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In order to meet that goal, the global community would need to halt the ever-increasing rise of greenhouse gases, and then cut emissions by up to 50% in the coming decade, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord, Biden promised to rejoin the agreement, saying, “We haven’t come close to the bold action that’s needed,” he said, promising to rejoin the agreement, and then put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting the goal would require a massive shift to the country’s economy, energy production and energy consumption. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rising seas can evoke images of waves crashing into beachfront property or a torrent of water rolling through downtown streets. But there’s a lesser-known hazard of climate change for those who live along shorelines the world over: freshwater in the ground beneath them creeping slowly upward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For many Bay Area residents who live near the water’s edge,\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> little-publicized research\u003c/a>\u003c/span> indicates the problem could start to manifest in 10-15 years, particularly in low-lying communities like those in Oakland, Alameda and Marin City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groundwater rise can cause a host of infrastructure issues like crumbling roads, sewage backups and extended earthquake liquefaction zones. But water that moves silently higher can also have negative impacts on human and ecological health, by resurfacing toxic substances that have lingered for years underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything human beings use, they spill,” said Kristina Hill, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, who researches adapting urban areas and shoreline communities to climate change. The overflow includes “everything we’ve used in the last hundred and fifty years,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the “everything” she mentions is a lot. The Bay Area is \u003ca href=\"https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">rife with industrial sites\u003c/span>, \u003c/a>new and old. In East Oakland, industry boomed in the early 1900s, as lumber yards, canneries, rail depots and foundries sprung up. It was a long time before governments enacted any environmental regulations to speak of, starting in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through the entire postwar and World War II-era, stuff got dumped informally,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent contaminants lie buried as well — chemicals like benzene and toluene, leaked from underground storage tanks. Many toxic sites now considered to be contained could pose a threat as the water ascends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Legacy contamination in the soil will be remobilized when the water table comes up and intersects with these areas of contaminated soil,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contaminated groundwater could seep into a basement or crawlspace beneath a home, or sneak in through a broken sewage line. Some of these chemicals vaporize, so that humans could breathe them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vulnerable groundwater, which lies beneath the surface in a layer of freshwater sitting atop water from the ocean, could affect communities within a mile of the coast, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/slr2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">recent report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by Silvestrum Climate Associates, detailing the problem in the Bay Area island city of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The relevant thing for the problem is how close [the groundwater] is to the surface,” said Hill. She and her colleagues have analyzed and \u003ca href=\"https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.6078/D1W01Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">published data\u003c/span>\u003c/a> estimating the depth of groundwater in Bay Area coastal communities. They found the water below someone’s backyard is “typically within 6 feet of the surface when you’re within a mile of the bay edge, and so often within 2 feet or 1 foot of the surface,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the groundwater flows into contaminants no longer monitored because they are considered contained, those toxic substances may start to move, unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1971660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/KQEDSCIENCE_GRNDWTR.gif\" alt=\"Groundwater Rise\" width=\"400\" height=\"720\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s possible that you have contamination in that water and you might not see it or smell it. You might not know,” said Alec Naugle, who heads the toxics cleanup division for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. The agency regulates the mitigation of contaminated sites in a large area stretching over the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re exposed to these chemicals over a lifetime, they can increase your risk of cancer,” Naugle said. “Some of those chemicals also have short-term risks at much higher concentrations that we don’t typically see in the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Hill and her colleagues have found many locations across the Bay Area at risk. For example, Marin City, she says, has topography like a bowl, and as sea levels rise, it “will fill up with water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these neighborhoods have large Black and Latino populations who already deal with unequal environmental health burdens due to living near major freeways and, in Oakland, the port. Residents of East and West Oakland have \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/03/OAKEJ_initiative_FINALweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">high rates of asthma\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and children in East Oakland are more than \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/03/OAKEJ_initiative_FINALweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">twice as likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to suffer from the condition than their peers across Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>‘How Is That Going to Affect My Family?’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquita Price has always called \u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/map/Deep_East#zoom=13&lat=37.73602&lon=-122.16018&layers=BTT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deep East Oakland\u003c/a>, a section of city \u003c/span>blocks laid out between two interstates, home. When she was a kid, her extended family spent a lot of time at her grandmother’s lavender house in the Havenscourt neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the kids, including myself, would con our parents to be able to all stay and just spend the night with our grandparents, and just sing and dance all night,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1971583 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Marquita Price outside her grandmother's house in East Oakland. When she learned about the threat of rising groundwater, her thoughts turned to family health, and their assets like this home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537-768x632.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46321_IMG_3757-qut-e1607574163537.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquita Price outside her grandmother’s house in East Oakland. When she learned about the threat of rising groundwater, her thoughts turned to the health of her family and their assets. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, Price is an urban planner for \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The East Oakland Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to racial and economic equality in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years back, while participating in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/estuary-commons/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">design challenge\u003c/span>\u003c/a> calling for ways the Bay Area could prepare for climate change, Price learned about groundwater rise, and the slow-motion havoc it could wreak on her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thought immediately of the people and places she loved, such as her grandmother’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How is that going to affect my family?” Price said, “And my community and the assets that we worked so hard to hold?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price then met Hill, the UC Berkeley professor, who has been raising the alarm about the threat of rising groundwater for years. Hill’s work has informed her activism on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that people haven’t really thought of as an impact of sea level rise,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill says it’s no coincidence that large numbers of people of color live in low-lying areas that will likely face the threat of rising groundwater first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was either redlining or restrictive homeowner covenants that prevented people of color from moving to neighborhoods on higher ground,” she said. “So effectively, white people … left them to live near the industrial areas and on low ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Regulators Assess Next Moves\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naugle, from the Water Quality Control Board, says contaminated sites are at risk of flooding all along California shorelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of these cases in our region alone, not to mention statewide,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his team now face the daunting task of assessing which sites are of most concern and what to do about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They eventually plan to use a report being written by Silvestrum Climate Associates, the private environmental consulting firm that led the Alameda groundwater study. Over the next few years, Silvestrum staff will map groundwater depths and test for contamination in four Bay Area counties: San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin and Alameda. Naugle and his water board colleagues intend to use the report in identifying the most at-risk locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control also regulates contaminated sites. Grant Cope, the deputy director for site mitigation and restoration, said the organization plans to tackle the problem as well. He would like to work with the U.S. Geological Survey to overlay maps that show groundwater rise onto maps of contaminated sites, to use as “an early-warning system” for site managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What Community Members Can Do\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naugle says if communities are concerned about the management of a site prone to groundwater contamination, they should contact the water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would take a look at that and figure out if that is something that does need a response,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristina Hill agrees. “Call the regional water board and ask for staff to come to a community meeting,” or call the California Environmental Protection Agency, she said. Community members should ask for updates on the status of cleanup projects in their neighborhoods and whether groundwater is being monitored at its maximum, not average, level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not, she said, “Ask for a monitoring well or two to be installed to track maximum groundwater levels nearby,” especially if people live downhill from former industrial sites like dry cleaners, gas stations or factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians can review sites known to contain contaminants through \u003ca href=\"https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">GeoTracker\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, an online database where various regulators track cleanup efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside homes, Hill said, check seals on plumbing fixtures, like the one on the floor around the toilet, and ask a plumber to check for air leaks that would come from a sewage pipe into your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kris May of Silvestrum Climate Associates lives in a low-lying area in the city of Alameda. She installed a pump in her basement to remove water that collects there, and plans to take a sample to test for specific contaminants. She’s been talking to Alameda city leadership about assembling a network of volunteers to test samples. May also covered her pump with a milk crate, to make sure no humans or pets come in contact with potentially contaminated water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May cautioned against buying an indoor air monitor to measure toxic contamination that vaporizes from groundwater, called volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. She said they won’t work well for substances like benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant Cope of the state’s toxic substances control department, said, “One of the most important things that people can do is to require local governments to pass enforceable standards that apply to groundwater rise due to sea level rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These should include local requirements for new buildings and cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Include the Community\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Price looked onto a recreation field outside an East Oakland affordable housing development called Coliseum Gardens. The development sits on the location of a former recycling center, ringed by old industrial sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land is low-lying, and the groundwater is close to the surface. Price said people in this area do see some flooding. But awareness was low of “exactly what it is and how contaminated it is and how damaging it really could be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As people learn more about the issue and lobby for solutions, Price said, she wants her community to have a role in addressing the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want just some outside consultants and companies to come in and carry out the plan,” she said. “Our unemployment is crazy out here. So this could definitely be a low-entry job that can provide to the community and also bring awareness [to the issue] at the same time. We can’t prevent natural disasters or any kind of disasters or problems from happening,” Price said. “It’s just about how we plan for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rising seas can evoke images of waves crashing into beachfront property or a torrent of water rolling through downtown streets. But there’s a lesser-known hazard of climate change for those who live along shorelines the world over: freshwater in the ground beneath them creeping slowly upward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">For many Bay Area residents who live near the water’s edge,\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> little-publicized research\u003c/a>\u003c/span> indicates the problem could start to manifest in 10-15 years, particularly in low-lying communities like those in Oakland, Alameda and Marin City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groundwater rise can cause a host of infrastructure issues like crumbling roads, sewage backups and extended earthquake liquefaction zones. But water that moves silently higher can also have negative impacts on human and ecological health, by resurfacing toxic substances that have lingered for years underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything human beings use, they spill,” said Kristina Hill, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, who researches adapting urban areas and shoreline communities to climate change. The overflow includes “everything we’ve used in the last hundred and fifty years,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the “everything” she mentions is a lot. The Bay Area is \u003ca href=\"https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">rife with industrial sites\u003c/span>, \u003c/a>new and old. In East Oakland, industry boomed in the early 1900s, as lumber yards, canneries, rail depots and foundries sprung up. It was a long time before governments enacted any environmental regulations to speak of, starting in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Through the entire postwar and World War II-era, stuff got dumped informally,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent contaminants lie buried as well — chemicals like benzene and toluene, leaked from underground storage tanks. Many toxic sites now considered to be contained could pose a threat as the water ascends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Legacy contamination in the soil will be remobilized when the water table comes up and intersects with these areas of contaminated soil,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contaminated groundwater could seep into a basement or crawlspace beneath a home, or sneak in through a broken sewage line. Some of these chemicals vaporize, so that humans could breathe them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vulnerable groundwater, which lies beneath the surface in a layer of freshwater sitting atop water from the ocean, could affect communities within a mile of the coast, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/alameda-pio/slr2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">recent report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by Silvestrum Climate Associates, detailing the problem in the Bay Area island city of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The relevant thing for the problem is how close [the groundwater] is to the surface,” said Hill. She and her colleagues have analyzed and \u003ca href=\"https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.6078/D1W01Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">published data\u003c/span>\u003c/a> estimating the depth of groundwater in Bay Area coastal communities. They found the water below someone’s backyard is “typically within 6 feet of the surface when you’re within a mile of the bay edge, and so often within 2 feet or 1 foot of the surface,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the groundwater flows into contaminants no longer monitored because they are considered contained, those toxic substances may start to move, unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1971660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/KQEDSCIENCE_GRNDWTR.gif\" alt=\"Groundwater Rise\" width=\"400\" height=\"720\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now it’s possible that you have contamination in that water and you might not see it or smell it. You might not know,” said Alec Naugle, who heads the toxics cleanup division for the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. The agency regulates the mitigation of contaminated sites in a large area stretching over the nine Bay Area counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re exposed to these chemicals over a lifetime, they can increase your risk of cancer,” Naugle said. “Some of those chemicals also have short-term risks at much higher concentrations that we don’t typically see in the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Hill and her colleagues have found many locations across the Bay Area at risk. For example, Marin City, she says, has topography like a bowl, and as sea levels rise, it “will fill up with water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these neighborhoods have large Black and Latino populations who already deal with unequal environmental health burdens due to living near major freeways and, in Oakland, the port. 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"content": "\u003cp>A coalition of some 70 California environmental justice groups, national environmentalists and other organizations sent a \u003ca href=\"https://1bps6437gg8c169i0y1drtgz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-2-Nichols-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to Joe Biden’s transition team Thursday asking the incoming president to avoid picking Mary Nichols as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/29/939811007/who-is-mary-nichols-leading-contender-to-head-epa-under-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> to be Biden’s top candidate to lead the EPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outgoing chair of the California Air Resources Board, Nichols is “not the right person to oversee and implement climate and environmental programs for the country” because of her “bleak track record in addressing environmental racism,” the groups wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miya Yoshitani, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, said, “The administration should choose someone else.” Nominating Nichols, she said, “would send the wrong signal” in terms of the Biden administration’s approach to solving the climate crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/APEN4EJ/status/1334561542692614144?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the groups that signed on to the letter have long taken aim at California’s cap-and-trade program, asserting that it allows industry to pollute in neighborhoods already suffering from unhealthy air. The program aims to limit greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, by capping industry emissions and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at auction on a state-sponsored marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During her tenure as CARB Chair, Nichols has been known for pushing market-based approaches to the climate crisis at the expense of the health and well-being of California’s communities of color, who suffer from some of the deadliest air in the country,” the groups wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols led the air board when it developed a blueprint for implementation of the original cap-and-trade program, shepherding it through a lengthy, contentious implementation process that included a dizzying array of groups with competing interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946804/researchers-press-california-to-strengthen-landmark-climate-law\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">examined\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the program have raised questions about its effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But in the past, Nichols and the agency have aggressively defended cap-and-trade, citing it as the result of years of policymaking, hearings, and stakeholder input, as well as a model for the international community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/biden-climate-plan.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">proposed\u003c/span>\u003c/a> spending $2 trillion over four years to spur the use of clean energy in the power, building and transportation sectors. 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Between chairmanships she was a deputy administrator for the EPA under President Bill Clinton. She was also a founding attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Los Angeles bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Incremental or ‘Do Everything?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive pushback on a potential Nichols pick is part of a wider disagreement in the party about how to implement climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Jerry Brown, once Nichols’ boss, and other moderate Democrats have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971253/jerry-browns-advice-to-biden-on-climate-rebuild-credibility-disregard-advocates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">argued\u003c/span>\u003c/a> Biden should pursue durable bipartisan climate policy, establish binding international agreements and — as California has done — set ambitious climate goals before unveiling a string of policies to achieve these targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971253/jerry-browns-advice-to-biden-on-climate-rebuild-credibility-disregard-advocates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that Nichols was a part of “the most successful climate fighting government in the Western Hemisphere” and encouraged Biden to disregard some environmentalists and “their slogans and their framing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mary’s\u003ci> \u003c/i>got more experience than anybody in America in terms of climate change,” Brown said. \u003ci>“\u003c/i>She’s presided over an institution that has the scientists, the policy analysts, the staff to come to grips with the complexities of climate, as well as other environmental problems caused by criteria pollutants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Nichols understands the politics required to move climate policy forward, relying on “experience that is not taught in college, not available in advocacy organizations, but only available firsthand by doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, progressive environmentalists are wary of discussions around incremental change when it comes to the climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Roberts, an environmental writer for Vox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21724758/biden-transition-trump-polarized-climate-change-health-immigration\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">argues\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that Biden should instead “do everything at once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Democrats have failed to enact climate policy because they have relied on “clever sequencing over and over again,” he wrote, “imagining some amount of political capital that they could husband and spend strategically to get assistance across the aisle, at every juncture underestimating the ferocity and unanimity of Republican opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing Biden will have real control over is his administration and what it does,” he said. “And his North Star, his organizing principle, should be doing as much good on as many fronts as fast as possible. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p2\">San Jose and Oakland are the latest California cities to ban natural gas in newly constructed homes and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, after hours of public comment and debate on Tuesday, the City Council voted 8 to 3 in favor of the ban. Shortly after, the Oakland City Council unanimously passed a similar measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said his city’s new ordinance is about the “city we want to build in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“San Jose has been leading on climate initiatives for many years, but this move is particularly important as we try to set an example for cities throughout the country about how we can really move to a carbon-free future,” Liccardo said before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">San Jose is the third largest city in California and Oakland the eighth largest. They now join dozens of other communities where only electricity will be used to heat homes and cook food in new buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">It was only last July that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945656/trade-in-your-gas-stove-to-save-the-planet-berkeley-bans-natural-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley\u003c/a> became the first city in the nation to prohibit gas in newly built structures. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/No-more-natural-gas-in-new-San-Francisco-15717658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> followed suit in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Opposition to Exemption\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Development groups have opposed the bans, arguing financial incentives are a better way to encourage electrification, while prohibitions on gas ovens and heaters put builders at a competitive disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Morales, a spokesperson for the California Building Industry Association, wrote in an email that the group “believes that with housing costs soaring, and California suffering blackouts, a piecemeal approach to energy usage for homes hurts consumers and jeopardizes power supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A comprehensive and incentive based approach is needed to solve our climate problems not mandates and restrictions,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The California Restaurant Association \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945656/trade-in-your-gas-stove-to-save-the-planet-berkeley-bans-natural-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">pushed back\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on Berkeley’s ban last year but did not publicly criticized the San Jose or Oakland measures. The group did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Addressing concerns that requiring electrical hookups in new buildings could drive up the cost of housing, Liccardo said forgoing the extension of gas infrastructure can save builders a lot in upfront costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of reasons to believe that this will actually make construction cheaper,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest controversy over the measure came from local environmentalists, who used the public comment session before the vote to criticize an exemption for hospitals, buildings that house computer servers and other critical infrastructure. The allowance of natural-gas fuel cells as a source of backup electricity for these structures derailed the measure the first time it came up for a vote. 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San Francisco and many other California cities have passed similar rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Jose’s plan could have the largest impact. The city — home to more than 1 million residents — revealed in its latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showdocument?id=44752\">inventory\u003c/a> that building emissions account for a third of the city’s emissions of planet-warming gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city estimates the ban will prevent 608,000 tons of carbon emissions from wafting into the atmosphere over the next half century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Few Exemptions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hospitals and small in-law units will be exempt from the new ban, while some restaurants, industrial facilities and other businesses will have a limited extension from the mandate through the year 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facility types, which can have specialized operations and may lack emerging market examples, can be allowed longer time to transition to all-electric options,” wrote Kerrie Romanow, director of San Jose’s environmental services department, in a memo to city staff; adding that “these exemptions are not expected to severely impact [greenhouse gas] emissions reductions given their limited availability and limited applicability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city received pushback from local environmentalists for one of its exemptions: a late proposal that would allow buildings with computer servers and other critical equipment to use natural gas fuel cells as a source of backup electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, utilities in California have cut power to prevent power lines from touching off wildfires during critically dangerous fire weather. 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The advocates will be marching around for whatever they want, but the leader has to set in motion a process that can be managed sequentially, not all at once.’[/pullquote]Meanwhile, Brown advised, don’t pay too much attention to the “folks that have a banner” or “some great environmental writer who writes columns and gets in all the important publications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who said he was part of “the most successful climate fighting government in the Western Hemisphere,” said some environmentalists will “have their slogans and their framing.” But he said Biden should ignore them and tackle the issue “carefully, engaging different stakeholders,” unfolding policies in a logical sequence rather than all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not satisfying to the advocates,” he said. “It’s delayed gratification. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, Brown advised, don’t pay too much attention to the “folks that have a banner” or “some great environmental writer who writes columns and gets in all the important publications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, who said he was part of “the most successful climate fighting government in the Western Hemisphere,” said some environmentalists will “have their slogans and their framing.” But he said Biden should ignore them and tackle the issue “carefully, engaging different stakeholders,” unfolding policies in a logical sequence rather than all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not satisfying to the advocates,” he said. “It’s delayed gratification. But that’s how you have to do it.\u003ci>”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Last September, the former governor announced a climate-focused think tank at UC Berkeley, a partnership with China’s top climate official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mission of the \u003ca href=\"https://ccci.berkeley.edu/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">California-China Climate Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a> is to spur action through \u003cspan class=\"s2\">joint research, training and dialogue, according to the organization’s website. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">The collaboration is also an end-run around the Trump administration, first announced when the U.S. was in the process of withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Agreement and embarking on a trade war with China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Brown says another environmental priority for Biden should be the reversal of all the regulatory rollbacks initiated under President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s deregulation of environmental rules spurred dozens of lawsuits by California, including a challenge to\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>the science that the Environmental Protection Agency used to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1923269/california-sues-over-plan-to-scrap-car-emission-standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">roll back emission standards\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956060/epa-rolls-back-obama-era-rules-protecting-rivers-and-wetlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">justification for new water rules\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and its plan to ease methane restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During his first tour as governor, from 1975 to 1983, Brown promoted solar and wind power, then fledgling technologies. Chicago columnist Mike Royko saddled him with the nickname “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Governor Moonbeam\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” due to Brown’s popularity with young, idealistic voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In his second gubernatorial stint, from 2011 to 2019, renewable energy gained significant ground and carbon emissions declined, both while the California economy boomed. But Brown left office two years ago without ever convincing some environmentalists on the left to embrace California’s cap-and-trade program, one of his signature climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many environmental justice groups in California still see the program, which allows industry to offset their carbon emissions by buying and trading credits to emit the gases that drive global warming, as a kind of Rube Goldberg mechanism that has allowed companies to pollute in some of the state’s poorest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Brown now says that directly taxing companies that emit carbon “obviously makes sense at some point,” but he’s dismissive of environmentalists who call for an immediate end to domestic oil production and other more sweeping climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>“\u003c/i>This is complicated stuff,” Brown said. “What do we do and in what order? The advocates will be marching around for whatever they want, but the leader has to set in motion a process that can be managed sequentially, not all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t just spill your guts out,” he said, followed by the sound of “Blargh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Brown ran through a litany of what he considers to be reductionist slogans. “‘’Carbon price,’ ‘’stop fracking,’ ‘stop the pipeline,’ ‘stop buying fossil fuel cars,’” he recited. “No. When they ask: ‘Why don’t you say something that will make everybody mad and go to the barricades and make sure we are totally ineffective in fighting climate change?’ I would say, ‘That is dumb.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown did say he’s heartened by news reports that Biden is assembling a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/climate/biden-climate-change.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">climate administration\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” that might include Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, who worked with him to implement cap-and-trade and other climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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