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"content": "\u003cp>A historic wind farm in Mexico started sending electricity across the border into San Diego County \u003ca href=\"http://www.intergen.com/intergen-and-ienova-begin-commercial-operation-of-energia-sierra-juarez-wind-project/\">this summer\u003c/a>, but some residents are still fighting it in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, is the first cross-border wind generation project between the U.S. and Mexico. Although clean energy collaboration was on the agenda for industry leaders meeting at San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://borderenergyforum.org/\">Border Energy Forum\u003c/a> in mid-October, some residents claim its first incarnation violates the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind farm in Rumorosa, Baja California, sells 100 percent of its output to San Diego Gas & Electric under a 20-year $820 million power purchase agreement. Sempra affiliates IEnova and InterGen plan to expand the farm’s capacity for 155 megawatts by up to \u003ca href=\"http://ienova.com.mx/english/services-esj.html\">700 percent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 1,200-megawatt capacity and hundreds of new turbines, its output would be comparable with that of the largest wind farm in the U.S., Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County. Subsequent phases could theoretically connect to the Mexican grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/t5RpP_As0DI?list=PL_wiEYr9F4eleQRF5vKl0wxe4Go6HGXly\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is part of a binational scramble for clean energy. California must get \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/10/08/california-wants-renewable-energy-for-half-its-power-by-2030\">half of its electricity\u003c/a> from renewables by 2030, up from a previous target of 33 percent. Mexico recently set a target of \u003ca href=\"http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2014/05/mexicos-newly-opened-energy-market-attracts-renewables.html\">35 percent\u003c/a> by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these agencies and companies are in lockstep on this green energy rush, whether it’s actually beneficial to us or not,” said Donna Tisdale, a resident of Boulevard in East San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale is leading the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez, which also names the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Among other things, the lawsuit claims the Department of Energy issued a presidential permit without considering environmental impacts in Mexico or alternative clean energy projects, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All one landscape’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra de Juárez mountain range where the turbines are located is part of what environmentalists call “the Western spine” of North America. The landscape includes coniferous forest, desert scrub, chaparral and piñon pine. The area is home to the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, mountain lions, California condors, golden eagles and other cross-border creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I would like to see Californians take more responsibility for conservation in Mexico because it is all one landscape'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents to Energía Sierra Juárez argue the wind farm hurts wildlife and is disrupting migration patterns on both sides of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Natural resources don’t recognize any sort of political boundaries,” said Jerre Stallcup, senior conservation ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental impacts in Mexico can have consequences in the U.S., she said. She is not part of the lawsuit against the wind farm, but she said she is concerned about its environmental impacts and has launched \u003ca href=\"http://consbio.org/products/projects/conservation-california-baja\">an initiative\u003c/a> to protect the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-800x442.jpg\" alt=\"A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would just like to see Californians take more responsibility for resource conservation and management in Mexico because it is all one landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Sempra Energy also declined an interview, but operator IEnova said in an email that the company is “committed to the respect, protection and conservation of the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited an on-site nursery containing nearly 7,000 rescued plants, a bird and bat monitoring program and the safe relocation of 95 rattlesnakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green lights from Mexican officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the court documents, defendants argue they don’t have to consider environmental impacts in Mexico, so long as that country approves. Mexico’s national environmental agency, Semarnat, gave the project a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It not only meets the environmental impact requirements, it also deals with climate change and global warming problems,” said Alfonso Blancafort, Semarnat’s federal representative in Baja California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752610\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blancafort said that although Mexico is not yet receiving any of the project’s electricity, the country and the environment as a whole are benefiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have the perception of being a region. If we have a wind farm that generates electricity with a low impact on the environment and lower emissions to the atmosphere, this whole region benefits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new chapter of collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nadb.org/Reports1/Press_Releases/english/2015/081915.htm\">inauguration ceremony\u003c/a> in August, top Mexican officials applauded the wind farm, saying it signals a new chapter of clean energy collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, said, “Baja California is distinguishing itself as a state that bets on clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeping energy reforms in Mexico helped push the project forward, as President Enrique Peña Nieto opened the market to private investment and set new clean energy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the U.S. and the Mexican governments have been, as part of the bilateral agenda, talking about increasing collaboration on renewable energy, especially along the border,” said Gerónimo Gutiérrez, president of the North American Development Bank, which helped finance the $300 million Baja California wind farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say (Energía Sierra Juárez) is a good and clear example of what can be accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The failed fight in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Mexican environmental organization Terra Peninsular filed a lawsuit against Semarnat for approving the project’s environmental impact assessment for Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environmental impact assessments are not done properly,” said Terra Peninsular board member Oracio De la Cueva. “They’re rubber-stamped and we don’t see a follow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental impact assessment, known as an MIA in Mexico, outlined an impact area of hundreds of square miles without specifying exact locations of turbines, roads and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact locations are important, De La Cueva said, because they determine how much of an impact there would be on wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never read or come across an application for an impact permit that was so poorly undertaken,” said Aaron Quintanar, a San Diego resident and environmentalist who served as an adviser in the Mexican lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he cares about the Sierra de Juárez because he \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/07/pursuit-green-energy-sources-expands-mexico/\">often visits to hike\u003c/a> and enjoy nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my wild place,” Quintanar said . “My whole life I’ve been up here on these ranges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semarnat’s Blancafort said the MIA met the legal requirements in Mexico. The Mexican lawsuit failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The U.S. lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Ostrander lives in Jacumba Hot Springs, footsteps from the border fence. His property is a maze of vintage machines and other equipment he tinkers with and recycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I just make stuff,” he said. “I don’t like to see stuff thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He even installed a vertical axis wind turbine on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t pay a utility bill at this point because I have solar and wind,” he said. “I’m trying to do my part to reduce my carbon footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it may come as a surprise to learn that Ostrander is part of the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander can see the turbines from his property, and he says their flashing red lights have ruined his stargazing opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, though, he said he’s concerned about fire. Ostrander is a retired battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. He fought fires for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industrial scale of Energia Sierra Juarez makes it a fire threat, especially during drought. The first phase alone includes 47 turbines, a nearly 5-mile cross-border transmission line and 25 miles of new roads. The project required the construction of a $435 million substation just north of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the region’s worst wildfires in recent history were caused by power lines, such as the 2007 Witch Fire, Ostrander said. And roads encourage traffic, which increases the risk of human-induced fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander is also concerned about environmental damage. He said bobcats, deer and other wild animals have started showing up on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much encroachment on their territory that they’re looking for any safe place, and I don’t harass them, so they just stay here,” he said. “But I have to watch out for my pets because they may become dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman behind the legal challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale, the Boulevard resident who is leading the fight against Energía Sierra Juárez, said she knows she won’t be able to undo the first phase of the project. But there’s still the expansion to think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be of a certain persuasion to enjoy country life, and not everybody appreciates it, but it’s really missed when it’s gone,” said Tisdale, who has been likened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2011/dec/02/backcountry-warrior-donna-tisdale-keeps-up-the-f/\">a local Erin Brockovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is just one of numerous wind farms and other industrial projects that Tisdale is fighting or has challenged with her nonprofit, Backcountry Against Dumps. It started in the late '80s, when she helped the Campo Indians fight off a 600-acre landfill they believed would poison their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is concerned about the possible human health risks, in addition to environmental impacts tied to Energía Sierra Juárez. Like Ostrander, Tisdale can see the turbines from her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turbines generate a low-frequency noise, and some of it’s actually infrasound, where you cannot physically hear it but your body’s reacting to it, so it triggers what is called the fight-or-flight response,” she said. “You may not realize what is stressing you out, or what’s draining your adrenal glands, but you’re actually being affected by the wind turbines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 Institute For Energy Research \u003ca href=\"http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hard-Facts-May-2014-Final.pdf\">Hard Facts report\u003c/a> cites a Minnesota Department of Health study as evidence that there are negative human health impacts from wind farms, such as those described by Tisdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asfaw Beyene, professor of mechanical engineering at San Diego State University, said he’s not convinced. He said the only serious concern related to wind farms is the fact that they kill birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These discomforts are quite minor compared to the global problem we are facing in terms of climate change,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is expected to displace nearly 126,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That's equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 27,000 average passenger vehicles, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/climate/documents/420f14040a.pdf\">2014 data\u003c/a> from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a September order, U.S. District Judge James Lorenz dismissed plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment on environmental issues. But he granted that the Department of Energy did not adequately consider alternatives to Energía Sierra Juárez. He said the statement of purpose and need for the presidential permit \"focused almost exclusively on private interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatives include distributive options like Ostrander’s home solar panels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like energy should be generated closer to the point of use,” Tisdale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would eliminate the need for long transmission lines and decrease wildlife damage, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Praise from Mexicans who live near the turbines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexicans who live next to the turbines say they’re happy with them. The wind farm is located on the communally owned land of Ejido Jacumé, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lease the land to the company, right? And the company put the turbines, giving us a percentage of their profits,” said José Mercado, a 62-year-old resident of Jacumé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JoseMercao-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumé resident José Mercado stands behind the counter of a supermarket near the center of town, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each of the 76 members of the commune gets about $25 per person on the lease, while dividing 4 percent of revenues from the sale of electricity. That amounts to about $2,000 a month, Mercado said. That’s huge for Jacumé, where the primary income source had been livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land wasn’t apt for plantings, or even construction, because it’s all just rock,” he said. “(The wind farm) gives us money to survive without having to work. That’s what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s concerned about possible harm to wildlife, but he decided it wasn’t his priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the way of the Mexican. We see the cash and the present, not the people in front or behind us. Like the government, which thinks only of its purse, and says, countrymen, figure things out on your own,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Boulevard, Tisdale said she doesn’t blame the residents of Jacumé for accepting the wind farm on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you don’t have anything, and someone offers you something, it’s hard to say no,” she said. “And we don’t hold that against people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s why she sees it as her responsibility to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is part of a binational scramble for clean energy. California must get \u003ca href=\"http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/10/08/california-wants-renewable-energy-for-half-its-power-by-2030\">half of its electricity\u003c/a> from renewables by 2030, up from a previous target of 33 percent. Mexico recently set a target of \u003ca href=\"http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2014/05/mexicos-newly-opened-energy-market-attracts-renewables.html\">35 percent\u003c/a> by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these agencies and companies are in lockstep on this green energy rush, whether it’s actually beneficial to us or not,” said Donna Tisdale, a resident of Boulevard in East San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale is leading the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez, which also names the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Among other things, the lawsuit claims the Department of Energy issued a presidential permit without considering environmental impacts in Mexico or alternative clean energy projects, as required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘All one landscape’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra de Juárez mountain range where the turbines are located is part of what environmentalists call “the Western spine” of North America. The landscape includes coniferous forest, desert scrub, chaparral and piñon pine. The area is home to the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, mountain lions, California condors, golden eagles and other cross-border creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I would like to see Californians take more responsibility for conservation in Mexico because it is all one landscape'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Opponents to Energía Sierra Juárez argue the wind farm hurts wildlife and is disrupting migration patterns on both sides of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Natural resources don’t recognize any sort of political boundaries,” said Jerre Stallcup, senior conservation ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental impacts in Mexico can have consequences in the U.S., she said. She is not part of the lawsuit against the wind farm, but she said she is concerned about its environmental impacts and has launched \u003ca href=\"http://consbio.org/products/projects/conservation-california-baja\">an initiative\u003c/a> to protect the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752431\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-800x442.jpg\" alt=\"A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WindFarmGraphic-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map based on information from Sempra Energy documents and environmental impact assessment reports for Energía Sierra Juárez, the first U.S.-Mexico wind energy project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would just like to see Californians take more responsibility for resource conservation and management in Mexico because it is all one landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Sempra Energy also declined an interview, but operator IEnova said in an email that the company is “committed to the respect, protection and conservation of the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company cited an on-site nursery containing nearly 7,000 rescued plants, a bird and bat monitoring program and the safe relocation of 95 rattlesnakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green lights from Mexican officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the court documents, defendants argue they don’t have to consider environmental impacts in Mexico, so long as that country approves. Mexico’s national environmental agency, Semarnat, gave the project a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It not only meets the environmental impact requirements, it also deals with climate change and global warming problems,” said Alfonso Blancafort, Semarnat’s federal representative in Baja California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752610\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752610\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/MexicoFlagTurbines-400x227.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wind farm Energía Sierra Juárez as seen from Jacume in Baja California, Sept. 27, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blancafort said that although Mexico is not yet receiving any of the project’s electricity, the country and the environment as a whole are benefiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have the perception of being a region. If we have a wind farm that generates electricity with a low impact on the environment and lower emissions to the atmosphere, this whole region benefits,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new chapter of collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nadb.org/Reports1/Press_Releases/english/2015/081915.htm\">inauguration ceremony\u003c/a> in August, top Mexican officials applauded the wind farm, saying it signals a new chapter of clean energy collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, said, “Baja California is distinguishing itself as a state that bets on clean energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeping energy reforms in Mexico helped push the project forward, as President Enrique Peña Nieto opened the market to private investment and set new clean energy targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the U.S. and the Mexican governments have been, as part of the bilateral agenda, talking about increasing collaboration on renewable energy, especially along the border,” said Gerónimo Gutiérrez, president of the North American Development Bank, which helped finance the $300 million Baja California wind farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say (Energía Sierra Juárez) is a good and clear example of what can be accomplished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The failed fight in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the Mexican environmental organization Terra Peninsular filed a lawsuit against Semarnat for approving the project’s environmental impact assessment for Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environmental impact assessments are not done properly,” said Terra Peninsular board member Oracio De la Cueva. “They’re rubber-stamped and we don’t see a follow-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental impact assessment, known as an MIA in Mexico, outlined an impact area of hundreds of square miles without specifying exact locations of turbines, roads and other infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exact locations are important, De La Cueva said, because they determine how much of an impact there would be on wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never read or come across an application for an impact permit that was so poorly undertaken,” said Aaron Quintanar, a San Diego resident and environmentalist who served as an adviser in the Mexican lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he cares about the Sierra de Juárez because he \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/07/pursuit-green-energy-sources-expands-mexico/\">often visits to hike\u003c/a> and enjoy nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my wild place,” Quintanar said . “My whole life I’ve been up here on these ranges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Semarnat’s Blancafort said the MIA met the legal requirements in Mexico. The Mexican lawsuit failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The U.S. lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Ostrander lives in Jacumba Hot Springs, footsteps from the border fence. His property is a maze of vintage machines and other equipment he tinkers with and recycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I just make stuff,” he said. “I don’t like to see stuff thrown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752613\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Ostrander-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacumba Hot Springs resident Mark Ostrander at home, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He even installed a vertical axis wind turbine on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t pay a utility bill at this point because I have solar and wind,” he said. “I’m trying to do my part to reduce my carbon footprint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it may come as a surprise to learn that Ostrander is part of the lawsuit against Energía Sierra Juárez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander can see the turbines from his property, and he says their flashing red lights have ruined his stargazing opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, though, he said he’s concerned about fire. Ostrander is a retired battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. He fought fires for nearly 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the industrial scale of Energia Sierra Juarez makes it a fire threat, especially during drought. The first phase alone includes 47 turbines, a nearly 5-mile cross-border transmission line and 25 miles of new roads. The project required the construction of a $435 million substation just north of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the region’s worst wildfires in recent history were caused by power lines, such as the 2007 Witch Fire, Ostrander said. And roads encourage traffic, which increases the risk of human-induced fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostrander is also concerned about environmental damage. He said bobcats, deer and other wild animals have started showing up on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much encroachment on their territory that they’re looking for any safe place, and I don’t harass them, so they just stay here,” he said. “But I have to watch out for my pets because they may become dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The woman behind the legal challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tisdale, the Boulevard resident who is leading the fight against Energía Sierra Juárez, said she knows she won’t be able to undo the first phase of the project. But there’s still the expansion to think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be of a certain persuasion to enjoy country life, and not everybody appreciates it, but it’s really missed when it’s gone,” said Tisdale, who has been likened to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2011/dec/02/backcountry-warrior-donna-tisdale-keeps-up-the-f/\">a local Erin Brockovich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10752616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10752616\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/LawsuitWoman-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Tisdale stands in her Boulevard Ranch, Sept. 28, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Energía Sierra Juárez is just one of numerous wind farms and other industrial projects that Tisdale is fighting or has challenged with her nonprofit, Backcountry Against Dumps. It started in the late '80s, when she helped the Campo Indians fight off a 600-acre landfill they believed would poison their wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is concerned about the possible human health risks, in addition to environmental impacts tied to Energía Sierra Juárez. Like Ostrander, Tisdale can see the turbines from her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Turbines generate a low-frequency noise, and some of it’s actually infrasound, where you cannot physically hear it but your body’s reacting to it, so it triggers what is called the fight-or-flight response,” she said. “You may not realize what is stressing you out, or what’s draining your adrenal glands, but you’re actually being affected by the wind turbines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 Institute For Energy Research \u003ca href=\"http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Hard-Facts-May-2014-Final.pdf\">Hard Facts report\u003c/a> cites a Minnesota Department of Health study as evidence that there are negative human health impacts from wind farms, such as those described by Tisdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asfaw Beyene, professor of mechanical engineering at San Diego State University, said he’s not convinced. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/431240543/431343164\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a steamy San Diego afternoon, baseball fans are headed toward the Padres' downtown stadium. As they approach the park, they pass a large steel stall on the sidewalk. Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did not know that was a bathroom,\" Collins observes. \"I thought it was some kind of electrical equipment or something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the stall emits a familiar sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, now that I hear it flush, ...\" she says. \"I did not know that was a bathroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10639117\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10639117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Loos are designed to deter vandalism and misuse.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/ap_301288805260_vert-e33f0180896dc2b30ae79503c64d0ac47e224240-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portland Loos are designed to deter vandalism and misuse. \u003ccite>(Jonathan J. Cooper/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Collins was mystified by a \u003ca href=\"http://theloo.biz/\">Portland Loo\u003c/a>, a prefabricated public restroom that's been popping up from Seattle to Cincinnati to Montreal. The loos have real toilets and running water, and are better ventilated than port-a-potties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're controversial. The toilets turned out to be much pricier than expected, and some people complain that they could attract illict activity – prostitution or drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins isn't keen to try one out. If she had to go, she says, \"I would hold it and go in the ballpark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portland Loos are designed to ease the daunting task of keeping a public restroom \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/21/365692827/what-microbes-lurked-in-the-last-public-restroom-you-used\">safe and clean\u003c/a>. They can be power-washed and have slits along the bottom to make it clear if there's somebody inside. They cost about $100,000 each, but that doesn't include the connection to sewer lines, which is where some cities stumble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego spent more than half a million dollars installing its two loos — double the initial price tag. Now, due to more costs and residents' complaints, it's planning to remove one and put it in storage. A nearby homeless shelter will open its bathrooms around the clock instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates point out that the need to provide clean toilets is a public health problem shared by all cities; \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/08/15/158874028/bill-gates-crowns-toilet-innovators-at-sanitation-fair\">solving the problem\u003c/a> benefits residents and visitors of all economic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Bennett, homeless for 22 years, says San Diego's push to open more public restrooms has improved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps,\" he says. \"It gives me a chance to not have to go all the way across town to use the restroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is a loo fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The homeless population is up in this area since the Portland Loo was installed,\" says Jon Wantz, who runs a restaurant a few blocks away from one. \"The increased activity, whether it be criminal or drug-related, or just transient-related in general, it's not good for business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Affording individuals the ability to use a private and safe space to utilize the restroom is basic dignity,\" counters \u003ca href=\"http://www.girlsthinktank.org/board\">Heather Pollock\u003c/a>, executive director of Girls Think Tank, a San Diego homeless advocacy nonprofit. A restroom isn't truly public, she says, unless everyone can use it — and many people aren't allowed in the restrooms inside stores and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I walked in and was holding all of my belongings, or I hadn't showered in a few days, there's a very high likelihood that I would not be able to utilize that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock points out San Diego provides free dog poop bags from dispensers across the city, but there are only a few places where a homeless person can use a toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wonder what kind of message we're sending as a community,\" she says, \"when we're basically saying we value dog owners more than we value human beings and their basic dignity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 KPBS-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=San+Diego+Installed+Public+Loos%2C+But+Now+They%27re+Flush+With+Problems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego's new public toilets in kiosks on sidewalks were designed for convenience, but they've proven to be more expensive than the city expected and controversial. From member station KPBS, Claire Trageser reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLAIRE TRAGESER, BYLINE: On a steamy San Diego afternoon, baseball fans are headed towards the Padre's downtown stadium. As they approach the park, they pass a large steel stall on the sidewalk. Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DARLENE COLLINS: I did not know that was a bathroom. I thought that was some kind of electrical equipment or something. Yeah, I thought it was some - well, now I hear it flush. I would not think that was a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Collins was mystified by a Portland Loo, a prefabricated public restroom that's been popping up from Seattle to Cincinnati to Montreal. The loos are better ventilated than port-a-potties and have running water. Still, Collins wasn't keen on trying one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: It's probably disgusting - yeah, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: If she did have to go...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: I would hold it and go in the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RONALD BENNETT: A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Ronald Bennett has been homeless for 22 years. 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Now, due to more costs and residents' complaints, it's planning to remove one and put it in storage. A nearby homeless shelter will open its bathrooms around the clock instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates point out that the need to provide clean toilets is a public health problem shared by all cities; \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/08/15/158874028/bill-gates-crowns-toilet-innovators-at-sanitation-fair\">solving the problem\u003c/a> benefits residents and visitors of all economic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Bennett, homeless for 22 years, says San Diego's push to open more public restrooms has improved his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps,\" he says. \"It gives me a chance to not have to go all the way across town to use the restroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is a loo fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The homeless population is up in this area since the Portland Loo was installed,\" says Jon Wantz, who runs a restaurant a few blocks away from one. \"The increased activity, whether it be criminal or drug-related, or just transient-related in general, it's not good for business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Affording individuals the ability to use a private and safe space to utilize the restroom is basic dignity,\" counters \u003ca href=\"http://www.girlsthinktank.org/board\">Heather Pollock\u003c/a>, executive director of Girls Think Tank, a San Diego homeless advocacy nonprofit. A restroom isn't truly public, she says, unless everyone can use it — and many people aren't allowed in the restrooms inside stores and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I walked in and was holding all of my belongings, or I hadn't showered in a few days, there's a very high likelihood that I would not be able to utilize that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollock points out San Diego provides free dog poop bags from dispensers across the city, but there are only a few places where a homeless person can use a toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just wonder what kind of message we're sending as a community,\" she says, \"when we're basically saying we value dog owners more than we value human beings and their basic dignity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 KPBS-FM. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=San+Diego+Installed+Public+Loos%2C+But+Now+They%27re+Flush+With+Problems&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transcript :\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego's new public toilets in kiosks on sidewalks were designed for convenience, but they've proven to be more expensive than the city expected and controversial. From member station KPBS, Claire Trageser reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLAIRE TRAGESER, BYLINE: On a steamy San Diego afternoon, baseball fans are headed towards the Padre's downtown stadium. As they approach the park, they pass a large steel stall on the sidewalk. Darlene Collins stops to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DARLENE COLLINS: I did not know that was a bathroom. I thought that was some kind of electrical equipment or something. Yeah, I thought it was some - well, now I hear it flush. I would not think that was a bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Collins was mystified by a Portland Loo, a prefabricated public restroom that's been popping up from Seattle to Cincinnati to Montreal. The loos are better ventilated than port-a-potties and have running water. Still, Collins wasn't keen on trying one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: It's probably disgusting - yeah, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: If she did have to go...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COLLINS: I would hold it and go in the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RONALD BENNETT: A lot of us don't have a restroom to go to, so we can use that one and it helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Ronald Bennett has been homeless for 22 years. 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But Pollock says a restroom isn't truly public unless everyone can use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POLLOCK: If I walked in and I was holding all of my belongings or I hadn't showered in a few days, there's a very high likelihood that I would not be allowed to utilize that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TRAGESER: Pollock points out San Diego provides free dog poop bag from dispensers across the city, but there are only a few places where a homeless person can use a toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POLLOCK: I just wonder what kind of message that we are sending as a community when we're basically saying we value dog owners more than we value human beings and their basic dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sorrentino's Pizza owner Patrick Quinn is tired of watching the energy bill at his San Diego restaurant go up each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In 2011, 2012, May or June, the bill ran $1,390 or $1,400,” Quinn said. “This past year, it was running $2,230, $2,250.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said he’s tried to cut his energy consumption by closing his Clairemont Mesa Boulevard restaurant from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day. He turned off his ovens. He even shut down the pilot lights. But he said his energy bill actually increased — by a dollar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are you going to do?” he said. “We're slaves to the utility industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202950554\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego businessman’s rhetoric is stronger than most, but other consumers and advocates in San Diego also are frustrated with utility companies and their regulators. In recent weeks, investigations have turned up evidence of private deal-making between Southern California Edison and some members of the California Public Utilities Commission. The utility owns most of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which had to shut down one year after faulty steam generators at the plant caused a small radioactive leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility and the regulator struck a deal on a settlement. The result: no investigation into the failure of the steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, and ratepayers will pay for most of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/20/cpuc-approves-controversial-san-onofre-settlement-/\">$4.7 billion settlement\u003c/a>. But that settlement is being questioned, now that details have emerged about its origins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owner Quinn calls that settlement illegitimate because the Public Utilities Commission allowed it without a full investigation of who was responsible for the plant’s failure and who should be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Quinn, owner of Sorrentino's Pizza in San Diego, talks about his energy bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Quinn, owner of Sorrentino's Pizza in San Diego, talks about his energy bill. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Where do we find accountability?” Quinn said. “The steam generators — why did they fail? These are simple questions that should be asked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions have been asked, but answers have been slow to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’m not here to answer your questions’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, former PUC President Michael Peevey was still a powerful bureaucrat unaccustomed to being challenged at regulatory hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Mike Aguirre wanted to know just how did the PUC reach a $4.7 billion settlement with little public input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre, San Diego’s former city attorney, asked Peevey at a meeting how many times he had talked privately with executives from San Onofre’s majority owner, Southern California Edison. Peevey, a former Edison executive, wasn’t having it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not here to answer your goddamn questions,” Peevey yelled from the Public Utilities Commission dais. “Now shut up! Shut up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204XX9YJJCY&w=800&h=400]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Aguirre reflected on Peevey’s outburst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really blew up and, of course, now we know why,” said Aguirre, who in November \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-san-onofre-lawsuit-20141115-story.html\">sued to have the settlement set aside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peevey \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/CPUC-head-Michael-Peevey-to-step-down-5812009.php\">stepped down from the PUC\u003c/a> in December after the release of emails showing he maintained close contact with Pacific Gas and Electric executives following the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people. In the emails, Peevey offered public relations counsel and discussed rate setting, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Poland conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year before Peevey’s blowup, in 2013, he met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett at the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland. There, they discussed a framework for a settlement agreement on San Onofre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Poland meeting came to light only this year, after state investigators found notes about San Onofre’s defective replacement steam generators on Hotel Bristol stationery during a search of Peevey’s home in January. PUC officials and utility executives are the target of federal and state probes for alleged inappropriate contact and possible influence-peddling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edison never reported the secret meeting to the PUC as required, until after \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/09/cpuc-warsaw-hotel-bristol-peevey-edison/\">U-T San Diego published a story\u003c/a> about the seized notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company explained the 23-month delay by characterizing the Poland conversation as an “update” on San Onofre that was “permissible and not reportable.” But the company goes on to say it now appears Pickett may have crossed into substantive communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-800x717.jpg\" alt=\"The lobby of the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland, where former PUC president Michael Peevey met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett in 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-800x717.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-400x358.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-1440x1290.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-1180x1057.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-960x860.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobby of the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland, where former PUC president Michael Peevey met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett in 2013. \u003ccite>(JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s take on Edison’s belated notice: “Once they were caught, they released it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails also show Peevey making plans to meet Edison officials for dinner and drinks in the months following the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, PUC officials have had scores of private meetings and other contact with executives at Edison and minority owner San Diego Gas & Electric about San Onofre since the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates did attend some of those meetings. Two months after the Poland talk, Edison invited Northern California consumer group The Utility Reform Network, known as TURN, to the secret settlement discussions. TURN spokeswoman Mindy Spatt said the closed-door chats were consistent with how other agreements with the PUC had been reached over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spatt said TURN endorsed a deal that forces customers to bear the brunt of San Onofre costs before a thorough inquiry because there was little choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was unlikely that the PUC would go back in time and punish Edison for its bad behavior,” Spatt said. \"There was not a legal precedent to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The effect of the Poland conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch of the Poland conversation and eventual $4.7 billion settlement effectively put an end to an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn't a settlement,” Aguirre said. “It was a plan to end an investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PUC had promised a probe into who was responsible for San Onofre’s defective equipment and whether customers should still foot the bill for a plant no longer generating electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PUC's consultant, nuclear safety expert Robert Budnitz, urged an inquiry because he thought it important to learn what might have been done, by whom and at what stage, to avoid the equipment failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/347889/col-nrc-tech-paper.pdf\">Edison knew there were concerns about design flaws\u003c/a> with the new steam generators before deploying them. A radiation leak in one of those generators in 2012 ultimately forced the plant’s shutdown. Nuclear safety experts say Edison also failed to go through the proper licensing process with federal regulators to install the new equipment, according to federal documents. And Edison never got permission from the PUC to put the new $700 million steam generators into customer rates permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506935\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-400x223.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1440x801.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1180x656.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-960x534.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taken together, Aguirre said the facts scream for accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the biggest white-collar crimes ever,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PUC spokeswoman Terrie Prosper maintains that commissioners were not involved in the proposed settlement despite the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edison began revising its rules last year for private contacts with the PUC. The company now requires approval from its lawyers before an employee can communicate with regulators about a pending matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined an interview request from KPBS. But in a court filing, Edison echoed the PUC's contention that the company and state regulators had to maintain contact for updates and to ensure reliable power supplies after a large nuclear plant went out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to reopen settlement deepen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) said the private contacts between Edison and the PUC following San Onofre's radiation leak went beyond regulators engaging with industry to be responsible leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When commissioners are making billion-dollar deals with utilities behind closed doors, it's hard for them to say the public is served,” said Hill, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-bruno-fire/ci_17222004\">has called for more transparency\u003c/a> at the PUC. “The ratepayers are victims here. They shouldn't be the ones who have to pay for the mistakes for the utility. I think it throws into question the (San Onofre) agreement completely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Assemblyman Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) wants new PUC President Michael Picker to use the commission’s authority to force Edison to turn over all emails related to the San Onofre settlement and to investigate how the deal was reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rendon is chairman of the Utilities and Commerce Committee, which has held oversight hearings into alleged wrongdoing at the PUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker has pledged to reform the regulatory agency, but there is no word yet on whether the PUC will comply with Rendon's request.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility and the regulator struck a deal on a settlement. The result: no investigation into the failure of the steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, and ratepayers will pay for most of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/20/cpuc-approves-controversial-san-onofre-settlement-/\">$4.7 billion settlement\u003c/a>. But that settlement is being questioned, now that details have emerged about its origins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owner Quinn calls that settlement illegitimate because the Public Utilities Commission allowed it without a full investigation of who was responsible for the plant’s failure and who should be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner-800x447.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Quinn, owner of Sorrentino's Pizza in San Diego, talks about his energy bill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/PizzaOwner-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Quinn, owner of Sorrentino's Pizza in San Diego, talks about his energy bill. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Where do we find accountability?” Quinn said. “The steam generators — why did they fail? These are simple questions that should be asked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions have been asked, but answers have been slow to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’m not here to answer your questions’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, former PUC President Michael Peevey was still a powerful bureaucrat unaccustomed to being challenged at regulatory hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Mike Aguirre wanted to know just how did the PUC reach a $4.7 billion settlement with little public input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre, San Diego’s former city attorney, asked Peevey at a meeting how many times he had talked privately with executives from San Onofre’s majority owner, Southern California Edison. Peevey, a former Edison executive, wasn’t having it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not here to answer your goddamn questions,” Peevey yelled from the Public Utilities Commission dais. “Now shut up! Shut up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/204XX9YJJCY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/204XX9YJJCY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Aguirre reflected on Peevey’s outburst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really blew up and, of course, now we know why,” said Aguirre, who in November \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-san-onofre-lawsuit-20141115-story.html\">sued to have the settlement set aside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peevey \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/CPUC-head-Michael-Peevey-to-step-down-5812009.php\">stepped down from the PUC\u003c/a> in December after the release of emails showing he maintained close contact with Pacific Gas and Electric executives following the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people. In the emails, Peevey offered public relations counsel and discussed rate setting, among other topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Poland conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year before Peevey’s blowup, in 2013, he met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett at the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland. There, they discussed a framework for a settlement agreement on San Onofre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Poland meeting came to light only this year, after state investigators found notes about San Onofre’s defective replacement steam generators on Hotel Bristol stationery during a search of Peevey’s home in January. PUC officials and utility executives are the target of federal and state probes for alleged inappropriate contact and possible influence-peddling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edison never reported the secret meeting to the PUC as required, until after \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/09/cpuc-warsaw-hotel-bristol-peevey-edison/\">U-T San Diego published a story\u003c/a> about the seized notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company explained the 23-month delay by characterizing the Poland conversation as an “update” on San Onofre that was “permissible and not reportable.” But the company goes on to say it now appears Pickett may have crossed into substantive communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-800x717.jpg\" alt=\"The lobby of the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland, where former PUC president Michael Peevey met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett in 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-800x717.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-400x358.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-1440x1290.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-1180x1057.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol-960x860.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HotelBristol.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lobby of the opulent Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, Poland, where former PUC president Michael Peevey met with Southern California Edison executive Stephen Pickett in 2013. \u003ccite>(JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aguirre’s take on Edison’s belated notice: “Once they were caught, they released it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails also show Peevey making plans to meet Edison officials for dinner and drinks in the months following the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, PUC officials have had scores of private meetings and other contact with executives at Edison and minority owner San Diego Gas & Electric about San Onofre since the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates did attend some of those meetings. Two months after the Poland talk, Edison invited Northern California consumer group The Utility Reform Network, known as TURN, to the secret settlement discussions. TURN spokeswoman Mindy Spatt said the closed-door chats were consistent with how other agreements with the PUC had been reached over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spatt said TURN endorsed a deal that forces customers to bear the brunt of San Onofre costs before a thorough inquiry because there was little choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was unlikely that the PUC would go back in time and punish Edison for its bad behavior,” Spatt said. \"There was not a legal precedent to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The effect of the Poland conversation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch of the Poland conversation and eventual $4.7 billion settlement effectively put an end to an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn't a settlement,” Aguirre said. “It was a plan to end an investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PUC had promised a probe into who was responsible for San Onofre’s defective equipment and whether customers should still foot the bill for a plant no longer generating electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PUC's consultant, nuclear safety expert Robert Budnitz, urged an inquiry because he thought it important to learn what might have been done, by whom and at what stage, to avoid the equipment failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/347889/col-nrc-tech-paper.pdf\">Edison knew there were concerns about design flaws\u003c/a> with the new steam generators before deploying them. A radiation leak in one of those generators in 2012 ultimately forced the plant’s shutdown. Nuclear safety experts say Edison also failed to go through the proper licensing process with federal regulators to install the new equipment, according to federal documents. And Edison never got permission from the PUC to put the new $700 million steam generators into customer rates permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-800x445.jpg\" alt=\"The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10506935\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-400x223.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1440x801.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1180x656.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-960x534.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SanOnofre1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taken together, Aguirre said the facts scream for accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the biggest white-collar crimes ever,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PUC spokeswoman Terrie Prosper maintains that commissioners were not involved in the proposed settlement despite the Poland meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edison began revising its rules last year for private contacts with the PUC. The company now requires approval from its lawyers before an employee can communicate with regulators about a pending matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined an interview request from KPBS. But in a court filing, Edison echoed the PUC's contention that the company and state regulators had to maintain contact for updates and to ensure reliable power supplies after a large nuclear plant went out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to reopen settlement deepen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jill, not her real name because she fears retribution, said she rose to the top of her pimp’s list of prostitutes because she was an asset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, the blond 32-year-old with tough blue eyes spoke with a mix of pride and sorrow about turning tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the pimps I dealt with made it very clear to everyone that I was the baddest bitch out there,” Jill said. “I knew how to get money. I knew how to manipulate the Johns into paying me whatever I wanted them to pay me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195001152\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jill never saw the approximately $2,500 she said she earned per day from having sex with five to seven men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Everything went into his bank account,” she said, referring to her pimp. “I didn’t care because I was high. Now looking back today, it’s like, 'Goddamn! I could have been rich right now.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pimp acknowledged Jill’s worth by delegating his work to her. He recruited the girls. She trained them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took them to neighborhoods,” she said. “I told them what to do in terms of, ‘Don’t flag no one down. You got to walk back and forth. You got to make circles.’ I gave them their start and end point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10450107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10450107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney, is pictured in this photo, Jan. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women such as Jill who help pimps sell girls are called \"bottoms.\" They serve as enforcers who still turn tricks but reap none of the profits and are used to shield pimps from police scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom is the most down for the pimp — with 'down' being a good word — so she’d be the bottom because she’s the most down,” said Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no hard numbers on how prevalent sex trafficking is in San Diego County. But since 2011, law enforcement officials have busted three significant trafficking rings across the county involving gang members pimping out girls as young as 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics are also nonexistent on how many bottoms there are in the county. But Barrett said they’re beginning to see more women involved in the logistical end of pimping in larger gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to cut the head off the snake, so we’re seeing it more,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said she became a \"bottom\" in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her pimp preyed on girls who needed money for food, clothes or drugs. She regrets her role in turning the girls into sex trafficking victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hurt me in a lot of ways because some of these girls were not even old enough to understand what it was to be a prostitute,” she said. “I look back in my mind to when I was 11 or 12 years old and my mom was doing the same thing to me, and I wished that I could turn back the hands of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKYC0PYRSb8&w=640&h=360]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said her mother first sexually trafficked her when she was 11, in exchange for drugs. Jill eventually made it to the bottom position after years of working with different pimps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Agent Robert Howe called that track a path of endurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bottom is typically a young lady who has survived through the victimization of prostitution as a minor for a number of years and graduated into a position of responsibility for a male who is referred to as a pimp but in reality is a violent pedophile,” Howe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimps use bottoms to insulate themselves from police scrutiny. As a result, Howe said, many of the women take on management of the girls, overseeing financial transactions and recruitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett said many bottoms are particularly effective at luring in new girls by befriending them at continuation schools, bus and trolley stops, and shopping malls. They can also be brutal enforcers of pimps’ rules, making it tough for the criminal justice system to dole out punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, the female pimps and traffickers were themselves victims,” said Summer Stephan, a San Diego County deputy district attorney. “That’s a factor that makes it very complex, because at one point is the person still a victim or a perpetrator?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10450110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10450110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Agent Robert Howe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Agent Robert Howe. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting a bottom to turn on her pimp is another challenge prosecutors face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”They’re in a family,” Barrett said. “They have someone who cares for them. They have someone who provides for them. They have someone who beats them less than the stepfather they left at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Barrett said most bottoms have limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing in a 16-year-old is tolerable,” Barrett said. “Bringing in a 12-year-old is not. Beating is OK, but breaking bones is not. Denying food is fine, but not to the baby. And that’s when they seek help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said it took a long time for her to reach that point because she was often high on methamphetamine and crack cocaine. It didn’t happen after the dozens of arrests. It didn’t happen after her son was taken away from her. Nor did it happen after she said two pimps kidnapped and beat her for two days straight, causing her to miscarry twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deep down inside I was dying,” Jill said. “I wanted out and I didn’t know how. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jill, not her real name because she fears retribution, said she rose to the top of her pimp’s list of prostitutes because she was an asset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, the blond 32-year-old with tough blue eyes spoke with a mix of pride and sorrow about turning tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the pimps I dealt with made it very clear to everyone that I was the baddest bitch out there,” Jill said. “I knew how to get money. I knew how to manipulate the Johns into paying me whatever I wanted them to pay me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195001152&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195001152'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jill never saw the approximately $2,500 she said she earned per day from having sex with five to seven men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”Everything went into his bank account,” she said, referring to her pimp. “I didn’t care because I was high. Now looking back today, it’s like, 'Goddamn! I could have been rich right now.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pimp acknowledged Jill’s worth by delegating his work to her. He recruited the girls. She trained them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took them to neighborhoods,” she said. “I told them what to do in terms of, ‘Don’t flag no one down. You got to walk back and forth. You got to make circles.’ I gave them their start and end point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10450107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10450107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney, is pictured in this photo, Jan. 8, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/MaryEllenBarrett.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women such as Jill who help pimps sell girls are called \"bottoms.\" They serve as enforcers who still turn tricks but reap none of the profits and are used to shield pimps from police scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom is the most down for the pimp — with 'down' being a good word — so she’d be the bottom because she’s the most down,” said Mary Ellen Barrett, a San Diego County deputy district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no hard numbers on how prevalent sex trafficking is in San Diego County. But since 2011, law enforcement officials have busted three significant trafficking rings across the county involving gang members pimping out girls as young as 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics are also nonexistent on how many bottoms there are in the county. But Barrett said they’re beginning to see more women involved in the logistical end of pimping in larger gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to cut the head off the snake, so we’re seeing it more,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said she became a \"bottom\" in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her pimp preyed on girls who needed money for food, clothes or drugs. She regrets her role in turning the girls into sex trafficking victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hurt me in a lot of ways because some of these girls were not even old enough to understand what it was to be a prostitute,” she said. “I look back in my mind to when I was 11 or 12 years old and my mom was doing the same thing to me, and I wished that I could turn back the hands of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OKYC0PYRSb8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OKYC0PYRSb8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said her mother first sexually trafficked her when she was 11, in exchange for drugs. Jill eventually made it to the bottom position after years of working with different pimps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Agent Robert Howe called that track a path of endurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bottom is typically a young lady who has survived through the victimization of prostitution as a minor for a number of years and graduated into a position of responsibility for a male who is referred to as a pimp but in reality is a violent pedophile,” Howe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimps use bottoms to insulate themselves from police scrutiny. As a result, Howe said, many of the women take on management of the girls, overseeing financial transactions and recruitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett said many bottoms are particularly effective at luring in new girls by befriending them at continuation schools, bus and trolley stops, and shopping malls. They can also be brutal enforcers of pimps’ rules, making it tough for the criminal justice system to dole out punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, the female pimps and traffickers were themselves victims,” said Summer Stephan, a San Diego County deputy district attorney. “That’s a factor that makes it very complex, because at one point is the person still a victim or a perpetrator?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10450110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10450110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Agent Robert Howe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Agent Robert Howe. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting a bottom to turn on her pimp is another challenge prosecutors face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”They’re in a family,” Barrett said. “They have someone who cares for them. They have someone who provides for them. They have someone who beats them less than the stepfather they left at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Barrett said most bottoms have limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing in a 16-year-old is tolerable,” Barrett said. “Bringing in a 12-year-old is not. Beating is OK, but breaking bones is not. Denying food is fine, but not to the baby. And that’s when they seek help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said it took a long time for her to reach that point because she was often high on methamphetamine and crack cocaine. It didn’t happen after the dozens of arrests. It didn’t happen after her son was taken away from her. Nor did it happen after she said two pimps kidnapped and beat her for two days straight, causing her to miscarry twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deep down inside I was dying,” Jill said. “I wanted out and I didn’t know how. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Diego was on its way to becoming one of several major cities to increase its \u003ca href=\"http://www.10news.com/news/4-san-diego-city-council-members-push-to-raise-minimum-wage-allow-sick-days\">minimum wage last year\u003c/a>. But the wage hike has been delayed by a \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/16/san-diego-minimum-wage-next/\">local referendum \u003c/a>put on the June 2016 ballot by business groups, including the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ballot fight is part of the new normal in San Diego politics. Since December 2013, business groups have used the referendum process to block four actions of Democrats on San Diego’s City Council. In one of those cases, the City Council backed down. Two other times, voters sided with business groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd3/\">City Councilman Todd Gloria\u003c/a> helped lead the council on all four actions and said their undoing has hurt the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is unprecedented,” he said. “It's a trend, and I don't think it's a good one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188734473\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's right that it's rare. Since 2012, there have been only four local ballot referendum measures combined between the five other biggest cities in California -- the same number that just San Diego has seen since December 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Diego has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/mayor/about/index.shtml\">Republican mayor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/\">the council\u003c/a> has a Democratic majority. The battle began when they started passing more progressive measures, like the gradual minimum wage increase from $9 to $11.50 an hour and raising a construction fee to pay for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.sdsu.edu/people/faculty/adams_b.htm\">Brian Adams\u003c/a>, a politics professor at San Diego State University, said the business community saw those actions as a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the business community wanted to say to the City Council, ‘Listen, we're paying attention to what you're doing, if you're passing laws that we don't like, we're going to fight you on it, we're going to use referendum,’ ” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Sanders, the CEO of the local \u003ca href=\"http://sdchamber.org/\">Chamber of Commerce \u003c/a>and San Diego’s former mayor, said the Democrat-majority City Council left the business community with few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were unsuccessful in getting anyone to sit down and talk with us about it on the Council majority, so we were literally left with no choice but to referendum,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes signatures from 5 percent of San Diego voters to try to overturn a local law by referendum, which is about 33,000 signatures. Business groups spent some $500,000 to get the minimum wage on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders said the referendum process gives citizens a chance to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's where people who don't have an opportunity to get their voice heard actually get to sign petitions and say, ‘We want to vote on this,’ ” he said. “That's pure democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gloria said it's the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's an incredible erosion of democracy,” he said. “It's very disconcerting because it's not about a popular uprising. These are very small groups with a whole lot of money who are used to getting their way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gloria is now pushing back by working to change San Diego’s referendum process. He wants more transparency around who's paying for a referendum and possibly to increase the number of signatures needed to get one on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the City Council changes the process, the business community says it will fight that, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics professor Adams said changing the referendum process could be the next battle in what feels like a larger war for political control over San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what's going on here is jockeying by the business community. They've always had tremendous sway in San Diego politics, and I think they want to make sure they maintain that,” he said. “And perhaps they've seen with some of these initiatives coming out of the City Council, maybe their influence is slipping a bit and this is their way for them to assert their authority to stay very influential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With neither side ready to back down, San Diegans should be ready for more political sales pitches outside their grocery stores and inside their voting booths.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal officials say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nihcm.org/images/stories/NIHCM-CostBrief-Email.pdf\">sickest 5 percent\u003c/a> of Americans rack up more than half of all health care costs. They often have chronic health conditions as well as high rates of emergency room visits and hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Diego \u003ca href=\"http://multiculturalipa.com/phii.html\" target=\"_blank\">program \u003c/a>is attempting to teach these “high utilizers” how to navigate the health care system, break the cycle of crises and manage their own conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach is labor intensive, but program officials say it actually saves money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take LaShawn Encarnacion, for example. The 39-year-old has a boatload of chronic health problems. Encarnacion has been battling morbid obesity and other health issues for years. He hopes the Patient Improvement Health Initiative will help him take better care of himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Type 2 diabetes, extreme morbid obesity, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure,” he recounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s just the physical stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10351856\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Encarnacion.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/Encarnacion-400x224.png\" alt=\"LaShawn Encarnacion has been battling morbid obesity and other health problems for years. He hopes the Patient Improvement Health Initiative will help him take better care of himself. 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But lately, he’s been getting some help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social worker Alicia Asaro is helping Encarnacion get the benefits he’s entitled to, and get his health under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mattress, the walker and the cane, all of those things, we’re gonna start working through it.\" Asaro told Encarnacion as they sat in her southeastern San Diego office. \"And then you had therapy yesterday, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asaro is part of a care management team that’s at the heart of the Patient Health Improvement Initiative, a grant-funded program that targets chronically ill patients who lurch from one crisis to another -- often ending up in the hospital and racking up enormous costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Rodney Hood heads up the Patient Health Improvement Initiative. He says the people his program targets have insurance, but face numerous social barriers that prevent them from accessing the health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in some ways it’s similar to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/feb/20/project-helps-get-homeless-san-diego-streets-and-o/\" target=\"_blank\">Project 25\u003c/a>, an effort that finds housing and seeks to improve the health of homeless San Diegans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The program’s funding runs out next year. Dr. Hood says he's asking insurance companies to underwrite it, since they’re the ones reaping the most savings.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Hood said the majority of patients in his program have housing and insurance. They live in areas of the county, like southeast San Diego and National City, which have the highest rates of ER and hospital visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to the ER because of what we call social barriers,\" Hood explained. \"There’s problems of lack of education, lack of transportation, food problems, not understanding the medications, not being able to get with their coverage to get the benefits that they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hood said his team works closely with each patient for up to a year. They help stabilize the patient and address the social barriers affecting their health. In essence, the team teaches patients how to improve their quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not necessarily holding their hands, but teaching them and empowering them how to navigate into a better future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0pRruKut8Y&w=640&h=360]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The template for Hood’s program was created in 2007 in Camden, New Jersey. A doctor named \u003ca href=\"http://www.camdenhealth.org/addressing-the-one-percent-an-interview-with-jeffrey-brenner-md/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Brenner\u003c/a> used raw billing data from three Camden hospitals to identify high utilizers of health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that 20 percent of the patients were 90 percent of the cost,\" Brenner said. \"Someone had actually gone to the emergency room 113 times in one year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenner explained that instead of waiting for people to show up at the hospital, he formed a team to actively seek out chronically sick people and take better care of them. Using this unique approach, Brenner’s team was able to cut hospital visits and costs in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Hood received a federal grant to fund a similar program in southeastern San Diego. So far, it has enrolled a total of 124 patients. The effort is the only federally funded program of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so far, it has achieved some impressive results. A cohort of 21 patients from one health plan slashed their medical costs from $1.6 million to $960,000 in one year. Even when you factor in the costs of Hood’s team, that’s a 40 percent savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10351859\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/LavellePicou.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/LavellePicou-400x222.png\" alt=\"Lavelle Picou recently graduated from the program. She still has a bad hip and sickle cell disease, but has learned how to manage her conditions and stay out of the hospital. (Nic McVicker/KPBS)\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10351859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/LavellePicou-400x222.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/LavellePicou-672x372.png 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/LavellePicou.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lavelle Picou recently graduated from the program. She still has a bad hip and sickle cell disease, but has learned how to manage her conditions and stay out of the hospital. (Nic McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hood's team includes a social worker, community health worker and a nurse case manager. They meet twice a week to review cases and discuss new patient referrals. 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The state doesn't keep dropout rates by refugee status, but leaders in the local Somali community say anecdotally that refugee boys are at even higher risk of dropping out than girls are. They say the boys often are drawn into fights and, like many refugees, lack resources and struggle with language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduation gap is feeding a rapid gender shift for the Somali community — one that's tricky to navigate for young women like Osman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Osman learned she was accepted to a university an eight-hour drive away, she got a lot of pushback from her sister. That's because Osman helps with the household and her nieces and nephews. 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Boys don't have that many role models.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isha Aweyso, 17, will start her senior year this fall at Health Sciences High and Middle College, a charter school in City Heights, and is on track to go to a university. Wearing an intricate headscarf and vibrant traditional dress, she said boys get distracted at school because they can wear whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as they get their education and make their family proud, (girls are) fine with that,\" Aweyso said. \"Boys, they worry too much about whether or not their clothes look perfect on them and if that specific group is going to want them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Osman, Aweyso has the full support of her female relatives when it comes to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Nuriya Abshiro, said she's really happy her daughter can go to school and get a job. It's something she wanted for herself, but by the time her family earned enough money to enroll her, she had to flee to a refugee camp in Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here's the difference between Aweyso and Osman. Aweyso wants to stay local and go to San Diego State University. She'll be around to help raise her brothers and sisters, and she'll be a greater support to her family after she has a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman said she also knows she'll have to put her degree to work to support her family. And that's OK with her as long as she gets to go to UC Merced, which has the smaller class sizes she believes she'll need to be successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thought of telling my dad I want to go away to college was kind of terrifying,\" Osman said. \"But then I told him why I want to go and he said, 'You know, at this point, I trust you. You're old enough and you know what's best for you.' 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Boys don't have that many role models.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isha Aweyso, 17, will start her senior year this fall at Health Sciences High and Middle College, a charter school in City Heights, and is on track to go to a university. Wearing an intricate headscarf and vibrant traditional dress, she said boys get distracted at school because they can wear whatever they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as they get their education and make their family proud, (girls are) fine with that,\" Aweyso said. \"Boys, they worry too much about whether or not their clothes look perfect on them and if that specific group is going to want them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Osman, Aweyso has the full support of her female relatives when it comes to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Nuriya Abshiro, said she's really happy her daughter can go to school and get a job. 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His resignation is effective Aug. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 7-0 vote, the council approved an agreement for Filner to resign in the wake of numerous allegations of sexual harassment against him. The agreement places a cap of $98,000 that the city will pay for his outside legal counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his resignation statement, Filner was defiant. “I have never sexually harassed anyone,” he said. He accused the city of San Diego and the media of having a lynch-mob mentality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual harassment allegations leveled at Filner publicly surfaced six weeks ago. He was initially accused on July 9 by three longtime supporters — former Councilwoman Donna Frye and attorneys Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs. They outlined anonymous allegations and called for fellow Democrat Filner’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filner’s former communications chief, Irene McCormack Jackson, filed her lawsuit on July 22 seeking unspecified damages for sexual harassment. On Friday, McCormack’s attorney Gloria Allred said her client is not part of the settlement and opposes any agreement that requires the city to pay Filner’s legal expenses. She says the lawsuit will continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen other women eventually stepped forward, accusing him of unwanted sexual advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filner responded to the accusations by saying he needed help, but he refused to resign. He announced July 26 that he would undergo behavioral therapy at a psychological clinic. He said he had completed treatment on Aug. 10 and was seen back at City Hall on Aug. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" src=\"http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=180043&ThemeId=6104\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"700\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Filner, 70, a former San Diego State history professor, built his political career on a commitment to championing civil and veterans rights. He was first elected to public office in 1979 when he won a seat on the San Diego City Schools Board of Trustees. He served on the City Council and was elected to Congress in 1992, where he later served as chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. In 2012, he won election as San Diego’s mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the sexual harassment scandal, Filner’s administration is facing scrutiny by the Department of Justice, which is is investigating a $100,000 donation made to the city of San Diego by developers Sunroad Centrum Partners. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/28/mayor-filner-says-he-was-unaware-sunroads-expectat/\">money was returned\u003c/a> when Filner discovered that a top-level administrator secured the donation in exchange for withdrawing a veto tying up a project Sunroad has been working on since 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent focus has largely been on Filner’s alleged sexual harassment, leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jul/28/feinstein-calls-filner-resign/\">fellow lawmakers\u003c/a> as well as San Diego citizens to pressure him to leave office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terms of his resignation have been controversial. Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents Irene McCormack Jackson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/aug/22/allred-balks-at-public-funds-for-filner/\">raised questions\u003c/a> about his agreement with San Diego city officials in a press conference yesterday. Among other things, Allred said that it would be reprehensible for the City Council to sign off on a deal in which public funds were paid to Filner in exchange for his resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here is a timeline of the Filner scandal from The Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Nov. 6, 2012: Filner, a 10-term congressman, is elected mayor. He is the first Democrat in 20 years to lead the nation’s eighth-largest city.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>June 20, 2013: Filner communications director Irene McCormack Jackson confronts Filner at a staff meeting about unwanted sexual advances. Allen Jones, Filner’s deputy chief of staff, quits.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 8: Filner’s fiancee, Bronwyn Ingram, says she ended their engagement, and later says the mayor sent sexually explicit messages to other women and set up dates in her presence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 10: Donna Frye, a former city councilwoman and former Filner aide, calls for the mayor to resign, saying she received “credible evidence” that he had harassed more than one woman.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>July 11: Filner issues a public apology, saying he “diminished” the office of mayor, failed to respect women who work for him and intimidated them. 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