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The second line then experienced a “sudden fault,” which meant Chevron lost all of the outside electricity it relies on, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2026/2026_0109_a0010_s6039_01-pdf.pdf?rev=3152a6f8241b441881ac0325c87c7944&sc_lang=en\">report\u003c/a> the refinery filed with the Bay Area Air District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no outside power, Chevron sent gases to its flares for the next eight hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears a bird contact was what triggered the safety relay on the second source, so we have a cause,” said Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bird was a raptor, Sarkissian said, that came in contact with “a wire and tower at the same time” and caused, basically, a short circuit that immediately interrupted “the flow of electricity on that line, as a safety measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12079878 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260414-CHEVRON-FLARE-TH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260414-CHEVRON-FLARE-TH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260414-CHEVRON-FLARE-TH-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260414-CHEVRON-FLARE-TH-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from a refinery flaring operation at Chevron’s Richmond refinery on Jan. 9, 2026. It was triggered by a bird contacting power equipment. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the flaring took place, Chevron issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/health-and-safety-information/hazmat-programs/community-warning-system\">Level One Community Warning System alert\u003c/a> to notify county residents of the incident. The smoke coming from Chevron’s flares in San Francisco Bay could be seen by people on the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district and the California Public Utilities Commission are investigating the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When inhaled, sulfur dioxide can cause wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and other harmful effects on the lungs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/what-makes-air-unhealthy/sulfur-dioxide\">according to the American Lung Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chevron refinery has a power system on site known as a “cogeneration plant” that creates its own electricity, but it does not provide enough to power the entire facility.[aside postID=news_11981762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/231027-CHEVRON-RICHMOND-REFINERY-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg']“We also need external electricity,” said Caitlin Powell, a Chevron Richmond representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company emphasized that the refinery’s flare system, a safety technique aimed at preventing the buildup of pressure inside a refinery, successfully averted a bigger facility problem during the January incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of outside power meant the refinery had to suddenly shut down its units, leaving gases building up pressure in the facility that needed to be vented into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our flares and safety systems are designed to protect our workforce, the community and our equipment during operational disruptions, even those externally caused. We are proud of our team’s quick work to keep the refinery operating safely,” Powell said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of flaring incidents at Chevron’s Richmond refinery has dropped significantly in recent years. The refinery logged close to 40 flaring events in 2019, more than any other petroleum processing facility in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron had just 10 such incidents in 2024, according to air district \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2026/ssc_presentations_040826_op-pdf.pdf?rev=d82f2f8d99a544688521705d6b1ef253&sc_lang=en\">data\u003c/a> presented to an agency committee last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Environmental groups are asking an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> judge to halt the city’s major airport expansion, which would significantly increase air travel through the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three lawsuits opposing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-airport\">Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport\u003c/a>’s major renovation say the Port of Oakland violated environmental laws when it approved plans for the modernization project and argue that it should not be allowed to move forward without further assessment by public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities for a Better Environment, Advocates for the Environment, and Stop OAK Expansion Coalition also say the project will exacerbate poor environmental health impacts in already disproportionately polluted neighborhoods of East Oakland. The groups’ lawsuits were heard simultaneously on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion should not happen until there is an objective health impact assessment conducted by people with the public health expertise to make a prediction of what … based on data and research, the impact would be on the people who live near the airport,” said Dr. Mark Jacobson, a professor of medicine emeritus at UC San Francisco and a member of the Stop OAK Expansion Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airport modernization project includes planned renovations to its two terminals, which opened in 1962 and 1985, upgrades for aging facilities, an expanded international arrivals area and 16 new gates — about a 55% increase from the airport’s current 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port of Oakland said the renovation is meant to “meet the regional demand and provide a world class experience” for fliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/OaklandAirportGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/OaklandAirportGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/OaklandAirportGetty-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/OaklandAirportGetty-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A traveler walks through baggage claim in Terminal 2 at Oakland International Airport on April 12, 2024, in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The groups that filed suit allege that an environmental review certified by the Port of Oakland is inadequate and are asking the court to require a health impact assessment conducted by the Alameda County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jacobson, a health impact report, separate from the environmental impact report, would take into consideration the underlying health of populations expected to be most affected by the expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland, a predominantly Black and Latino community, “already bears the brunt of toxic land uses and other environmental stressors,” the lawsuits say.[aside postID=news_12056544 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250918-Oakland-Arms-Folo-JCL-01-KQED.jpg']“The health of community members living near Oakland Airport is already severely compromised by existing airport operations, nearby transportation corridors and industrial activities,” Communities for a Better Environment argued in its legal complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland residents who live closest to the airport are in the 100th percentile of asthma rates in the state, according to the suit. Some of the area’s neighborhoods are also ranked among the \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/11d2f52282a54ceebcac7428e6184203/page/CalEnviroScreen-4_0\">most burdened by multiple sources of pollution in California\u003c/a>, according to a mapping tool created by the California Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson said neighborhoods adjacent to the airport have the highest rate of mortality due to heart attacks and the highest rate of pediatric emergency room visits for asthma exacerbations in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The harmful health effects are largely due to the ultrafine particles, or small bits of carbon, that are released into the atmosphere when airplane fuel combusts, he said. The particles are associated with increased risk of heart attack, atherosclerotic disease and lung disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson also said airplane exhaust releases benzene, a carcinogen that causes lymphoma and leukemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While neighboring Alameda has developed a noise abatement policy with the Port of Oakland, Gustavo Gutierrez, an East Oakland organizer with Communities for a Better Environment, said similar settlements weren’t offered to Oakland neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Oakland on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers have raised concerns that the settlement with Alameda could increase air traffic over some East Oakland neighborhoods, but airport officials say that’s not true. According to the Port of Oakland, the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic plan for the Oakland airport does not route planes over the East Oakland flatlands, and the project does not propose any changes to the current air traffic routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAK flight maps show that planes departing from its commercial runway take off northwest, over the San Francisco Bay, and the majority of arrivals approach the airport from the south. Because of the runway configurations at San Francisco International Airport, some flights leaving from SFO do follow departure paths over the East Bay, including Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the environmental review process, Gutierrez said the nonprofit and a coalition of activists opposed to the expansion pushed for a health impact report, but the port refused to conduct one, in part leading to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks leave the Port of Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the nonprofit also pursued the suit because the environmental impact review that the port completed “grossly understates what the scope of the project is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port of Oakland spokesperson Justin Berton said the port’s “outreach and community engagement efforts with residents exceeded requirements” during the environmental impact review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Port met with several groups over several years to discuss noise abatement, air quality, and other environmental resources of concern that was in the EIR,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit from Communities for a Better Environment argues that the report provides an incomplete description of the modernization project, including the scope of its expansion of activity, and relies on outdated airport activity data from before the COVID-19 pandemic, which reflects higher rates of travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/003_KQED_Oakland_Airport_04142020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/003_KQED_Oakland_Airport_04142020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/003_KQED_Oakland_Airport_04142020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/003_KQED_Oakland_Airport_04142020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland International Airport on April 14, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez said increasing air travel would also increase the number of freight trucks in the area, since the Oakland airport is a hub for FedEx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Berton said the environmental impact review certified by the port’s Board of Commissioners followed a “comprehensive review by staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Final [Environmental Impact Report] was based on substantial evidence and expert analysis, and the Port looks forward to defending the EIR and the project in public hearings,” he said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>April 17: This story was updated with additional comments from the Port of Oakland about flight paths over the city.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Some of the area’s neighborhoods are also ranked among the \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/11d2f52282a54ceebcac7428e6184203/page/CalEnviroScreen-4_0\">most burdened by multiple sources of pollution in California\u003c/a>, according to a mapping tool created by the California Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson said neighborhoods adjacent to the airport have the highest rate of mortality due to heart attacks and the highest rate of pediatric emergency room visits for asthma exacerbations in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The harmful health effects are largely due to the ultrafine particles, or small bits of carbon, that are released into the atmosphere when airplane fuel combusts, he said. 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According to the Port of Oakland, the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic plan for the Oakland airport does not route planes over the East Oakland flatlands, and the project does not propose any changes to the current air traffic routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OAK flight maps show that planes departing from its commercial runway take off northwest, over the San Francisco Bay, and the majority of arrivals approach the airport from the south. 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Locals are still challenging that narrative.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In the wake of federal immigration agents killing another person in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend, California lawmakers are moving to place further limits on how these agents can operate and maneuver in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-01-16/what-we-do-and-dont-know-a-year-after-the-vistra-battery-fire-in-moss-landing\">\u003cstrong>Personal Accounts Clash With Government Stance on Fire’s Aftermath\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of Jan. 16, 2025, the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing erupted in flames. This was the third time in less than four years that Vistra’s fire suppression system had failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in contrast to the earlier incidents—in 2021 and 2022—this time, a massive fire broke out, pumping thick, black smoke into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I opened the door, I got hit with burnt plastic,” said Sherry Okamoto, a resident of Royal Oaks, when KAZU spoke with her in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-01-17/moss-landing-battery-plant-prompts-evacuations-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> for about 1,200 Moss Landing residents on the evening of Jan. 16. Those orders were lifted a few days later, once the fire subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing two days into the fire, Olivia Trombadore of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said air quality monitoring did not show dangerous levels of particulate matter or hydrogen fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not seen any levels of these two contaminants that would pose a risk to the public,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s air monitoring, as well as the air sampling performed by Vistra’s consultant CTEH, which tested for specific metals, only occurred in the immediate vicinity of the battery plant. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-01-17/moss-landing-battery-plant-prompts-evacuations-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> for about 1,200 Moss Landing residents on the evening of Jan. 16. Those orders were lifted a few days later, once the fire subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing two days into the fire, Olivia Trombadore of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said air quality monitoring did not show dangerous levels of particulate matter or hydrogen fluoride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not seen any levels of these two contaminants that would pose a risk to the public,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s air monitoring, as well as the air sampling performed by Vistra’s consultant CTEH, which tested for specific metals, only occurred in the immediate vicinity of the battery plant. That’s because the locations were chosen based on a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0045660d4525482588730b41260c1004/page/Dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">model of the fire’s soot plume\u003c/a> that only stretched up to a few thousand feet from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Monterey County \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/2025-moss-landing-vistra-power-plant-fire/community-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health survey\u003c/a> that was open from Feb. 19 to Mar. 16, 1,275 responders reported experiencing at least one symptom after the fire. The reported symptoms include headaches, itchy eyes, shortness of breath, and even the lingering taste of metal. Most of the respondents lived well beyond the soot plume modeling area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We abandoned our house 12 days after the fire,” said local resident Brian Roeder, who spoke to KAZU in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roeder and his family decided to leave Prunedale, about 8 miles east of the battery plant, after Roeder’s wife started feeling sick. Soon after, Roeder and several other community members started a group called \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://neveragainmosslanding.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Never Again Moss Landing\u003c/a> (NAML).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to know what happened to people, to the environment, to the animals,” Roeder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These questions have been top of mind for many Monterey County residents over the past year. But for the most part, we still don’t know the answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Lawmakers Move to Limit Federal Immigration Activity After Minnesota Killings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage is circulating throughout Sacramento, as lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate are condemning the actions of agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection–after a federal immigration agent killed 37-year-old Veteran Affairs ICU Nurse, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assembly Speaker, Robert Rivas, \u003ca href=\"https://pro.stateaffairs.com/ca/justice-civil-rights/minnesota-shooting-california-political-tech-reaction\">headed a rally at the Capitol on Monday,\u003c/a> calling on Democratic lawmakers across the country to start standing against the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas also called masked ICE and CBP agents a rogue force that is ignoring basic human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the legislative front, Democratic Assemblymember, Jesse Gabriel, is drafting a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/01/23/some-sacramento-electeds-want-to-ban-ice-enforcement-on-city-property-is-it-legal/\">that would ban ICE and CBP from using state property to stage immigration operations.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CBP agent shot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5688898/alex-pretti-remembered-as-friend-nurse-and-dog-dad\">killed Pretti on Saturday\u003c/a>, making him the second American citizen that has died and the hands of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month. An ICE agent\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5671061/minneapolis-ice-shooting-noem\"> killed Renee Good\u003c/a> on January 6th. An off-duty ICE agent also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/fis-837243080-61e54565865febf5377bb403205feae7/fis-837243080-61e54565865febf5377bb403205feae7-enclosure-audio\">shot and killed Keith Porter in Northridge, California\u003c/a>, on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Along with the 400 refinery jobs that will be lost, hundreds of other jobs will be affected, the report also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study outlined what it describes as an “urgent need” for the city to plan how it can stabilize its finances and transition its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City will need to consider a range of responses — from attracting new industrial users to supporting affected workers and businesses — while continuing to preserve core services and long-term community resilience,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Mario Giuliani said Benicia now faces its “most significant challenge” since the U.S. Army closed the Benicia Arsenal in 1964. 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But Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-ending-electric-vehicle-carpool-lane-access-program-2025-09-10/\">did not approve\u003c/a> an extension of CAV to enable the program to keep running. “The state needs approval to operate [the program] on federal roadways throughout the state,” said Lindsay Buckley, director of communications of the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowcanIkeepusingthecarpoollane\">How can I keep using the carpool lane?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’re really disappointed in the federal government’s inaction,” added Buckley. “It’s a really smart, cost-effective thing that has played an important role here in driving adoption of clean air vehicles and making Californians aware that these vehicles even exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/end-californias-clean-air-vehicle-decal-program\">state data\u003c/a>, this change will affect around half a million vehicles that currently have the CAV sticker. 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And misusing the carpool lane could cost you a fine of at least $490.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CHP recently updated KQED that drivers will have a 60-day grace period starting Oct. 1 where the law enforcement agency will be educating residents about this change. During this 60-day window, however, CHP could still pull over a car with a decal, if officers believe there’s something else the driver is doing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/end-californias-clean-air-vehicle-decal-program\">You don’t have to remove your decal \u003c/a>if you don’t want to.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this impact all CAV decal colors?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past, the California Department of Motor Vehicles would send out decals with different colors depending on the year. 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Authorities have said they didn’t detect toxins in the smoke, but some experts worry the test results aren’t giving the full picture — and now state and local officials will be conducting further testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva Faste said she was outside her home in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her dogs when she first started getting a headache and a sore throat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t think much of it until that night when her phone buzzed with an alert about a battery storage facility that had caught fire roughly 25 miles away in Moss Landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I woke up the following morning, my nose was bleeding, and since then, I’ve been feeling worse every day,” Faste said. Her sore throat, along with stomach problems and low energy, have persisted into this week, even though the fire has since died out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jan. 16 fire started at what is reportedly the largest lithium battery storage facility in the world, with over 100,000 batteries used to store solar power and other forms of electricity to help supply the grid. The flames raged for hours, igniting the batteries stored within the facility and sending a dark plume of smoke high into the air until 80% of the building and its contents were consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lithium battery fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish and, as is often the case, emergency responders decided to let the fire burn itself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, a Facebook group about possible fire-related symptoms has ballooned to more than 2,000 members. People have mentioned, along with Faste’s symptoms, a metallic taste in their mouth and a persistent smell in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who spoke at Tuesday’s Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting compared the sensation to what they experienced while receiving chemotherapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Prunedale. I have never had a metallic taste in my mouth before,” Heather Griffin said. “Yes, there are people who burn fires in their fireplaces; we do, too. But I’ve never had a metallic taste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the fire began, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began monitoring the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires. Officials set up nine nearby monitoring stations and did not detect harmful levels of either pollutant, the agency said, adding that the sensors for hydrogen fluoride can also detect other compounds.[aside postID=news_12023814 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/AP25016124878838-scaled-e1737665727227.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be conservative and most protective of public health, our operations assumed anything we were detecting was hydrogen fluoride, which is the most harmful of these mineral acid gases,” the EPA said in a statement. “And, as noted before, no hydrogen fluoride exceeding health standards was detected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A contractor hired by Vistra simultaneously tested for most of the same compounds and received similar results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, experts said sensors are unlikely to pick up hydrogen fluoride once the main smoke plume has died down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These chemistries dictate to us that those compounds are not going to last for a very long time in the air,” said Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene. “So it’s really irrelevant to measure hydrogen fluoride hours after the plume passes because it’s going to be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the full list of specific elements within Vistra’s batteries is not publicly known, Polkabla has a few other pollutants he’s concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The metals — lithium, nickel, magnesium, cobalt are kind of the big four that would be produced and could have settled. These all have individual toxicities associated with them,” Polkabla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dustin Mulvaney, an environmental studies professor at San José State University, agreed, adding that a more comprehensive test would have required sending a drone into the smoke plume to test hydrogen fluoride there. He, like Polkabla, also worries about the other pollutants that the fire could have let off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may think of a fire as a big chemical reactor doing an uncontrolled chemical reaction,” Mulvaney said. “So it’s actually the fire itself is sometimes manufacturing pollutants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the smoke plume could have carried some heat-resistant materials like metals or PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, because they take a very long time to break down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the public that’s experiencing these symptoms is going to want to know what they were actually exposed to,” Mulvaney said. “And I don’t think that those EPA sensors are telling the full story of what was in that plume.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA clarified that it did initially test for other compounds, including carbon monoxide and ammonia, then transitioned to focusing on particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride because they “are the two contaminants of concern from a battery fire that would pose a potential immediate health risk through inhalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, four days after the fire started, the EPA ended its monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the fire now over, Mulvaney and Polkabla both said that the best way to learn about the pollutants that were dispersed is to test soil and water samples both at the facility and in neighboring regions — including environmentally significant areas like Monterey Bay and the Elkhorn Slough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those particles are not necessarily going away unless they’re removed,” Polkabla said. “If they’re a hazard, we need to identify what it is and have a protocol for how to remove that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Wednesday press briefing, Vistra’s Senior Director of Community Affairs, Brad Watson, said the company might test the soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County officials used similarly indefinite language during the meeting, but by Thursday afternoon, Supervisor Glenn Church announced that local and state officials plan to do both water and soil testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s been a lot of concerns from folks and in this area of what is really out there. So we’re looking into that,” Church said.[aside postID=news_12022420 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-22.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Health Department said late Thursday that local and state partners will work together on collecting samples of water, debris and dust at the Vistra facility and in nearby areas, though they have not yet determined a timeline. Additional water and soil testing will follow, county representatives said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials added that residents who may have found residue from the fires on their property are urged to use caution when cleaning up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, some continue to worry about what they are potentially being exposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faste and her husband are considering leaving the area for a while in the hopes that her symptoms will diminish once she’s farther from the site of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re debating what to do, you know? 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