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Locals are still challenging that narrative.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In the wake of federal immigration agents killing another person in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend, California lawmakers are moving to place further limits on how these agents can operate and maneuver in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-01-16/what-we-do-and-dont-know-a-year-after-the-vistra-battery-fire-in-moss-landing\">\u003cstrong>Personal Accounts Clash With Government Stance on Fire’s Aftermath\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of Jan. 16, 2025, the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing erupted in flames. This was the third time in less than four years that Vistra’s fire suppression system had failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in contrast to the earlier incidents—in 2021 and 2022—this time, a massive fire broke out, pumping thick, black smoke into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I opened the door, I got hit with burnt plastic,” said Sherry Okamoto, a resident of Royal Oaks, when KAZU spoke with her in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-01-17/moss-landing-battery-plant-prompts-evacuations-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> for about 1,200 Moss Landing residents on the evening of Jan. 16. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are your headlines for the morning of Tuesday, January 27th, 2026:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>It has been about a year since a fire burned the battery plant at Moss Landing in Monterey county. While the fire prompted many residents to move away from homes surrounding the plant, the government’s stance on the aftermath of the fire is that it left no significant environmental impact. Locals are still challenging that narrative.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In the wake of federal immigration agents killing another person in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend, California lawmakers are moving to place further limits on how these agents can operate and maneuver in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-01-16/what-we-do-and-dont-know-a-year-after-the-vistra-battery-fire-in-moss-landing\">\u003cstrong>Personal Accounts Clash With Government Stance on Fire’s Aftermath\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of Jan. 16, 2025, the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing erupted in flames. This was the third time in less than four years that Vistra’s fire suppression system had failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in contrast to the earlier incidents—in 2021 and 2022—this time, a massive fire broke out, pumping thick, black smoke into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I opened the door, I got hit with burnt plastic,” said Sherry Okamoto, a resident of Royal Oaks, when KAZU spoke with her in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-01-17/moss-landing-battery-plant-prompts-evacuations-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> for about 1,200 Moss Landing residents on the evening of Jan. 16. Those orders were lifted a few days later, once the fire subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing two days into the fire, Olivia Trombadore of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said air quality monitoring did not show dangerous levels of particulate matter or hydrogen fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not seen any levels of these two contaminants that would pose a risk to the public,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s air monitoring, as well as the air sampling performed by Vistra’s consultant CTEH, which tested for specific metals, only occurred in the immediate vicinity of the battery plant. That’s because the locations were chosen based on a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0045660d4525482588730b41260c1004/page/Dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">model of the fire’s soot plume\u003c/a> that only stretched up to a few thousand feet from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Monterey County \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/2025-moss-landing-vistra-power-plant-fire/community-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health survey\u003c/a> that was open from Feb. 19 to Mar. 16, 1,275 responders reported experiencing at least one symptom after the fire. The reported symptoms include headaches, itchy eyes, shortness of breath, and even the lingering taste of metal. Most of the respondents lived well beyond the soot plume modeling area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We abandoned our house 12 days after the fire,” said local resident Brian Roeder, who spoke to KAZU in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roeder and his family decided to leave Prunedale, about 8 miles east of the battery plant, after Roeder’s wife started feeling sick. Soon after, Roeder and several other community members started a group called \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://neveragainmosslanding.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Never Again Moss Landing\u003c/a> (NAML).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to know what happened to people, to the environment, to the animals,” Roeder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These questions have been top of mind for many Monterey County residents over the past year. But for the most part, we still don’t know the answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Lawmakers Move to Limit Federal Immigration Activity After Minnesota Killings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage is circulating throughout Sacramento, as lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate are condemning the actions of agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection–after a federal immigration agent killed 37-year-old Veteran Affairs ICU Nurse, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assembly Speaker, Robert Rivas, \u003ca href=\"https://pro.stateaffairs.com/ca/justice-civil-rights/minnesota-shooting-california-political-tech-reaction\">headed a rally at the Capitol on Monday,\u003c/a> calling on Democratic lawmakers across the country to start standing against the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas also called masked ICE and CBP agents a rogue force that is ignoring basic human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the legislative front, Democratic Assemblymember, Jesse Gabriel, is drafting a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/01/23/some-sacramento-electeds-want-to-ban-ice-enforcement-on-city-property-is-it-legal/\">that would ban ICE and CBP from using state property to stage immigration operations.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CBP agent shot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5688898/alex-pretti-remembered-as-friend-nurse-and-dog-dad\">killed Pretti on Saturday\u003c/a>, making him the second American citizen that has died and the hands of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month. An ICE agent\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5671061/minneapolis-ice-shooting-noem\"> killed Renee Good\u003c/a> on January 6th. An off-duty ICE agent also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/fis-837243080-61e54565865febf5377bb403205feae7/fis-837243080-61e54565865febf5377bb403205feae7-enclosure-audio\">shot and killed Keith Porter in Northridge, California\u003c/a>, on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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When the fire broke out, they had already been collecting soil samples \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026477/after-toxic-monterey-battery-fire-scientists-keep-watch-over-sensitive-ecosystem\">from nearby Elkhorn Slough\u003c/a>, a sanctuary for endangered wildlife, so they had baseline data for comparison. After the fire, they tested for nickel, manganese and cobalt — the primary elements used in lithium-ion batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a powerful electron microscope, they saw tiny beads of those metals in the soil. “That was pretty much a smoking gun,” Aiello said. Concentrations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024233/monterey-county-battery-fire-linked-surge-heavy-metals-nature-reserves-soil\">of the metals\u003c/a> were between 10 and 1,000 times greater than they had been before the fire. They also found that the correlation of nickel to cobalt followed a strict 2:1 ratio — the same proportion used in manufacturing the batteries at the Vistra facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://elkhornslough.org/files/publications/EMBER-Preliminary-Biota-Report-November-2025.pdf\">Preliminary test results\u003c/a> from another \u003ca href=\"https://mlml.sjsu.edu/estuary-monitoring-of-battery-emissions-and-residues/\">team of San José State scientists\u003c/a> give some indication that the metals, which can be toxic above certain concentrations, have entered the food chain in the nearby estuary. But the concern is not only for the local wildlife, which includes the southern sea otter, a threatened species still struggling back from the brink of extinction. Many agricultural fields are also close to the Moss Landing battery plant. And, there’s another piece of detective work still to be done. Aiello and his colleagues calculated that the heavy metals they found in the soil amounted to less than 2% of the metals contained in the burned batteries. “Where is the other 98%?” Aiello said. “Some of it might have gone straight to the ocean, but some of it might have traveled elsewhere because those particles are very, very tiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Buy-Now-Pay-Later Lenders Called Out By State Attorney General\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a coalition of state attorneys general to question whether buy-now-pay-later lenders are putting consumers at financial risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent this week, Bonta and other state leaders asked companies to disclose how they handle billing, late fees, and disputed charges. 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There haven’t been any sustained periods of poor air quality or indications of danger to the public, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinator Eric Sandusky said, but officials advised residents to close windows and doors Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said the fire burned at “different intensities” throughout the night and burned out around 8 a.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 70% of the Vistra site, including some of the 100,000 lithium-ion batteries it uses to store energy, burned in the original fire, which scientists said could have dangerous health and environmental impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Four Monterey County residents are suing PG&E and Vistra, alleging negligence in a battery storage fire that spread toxic chemicals and forced evacuations. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people joined a Facebook group to discuss symptoms like nausea, headaches and sore throats that they developed in the days after the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026172/lawsuit-blames-pge-vistra-for-toxic-fire-at-monterey-battery-storage-facility\">suing Texas-based Vistra Corp.\u003c/a> over the release of toxic chemicals, saying the company should have known the risks of operating such a facility and failed to take safety measures to prevent or contain the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also criticizes the use of indoor storage for some of the batteries and the site’s allegedly faulty and inadequate heat-suppression system. In addition, it names PG&E, which draws power from the energy storage facility, and LG Energy Solution, which installed the batteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists at San José State University also later found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026477/after-toxic-monterey-battery-fire-scientists-keep-watch-over-sensitive-ecosystem\">heightened levels of dangerous heavy metals\u003c/a> in the nearby Elkhorn Slough. In some parts of the sensitive ecosystem’s soil, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024233/monterey-county-battery-fire-linked-surge-heavy-metals-nature-reserves-soil\">nanoparticles of manganese, cobalt and nickel\u003c/a> were detected at levels 1,000 times greater than before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County agencies formed a unified command to respond to the reignited fire Tuesday night and monitor the situation. Heavy metal and air quality monitoring are ongoing, but county environmental health chief Ric Encarnacion said that it appears to be safe for people living near the site to proceed with normal activities. If they smell smoke or are concerned, they should continue to take precautions like closing windows and wearing masks outdoors, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said fire crews will remain on-site through Wednesday night to monitor the area where the flare-up occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because batteries were damaged in January’s fire, and Monterey County has been hit by recent storms, rekindlings like this are “very common,” Sandusky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the fire, you don’t get a complete burn of the battery, so there’s still some batteries in there that are damaged. 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It’s right next to the site where, last month, a 100-foot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022725/massive-fire-monterey-county-battery-plant-spews-toxic-smoke-forces-evacuations\">plume of fire\u003c/a> destroyed one of the biggest battery storage sites in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire at the Vistra Energy Storage Facility is still unknown. And so are its consequences for the sensitive ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivano Aiello, professor and chair at Moss Landing Marine Labs, has found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024233/monterey-county-battery-fire-linked-surge-heavy-metals-nature-reserves-soil\">nanoparticles of manganese, cobalt and nickel\u003c/a> in the soil of Elkhorn Slough, in some locations at levels 1,000 times greater than before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Endris (left), a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial analyst, and Ivano Aiello (right), a professor and department chair at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, test the soil for metal levels in Elkhorn Slough near the Moss Landing Power Plant in Moss Landing on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t there [before],” said Aiello, who has been monitoring the soil at the slough for over a decade. “It’s that simple. I’ve never measured those metals in such high concentrations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello is now working with a team of scientists to check whether the heavy metals, found in the lithium-ion batteries that burned, are moving through the tidal ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it might actually move through the soil as the water percolates,” he said, “and potentially enter the food web.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animals in Elkhorn Slough have so far shown no changes in behavior or numbers. But scientists are monitoring to see whether the metals, for example, could make their way into those fat innkeeper worms, which feed at the bottom of the slough. And from there, into the otters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Dustin Mulvaney of San José State University, who researches the environmental impacts of batteries, pointed out that the heavy metals might also affect the local Amah Mutsun tribe, who have \u003ca href=\"https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/wild-olympia-baby-oysters-are-back-elkhorn-slough\">restored oysters\u003c/a> to Elkhorn Slough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One concern I would have is for the Amah Mutsun,” Mulvaney said, “if they’re going to be eating those Olympia oysters at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Moss Landing residents is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026172/lawsuit-blames-pge-vistra-for-toxic-fire-at-monterey-battery-storage-facility\">suing\u003c/a> three energy companies — Vistra Corp., which runs the facility, PG&E, which draws power from it, and LG Energy Solution, which installed the batteries — saying they experienced dizziness, skin irritation and other health symptoms after the fire. They say the Texas-based Vistra should have taken better safety precautions in the energy storage facility, which is somewhat of an outlier in that it was built inside an old gas power plant and the type of battery it used is becoming less common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vistra declined a request for an interview but said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mosslandingresponse.com/?utm_medium=search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=mosslanding&utm_content=search%20&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAtYy9BhBcEiwANWQQL7QN5Xht5x6Rl79llduONWebZAg9H-Nwvkle_J_hBsvDBCzJkf1IpRoCAosQAvD_BwE\">statement\u003c/a> that it’s monitoring the air and that no hazardous levels have been detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moss Landing Power Plant, the site of a battery fire on Jan. 16, in Moss Landing on Feb. 12, 2025. The power plant is a natural gas-fired power station with a large battery storage facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission is investigating the cause of the fire and has issued new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-issues-proposal-to-enhance-safety-of-battery-energy-storage-facilities\">proposed safety standards\u003c/a> for battery storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Batteries and fires have been a known issue,” Mulvaney said. “Our regulation and our ability to think through the impacts of new technology are sometimes a little bit behind the technology itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello and other scientists are continuing to collect and analyze samples from Elkhorn Slough and release \u003ca href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/2025-moss-landing-vistra-power-plant-fire\">data\u003c/a> as it becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”We need to learn as much as possible,” Aiello said. “It’s an opportunity for society to learn more about whether this type of technology is the way we want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire at the Vistra Energy Storage Facility is still unknown. And so are its consequences for the sensitive ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivano Aiello, professor and chair at Moss Landing Marine Labs, has found \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024233/monterey-county-battery-fire-linked-surge-heavy-metals-nature-reserves-soil\">nanoparticles of manganese, cobalt and nickel\u003c/a> in the soil of Elkhorn Slough, in some locations at levels 1,000 times greater than before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-BL-KQED-DIPTYCH-2-KQED-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Endris (left), a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial analyst, and Ivano Aiello (right), a professor and department chair at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, test the soil for metal levels in Elkhorn Slough near the Moss Landing Power Plant in Moss Landing on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t there [before],” said Aiello, who has been monitoring the soil at the slough for over a decade. “It’s that simple. I’ve never measured those metals in such high concentrations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello is now working with a team of scientists to check whether the heavy metals, found in the lithium-ion batteries that burned, are moving through the tidal ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of it might actually move through the soil as the water percolates,” he said, “and potentially enter the food web.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animals in Elkhorn Slough have so far shown no changes in behavior or numbers. But scientists are monitoring to see whether the metals, for example, could make their way into those fat innkeeper worms, which feed at the bottom of the slough. And from there, into the otters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Dustin Mulvaney of San José State University, who researches the environmental impacts of batteries, pointed out that the heavy metals might also affect the local Amah Mutsun tribe, who have \u003ca href=\"https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/wild-olympia-baby-oysters-are-back-elkhorn-slough\">restored oysters\u003c/a> to Elkhorn Slough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One concern I would have is for the Amah Mutsun,” Mulvaney said, “if they’re going to be eating those Olympia oysters at some point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Moss Landing residents is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026172/lawsuit-blames-pge-vistra-for-toxic-fire-at-monterey-battery-storage-facility\">suing\u003c/a> three energy companies — Vistra Corp., which runs the facility, PG&E, which draws power from it, and LG Energy Solution, which installed the batteries — saying they experienced dizziness, skin irritation and other health symptoms after the fire. They say the Texas-based Vistra should have taken better safety precautions in the energy storage facility, which is somewhat of an outlier in that it was built inside an old gas power plant and the type of battery it used is becoming less common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vistra declined a request for an interview but said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mosslandingresponse.com/?utm_medium=search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=mosslanding&utm_content=search%20&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAtYy9BhBcEiwANWQQL7QN5Xht5x6Rl79llduONWebZAg9H-Nwvkle_J_hBsvDBCzJkf1IpRoCAosQAvD_BwE\">statement\u003c/a> that it’s monitoring the air and that no hazardous levels have been detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-ELKHORNSLOUGH-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Moss Landing Power Plant, the site of a battery fire on Jan. 16, in Moss Landing on Feb. 12, 2025. The power plant is a natural gas-fired power station with a large battery storage facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission is investigating the cause of the fire and has issued new \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-issues-proposal-to-enhance-safety-of-battery-energy-storage-facilities\">proposed safety standards\u003c/a> for battery storage facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Batteries and fires have been a known issue,” Mulvaney said. “Our regulation and our ability to think through the impacts of new technology are sometimes a little bit behind the technology itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello and other scientists are continuing to collect and analyze samples from Elkhorn Slough and release \u003ca href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/2025-moss-landing-vistra-power-plant-fire\">data\u003c/a> as it becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”We need to learn as much as possible,” Aiello said. “It’s an opportunity for society to learn more about whether this type of technology is the way we want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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