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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Brian Nowicki, California climate policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity, applauded the investment in emissions-free vehicles, but he said the state “needs to make sure those investments are optimally applied to boost both economic and environmental equality in California’s most polluted and underserved communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is also proposing $384 million to support agricultural programs that sequester carbon and fight climate change, and he wants to spend $300 million from the state’s general fund to pay for toxic waste cleanup in areas facing high public health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Kate Gordon, Newsom’s senior climate policy adviser, said during a press call that the budget “highlights our commitment for a carbon neutral, climate resilient and equitable future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Addressing Wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">After a devastating wildfire year in which more than 9,000 blazes consumed more than 5 million acres of the state, the governor proposed a billion dollars in new spending on wildfire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">On the press call, Wade Crowfoot, California’s natural resources secretary, says the state is focusing resources on fostering ecological resilience to big fires, by reintroducing managed burns and thinning out forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see the growth of our catastrophic wildfires and climate change and realize that we cannot respond our way out of this crisis,” he said. “We have to do a lot more upfront to build our resilience … and find a way to use ecological fire on the land, and take a lot of actions to protect both our communities and our natural places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">As part of that plan, Newsom wants to spend $512 million on forest management, which would pay for prescribed fire, fire breaks, home hardening and direct investment in tribes to sustainably manage their land. \u003cspan class=\"s5\">Fuel breaks, strips of land that are altered as a preventative measure to help slow the spread of a fire, were credited with saving lives and homes during this past wildfire season.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The governor also wants to hire at least 30 more fire crews, with 15 members per crew, and purchase new air tankers, helicopters and equipment.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s6\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">State Sen. Bill Dodd, who represents several fire-prone counties, including Sonoma and Napa, said the new budget reflects the importance of investing in prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“The reality is we’re not able to fight these climate-driven fires anywhere near what our expectations were,” he said. “Our experience shows us that we have to do more on prevention. And I believe that this budget does that.” \u003cspan class=\"s4\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Environmental groups such as the Save the Redwoods League applauded the proposed focus on prevention and proactive forest management, saying California’s coastal redwood and giant sequoia forests would benefit.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Parts of the world economy may have been on pause during 2020, dampening greenhouse gas emissions for a while. But that didn’t slow the overall buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which reached its \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112020/covid-19-coronavirus-shutdowns-greenhouse-gas-emissions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest level\u003c/a> in millions of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, research during the year showed global warming is accelerating. Symptoms of the fever include off-the-charts \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072020/africa-heat-waves-climate-science/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heat waves on land\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012020/ocean-heat-2019-warmest-year-argo-hurricanes-corals-marine-animals-heatwaves/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the oceans\u003c/a>, and a hyperactive and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24122020/hurricanes-atlantic-extreme-weather-warming-climate-storms-louisiana-environmental-justice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">destructive Atlantic hurricane season\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And through November, the last year was on pace to end up as either the hottest, or second-hottest on record for the planet, almost 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times, inching closer to the 1.5 degree limit set by the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/paris-climate-agreement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris climate agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five aspects of climate change that were new and unexpected in 2020:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making it Stop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scientists are punctuating their alarming warnings with hopeful messages because they know that the worst possible outcome is avoidable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research shows that stopping greenhouse gas emissions will break the vicious cycle of warming temperatures, melting ice, wildfires and rising sea levels faster than expected just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is less warming in the pipeline than we thought, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Grantham_IC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imperial College\u003c/a> (London) climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JoeriRogelj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joeri Rogelj\u003c/a>, a lead author of the next major climate assessment from the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IPCC_CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our best understanding that, if we bring down CO2 to net zero, the warming will level off. The climate will stabilize within a decade or two,” he said. “There will be very little to no additional warming. Our best estimate is zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widespread idea that decades, or even centuries, of additional warming are already baked into the system, as suggested by previous IPCC reports, were based on an “unfortunate misunderstanding of experiments done with climate models that never assumed zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those models assumed that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would remain constant, that it would take centuries before they decline, said Penn State climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Mann\u003c/a>, who discussed the shifting consensus last October during a segment of “60 Minutes” on CBS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that global warming could stop relatively quickly after emissions go to zero was described as a “game-changing new scientific understanding” by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/michael-mann-60-minutes-emissions-warming.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covering Climate Now\u003c/a>, a collaboration of news organizations covering climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really is true,” Mann said. “It’s a dramatic change in the paradigm that has been lost on many who cover this issue, perhaps because it hasn’t been well explained by the scientific community. It’s an important development that is still under appreciated. It’s definitely the scientific consensus now that warming stabilizes quickly, within 10 years, of emissions going to zero,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The La Niña Effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scientists noted that the persistent heating came even with the tropical Pacific Ocean tilting toward a cyclical cooling phase that suppresses the global average temperature slightly. November’s warmth across the planet was “stunning, especially considering the ongoing La Niña,” Zack Labe, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1338629095630893057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During La Niña, cooler than average sea surface temperatures spread across a large part of the tropical Pacific. During the warm El Niño phase every few years, it’s the opposite, and that’s usually when global temperatures spike to new records, most recently in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global climate signal from the cycle usually is strongest about three or four months after the ocean cycle peaks, so the full effect won’t be known until next year, said climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/rahmstorf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stefan Rahmstorf\u003c/a>, with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PIK_Climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research\u003c/a>. He said, “2020 may beat 2016 without the extra push from El Niño.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s warming is another sign that “heat being trapped by greenhouse gases” is overwhelming the planet’s natural variability, said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WoodwellClimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woodwell Climate Research Center\u003c/a> in Massachusetts (formerly the Woods Hole Research Center).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to think what the global temperature would have been this year if we’d been in an El Niño rather than La Niña,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Polar Breakdown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic continues to accelerate faster than the global average, scientists reported this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, NASA Earth \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NASAEarth/status/1308107859620700163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote on Twitter\u003c/a> that, “The Arctic region is warming three times as fast as the rest of the planet, with effects beyond the ocean.” In recent years, the rate of Arctic warming was widely reported at twice the global average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in June, a team of scientists tracked a similar rate of warming in Antarctica. Their research, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0815-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in Nature\u003c/a>, found that, since 1989, the average temperature at the South Pole increased about 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, also three times as fast as the global average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warming of the polar regions disrupts global climate patterns in ways that can cause more \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082020/climate-extremes-record-heat-wildfires-hurricane-laura-floods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extreme droughts, floods and heat waves\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysnews/27022020/climate-change-pushing-giant-ocean-currents-poleward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes in climate-regulating ocean currents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD3po0aq0FiqwmDBNL2fCxH7uuUyUpWQDTZyESsPQrhim91w/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the incoming Biden administration, 193 Arctic scientists spelled out their growing concerns, including acidification of the Arctic Ocean that threatens U.S. fisheries, and a loss of sea ice that contributes to “persistent heat waves and cold spells, prolonged stormy periods, and extended droughts that greatly worsen Western wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid Arctic warming has also triggered permafrost thaw that is “now releasing carbon at the same scale as many larger nations,” the scientists wrote. “Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and polar ice sheets have accelerated clear-day flooding and storm damage, especially along the U.S. Eastern and Gulf coasts,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter called on President-elect Joe Biden to appoint a U.S. ambassador with a climate mandate to the Arctic Council, as a way of recognizing the “urgency of the threat from a disintegrating Arctic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Swamped by the Seas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As polar ice melts more quickly, sea level rise also accelerates. But sea level is complicated, because it \u003ca href=\"https://www.psmsl.org/products/anomalies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere, at the same time\u003c/a>. The global average rate recently increased from about 1.3 inches to about 2 inches per decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the best-case scenario of reaching the Paris target of capping global warming at 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, sea level will rise between 1 and 2 feet by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 global assessment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acceleration could be felt especially strongly along the West Coast, where sea level is starting to rise much faster than in recent years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NASAClimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early November, researchers with the agency said a decadeslong lull in sea level rise is ending. Large-scale changes in the Pacific Ocean are accelerating the inundation of beaches and marshes, as well the erosion of the coastal bluffs where millions of people have built homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve definitely seen an uptick,” said Bill Sweet, a sea level rise expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “In the next 20 to 30 years, by 2050, sea level will be about a foot higher, compared to 2000. There is going to be more erosion and we’re going to lose beaches,” he said, identifying San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area as potential trouble spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the Bay Area is built on reclaimed low-lying land that is permeable and vulnerable to incoming saltwater that can cause drainage systems to back up and overflow, and interfere with freshwater supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see more of what we’re already seeing on the East Coast. San Diego is a stand-out spot already. There’s more nuisance flooding these days, and they’re going to see a jump,” Sweet said. At times, the rising ocean will block roads, start to threaten low-lying properties and commerce and increase erosion, collapsing coastal bluffs and overtopping dunes, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Justice and Science are Connected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, one of the wealthiest parts of the world, may be able to adapt to sea level rise, but it’s a matter of life and death for millions of other people in developing countries with small carbon footprints that contribute little to global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new research in 2020 showed that researchers have done relatively little to study impacts of global warming extremes in areas where the most people are affected. And this year, climate impacts were compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. Together, they affected at least 50 million people worldwide, mostly in developing countries in Asia and Africa, as well as Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impacts have mostly been measured in the developed world by scientists in wealthier nations, raising a fundamental issue of climate justice in science, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ecioxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Oxford\u003c/a> climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FrediOtto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fredi Otto\u003c/a>, co-author of a recent \u003ca href=\"https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/101/10/bamsD190317.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> that outlines the challenges of understanding climate extremes in lower income countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after starting work on the study, she said, “It became very obvious that scientists research what’s in their backyard, but not in Africa, large parts of Asia, or South America.” As climate extremes intensify, the information gaps become “a lot more obvious,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason it’s important is that a lack of accurate information about extreme climate impacts puts more lives at risk, she said. “We don’t know what we need to adapt to and build resilience for … or what should trigger a heat warning,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-author-bio\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-holder\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Parts of the world economy may have been on pause during 2020, dampening greenhouse gas emissions for a while. But that didn’t slow the overall buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which reached its \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112020/covid-19-coronavirus-shutdowns-greenhouse-gas-emissions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest level\u003c/a> in millions of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, research during the year showed global warming is accelerating. Symptoms of the fever include off-the-charts \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072020/africa-heat-waves-climate-science/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heat waves on land\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012020/ocean-heat-2019-warmest-year-argo-hurricanes-corals-marine-animals-heatwaves/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the oceans\u003c/a>, and a hyperactive and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24122020/hurricanes-atlantic-extreme-weather-warming-climate-storms-louisiana-environmental-justice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">destructive Atlantic hurricane season\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And through November, the last year was on pace to end up as either the hottest, or second-hottest on record for the planet, almost 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times, inching closer to the 1.5 degree limit set by the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/paris-climate-agreement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris climate agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five aspects of climate change that were new and unexpected in 2020:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making it Stop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scientists are punctuating their alarming warnings with hopeful messages because they know that the worst possible outcome is avoidable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research shows that stopping greenhouse gas emissions will break the vicious cycle of warming temperatures, melting ice, wildfires and rising sea levels faster than expected just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is less warming in the pipeline than we thought, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Grantham_IC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imperial College\u003c/a> (London) climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JoeriRogelj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joeri Rogelj\u003c/a>, a lead author of the next major climate assessment from the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IPCC_CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our best understanding that, if we bring down CO2 to net zero, the warming will level off. The climate will stabilize within a decade or two,” he said. “There will be very little to no additional warming. Our best estimate is zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widespread idea that decades, or even centuries, of additional warming are already baked into the system, as suggested by previous IPCC reports, were based on an “unfortunate misunderstanding of experiments done with climate models that never assumed zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those models assumed that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would remain constant, that it would take centuries before they decline, said Penn State climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Mann\u003c/a>, who discussed the shifting consensus last October during a segment of “60 Minutes” on CBS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that global warming could stop relatively quickly after emissions go to zero was described as a “game-changing new scientific understanding” by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/michael-mann-60-minutes-emissions-warming.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covering Climate Now\u003c/a>, a collaboration of news organizations covering climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really is true,” Mann said. “It’s a dramatic change in the paradigm that has been lost on many who cover this issue, perhaps because it hasn’t been well explained by the scientific community. It’s an important development that is still under appreciated. It’s definitely the scientific consensus now that warming stabilizes quickly, within 10 years, of emissions going to zero,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The La Niña Effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scientists noted that the persistent heating came even with the tropical Pacific Ocean tilting toward a cyclical cooling phase that suppresses the global average temperature slightly. November’s warmth across the planet was “stunning, especially considering the ongoing La Niña,” Zack Labe, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1338629095630893057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During La Niña, cooler than average sea surface temperatures spread across a large part of the tropical Pacific. 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He said, “2020 may beat 2016 without the extra push from El Niño.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s warming is another sign that “heat being trapped by greenhouse gases” is overwhelming the planet’s natural variability, said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WoodwellClimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woodwell Climate Research Center\u003c/a> in Massachusetts (formerly the Woods Hole Research Center).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to think what the global temperature would have been this year if we’d been in an El Niño rather than La Niña,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Their research, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0815-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in Nature\u003c/a>, found that, since 1989, the average temperature at the South Pole increased about 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, also three times as fast as the global average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warming of the polar regions disrupts global climate patterns in ways that can cause more \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082020/climate-extremes-record-heat-wildfires-hurricane-laura-floods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extreme droughts, floods and heat waves\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/todaysnews/27022020/climate-change-pushing-giant-ocean-currents-poleward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">changes in climate-regulating ocean currents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD3po0aq0FiqwmDBNL2fCxH7uuUyUpWQDTZyESsPQrhim91w/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the incoming Biden administration, 193 Arctic scientists spelled out their growing concerns, including acidification of the Arctic Ocean that threatens U.S. fisheries, and a loss of sea ice that contributes to “persistent heat waves and cold spells, prolonged stormy periods, and extended droughts that greatly worsen Western wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid Arctic warming has also triggered permafrost thaw that is “now releasing carbon at the same scale as many larger nations,” the scientists wrote. “Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and polar ice sheets have accelerated clear-day flooding and storm damage, especially along the U.S. Eastern and Gulf coasts,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter called on President-elect Joe Biden to appoint a U.S. ambassador with a climate mandate to the Arctic Council, as a way of recognizing the “urgency of the threat from a disintegrating Arctic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Swamped by the Seas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As polar ice melts more quickly, sea level rise also accelerates. But sea level is complicated, because it \u003ca href=\"https://www.psmsl.org/products/anomalies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere, at the same time\u003c/a>. The global average rate recently increased from about 1.3 inches to about 2 inches per decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the best-case scenario of reaching the Paris target of capping global warming at 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, sea level will rise between 1 and 2 feet by 2100, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 global assessment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The acceleration could be felt especially strongly along the West Coast, where sea level is starting to rise much faster than in recent years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NASAClimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early November, researchers with the agency said a decadeslong lull in sea level rise is ending. Large-scale changes in the Pacific Ocean are accelerating the inundation of beaches and marshes, as well the erosion of the coastal bluffs where millions of people have built homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve definitely seen an uptick,” said Bill Sweet, a sea level rise expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “In the next 20 to 30 years, by 2050, sea level will be about a foot higher, compared to 2000. There is going to be more erosion and we’re going to lose beaches,” he said, identifying San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area as potential trouble spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the Bay Area is built on reclaimed low-lying land that is permeable and vulnerable to incoming saltwater that can cause drainage systems to back up and overflow, and interfere with freshwater supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see more of what we’re already seeing on the East Coast. San Diego is a stand-out spot already. There’s more nuisance flooding these days, and they’re going to see a jump,” Sweet said. At times, the rising ocean will block roads, start to threaten low-lying properties and commerce and increase erosion, collapsing coastal bluffs and overtopping dunes, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Justice and Science are Connected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, one of the wealthiest parts of the world, may be able to adapt to sea level rise, but it’s a matter of life and death for millions of other people in developing countries with small carbon footprints that contribute little to global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new research in 2020 showed that researchers have done relatively little to study impacts of global warming extremes in areas where the most people are affected. And this year, climate impacts were compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. Together, they affected at least 50 million people worldwide, mostly in developing countries in Asia and Africa, as well as Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the impacts have mostly been measured in the developed world by scientists in wealthier nations, raising a fundamental issue of climate justice in science, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ecioxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Oxford\u003c/a> climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FrediOtto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fredi Otto\u003c/a>, co-author of a recent \u003ca href=\"https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/101/10/bamsD190317.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> that outlines the challenges of understanding climate extremes in lower income countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after starting work on the study, she said, “It became very obvious that scientists research what’s in their backyard, but not in Africa, large parts of Asia, or South America.” As climate extremes intensify, the information gaps become “a lot more obvious,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason it’s important is that a lack of accurate information about extreme climate impacts puts more lives at risk, she said. “We don’t know what we need to adapt to and build resilience for … or what should trigger a heat warning,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-author-bio\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"image-holder\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InsideClimate News\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Though it may have been eclipsed in headlines and worrying by the coronavirus pandemic, the climate crisis has not gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new President Joe Biden tries to implement policies with the goal of redirecting economic development toward greenhouse gas reduction, he’ll have to contend with pressure not only from groups on the right who oppose environmental regulations, but with those on the left who may see Biden’s plans as too timid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED science reporter Kevin Stark has been following the rising clout of an environmental coalition that has not always been a part of mainstream environmental thinking, but which helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971416/california-environmental-groups-tell-biden-not-to-pick-mary-nichols-for-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">derail\u003c/a> the candidacy of California’s well-regarded environmental official \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971853/mary-nichols-californias-great-environmental-warrior-did-not-fight-the-right-battles-to-some\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Nichols\u003c/a> as head of Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency. 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They supported Joe Biden’s candidacy because he promised to fight for environmental justice, and they’re promising to hold him to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If these groups are small and don’t have a lot of money, how do they have so much clout right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups have really been empowered by two of the biggest events of 2020. First, the anti-racism movement in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, and then the dual impacts of pollution and the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same people who are suffering from pollution in their neighborhoods are essential workers. And we know from contact tracing that they’re getting COVID-19 at higher rates than other populations. Also, studies show that breathing more polluted air over many years may itself worsen the effects of COVID-19. So there are two crises that because of structural racism are impacting the same people. And leaders from these communities are heading up these environmental groups empowered by the anti-racism movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So looking at California first, what will these groups be looking to do in the coming year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the very beginning, the state’s environmental justice groups were ideologically opposed to California’s cap-and-trade program, which aims to fight climate change by setting limits on industry emissions of greenhouse gases and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at quarterly state-sponsored auctions. The groups argue that the program allows industries to pollute, and they they say it exacerbates environmental racism. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Arguably the country’s most experienced environmental official, Nichols was originally considered to be Biden’s top pick to lead the EPA. But after a complaint from environmental justice groups, she faded as a candidate.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols, who would be considered an environmental radical in many states of the union, saw her candidacy to head the Environmental Protection Agency collapse not from the right, but the left, after a group of environmental justice advocates spoke out against her selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971774/biden-taps-north-carolina-environmental-official-to-run-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">choosing \u003c/span>\u003c/a> Michael Regan, North Carolina’s top environmental regular, to lead the EPA, President-Elect Joe Biden passed over Nichols, who will leave CARB at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Arguably the country’s most experienced environmental official, Nichols was originally considered to be Biden’s top pick to run the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971416/california-environmental-groups-tell-biden-not-to-pick-mary-nichols-for-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a> from a coalition of California environmental justice leaders asking Biden’s transition team not to pick Nichols is what \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/michael-regan-epa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reportedly\u003c/span>\u003c/a> tanked her nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The groups effectively reduced Nichols’ career to two perceived faults: her track record on addressing environmental racism, which they called “bleak,” and her ideological bent toward market-based policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, the advocacy groups skewered California’s signature cap-and-trade policy for “further exacerbat[ing] pollution hotspots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During Ms. Nichols’ tenure as Chair of CARB, she has staunchly pursued and defended carbon trading, while minimizing state policies that required direct emission reductions and other climate policy implementing programs that benefit environmental justice communities,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/michael-regan-epa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the president-elect preferred Nichols, but was caught off guard by the intense criticism of the impact on poor communities from the cap-and-trade policies she helped design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Nichols offered her \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MaryNicholsCA/status/1339738544110112768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support\u003c/a> to Regan, who made a name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxic substances and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Transforming CARB\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a four-decade career as one of the nation’s preeminent climate regulators, Nichols, who declined to be interviewed for this story, oversaw some of the strongest industrial regulations and most innovative environmental programs in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Next week she will end her second tour as chair of CARB, a position she’s held since 2007 after her appointment by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, she transformed the board from a subsidiary branch of the state’s environmental agency into a vanguard of climate change policy, banking more political clout in the world of environmental regulations than\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>wielded by many governors and senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In recent years, CARB operated as a powerful entity, sometimes to the frustration of the state’s elected leaders. Nichols is widely respected at the agency and among the state’s climate wonks, who praise her for her ability to work with a broad array of industry groups, policymakers and scientists to generate results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mary operates with a mix of intellect, experience, and a fierceness that is often wrapped in a velvet glove,” said John Balmes, an air board member who served with Nichols for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knows her stuff,” said John Gioia, another board member from Contra Costa County. “In this field, knowledge counts. Because you can fight misinformation with accurate information. Mary knows how to work with industry and stand up to industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During the past decade, with Nichols serving as the state’s top air regulator, California cut back emissions of planet-warming gases to 1990 levels, an official climate goal the state leaped past in 2016, four years ahead of schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California also set strict limits on industrial pollution and established a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/low-carbon-fuel-standard/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low-carbon fuel standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, Nichols served as one of the principals in the state’s legal disputes with the Trump administration over climate and environmental policy. When President Trump sought to relax federal standards and revoke California’s waiver to set its own clean car rules, Nichols helped secure a commitment from five major automakers to follow California’s latest standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many environmentalists credit Nichols with outflanking Trump on the issue and are hopeful California’s agreement with the companies will be adopted as a federal standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s deal with the car companies is certainly a marker that people can use as a starting point to negotiate a single national rule,” said David Pettit, a senior climate attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, dry lightning storms sparked hundreds of wildfires that ripped across the state, blanketing the entire I-5 corridor from Seattle to San Diego in smoke and forcing millions of Californians to stay indoors for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the public’s attention focused on the impacts of climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Nichols for policy ideas to accelerate the state’s transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols’ team already had a state \u003cspan class=\"s1\">ban\u003c/span> on the sale of new gasoline cars in the works, the language of which she happily provided to Newsom. He quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969807/california-to-halt-sales-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued\u003c/a> an executive order making the policy official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Nichols \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1970449/nichols-devastating-wildfires-strengthened-support-for-ambitious-climate-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">said\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a major lesson of the wildfire-intensive year is that California needs to “be all in on eliminating all the sources of pollution” and improve “the ability of our natural environment to be able to store and sequester carbon, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Support From Arnold and Jerry\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nAs the transition team looked past Nichols, state leaders and California environmentalists kept pushing for her anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After news outlets reported Biden’s team was looking for a candidate to replace Nichols, Schwarzenegger vouched for her during an online celebration of her career. The former governor said she did “an extraordinary job” in California and called her “a straight 10.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schwarzenegger, who once referred to Nichols as an “Alabama tick” — a creature difficult to get rid of once it’s fastened on to you — said the only “reason that is excusable for you to leave [CARB] is if you go to some higher position, which is to run the EPA in Washington.” He added that he was “pushing for that with everyone that I know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Jerry Brown said Nichols possesses a “unique package that is equaled nowhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole list of factors that go into regulating climate change are matters that Mary Nichols, unlike few people in America, have had firsthand extensive knowledge,” Brown said. “And not just during the last 10 years, but stretching back to my first term as governor in the 1970s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Between stints leading CARB, Nichols served as 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>https://twitter.com/greenlawchina/status/1338919811162619904?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sunk by Cap-and-Trade\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The California cap-and-trade system that Nichols is associated with aims to fight climate change by setting limits on industry emissions of greenhouse gases and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at quarterly state-sponsored auctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses have generally supported this policy as an alternative to strict industrial regulations or a straight carbon tax, which are preferred by progressive environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger wouldn’t even allow discussion of a price on carbon, according to Balmes, who served on the board back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was literally against the rules,” he said. “Brown let us talk about it. But cap-and-trade had already been what California had committed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade allows industry to burn fossil fuels by paying others to reduce their own pollution, a trade-off known as “offsets” that are meant to reduce the overall carbon emitted into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some researchers who 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 found that California’s cap-and-trade program is not reducing emissions, and one \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/journal-enviro-equity-cap-trade-2018/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> found that the policy has not produced any “improvements in environmental equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s air board vehemently defends cap-and-trade as an effective way to drive emissions down while generating money the state uses to fund other environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auctions have raised $13.6 billion with more than 50% of investments benefiting California’s most disadvantaged communities, according to CARB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s Next for California Climate Policy? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971608/newsom-appoints-longtime-regulator-to-replace-nichols-as-top-calif-air-official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointment\u003c/a> of \u003c/span>Liane Randolph, a former regulator at the California Public Utilities Commission, to replace Nichols, Newsom\u003cbr>\ncould potentially shift the state away from cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MaryNicholsCA/status/1337522436829376513?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s picking a behind-the-scenes government regulator to replace a dominant and high-profile personality like Nichols could signal he wants to elevate the work of the entire board to stand out from that of its chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">One outstanding question about the post-Mary Nichols era in California: Did her power come from her position as the top climate regulator in the country’s most populous and economically powerful state, or was her position powerful because of some particular mastery?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the same environmental justice groups who sank Nichols do not appear to be enthralled with Biden’s ultimate choice of Regan, who was not on their suggested list of alternatives. After Regan’s candidacy was announced, the groups issued a less than enthusiastic statement congratulating him, but also referencing several groups who “worked tirelessly to protect their land, water, air, and people from pipelines, logging, and toxic waste disposal in North Carolina, and experienced harm from Regan’s decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement said the organizations “appreciate that the Biden-Harris Administration took seriously their concerns” and hope Regan “will show courage and advance a transformational vision in standing up to big polluters and repair the harm they’ve done to communities in North Carolina and across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More mainstream environmental groups are \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/12/17/california-environmentalists-quietly-angry-at-activists-over-nichols-losing-epa-job-1348317\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reportedly \u003c/span>\u003c/a>seething over the activists’ letter and its successful torpedoing of Nichols’ nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Arguably the country’s most experienced environmental official, Nichols was originally considered to be Biden’s top pick to lead the EPA. But after a complaint from environmental justice groups, she faded as a candidate.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols, who would be considered an environmental radical in many states of the union, saw her candidacy to head the Environmental Protection Agency collapse not from the right, but the left, after a group of environmental justice advocates spoke out against her selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971774/biden-taps-north-carolina-environmental-official-to-run-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">choosing \u003c/span>\u003c/a> Michael Regan, North Carolina’s top environmental regular, to lead the EPA, President-Elect Joe Biden passed over Nichols, who will leave CARB at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Arguably the country’s most experienced environmental official, Nichols was originally considered to be Biden’s top pick to run the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971416/california-environmental-groups-tell-biden-not-to-pick-mary-nichols-for-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">letter\u003c/span>\u003c/a> from a coalition of California environmental justice leaders asking Biden’s transition team not to pick Nichols is what \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/michael-regan-epa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reportedly\u003c/span>\u003c/a> tanked her nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The groups effectively reduced Nichols’ career to two perceived faults: her track record on addressing environmental racism, which they called “bleak,” and her ideological bent toward market-based policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, the advocacy groups skewered California’s signature cap-and-trade policy for “further exacerbat[ing] pollution hotspots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During Ms. Nichols’ tenure as Chair of CARB, she has staunchly pursued and defended carbon trading, while minimizing state policies that required direct emission reductions and other climate policy implementing programs that benefit environmental justice communities,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/climate/michael-regan-epa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reported\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the president-elect preferred Nichols, but was caught off guard by the intense criticism of the impact on poor communities from the cap-and-trade policies she helped design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Nichols offered her \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MaryNicholsCA/status/1339738544110112768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support\u003c/a> to Regan, who made a name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxic substances and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Transforming CARB\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a four-decade career as one of the nation’s preeminent climate regulators, Nichols, who declined to be interviewed for this story, oversaw some of the strongest industrial regulations and most innovative environmental programs in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Next week she will end her second tour as chair of CARB, a position she’s held since 2007 after her appointment by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, she transformed the board from a subsidiary branch of the state’s environmental agency into a vanguard of climate change policy, banking more political clout in the world of environmental regulations than\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>wielded by many governors and senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In recent years, CARB operated as a powerful entity, sometimes to the frustration of the state’s elected leaders. Nichols is widely respected at the agency and among the state’s climate wonks, who praise her for her ability to work with a broad array of industry groups, policymakers and scientists to generate results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mary operates with a mix of intellect, experience, and a fierceness that is often wrapped in a velvet glove,” said John Balmes, an air board member who served with Nichols for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knows her stuff,” said John Gioia, another board member from Contra Costa County. “In this field, knowledge counts. Because you can fight misinformation with accurate information. Mary knows how to work with industry and stand up to industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During the past decade, with Nichols serving as the state’s top air regulator, California cut back emissions of planet-warming gases to 1990 levels, an official climate goal the state leaped past in 2016, four years ahead of schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California also set strict limits on industrial pollution and established a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/low-carbon-fuel-standard/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low-carbon fuel standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, Nichols served as one of the principals in the state’s legal disputes with the Trump administration over climate and environmental policy. When President Trump sought to relax federal standards and revoke California’s waiver to set its own clean car rules, Nichols helped secure a commitment from five major automakers to follow California’s latest standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many environmentalists credit Nichols with outflanking Trump on the issue and are hopeful California’s agreement with the companies will be adopted as a federal standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s deal with the car companies is certainly a marker that people can use as a starting point to negotiate a single national rule,” said David Pettit, a senior climate attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, dry lightning storms sparked hundreds of wildfires that ripped across the state, blanketing the entire I-5 corridor from Seattle to San Diego in smoke and forcing millions of Californians to stay indoors for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the public’s attention focused on the impacts of climate change, Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Nichols for policy ideas to accelerate the state’s transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols’ team already had a state \u003cspan class=\"s1\">ban\u003c/span> on the sale of new gasoline cars in the works, the language of which she happily provided to Newsom. He quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969807/california-to-halt-sales-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued\u003c/a> an executive order making the policy official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Nichols \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1970449/nichols-devastating-wildfires-strengthened-support-for-ambitious-climate-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">said\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a major lesson of the wildfire-intensive year is that California needs to “be all in on eliminating all the sources of pollution” and improve “the ability of our natural environment to be able to store and sequester carbon, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Support From Arnold and Jerry\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nAs the transition team looked past Nichols, state leaders and California environmentalists kept pushing for her anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After news outlets reported Biden’s team was looking for a candidate to replace Nichols, Schwarzenegger vouched for her during an online celebration of her career. The former governor said she did “an extraordinary job” in California and called her “a straight 10.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schwarzenegger, who once referred to Nichols as an “Alabama tick” — a creature difficult to get rid of once it’s fastened on to you — said the only “reason that is excusable for you to leave [CARB] is if you go to some higher position, which is to run the EPA in Washington.” He added that he was “pushing for that with everyone that I know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Jerry Brown said Nichols possesses a “unique package that is equaled nowhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole list of factors that go into regulating climate change are matters that Mary Nichols, unlike few people in America, have had firsthand extensive knowledge,” Brown said. “And not just during the last 10 years, but stretching back to my first term as governor in the 1970s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Between stints leading CARB, Nichols served as 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He was part of the delegation that negotiated the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate as a ‘Systemic Issue’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new job as the White House domestic climate chief, McCarthy will drive policies to address climate change beyond the usual federal agencies’ work on it, such as the Interior and Energy departments and the Environmental Protection Agency — and will coordinate the planning across government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development could make the buildings it oversees more energy-efficient and resilient. The Department of Agriculture could promote soil management to sequester carbon. The Treasury Department could do more to take climate risk into account when banks lend money, encouraging financing for renewable projects over those that rely on fossil fuels. 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We have not had this kind of base of support, so I think this administration is ready to run,” McCarthy said in an interview with NPR last week, before news broke about her appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Net-zero Emissions by 2050\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden and his team share the widely held belief among climate advocates and scientists that the coming decade is the world’s final window to stave off the worst-case scenario of a warming planet. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/08/655360909/grim-forecast-from-u-n-on-global-climate-change\">A report issued two years ago\u003c/a> by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of devastating changes to weather patterns, sea levels, agricultural ecosystems and much more, if the planet warms by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. 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Biden has framed climate change as one of the four most important issues his administration will confront when he takes office on Jan. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden also is expected to name Ali Zaidi as McCarthy’s deputy at the White House. Zaidi, currently a top climate adviser to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, worked on energy and climate policy in the Obama administration, including at the Office of Management and Budget. 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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. 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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. 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. 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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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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"content": "\u003cp>According to official numbers, the 2018 California wildfires caused 106 deaths. That was the season the Carr Fire destroyed towns around Whiskeytown Lake in Shasta County, before jumping the Sacramento River and blowing into Redding as a fierce fire tornado. A few months later the Camp Fire in Butte County caused unprecedented destruction in the rural communities of Concow and Paradise. But the damage did not stay in areas directly charred. Those fires also released plumes of toxic wildfire smoke which coated much of the state. And the economic and health damages these flames and plumes caused rippled out beyond counties into the rest of the state and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers from UC Irvine and around the world now estimate that, when the harm of air pollution is folded in, the 2018 California wildfires led to thousands of additional deaths: 3,652.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a problem historically is that we’ve been counting what’s easiest to count, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ess.uci.edu/~sjdavis/cv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Davis\u003c/a>, a scientist at UC Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[That’s] the numbers of buildings destroyed or the people that were literally killed in a fire, because they were in a building that burned. 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