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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/un-cupon-del-50-de-descuento-para-una-herramienta-electrica-los-jardineros-dicen-que-el-subsidio-de-california-es-inadecuado/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977168/the-sounds-of-silence-california-bans-new-gas-powered-leaf-blowers\">banning the sale of most new gas-powered tools by 2024\u003c/a>, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50% coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chain saws, brush cutters and trimmers most haul around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977168\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/10/RS52049_GettyImages-1346603572-qut-1020x695.jpg\"]In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977672\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/RS52246_029_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]At that time, 8 in 10 landscapers said they planned on buying gas-powered equipment with many prioritizing performance, run time and cost. But operating a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour, for example, emits the same amount of pollution as driving a Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the air board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawn equipment conversion will bring the rest of the state in line with cities such as Palo Alto, Los Altos and Menlo Park, which have already banned noisy leaf blowers. The law also directs the air resources board to come up with statewide regulations for other small motor equipment, such as golf carts, small generators and power washers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the landscaping industry, the main target of the ban, says the transition has already been costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Wood purchased four batteries for his electric leaf blower after a number of communities in the Bay Area banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Woods, who owns a small landscaping business, immediately noticed the batteries don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never spent $200 on something that lasted 45 minutes,” Wood said, “and it doesn’t last for six to eight houses a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the batteries drain, Wood’s two employees resort to raking, which takes three times as long to complete a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests back him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports rated gas and electric tools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/lawn-mowers-and-tractors/ego-electric-mower-vs-honda-gas-mower-face-off-a6853992124/\">lawn mowers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">leaf blowers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">string trimmers\u003c/a>, side by side. The nonprofit consumer organization found that battery-powered tools, with low maintenance and ease of use, were strong candidates for homeowners with less than an acre of land who could wait to recharge their batteries. But when it came to larger plots, more robust weeds to whack, or long hours of use, gas tools excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry, we want this [battery-powered] equipment to be able to handle what we throw at it,” said Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association. “But it’s not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a chainsaw in the outdoors and looks up at the canopy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mijango of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping uses a chain saw to cut trees for fire mitigation at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. The landscaping company owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The air resources board said the technology is close enough. While electric tools may not have the same power, they offer other benefits, such as longer life span, better torque for some tools and savings on gas and maintenance, said air pollution specialist Christopher Dilbeck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that, yes, there will be substantial costs associated with what we are proposing,” said Dilbeck. “That is part of why this funding is available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate']The board, which will allocate the state’s $30 million subsidy, has yet to release how it will hand out incentives other than saying it will target small operators, including those without a business license. In one scenario, California could offer 12,000 small landscapers a 50% discount on all their new tools, or every sole proprietor could receive a 50% discount on one tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not going to be able to get the jobs done as fast,” said Ken Tamplen, owner of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping in Contra Costa County. “You’re not going to be able to make as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But certainly the clarity of the lake, how deep you can see in the lake, could be affected for several years,” said \u003ca href=\"http://dahlgrenlab.lawr.ucdavis.edu/\">Randy Dahlgren\u003c/a>, professor emeritus of soils and biogeochemistry at the University of California, Davis. “It all depends on Mother Nature.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nResearchers are now trying to figure out what the residue and flames from the Caldor Fire, which crossed a granite ridge and spread into the Lake Tahoe basin on Monday, could mean for the iconic cobalt-blue lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886903\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg\"]“We’ve never had a fire of this extent before … This one is off the charts,” said \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/gschladow/\">Geoffrey Schladow\u003c/a>, director of the University of California, Davis’s Tahoe Environmental Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research center’s tests of the lake already show that its clarity declined in recent days, although Schladow said it may be temporary. The changes could be caused by a combination of factors: smoke preventing sunlight from penetrating the lake’s depths, ash muddying its water or more algae growing near its surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally around this time of year, we would expect to see down maybe 65 feet. Right now we’re seeing down maybe 50 feet,” Schladow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/7139900/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The legacy of decades of pollution\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Over the past half-century, the alpine lake has lost 40% of its clarity, largely due to runoff \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/lake-tahoe/about-lake-tahoe\">containing particles and plant-feeding nitrogen and phosphorus\u003c/a>. In recent years, its clarity — a sign of its improving health — \u003ca href=\"https://54a7e7ef-dc62-4dfa-8d5b-4f352ad0804a.filesusr.com/ugd/c115bf_d78a014f264f43778c80e071598dfe2e.pdf\">has begun to stabilize\u003c/a> as state and local officials in California and Nevada took steps to protect the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The degree of damage to Lake Tahoe will depend on the degree of devastation to the forest and buildings around it. It also will depend on the months ahead: Severe rain following a fire forces more sediment and nutrients into the runoff and ultimately the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Geoffrey Schladow, Tahoe Environmental Research Center at University of California, Davis\"]‘You could not hear another boat on the lake. 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And you could not hear another boat on the lake. That’s sort of unheard of in the middle of the day at Lake Tahoe in August,” Schladow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11887141 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Courtesy_laketahoefire_082521_01.jpg\" alt=\"A masked man stands on the prow of a boat working with measuring equipment. 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Geoffrey Schladow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe and its surrounding lands and waters are home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ltbmu/home/?cid=fsm9_046595\">abundant wildlife\u003c/a>, including Lahontan cutthroat trout, which are a threatened species, as well as mountain whitefish, black bears, beavers, marmots, deer, raptors, rare flowering plants and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688485\">wingless stonefly\u003c/a> that lives on the bottom of the deep lake and provides \u003ca href=\"https://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk4286/files/inline-files/currentfoodweb_v2.pdf\">food for fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not as worried about the clarity but the sensitive, endemic [only found in one location] species that are hanging on in the lake … The clarity may be able to rebound, but will we lose these species that are already having a tough time?” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.unr.edu/water-center/water-center-faculty/sudeep-chandra\">Sudeep Chandra\u003c/a>, professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Prof. Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno\"]‘The clarity may be able to rebound, but will we lose these species that are already having a tough time?’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/forrest/\">Alexander Forrest\u003c/a>, an associate professor of engineering at UC Davis, has launched an autonomous underwater vehicle that seesaws up and down through the water column, crossing the lake once every 15 hours to measure particle sizes and concentrations. His team expects to collect the robot and retrieve its data in a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this sort of layer on the surface and then below, you stir it up with your hand, and you can see these particles drifting around in the water,” Forrest said. “What we’re trying to sort of elucidate or try to understand is, what are the implications?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soot and ash, which can wash into the lake if it falls within its expansive watershed, can have different effects on Lake Tahoe’s algae at different depths. Particles can darken the water and cool the lake — making it less hospitable to some algae. But it also can introduce nutrients, such as nitrogen, that algae and other organisms feed on, potentially fueling algal blooms at the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Prepare for a Possible Evacuation' tag='prepare-evacuation']“The whole food web is being turned on its head, I expect,” Schladow said. “The measurements we’re taking [are] to see how true that is and how things are changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened at Castle Lake in Siskiyou County after smoke choked the region for 55 days in the summer of 2018, a team of researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89926-6\">recently reported\u003c/a>. Light dimmed in the waters, and temperatures dropped. Algae flourished in shallow waters but dwindled to near zero in the depths. 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On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432405511014522886?s=20\">mandatory evacuations\u003c/a> from the Caldor Fire \u003ca href=\"https://eldoradocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c995bf3816964e948d7d831d3ba938ff&fbclid=IwAR3PbmH1e0oBhAnwxxRzBJxvTJTXqnjRA1IlyBEnIYNmSnr4SdC3CVslcNI\">spread to South Lake Tahoe\u003c/a>, home to resorts and camps that usually are full in late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">burned about 300 square miles\u003c/a> of El Dorado County over the past 15 days. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State water regulators have issued a $285,000 penalty against the Phillips 66 refinery for releasing millions of gallons of industrial wastewater into San Pablo Bay early last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The penalty, part of a settlement agreement that became public late last week, is the 11th issued by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board in the last 17 years against the Houston-based oil company. Its refinery sits on the bay shore in Rodeo, just south of the Carquinez Strait and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/board_info/agendas/2020/August/Phillips66/Phillips_66_Proposed_Stipulated_Order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent violation\u003c/a> covers a discharge that took place on Feb. 14, 2019, when the refinery released 8.45 million gallons of partially treated wastewater into the bay, exceeding the allowed daily volume by about 5.4 million gallons. That release, in turn, led the refinery to violate a daily limit on \"suspended solids\" in its runoff — with an estimated 7,200 pounds of toxin-laden dirt washing into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the release, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725582/a-double-barreled-storm-gets-ready-to-blast-bay-area-northern-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of storms pounded the Bay Area with heavy rain, \u003c/a> with about 5 inches falling on the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting runoff clogged a filter at the Phillips 66 wastewater treatment plant. The regional water board says the facility would normally have sent the resulting overflow to a 9 million-gallon storage tank but couldn't because it was being used to temporarily store crude oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Ursino, a refinery spokeswoman, said the 2019 storm \"temporarily created operational challenges for our capacity to handle the large stormwater flows collected in our refinery systems.\" She added that tests of the runoff that escaped into the bay showed it was \"well within\" regulatory limits on toxic material and water quality set by the facility's discharge permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of a Bay Area group that monitors the health of local waters said the runoff posed serious environmental risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Industrial wastewater, especially from an oil refinery, can contain pollutants like toxic heavy metals and petroleum waste that are harmful to the bay, wildlife, and people,\" said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Phillips 66 was negligent for having taken its storage tank offline to store oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was sheer dumb luck that their negligence didn't cause more harm,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phillips got off easy,\" she said. \"The Regional Board had the authority to fine them millions of dollars for polluting the bay. I'd venture a guess that this slap on the wrist is not going to force the refinery to take their pollution controls more seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2003, the water board has now penalized Phillips 66 a total of 11 times for violating limits on releases of various toxic materials, including chlorine, copper, selenium and other pollutants, into the bay. Including the newest fine, the violations have resulted in about $1.2 million in penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of those fines came in 2010, when the refinery was hit with a $600,000 penalty for 14 separate \"acute toxicity effluent violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year when Phillips 66 paid $80,000 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744480/phillips-66-fined-again-for-polluting-san-pablo-bay#:~:text=For%20the%20third%20time%20in,chlorine%20into%20San%20Pablo%20Bay.&text=The%20company%20violated%20the%20agency's,of%20%2418%2C000%20for%20those%20violations.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settle charges it violated chlorine limits\u003c/a> in water it released into the bay over a five-month period in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11514480/refinery-tanker-firm-cited-for-fumes-that-sickened-scores-in-vallejo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a crude oil spill\u003c/a> at the facility's marine terminal caused an overpowering odor that sickened Vallejo residents. Regional air regulators filed \"public nuisance\" violations against both the refinery and the tanker's owner in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year Phillips asked local air regulators for permission to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11593334/phillips-66-seeks-big-increase-in-tanker-traffic-to-rodeo-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than double the number of oil tankers\u003c/a> that travel through San Francisco Bay to unload crude at its refinery.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Ursino, a refinery spokeswoman, said the 2019 storm \"temporarily created operational challenges for our capacity to handle the large stormwater flows collected in our refinery systems.\" She added that tests of the runoff that escaped into the bay showed it was \"well within\" regulatory limits on toxic material and water quality set by the facility's discharge permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of a Bay Area group that monitors the health of local waters said the runoff posed serious environmental risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Industrial wastewater, especially from an oil refinery, can contain pollutants like toxic heavy metals and petroleum waste that are harmful to the bay, wildlife, and people,\" said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Phillips 66 was negligent for having taken its storage tank offline to store oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was sheer dumb luck that their negligence didn't cause more harm,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Phillips got off easy,\" she said. \"The Regional Board had the authority to fine them millions of dollars for polluting the bay. I'd venture a guess that this slap on the wrist is not going to force the refinery to take their pollution controls more seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2003, the water board has now penalized Phillips 66 a total of 11 times for violating limits on releases of various toxic materials, including chlorine, copper, selenium and other pollutants, into the bay. Including the newest fine, the violations have resulted in about $1.2 million in penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of those fines came in 2010, when the refinery was hit with a $600,000 penalty for 14 separate \"acute toxicity effluent violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year when Phillips 66 paid $80,000 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744480/phillips-66-fined-again-for-polluting-san-pablo-bay#:~:text=For%20the%20third%20time%20in,chlorine%20into%20San%20Pablo%20Bay.&text=The%20company%20violated%20the%20agency's,of%20%2418%2C000%20for%20those%20violations.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">settle charges it violated chlorine limits\u003c/a> in water it released into the bay over a five-month period in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11514480/refinery-tanker-firm-cited-for-fumes-that-sickened-scores-in-vallejo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a crude oil spill\u003c/a> at the facility's marine terminal caused an overpowering odor that sickened Vallejo residents. Regional air regulators filed \"public nuisance\" violations against both the refinery and the tanker's owner in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year Phillips asked local air regulators for permission to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11593334/phillips-66-seeks-big-increase-in-tanker-traffic-to-rodeo-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than double the number of oil tankers\u003c/a> that travel through San Francisco Bay to unload crude at its refinery.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. This is about years of environmental waste that’s impacting a specific community, when I say years, I’m talking about 30 to 40 years of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Longer even\u003c/em>, I thought to myself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a noise outside the door interrupted the discussion. \u003cem>I’m about to slap these little girls in the face, so somebody better go get them right now\u003c/em>, said an adult’s voice from the hallway. \u003cem>Where is the principal? … I’m not dealing with this anymore. I done had every emotion this week, and they want to come in here being disrespectful…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, tensions were high, and even the adults were on edge. Our circle sat quietly as the voice outside passed by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor briefly stepped out to address the noise, while Ms. Saba broke the silence. “I don’t want ya’ll to get distracted, I want ya’ll to focus on what ya’ll want to share and what’s important to ya’ll. We have one more question before we close out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She instructed everyone to take a deep breath. “What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible? And what do you need? What do you personally need from your principal and from yourself and from your peers?” asked Ms. Saba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor held the talking piece and said, “From everybody, we need a little compassion and a little understanding. Everybody’s anxiety levels are already past ten… The students, I need them to understand that, it’s not their fault, and it’s not our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor then somberly brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/funeral-services-set-for-mcclymonds-football-standout-darryl-aikens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Aikens\u003c/a>, who was one of his students and who died of leukemia in 2017. “Everybody keeps using him as an excuse, you know, ‘He caught cancer from the school,’” Principal Taylor said in air-quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t even know his mom. Don’t know his family. And they keep putting him out there, and it’s making his mother sick. His grandmother sick… I just want it to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa from OUSD’s central office took the talking piece, and noted that “compassion and empathy” are required on all fronts; she concluded by asking that the students, “Continue to be that voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>iles, designer scarf around his forehead and a big jacket, took the talking piece and brought the discussion to another form of toxicity that exists at many schools, not just McClymonds. “What I need from the staff is for them to show that they actually care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that some faculty members bring their own issues with them to the classroom, and leave it to the students to educate themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to be teaching us, we’re not adults yet. I’m only in the 10th grade,” said Miles. “They’re looking at us like we’re 35. Like we’re supposed to be teaching them. They’ve gotta teach us.” He was met with at least one person’s supportive applause when he made that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talking piece landed back in Ms. Saba’s hands. She closed the circle by thanking all the participants and ended by sharing a quote from Margaret Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,” she recited. “Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. 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Crews reported a mixture of oil and water seeping from a well site in the sprawling oil fields near the town of McKittrick and about 35 miles west of Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\" label=\"Kern County Oil Spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron and other firms operate thousands of oil wells in the area, many using a technique in which steam is injected more than 1,000 feet into the ground to heat up crude petroleum and make it easier to extract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial leak, which state officials call a \"surface expression,\" lasted 10 hours, said Mary Fricke, a spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, which is monitoring the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil began seeping again on June 8 and June 23, according to Don Drysdale, a spokesman for the state's Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. 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That would mean nearly 265,000 gallons of oil have been discharged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, 140,000 gallons of crude spilled in the 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pipeline-spill-refugio-beach-fine-20190425-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plains All American Pipeline oil spill\u003c/a> in Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the oil and water has been contained to an area that's 250 feet long and 20 feet wide, according to DOGGR. 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