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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:55 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Monday that the company has reopened its electric car plant in Fremont in defiance of Alameda County's COVID-19 health orders that shut down the facility in late March. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk, acknowledging on Twitter that there might be legal consequences to reopening the factory, wrote, \"I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County issued a statement saying it had notified the company it's violating current coronavirus health orders by going beyond the minimum operations necessary for maintenance of the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are addressing this matter using the same phased approach we use for other businesses which have violated the order in the past, and we hope that Tesla will likewise comply without further enforcement measures,\" the statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11817399,news_11747373,news_11803406\" label=\"Elon Musk & Tesla\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk's announcement came after several news organizations noted Monday morning that the plant's employee parking lot was nearly full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility employs about 10,000 workers, and having a normal complement of workers on-site would violate directives orders from the Alameda County Public Health Department. The agency has deemed Tesla’s Fremont factory a nonessential business that can’t open under ongoing restrictions to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Sheriff spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said Monday it would be up to the Fremont Police Department to enforce the health order. State law allows a fine of up to $1,000 per day or up to 90 days in jail for operating in violation of health orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reopening came after a sharp escalation of Musk's and Tesla's long-running disagreement with the county over whether the plant should be closed while shelter-at-home orders are in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/getting-back-work\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> posted by Tesla on its website Saturday night said the company “has started the process of resuming operations” but didn’t say when manufacturing would actually begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology news site The Verge, quoting two anonymous plant employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/11/21254871/tesla-fremont-shutdown-factory-production-model-3-y-elon-musk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported Monday\u003c/a> that production had resumed at the facility over the weekend. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Tesla \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887676/Tesla-v-Alameda-County.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">filed suit\u003c/a> against Alameda County seeking to overturn the order, and Musk threatened to move Tesla’s manufacturing and headquarters operations out of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla contends in the lawsuit that Alameda County can’t be more restrictive than orders from California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The lawsuit says the governor’s coronavirus restrictions refer to federal guidelines classifying “vehicles and commercial ships manufacturing” as essential businesses that are allowed to continue operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frankly, this is the final straw,” Musk wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that whether the company keeps any manufacturing in Fremont depends on how Tesla is treated in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has said repeatedly that counties can impose restrictions that are more stringent than state orders. 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And in return, we have been beneficiaries of their incredible growth, ingenuity and innovative spirit. We look forward to many, many decades of that relationship.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their statement Monday, Alameda County health authorities said they had been \"collaborating in good faith\" on a plan to reopen the Tesla plant with safety measures the company has already agreed to adopt. Those steps including improving employee health screening procedures and engaging front-line workers on their concerns and feedback regarding safety protocols. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty\"]'I'm sure he has his reasonings for what he's doing. I kind of wish in my heart of hearts that he had not done it because we were so darn close.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to reviewing Tesla's plan and coming to agreement on protocol and a timeline to reopen safely,\" the county statement said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said in a 38-page \"\u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887704/Tesla-Return-to-Work-Playbook.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Return to Work Playbook\u003c/a>\" released Saturday night it has safety procedures to protect workers including increased cleaning, enforcement of social distancing, providing face coverings and gloves where needed, installing barriers between workers when necessary and worker temperature checks at “some locations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Haggerty, a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors whose district includes the Tesla plant, said Monday he has been in talks with health officials and Tesla plant executives for three weeks working toward a May 18 reopening of the facility. He said until the end of last weeks, the discussions \"were always very cordial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really working with them to make sure the proper policies and procedures are in place, to make sure that when their employees come back, they come back safe,\" Haggerty said in an interview. \"That has been the number one focus of my public health director.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haggerty said company officials pressed for an earlier opening to the resumption of operations. Then Tesla filed its lawsuit and Musk fired his Twitter fusillade. One tweet included a swipe at the county's interim health officer, Dr. Erica Pan, whom musk characterized as \"ignorant.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisor said that Monday, despite \"some nasty things\" said about Pan, the dialogue between health officials and plant managers was continuing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk is \"used to moving at the speed of sound and he wants everybody around him to do the very same thing,\" Haggerty said. \"The county wasn't in that position. They have to be very methodical in how they open this this economy back up, get people back to work, and we have to do it to make sure people are safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to Musk's threatening tweets and the company lawsuit, Haggerty said, \"I'm sure he has his reasonings for what he's doing. I kind of wish in my heart of hearts that he had not done it because we were so darn close and we wouldn't even be the story of the day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk has issued a series of bitterly critical tweets about the stay-home order since the company’s April 29 first-quarter earnings were released. He has called the restrictions \"fascist.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s reopening comes as other automakers are starting to reopen factories in the U.S. Toyota also planned to restart production Monday, while General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler all plan to restart their plants gradually next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Sara Hossaini and The Associated Press. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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One transmission was less than one minute before the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang had described Autopilot’s previous malfunctioning to his brother, the Huang family attorney wrote, in addition to talking with a friend who owns a Model X. Huang, a software engineer, discussed with the friend how a patch to the Autopilot software affected its performance and made the Model X veer, according to the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Huang family \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744271/lawsuit-blames-tesla-caltrans-for-death-of-driver-in-u-s-101-crash\">is suing Tesla, as well as Caltrans\u003c/a> for allegedly failing to maintain the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopilot is a partially automated system designed to keep a vehicle in its lane and keep a safe distance from vehicles in front of it. It also can change lanes with driver approval. 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In that incident, a 2010 Toyota Prius traveling over 75 mph crashed against the attenuator, a cushion that protects vehicles from hitting the end of concrete lane dividers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol responded to the March 12 crash but did not notify Caltrans of the damage as required, the NTSB said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11773179 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/101attenuator190909-1020x666.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang’s 2017 Tesla Model X was traveling at 71 mph when it crashed against the same attenuator, which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other left-exit in Caltrans’ District 4, which includes all of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the three years before the Tesla crash, the device was struck at least five times, including one crash that resulted in fatalities. A car struck it again on May 20, 2018, about two months after the Tesla crash, the NTSB said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Matt Rocco said the department is reviewing the NTSB report to determine its next steps but declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety remains Caltrans top priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Florida crash, Banner turned on the Autopilot function of his Model 3 sedan 10 seconds before the crash, then took his hands off the steering wheel, NTSB documents said. The car then drove underneath a tractor-trailer that was crossing in front of it, sheering off the car’s roof and killing Banner. It was eerily similar to another Florida crash in 2016 in which a Tesla on Autopilot went beneath a semi trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB said in a preliminary report that it still hasn’t determined the cause of the crash. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on the same stretch of Silicon Valley freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His complaints were detailed in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20200211.aspx\">trove of documents released Tuesday\u003c/a> by federal investigators in two Tesla crashes involving Autopilot, one in the Bay Area and the other in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the March 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658404/safety-agency-orders-probe-of-tesla-crash-and-fire-as-company-points-to-freeway-hazard\">crash\u003c/a> that killed Walter Huang, 38, near Mountain View. It’s also probing a crash in Delray Beach, Florida, that happened about a year later and killed driver Jeremy Banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward the same barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View where he later crashed. Huang died at a hospital from his injuries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walter said the car would veer toward the barrier in the mornings when he went to work,” the Huang family’s attorney wrote in a response to NTSB questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records from an iPhone recovered from the crash site showed that Huang may have been using it before the accident. Records obtained from AT&T showed that data had been used while the vehicle was in motion, but the source of the transmissions couldn’t be determined, the NTSB wrote. One transmission was less than one minute before the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang had described Autopilot’s previous malfunctioning to his brother, the Huang family attorney wrote, in addition to talking with a friend who owns a Model X. Huang, a software engineer, discussed with the friend how a patch to the Autopilot software affected its performance and made the Model X veer, according to the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Huang family \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744271/lawsuit-blames-tesla-caltrans-for-death-of-driver-in-u-s-101-crash\">is suing Tesla, as well as Caltrans\u003c/a> for allegedly failing to maintain the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autopilot is a partially automated system designed to keep a vehicle in its lane and keep a safe distance from vehicles in front of it. It also can change lanes with driver approval. Tesla says Autopilot is intended to be used for driver assistance and that drivers must be ready to intervene at all times. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full NTSB board is scheduled to hold a hearing on the Mountain View crash on Feb. 25. At that time, it will determine a cause and make safety recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NTSB staff members have already recommended that California transportation officials move faster to repair highway safety barriers damaged by vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the agency says Caltrans failed to fix the barrier that was damaged in a crash 11 days before Huang was killed. In that incident, a 2010 Toyota Prius traveling over 75 mph crashed against the attenuator, a cushion that protects vehicles from hitting the end of concrete lane dividers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol responded to the March 12 crash but did not notify Caltrans of the damage as required, the NTSB said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang’s 2017 Tesla Model X was traveling at 71 mph when it crashed against the same attenuator, which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other left-exit in Caltrans’ District 4, which includes all of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the three years before the Tesla crash, the device was struck at least five times, including one crash that resulted in fatalities. A car struck it again on May 20, 2018, about two months after the Tesla crash, the NTSB said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Matt Rocco said the department is reviewing the NTSB report to determine its next steps but declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety remains Caltrans top priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Florida crash, Banner turned on the Autopilot function of his Model 3 sedan 10 seconds before the crash, then took his hands off the steering wheel, NTSB documents said. The car then drove underneath a tractor-trailer that was crossing in front of it, sheering off the car’s roof and killing Banner. It was eerily similar to another Florida crash in 2016 in which a Tesla on Autopilot went beneath a semi trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB said in a preliminary report that it still hasn’t determined the cause of the crash. According to the report, traffic was light on the four-lane highway and dawn was breaking when Banner, 50, set his speed at 69 mph and activated the autopilot as he headed to work. The speed limit was 55 mph. Seconds later, a tractor-trailer driven by Richard Wood, 45, pulled from a driveway and began to cross to the other side of the highway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood said he saw two sets of car headlights coming toward him, but he thought he had time to make it across. “It was dark and it looked like the cars was back further than they was,” Wood told NTSB investigators four days after the crash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A photo taken by the NTSB from Tesla’s front-end video camera showed Wood’s trailer fully blocking the road 1.5 seconds before the crash. Data from the Tesla’s computer shows that Banner hit his brakes less than a second before the crash, but the car went under the trailer. Wood says he saw a second car but it didn’t hit the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With early voting underway in California, the Democratic candidates for president are facing a Golden State electorate more concerned than ever before with how the next commander in chief will confront the globe’s changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Biden’s climate spending plan pales in comparison to the ambitious proposals of his Democratic rivals. But the former vice president can make a unique pitch: He is the only candidate who has already guided a nationwide clean energy initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the billions of dollars in clean energy funds that went to California in the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will help him make his case to voters — and provide him with a boost in the March 3 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of Californians in terms of the intensity of their feeling for all of what we were doing through the Recovery Act in California was a heck of a lot less intense than it is today,” Biden said in an interview with KQED. “Here we are now eight, nine, 10 years later and I’m not being critical of anybody in California — you’ve been ahead of everybody — but everybody sort of had an epiphany here. Everybody understands this is really worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, with the country reeling from the Great Recession, President Barack Obama tasked Biden with overseeing the administration’s $787 billion stimulus package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the bill was a $90 billion investment in clean energy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest renewable energy windfall went to California: $11.8 billion by the end of Obama’s first term — triple the amount awarded to any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recovery Act experience showed that Biden can pursue a green initiative that balances large-scale government investment with private sector innovation, said Joseph Aldy, professor of the practice of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s this kind of experience that for Vice President Biden, helps him form a very pragmatic approach,” said Aldy, who served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for energy and environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a presidential primary marked by competition over ambitious progressive agendas, there’s a political risk in asking voters to turn their attention back a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s leading opponents in California are running on their climate plans, not records. Bernie Sanders’ (the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798764/bernie-sanders-pulls-away-from-pack-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current leader\u003c/a> in state primary polling) is calling for a “Green New Deal” with nearly 10 times the spending Biden’s plan envisions, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned about whether or not climate change will be at the top of the agenda for a Biden administration,” said Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike Biden, candidates including Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are calling for a nationwide ban on new hydraulic fracking — a method of extracting oil by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations. That position is likely to win over environmental activists in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom recently placed a moratorium on new fracking permits, in part over concerns about methane leakage from the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win over California climate voters, Biden will have to persuade them to take a second look at Obama-era investments that largely flew under the radar, re-examine some high-profile failures and embrace lessons from the Recovery Act as a stepping stone to future climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, February 17, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, on Feb. 17, 2009. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Focus on Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Biden ran for president, in 2008, climate change barely registered as a priority for California primary voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1207MBS.pdf\">December 2007 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, just 3% of primary voters picked “environment” as the issue they wanted to hear about most from presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dire warnings\u003c/a> about the impending damage that could come with a warmer planet, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944993/study-climate-change-a-leading-driver-of-californias-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more intense wildfires\u003c/a> wreaking havoc at both ends of the state, voter priorities among Democrats in California have drastically shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, primary voters name climate change as their highest priority for the next president, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December poll\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The perception of what is needed, that’s changed drastically, thank God,” Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the Recovery Act, remembered by most as a Keynesian response to revive the economy during the Great Recession, will gain new bona fides as a major climate initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A ‘Major Down Payment’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, California became home to the world’s bestselling electric car and largest solar-thermal power plant. Cities replaced millions of street lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs and state leaders recently celebrated California’s one-millionth solar roof installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those gains were made, in part, because of the funds that flowed from the Recovery Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars in loan guarantees helped develop the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert and the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, while grants and tax breaks provided incentives for cities and homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11533488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-960x618.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisenmiller, who served as a California’s energy commissioner from 2010 to 2019, said the stimulus package provided a “major down payment on our energy infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a surprisingly large number of projects, about nine major solar projects,” he added. “No one had ever really tried to do that level of permitting. And many of these projects combined state and federal land in some fashion. So it really laid the groundwork for a lot of the future we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160225_cea_final_clean_energy_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credited Recovery Act\u003c/a> investments with saving enough energy to power 10,000 homes by 2050 and a 2011 study from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/rebuilding-green-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-and-the-green-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueGreen Alliance\u003c/a> credited the Recovery Act’s clean energy initiatives with “creating or saving nearly a million jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, people would say, ‘Oh, if you’re supporting solar panels, that might be costing us jobs in other parts of the economy,'” said Harvard professor Joseph Aldy. “Well now we realize that if we’re investing in the installation of solar panels, and in their manufacturing, we’re actually creating some jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes people think twice about what a clean energy transition might look like from a labor standpoint, not just from a reducing carbon dioxide emissions standpoint,” Aldy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notable Failures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like so much of the Obama administration’s stimulus package, many clean energy investments largely flew under the radar, like the tax breaks folded into corporate and personal returns, and grants dropped into city coffers for future spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects in California that did receive attention were not the shining examples the administration had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notable failure was Solyndra, the solar panel manufacturer which received the first loan guarantee from the Recovery Act: $535 million to build their manufacturing facility in the Bay Area city of Fremont and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit from President Obama\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/38746/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspending-operations-filing-bankruptcy\">company went bankrupt\u003c/a>, laying off 1,100 workers. Solyndra’s flop \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f26/11-0078-I.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew scrutiny\u003c/a> of the company’s loan application and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-energy-department-failed-to-sound-alarm-as-solar-company-sank/2011/11/04/gIQAGQgfBN_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unleashed criticism\u003c/a> that the Energy Department propped up the manufacturer because of its investors’ ties to the president. The next year, Republicans spent millions on ads attacking Obama over the loan guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that the appetite for risk in the political environment in Washington, D.C. is relatively low,” Aldy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solyndra, the massive Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert has been targeted as a symbol of the stimulus packages’ largess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GettyImages-476570455-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heliostats – in essence, rotating mirrors – at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California’s Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most New Deal-esque project to land in California through the Recovery Act, Ivanpah was the largest solar thermal power plant in the world at the time of its completion in 2014: Hundreds of thousands of sunlight-reflecting mirrors spread across 5 square miles of federal land. Oakland-based BrightSource Energy received more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees through the Recovery Act to construct the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early reports on Ivanpah were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3812/the-ivanpah-solar-facilitys-pollution-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than stellar\u003c/a>: criticism that it harmed local wildlife, energy production that fell short of targets and an over-reliance on natural gas to operate the system at night and on cloudy days, which rendered the facility a carbon polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the cost efficiency of Ivanpah is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/green-flops-why-some-promising-cleantech-ideas-didn-t-work-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still maligned\u003c/a>, clean energy production from the facility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57074?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edged up\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57073?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57075?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">years\u003c/a>, and experts have hailed it as a trailblazer for future large-scale solar power production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes argued that the loan guarantee program that funded Ivanpah and Solyndra deserves a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government made money on that program while also supporting lots of companies creating new technologies,” Stokes said. “And a project like Ivanpah, which is riskier because it’s new and innovative, is exactly the kind of thing that the federal government should be supporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think that those were really smart investments that the federal government made,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Future Investments Must Go Further, Experts Say \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even proponents of the Recovery Act’s clean energy impacts acknowledge that Biden, or any other Democratic contender, will have to drastically up the ante in future climate-focused investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because while the stimulus invested heavily in renewable energy, it wasn’t explicitly designed to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal dollars were prioritized for shovel-ready projects as part of the stimulus’ chief goal of getting Americans back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a mechanism to limit greenhouse gases, like California’s cap-and-trade system, never came to fruition: Obama and Biden failed to rally enough support in the U.S Senate for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112795024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon pricing measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, it’s hard to evaluate the impact the Recovery Act had on the decarbonization of the economy. Studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have found\u003c/a> that emissions dropped more than expected in the years after the stimulus, but largely attribute that to a slowed economy and a nationwide shift from coal to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s face it, in 2010, it was economic recovery we were focused on. Now, we have to focus on climate change,” said Weisenmiller, the former California energy commissioner. “We need more on the level of a World War II-type of effort to really move the needle on climate — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act times ten or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Election 2020\" tag=\"election2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s leading opponents in California have made climate proposals that more closely mirror that wartime scope, led by Sanders’ promise of a $16.3 trillion investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has pledged $1.7 trillion in spending and wants Congress to pass emissions limits that would drive further private-sector capital toward clean energy. And he says his foreign policy experience makes him well-equipped to bring other nations along in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Recovery Act was signed, the concept of climate justice was in its nascent stages. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 study from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics\u003c/a> at Lund University found that “there is no data that can be used to determine which demographic groups gained most as a result of the Renewable Energy stimulus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the climate plans of the leading Democrats in 2020 all come with a nod to climate justice and promise that economic mobilization in the face of a climate crisis will also address racial and socioeconomic disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing to say, ‘How do we get photovoltaics commercialized?’ ” Weisenmiller said. “It’s another thing to say, ‘How do you make sure that everyone participates in some fashion? How do you make sure that you’re really reaching out to our disadvantaged communities?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘There’s Going to Be Mistakes Made’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his climate plan, Biden pledged to seize the “opportunity” of climate change to reshape the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only country in the world that’s ever turned great problems into great opportunities,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make that happen, Biden sounded ready to embrace lessons from the Recovery Act’s clean energy investment: political patience and an embrace of risk-taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the experimentation that’s going to take place to get us to net zero emissions, there’s going to be mistakes made,” Biden said. “But that can’t turn us back from the commitment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If climate-focused research and development goes off without a hitch, it likely isn’t moving the needle enough, said Weisenmiller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to really expect some failures to occur,” Weisenmiller added. “But if you do enough things, and you have enough successes, you’re going to push things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With early voting underway in California, the Democratic candidates for president are facing a Golden State electorate more concerned than ever before with how the next commander in chief will confront the globe’s changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Biden’s climate spending plan pales in comparison to the ambitious proposals of his Democratic rivals. But the former vice president can make a unique pitch: He is the only candidate who has already guided a nationwide clean energy initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the billions of dollars in clean energy funds that went to California in the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will help him make his case to voters — and provide him with a boost in the March 3 primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attitude of Californians in terms of the intensity of their feeling for all of what we were doing through the Recovery Act in California was a heck of a lot less intense than it is today,” Biden said in an interview with KQED. “Here we are now eight, nine, 10 years later and I’m not being critical of anybody in California — you’ve been ahead of everybody — but everybody sort of had an epiphany here. Everybody understands this is really worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, with the country reeling from the Great Recession, President Barack Obama tasked Biden with overseeing the administration’s $787 billion stimulus package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the bill was a $90 billion investment in clean energy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest renewable energy windfall went to California: $11.8 billion by the end of Obama’s first term — triple the amount awarded to any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Recovery Act experience showed that Biden can pursue a green initiative that balances large-scale government investment with private sector innovation, said Joseph Aldy, professor of the practice of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s this kind of experience that for Vice President Biden, helps him form a very pragmatic approach,” said Aldy, who served in the Obama administration as special assistant to the president for energy and environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a presidential primary marked by competition over ambitious progressive agendas, there’s a political risk in asking voters to turn their attention back a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s leading opponents in California are running on their climate plans, not records. Bernie Sanders’ (the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798764/bernie-sanders-pulls-away-from-pack-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current leader\u003c/a> in state primary polling) is calling for a “Green New Deal” with nearly 10 times the spending Biden’s plan envisions, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m concerned about whether or not climate change will be at the top of the agenda for a Biden administration,” said Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike Biden, candidates including Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are calling for a nationwide ban on new hydraulic fracking — a method of extracting oil by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations. That position is likely to win over environmental activists in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom recently placed a moratorium on new fracking permits, in part over concerns about methane leakage from the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To win over California climate voters, Biden will have to persuade them to take a second look at Obama-era investments that largely flew under the radar, re-examine some high-profile failures and embrace lessons from the Recovery Act as a stepping stone to future climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11800190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, February 17, 2009.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41120_Biden-Solar-2-large-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden look at solar panels as they tour the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado, on Feb. 17, 2009. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter Focus on Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Biden ran for president, in 2008, climate change barely registered as a priority for California primary voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_1207MBS.pdf\">December 2007 survey\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, just 3% of primary voters picked “environment” as the issue they wanted to hear about most from presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1932445/un-report-issues-life-or-death-warning-for-planetary-survival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dire warnings\u003c/a> about the impending damage that could come with a warmer planet, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944993/study-climate-change-a-leading-driver-of-californias-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more intense wildfires\u003c/a> wreaking havoc at both ends of the state, voter priorities among Democrats in California have drastically shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, primary voters name climate change as their highest priority for the next president, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December poll\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The perception of what is needed, that’s changed drastically, thank God,” Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is betting that the Recovery Act, remembered by most as a Keynesian response to revive the economy during the Great Recession, will gain new bona fides as a major climate initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A ‘Major Down Payment’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, California became home to the world’s bestselling electric car and largest solar-thermal power plant. Cities replaced millions of street lights with energy-efficient LED bulbs and state leaders recently celebrated California’s one-millionth solar roof installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those gains were made, in part, because of the funds that flowed from the Recovery Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billions of dollars in loan guarantees helped develop the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert and the Tesla Motors factory in Fremont, while grants and tax breaks provided incentives for cities and homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11533488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-960x618.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-375x241.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RooftopSolarInstall-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisenmiller, who served as a California’s energy commissioner from 2010 to 2019, said the stimulus package provided a “major down payment on our energy infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a surprisingly large number of projects, about nine major solar projects,” he added. “No one had ever really tried to do that level of permitting. And many of these projects combined state and federal land in some fashion. So it really laid the groundwork for a lot of the future we’re in now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160225_cea_final_clean_energy_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credited Recovery Act\u003c/a> investments with saving enough energy to power 10,000 homes by 2050 and a 2011 study from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/rebuilding-green-the-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-and-the-green-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlueGreen Alliance\u003c/a> credited the Recovery Act’s clean energy initiatives with “creating or saving nearly a million jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, people would say, ‘Oh, if you’re supporting solar panels, that might be costing us jobs in other parts of the economy,'” said Harvard professor Joseph Aldy. “Well now we realize that if we’re investing in the installation of solar panels, and in their manufacturing, we’re actually creating some jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes people think twice about what a clean energy transition might look like from a labor standpoint, not just from a reducing carbon dioxide emissions standpoint,” Aldy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notable Failures\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like so much of the Obama administration’s stimulus package, many clean energy investments largely flew under the radar, like the tax breaks folded into corporate and personal returns, and grants dropped into city coffers for future spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects in California that did receive attention were not the shining examples the administration had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notable failure was Solyndra, the solar panel manufacturer which received the first loan guarantee from the Recovery Act: $535 million to build their manufacturing facility in the Bay Area city of Fremont and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit from President Obama\u003c/a> to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/38746/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspending-operations-filing-bankruptcy\">company went bankrupt\u003c/a>, laying off 1,100 workers. Solyndra’s flop \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f26/11-0078-I.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew scrutiny\u003c/a> of the company’s loan application and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-energy-department-failed-to-sound-alarm-as-solar-company-sank/2011/11/04/gIQAGQgfBN_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unleashed criticism\u003c/a> that the Energy Department propped up the manufacturer because of its investors’ ties to the president. The next year, Republicans spent millions on ads attacking Obama over the loan guarantee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learned that the appetite for risk in the political environment in Washington, D.C. is relatively low,” Aldy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Solyndra, the massive Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert has been targeted as a symbol of the stimulus packages’ largess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10826397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10826397\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/GettyImages-476570455-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Heliostats - in essence, rotating mirrors - at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California's Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \" width=\"800\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heliostats – in essence, rotating mirrors – at the Ivanpah solar power plant, in California’s Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas. \u003ccite>(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most New Deal-esque project to land in California through the Recovery Act, Ivanpah was the largest solar thermal power plant in the world at the time of its completion in 2014: Hundreds of thousands of sunlight-reflecting mirrors spread across 5 square miles of federal land. Oakland-based BrightSource Energy received more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees through the Recovery Act to construct the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early reports on Ivanpah were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3812/the-ivanpah-solar-facilitys-pollution-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than stellar\u003c/a>: criticism that it harmed local wildlife, energy production that fell short of targets and an over-reliance on natural gas to operate the system at night and on cloudy days, which rendered the facility a carbon polluter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the cost efficiency of Ivanpah is \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/green-flops-why-some-promising-cleantech-ideas-didn-t-work-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still maligned\u003c/a>, clean energy production from the facility has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57074?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57074-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edged up\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57073?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57073-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/57075?freq=A&start=2014&end=2018&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&columnchart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&linechart=ELEC.PLANT.GEN.57075-ALL-ALL.A&pin=&maptype=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">years\u003c/a>, and experts have hailed it as a trailblazer for future large-scale solar power production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes argued that the loan guarantee program that funded Ivanpah and Solyndra deserves a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government made money on that program while also supporting lots of companies creating new technologies,” Stokes said. “And a project like Ivanpah, which is riskier because it’s new and innovative, is exactly the kind of thing that the federal government should be supporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think that those were really smart investments that the federal government made,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Future Investments Must Go Further, Experts Say \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even proponents of the Recovery Act’s clean energy impacts acknowledge that Biden, or any other Democratic contender, will have to drastically up the ante in future climate-focused investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because while the stimulus invested heavily in renewable energy, it wasn’t explicitly designed to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal dollars were prioritized for shovel-ready projects as part of the stimulus’ chief goal of getting Americans back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a mechanism to limit greenhouse gases, like California’s cap-and-trade system, never came to fruition: Obama and Biden failed to rally enough support in the U.S Senate for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112795024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon pricing measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, it’s hard to evaluate the impact the Recovery Act had on the decarbonization of the economy. Studies \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032114008855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have found\u003c/a> that emissions dropped more than expected in the years after the stimulus, but largely attribute that to a slowed economy and a nationwide shift from coal to natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s face it, in 2010, it was economic recovery we were focused on. Now, we have to focus on climate change,” said Weisenmiller, the former California energy commissioner. “We need more on the level of a World War II-type of effort to really move the needle on climate — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act times ten or something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Neither Tesla’s system nor the driver had braked before the car went underneath a semi-trailer that had turned in front of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need any more people getting hurt for us to know that there is a problem and that Tesla and NHTSA have failed to address it,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to NHTSA, states can regulate autonomous vehicles, though many have decided they want to encourage testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2016 crash, NHTSA closed its investigation without seeking a recall. Friedman, who was not at NHTSA at the time, said the agency determined that the problem didn’t happen frequently. 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