_CUTLIN180852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">success of the technology\u003c/a> means that companies are more confident in their ability to extract oil efficiently and economically, and they’re ready to bring these improved techniques to California, which boasts the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-large-oil-reserve-california-faces-fracking-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country’s largest shale oil resource\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the fracking debate heats up here, a few things to pay attention to, compiled from \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201212190900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Public Radio’s recent Forum show on the regulations\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. DOGGR\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency that released the draft regulations is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources\u003c/a> — “DOGGR” to friends. DOGGR is calling the first version of the guidelines a “discussion draft.” What does that mean? According to its website: “It is a starting point for discussion by key stakeholders – industry, the environmental community, and other regulators, as well as interested members of the public – in preparation for the more formal process, which probably will begin in early 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are one of those interested members of the public, you can email your suggestions and concerns to comments@conservation.ca.gov. You can also sign up for updates on the regulation process and read the draft document \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Well Integrity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seemingly all sides of the fracking debate agree that the infrastructure of hydraulic fracturing, the wells themselves, is key to keeping the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen McGinty, former secretary of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/dep_home/5968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection\u003c/a>, said that well integrity is especially important in hydraulic fracturing because “the well actually goes through the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aquifer\u003c/a>; it goes past where you are drawing your drinking water from. So it is incredibly important that the well is developed properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinty says that many people worry about the injected fracturing fluids contaminating drinking water. Instead, she said, the focus needs to be on preventing gas or oil leakage from wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where water quality has been compromised is not in the fracturing fluids getting into the water, but in there being leaks in the well so that the gas or the oil migrates into the drinking water,” said McGinty. “That is a problem. It is preventable, and we ought to keep our eye on that ball.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole issue, really, around hydraulic fracturing focuses on the integrity of the well,” said Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wspa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>. “If that is maintained then hydraulic fracturing is not any different than any other oil-stimulating production technique. Those regulations are in place, have been in place, and it’s the reason, frankly, there has been no evidence of groundwater contamination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Water Use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mark Twain said: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Nowhere is that more true than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When prompted by Forum guest host \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/scott-shafer.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> to name a safety control she would like to see in place that may not sit well with oil companies, McGinty brought up water conservation, not water pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the sustainability of the gas and oil industry needs to be going in a direction of very significantly reducing its water footprint,” said McGinty. “Not just not polluting the water, but actually going to zero net consumption of water. Cleaning water, conserving water, that would be a big challenge, but I have to believe in a place like California it would be vitally important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft regulations do not currently address water consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. The Upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/magazine/welcome-to-saudi-albany.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent article in the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a> quoted an analyst who says “that the natural gas industry will bring around three million new jobs to the United States by the end of this decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same article described natural gas extraction via fracking as “the economic equivalent of a gift from the heavens” for the American steel industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s more than economic benefits at stake. \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/05/usa-energy-independence-renewable/1749073/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy independence\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California only produces 30 percent of what it needs in crude oil, said Reheis-Boyd, which leaves us relying on foreign imports. 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Trade Secret Exemptions: Big Loophole?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies will have to disclose what they’re injecting into the ground, which often includes diesel compounds and known carcinogens, unless they claim a ‘trade secret’ exemption,'” said KQED’s Lauren Sommer. Under the exemption, companies only have to disclose what family the injected chemicals are from. Critics say this is a loophole, one that has been taken for granted — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/calif-regulators-release-draft-fracking-regulations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,000 times\u003c/a>, in fact — by companies in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the controversy over transparency doesn’t end there. People will only know about fracking at a specific location if they check a \u003ca href=\"http://fracfocus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated website\u003c/a>, most likely several days before the fracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no rule that says that oil companies actually have to notify land owners nearby,” said Sommer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does not sit well with critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have people who live in an oil drilling area look at the website every day to find out if a well is going to be drilled and fracked near them is basically absurd,” said Bill Allayaud, California Director of Government Affairs for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>. “Why can’t, when someone’s building a project in your neighborhood, you get a notice by mail?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reheis-Boyd defends the exemption: “Trade secrets are really not about oil companies as much as they are in promoting competition, and that competition always benefits the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Aaron Glantz, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/accuracy-isn%E2%80%99t-priority-va-battles-disability-claims-backlog-3983\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Navy cook Hosea Roundtree watched the 1983 shelling of Beirut from the deck of a ship, feelings of helplessness washing over him as people perished onshore. That memory haunted him, resurrected in flashbacks eight years later after a tour in the Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Roundtree’s claim for disability compensation crossed Jamie Fox’s desk at the Department of Veterans Affairs more than two decades later, it was slated for denial on the grounds that he had never seen combat. Fox, herself a Navy veteran, tried to straighten things out – and for that, she lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/QW9Biy76gBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawsuit filed by the former VA disability claims representative provides a rare glimpse into what veterans’ advocates call systemic problems in how the agency handles compensation claims filed by Americans wounded physically or mentally in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Center for Investigative Reporting review of the VA’s performance data reveals chronic errors – committed in up to 1 in 3 cases – and an emphasis on speed over accuracy that clogs the VA system with appeals, increasing delays for all veterans. \u003c!--more-->“When the VA makes a mistake processing a veteran’s claim, then our veterans face another unacceptably long wait,” said Paul Sullivan, a Gulf War veteran and former senior VA project manager who now works for the Washington, D.C.-area law firm Bergmann & Moore. “These veterans, many of whom are unemployable due to disabilities, often lose their homes and are unable to put food on the table for themselves and their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of mid-October,\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/510536-101512-1.html\"> appeals represented nearly a third of the more than 819,000 pending disability claims\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> Nationwide over the past year, the average time a veteran waits for a decision has \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/interactive/map-disabled-vets-stuck-backlog-limbo/\">increased by more than two months – to 260 days.\u003c/a> Veterans who appeal wait an average of 3½ years, according to VA performance data obtained by CIR through the Freedom of Information Act.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a deposition related to a federal discrimination complaint filed by Fox, the head of the Oakland VA regional office where Fox worked, Lynn Flint, said “it didn’t matter if the decision (to deny Roundtree’s claim) was right or wrong.” In proceedings related to Fox’s wrongful termination suit, Flint and Fox’s supervisor, Kim Yarbrough, argued that Fox exceeded her authority by advocating for additional review of Roundtree’s case, lowering her productivity to unacceptable levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roundtree disagreed with the denial, Yarbrough said, he could always appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA declined to comment further on Fox’s dismissal, citing the ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, the VA’s inability to stem a tide of errors has increasingly frustrated lawmakers from both political parties, who frequently hear from distraught constituents challenging their denials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Veterans’ Appeals found errors by VA staff in 35,000 of the nearly 50,000 appeals decided in 2011, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bva.va.gov/docs/Chairmans_Annual_Rpts/BVA2011AR.pdf\">board’s annual report [PDF]\u003c/a>. In 29 percent of cases, the board overturned the agency’s initial decision and ruled in favor of the veteran. In 44 percent, the board said VA staff committed an error and sent the cases back to the agency’s regional office for additional review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no benefit in pushing a determination out that is wrong because, in the end, it will be appealed, and it’s going to make the record look even worse,” said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat working to reform the VA’s Oakland office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA acknowledges it makes mistakes on 14 percent of disability claims – an error rate the agency considers unacceptable and has pledged to all but eliminate by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CIR analysis of 18 audits published this year by the VA’s inspector general shows the problem could be much worse, especially in high-profile cases. The analysis found a 38 percent average error rate for claims involving disabilities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/\">traumatic brain injury\u003c/a> and illnesses linked to the Vietnam-era defoliant \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/\">Agent Orange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Linda Halliday, the agency’s assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/statements/VAOIG-statement-20120619-halliday.pdf\">told a House committee [PDF]\u003c/a> that 19 of the 20 regional offices inspected in 2011 failed to follow department policy for claims related to traumatic brain injury, one of the signature injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA officials say the inspector general’s reports “do not present a true picture of the overall quality of the work performed” by VA employees. The Office of Inspector General, the agency said in a statement, “samples specific types of claims, and its results do not represent the university of disability claims processed at a Regional Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA employee Fox was forced out in 2008, after she told her supervisor that the agency was poised to wrongfully deny benefits to Roundtree, a 17-year Navy veteran who claimed to have developed post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. The VA said it could find no evidence that Roundtree had experienced combat in Beirut, but through an Internet search Fox confirmed his ship, the USS Arthur W. Radford, had engaged in battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut-wrenching story when I went through his file,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, she said, had “been a star in the Navy” but ended up homeless on the streets of Long Beach after a mental breakdown. Years of drug abuse left him estranged from his wife and daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox wrote a four-page memo to her supervisor arguing that the VA should “wait to send out the award of denial” to allow further research. Five months later, the VA gave her a choice: Resign or be fired. She opted to resign to keep her federal employment record clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fox’s termination letter, the head of the Oakland office, Flint, criticized Fox for “failure to follow instructions” and “misuse of time” for not immediately sending Roundtree a letter denying his benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years earlier, when Roundtree filed his claim, he was living in a transitional housing program for homeless veterans on the VA’s hospital complex in West Los Angeles. The former petty officer 1st class had been in and out of jail and lived on the streets for more than a decade following his tour in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, now 54, blames his service in the Gulf for triggering intense flashbacks of the shelling of Beirut. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1989, but received a bad-conduct discharge for drug use after re-enlisting and serving in the Gulf. Roundtree says he began using crack cocaine after leaving the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost it. I had a major breakdown,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, he walked out on his wife and two daughters and buried himself in crack to blot out the intrusive thoughts of carnage along the Lebanese shore. “I couldn’t shut my mind down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally received a denial letter from the VA in 2008, he said its words came as a shock. It cited insufficient evidence “to confirm that you actually engaged in combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Roundtree calls Fox “an angel” for catching an apparent error that might have cost him thousands of dollars in compensation for his war wounds, and he expresses outrage that she was forced out for speaking up on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need people like Jamie to be in the office to help us,” he said. “Not just for me – for me and every other vet that’s out there that’s suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Productivity is priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Fox left her job, she and the VA continue to battle in court. Government lawyers argue that it does not matter whether VA employees wrongly deny claims. What is important, officials said, is to be highly productive – as measured by the number of cases employees clear from the inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under questioning from Administrative Law Judge Virginia Mellema MaGee in 2010, Fox’s supervisor, Yarbrough, said Fox should have immediately sent Roundtree a letter denying his claim despite her concerns because “it was a very old case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of writing a memo questioning the denial’s accuracy, Yarbrough said Fox should have spent no more than half an hour preparing and sending that denial letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What should have occurred was the end product,” Yarbrough said. Roundtree’s claim “should have been just cleared in the system” – the file sent to a storage facility in suburban San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon Erspamer, a senior counsel based in San Francisco at the law firm Morrison & Foerster who has practiced veterans law for more than three decades, said the agency likely violated the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 in Roundtree’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts have held that the VA has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts and evidence to support his or her claim,” Erspamer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/509336-p-1312-2008-03-31-vacols-detailed-remand-reasons.html\">One internal VA document\u003c/a>, made public in a federal class-action lawsuit brought by Erspamer’s firm, shows that during the first three months of 2008 – around the time Fox was urging the VA to take another look at Roundtree’s claim – the agency failed to perform its duty to assist in nearly 11,000 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting face to face\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Fox lost her job, she went on unemployment and moved in with her sister. Two years later, she found a new job – working at a VA health care center in Santa Rosa, where she earns about the same salary as before she lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months ago, she found Roundtree on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so nervous calling. I didn’t know how he was going to respond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she hoped to hear was that his claim had been approved, she said, “or if it wasn’t approved that he would have appealed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Roundtree had never filed an appeal. The day he received his denial letter, he coincidentally received a job offer – also from the VA. Roundtree now works as a cook at the VA Medical Center in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Fox and Roundtree met for the first time. Because the time limit for Roundtree to appeal his denial had passed, Fox helped him file a new disability claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just for me. 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The analysis found a 38 percent average error rate for claims involving disabilities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/\">traumatic brain injury\u003c/a> and illnesses linked to the Vietnam-era defoliant \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/\">Agent Orange\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Linda Halliday, the agency’s assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/statements/VAOIG-statement-20120619-halliday.pdf\">told a House committee [PDF]\u003c/a> that 19 of the 20 regional offices inspected in 2011 failed to follow department policy for claims related to traumatic brain injury, one of the signature injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA officials say the inspector general’s reports “do not present a true picture of the overall quality of the work performed” by VA employees. The Office of Inspector General, the agency said in a statement, “samples specific types of claims, and its results do not represent the university of disability claims processed at a Regional Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VA employee Fox was forced out in 2008, after she told her supervisor that the agency was poised to wrongfully deny benefits to Roundtree, a 17-year Navy veteran who claimed to have developed post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. The VA said it could find no evidence that Roundtree had experienced combat in Beirut, but through an Internet search Fox confirmed his ship, the USS Arthur W. Radford, had engaged in battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut-wrenching story when I went through his file,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, she said, had “been a star in the Navy” but ended up homeless on the streets of Long Beach after a mental breakdown. Years of drug abuse left him estranged from his wife and daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox wrote a four-page memo to her supervisor arguing that the VA should “wait to send out the award of denial” to allow further research. Five months later, the VA gave her a choice: Resign or be fired. She opted to resign to keep her federal employment record clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fox’s termination letter, the head of the Oakland office, Flint, criticized Fox for “failure to follow instructions” and “misuse of time” for not immediately sending Roundtree a letter denying his benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years earlier, when Roundtree filed his claim, he was living in a transitional housing program for homeless veterans on the VA’s hospital complex in West Los Angeles. The former petty officer 1st class had been in and out of jail and lived on the streets for more than a decade following his tour in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roundtree, now 54, blames his service in the Gulf for triggering intense flashbacks of the shelling of Beirut. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1989, but received a bad-conduct discharge for drug use after re-enlisting and serving in the Gulf. Roundtree says he began using crack cocaine after leaving the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost it. I had a major breakdown,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, he walked out on his wife and two daughters and buried himself in crack to blot out the intrusive thoughts of carnage along the Lebanese shore. “I couldn’t shut my mind down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally received a denial letter from the VA in 2008, he said its words came as a shock. It cited insufficient evidence “to confirm that you actually engaged in combat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Roundtree calls Fox “an angel” for catching an apparent error that might have cost him thousands of dollars in compensation for his war wounds, and he expresses outrage that she was forced out for speaking up on his behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need people like Jamie to be in the office to help us,” he said. “Not just for me – for me and every other vet that’s out there that’s suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Productivity is priority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Fox left her job, she and the VA continue to battle in court. Government lawyers argue that it does not matter whether VA employees wrongly deny claims. What is important, officials said, is to be highly productive – as measured by the number of cases employees clear from the inventory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under questioning from Administrative Law Judge Virginia Mellema MaGee in 2010, Fox’s supervisor, Yarbrough, said Fox should have immediately sent Roundtree a letter denying his claim despite her concerns because “it was a very old case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of writing a memo questioning the denial’s accuracy, Yarbrough said Fox should have spent no more than half an hour preparing and sending that denial letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What should have occurred was the end product,” Yarbrough said. 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The patient paid Helms $30,000 for treatments, including an initial seven-hour intravenous session. After a fourth infusion session, the patient grew so ill that she went to an emergency room and was hospitalized for six weeks, the FBI said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helms, 57, was arrested Aug. 13 in Encinitas. Her attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charges were filed in December against a San Francisco man accused of performing liposuction while smoking a cigar. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdistrictattorney.com/index.aspx?page=175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prosecutors say\u003c/a> Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, operated with no assistant and had the client hold her own IV bag while he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza assumed the identity of a physician assistant who shared a similar name and ran Derma Clinic, a dermatology office on Mission Street in San Francisco, according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an initial round of press coverage spurred additional victims to come forward, prosecutors filed amended charges against him in April. They included practicing medicine without a license, false impersonation, identity theft, rape and grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guzmangarza’s attorney did not return a call for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cases investigated by the unit have focused on vendors selling “big eye” contact lenses in Los Angeles. The lenses are popular in Asia and make the iris of the eye appear larger, but they can also cause eye damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/-San-Jose-Man-Convicted-of-Posing-as-Toenail-Fungus-Doctor-160296925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another case\u003c/a> involved Cary Silberman, a Santa Clara County man who performed laser treatments to remove toenail fungus at his Shiny Toes clinics in San Francisco and San Ramon. He was sentenced to four years and eight months on charges of practicing medicine without a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other investigations focused on lay people performing childbirth, facelifts and hemorrhoid surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Operation Safe Medicine team was established in 2000 and operated for three years before it disbanded amid budget constraints, according to the sunset report. It reactivated in 2009 after legislation called for public hearings regarding unlicensed practitioners offering laser and cosmetic procedures, according to the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, its investigations have resulted in six felony convictions and 18 misdemeanor convictions. Lawmakers will consider expanding that enforcement team and other issues brought forward in the report during hearings next year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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