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And also everyone needs to sit there, and they only get their two minutes in the sun, basically.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919577\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 413px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/offshoredrilling-WC.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1919577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/offshoredrilling-WC.png\" alt=\"BOEM CA map\" width=\"413\" height=\"538\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Mgt. shows the “extent of geological plays” off California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the Trump administration’s plan are fearful of a catastrophic oil spill and burning more fossil fuels that drive global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re moving a lot more towards renewable energies,” said protester Chase Wood, 25, a resident of Orange County and a Greenpeace activist. “There are more jobs in the energy sector than there is in all of the coal industry. 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The Trump administration’s 5-year plan calls for leases to once again be offered to oil and gas companies for exploration and production in nearly all U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of offshore drilling also weighed in Thursday. Bob Poole, vice president of the Western States Petroleum Association, said the alternative to offshore drilling is importing oil from countries that lack environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919748 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An expert from the Department of Interior explains aspects of offshore operations to attendees. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We import more than a million barrels [of oil] every day, each and every day, over the ocean, from countries that a lot of whom don’t like us very much,” he said on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/02/07/trumps-plan-to-expand-offshore-drilling-gets-a-california-hearing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum radio program\u003c/a>. “All of that oil is coming on on tankers, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “If we’re going to need oil for the foreseeable future … doesn’t it make sense to produce that oil rather than try to stop that — and produce it under the most stringent environmental regulations on the planet — instead of importing this oil in supertankers from countries like Saudi Arabia and others where they don’t have those rules?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some state officials have begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/583407248/california-may-have-a-way-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving to block\u003c/a> newly produced offshore oil from being piped ashore by withholding permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am resolved that not a single drop from Trump’s new oil plan ever makes landfall in California,” said Lt. 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Currently about 30 wells are in operation off of California, mostly in federal waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the California Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing the Trump administration’s plan. The vote was 55-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly also asked U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to remove California from the proposed leasing plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Monique Limón, a Santa Monica Democrat who sought the resolution, cited previous offshore spills that have tarred the state’s picturesque coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans Randy Voepel of Santee and Travis Allen of Huntington Beach say oil and gas can be safely harvested. Allen, a GOP candidate for governor, says the move could help lower gasoline prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters in other states have already gathered to voice their displeasure at the planned reinstatement of offshore drilling. On Tuesday, more than 100 demonstrators gathered outside Oregon’s state Capitol in Salem to denounce the proposal before a planned public meeting.. Twenty-three meetings are scheduled nationwide, one in every state except Hawaii that touches the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. Comments can also be submitted \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=BOEM-2017-0074-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online\u003c/a> through March 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Craig Miller, Amel Ahmed, Jon Brooks, Lauren Sommer and the Associated Press contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several hundred protesters rallied at the state Capitol on Thursday to oppose a \u003ca href=\"https://www.boem.gov/NP-Draft-Proposed-Program-2019-2024/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal plan\u003c/a> to expand drilling for oil and gas off California shores. If the plan, currently a draft proposal, is finalized, the U.S. Department of the Interior could begin selling leases to drillers as soon as next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters demonstrated before an event held by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; it was the federal government’s only scheduled public meeting on the issue. The event, held at Sacramento’s main library, was billed as an “open house.” There was no opportunity for public comment; instead the department set up informational displays, with kiosks available to write comments.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Still, protesters managed to get their voices heard, chanting “Where’s the hearing?” and turning the event into something of a circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Bill Brown, the chief environmental officer with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, defended the meeting’s format, saying it was a “more effective way to communicate.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“I think there are plenty of legitimate environmental concerns to be addressed,” he said. “The downside of the hearing thing is that you don’t get to talk to [or] really interact with folks. And also everyone needs to sit there, and they only get their two minutes in the sun, basically.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919577\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 413px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/offshoredrilling-WC.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1919577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/offshoredrilling-WC.png\" alt=\"BOEM CA map\" width=\"413\" height=\"538\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Mgt. shows the “extent of geological plays” off California.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the Trump administration’s plan are fearful of a catastrophic oil spill and burning more fossil fuels that drive global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re moving a lot more towards renewable energies,” said protester Chase Wood, 25, a resident of Orange County and a Greenpeace activist. “There are more jobs in the energy sector than there is in all of the coal industry. We need to start moving on to the 21st century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offshore drilling has been a hot-button issue in the state since 1969, when the blowout of an offshore well led to a catastrophic\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-barbara-oil-spill-1969-20150520-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> oil spill\u003c/a> in the Santa Barbara Channel, fouling 35 miles of coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people really recognize that offshore drilling for oil is a dirty and dangerous business,” said Miyoko Sakashita, who directs the oceans program at the Center for Biological Diversity. “We’ve all seen the images of the oiled coasts and the oiled birds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has banned new exploration in state waters within three miles of shore for decades, and the White House under Barack Obama added restrictions in federal waters. The Trump administration’s 5-year plan calls for leases to once again be offered to oil and gas companies for exploration and production in nearly all U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of offshore drilling also weighed in Thursday. Bob Poole, vice president of the Western States Petroleum Association, said the alternative to offshore drilling is importing oil from countries that lack environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1919748 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/IMG_9545-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An expert from the Department of Interior explains aspects of offshore operations to attendees. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We import more than a million barrels [of oil] every day, each and every day, over the ocean, from countries that a lot of whom don’t like us very much,” he said on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2018/02/07/trumps-plan-to-expand-offshore-drilling-gets-a-california-hearing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum radio program\u003c/a>. “All of that oil is coming on on tankers, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “If we’re going to need oil for the foreseeable future … doesn’t it make sense to produce that oil rather than try to stop that — and produce it under the most stringent environmental regulations on the planet — instead of importing this oil in supertankers from countries like Saudi Arabia and others where they don’t have those rules?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some state officials have begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/583407248/california-may-have-a-way-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving to block\u003c/a> newly produced offshore oil from being piped ashore by withholding permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am resolved that not a single drop from Trump’s new oil plan ever makes landfall in California,” said Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement on behalf of the State Lands Commission, which he chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) introduced SB 834, which would ban new pipelines, piers, wharves, or other infrastructure that would go through state waters. A similar bill died in committee last year. A companion bill, AB 1775, was introduced by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the legislation could potentially dissuade oil companies from buying oil leases. Without a pipeline to bring oil onshore, oil companies would have to turn to other means, like using ships for transport, which is generally seen as riskier and more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry advocates have argued that because federal waters belong to the taxpayers, they should not be closed to drilling. Currently about 30 wells are in operation off of California, mostly in federal waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the California Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing the Trump administration’s plan. The vote was 55-8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly also asked U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to remove California from the proposed leasing plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Monique Limón, a Santa Monica Democrat who sought the resolution, cited previous offshore spills that have tarred the state’s picturesque coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans Randy Voepel of Santee and Travis Allen of Huntington Beach say oil and gas can be safely harvested. Allen, a GOP candidate for governor, says the move could help lower gasoline prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters in other states have already gathered to voice their displeasure at the planned reinstatement of offshore drilling. 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"content": "\u003cp>Three and a half hours east of Los Angeles lies the Salton Sea, a manmade oasis in the heart of the Mojave Desert. It was created in 1905, when a canal broke and the Colorado River flooded the desert for more than a year. The Sea became a \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/02/04/the_salton_sea_in_california_turned_from_a_relaxing_resort_to_an_apocalyptic.html\">tourist hotspot in the 1950’s\u003c/a>, perfect for swimming, boating, and kayaking. But now, people are coming here looking for something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Turner is the chief operating officer of Controlled Thermal Resources, an energy company from Australia. On a hill overlooking the Salton Sea, he points out a patch of land that will someday house his company’s first power plant, named \u003ca href=\"http://www.cthermal.com/\">Hell’s Kitchen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re standing on top of what is probably the most robust geothermal resource in the United States,” he explains.[contextly_sidebar id=”PW8jPSzwpOdgDlIjMhDbfqBBqq0Q0O6c”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geothermal energy uses the earth’s natural heat to create electricity. While there are several different ways to accomplish this, the most common is to take super-heated water from geothermal hot spots and pipe it to the surface. It then turns into steam and spins a turbine, which generates electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s completely renewable, and generates clean energy around the clock, unlike wind and solar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think of renewable energy as a house, solar is the roof and the wind is the walls,” says Jason Czapla, principal engineer for Controlled Thermal Resources. “But geothermal’s the foundation, and what California did is it built the walls and the roof, but on wild, windy days it blows too much rain on the roof [and] that house falls down. Well, the Salton Sea is this opportunity for California to fix that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wants to develop 1,000 megawatts of electricity here over the next decade. They say that could power about 800,000 homes. And for a state that’s aiming to get \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-climate-change-renewable-energy-20151007-story.html\">half its electricity from renewable sources\u003c/a>, that’s no small number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our development coincides with the state’s target, 2030 being the ultimate goal getting to 50 percent,” says Czapla. “And our goal is to build up that 1,000 megawatts and help them increase the renewable energy portfolio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colin Williams, a geothermal expert at the U.S. Geological Survey, \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3082/\">published a report in 2008\u003c/a> in which he explained that there are \u003ca href=\"https://maps.nrel.gov/geothermal-prospector/?aL=AyQ4yd%255Bv%255D%3Dt%26nBy5Q_%255Bv%255D%3Dt%26nBy5Q_%255Bd%255D%3D1&bL=clight&cE=0&lR=0&mC=48.37084770238366%2C-84.19921875&zL=4\">untapped geothermal reservoirs\u003c/a> throughout the American West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also elaborated on a developing technology that could drastically increase the amount of power the Earth can provide, called enhanced geothermal systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“We’re standing on top of what is probably the most robust geothermal resource in the United States.” \u003ccite>Jim Turner, Controlled Thermal Resources\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In order for a reservoir to be able to provide geothermal energy, it has to have three things: heat, water, and permeability. In other words: hot, wet rock, with enough fractures in it to allow water to pass through. Enhanced geothermal systems is the process of taking areas with only one or two of those conditions – hot, dry rock with very little fractures, for example – and altering it to satisfy all three conditions. That could mean cracking underground rock to allow more water to pass through, or inserting water into the rockbed to be heated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says scientists and engineers are still working on the technology for enhanced geothermal systems, but if they are able to make it a reality, that could potentially open up thousands of megawatts of energy potential from new reservoirs. And that could someday take from the country’s current 3,000 megawatts of geothermal energy production to almost 500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To put that into perspective,” Williams says,” the entire electric power generating capacity in the United States is about a million megawatts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there’s that much clean energy just waiting in the ground, what’s taking so long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allyson Anderson Book directs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americangeosciences.org/\">American Geosciences Institute\u003c/a>, a nonprofit network of geoscientists around the country. She says that geothermal energy has been historically overlooked as a renewable energy source, to the point that it is sometimes referred to as the “forgotten renewable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”gaizwni8JqAsSnhH7rjG8xLqvnEkJahy”]Book says there are social and technical challenges that have kept geothermal from becoming a major player in the energy field. The technology is complex, and plants are expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of different factors that play in,” Book says. “And so the Department of Energy right now is spending a lot of time and energy in something called the FORGE project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://energy.gov/eere/forge/forge-home\">FORGE project\u003c/a> is an Energy Department initiative that would create a dedicated test site for exploring enhanced geothermal systems. Currently, the proposed test site is in Fallon, Nev., where Sandia National Laboratories plans to set up a field where scientists can experiment with new geothermal technology. 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"content": "\u003cp>By most measures, California has earned the right to brag about how much it has cleaned up its environmental act. The air in much of smog-shrouded Southern California has been scrubbed. A passenger car for sale here today is 99 percent cleaner than one on offer in the early 1970s. The fossil fuels required to power the state’s economic engine have decreased by a third since their peak in 2001, while economic activity has expanded in that time by an equal measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”5oAxK6iSOR71npFeALWQZ2OeGnCZXYA1″]In addition, California’s response to climate change is a one-of-a-kind hybrid, knitting together market-based programs such as the cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions; strict regulations to promote energy efficiency in buildings; and generous financial incentives for “green” projects, drawn from more than $6 billion in carbon-trading proceeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s working. California is poised to meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gases 33 percent, to 1990 levels, by the year 2020. Its targets for use of more renewable energy by that date are, in some cases, already exceeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s no question that transportation is a critical piece, maybe thecritical piece, in solving our energy problems.’\u003ccite>Sean Hecht, UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So take a bow, California; you’ve done the easy stuff. But hold on tight for what comes next. The state’s overarching plan was intended to ease industry and consumers into a carbon-free future bit by bit; ten years in, the training wheels are off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emissions-reduction must hit 40 percent by 2030 and twice that by 2050. In 12 years, half the state’s energy must come from renewable sources such as wind and sun. California’s 14 million buildings must operate twice as efficiently, and the number of electric cars on the road will have to multiply more than 10 times. Failure would likely mean more extreme measures in later years and, many experts say, could affect public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scope of the state’s approach is all-encompassing. By law or executive order, every state agency must consider climate change when making any planning decision. Developers must take into account how far motorists travel to reach a destination, forests will be managed so that trees store more carbon dioxide and highway builders have to calculate the possibility that rising seas might inundate the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The near term looks good. But for the 2030 goals and beyond, normally upbeat officials are guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting a 40 percent reduction [by] 2030 is no small thing. There will be lots of challenges,” said Ken Alex, director of the state Office of Planning and Research, who sees the entire field when it comes to emissions reductions. “Sometimes I’m optimistic, sometimes I’m pessimistic. I’m pessimistic about the political will it takes to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most difficult work begins with California’s single most polluting sector: transportation, which accounts for nearly half the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, who chairs the California Air Resources Board, acknowledged that squeezing emissions from transportation will be the most difficult lift of all the 2030 standards, saying the gains require no less than a “deep transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will include cutting gasoline use in half, reducing the miles that car-centric Californians drive, dramatically ramping up the adoption of electric vehicles and building a network of readily available charging stations.“There’s no question that transportation is a critical piece, maybe the critical piece, in solving our energy problems,” said Sean Hecht, co-executive director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason it’s difficult is that transportation emissions are produced largely outside the clutches of state regulation: think airplanes, trains, and ships. Another is sluggish technological change for heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks, buses and shuttles, although adoption of all-electric municipal buses is growing as costs come down.Cities and regions are charting their own paths, going green to save green: The Los Angeles-area Metropolitan Transportation Agency has a goal of operating an emissions-free bus fleet by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California has decreed that auto manufacturers sell a percentage of zero-emission vehicles, there is no mandate that drivers purchase the pricey cars. Regulators and legislators have been reluctant to force consumers to buy them, as they have with TVs, heavy appliances and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would change with legislation proposed by Assemblyman Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco. Ting’s bill would ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in California by 2040, mirroring bans proposed by some European countries. The idea went nowhere when Ting proposed it last year, and its prospects now are unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While gas-sipping hybrids such as the Prius are nearly ubiquitous and certainly helpful, only true zero-emission vehicles can bring about the scale of change the state’s goals require, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to get there without significant reduction in passenger-vehicle emissions,” said Ting, who drives an electric car. He said that more access to charging stations would be transformational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1918790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1918790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-800x1035.png\" alt=\"Infographic\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-800x1035.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-160x207.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-768x994.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-1020x1320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-1180x1527.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-960x1242.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-240x311.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-375x485.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-520x673.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png.png 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Air Resources Board recently issued this plan for how the state should reduce greenhouse gases beyond 2020. \u003ccite>(Graphic by California Air Resources Board.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People talk about the lack of infrastructure, yet there’s electricity everywhere they park their car, unless they are in the forest,” he said. “People park their car much nearer to electricity than they do to gasoline. In transportation they talk about ‘the last mile.’ Here we have the ‘last foot’ issue. We just need the extension cord for the last foot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that work falls to the California Energy Commission, which has tied together charging stations that trace a north-south, mainly coastal path. The easier task of attracting electric car buyers in Southern California and the Bay Area has been accomplished. The challenge now is engaging inland drivers, in places such as Bakersfield, Fresno and Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Kato, deputy director of the commission’s Fuels and Transportation Division, agreed that the new benchmarks are “challenging, but we believe the private sector will take up the baton,” with automakers producing a wider variety of vehicles, across a broad price range, appealing to more buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unexpected private-sector benefit comes from Volkswagen, which settled an emissions-cheating case by agreeing to spend more than $800 million building charging stations (from which the company will also profit) throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National trends are cause for optimism, said Paul Cort, an attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice. “There is an acceleration in acceptance and uptake among car buyers,” he said. “It took us 10 years to get to the first million electric vehicles; the second million was achieved in two years; the third million will be on the road in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One success story has been the state utilities’ swift integration of renewable energy into the state electric grid, partly because of a dramatic decline in the cost of solar energy. Emissions from power generated in the state fell by more than 19 percent last year, partly due to the ramping up of hydroelectric power with last year’s heavy rains. The Public Utilities Commission that regulates energy companies reports that they have met or will soon meet the 2020 targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Kevin de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles who is currently running to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, recently set an even higher bar, proposing 100 percent renewable energy throughout the state by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be more difficult to find further savings from existing energy-efficiency programs, long a bulwark of California’s carbon-reduction efforts. The state is phasing out incandescent light bulbs and the building codes for new construction continue to mandate efficiency. But still to be tackled is the thorny problem of retrofitting millions of old and outdated homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one analysis calculates that natural gas used in hot water heaters and to warm residential and commercial buildings is causing nearly the same emissions as the state’s power plants. Converting gas-fired buildings to fully electric is daunting, and hugely expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”kvHQJnLDSQDCWe2YwsvNKBOtFbjnN6yk”]With so many reductions required, the Air Resource Board’s post-2020 strategy is one element—a critical one—of the state’s multiagency approach to climate change. That strategy elevates the cap-and-trade system, in which companies can pay to pollute by buying credits, to a much more significant role. Cap and trade limits emissions on 80 percent of California’s polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board recently issued this plan for how the state should reduce greenhouse gases beyond 2020. Graphic by California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has never precisely quantified cap and trade’s contribution to greenhouse-gas reduction. Officials projected it at 17-20 percent in a planning document in 2008—a year before the program launched—but are unable to say if those assumptions have been borne out. The board has not conducted the complicated analysis required to determine the program’s actual role in cutting emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, last month it adopted a plan to reach post-2020 objectives that ups the ante: It forecasts that cap and trade, which lawmakers recently extended to 2030, will be responsible for nearly 40 percent of California’s emissions reductions by that time, a figure disputed by some as unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of the program say another factor could cause the state to miss its 2030 emissions targets: the banking system that allows individual companies to hold tens of millions of carbon credits in reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to separate analyses by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office and independent economists, refineries, cement plants and other major polluters could produce emissions in the next decade that are well above the state’s ever-tightening limits and use their banked credits, purchased cheaply, to offset their excess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Busch, an economist and research director at the think tank Energy Innovation, said his analysis showed that because of the oversupply of allowances the “effectiveness of the program could be compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross Brown, who analyzes cap and trade for the LAO, said in an interview that there’s a “decent to good chance” that banked credits could vault emissions to more than 30 percent over legal limits in 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has the attention of the state Legislature, which has directed the air board to investigate. So far, the agency has shrugged off the concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajinder Sahota, who oversees the cap-and-trade program for the air board, said that although the analyses may be correct in that emissions may exceed the cap in any given year, the agency is confident that the cumulative emissions between 2021 and 2030 will fall and California will meet its goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect to see fluctuations over time,” she said. “There are a number of factors that account for emissions in any given year—the economy, business decisions. In a perfect world, you’d like to see a decline over time. But it doesn’t always work that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sahota said the analyses of banked credits are a “paper exercise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the allowances in the program are still in the ARB’s account,” she said. The LAO’s calculations would require a company to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for credits now on a bet that the price will rise as emissions limits get stricter, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data show that is not happening,” Sahota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, she and air board chairwoman Nichols said the plan is open to revisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown’s personal investment in California’s climate-change policies has been a force multiplier, spurring the myriad state agencies to adopt, and state industries to adapt to, the prospect of a carbon-less future. But Brown is in his final year in office, and the Legislature’s to-do list is crowded with other enormous issues, such as poverty and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether lawmakers will continue to invest in programs that, to some, don’t seem to immediately improve the lives of Californians, is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One critic is state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By most measures, California has earned the right to brag about how much it has cleaned up its environmental act. The air in much of smog-shrouded Southern California has been scrubbed. A passenger car for sale here today is 99 percent cleaner than one on offer in the early 1970s. The fossil fuels required to power the state’s economic engine have decreased by a third since their peak in 2001, while economic activity has expanded in that time by an equal measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In addition, California’s response to climate change is a one-of-a-kind hybrid, knitting together market-based programs such as the cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions; strict regulations to promote energy efficiency in buildings; and generous financial incentives for “green” projects, drawn from more than $6 billion in carbon-trading proceeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s working. California is poised to meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gases 33 percent, to 1990 levels, by the year 2020. Its targets for use of more renewable energy by that date are, in some cases, already exceeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s no question that transportation is a critical piece, maybe thecritical piece, in solving our energy problems.’\u003ccite>Sean Hecht, UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So take a bow, California; you’ve done the easy stuff. But hold on tight for what comes next. The state’s overarching plan was intended to ease industry and consumers into a carbon-free future bit by bit; ten years in, the training wheels are off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emissions-reduction must hit 40 percent by 2030 and twice that by 2050. In 12 years, half the state’s energy must come from renewable sources such as wind and sun. California’s 14 million buildings must operate twice as efficiently, and the number of electric cars on the road will have to multiply more than 10 times. Failure would likely mean more extreme measures in later years and, many experts say, could affect public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scope of the state’s approach is all-encompassing. By law or executive order, every state agency must consider climate change when making any planning decision. Developers must take into account how far motorists travel to reach a destination, forests will be managed so that trees store more carbon dioxide and highway builders have to calculate the possibility that rising seas might inundate the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The near term looks good. But for the 2030 goals and beyond, normally upbeat officials are guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting a 40 percent reduction [by] 2030 is no small thing. There will be lots of challenges,” said Ken Alex, director of the state Office of Planning and Research, who sees the entire field when it comes to emissions reductions. “Sometimes I’m optimistic, sometimes I’m pessimistic. I’m pessimistic about the political will it takes to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most difficult work begins with California’s single most polluting sector: transportation, which accounts for nearly half the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, who chairs the California Air Resources Board, acknowledged that squeezing emissions from transportation will be the most difficult lift of all the 2030 standards, saying the gains require no less than a “deep transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will include cutting gasoline use in half, reducing the miles that car-centric Californians drive, dramatically ramping up the adoption of electric vehicles and building a network of readily available charging stations.“There’s no question that transportation is a critical piece, maybe the critical piece, in solving our energy problems,” said Sean Hecht, co-executive director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason it’s difficult is that transportation emissions are produced largely outside the clutches of state regulation: think airplanes, trains, and ships. Another is sluggish technological change for heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks, buses and shuttles, although adoption of all-electric municipal buses is growing as costs come down.Cities and regions are charting their own paths, going green to save green: The Los Angeles-area Metropolitan Transportation Agency has a goal of operating an emissions-free bus fleet by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California has decreed that auto manufacturers sell a percentage of zero-emission vehicles, there is no mandate that drivers purchase the pricey cars. Regulators and legislators have been reluctant to force consumers to buy them, as they have with TVs, heavy appliances and other products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would change with legislation proposed by Assemblyman Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco. Ting’s bill would ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars in California by 2040, mirroring bans proposed by some European countries. The idea went nowhere when Ting proposed it last year, and its prospects now are unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While gas-sipping hybrids such as the Prius are nearly ubiquitous and certainly helpful, only true zero-emission vehicles can bring about the scale of change the state’s goals require, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to get there without significant reduction in passenger-vehicle emissions,” said Ting, who drives an electric car. He said that more access to charging stations would be transformational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1918790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1918790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-800x1035.png\" alt=\"Infographic\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-800x1035.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-160x207.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-768x994.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-1020x1320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-1180x1527.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-960x1242.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-240x311.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-375x485.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png-520x673.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/grafic-png.png 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Air Resources Board recently issued this plan for how the state should reduce greenhouse gases beyond 2020. \u003ccite>(Graphic by California Air Resources Board.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People talk about the lack of infrastructure, yet there’s electricity everywhere they park their car, unless they are in the forest,” he said. “People park their car much nearer to electricity than they do to gasoline. In transportation they talk about ‘the last mile.’ Here we have the ‘last foot’ issue. We just need the extension cord for the last foot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of that work falls to the California Energy Commission, which has tied together charging stations that trace a north-south, mainly coastal path. The easier task of attracting electric car buyers in Southern California and the Bay Area has been accomplished. The challenge now is engaging inland drivers, in places such as Bakersfield, Fresno and Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Kato, deputy director of the commission’s Fuels and Transportation Division, agreed that the new benchmarks are “challenging, but we believe the private sector will take up the baton,” with automakers producing a wider variety of vehicles, across a broad price range, appealing to more buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unexpected private-sector benefit comes from Volkswagen, which settled an emissions-cheating case by agreeing to spend more than $800 million building charging stations (from which the company will also profit) throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National trends are cause for optimism, said Paul Cort, an attorney with the environmental group Earthjustice. “There is an acceleration in acceptance and uptake among car buyers,” he said. “It took us 10 years to get to the first million electric vehicles; the second million was achieved in two years; the third million will be on the road in one year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One success story has been the state utilities’ swift integration of renewable energy into the state electric grid, partly because of a dramatic decline in the cost of solar energy. Emissions from power generated in the state fell by more than 19 percent last year, partly due to the ramping up of hydroelectric power with last year’s heavy rains. The Public Utilities Commission that regulates energy companies reports that they have met or will soon meet the 2020 targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Kevin de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles who is currently running to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, recently set an even higher bar, proposing 100 percent renewable energy throughout the state by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be more difficult to find further savings from existing energy-efficiency programs, long a bulwark of California’s carbon-reduction efforts. The state is phasing out incandescent light bulbs and the building codes for new construction continue to mandate efficiency. But still to be tackled is the thorny problem of retrofitting millions of old and outdated homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one analysis calculates that natural gas used in hot water heaters and to warm residential and commercial buildings is causing nearly the same emissions as the state’s power plants. Converting gas-fired buildings to fully electric is daunting, and hugely expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>With so many reductions required, the Air Resource Board’s post-2020 strategy is one element—a critical one—of the state’s multiagency approach to climate change. That strategy elevates the cap-and-trade system, in which companies can pay to pollute by buying credits, to a much more significant role. Cap and trade limits emissions on 80 percent of California’s polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board recently issued this plan for how the state should reduce greenhouse gases beyond 2020. 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The proposal would take effect in 2019, as NPR’s Merrit Kennedy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/04/575441542/trump-administration-opens-door-to-dramatic-expansion-of-offshore-energy-leases\">reported\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The plan would determine the size, timing and location of leasing activities and would replace President Barack Obama’s 2017-2022 program. It includes all but one of 26 “planning areas” in federal waters off U.S. coastlines, making up about 90 percent of the outer continental shelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s in comparison with the 94 percent that is now off limits, according to the administration. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed change is welcomed by the oil and gas industry. In a statement, the National Ocean Industries Association praised Zinke ‘for offering the broadest possible acreage for potential inclusion in our nation’s next offshore leasing program.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile, environmental organizations are alarmed and stress that it could place wildlife and coastal communities at risk of a spill.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But one week later came the carve-out for Florida. In a statement released Tuesday, Zinke praised Florida Gov. Rick Scott as “a straightforward leader that can be trusted,” and made a pledge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“President Trump has directed me to rebuild our offshore oil and gas program in a manner that supports our national energy policy and also takes into consideration the local and state voice. I support the governor’s position that Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a result of discussion with Governor [Scott] and his leadership, I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As NPR’s Richard Gonzales reported, “Zinke did not say whether he would meet with governors of other coastal states to hear their concerns or whether Interior officials had consulted with Scott before the announcement last week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeking a similar exemption for California, the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, used some of Zinke’s own words to tweet, “California is also ‘unique’ & our ‘coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver.’ Our ‘local and state voice’ is firmly opposed to any and all offshore drilling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra added, “we, too, should be removed from your list. Immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California experienced one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history in 1969, from an offshore drilling site near Santa Barbara, as member station KPCC \u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/04/79541/trump-moves-to-vastly-expand-california-offshore-d/\">notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No federal leases have been granted off the California coast since 1984,” KPCC writes, and new state leases have been banned for decades. Drilling has continued on older, pre-existing leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, 69 percent of Californians oppose offshore drilling,” KPCC reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the West Coast, the governors of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown/status/950901385205182464\">Oregon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/951136584178417664\">Washington\u003c/a> signaled that they’d like to be “off the table,” too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virginia Sen. 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