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"content": "\u003cp>The United States formally left the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, the only one of the nearly 200 nations that signed the agreement, to walk away from its promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump originally announced his intention to withdraw from the landmark agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. A mandatory yearlong waiting period ends on Wednesday, a coincidence that nonetheless highlights the Trump administration’s commitment to derailing efforts that address climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has emitted \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/\">more\u003c/a> cumulative carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other country since the industrial era began in the mid-1800s. Current U.S. emissions are falling, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks\">far too slowly\u003c/a> to avoid catastrophic warming. That’s in part because the Trump administration rolled back carbon pollution limits from power plants, cars, trucks and fossil fuel operations. American \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44837#:~:text=On%20an%20annual%20basis%2C%20EIA,lower%20than%20their%202019%20level.\">emissions\u003c/a> rose slightly in the first two years of his administration. In 2020, the pandemic throttled the economy and led to a short-term dip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lack of action at the federal level is a serious problem,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy director for the climate and energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science advocacy group. The costs of climate-driven disasters such as hurricanes, heat waves and wildfires are rising, she says. In 2020, there have already been 16 climate-driven disasters that cost at least $1 billion each, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/\">according\u003c/a> to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change is clearly not just an environmental issue,” Cleetus says. “It is threatening our economy. It’s threatening our future prosperity, the well-being of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. involvement in the Paris Agreement isn’t definitively over. The U.S. could choose to return, and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/joebiden/photos/on-day-one-ill-rejoin-the-paris-agreement-and-then-rally-the-world-to-push-our-p/10157381578471104/\">promised\u003c/a> to rejoin the agreement “on day one” if he wins the election. If he were to do so, the U.S. could officially resume its role under the Paris Agreement in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, the U.S. will have a lot of ground to make up. Under the Paris Agreement, the U.S. promised to reduce its emissions by about 25% by 2025 compared with 2005 levels, but the country is only on track to achieve about a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/913727755/u-s-emission-reductions-slowed-after-trump-pulled-out-of-paris-accord\">17% reduction\u003c/a>, according to analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, China, Japan and the European Union have made long-term promises to get all the way to net zero emissions in the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many American cities, states and companies have also vowed to reduce drastically their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the coming years. Twelve states and at least 165 U.S. cities have plans to get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, according to the climate tracking group \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspledgeonclimate.com/report-delivering-on-americas-pledge/\">America’s Pledge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adapting to climate change is expensive, there’s also evidence it can be good for the economy. Between 2005 and 2017, 41 states increased their gross domestic product while reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wri.org/publication/us-new-climate-economy#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20can%20improve,and%20providing%20affordable%20clean%20energy.\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the World Resources Institute think tank, and investment in clean energy now \u003ca href=\"https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/07/economic-benefits-climate-action-us\">generates more jobs\u003c/a> than investing in fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporations also made a deluge of commitments this year to address the root causes of climate change. They include promises to cut carbon emissions throughout their supply chains, by reducing or eliminating electricity and transportation that burn fossil fuels, or by protecting forests that absorb carbon. It is still unclear exactly how companies will achieve their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paris Agreement was central to many corporate pledges, including those by \u003ca href=\"https://www.theclimatepledge.com/\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cargill.com/2019/cargill-expands-climate-change-commitments\">Cargill\u003c/a>. The historically right-leaning business group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the president’s decision to withdraw from the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe we should be part of the Paris Agreement,” Sabrina Fang, the group’s senior director of media relations, wrote in an email to NPR. “Greater collaboration between governments and businesses is essential to build the best models to tackle climate challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American departure from the Paris Agreement also means the end of U.S. contributions to a global fund to help smaller and poorer countries that bear disproportionate costs of climate change. The United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2014/11/17/the-3-billion-u-s-pledge-for-the-green-climate-fund-is-it-a-lot/\">originally pledged\u003c/a> $3 billion to help such nations transition from fossil fuels and adapt to a hotter Earth — the largest amount of any country, but still far less than America’s fair share, given its cumulative carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/09/532106567/a-little-known-climate-fund-is-suddenly-in-the-spotlight\">withdrew\u003c/a> two-thirds of that money. At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03330-9#:~:text=Developed%20nations%20have%20together%20pledged,the%20impacts%20of%20climate%20change.\">meeting last year\u003c/a>, 13 other rich nations, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany, doubled their original pledges, while the U.S. declined to contribute any additional money to the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It leaves a giant funding shortfall for countries struggling with sea level rise and heat waves and that lack money to move people out of harm’s way or to upgrade power plants that burn fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. was a major pledger to that first funding. When they never delivered, that certainly was an impact to us,” says Carlos Fuller, the lead climate negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, which represents 44 island and low-lying coastal countries at international climate talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Fuller says, the U.S. was expected to help fund a major climate project in the Caribbean that would install weather stations, map the topography of the seafloor to predict storm surge better and help Caribbean nations use that data to become more resilient to the impact of climate change. But the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/10/4269\">reduced the funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Fuller says, the project is on hold pending contributions from other nations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. involvement in the Paris Agreement isn’t definitively over. The U.S. could choose to return, and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/joebiden/photos/on-day-one-ill-rejoin-the-paris-agreement-and-then-rally-the-world-to-push-our-p/10157381578471104/\">promised\u003c/a> to rejoin the agreement “on day one” if he wins the election. If he were to do so, the U.S. could officially resume its role under the Paris Agreement in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, the U.S. will have a lot of ground to make up. Under the Paris Agreement, the U.S. promised to reduce its emissions by about 25% by 2025 compared with 2005 levels, but the country is only on track to achieve about a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/913727755/u-s-emission-reductions-slowed-after-trump-pulled-out-of-paris-accord\">17% reduction\u003c/a>, according to analysts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, China, Japan and the European Union have made long-term promises to get all the way to net zero emissions in the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many American cities, states and companies have also vowed to reduce drastically their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the coming years. Twelve states and at least 165 U.S. cities have plans to get 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, according to the climate tracking group \u003ca href=\"https://www.americaspledgeonclimate.com/report-delivering-on-americas-pledge/\">America’s Pledge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adapting to climate change is expensive, there’s also evidence it can be good for the economy. Between 2005 and 2017, 41 states increased their gross domestic product while reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wri.org/publication/us-new-climate-economy#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20can%20improve,and%20providing%20affordable%20clean%20energy.\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the World Resources Institute think tank, and investment in clean energy now \u003ca href=\"https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/07/economic-benefits-climate-action-us\">generates more jobs\u003c/a> than investing in fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corporations also made a deluge of commitments this year to address the root causes of climate change. They include promises to cut carbon emissions throughout their supply chains, by reducing or eliminating electricity and transportation that burn fossil fuels, or by protecting forests that absorb carbon. It is still unclear exactly how companies will achieve their promises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paris Agreement was central to many corporate pledges, including those by \u003ca href=\"https://www.theclimatepledge.com/\">Amazon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cargill.com/2019/cargill-expands-climate-change-commitments\">Cargill\u003c/a>. The historically right-leaning business group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the president’s decision to withdraw from the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe we should be part of the Paris Agreement,” Sabrina Fang, the group’s senior director of media relations, wrote in an email to NPR. “Greater collaboration between governments and businesses is essential to build the best models to tackle climate challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American departure from the Paris Agreement also means the end of U.S. contributions to a global fund to help smaller and poorer countries that bear disproportionate costs of climate change. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">Let’s say you’re a Green-New-Deal-type environmentalist hell-bent on avoiding planetary destruction while also fixing societal problems like economic inequality and racial injustice. Then, somehow, someway, just as California is digging itself out of a pandemic-induced recession, you have $30 billion to invest any way you want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are you going to do?\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>In early October, environmental groups convened a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZRRMdMYe8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">livestreamed\u003c/span>\u003c/a> panel with some of California’s climate intelligentsia for just such an exercise. Organizers are testing the waters for putting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.movela.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s3\">California Climate and Clean Air Initiative” \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"s3\">on the \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">2022 ballot \u003c/span>and hoped the conversation could generate some policy ideas. For example, Kevin de León, former president pro tempore of the state Senate, wanted to spend money on building infrastructure for charging electric cars, plus a cash incentive for low-income people to buy them. Senate Majority Whip Nancy Skinner wish-listed $10 billion toward affordable housing near job centers and funds for green hydrogen, carbon sequestration and electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists often argue economic stimulus is a tea best served with two lumps of clean energy and a heavy dose of social justice. So now that the policy bigwigs have opined, we decided to bring the same fantasy question to community organizations working in Oakland, a city where chronic exposure to particulate matter from smog generated by the heavily trafficked port and spider-webbed freeways exacerbates lung and heart disease in poorer neighborhoods; and where air pollution can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345938/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enable\u003c/a> the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">So we asked activists from four organizations: If you were suddenly awash in $30 billion worth of funding, what would be your priorities for Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Here’s how the groups would want to spend those billions …\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Crystal Huang\u003c/b>, worker-director of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplepowersolar.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">People Power Solar Cooperative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a grassroots-led initiative to develop community solar in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Idea:\u003c/em> Community members can “control their own power; literally, financially and politically.” The group develops community solar projects, where neighbors pool resources to invest in shared solar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How would you spend $30 billion?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building community solar projects,” she said. “People who don’t normally have the ability to get financial benefit or social benefit of solar power can own the solar system through the cooperative. Regardless of their living situation or whether they own real estate, they can participate in the energy transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Sonrisa Cooper\u003c/b>, community development program manager with the \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003cstrong>Greenlining Institute\u003c/strong>,\u003c/span>\u003c/a> which advocates for economic opportunity and empowerment for people of color\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Idea:\u003c/em> Cooper recently co-authored a report calling for a “radical rethinking of community development.” The “\u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/publications/2020/greenlined-economy/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Greenlined Economy Guidebook\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” outlines a framework for government leaders and businesses to invest more equitably.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How would you spend $30 billion? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policymakers are talking about recovering from COVID and the recession,” she said. “There is a very real threat of exacerbating the existing inequities, if economic recovery efforts aren’t done with equity as a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would make recovery efforts explicit about race. 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So now that the policy bigwigs have opined, we decided to bring the same fantasy question to community organizations working in Oakland, a city where chronic exposure to particulate matter from smog generated by the heavily trafficked port and spider-webbed freeways exacerbates lung and heart disease in poorer neighborhoods; and where air pollution can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345938/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enable\u003c/a> the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">So we asked activists from four organizations: If you were suddenly awash in $30 billion worth of funding, what would be your priorities for Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Here’s how the groups would want to spend those billions …\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>Crystal Huang\u003c/b>, worker-director of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplepowersolar.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">People Power Solar Cooperative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a grassroots-led initiative to develop community solar in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Idea:\u003c/em> Community members can “control their own power; literally, financially and politically.” The group develops community solar projects, where neighbors pool resources to invest in shared solar projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How would you spend $30 billion?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building community solar projects,” she said. “People who don’t normally have the ability to get financial benefit or social benefit of solar power can own the solar system through the cooperative. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">As the head of the federal\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco office, John Busterud is the agency’s top federal regulator in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He oversees 700 staff employees and environmental protection efforts across the agency’s Region 9. Those actions affect 50 million people living in California, other Western states, the Pacific Islands and tribal lands — at a time when California leaders continue to spar with Washington over pretty much every issue related to the environment\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That means he’s on the front lines of a battle between the Trump administration and California over climate change. Busterud, a former PG&E attorney, is more of a traditional Republican than a MAGA diehard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">His publicly stated view about climate change differs from that of President Trump. Busterud tells KQED that he “believes in climate change and that humans play a part in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump rejected the central findings of his own administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">National Climate Assessment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">saying\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, “I don’t believe it. No, no, I don’t believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Scientists from 13 federal agencies reviewed thousands of climate studies for the fourth volume of the assessment, released in 2018, and concluded that greenhouse gases released by human activity are causing lasting economic damage to the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Busterud defends Trump’s environmental policies and suggested to KQED that natural emission sources from wildfires could be playing a large role in warming the planet. “We have seen over the last month or so that that [human-caused emissions of planet warming gases] can be dwarfed by fire-related emissions, but perhaps climate has an impact on that as well.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>It’s true that wildfires emit greenhouse gases and destroy trees that would otherwise remove carbon dioxide from the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082018/extreme-wildfires-climate-change-global-warming-air-pollution-fire-management-black-carbon-co2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading cause of global warming remains\u003c/a> overwhelmingly the burning of fossil fuels. \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions#t1fn1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to the EPA,\u003c/a> “Human activities are responsible for almost all of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last 150 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/wildfire-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tracks greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from wildfires separately from those produced by cars, power plants and other human sources because they have a faster carbon cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud’s predecessor, Mike Stoker — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1924459/new-chief-of-epa-region-9-has-deep-ties-to-industry\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">former oil industry spokesperson,\u003c/span>\u003c/a> was fired after an internal watchdog investigation. EPA spokeswoman Corry Schiermeyer told KQED in a statement that Stoker was let go for “severe neglect and incompetent administration of his duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Emails obtained by KQED through a public document request show agency staff cheering Busterud’s appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Leonido-John, director of EPA’s Southern California field office, wrote that Busterud’s hiring “by all measures, seems to be a very positive thing” and described him as a “Republican of the old variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California officials, meanwhile, seem at least willing to give Busterud the benefit of the doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Blumenfeld, California’s top environmental regulator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/EPA-names-former-PG-E-attorney-to-head-West-Coast-15047582.php\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">told\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle that Busterud “seems reasonable and generally thoughtful on the issues” and\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>“has the potential to do a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In the roughly six months that he’s been on the job, Busterud has avoided the spotlight and — at least publicly — California’s ongoing fight with the Trump administration over how to regulate pollution from cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he’s focused on administrative duties. For example, last week he \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-selects-organizations-pacific-southwest-receive-pollution-prevention-grants\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">awarded\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a grant to a UC Berkeley program to research alternatives to PFAs — so-called “forever” chemicals that cause health effects with continued exposure — used in carpet manufacturing and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We’re trying to make much more than the grant,” he said. “We’re trying to encourage further action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud spoke with KQED last week about climate change and Trump’s baseless claim that San Francisco should be punished for allowing discarded needles to wash into the ocean. He was less than forthcoming about California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969807/california-to-halt-sales-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planned ban\u003c/a> on the sale of new internal-combustion cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>What is your response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars in California by the year 2035?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That particular issue is one that is handled by headquarters and to one to which they will have to respond and they will respond. There is much coverage of the waiver issue. We’re certainly all familiar with it. But that decision is made at headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003cb>You are referring to an action taken by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947538/can-he-do-that-lawyers-doubt-trump-can-kill-californias-clean-air-powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPA to revoke California’s waiver \u003c/a>to set its own tailpipe emission rules. California sued in response. State leaders say the Trump administration is weaponizing the EPA on this issue.\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">I would certainly disagree with that choice of terminology. The waiver issue raises national consideration and a discussion about if [regulation of] certain emissions or certain technology should be a national approach as opposed to a patchwork state-by-state approach. But again, that’s something that headquarters is managing. There is a dialogue. I acknowledge that it’s a contentious issue and one that I hope is resolved over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cb>Do you understand the state’s frustration? EPA has provided the waiver for 50 years and is pushing California to clean up its air. But California’s tailpipe emission rules are the key policy tool the state employed to deal with smog.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">Certainly. And I understand. We’re very much engaged in working with the air districts and with CARB (the California Air Resources Board) on attainment issues day in and day out. Mobile sources are the single largest source in California, as opposed to other states where other sectors are that are considerable. That’s all I can really say on that one at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Local officials have called President Trump’s argument that San Francisco improperly discharged feces, needles and wastewater into the ocean — absurd. EPA \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-10/documents/sfpuc-npdes-violation-notice-2019-10-02.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>issued\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cb> San Francisco\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>a violation for “failure to properly operate and maintain the city’s sewage collection and treatment facilities.” \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you think that the involvement of your agency in this issue was politically motivated? Did your agency find anything that backed up the president’s claims?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">You would expect that I would and should and will say that it’s an open and pending enforcement action and not one I can comment on. I will just say that this investigation of this matter and those issues started in 2015. If you … do the math, that perhaps responds in part to your question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cb>You’re implying that the agency’s involvement was not politically motivated because it began in 2015 under the Obama administration?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">The investigation began in 2015. And that’s the most I can or should say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003cb>Explain to me how that is an underreported story. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">I think that perhaps in your question you are saying that, well, my predecessor didn’t agree with the consensus on climate change or that the agency shouldn’t regulate it. We do regulate greenhouse gas emissions, power plant emissions, but we regulate them at that facility level as provided under the act. Under the Clean Power Plan of the prior administration — that plan was enjoined by the Supreme Court at the time — that kind of economy wide regulation is not permitted by the act. And so what we do is focus on facilities, specific controls of those pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003cb>It’s your view that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/163665/president-obama-unveils-new-power-plant-rules-in-clean-power-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean Power Plan\u003c/a> was an overstep from what is allowed by the Clean Air Act? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court did it. They didn’t ask my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\u003cb>The EPA has rolled back enforcement of planet-warming gases. During President Trump’s visit to survey the wildfire damage, Wade Crowfoot, secretary of the state natural resources agency, pressed him, saying studies show climate change is a key driver of the state’s fires. Trump said “science doesn’t know.” \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t really comment on the exchange that the president had. 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EPA spokeswoman Corry Schiermeyer told KQED in a statement that Stoker was let go for “severe neglect and incompetent administration of his duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Emails obtained by KQED through a public document request show agency staff cheering Busterud’s appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Leonido-John, director of EPA’s Southern California field office, wrote that Busterud’s hiring “by all measures, seems to be a very positive thing” and described him as a “Republican of the old variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California officials, meanwhile, seem at least willing to give Busterud the benefit of the doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Blumenfeld, California’s top environmental regulator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/EPA-names-former-PG-E-attorney-to-head-West-Coast-15047582.php\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">told\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle that Busterud “seems reasonable and generally thoughtful on the issues” and\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>“has the potential to do a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In the roughly six months that he’s been on the job, Busterud has avoided the spotlight and — at least publicly — California’s ongoing fight with the Trump administration over how to regulate pollution from cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he’s focused on administrative duties. For example, last week he \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-selects-organizations-pacific-southwest-receive-pollution-prevention-grants\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">awarded\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a grant to a UC Berkeley program to research alternatives to PFAs — so-called “forever” chemicals that cause health effects with continued exposure — used in carpet manufacturing and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We’re trying to make much more than the grant,” he said. “We’re trying to encourage further action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud spoke with KQED last week about climate change and Trump’s baseless claim that San Francisco should be punished for allowing discarded needles to wash into the ocean. He was less than forthcoming about California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969807/california-to-halt-sales-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">planned ban\u003c/a> on the sale of new internal-combustion cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>What is your response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars in California by the year 2035?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That particular issue is one that is handled by headquarters and to one to which they will have to respond and they will respond. There is much coverage of the waiver issue. We’re certainly all familiar with it. But that decision is made at headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003cb>You are referring to an action taken by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947538/can-he-do-that-lawyers-doubt-trump-can-kill-californias-clean-air-powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EPA to revoke California’s waiver \u003c/a>to set its own tailpipe emission rules. California sued in response. State leaders say the Trump administration is weaponizing the EPA on this issue.\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">I would certainly disagree with that choice of terminology. The waiver issue raises national consideration and a discussion about if [regulation of] certain emissions or certain technology should be a national approach as opposed to a patchwork state-by-state approach. But again, that’s something that headquarters is managing. There is a dialogue. I acknowledge that it’s a contentious issue and one that I hope is resolved over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">\u003cb>Do you understand the state’s frustration? EPA has provided the waiver for 50 years and is pushing California to clean up its air. But California’s tailpipe emission rules are the key policy tool the state employed to deal with smog.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">Certainly. And I understand. We’re very much engaged in working with the air districts and with CARB (the California Air Resources Board) on attainment issues day in and day out. Mobile sources are the single largest source in California, as opposed to other states where other sectors are that are considerable. That’s all I can really say on that one at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Local officials have called President Trump’s argument that San Francisco improperly discharged feces, needles and wastewater into the ocean — absurd. EPA \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-10/documents/sfpuc-npdes-violation-notice-2019-10-02.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>issued\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cb> San Francisco\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>a violation for “failure to properly operate and maintain the city’s sewage collection and treatment facilities.” \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you think that the involvement of your agency in this issue was politically motivated? Did your agency find anything that backed up the president’s claims?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p5\">You would expect that I would and should and will say that it’s an open and pending enforcement action and not one I can comment on. I will just say that this investigation of this matter and those issues started in 2015. 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"content": "\u003ch2>What a President Joe Biden would need to do starting Day One to correct the course of U.S. climate policy.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story originally appeared in \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-climate-crisis-damage-can-it-be-fixed-1064995/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Stone\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say: “Imagine where we’d be if they knew what they were doing.” The climate lawyer and senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund spends his days defending the environment from the U.S. government, and for the past three and a half years, that’s meant a front-row seat to the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on any regulation that’s meant to slow the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/t/climate-crisis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate crisis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it’s also been a window into the hasty, sloppy, and legally dubious ways that they’ve gone about it. “One of the hallmarks of this administration is how incompetently they’re doing this,” says Doniger. “It shows up in how slowly they’ve been able to work, and how flimsy their legal rationales are.” Almost all of President Trump’s attempts at deregulation — some 100 rules that he’s tried to eliminate or weaken — are being challenged in court, and environmentalists are steadily winning. According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/trump-court-roundup\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Institute for Policy Integrity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at New York University, the Trump administration has lost 69 of the 83 legal challenges it’s faced in its deregulatory blitz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were saved by their incompetence,” says Andrew Wetzler from the NRDC Action Fund, mainly by their failure to follow basic rule-making procedures. They rushed through the process, often shortening or entirely skipping over the required 60 days for public comment, which provided a clear opening for their rule changes to be challenged in court. The administration’s ineptitude has given environmentalists hope that if Trump loses the election, the policy impact of his unrelenting pro-fossil fuel agenda could ultimately be short-lived. “If he’s a one-term wonder,” says Doniger, “the biggest consequence of the Trump administration may just turn out to be lost time.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation='David Doniger, NRDC Action Fund']‘If [Trump’s] a one-term wonder, the biggest consequence of the Trump administration may just turn out to be lost time.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But time, at this hour of the climate fight, might be our most precious resource. As we stumble ever closer to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-changes-worsens-a-cascade-of-tipping-points-looms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">collapse of ice sheets, oceans and forests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the range of meaningful action we could take narrows. There is now believed to be more carbon dioxide in the air than any time in the last 3 million years. Our oceans are on track by the end of this century to become more acidic than they’ve been in some 15 million years — when they were enduring a major extinction event. Those oceans are also rising steadily enough to threaten the homes of 150 million people in the next three decades. “We lost years at a critical time,” says Wetzler. “We’re on the precipice of a number of climate and biological tipping points.” And, he says, we won’t fully understand the impact of that loss for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Biden wins in November, environmentalists say, his administration would have a slim window of opportunity to get our agencies back on track to meet the enormity of the climate crisis. “It means being aggressive from day one,” says Brett Hartl from the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund. “And not futzing around — knowing what you’re going to do and implementing it immediately.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making up for the lost time won’t be easy. Despite his slap-dash approach, Trump still managed to scramble the trajectory of American climate policy, creating a tangle of legal fights that will have to be cleared up for U.S. climate policy to move forward. And he left almost no part of our environmental regulatory structure untouched — greenlighting fossil fuel infrastructure like the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, setting us back on emission-reduction goals by reversing the Clean Power Plan and higher fuel-efficiency standards, and gutting the federal agencies that should be at the helm of our climate response.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how difficult will it be to unscramble this mess? It would have to happen in three parts, environmentalists say, and all three would have to start on day one. First, Biden would have a powerful arsenal of executive tools available to him — if he chooses to use them. A\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://climatepresident.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> coalition of over 500 environmental\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> groups has already assembled a plan for how he could effectively jumpstart our fight against the climate crisis using executive powers, which would avoid both going through Congress and the lengthy federal rule-making process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using executive power, Biden could declare a national climate emergency. It wouldn’t just send an important message to Americans — and the rest of the world — that we’re taking the climate crisis seriously; it would give the administration the power to mobilize the government on a massive scale, like ordering the Secretary of Defense to redirect military spending toward the rapid development of clean energy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden could also immediately order federal agencies to reverse the climate rollbacks Trump introduced through executive order — like allowing oil and gas companies to side-step state approval — and start issuing his own. Most urgently, Biden would have the power to keep more fossil fuels in the ground: He could direct the secretary of the interior to halt oil-and-gas leasing and fracking on federal lands, reinstitute the ban on exporting crude oil, and order all federal agencies to deny permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure, like pipelines, storage facilities, and refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d also be able to change the ways that money moves through the energy sector. He could prohibit the U.S. government from financing fossil fuel programs overseas and end all Department of Energy loans for fossil fuels stateside, while also requiring the Federal Reserve to manage climate risks — forcing it to acknowledge the current and future impact of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/t/climate-change/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on our economy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of these tools were already available in the Obama era, but the administration chose not to use them. For example, “the Clean Air Act is actually quite clear that you have the authority to set national ambient air quality standards,” says Hartl. “It would have been incredibly bold, and it actually wouldn’t have had the problems that the Clean Power Plan had. They could have really moved the needle on greenhouse gases in a very, very powerful way.” But, Hartl says, the Obama administration shied away from these kinds of actions for fear of political consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden would face a very different national landscape. At the beginning of this year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/21/how-americans-see-climate-change-and-the-environment-in-7-charts/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">two thirds of American adults said that protecting the environment should be a top priority of the federal government\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, up from only 30% at the beginning of Obama’s first term. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/914233038/poll-climate-becomes-top-priority-for-democrats-trump-struggles-on-race-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a poll last week\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, likely Democratic voters ranked climate change as the most important issue to them in this election, and Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, has found that talking about climate change could actually help persuade voters who are on the fence to vote for a Democrat. All of this is to say, a Biden administration could have an unprecedented political mandate to take action on the climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to issuing executive orders, beginning on day one Biden would also need to start the process of unwinding the deregulation efforts that Trump carried out through the federal rule-making process — like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rollbacks on the Endangered Species Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and fuel-emissions standards — and writing new ones to take their place. Environmentalists are confident that a new administration could systematically undo each rollback, but that process could take two years, according to Hartl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the Biden administration would need to learn from Trump’s mistakes. Legal challenges from the industries that these regulations impact — the American Petroleum Institute, the National Mining Association — are inevitable, “so you have to go in and be prepared to defend it the first time,” says Hartl. That means following the process to the letter: establishing rules with legal backing from legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water acts; opening the rule up to public comment; and then presenting a final rule that can stand up in court. Unlike Trump’s deregulation efforts, which were fighting against decades of environmental legislation, the law would be on Biden’s side. “The reality is that when Congress passed these laws,” says Hartl, “they were designed to make the environment better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, Biden would have to start hiring like mad. Over the past four years, Trump’s EPA and Interior Department have hemorrhaged talent. The Bureau of Land Management moved the majority of its staff out of Washington, D.C., leading some 70% of that staff to resign, and the EPA is nearly as small as it was during the Nixon era, when the EPA was founded. “That pattern, in the most extreme way, is mirrored throughout the environmental agencies,” says Wetzler. “There’s been a real brain drain of people who can’t stand in an agency and support the agenda under the Trump administration, and we’ll have to put back the pieces of very demoralized, and in some cases broken agencies.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But from those ashes, Biden could build a coalition of climate advocates across his Cabinet. His transition team, and the 4,000 people they appoint, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/158198/inside-fight-shape-bidens-climate-policy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are arguably more influential than any campaign promises he could make\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Personnel is policy,” says Jamal Raad, co-founder and campaign director for Evergreen Action, founded by former staffers of Gov. Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign. “We need to choose regulators that have a climate lens,” and that lens doesn’t end at the EPA — it can reach the Department of Agriculture, where we have to reimagine our food production to work with our changing climate, or the Treasury, where regulators could interpret the Dodd-Frank consumer protection act to include climate risks. And within the White House, Raad says, Biden could create a National Climate Council that’s equivalent to the National Economic Council. “There needs to be a plan to reorient the federal government so that climate is a lens in all decision making.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heading into the general election, pressure from the left wing of the party shaped Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan, which is “a green new deal in all but name,” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/joe-biden-has-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote activist and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “It’s the most progressive, forward-leaning environmental plan that any candidate for president has ever released,” says Wetzler of the NRDC Action Fund. “It would represent incredible progress.” And while the Biden campaign hasn’t laid out a timetable for the plan, “the Biden team has been signaling their prioritization of climate by making it central to their economic recovery plans,” says Raad. “I think that folks should be cautiously optimistic — but vigilant — on the prospect of climate being a priority early in the first term.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, this all hinges on what happens in November. And if Trump is reelected, his administration would have the chance to establish a legacy of more than just incompetence and squandered time. Four more years of Donald Trump being in charge of the environment could permanently alter the American landscape. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some cases, it would give the Trump administration time to fight back against the legal challenges they face, leaning on courts that they’ve stacked with anti-environmental judges. And damage could be done that will be near impossible to undo — rules can be changed, but mines can’t be unmined. The Trump administration has pursued the largest rollback of federally protected land in U.S. history. Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, for example, which Trump shrunk by 85% in 2017, is in the crosshairs of uranium developers. Trump’s move has been mired in lawsuits, but a second term could give them the time to untangle them, and hand the land over to the uranium lobbyists. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Likewise, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was just approved in August, leaving little time for leasing, let alone actual development, before Inauguration Day. But if Trump wins, those leases are likely to move forward, as will the roads, pipelines, and oil rigs that come with them, doing permanent damage to a vital and fragile ecosystem. “Over time you’re looking at millions and millions of acres of fossil fuel leasing,” says Hartl from the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund. “And eventually, once you get to the point where they’re actually putting drills in the ground, it’s very hard to undo that. You’re locking in a tremendous amount of fossil fuel infrastructure.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump’s influence on the U.S. Supreme Court looms heavily for the environment as well. With Trump already raring to appoint a new justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a second term is likely to offer him a fourth Supreme Court appointment, which would mean the highest court would house\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seven\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Republican-appointed justices. When you’re suing over environmental issues, the court’s make-up can be the difference between having your day in court, and not. “For example, there’s a general judicial doctrine called ‘standing,’ or your ability to go to court to pursue your aggrieved interests,” explains Hartl. “Conservative judges want to narrow who has standing as much as possible, because that limits access to the courts. When you’re fighting for the environment, and your interest is protecting an endangered species or the atmosphere or the water, they’ve already made it hard for us to go to court, to have standing. And they can narrow it even further so that we don’t even have recourse. Our ability to just \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the environment is at stake.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The climate movement has never been more clear on what it is fighting for and what it needs to do, and finally has a presidential candidate who is signaling some willingness to do it. The prescription is fairly simple: Stop burning fossil fuels so we can begin drawing down the carbon in the atmosphere that’s overheating our planet and disrupting the systems that have supported life on Earth as we know it. The president has a lot of power to take that action, and we have no time to lose. “It’s true that we have 30 years [before an irreversible climate collapse], but \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you act on that 30-year scale really affects how radically you have to act,” says Wetzler. “If you think about where the United States was at the beginning of the Trump administration — and where the world was, in terms of taking climate change seriously — it’s a huge, squandered opportunity.” This November, we can choose to act, and set ourselves back on course. “If this is a one-time, Black Swan event, we’re probably going to recover as a nation,” says Doniger. “This is the project of the century.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andy Kroll contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But time, at this hour of the climate fight, might be our most precious resource. As we stumble ever closer to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-changes-worsens-a-cascade-of-tipping-points-looms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">collapse of ice sheets, oceans and forests\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the range of meaningful action we could take narrows. There is now believed to be more carbon dioxide in the air than any time in the last 3 million years. Our oceans are on track by the end of this century to become more acidic than they’ve been in some 15 million years — when they were enduring a major extinction event. Those oceans are also rising steadily enough to threaten the homes of 150 million people in the next three decades. “We lost years at a critical time,” says Wetzler. “We’re on the precipice of a number of climate and biological tipping points.” And, he says, we won’t fully understand the impact of that loss for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Biden wins in November, environmentalists say, his administration would have a slim window of opportunity to get our agencies back on track to meet the enormity of the climate crisis. “It means being aggressive from day one,” says Brett Hartl from the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund. “And not futzing around — knowing what you’re going to do and implementing it immediately.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making up for the lost time won’t be easy. Despite his slap-dash approach, Trump still managed to scramble the trajectory of American climate policy, creating a tangle of legal fights that will have to be cleared up for U.S. climate policy to move forward. And he left almost no part of our environmental regulatory structure untouched — greenlighting fossil fuel infrastructure like the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, setting us back on emission-reduction goals by reversing the Clean Power Plan and higher fuel-efficiency standards, and gutting the federal agencies that should be at the helm of our climate response.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how difficult will it be to unscramble this mess? It would have to happen in three parts, environmentalists say, and all three would have to start on day one. First, Biden would have a powerful arsenal of executive tools available to him — if he chooses to use them. A\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://climatepresident.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> coalition of over 500 environmental\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> groups has already assembled a plan for how he could effectively jumpstart our fight against the climate crisis using executive powers, which would avoid both going through Congress and the lengthy federal rule-making process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using executive power, Biden could declare a national climate emergency. It wouldn’t just send an important message to Americans — and the rest of the world — that we’re taking the climate crisis seriously; it would give the administration the power to mobilize the government on a massive scale, like ordering the Secretary of Defense to redirect military spending toward the rapid development of clean energy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden could also immediately order federal agencies to reverse the climate rollbacks Trump introduced through executive order — like allowing oil and gas companies to side-step state approval — and start issuing his own. Most urgently, Biden would have the power to keep more fossil fuels in the ground: He could direct the secretary of the interior to halt oil-and-gas leasing and fracking on federal lands, reinstitute the ban on exporting crude oil, and order all federal agencies to deny permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure, like pipelines, storage facilities, and refineries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’d also be able to change the ways that money moves through the energy sector. He could prohibit the U.S. government from financing fossil fuel programs overseas and end all Department of Energy loans for fossil fuels stateside, while also requiring the Federal Reserve to manage climate risks — forcing it to acknowledge the current and future impact of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/t/climate-change/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on our economy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of these tools were already available in the Obama era, but the administration chose not to use them. For example, “the Clean Air Act is actually quite clear that you have the authority to set national ambient air quality standards,” says Hartl. “It would have been incredibly bold, and it actually wouldn’t have had the problems that the Clean Power Plan had. They could have really moved the needle on greenhouse gases in a very, very powerful way.” But, Hartl says, the Obama administration shied away from these kinds of actions for fear of political consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden would face a very different national landscape. At the beginning of this year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/21/how-americans-see-climate-change-and-the-environment-in-7-charts/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">two thirds of American adults said that protecting the environment should be a top priority of the federal government\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, up from only 30% at the beginning of Obama’s first term. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/914233038/poll-climate-becomes-top-priority-for-democrats-trump-struggles-on-race-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a poll last week\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, likely Democratic voters ranked climate change as the most important issue to them in this election, and Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, has found that talking about climate change could actually help persuade voters who are on the fence to vote for a Democrat. All of this is to say, a Biden administration could have an unprecedented political mandate to take action on the climate crisis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to issuing executive orders, beginning on day one Biden would also need to start the process of unwinding the deregulation efforts that Trump carried out through the federal rule-making process — like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rollbacks on the Endangered Species Act\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and fuel-emissions standards — and writing new ones to take their place. Environmentalists are confident that a new administration could systematically undo each rollback, but that process could take two years, according to Hartl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the Biden administration would need to learn from Trump’s mistakes. Legal challenges from the industries that these regulations impact — the American Petroleum Institute, the National Mining Association — are inevitable, “so you have to go in and be prepared to defend it the first time,” says Hartl. That means following the process to the letter: establishing rules with legal backing from legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water acts; opening the rule up to public comment; and then presenting a final rule that can stand up in court. Unlike Trump’s deregulation efforts, which were fighting against decades of environmental legislation, the law would be on Biden’s side. “The reality is that when Congress passed these laws,” says Hartl, “they were designed to make the environment better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, Biden would have to start hiring like mad. Over the past four years, Trump’s EPA and Interior Department have hemorrhaged talent. The Bureau of Land Management moved the majority of its staff out of Washington, D.C., leading some 70% of that staff to resign, and the EPA is nearly as small as it was during the Nixon era, when the EPA was founded. “That pattern, in the most extreme way, is mirrored throughout the environmental agencies,” says Wetzler. “There’s been a real brain drain of people who can’t stand in an agency and support the agenda under the Trump administration, and we’ll have to put back the pieces of very demoralized, and in some cases broken agencies.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But from those ashes, Biden could build a coalition of climate advocates across his Cabinet. His transition team, and the 4,000 people they appoint, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/158198/inside-fight-shape-bidens-climate-policy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are arguably more influential than any campaign promises he could make\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Personnel is policy,” says Jamal Raad, co-founder and campaign director for Evergreen Action, founded by former staffers of Gov. Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign. “We need to choose regulators that have a climate lens,” and that lens doesn’t end at the EPA — it can reach the Department of Agriculture, where we have to reimagine our food production to work with our changing climate, or the Treasury, where regulators could interpret the Dodd-Frank consumer protection act to include climate risks. And within the White House, Raad says, Biden could create a National Climate Council that’s equivalent to the National Economic Council. “There needs to be a plan to reorient the federal government so that climate is a lens in all decision making.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heading into the general election, pressure from the left wing of the party shaped Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan, which is “a green new deal in all but name,” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/joe-biden-has-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote activist and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “It’s the most progressive, forward-leaning environmental plan that any candidate for president has ever released,” says Wetzler of the NRDC Action Fund. “It would represent incredible progress.” And while the Biden campaign hasn’t laid out a timetable for the plan, “the Biden team has been signaling their prioritization of climate by making it central to their economic recovery plans,” says Raad. “I think that folks should be cautiously optimistic — but vigilant — on the prospect of climate being a priority early in the first term.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, this all hinges on what happens in November. And if Trump is reelected, his administration would have the chance to establish a legacy of more than just incompetence and squandered time. Four more years of Donald Trump being in charge of the environment could permanently alter the American landscape. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some cases, it would give the Trump administration time to fight back against the legal challenges they face, leaning on courts that they’ve stacked with anti-environmental judges. And damage could be done that will be near impossible to undo — rules can be changed, but mines can’t be unmined. The Trump administration has pursued the largest rollback of federally protected land in U.S. history. Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, for example, which Trump shrunk by 85% in 2017, is in the crosshairs of uranium developers. Trump’s move has been mired in lawsuits, but a second term could give them the time to untangle them, and hand the land over to the uranium lobbyists. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Likewise, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was just approved in August, leaving little time for leasing, let alone actual development, before Inauguration Day. But if Trump wins, those leases are likely to move forward, as will the roads, pipelines, and oil rigs that come with them, doing permanent damage to a vital and fragile ecosystem. “Over time you’re looking at millions and millions of acres of fossil fuel leasing,” says Hartl from the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund. “And eventually, once you get to the point where they’re actually putting drills in the ground, it’s very hard to undo that. You’re locking in a tremendous amount of fossil fuel infrastructure.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump’s influence on the U.S. Supreme Court looms heavily for the environment as well. With Trump already raring to appoint a new justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a second term is likely to offer him a fourth Supreme Court appointment, which would mean the highest court would house\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> seven\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Republican-appointed justices. When you’re suing over environmental issues, the court’s make-up can be the difference between having your day in court, and not. “For example, there’s a general judicial doctrine called ‘standing,’ or your ability to go to court to pursue your aggrieved interests,” explains Hartl. “Conservative judges want to narrow who has standing as much as possible, because that limits access to the courts. When you’re fighting for the environment, and your interest is protecting an endangered species or the atmosphere or the water, they’ve already made it hard for us to go to court, to have standing. And they can narrow it even further so that we don’t even have recourse. Our ability to just \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the environment is at stake.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The climate movement has never been more clear on what it is fighting for and what it needs to do, and finally has a presidential candidate who is signaling some willingness to do it. The prescription is fairly simple: Stop burning fossil fuels so we can begin drawing down the carbon in the atmosphere that’s overheating our planet and disrupting the systems that have supported life on Earth as we know it. The president has a lot of power to take that action, and we have no time to lose. “It’s true that we have 30 years [before an irreversible climate collapse], but \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you act on that 30-year scale really affects how radically you have to act,” says Wetzler. “If you think about where the United States was at the beginning of the Trump administration — and where the world was, in terms of taking climate change seriously — it’s a huge, squandered opportunity.” This November, we can choose to act, and set ourselves back on course. “If this is a one-time, Black Swan event, we’re probably going to recover as a nation,” says Doniger. “This is the project of the century.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andy Kroll contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Think “climate change activist” and a young, liberal student may come to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/914233038/poll-climate-becomes-top-priority-for-democrats-trump-struggles-on-race-covid-19\">NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll\u003c/a> showed climate change is the top issue for Democratic voters. For Republicans, it barely registers overall, but there is a growing generational divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/24/millennial-and-gen-z-republicans-stand-out-from-their-elders-on-climate-and-energy-issues/\">Pew Research Center survey\u003c/a> shows Republicans 18 to 39 years old are more concerned about the climate than their elders. By a nearly 2-to-1 margin they are more likely to agree that “human activity contributes a great deal to climate change,” and “the federal government is doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these young conservatives are starting environmental groups and becoming climate activists. And now they’re pushing their party to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benji Backer started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acc.eco/blog/2020/9/3/electric-election-announcement\">American Conservation Coalition\u003c/a> in 2017, after his freshman year in college, and says his love of nature comes in part from his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were Audubon members, Nature Conservancy members. But they were conservative, and I grew up not thinking that the environment should be political at all,” said Backer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet these days, environmental politics dominates his life. From now until the November election, Backer is driving an electric car across the country, talking about his group’s climate agenda and posting videos along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backer is promoting his group’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolution.eco/the-american-climate-contract\">American Climate Contract\u003c/a>, which is a conservative, market-focused response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/climate/green-new-deal-questions-answers.html\">Green New Deal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s critical of fellow conservatives who ignore climate change. He praised Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg when they both \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4823780/user-clip-benji-backer-testimony\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> last year. And Backer says he wants to work with liberal climate activists to pass legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how will he vote in November?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If President Trump wants to get my vote, he’s going to have to prioritize climate change in a way that he has not done over the past four years,” Backer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he’s undecided so far, Backer says he was disappointed climate change wasn’t even discussed at the Republican National Convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR the Trump campaign said, “President Trump’s record on the environment proves you can have energy independence and a clean, healthy environment without destroying the economy, overregulating, or burdening American taxpayers.” The statement never mentions climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young Republicans are light years ahead of their elder counterparts on this issue,” said Kiera O’Brien, founder and president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.yccdaction.org/\">Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends\u003c/a>, which supports a \u003ca href=\"https://clcouncil.org/our-plan/\">carbon tax proposal\u003c/a> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien grew up in Alaska and says young conservatives are motivated by mounting evidence that the climate is changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re seeing the impacts firsthand, whether it’s myself in Alaska with algal blooms that are turning the ocean weird colors, or with flooding in the Gulf Coast, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/hurricane-laura-live-updates/2020/08/27/906633395/hurricanes-like-laura-are-more-likely-because-of-climate-change\">hurricanes\u003c/a> that are unprecedented at this point,” O’Brien said. She calls her generation “the climate generation,” and says \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/28/905622947/everything-is-unprecedented-welcome-to-your-hotter-earth\">effects\u003c/a> they were told were far off are happening now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some liberal climate activists are encouraged to see young conservatives join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means a real hope for the future because it speaks to our generationally shared values: truth, empathy, and patriotism,” said Nikayla Jefferson, with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sunrisemovement.org/\">Sunrise Movement\u003c/a>. “Climate change knows no party lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former South Carolina Republican Congressman Bob Inglis says young conservative climate activists are being faithful to their age cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s that they, along with their progressive friends, plan on living on the Earth longer than, say, their parents or grandparents,” says Inglis, executive dfirector of the conservative climate group \u003ca href=\"https://republicen.org/\">republicEn\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inglis says for this generation, addressing climate change is becoming a moral issue more than a political one. And that makes him optimistic the country will eventually take more action to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demographics are definitely going to deliver a win for climate change. I am absolutely certain we are going to win on climate policy. The question is whether we win soon enough to avoid the worst consequences,” Inglis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say that time line is short, but Inglis believes the country is more likely to succeed if both sides of the aisle are focused on the challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Light+Years+Ahead%27+Of+Their+Elders%2C+Young+Republicans+Push+GOP+On+Climate+Change&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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The state should incentivize people to charge their cars during the day, he says, when solar energy is most abundant, and not at night, which is usually more convenient but will draw on more nonrenewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can accomplish that goal, managing grid stability will not be a challenge,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While implementation of the order would help reduce pollution, says Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, production of all the new electric vehicles would still consume a significant amount of energy, including from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Electric vehicles have their own carbon footprint,” he said. “The popular thing from an environmental point of view is to say, ‘This is great, this will help us deal with climate change because we’re reducing gasoline and diesel burning vehicles on roads. 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Automakers may have to rethink manufacturing and capital spending plans because of the requirement, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gas Vehicles Still Dominate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more electric vehicles on the road than any other state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal data\u003c/a>, and Newsom said half of all U.S. electric cars are driven here. In the first quarter of 2020, an electric car, the Tesla Model 3, was the top selling new car model in California for the first time, edging out the Honda Civic, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-1Q-20-REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California New Car Dealers Association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the gains, combustion engines in cars and trucks still dominate the state’s highways and roads. California registered 99,704 new electric cars and trucks in 2019, which was 5.3% of the market, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-4Q-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according\u003c/a> to the car dealer association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the state \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/fd8f133957b8e6675035f41025635510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://apnews.com/fd8f133957b8e6675035f41025635510\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">stopped\u003c/a> offering rebates for buyers of electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles that cost more than $60,000. State air regulators also reduced the standard rebate by $500 per vehicle, from $2,500 to $2,000 for all-electric cars. In addition, it eliminated rebates for plug-in hybrid cars with an electric-battery range of less than 35 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what incentives he plans for encouraging Californians to buy electric cars, Newsom said the state would continue “the tried and true policies” of encouraging adoption through credits, vouchers and rebates. He said electric vehicle use has “grown exponentially,” with “more models, more choice for consumers. The cost is beginning to decline, and we’re just a few years away from parity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Wednesday, Newsom called on the Legislature to eliminate new fracking licenses by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fracking is a technique that allows energy companies to extract huge volumes of oil and gas from shale rock deep underground. It involves injecting high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals into rock. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.23.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> would not ban people from owning gas-powered cars or selling them on the used car market. But it would end the sales of all new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in the state of nearly 40 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s order directs the California Air Resources Board to develop and approve regulations to meet the deadline, requiring “increasing volumes of new zero-emission vehicles sold in the state” until the 100% target in 2035. The governor also ordered the board to make a rule requiring that all medium and heavy-duty trucks be 100% zero-emission by 2045, “where feasible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pull away from the gas pumps,” Newsom said at a press conference. “Let us no longer be victims of geopolitical dictators that manipulate global supply chains and global markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and the roughly dozen states that follow its lead on auto emissions standards make up a significant part of the U.S. auto market, giving the day’s move huge potential impact for the U.S. automobile industry as well as for long-term efforts against pollution and climate change, which is driven by fossil-fuel emissions. It also is likely to meet opposition from President Trump, who wants to roll back tougher Obama-era auto emissions standards and is battling California to force it to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Newsom’s announcement, the White House signaled its displeasure with the move. Administration spokesman Judd Deere said Newsom’s order will hurt the economy and is “yet another example of how extreme the left has become. They want the government to dictate every aspect of every Americans’ life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch today’s announcement and press conference with Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yEkGlJWu864'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yEkGlJWu864'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>California already has rules mandating that a certain percentage of new car sales be electric or zero-emission vehicles. The new rule, if implemented, would make California the first U.S. state with a plan to phase them out completely. The state has a goal of relying 100% on clean, renewable energy by 2045. Gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks are the biggest impediment to reaching that target, as they account for more than half of the state’s carbon pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 15 other countries, including Germany, France and Norway, have made similar commitments to eliminating gas-powered vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the directive on cars and trucks, Newsom ordered state agencies to speed up development of charging stations across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate all the new electric vehicles, California will certainly need to install many more charging stations, especially in places where people work, says Michael Wara, director of Stanford’s Climate and Energy Policy Program. The state should incentivize people to charge their cars during the day, he says, when solar energy is most abundant, and not at night, which is usually more convenient but will draw on more nonrenewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can accomplish that goal, managing grid stability will not be a challenge,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While implementation of the order would help reduce pollution, says Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, production of all the new electric vehicles would still consume a significant amount of energy, including from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Electric vehicles have their own carbon footprint,” he said. “The popular thing from an environmental point of view is to say, ‘This is great, this will help us deal with climate change because we’re reducing gasoline and diesel burning vehicles on roads. But it’s also important to keep our eye on the ball that not all of transportation’s impacts on the environment are solved by electrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an industry group, said in a statement that while car companies are “committed to expanding vehicle electrification … neither mandates nor bans build successful markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s executive order “will require increased infrastructure, incentives, fleet requirements, building codes, and much more,” Bozzella said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Caldwell, executive director of insights at the Edmunds.com auto pricing site, said Newsom’s announcement “does seem like this is a significant shot fired against” the internal combustion engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expects the California announcement to trigger high-level meetings at all the auto companies that were moving toward electric vehicles but didn’t expect a zero-emissions mandate in 15 years. Automakers may have to rethink manufacturing and capital spending plans because of the requirement, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gas Vehicles Still Dominate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more electric vehicles on the road than any other state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal data\u003c/a>, and Newsom said half of all U.S. electric cars are driven here. In the first quarter of 2020, an electric car, the Tesla Model 3, was the top selling new car model in California for the first time, edging out the Honda Civic, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-1Q-20-REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California New Car Dealers Association.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the gains, combustion engines in cars and trucks still dominate the state’s highways and roads. California registered 99,704 new electric cars and trucks in 2019, which was 5.3% of the market, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-4Q-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according\u003c/a> to the car dealer association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the state \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/fd8f133957b8e6675035f41025635510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://apnews.com/fd8f133957b8e6675035f41025635510\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">stopped\u003c/a> offering rebates for buyers of electric cars or plug-in hybrid vehicles that cost more than $60,000. State air regulators also reduced the standard rebate by $500 per vehicle, from $2,500 to $2,000 for all-electric cars. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The alarming wildfires across the West have got people thinking, once again, how to prevent or at least minimize the catastrophic fire seasons we’ve been experiencing. KQED science reporters\u003cstrong> Danielle Venton\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Molly Peterson\u003c/strong> talked with KQED radio host Brian Watt last week about what the state is and isn’t doing to lower fire risk and minimize the destruction caused by large fires. \u003c/span>The following has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You have been reporting for a while on some of the possible solutions to California’s wildfire problem, like prescribed burns …\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Molly Peterson\u003c/strong>: Right, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">idea\u003c/a> that we plan to put fire on the land safely [with the intent of burning up in advance the vegetation wildfires use for fuel.] I have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1942299/onetime-enemies-over-logging-are-now-a-community-to-prevent-wildfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> from Trinity County about people who want to do that, but they run into bureaucratic obstacles, and I’ve reported about the technical and safety reasons these burns get delayed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton:\u003c/strong> We have also talked about how to make buildings \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1941685/this-california-neighborhood-was-built-to-survive-a-wildfire-and-it-worked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less flammable\u003c/a>, and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943058/whos-checking-homes-for-flammable-brush-in-some-high-risk-areas-maybe-no-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clearing space\u003c/a> around them to slow an advancing fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>But you’ve talked about these things for years, and it feels like not as much of it’s getting done as we need.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: That’s exactly the problem. One example: In the early 2000s, up until 2017, an average of just 13,000 acres were intentionally burned in the state every year. In 2018, new laws were passed to try to make prescribed burns easier, and 87,000 acres were burned that year. But scientists believe we need to increase that amount by at least five times. So there’s a long way to go. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: Another example: In 2008, lawmakers passed this transformative set of requirements that has saved houses from big fires in Santa Rosa and Paradise. But 12 years later, houses built before that law still sit in the path of these monster fires, and we’re still not doing for fires what we do for earthquake risk, which is expand requirements and spend money on retrofitting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: Overall, we do see the state spending more money on fires, but experts say it’s not enough to do what they recommend. And it’s a sign that we’re not changing our mindset about fires dramatically enough.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">So what \u003cem>is\u003c/em> the state doing?\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: The ideas for legislation have fallen into a few categories. One big one is tightening requirements on new buildings and raising money for fixing old ones, and another is improving how we estimate and plan for risk in wildfire zones. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: Several bills worth mentioning have arrived on the governor’s desk in the past week. One requires ember-resistant zones around homes in high fire-risk areas. Another requires Cal Fire to develop a model to better estimate the wildfire risk for communities in the wildland-urban interface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: Laws to tighten accountability for planning are also on the agenda. On the governor’s desk right now is a bill from Santa Barbara state Sen. Hannah Beth-Jackson, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB182\u003c/a>. If it becomes law, it would limit how local government can approve development in very-high-risk fire zones, depending on how fire risk is managed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“Too many lives have been lost,” Jackson has said. “Too many communities have been left behind by these deadly wildfires to allow us to continue with business as usual in California.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">She says a lot of communities are making decisions on their own right now, and what she’s advocating for are consistent statewide standards.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While that bill’s on the governor’s desk, overall it seems like the state of California is still deciding whose responsibility it is to be ready for fire. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about what’s \u003cem>not\u003c/em> being talked about. What’s missing from the conversation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: I think what’s missing is we get hung up on talking about these really specific details, and we often don’t talk about the whole picture, the causes and the solutions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: Something I’ve been frustrated by is this polarization of whether it’s climate change or forest management that’s causing these catastrophic fires. It’s both, of course, and more. Focusing on this debate means that we’re not doing the important things, like adapting to climate change and finding a way to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/livingwithwildfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">live with fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: I’m a fourth-generation Californian, but I used to live in Louisiana, after Katrina. After that, I can’t help but wonder whether we should talk about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943266/one-potential-solution-to-fires-in-the-wilderness-dont-build-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not living\u003c/a> in some places. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Even if we do everything that the scientists advise us to \u003ci>— \u003c/i>like UC Santa Barbara’s Max Moritz talks about putting firebreaks and vegetation around communities and the wildland urban areas, and spending all this money to harden homes \u003ci>—\u003c/i> are there places in the state that we shouldn’t live, for our own safety? I don’t know the answer to that. Even asking the question is something you’re not supposed to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: And I think we really need to reconsider the balance of responsibility in this state. A huge weight is put on local authorities, who are often asked to do more and more by the state and by the public without additional funding. Local authorities then sometimes say it’s got to be neighbors helping neighbors during rough times, and some people, especially the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968076/even-after-care-homes-abandoned-residents-california-still-isnt-ready-for-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vulnerable\u003c/a>, get left out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: Everyone in California has property rights. To really understand property rights, though, we also have to report on how much it costs to defend property and how much it costs to insure it and how some of those costs are shared by the public. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: In the end, this is all about compromise and trade-offs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The alarming wildfires across the West have got people thinking, once again, how to prevent or at least minimize the catastrophic fire seasons we’ve been experiencing. KQED science reporters\u003cstrong> Danielle Venton\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Molly Peterson\u003c/strong> talked with KQED radio host Brian Watt last week about what the state is and isn’t doing to lower fire risk and minimize the destruction caused by large fires. \u003c/span>The following has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">You have been reporting for a while on some of the possible solutions to California’s wildfire problem, like prescribed burns …\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Molly Peterson\u003c/strong>: Right, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">idea\u003c/a> that we plan to put fire on the land safely [with the intent of burning up in advance the vegetation wildfires use for fuel.] I have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1942299/onetime-enemies-over-logging-are-now-a-community-to-prevent-wildfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> from Trinity County about people who want to do that, but they run into bureaucratic obstacles, and I’ve reported about the technical and safety reasons these burns get delayed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton:\u003c/strong> We have also talked about how to make buildings \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1941685/this-california-neighborhood-was-built-to-survive-a-wildfire-and-it-worked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less flammable\u003c/a>, and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943058/whos-checking-homes-for-flammable-brush-in-some-high-risk-areas-maybe-no-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clearing space\u003c/a> around them to slow an advancing fire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>But you’ve talked about these things for years, and it feels like not as much of it’s getting done as we need.\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: That’s exactly the problem. One example: In the early 2000s, up until 2017, an average of just 13,000 acres were intentionally burned in the state every year. In 2018, new laws were passed to try to make prescribed burns easier, and 87,000 acres were burned that year. But scientists believe we need to increase that amount by at least five times. So there’s a long way to go. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Peterson\u003c/strong>: Another example: In 2008, lawmakers passed this transformative set of requirements that has saved houses from big fires in Santa Rosa and Paradise. But 12 years later, houses built before that law still sit in the path of these monster fires, and we’re still not doing for fires what we do for earthquake risk, which is expand requirements and spend money on retrofitting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cstrong>Venton\u003c/strong>: Overall, we do see the state spending more money on fires, but experts say it’s not enough to do what they recommend. And it’s a sign that we’re not changing our mindset about fires dramatically enough.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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