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San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:38] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to the Bay Local News to keep you rooted. And welcome to our September news roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. I am joined by Jessica Kariisa, our producer. Hey, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:54] \u003c/em>Hey, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:55] \u003c/em>And our very special guest this month, Guy Marzorotti, politics and government correspondent for KQED. What’s up, Guy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:02] \u003c/em>Hey, thanks for having me\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:03] \u003c/em>Thank you so much for being here. I am sitting here with two San Jose folks, South Bay folks. I take it you guys didn’t feel the earthquake, which had its epicenter in Berkeley. No, I definitely didn’t fell it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:21] \u003c/em>No, that was a fantastic night of sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:24] \u003c/em>I am curious. So I felt it, and I feel like a lot of people in my circles are just talking about it and freaking out about it. Are people in your orbits talking about the earthquake?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:35] \u003c/em>I was in the office the next day and there was a lot of buzz about it. It didn’t stand out to me statistically as like, oh, this is a massive number. But yeah, maybe it was just, you know, when it landed, people were talking about it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, Jessica, you and I on Wednesday picked up emergency kits. So is it, it was on your mind, it seems like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:58] \u003c/em>It’s always been on my mind since I moved to California, to be honest with you, I just was aware of earthquakes being a possibility. So even though living in San Jose, I haven’t really felt much. I think there was one that was like really, really tiny. I just wanna be prepared. So I did pick up that go bag and it’s underneath my bed, ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:18] \u003c/em>Yeah, I have to say that even though I felt the earthquake, I definitely woke up and then immediately went back to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:28] \u003c/em>Yeah, no, I feel like that you have that like sense as working in news of like, okay, is this, does this meet the scale if I need to fully get out of bed? Like I remember that about the Napa earthquake. It was like, okay, this is not just a like roll back over type of shake. So yeah, your senses were on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>But definitely a California girl a little too used to it. I guess we could just dive right into the stories that we’ve been following this month. I’m gonna stick here in Berkeley with my story actually, which is a story about UC Berkeley where earlier this month, the university confirmed that it sent the names of 160 students, staff and faculty members over to the federal government for its investigation into anti-Semitism on campus. Individuals were notified that their personal info was shared with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights earlier this month. And it’s drawn, as you can imagine, lots of criticism from folks who say that this is a violation of academic freedom and puts a lot of people at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:45] \u003c/em>So why is this happening? Could you tell us a bit more about this investigation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, so Cal is the subject of several federal investigations right now. It’s one of 60 universities facing a civil rights investigation into how the university handles complaints and allegations of anti-Semitism and or discrimination on campus. And these investigations really came out of the campus protests that we saw last summer over Israel’s war in Gaza. The university spokesperson said that its decision to share these names was really just in compliance with this federal investigation and its legal obligation to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:29] \u003c/em>So why these specific people? What was the federal government looking for about these specific folks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:37] \u003c/em>So the San Francisco Chronicle got a hold of this letter that had been shared with each person whose name and information had been with the federal government. And the letter notes that the Federal Office of Civil Rights quote, required production of comprehensive documents, including files and reports related to alleged anti-Semitic incidents, unquote. There isn’t a ton of information about why these specific people had their names given to the federal government, but one grad student who got one of these letters from the university told the Daily Cal that they feel like the move seems to be targeting Arab and Muslim individuals who had expressed support for Palestine. If you recall, there were these protests on campus last summer. And there’s a feeling that many of the folks involved in that were among those targeted by this investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:44] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of us know the history of UC Berkeley as this center of student protests and just a lot of activism. What’s been the response? I can’t imagine that people are just sort of taking this lying down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:01] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, you’re hearing a lot of folks saying that this effectively represses folks’ First Amendment rights. There’s petitions circulating, including one that’s been signed by 600 university professors from around the world and professors who have worked with faculty at Cal saying that they’re truly concerned about the decision to share these names, these professors. Acknowledge that Berkeley has an obligation to comply with this federal investigation. But they criticized how those names were shared, specifically that the folks whose names were shared didn’t really have a chance to dispute the information that the university had collected on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>OK, so I know UC has a new president. How has he been kind of factoring into all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:55] \u003c/em>So I will say that UC Berkeley said that their decision to comply with these federal investigations was made by the University of California’s system-wide office of the general counsel. And so now there is a national coalition that’s calling for the removal of the head of the UC. That’s President James Millikan. And the petition is basically describing the UC’s move as a violation of academic freedom. And so some folks are looking to hold someone accountable for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>Wow, just a few months in already on the hot seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:33] \u003c/em>Right, intense time to run colleges, I guess, for anyone in that job. Well, that is it for my story this month. We’re going to take a quick break. But when we come back, we’ll talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:46] \u003c/em>And welcome back to the Bay September News Roundup where we talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Our special guest, Guy, we’re gonna turn to you. I know you got a story on the biggest economic driver in Benicia closing down for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:03] \u003c/em>Yes. So this is, you know, we’ve been following the saga I know you have on the Bay about the closure announcement from the Valero refinery in Benicia. And there’s a reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle by Julie Johnson that this refinery in Benisia is on track to close. There has been a lot of effort since Valero made this announcement to like keep the refinery open. Because when you combine that refinery closing with another refinery and LA closing, there could be like 20% of the state’s fuel refining capacity just gone overnight. So there’s been a lot of efforts to counteract that. There were some bills signed by the governor earlier this month to increase oil drilling in the state. But then we have this reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle where the city manager of Benicia said, quote, it seems there is now no path that remains for Valero to remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:55] \u003c/em>I mean, why is that guy after all that effort, after all this hubbub around trying to keep this thing open, the worries about the impact on Benicia, why couldn’t they make it happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:07] \u003c/em>I think this is something very immediate, right? This is a company that decided dollars and cents is not working for us. We’re gonna close our doors. I’ve heard about there have been some efforts to literally do like a bailout package, like literally have the state just give money to Valero to keep their refinery open because we are talking about jobs, talking about impact to the local city economy. That never came to fruition. And I think in absence of that, Valero made the decision, look, this still just doesn’t work for us and we’re gonna, you know. Close up our doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:38] \u003c/em>I mean, with two refineries in the state closing, does that mean that our gas is gonna get more expensive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:45] \u003c/em>I think that’s the big fear, right? To counteract that, I think there is more and more conversation about bringing in fuel from elsewhere, right. Like, you know, California, it’s often described as like islands for fuel production because we have these really strict standards. We can’t necessarily import from other states. And so as you see the decline in actual like oil being drilled in California, it has to come from somewhere because even as there’s less demand for fuel in the state, people are still driving, right. California is still a state where people drive a lot. So I think the conversation might turn to like, can we import more of this? The thing that I’m really curious about is the impact on like the local city economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:26] \u003c/em>Mm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:27] \u003c/em>Because I think it’s often like, okay, well, what about the people that are gonna work at the refineries, you know, what’s gonna happen to their jobs? I read this interview with the head of the refinery in LA and he’s like, oh, basically everyone from this refinery can find a job pretty easily. Like they’re getting new employment. But this Chronicle story says that Benicia will lose more than $10 million in taxes out of a $60 million budget when Valero closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:53] \u003c/em>Yeah, I was gonna ask about that guy because I know that Valera was a major economic engine in the city of Benicia. I mean, what has the reaction from the local community been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:06] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it really seems like a scramble right now. Like there’s work being done to try to figure out, okay, how to, you know, prop up local businesses. But one city council member who’s quoted in this story said, we have a lot of businesses in Venetia where Valero is their only client. They might make a specific piece or part or some complicated refining equipment that’s really only built to serve Valero. So what is that business supposed to do right now? And when you talk about like the budget impact, yeah, you lose that much money overnight. Like how are you gonna pay the police, the fire, the like, you know, clean up people’s streets, fix the roads, all of that I think suddenly becomes like a really urgent question for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:49] \u003c/em>I’m curious too though, like at a statewide level, knowing that we’re a state that wants to move away from fossil fuels, how does the closing of this refinery like square with that? Like, does that get us closer to the goal in a weird way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:06] \u003c/em>Yeah, I think it’s like, it’s a really delicate dance that the state is doing because they are pushing away from petroleum and they’re pushing towards like clean energy. At the same time, we still have a demand for those products and we still have, you know, people who are driving up to the pump every day and looking at the price and that’s affecting, you who they might vote for. So I think that when people say like, California is in mid-transition, like we are literally. In the middle of this transition and nowhere else is experiencing it like we are. Like people talk about, oh, climate change is coming, like we’re living it with wildfires and everything. We’re also living like what it means to transition away from fossil fuels. And it’s, you know, it’s kind of crazy being like living in the middle an experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:53] \u003c/em>Crazy way to think about it, guy. But it’s true and I guess it means that like whatever happens in Benicia over the next few months and years is gonna be something to like really watch closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>And I feel like there’s gonna be thousands of Benicas across the country in the next like few decades. So yeah, what happens here is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Well, guy, thank you so much for bringing that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:16] \u003c/em>Yeah, absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:22] \u003c/em>And last but not least, producer Jessica Kariisa, you brought a story about Waymo coming to an airport near you real soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:31] \u003c/em>Yes, living in San Jose, I don’t see a lot of Waymos, but I’m about to see Waymo. 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And it’s drawn, as you can imagine, lots of criticism from folks who say that this is a violation of academic freedom and puts a lot of people at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:45] \u003c/em>So why is this happening? Could you tell us a bit more about this investigation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, so Cal is the subject of several federal investigations right now. It’s one of 60 universities facing a civil rights investigation into how the university handles complaints and allegations of anti-Semitism and or discrimination on campus. And these investigations really came out of the campus protests that we saw last summer over Israel’s war in Gaza. 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There isn’t a ton of information about why these specific people had their names given to the federal government, but one grad student who got one of these letters from the university told the Daily Cal that they feel like the move seems to be targeting Arab and Muslim individuals who had expressed support for Palestine. If you recall, there were these protests on campus last summer. And there’s a feeling that many of the folks involved in that were among those targeted by this investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:44] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of us know the history of UC Berkeley as this center of student protests and just a lot of activism. What’s been the response? I can’t imagine that people are just sort of taking this lying down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:01] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, you’re hearing a lot of folks saying that this effectively represses folks’ First Amendment rights. There’s petitions circulating, including one that’s been signed by 600 university professors from around the world and professors who have worked with faculty at Cal saying that they’re truly concerned about the decision to share these names, these professors. Acknowledge that Berkeley has an obligation to comply with this federal investigation. But they criticized how those names were shared, specifically that the folks whose names were shared didn’t really have a chance to dispute the information that the university had collected on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>OK, so I know UC has a new president. How has he been kind of factoring into all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:55] \u003c/em>So I will say that UC Berkeley said that their decision to comply with these federal investigations was made by the University of California’s system-wide office of the general counsel. And so now there is a national coalition that’s calling for the removal of the head of the UC. That’s President James Millikan. And the petition is basically describing the UC’s move as a violation of academic freedom. And so some folks are looking to hold someone accountable for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>Wow, just a few months in already on the hot seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:33] \u003c/em>Right, intense time to run colleges, I guess, for anyone in that job. Well, that is it for my story this month. We’re going to take a quick break. But when we come back, we’ll talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:46] \u003c/em>And welcome back to the Bay September News Roundup where we talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Our special guest, Guy, we’re gonna turn to you. I know you got a story on the biggest economic driver in Benicia closing down for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:03] \u003c/em>Yes. So this is, you know, we’ve been following the saga I know you have on the Bay about the closure announcement from the Valero refinery in Benicia. And there’s a reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle by Julie Johnson that this refinery in Benisia is on track to close. There has been a lot of effort since Valero made this announcement to like keep the refinery open. Because when you combine that refinery closing with another refinery and LA closing, there could be like 20% of the state’s fuel refining capacity just gone overnight. So there’s been a lot of efforts to counteract that. There were some bills signed by the governor earlier this month to increase oil drilling in the state. But then we have this reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle where the city manager of Benicia said, quote, it seems there is now no path that remains for Valero to remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:55] \u003c/em>I mean, why is that guy after all that effort, after all this hubbub around trying to keep this thing open, the worries about the impact on Benicia, why couldn’t they make it happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:07] \u003c/em>I think this is something very immediate, right? This is a company that decided dollars and cents is not working for us. We’re gonna close our doors. I’ve heard about there have been some efforts to literally do like a bailout package, like literally have the state just give money to Valero to keep their refinery open because we are talking about jobs, talking about impact to the local city economy. That never came to fruition. And I think in absence of that, Valero made the decision, look, this still just doesn’t work for us and we’re gonna, you know. Close up our doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:38] \u003c/em>I mean, with two refineries in the state closing, does that mean that our gas is gonna get more expensive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:45] \u003c/em>I think that’s the big fear, right? To counteract that, I think there is more and more conversation about bringing in fuel from elsewhere, right. Like, you know, California, it’s often described as like islands for fuel production because we have these really strict standards. We can’t necessarily import from other states. And so as you see the decline in actual like oil being drilled in California, it has to come from somewhere because even as there’s less demand for fuel in the state, people are still driving, right. California is still a state where people drive a lot. So I think the conversation might turn to like, can we import more of this? The thing that I’m really curious about is the impact on like the local city economies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:26] \u003c/em>Mm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:27] \u003c/em>Because I think it’s often like, okay, well, what about the people that are gonna work at the refineries, you know, what’s gonna happen to their jobs? I read this interview with the head of the refinery in LA and he’s like, oh, basically everyone from this refinery can find a job pretty easily. Like they’re getting new employment. But this Chronicle story says that Benicia will lose more than $10 million in taxes out of a $60 million budget when Valero closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:53] \u003c/em>Yeah, I was gonna ask about that guy because I know that Valera was a major economic engine in the city of Benicia. I mean, what has the reaction from the local community been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:06] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it really seems like a scramble right now. Like there’s work being done to try to figure out, okay, how to, you know, prop up local businesses. But one city council member who’s quoted in this story said, we have a lot of businesses in Venetia where Valero is their only client. They might make a specific piece or part or some complicated refining equipment that’s really only built to serve Valero. So what is that business supposed to do right now? And when you talk about like the budget impact, yeah, you lose that much money overnight. Like how are you gonna pay the police, the fire, the like, you know, clean up people’s streets, fix the roads, all of that I think suddenly becomes like a really urgent question for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:49] \u003c/em>I’m curious too though, like at a statewide level, knowing that we’re a state that wants to move away from fossil fuels, how does the closing of this refinery like square with that? Like, does that get us closer to the goal in a weird way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:06] \u003c/em>Yeah, I think it’s like, it’s a really delicate dance that the state is doing because they are pushing away from petroleum and they’re pushing towards like clean energy. At the same time, we still have a demand for those products and we still have, you know, people who are driving up to the pump every day and looking at the price and that’s affecting, you who they might vote for. So I think that when people say like, California is in mid-transition, like we are literally. In the middle of this transition and nowhere else is experiencing it like we are. Like people talk about, oh, climate change is coming, like we’re living it with wildfires and everything. We’re also living like what it means to transition away from fossil fuels. And it’s, you know, it’s kind of crazy being like living in the middle an experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:53] \u003c/em>Crazy way to think about it, guy. But it’s true and I guess it means that like whatever happens in Benicia over the next few months and years is gonna be something to like really watch closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>And I feel like there’s gonna be thousands of Benicas across the country in the next like few decades. So yeah, what happens here is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:14] \u003c/em>Well, guy, thank you so much for bringing that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:16] \u003c/em>Yeah, absolutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:22] \u003c/em>And last but not least, producer Jessica Kariisa, you brought a story about Waymo coming to an airport near you real soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:31] \u003c/em>Yes, living in San Jose, I don’t see a lot of Waymos, but I’m about to see Waymo. I thought about that on the train and I delivered. Yes. I wasn’t ready. Anyways, yes, Waymos are coming to the airport. They were first approved at San Jose’s airport, my airport of choice earlier this month. And then soon after SFO followed up. And so there isn’t an exact date, but. Waymos will be coming to the airports in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:04] \u003c/em>Why exactly. Is this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:08] \u003c/em>Well, I mean, yeah. Like around KQED, we’re in the mission. We see Waymos all the time. We know that it’s a thing here. It’s become like a tourist attraction. And I think with a lot of big events coming to the Bay Area next year, namely the Super Bowl and the World Cup, San Jose and San Francisco want to capitalize on like another tourist experience for people coming into the city. And also Waymo was always gonna roll out across the Bay Area. Its plan is to expand in general. And so I think, you know, this is one step as they get closer to more penetration in other parts of the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:46] \u003c/em>I remember when Uber and Lyft, like when they were first trying to go to SFO and go to airports, it was like a huge deal. And it was a big fight with all the taxi drivers, a lot of the unions. Is there any opposition now this time around to these companies trying to create a foothold at the airports?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:03] \u003c/em>According to the reporting that I’ve seen in the Standard and the Chronicle, I haven’t heard of any opposition. There’s already rideshare options at the airport. This will just be an addition to that. And Waymo released a report back in March saying that there were over 13,000 searches for SFO in their app. And also there were 700 people that downloaded the app while at the airports. So, you know, it almost just kind of feels inevitable. I think we had the big sort of push and opposition when rideshare first emerged. But with Waymo, it’s just another option, you now. So just pick which one you prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:44] \u003c/em>Yeah, I remember that guy. Like it doesn’t feel that long ago when we were talking about like taxi medallions and people feeling really upset about, you know, paying a ton of money to have those and be able to drive folks from the airport. And now we’re talking about driverless cars at the airport, what is the timeline here, Jessica? Like how soon, I guess, are people gonna see Waymo’s at the airports?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, so we just know that it’s gonna be this year. At San Jose, they did testing last summer. At SFO, they’re gonna start off with a testing phase where there’ll be a human in the car, a safety driver is what they call it. And then after that, they are gonna open up the rides to Waymo employees and airport staff. And then, after that it’ll open up to everybody else. We don’t have an exact date yet, but that’s the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:42] \u003c/em>Well, Jessica, thank you so much for bringing that story. Thank you so. And that is it for our September news roundup. Thank you so much to producer Jessica Kariisa for joining me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:55] \u003c/em>Thank you, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jessica Kariisa: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:57] \u003c/em>And Guy Marzorati, politics and government correspondent for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The federal agency responsible for investigating chemical accidents at industrial facilities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oil-refineries\">oil refineries\u003c/a> like those in the Bay Area, is at risk of being shut down under the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, then-President Donald Trump tried and failed to use the budget process \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/politics/system-failure/agency-industrial-chemical-safety-board-disasters-life-support-trump-deregulation/\">to shut down the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board\u003c/a>, better known as the CSB. He could try it again, as he’s repeatedly said he plans to increase oil and gas production with a deregulatory agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starting on Day 1, I will approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refiners, new power plants, new reactors, and we will slash the red tape,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5181963/trump-promises-more-drilling-in-the-u-s-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production\">Trump said in early September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSB has investigated major disasters like the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling explosion and leak that lasted for several months in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion and fire\u003c/a> in Georgia earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, it investigated the explosion and fire at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/94930/how-the-chevron-richmond-fire-happened-feds-release-blow-by-blow-animation-of-accident\">Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">most of them with breathing problems\u003c/a>. More recently, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">investigated safety violations\u003c/a> that resulted in a fire that injured a worker last year at \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/martinez-renewable-fuels-fire-/\">Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re the folks who show up and just get to the facts and get to the root cause, hold people accountable,” said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), who was a Contra Costa County supervisor when his predecessor, George Miller, helped create the CSB in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While local agencies like the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board keep tabs on refineries, the CSB’s reports often offer more detail and are released faster than those from other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier — who also supported many environmental protections when he served on the California Air Resources Board and BAAQMD — said the CSB is vital to the health of the nation, as its findings have helped usher in regulations that have made it safer for workers, the environment and human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Trump attempt to get rid of the CSB a second time, DeSaulnier said he’ll fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s basically taking the police officer off the beat at the federal level for polluters. He’s saying, ‘Go ahead and pollute. Go ahead and risk your employees’ and your neighbors’ lives. That’s fine with us. Nobody’s going to be watching,’” DeSaulnier said. “I will. I will fight that tooth and nail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the CSB be terminated, “the likelihood of somebody dying goes up in our case” because there will be a push to lower regulations to compete with places with lower environmental standards, DeSaulnier said, using Louisiana and Thailand as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Environmental Protection Agency or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the CSB’s investigatory functioning is free of typical rulemaking, which allows it to investigate multiple facets of an industrial accident, including workplace safety issues and chemical releases that may have harmed the outside community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12013686 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress also gave it autonomy so that it isn’t beholden to any other agency or the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the president appoints the CSB’s members. It is a five-member board, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/about-the-csb/board-members/\">two seats are vacant\u003c/a> — and the current three members of the board all have terms that expire before the end of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump has yet to formally call for the end of the CSB, he has already told one of his Cabinet appointments, Robert F. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The federal agency responsible for investigating chemical accidents at industrial facilities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oil-refineries\">oil refineries\u003c/a> like those in the Bay Area, is at risk of being shut down under the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, then-President Donald Trump tried and failed to use the budget process \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/politics/system-failure/agency-industrial-chemical-safety-board-disasters-life-support-trump-deregulation/\">to shut down the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board\u003c/a>, better known as the CSB. He could try it again, as he’s repeatedly said he plans to increase oil and gas production with a deregulatory agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Starting on Day 1, I will approve new drilling, new pipelines, new refiners, new power plants, new reactors, and we will slash the red tape,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5181963/trump-promises-more-drilling-in-the-u-s-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production\">Trump said in early September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSB has investigated major disasters like the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling explosion and leak that lasted for several months in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion and fire\u003c/a> in Georgia earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, it investigated the explosion and fire at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/94930/how-the-chevron-richmond-fire-happened-feds-release-blow-by-blow-animation-of-accident\">Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\">most of them with breathing problems\u003c/a>. More recently, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">investigated safety violations\u003c/a> that resulted in a fire that injured a worker last year at \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/martinez-renewable-fuels-fire-/\">Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re the folks who show up and just get to the facts and get to the root cause, hold people accountable,” said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), who was a Contra Costa County supervisor when his predecessor, George Miller, helped create the CSB in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While local agencies like the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board keep tabs on refineries, the CSB’s reports often offer more detail and are released faster than those from other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier — who also supported many environmental protections when he served on the California Air Resources Board and BAAQMD — said the CSB is vital to the health of the nation, as its findings have helped usher in regulations that have made it safer for workers, the environment and human health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Trump attempt to get rid of the CSB a second time, DeSaulnier said he’ll fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s basically taking the police officer off the beat at the federal level for polluters. He’s saying, ‘Go ahead and pollute. Go ahead and risk your employees’ and your neighbors’ lives. That’s fine with us. Nobody’s going to be watching,’” DeSaulnier said. “I will. I will fight that tooth and nail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the CSB be terminated, “the likelihood of somebody dying goes up in our case” because there will be a push to lower regulations to compete with places with lower environmental standards, DeSaulnier said, using Louisiana and Thailand as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Environmental Protection Agency or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the CSB’s investigatory functioning is free of typical rulemaking, which allows it to investigate multiple facets of an industrial accident, including workplace safety issues and chemical releases that may have harmed the outside community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Opponents of a state law limiting oil and gas drilling near schools, homes and other residential areas recently gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the November 2024 ballot, setting the stage for an epic political battle that could shatter campaign spending records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1137\">SB 1137\u003c/a>, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, which prohibits oil and gas drilling within about a half mile — 3,200 feet — of “sensitive receptors,” including homes, hospitals, medical clinics, community centers and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To environmental and health advocates, the hard-fought restrictions are long overdue. But oil and gas companies — or “Big Oil,” as the governor calls them — argue that the limits are not based in science and will only force California to import oil from other states with weaker health and environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has a lot of ramifications,” said Rock Zierman, CEO of the California Independent Petroleum Association, which is among a coalition of industry groups that together spent roughly $20 million to put the issue on the ballot. “Employment ramifications, tax ramifications. And it’s worse for the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing’s for sure: By qualifying the referendum for the ballot, opponents of the law have placed it on hold for almost two years, until voters have a chance to weigh in. A simple majority vote is required to scrap the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing for Big Oil to make record profits as they rip off Californians at the pump,” Newsom said last week, after it was announced that the referendum had qualified for the ballot. “It’s quite another to push to continue harmful drilling near day cares and schools and our homes. Greedy oil companies know that drilling results in more kids getting asthma, more children born with birth defects, and more communities exposed to toxic, dangerous chemicals — but they would rather put our health at risk than sacrifice a single cent of their billions in profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/epdf/10.1289/EHP1535\">More than 2 million Californians\u003c/a>, many of them people of color, live within a mile of an active oil or gas well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of studies have found that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32069745/\">people living near active oil or gas wells are more likely to suffer from serious health issues\u003c/a>, including including \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11092\">cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118306339\">cardiovascular\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825956/\">respiratory diseases\u003c/a> and chronic cases of \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP281\">fatigue, nosebleeds and headaches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional research also suggests that pregnant people living near active wells are at greater risk of having \u003ca href=\"https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/Fulltext/2020/08000/Oil_and_gas_production_and_spontaneous_preterm.1.aspx?context=LatestArticles\">spontaneous preterm birth\u003c/a>, increasingly the likelihood of their babies having birth defects and lifelong health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those outcomes for newborns can have repercussions for the health of the child throughout the life, because being born of low birth weight or preterm puts you at increased risk of other health problems down the line,” said Rachel Morello-Frosch, a UC Berkeley environmental health scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat from Long Beach, who helped introduce the setback law, said the oil industry simply wants to maintain the status quo, which is “not shocking, but very disappointing” and “not sufficient anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Embracing the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kobi Naseck, coalition coordinator with the environmental justice advocacy group Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, fought for the setback law and says the oil and gas industry is using the ballot to upend good policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing big corporations spend money in an unheard-of way to undo a regulation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp>In November, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-stringify-link=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a> reported that Bay Area canvassers employed by the oil industry used misleading tactics when gathering signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. Some voters said they were told the referendum would ban new oil and gas wells near homes, the exact opposite of what it would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oil-drilling\"]The ballot challenge to the drilling law will be the second referendum to go before voters in 2024. Opponents of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a>, a law signed by Newsom that aims to increase pay and improve working conditions for the state’s fast-food workers, also recently submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to referendum laws was added to the California Constitution in 1912 as a way for citizens to fight the considerable clout that powerful industries like the railroads enjoyed in Sacramento in the early part of the 20th century. But in recent years, that tool has increasingly been used by deep-pocket interests to overturn laws unfavorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 31, an effort by tobacco companies to undo a new law banning flavored tobacco. But, says veteran campaign consultant Gale Kaufman, sometimes the goal isn’t to totally reject a law, but rather to delay its implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s different now. They [corporations] know from Day One that they’re going to try a referendum to stop a law. Tobacco — they didn’t even run a campaign, they just delayed it to give them time,” Kaufman told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure killing the bill is the goal. It’s stopping it for two years until they figure out what they’re going to do next,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2020-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/proposition-25-referendum-overturn-2018-law-replaced-money-bail-system-system-based-public-safety-risk\">bail bond industry poured millions of dollars into a successful referendum campaign\u003c/a> to overturn SB 10, a law that would have replaced cash bail with risk assessments for those detained and awaiting trial. Ultimately, 56% of voters supported the referendum, and the law was scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufman, who ran the campaign against the cash bail referendum effort, says that preserving the law was an uphill battle for a number of reasons, including the fact that unlike limitations on oil drilling, voters needed more education to understand what bail was and why it was unfair to lower-income defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this [drilling law referendum], it’s easy to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. People are pissed at gas prices and high oil prices. That’s all you have to say,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High gas prices: an argument for both sides\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Referendums are a different beast [from other ballot measures] because you have to figure out what ‘yes’ means. People get confused. That’s half the battle,” said political consultant Steve Maviglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for this referendum, like others before, the voting rules are somewhat counterintuitive: Voters are asked to vote “no” if they want to invalidate the new drilling law and a “yes” to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides make it confusing and it’s so hard to win a campaign when you’re advocating a ‘yes’ vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio predicts the oil industry and its supporters will spend $50 million to $100 million to invalidate the law, largely by reinforcing the argument that restricting drilling will only further increase gas prices and hurt drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the other side is going to have much money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio said that while voters may not like oil companies, they might also question supporters of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look how much trouble the governor is having on a bill right now” to impose a penalty on excessive oil company profits, he said. “There’s distrust of oil but also of environmentalists, who want to put everyone in an electric car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office seems keenly attentive to the issue of gas prices. On Friday, his team blasted out a press release accusing oil companies of “misleading” Californians about the price of gas across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1624109336745353217?s=20&t=m5I80ews5BEaCWJGb4ITYA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hector Barajas, a consultant for supporters of the referendum, said that Newsom and the Legislature pushed the buffer-zone law without adequate analysis and testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislative process, with public hearings, notices and the opportunity for public discourse, exists for an important reason — to allow experts, members of the public, science and health leaders, and the impacted industries to provide testimony, ask essential questions, provide evidence or solutions in the public arena,” Barajas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an argument that has some resonance with Democrats in the Legislature, like Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat, who declined to vote on the original legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California listen to science. We should listen to science. But that then also means you have to wait for the scientists to tell us what their decisions are,” said Arambula, a former emergency room physician. Lawmakers, he added, somewhat arbitrarily chose the 3,200-foot standard for drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always will lean towards the public health side of things, as I believe it’s important for us when you live in the worst air basin in America,” he said, referring to the Central Valley area he represents. But he added that he would “wait for the scientists” before deciding how to vote on the referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at the end of the day,” he said, “we’re going to have to take steps to limit for our communities of color their exposure to many of the harmful air that is in my community.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing for Big Oil to make record profits as they rip off Californians at the pump,” Newsom said last week, after it was announced that the referendum had qualified for the ballot. “It’s quite another to push to continue harmful drilling near day cares and schools and our homes. Greedy oil companies know that drilling results in more kids getting asthma, more children born with birth defects, and more communities exposed to toxic, dangerous chemicals — but they would rather put our health at risk than sacrifice a single cent of their billions in profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/epdf/10.1289/EHP1535\">More than 2 million Californians\u003c/a>, many of them people of color, live within a mile of an active oil or gas well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of studies have found that \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32069745/\">people living near active oil or gas wells are more likely to suffer from serious health issues\u003c/a>, including including \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11092\">cancer\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935118306339\">cardiovascular\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825956/\">respiratory diseases\u003c/a> and chronic cases of \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP281\">fatigue, nosebleeds and headaches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional research also suggests that pregnant people living near active wells are at greater risk of having \u003ca href=\"https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/Fulltext/2020/08000/Oil_and_gas_production_and_spontaneous_preterm.1.aspx?context=LatestArticles\">spontaneous preterm birth\u003c/a>, increasingly the likelihood of their babies having birth defects and lifelong health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those outcomes for newborns can have repercussions for the health of the child throughout the life, because being born of low birth weight or preterm puts you at increased risk of other health problems down the line,” said Rachel Morello-Frosch, a UC Berkeley environmental health scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat from Long Beach, who helped introduce the setback law, said the oil industry simply wants to maintain the status quo, which is “not shocking, but very disappointing” and “not sufficient anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Embracing the ballot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kobi Naseck, coalition coordinator with the environmental justice advocacy group Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, fought for the setback law and says the oil and gas industry is using the ballot to upend good policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing big corporations spend money in an unheard-of way to undo a regulation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp>In November, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-stringify-link=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112022/californa-voters-petition-oil-gas-wells-homes/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Inside Climate News\u003c/a> reported that Bay Area canvassers employed by the oil industry used misleading tactics when gathering signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot. Some voters said they were told the referendum would ban new oil and gas wells near homes, the exact opposite of what it would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ballot challenge to the drilling law will be the second referendum to go before voters in 2024. Opponents of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\">AB 257\u003c/a>, a law signed by Newsom that aims to increase pay and improve working conditions for the state’s fast-food workers, also recently submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to referendum laws was added to the California Constitution in 1912 as a way for citizens to fight the considerable clout that powerful industries like the railroads enjoyed in Sacramento in the early part of the 20th century. But in recent years, that tool has increasingly been used by deep-pocket interests to overturn laws unfavorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 31, an effort by tobacco companies to undo a new law banning flavored tobacco. But, says veteran campaign consultant Gale Kaufman, sometimes the goal isn’t to totally reject a law, but rather to delay its implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s different now. They [corporations] know from Day One that they’re going to try a referendum to stop a law. Tobacco — they didn’t even run a campaign, they just delayed it to give them time,” Kaufman told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure killing the bill is the goal. It’s stopping it for two years until they figure out what they’re going to do next,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/measure-contributions/2020-ballot-measure-contribution-totals/proposition-25-referendum-overturn-2018-law-replaced-money-bail-system-system-based-public-safety-risk\">bail bond industry poured millions of dollars into a successful referendum campaign\u003c/a> to overturn SB 10, a law that would have replaced cash bail with risk assessments for those detained and awaiting trial. Ultimately, 56% of voters supported the referendum, and the law was scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufman, who ran the campaign against the cash bail referendum effort, says that preserving the law was an uphill battle for a number of reasons, including the fact that unlike limitations on oil drilling, voters needed more education to understand what bail was and why it was unfair to lower-income defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this [drilling law referendum], it’s easy to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. People are pissed at gas prices and high oil prices. That’s all you have to say,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>High gas prices: an argument for both sides\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Referendums are a different beast [from other ballot measures] because you have to figure out what ‘yes’ means. People get confused. That’s half the battle,” said political consultant Steve Maviglio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for this referendum, like others before, the voting rules are somewhat counterintuitive: Voters are asked to vote “no” if they want to invalidate the new drilling law and a “yes” to preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides make it confusing and it’s so hard to win a campaign when you’re advocating a ‘yes’ vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio predicts the oil industry and its supporters will spend $50 million to $100 million to invalidate the law, largely by reinforcing the argument that restricting drilling will only further increase gas prices and hurt drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the other side is going to have much money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maviglio said that while voters may not like oil companies, they might also question supporters of the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look how much trouble the governor is having on a bill right now” to impose a penalty on excessive oil company profits, he said. “There’s distrust of oil but also of environmentalists, who want to put everyone in an electric car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office seems keenly attentive to the issue of gas prices. On Friday, his team blasted out a press release accusing oil companies of “misleading” Californians about the price of gas across the state.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Hector Barajas, a consultant for supporters of the referendum, said that Newsom and the Legislature pushed the buffer-zone law without adequate analysis and testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislative process, with public hearings, notices and the opportunity for public discourse, exists for an important reason — to allow experts, members of the public, science and health leaders, and the impacted industries to provide testimony, ask essential questions, provide evidence or solutions in the public arena,” Barajas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an argument that has some resonance with Democrats in the Legislature, like Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Central Valley Democrat, who declined to vote on the original legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California listen to science. We should listen to science. But that then also means you have to wait for the scientists to tell us what their decisions are,” said Arambula, a former emergency room physician. Lawmakers, he added, somewhat arbitrarily chose the 3,200-foot standard for drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always will lean towards the public health side of things, as I believe it’s important for us when you live in the worst air basin in America,” he said, referring to the Central Valley area he represents. But he added that he would “wait for the scientists” before deciding how to vote on the referendum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>What did we get when \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/05/29/schwarzenegger-proposes-closing-80-percent-of-california-state-parks/\">budget cuts threatened to close hundreds of California state parks\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449\">Fort Ross State Historic Park\u003c/a>, we got a Russian ambassador, an oligarch and funding from foreign oil, gas and mining interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083664519/u-s-and-european-sanctions-against-russia-are-unprecedented-zarate-says\">nations around the world responded by enacting tough sanctions\u003c/a> on people and businesses in President Vladimir Putin’s orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sanctions’ grip tightened, one influential member of the Russian parliament even raged on state television that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/russian-lawmakers-demand-for-return-of-fort-ross-raises-old-questions-abou/\">Russia should take back Fort Ross\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is where our story begins …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/fortross_final-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11909377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/fortross_final-1.png\" alt='Cartoon: a sea otter floats in the water with a bag of cash on its belly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What did we get when \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/05/29/schwarzenegger-proposes-closing-80-percent-of-california-state-parks/\">budget cuts threatened to close hundreds of California state parks\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449\">Fort Ross State Historic Park\u003c/a>, we got a Russian ambassador, an oligarch and funding from foreign oil, gas and mining interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083664519/u-s-and-european-sanctions-against-russia-are-unprecedented-zarate-says\">nations around the world responded by enacting tough sanctions\u003c/a> on people and businesses in President Vladimir Putin’s orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sanctions’ grip tightened, one influential member of the Russian parliament even raged on state television that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/russian-lawmakers-demand-for-return-of-fort-ross-raises-old-questions-abou/\">Russia should take back Fort Ross\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is where our story begins …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/fortross_final-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11909377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/fortross_final-1.png\" alt='Cartoon: a sea otter floats in the water with a bag of cash on its belly. 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They say it will show how committed the Democrat is to meaningful action during his governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: California is now the first state to declare an end to oil extraction in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we’re announcing that we will phase out all oil extraction — as part of a world-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality — and ban fracking by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1385671067147005953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At issue is whether California should impose a buffer zone between oil drilling sites and homes, schools or hospitals. Despite its reputation as a climate leader, California has no statewide limit, unlike other oil-producing states including Pennsylvania and Colorado. 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Unions typically friendly with Newsom that represent workers are aligned with the powerful oil industry, which says a statewide rule on so-called setbacks would cost jobs and raise fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Newsom stuck between two important Democratic voting blocs — labor and environmentalists — whose support he needs this year and, if he survives, in his 2022 reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How he moves is going to motivate and encourage voters or discourage them,” said Gladys Limon, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/\">California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/a>. “It will set the direction in which communities will move in for the next election.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil in a Blue State\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom’s first year as governor, he changed the name and focus of California’s oil and gas agency. 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Even then, the rules won’t be final, though they will signal the direction Newsom’s administration wants to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil has long posed a political conundrum for ruling Democrats in California, the seventh-largest oil-producing state. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, hailed internationally as a climate champion, faced pushback at home for not taking on the industry more aggressively. In the Legislature, efforts to establish setbacks have repeatedly failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> opposes a statewide mandate, saying such rules should be decided at the local level and based on health and environmental concerns specific to the area. 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That was before Newsom announced a 2024 ban on fracking — the process of extracting oil and gas embedded in rock deep underground — and called on state regulators to explore an end to oil production by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller supports Newsom, and many climate groups have endorsed him, if only because they see no viable alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the unions representing workers who rely on jobs related to the oil industry say a mandated buffer zone would risk good-paying jobs and raise the price of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, a powerful force in Sacramento, represents about 100,000 people with industry-related jobs including laying pipes and electrical and ironwork, said President Robbie Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate-change']WSPA spent more than $1.3 million lobbying at the state Capitol in the first three months of the year. 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Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, one of the bill's co-authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the bill gets past its first committee hearing will depend on the votes of several Democrats on the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three panel members are expected to vote yes on the bill. State Sens. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, are among the proposal's co-authors. State Sen. Henry Stern, D-Los Angeles, the panel's chairman, has been an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839879/not-just-fracking-cut-all-oil-drilling-in-california-says-key-lawmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken advocate for cutting California oil production\u003c/a> as long as workers in the industry are not abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Republicans on the committee, state Sens. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, and Brian Jones, R-El Cajon, are expected to vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves state Sens. Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and John Laird, D-Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eggman, Hueso and Hertzberg are considered more moderate and business friendly than some of their Democratic colleagues on the panel. In fact, Hueso and Hertzberg were among members of the same committee who last August \u003ca href=\"https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/california-democrats-oil-gas-fracking-ab345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted against a proposal to create new setback requirements\u003c/a> for drilling near communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laird served as secretary of the state's Natural Resources Agency under former Gov. Jerry Brown from 2011 to 2019. The agency oversees the California Geologic Energy Management Division, which regulates oil and gas drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to ban fracking in California have failed in the past, but this one may get support from the state's top elected official. Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on lawmakers to develop legislation to end the issuance of new fracking licenses by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tours Chevron's Cymric oil field west of Bakersfield in July 2019, where a spill of more than 800,000 gallons flowed into a dry creek bed. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Wiener and Limón \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860470/california-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-fracking-other-oil-drilling-methods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled their proposal\u003c/a>. The measure has drawn strong support from environmental justice and climate change activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SB 467 presents a vision for California's energy future,\" said Kobi Naseck with the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, which is based in Emeryville and the Kern County town of Delano. The group is one of the bill's sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the hearing on Tuesday, we'll be watching to see which senators are ready to protect the millions of Californians living on the front lines of oil and gas extraction and which are still willing to believe fossil fuel executives' lies, in denial about the climate emergency, and vote against their constituents,\" Naseck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists have long argued that the oil industry contributes to climate change and hurts the environment and the health of people living near wells and other production facilities. They say fracking and other methods can increase earthquake activity, pollute the air and water, and carries the risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">significant uncontrolled crude petroleum releases\u003c/a> like one that has continued for nearly two decades in Kern County's Cymric oil field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='oil-drilling']The industry's perspective could not be more different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill \"would result in a near complete shutdown of California's oil and gas production industry, will cost the state billions in lost revenue and legal liability and will lead to massive job loss,\" the Western States Petroleum Association wrote in comments to the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That group and another that represents the industry, the California Independent Petroleum Association, say that curtailing oil production will drive up the cost of gasoline, increase the state's reliance on foreign oil sources and kill jobs in Kern County and other oil-producing areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition also comes from a long list of labor unions and San Joaquin Valley business and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ask you to stand with California's blue-collar families and stop enabling extremist politics at the expense of the livelihood of working families,\" the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California said in its comments on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracking uses water and chemicals injected at high pressure into underground rock formations to shatter them and make it easier to recover crude petroleum trapped there. Cyclic steaming is a method by which crews inject high-pressure steam deep underground, again to break up rock formations and ease extraction of oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steam flooding is a related technique that raises the temperature of deposits of thick crude oil. Water flooding involves injecting water into oil wells to maintain pressure in an underground reservoir. It is also used to push oil toward wells. State officials say there are more than 4,000 active water flooding wells in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three panel members are expected to vote yes on the bill. State Sens. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, are among the proposal's co-authors. State Sen. Henry Stern, D-Los Angeles, the panel's chairman, has been an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839879/not-just-fracking-cut-all-oil-drilling-in-california-says-key-lawmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken advocate for cutting California oil production\u003c/a> as long as workers in the industry are not abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Republicans on the committee, state Sens. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, and Brian Jones, R-El Cajon, are expected to vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves state Sens. Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and John Laird, D-Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eggman, Hueso and Hertzberg are considered more moderate and business friendly than some of their Democratic colleagues on the panel. In fact, Hueso and Hertzberg were among members of the same committee who last August \u003ca href=\"https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/california-democrats-oil-gas-fracking-ab345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted against a proposal to create new setback requirements\u003c/a> for drilling near communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laird served as secretary of the state's Natural Resources Agency under former Gov. Jerry Brown from 2011 to 2019. The agency oversees the California Geologic Energy Management Division, which regulates oil and gas drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to ban fracking in California have failed in the past, but this one may get support from the state's top elected official. Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on lawmakers to develop legislation to end the issuance of new fracking licenses by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11869103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS38189_460368_ME_0724_Oil_Spill_Newsom_004.IK-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tours Chevron's Cymric oil field west of Bakersfield in July 2019, where a spill of more than 800,000 gallons flowed into a dry creek bed. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Wiener and Limón \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860470/california-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-fracking-other-oil-drilling-methods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled their proposal\u003c/a>. The measure has drawn strong support from environmental justice and climate change activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SB 467 presents a vision for California's energy future,\" said Kobi Naseck with the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, which is based in Emeryville and the Kern County town of Delano. The group is one of the bill's sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the hearing on Tuesday, we'll be watching to see which senators are ready to protect the millions of Californians living on the front lines of oil and gas extraction and which are still willing to believe fossil fuel executives' lies, in denial about the climate emergency, and vote against their constituents,\" Naseck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists have long argued that the oil industry contributes to climate change and hurts the environment and the health of people living near wells and other production facilities. They say fracking and other methods can increase earthquake activity, pollute the air and water, and carries the risk of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">significant uncontrolled crude petroleum releases\u003c/a> like one that has continued for nearly two decades in Kern County's Cymric oil field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The agency responsible for regulating California’s oil and natural gas industry violated state rules by approving hundreds of new wells in 2019 without proper review, according to a recent audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance’s \u003ca href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/reports/reportPdf/5631D3F7-882E-EB11-9121-00505685B5D1/California%20Department%20of%20Conservation%20Underground%20Injection%20Control%20and%20Well%20Stimulation%20Treatment%20Programs%20Performance%20Audit%20November%202020\">review of California’s Geologic Energy Management Division\u003c/a> (CalGEM) found numerous violations, including inadequate environmental and safety reviews and a failure to follow current guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That news has environmental groups outraged, but hardly surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For far too long, we have seen the fox guarding the hen house with CalGEM,” said Monica Embrey, associate director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit focused specifically on injection wells, used by oil and gas companies to expedite the drilling process and pump wastewater underground, where it risks contaminating the water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been injecting this toxic wastewater into what are supposed to be protected aquifers,” said Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Groundwater that could be used for agriculture or municipal use now has oil industry waste in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit found CalGEM \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/audit-finds-california-oil-regulators-rampant-legal-violations-2020-11-25/\">approved hundreds\u003c/a> of these kinds of wells — which have been at the center of \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-companies-are-profiting-from-illegal-spills-and-california-lets-them\">several large oil spills\u003c/a> across California — without proper review and approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our state oil and gas regulator has consistently looked the other way before rubber stamping approvals for hundreds of oil and gas wells and dangerous projects around the state,” Kretzmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalGEM regulators are supposed to first review the environmental and safety impacts of each overall project before issuing permits for individual wells. That initial assessment fell by the wayside in several instances, according to the audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"calgem\"]“Our oil and gas regulator pretended that that first step happened,” Kretzmann said. “The underlying review never happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit also found that several drilling projects were approved by CalGEM officials who lacked the proper authorization to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, it found the agency authorized the expansion of existing projects without completing additional review. In one instance, the agency allowed a 640-acre project expansion — one that included the drilling of 400 new wells — without revisiting its initial review of the potential environmental or safety outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, CalGEM said it “appreciates the audit” and has already made some of the changes, and welcomes the additional suggested improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Finance has asked the agency to submit a plan within 60 days detailing how it intends to address the problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first state audit to find significant issues with the regulatory agency. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/uic/epa-oversight-californias-underground-injection-control-uic-program\">2011 audit\u003c/a> from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered that the agency had failed to implement necessary measures to protect drinking water, and in a follow-up review three years later, found it had still not addressed those problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embrey of the Sierra Club said the findings of the audit are evidence of a much larger problem at the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are understaffed and under-resourced,” she said. “And, I will say, there’s a long, long revolving door between the regulators and the oil industry themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We’ve actually got to leave more of this stuff in the ground.’[/pullquote]Last month, as climate change-driven wildfires were on their way to burning more than 4 million acres around the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969807/california-to-halt-sales-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> to end sales of gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in California by 2035. Newsom then also called on state lawmakers to develop legislation that would eliminate new fracking licenses by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves could forever change California, home to one of the nation’s largest oil producing, refining and consuming markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Newsom’s executive order, several lawmakers announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce/sierra-club-california/PDFs/9.24.20%20Fracking%20Ban%20Announcement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans to introduce a ban on fracking\u003c/a> when the next legislative session starts in December. The announcement, which garnered support from several environmental groups, included no specific details. Any such bill would need to go through Stern’s committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great gesture,” said Stern, who’s running for re-election and supports a ban on fracking, but was not one of the lawmakers behind the announcement. “It’s going to have a tough row to hoe in the Legislature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Legislative Challenges\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The challenges of approving new oil drilling regulations in California, which Stern calls a “petro-state,” were recently underscored in the committee he chairs. The natural resources panel rejected legislation that would have called for setbacks — or buffer zones — between future oil drilling sites and homes, playgrounds and schools. The opposition came not just from the oil industry and Republicans on the committee, but from members of Stern’s own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of Democrats with concerns about any restrictions on oil production,” said Stern, who voted for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the committee members who opposed the legislation have received significant contributions from the oil industry, a finding first reported by the left-leaning \u003ca href=\"https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/california-democrats-oil-gas-fracking-ab345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacobin\u003c/a> magazine. The bill’s death prompted outrage among environmentalists and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fracking in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fracking is an oil well stimulation method that works to get fuel out of the ground by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations. The injections allow petroleum and water under the ground to flow more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry says the practice helps provide the country with a consistent source of domestic energy. Environmentalists say the chemicals used in the method lead to water and air pollution, as well as the potential contamination of drinking water. Several years ago, it came to light that state regulators in California mistakenly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1914130/how-much-drinking-water-has-california-lost-to-oil-industry-waste-no-one-knows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed oil companies\u003c/a> to dispose of the fracking wastewater in aquifers tapped for drinking water that were supposed to be safeguarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oil-drilling\"]Fracking has become a hot-button issue in the presidential election, especially in Pennsylvania, a key swing state where it creates a lot of jobs. Democratic nominee Joe Biden says he does not oppose fracking, an assertion that President Trump ardently disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technique, along with other oil and gas drilling, mostly takes place on private land, but is regulated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, fracking makes up a small portion of production in oil fields, many of which are in Kern County. Hydraulic fracturing led to the production of 2.3 million barrels of oil in the state in 2019, or 1.5% of California’s oil production, according to the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional oil and gas drilling made up 77% of the state’s oil production in 2019, with cyclic steam work accounting for 21%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, California put in place a nine-month moratorium on new permits for fracking. During that time, the Department of Conservation asked Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct an independent review of its pending well-stimulation permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1317472223297294337?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the moratorium ended in April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810791/after-9-month-pause-california-issuing-fracking-permits-again\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalGEM\u003c/a> has handed out a series of new fracking permits. In fact, the agency approved a set of applications for the technique last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pushing for a Compromise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to cut down on oil drilling is a discussion that state legislators, oil industry executives and labor leaders all need to be involved in, according to Stern, who helped create California’s current regulations on fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need people pushing the envelope,” Stern said. “I think what the governor’s laid out is prompting a much bigger conversation that’s going to require some kind of grand bargain. If we’re actually going to figure out what a managed decline looks like or what a real just transition is, we’ve got to bring labor in and have a big conversation about how to move past petroleum production.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern expects several different oil regulating bills to emerge in the state Legislature when it is scheduled to reconvene in December, and says the state needs to have a serious discussion about what the future of the oil industry should look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it doesn’t look like the oil industry of the past and maybe folks like Chevron start to rethink their business model entirely,” he said. “To me, that’s the big victory: If we can actually change the business model of our oil majors here, not just notch a political win, but fundamentally change the dynamics globally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create a Green New Deal in California, the state needs to bring different interest groups together and stop pitting oil worker unions against the people who live near drilling sites, Stern added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It starts with workers and frontline communities,” he said. “It’s going to take coalition building and muscle. 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