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And many analysts argue that the economic disaster caused by the virus has helped galvanize money managers — who now see climate change as the next global financial crisis — to more urgently protect their assets by transitioning away from high-carbon industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Since February, some of the world’s largest financial institutions have stopped putting their money behind\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052020/oil-gas-banks-arctic-drilling-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> oil and gas drilling in the Arctic\u003c/a>, or into Canada’s particularly dirty\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/climate/blackrock-oil-sands-alberta-financing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tar sands operations\u003c/a>. Investment funds geared toward either excluding the fossil fuel industry entirely, or underweighting high-carbon companies in their mix, have exploded with\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/07/sustainable-investing-is-set-to-surge-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> record cash inflows\u003c/a>, despite the market turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In July, several top U.S. banks\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/fed-gets-new-carbon-warning-will-never-be-a-vaccine-for-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> funded the launch of a massive new climate initiative\u003c/a> aimed at spurring a quicker transition to a low-carbon economy, with Goldman Sachs pledging $750 billion through 2030 to address climate change in its operations, investments and financing. Morgan Stanley, too, made headlines when it announced, later that month, that it would become the first major U.S. bank to disclose how all of its investments and loans were contributing to global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“The kind of change we’ve seen over the past six months indicates, in a new way, how important this issue is,” said Kirsten Spalding, senior program director for the advocacy investor group Ceres. “If this could happen with one virus, what are we waiting for in terms of climate change?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Say Banks’ Pledges Are Good, But Only a Start\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Morgan Stanley’s decision to disclose how its investments contribute to climate change is comparable to “admitting you’ve got a problem,” said longtime analyst Lila Holzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman, who manages the energy program for the prominent advocacy investment group As You Sow, has for years been pressuring banks like Morgan Stanley to disclose their financials in regard to global warming, but to no avail. “Now,” she said, “the institutions themselves are going to, in a sense, come clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Still, environmentalists say that Morgan Stanley’s pledge, the latest in a slew of pledges from banks over the last six months, is only a start. Admitting you have a problem is a good first step, Holzman said, but there is still a lot more work ahead, including setting specific targets to phase out companies with heavy carbon emissions from portfolios and creating detailed plans for how to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The reality is that even with recent pledges from banks to withdraw financial support from certain areas of fossil fuel development — mainly coal, Arctic drilling and oil sands projects — money managers are still bankrolling new fossil fuel development elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between 2016 and 2019, 35 banks doled out $2.7 trillion for fossil fuel projects, according to the environmental group\u003ca href=\"https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BOCC__2020_Summary_vENG_spread.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Rainforest Action Network\u003c/a>. Several U.S. banks accounted for a good chunk of that funding, with JPMorgan Chase having supplied $269 billion and Morgan Stanley having given $92 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman said that’s exactly why banks should be more transparent about the impact and risks of their investments regarding climate change. If investors want to avoid funds that they believe exacerbate climate change, or puts their assets at risk from its effects, they currently don’t have good information to help them make that decision, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968272 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1-160x130.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman said that’s exactly why banks should be more transparent about the impact and risks of their investments regarding climate change. If investors want to avoid funds that they believe exacerbate climate change, or puts their assets at risk from its effects, they currently don’t have good information to help them make that decision, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Both Holzman and Ceres’ Spalding hope Morgan Stanley’s decision will encourage other banks to voluntarily disclose their own finances in relation to climate change. They both expect governments to implement laws that would require banks to do so in the coming decades — although those regulations will likely be passed in Europe long before being adopted in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Banks and other asset managers have terrible track records in adopting measures to increase their transparency regarding climate-related risks to their finances. The boards of both BlackRock and Vanguard — another major investment firm — have voted overwhelmingly against shareholder resolutions meant to address global warming, including those requiring asset managers to disclose climate-related risks, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.majorityaction.us/asset-manager-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a report from the shareholder advocacy group Majority Action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But analysts say banks are starting to come around when it comes to climate-related resolutions. In May, the board of JPMorgan Chase voted to remove former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond as the board’s lead independent director, amid pressure from climate activists. And in June, at the behest of European bank BNP Paribas, Chevron’s board\u003ca href=\"https://www.ceres.org/news-center/press-releases/climate-action-100-investor-signatories-achieve-major-gains-during-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> voted for the first time ever\u003c/a> to align the oil giant with the Paris climate accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“They’ve really come a long way to recognize their role in contributing to climate change,” Holzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>’Social Good’ Funds Growing Fast, But a Trump Proposal Could Stifle Them\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Growing investor demand to address climate change has also spurred an explosion in so-called ESG funds — investment funds that attempt to do “social good,” by taking environmental, societal and corporate governance factors into account, rather than looking at financials alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Last year, there were a staggering 37,000 index funds worldwide that tracked companies according to their ESG risk and performance profiles,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ethicalcorp.com/csr-cheat-sheet-esg-investors-turn-heat-blackrock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Reuters reported\u003c/a>. That’s a 60% increase from a year earlier, with ESG indexes being the fastest growing segment of the market. And so far this year, ESG funds have seen a record inflow of cash — more than $45 billion — despite the pandemic, with U.S. funds exceeding $10 billion, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/07/sustainable-investing-is-set-to-surge-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a report from CNBC\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But a Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-06-30/pdf/2020-13705.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a>, if finalized, could slow that growth by making it harder for pension plans to invest their money into such funds. In June, the Department of Labor proposed amendments to the investment duties regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which if enacted, would reaffirm that fiduciaries must select investments based solely on monetary return factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The proposal drew quick ire from advocacy and financial groups, including several state treasurers, who argued that taking climate change into account is a monetary factor. “The DOL proposal ignores the fact that funds that use ESG considerations have outperformed the market,” wrote Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs in a press release. “As a fiduciary I believe it is my duty to consider material and systemic risks like those posed by the climate crisis, water scarcity and ineffective human capital management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">ESG funds aren’t without their faults, and most agree a green economy alone won’t solve the climate crisis. As a nascent market, ESG funds lack cohesive guidelines and methodologies for how to measure, report and enforce their environmental impact, said Gita Rao, a professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a longtime investment consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Part of the problem is we don’t have a set criteria,” Rao said. “We don’t have something that says, ‘If you are truly ESG, you should not be holding X, Y and Z.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">That ambiguity has allowed some funds to “greenwash,” she said, by claiming to be ESG while still holding companies with heavy carbon emissions. One BlackRock ESG index, for example, held\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bf8b14cbffa5c3a1f10c6fd2702c7c38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a significant share of ExxonMobil\u003c/a> back in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">There has been some progress on that front, and several groups have emerged to help banks standardize how they track, report and enforce ESG metrics in their portfolios. In July, Morgan Stanley joined one of those groups, the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials. Several other banks, including Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, joined the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While there are still issues to work out, ESG funds are still an effective way to transition to a cleaner economy, Rao said, especially if investor interest continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Can we move money away from high-carbon companies? If the industry trend catches on in ESG the way it has in mainstream investment, absolutely — it will happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But the pandemic hasn’t dissuaded investors from acting on climate change. And many analysts argue that the economic disaster caused by the virus has helped galvanize money managers — who now see climate change as the next global financial crisis — to more urgently protect their assets by transitioning away from high-carbon industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Since February, some of the world’s largest financial institutions have stopped putting their money behind\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052020/oil-gas-banks-arctic-drilling-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> oil and gas drilling in the Arctic\u003c/a>, or into Canada’s particularly dirty\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/climate/blackrock-oil-sands-alberta-financing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tar sands operations\u003c/a>. Investment funds geared toward either excluding the fossil fuel industry entirely, or underweighting high-carbon companies in their mix, have exploded with\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/07/sustainable-investing-is-set-to-surge-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> record cash inflows\u003c/a>, despite the market turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In July, several top U.S. banks\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/fed-gets-new-carbon-warning-will-never-be-a-vaccine-for-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> funded the launch of a massive new climate initiative\u003c/a> aimed at spurring a quicker transition to a low-carbon economy, with Goldman Sachs pledging $750 billion through 2030 to address climate change in its operations, investments and financing. Morgan Stanley, too, made headlines when it announced, later that month, that it would become the first major U.S. bank to disclose how all of its investments and loans were contributing to global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“The kind of change we’ve seen over the past six months indicates, in a new way, how important this issue is,” said Kirsten Spalding, senior program director for the advocacy investor group Ceres. “If this could happen with one virus, what are we waiting for in terms of climate change?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Say Banks’ Pledges Are Good, But Only a Start\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Morgan Stanley’s decision to disclose how its investments contribute to climate change is comparable to “admitting you’ve got a problem,” said longtime analyst Lila Holzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman, who manages the energy program for the prominent advocacy investment group As You Sow, has for years been pressuring banks like Morgan Stanley to disclose their financials in regard to global warming, but to no avail. “Now,” she said, “the institutions themselves are going to, in a sense, come clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Still, environmentalists say that Morgan Stanley’s pledge, the latest in a slew of pledges from banks over the last six months, is only a start. Admitting you have a problem is a good first step, Holzman said, but there is still a lot more work ahead, including setting specific targets to phase out companies with heavy carbon emissions from portfolios and creating detailed plans for how to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The reality is that even with recent pledges from banks to withdraw financial support from certain areas of fossil fuel development — mainly coal, Arctic drilling and oil sands projects — money managers are still bankrolling new fossil fuel development elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Between 2016 and 2019, 35 banks doled out $2.7 trillion for fossil fuel projects, according to the environmental group\u003ca href=\"https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BOCC__2020_Summary_vENG_spread.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Rainforest Action Network\u003c/a>. Several U.S. banks accounted for a good chunk of that funding, with JPMorgan Chase having supplied $269 billion and Morgan Stanley having given $92 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman said that’s exactly why banks should be more transparent about the impact and risks of their investments regarding climate change. If investors want to avoid funds that they believe exacerbate climate change, or puts their assets at risk from its effects, they currently don’t have good information to help them make that decision, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968272 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1.png 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/BankFossilFuelInvestChart529px_1-160x130.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Holzman said that’s exactly why banks should be more transparent about the impact and risks of their investments regarding climate change. If investors want to avoid funds that they believe exacerbate climate change, or puts their assets at risk from its effects, they currently don’t have good information to help them make that decision, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Both Holzman and Ceres’ Spalding hope Morgan Stanley’s decision will encourage other banks to voluntarily disclose their own finances in relation to climate change. They both expect governments to implement laws that would require banks to do so in the coming decades — although those regulations will likely be passed in Europe long before being adopted in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Banks and other asset managers have terrible track records in adopting measures to increase their transparency regarding climate-related risks to their finances. The boards of both BlackRock and Vanguard — another major investment firm — have voted overwhelmingly against shareholder resolutions meant to address global warming, including those requiring asset managers to disclose climate-related risks, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.majorityaction.us/asset-manager-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a report from the shareholder advocacy group Majority Action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But analysts say banks are starting to come around when it comes to climate-related resolutions. In May, the board of JPMorgan Chase voted to remove former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond as the board’s lead independent director, amid pressure from climate activists. And in June, at the behest of European bank BNP Paribas, Chevron’s board\u003ca href=\"https://www.ceres.org/news-center/press-releases/climate-action-100-investor-signatories-achieve-major-gains-during-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> voted for the first time ever\u003c/a> to align the oil giant with the Paris climate accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“They’ve really come a long way to recognize their role in contributing to climate change,” Holzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cstrong>’Social Good’ Funds Growing Fast, But a Trump Proposal Could Stifle Them\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Growing investor demand to address climate change has also spurred an explosion in so-called ESG funds — investment funds that attempt to do “social good,” by taking environmental, societal and corporate governance factors into account, rather than looking at financials alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Last year, there were a staggering 37,000 index funds worldwide that tracked companies according to their ESG risk and performance profiles,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ethicalcorp.com/csr-cheat-sheet-esg-investors-turn-heat-blackrock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Reuters reported\u003c/a>. That’s a 60% increase from a year earlier, with ESG indexes being the fastest growing segment of the market. And so far this year, ESG funds have seen a record inflow of cash — more than $45 billion — despite the pandemic, with U.S. funds exceeding $10 billion, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/07/sustainable-investing-is-set-to-surge-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a report from CNBC\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But a Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-06-30/pdf/2020-13705.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposal\u003c/a>, if finalized, could slow that growth by making it harder for pension plans to invest their money into such funds. In June, the Department of Labor proposed amendments to the investment duties regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which if enacted, would reaffirm that fiduciaries must select investments based solely on monetary return factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The proposal drew quick ire from advocacy and financial groups, including several state treasurers, who argued that taking climate change into account is a monetary factor. “The DOL proposal ignores the fact that funds that use ESG considerations have outperformed the market,” wrote Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs in a press release. “As a fiduciary I believe it is my duty to consider material and systemic risks like those posed by the climate crisis, water scarcity and ineffective human capital management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">ESG funds aren’t without their faults, and most agree a green economy alone won’t solve the climate crisis. As a nascent market, ESG funds lack cohesive guidelines and methodologies for how to measure, report and enforce their environmental impact, said Gita Rao, a professor of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a longtime investment consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Part of the problem is we don’t have a set criteria,” Rao said. “We don’t have something that says, ‘If you are truly ESG, you should not be holding X, Y and Z.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">That ambiguity has allowed some funds to “greenwash,” she said, by claiming to be ESG while still holding companies with heavy carbon emissions. One BlackRock ESG index, for example, held\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bf8b14cbffa5c3a1f10c6fd2702c7c38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a significant share of ExxonMobil\u003c/a> back in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">There has been some progress on that front, and several groups have emerged to help banks standardize how they track, report and enforce ESG metrics in their portfolios. In July, Morgan Stanley joined one of those groups, the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials. Several other banks, including Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, joined the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">While there are still issues to work out, ESG funds are still an effective way to transition to a cleaner economy, Rao said, especially if investor interest continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In Arvin, a small, agricultural town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley, pollution is a pervasive part of life. Pesticides sprayed on industrial-scale farms, fumes drifting from the region’s ubiquitous oil and gas wells, exhaust from the trucks barreling down Interstate 5 — it all gets trapped in the valley, creating a thick haze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arvin’s residents are especially concerned by the oil and gas wells sprinkled throughout their community. These wells, sometimes drilled and operated in close proximity to neighborhoods, schools, and health care centers, release a toxic mix of pollutants into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have linked proximity to oil and gas extraction to a wide range of adverse health effects, including increased risk of asthma, respiratory illnesses, preterm birth, low birthweight and cancer. Yet California has no statewide rule on setbacks — a regulatory gap that is rare among the nation’s top oil producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil and gas industry wields considerable power here, and has consistently attempted to thwart new regulations, including public health protections. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> and Chevron are currently the two top lobbying groups in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Arvin, a small group of mostly low-income Latino residents is taking on the big oil companies in a David-versus-Goliath fight to protect the environment and their health. Their struggle is unusual in Kern County, where pumpjacks sucking heavy crude from the parched floor of the San Joaquin Valley stretch for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh off several local victories, a small environmental justice group called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/betterarvin/\">Committee for a Better Arvin\u003c/a> has united with other front-line community groups — including many in Los Angeles, a hub for urban drilling — to press California to create a statewide setback rule. Their slogan: “No drilling where we are living.” The coalition is urging state lawmakers to vote for a proposed law on setbacks, which has had trouble gaining traction, but which supporters say still may reach the Senate floor if an amended version comes to a vote in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘How Could This Have Been Allowed to Happen?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Estela Escoto, president of the Committee for a Better Arvin, moved from Los Angeles to Arvin with her husband and three children in 2006, they hoped that it would be “a nice, peaceful place to live, kind of like a small town in Mexico,” Escoto said, speaking through a Spanish interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They soon learned that Arvin residents deal with some of the worst pollution in the country. Escoto joined the Committee for a Better Arvin, a newly-formed group of community members who wanted a cleaner, healthier city. They tackled water quality issues, pesticide use, and the odor from a nearby chicken manure composting facility, but for many years\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>despite the pollution from the wells, they left the oil and gas industry alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/IMG_5783.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/IMG_5783.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Arvin, CA with pumpjack in foreground\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/IMG_5783.jpeg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/IMG_5783-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pumpjack looms near Arvin’s high school. \u003ccite>(Julia Kane/InsideClimate News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2014, people on a residential street not far from Arvin’s high school began feeling sick. They smelled gas and experienced nosebleeds, headaches, dizziness and nausea. Air sampling from inside homes on the street revealed levels of toxic gas 13 times higher than what was deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. The cause: a leaky pipeline operated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.shalexp.com/petro-capital-resources-llc\">Petro Capital Resources\u003c/a> that was used to carry raw natural gas. Eight families were forced to evacuate their homes, unable to return for eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, for many Arvin residents, a tipping point. They began demanding answers. How could this have been allowed to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jose Gurrola Jr., the Petro Capital Resources gas leak “really brought the issue of environmental justice and environmental racism to the forefront,” he said. A self-described “homegrown kid,” he decided to run for mayor in 2016 after realizing that “these things aren’t normal for every community, for every race,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a year into Gurrola’s term, Arvin unveiled proposed updates to its oil and gas ordinance, which had been written in the 1960s. The changes the city sought were modest — among other protective measures, the proposed ordinance would prohibit new oil and gas drilling in residential zones and create a 300-foot buffer between new drilling and homes, schools and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County’s Board of Supervisors weighed in, discouraging Arvin from creating its own regulations. They advised the town to rely on a county ordinance and environmental impact report instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1968153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png\" alt=\"Map: CA Fracking Areas\" width=\"648\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px-160x202.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kern County’s ordinance had a major flaw: The result of a deal with three oil and gas trade associations — the Western States Petroleum Association, the California Independent Petroleum Association, and the Independent Oil Producers’ Agency — it allowed regulators to rubber stamp permits for new oil and gas extraction based on a single blanket environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Committee for a Better Arvin and other community and environmental groups sued the county. Three years later, the courts would rule in favor of the committee, but in 2017, as Arvin was considering its own oil and gas ordinance, the outcome of the lawsuit was still uncertain. Despite pressure from the industry groups and the county Board of Supervisors, Arvin forged ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Committee for a Better Arvin began a grassroots campaign in support of Arvin’s proposed ordinance. “We walked down all the streets. 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In Los Angeles County alone, over 1.5 million people live within 2,500 feet of an operational well — a majority of them non-white. There, organizations like Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling (\u003ca href=\"https://www.stand.la/\">STAND-L.A.\u003c/a>) also had been advocating for local setbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An environmental justice group called the \u003ca href=\"https://crpe-ej.org/\">Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment\u003c/a> (CRPE) realized that people in the San Joaquin Valley and people in the greater Los Angeles area had a shared interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we wanted to come together to define a statewide strategy and lead the fight on a setback to protect the health of frontline communities,” said Ingrid Brostrom, assistant director of CRPE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together with several other organizations, they approached Democratic Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi. He authored Assembly Bill 345, or \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB345\">AB 345\u003c/a>, which mandates that California create a setback based on health and science data and environmental justice concerns by July 2022, and that it consider a 2,500-foot setback for schools, playgrounds and other public places where children are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic struck, Escoto traveled from her home in Arvin to join a group of front-line community members as they walked the halls of Sacramento, encouraging legislators to support the bill. “It’s very important that this law passes,” she told them. “We have a lot of people in my community who are sick because of the pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 345 passed in the California Assembly in January, but the legislation was voted down during a hearing in the state Senate Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday, during which many of the bill’s supporters say they were unable to call in to register their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s sponsors are amending the proposed law, which the committee will likely reconsider on Aug. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, “We’re often talking about how we are leading the nation in the fight against climate change and the fight for our environment,” Muratsuchi said. “And yet on these common sense proposals to protect low-income communities of color from the well-documented, adverse health impacts of oil and gas developments in their backyards, we are behind many other states and communities across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escoto said she remains hopeful. 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Their slogan: “No drilling where we are living.” The coalition is urging state lawmakers to vote for a proposed law on setbacks, which has had trouble gaining traction, but which supporters say still may reach the Senate floor if an amended version comes to a vote in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘How Could This Have Been Allowed to Happen?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Estela Escoto, president of the Committee for a Better Arvin, moved from Los Angeles to Arvin with her husband and three children in 2006, they hoped that it would be “a nice, peaceful place to live, kind of like a small town in Mexico,” Escoto said, speaking through a Spanish interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They soon learned that Arvin residents deal with some of the worst pollution in the country. Escoto joined the Committee for a Better Arvin, a newly-formed group of community members who wanted a cleaner, healthier city. 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They smelled gas and experienced nosebleeds, headaches, dizziness and nausea. Air sampling from inside homes on the street revealed levels of toxic gas 13 times higher than what was deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. The cause: a leaky pipeline operated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.shalexp.com/petro-capital-resources-llc\">Petro Capital Resources\u003c/a> that was used to carry raw natural gas. Eight families were forced to evacuate their homes, unable to return for eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, for many Arvin residents, a tipping point. They began demanding answers. How could this have been allowed to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jose Gurrola Jr., the Petro Capital Resources gas leak “really brought the issue of environmental justice and environmental racism to the forefront,” he said. A self-described “homegrown kid,” he decided to run for mayor in 2016 after realizing that “these things aren’t normal for every community, for every race,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a year into Gurrola’s term, Arvin unveiled proposed updates to its oil and gas ordinance, which had been written in the 1960s. The changes the city sought were modest — among other protective measures, the proposed ordinance would prohibit new oil and gas drilling in residential zones and create a 300-foot buffer between new drilling and homes, schools and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County’s Board of Supervisors weighed in, discouraging Arvin from creating its own regulations. They advised the town to rely on a county ordinance and environmental impact report instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1968153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png\" alt=\"Map: CA Fracking Areas\" width=\"648\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/CalifFrackingRegions750px-160x202.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kern County’s ordinance had a major flaw: The result of a deal with three oil and gas trade associations — the Western States Petroleum Association, the California Independent Petroleum Association, and the Independent Oil Producers’ Agency — it allowed regulators to rubber stamp permits for new oil and gas extraction based on a single blanket environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Committee for a Better Arvin and other community and environmental groups sued the county. Three years later, the courts would rule in favor of the committee, but in 2017, as Arvin was considering its own oil and gas ordinance, the outcome of the lawsuit was still uncertain. Despite pressure from the industry groups and the county Board of Supervisors, Arvin forged ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Committee for a Better Arvin began a grassroots campaign in support of Arvin’s proposed ordinance. “We walked down all the streets. We visited many homes so that we could explain the problems that were going on,” Escoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1968115 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Estela & Roberto Escoto\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/Estela_and_Robert-estela-escoto.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Estela Escoto, president of the Committee for a Better Arvin, and her husband, Roberto. \u003ccite>(Estela Escoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and other activists showed their neighbors videos filmed using optical gas imaging, which made the invisible air pollution spewing from the wells near their homes suddenly visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil and gas industry groups fought back, but on July 17, 2018, the council passed the ordinance — the first of its kind in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might seem like it’s small, only 300 feet, but for us, it was a really big accomplishment,” Escoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Arvin’s environmental justice movement gained momentum, a similar story was also playing out in the greater Los Angeles area. In Los Angeles County alone, over 1.5 million people live within 2,500 feet of an operational well — a majority of them non-white. There, organizations like Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling (\u003ca href=\"https://www.stand.la/\">STAND-L.A.\u003c/a>) also had been advocating for local setbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An environmental justice group called the \u003ca href=\"https://crpe-ej.org/\">Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment\u003c/a> (CRPE) realized that people in the San Joaquin Valley and people in the greater Los Angeles area had a shared interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we wanted to come together to define a statewide strategy and lead the fight on a setback to protect the health of frontline communities,” said Ingrid Brostrom, assistant director of CRPE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together with several other organizations, they approached Democratic Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi. He authored Assembly Bill 345, or \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB345\">AB 345\u003c/a>, which mandates that California create a setback based on health and science data and environmental justice concerns by July 2022, and that it consider a 2,500-foot setback for schools, playgrounds and other public places where children are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic struck, Escoto traveled from her home in Arvin to join a group of front-line community members as they walked the halls of Sacramento, encouraging legislators to support the bill. “It’s very important that this law passes,” she told them. “We have a lot of people in my community who are sick because of the pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 345 passed in the California Assembly in January, but the legislation was voted down during a hearing in the state Senate Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday, during which many of the bill’s supporters say they were unable to call in to register their support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s sponsors are amending the proposed law, which the committee will likely reconsider on Aug. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, “We’re often talking about how we are leading the nation in the fight against climate change and the fight for our environment,” Muratsuchi said. “And yet on these common sense proposals to protect low-income communities of color from the well-documented, adverse health impacts of oil and gas developments in their backyards, we are behind many other states and communities across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escoto said she remains hopeful. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The air resources board \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/board/books/2020/062520/20-6-3-pres.pdf?_ga=2.150124982.167134424.1592239121-482190456.1584483701\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">estimates\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the rules will save 17.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from spewing into the atmosphere through the year 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Both CARB, in a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/california-takes-bold-step-reduce-truck-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a>, and agency chair Mary Nichols called the new rule the first of its kind in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that “Even in the midst of a global pandemic, climate change is still an existential threat — both to our way of life and our children’s health . Communities and children of color are often forced to breathe our most polluted air, and today’s vote moves us closer toward a healthier future for all of our kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">CARB officials say the rules will curb pollution, especially in Richmond, West Oakland, the Inland Empire and other valley neighborhoods that surround California’s busiest ports and lie underneath its interstate freeways, where the most impacted people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/ready-work?_ga=2.195482220.1352884747.1593111906-615557934.1587499328&_gac=1.27930574.1589928995.CjwKCAjwh472BRAGEiwAvHVfGtdO5xRYx0dIdwlCC0umFn1siHThWGPay6ooeH4URkwlDVmpYk5ErhoClHYQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">disproportionately\u003c/span>\u003c/a> immigrants, African Americans and other people of color.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">The rules are also designed to help California meet its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>1990 levels by 2030 and 80% by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">California met its 2020 climate goal early, but the state is behind in its efforts to reach the next targets, which will require steep cuts in emissions from the transportation sector — one of the most difficult areas to decarbonize, especially in California, the most populous state in the nation, marked by sprawling suburbs and grueling commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third of U.S. vegetables and two-thirds of U.S. fruits and nuts are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/#:~:text=California's%20agricultural%20abundance%20includes%20more,the%20nation's%20total%20agricultural%20value.\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">grown\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in the state for distribution across the country, often on freight lines and with trucks powered by diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“An electric truck charged on today’s grid in California has 80% lower greenhouse gas emissions when compared with a diesel truck,” said Jimmy O’Dea, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. “That’s a big impact. We know the grid is getting cleaner; we have policies in place for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB set a new goal of all new trucks sold in California be zero-emission by the year 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Toxic Smog\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">The vast majority of California’s smog-forming pollutants —about 80% — come from cars, trucks and a range of off-road equipment, as do almost all of its toxic diesel emissions and half of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to CARB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Sooty diesel emissions from trucks accumulate in the lungs, causing asthma, cancer and other diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla Briceño, 30, lives in San Bernardino, a few blocks away from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/san-bernardino/cerp/ch-5e-railyards-discussion.pdf?sfvrsn=14\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">BNSF railyard\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and a 10-minute walk from Interstate 215. 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She worries about the long-term health of her 1-year-old and 5-year-old boys, who have breathing troubles and use inhalers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1966456\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1966456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/RS43816_Karla_1-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karla Briceño \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Karla Briceño)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How sad is it that my first born has to use an inhaler to go outside and play?” she said. “And we all have to act like this is something that’s normal. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">With demand for fossil fuels down across the state, California’s latest quarterly cap-and-trade auction generated very little money for the state to spend on key environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auction results are another sign that industrial activity in California has been severely weakened by the statewide shelter-in-place order meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s cap-and-trade program aims to limit greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, by capping industry emissions and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at auction on a state-sponsored marketplace.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money generated from those sales is then used by the state for environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The latest auction produced just $25 million in revenue, significantly less than the $600 million to $850 million raised at similar auctions during the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sold only 37% of its allowances at the auction, which was held May 20. That was the lowest percentage since August 2016, when 35% of allowances were sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board, which oversees the program, released the \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/results_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">results\u003c/span>\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Demand for Fossil Fuels Plummets\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has rapidly constricted during the coronavirus pandemic, as a statewide stay-at-home order severely reduced business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Refinery operations have contracted due to travel restrictions and reduced demand for gas. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Energy_Insights_ada.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">state’s energy commission\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, gasoline production in California declined 47.5% between March and April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jet fuel production declined 68.3% during that time, and diesel production fell 33.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Demand for natural gas has actually been higher during the pandemic compared to the same time period last year, likely due to colder weather rather than any impacts from the coronavirus. Commercial power usage has been way down, but with people sheltering at home, residential usage has been up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">With emissions reduced, businesses appear to find little need to buy credits that allow them to release more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s mainly what’s going on here,” said Chris Field, an earth scientist at Stanford. “Cap-and-trade is still a very effective way to drive emissions down. At the same time, it can generate revenues from important processes. It’s important not to overinterpret any mismatch between supply and demand during this really challenging period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Weaknesses in the Program?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an undersold market could also signal that the state’s market is bloated with more allowances than are necessary, given the paucity of economic activity in the state. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically the worst-case result,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lecturer at Stanford, referring to the latest auction. “Almost no revenue is coming into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad outcome will get blamed on COVID, but is much more the product of a weak program design that was vulnerable to surprises, with way too many allowances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field agrees the program might need to be adjusted, but he said it’s too soon to tell. As the state allows businesses to reopen, economic activity is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be a long-term consequence of the pandemic is an opportunity to decarbonize more rapidly,” Field said. “I hope that’s the case, but I don’t think we should take a hit to the economy to indicate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katelyn Roedner Sutter, U.S. climate program manager for the Environmental Defense Fund, which co-sponsored legislation to create the cap-and-trade program in 2006, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/author/kroedner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">blog post\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that the results “demonstrate the durability of cap-and-trade” because even when the program is underfunded, it still “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">provides a critical backstop, ensuring California’s targets for reductions in climate pollution are achieved.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1965133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auction illustrates the “need to diversify funding for complementary climate investments,” she acknowledged. “Rather than relying solely on a program specifically designed to \u003ci>reduce\u003c/i> emissions and lower mitigation costs (and therefore revenue), California should move toward ensuring climate priorities are a core part of the state’s long-term fiscal priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice in 2016 and once in 2017, California’s quarterly auction generated similarly low revenue. But for the last three years, the market has been stable.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cuts to Environmental Programs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state’s climate program is not generating revenue as expected, many of the state’s climate programs are facing the prospect of budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses the money to clean dirty drinking water, encourage electric vehicles use and create programs that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled uncertainty about cap-and-trade when he released his May revision to the state budget. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sold only 37% of its allowances at the auction, which was held May 20. That was the lowest percentage since August 2016, when 35% of allowances were sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board, which oversees the program, released the \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/results_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">results\u003c/span>\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Demand for Fossil Fuels Plummets\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has rapidly constricted during the coronavirus pandemic, as a statewide stay-at-home order severely reduced business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Refinery operations have contracted due to travel restrictions and reduced demand for gas. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Energy_Insights_ada.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">state’s energy commission\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, gasoline production in California declined 47.5% between March and April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jet fuel production declined 68.3% during that time, and diesel production fell 33.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Demand for natural gas has actually been higher during the pandemic compared to the same time period last year, likely due to colder weather rather than any impacts from the coronavirus. Commercial power usage has been way down, but with people sheltering at home, residential usage has been up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">With emissions reduced, businesses appear to find little need to buy credits that allow them to release more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s mainly what’s going on here,” said Chris Field, an earth scientist at Stanford. “Cap-and-trade is still a very effective way to drive emissions down. At the same time, it can generate revenues from important processes. It’s important not to overinterpret any mismatch between supply and demand during this really challenging period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Weaknesses in the Program?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an undersold market could also signal that the state’s market is bloated with more allowances than are necessary, given the paucity of economic activity in the state. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically the worst-case result,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lecturer at Stanford, referring to the latest auction. “Almost no revenue is coming into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad outcome will get blamed on COVID, but is much more the product of a weak program design that was vulnerable to surprises, with way too many allowances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field agrees the program might need to be adjusted, but he said it’s too soon to tell. As the state allows businesses to reopen, economic activity is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be a long-term consequence of the pandemic is an opportunity to decarbonize more rapidly,” Field said. “I hope that’s the case, but I don’t think we should take a hit to the economy to indicate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katelyn Roedner Sutter, U.S. climate program manager for the Environmental Defense Fund, which co-sponsored legislation to create the cap-and-trade program in 2006, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/author/kroedner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">blog post\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that the results “demonstrate the durability of cap-and-trade” because even when the program is underfunded, it still “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">provides a critical backstop, ensuring California’s targets for reductions in climate pollution are achieved.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1965133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auction illustrates the “need to diversify funding for complementary climate investments,” she acknowledged. “Rather than relying solely on a program specifically designed to \u003ci>reduce\u003c/i> emissions and lower mitigation costs (and therefore revenue), California should move toward ensuring climate priorities are a core part of the state’s long-term fiscal priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice in 2016 and once in 2017, California’s quarterly auction generated similarly low revenue. But for the last three years, the market has been stable.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cuts to Environmental Programs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state’s climate program is not generating revenue as expected, many of the state’s climate programs are facing the prospect of budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses the money to clean dirty drinking water, encourage electric vehicles use and create programs that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled uncertainty about cap-and-trade when he released his May revision to the state budget. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Just amazing,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1262936446651990016?s=20\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">tweeted \u003c/span>\u003c/a>Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and a leader of the movement. “Univ of California system finishes its massive divestment from fossil fuels. Such thanks to all who made this happen”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divestments from big institutions total more than $11 trillion, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://350.org/press-release/global-fossil-fuel-divestment-11t/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty other colleges and universities have also divested, including California Institute of the Arts, Chico State University and the Peralta Community College District in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">UC’s lead investors said in a Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-16/divestment-fossil-fuel-university-of-california-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> published in September that the decision to divest was not driven by the demands of environmentalists or an effort to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they framed the decision as sound financial thinking based on “risk-averse” reasoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Some might see our action as born of political pressure\u003ci>,\u003c/i> or as green movement idealism or perhaps political correctness run amok,” they wrote. “So be it; we are part of a university system where diversity of opinion thrives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the university’s shedding of $1 billion in fossil fuel assets has coincided with about the same amount of added investments in clean energy, mostly large-scale solar and wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">For coming up on two months, Northern Californians have been at home working on computers, watching TV, charging devices and doing all manner of things that require electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March and April, residential electricity usage skyrocketed between 15% and 20% compared to the same period last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">according\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energy bills on all that power come due in May, and for many Californians, it may not be pretty, especially compared to April’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Last month, across Northern California, PG&E and other utility customers received a break on their statements. For many, it was one of the smallest bills of the year, the result of warmer weather and the state’s issuing of an approximately $35 climate credit to most ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Even though the bills have been smaller, power providers say people are falling behind on their payments, and the impact of a constricting economy combined with the anticipated higher electricity costs could make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Nick Chaset, CEO of East Bay Community Energy, a community choice aggregator based in Oakland that’s an alternative to PG&E,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>says customers are already falling behind on payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“It’s because of those compounding effects that we’re seeing customers delay or be unable to pay their bill,” he said. “We are just at the beginning. There are some customers who are never going to be able to catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Reisman, press secretary for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which manages CleanPowerSF, another aggregator, says it has also seen customers falling behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is still a little early, but on average we’ve seen a 6% increase in balances more than 30 days overdue as compared to the pre-COVID average,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Deanna Contreras, a spokesperson for PG&E, wouldn’t confirm that people have been late in paying their bills. But she said in an email, “We understand many of our customers are facing severe economic challenges because of the crisis,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Options for Relief\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During a normal year, many Northern California customers would receive a second \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/climatecredit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">California Climate Credit \u003c/span>\u003c/a>in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing the hardship Californians are facing, the CPUC directed the state’s big utilities to distribute the credit early — most people in Northern California will receive a credit of $17.87 in May and $17.86 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit represents ratepayers’ share of payments from California’s cap-and-trade auction, which earns revenue for the state by requiring power plants and other industrial groups that emit greenhouse gases to buy carbon pollution permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cb>Save On Your Power Bill Right Now \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Here are some programs available to help people who are having trouble paying their power bill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\">\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\">\n\u003cli class=\"li6\">People who have recently lost their job, or those that are receiving unemployment benefits, can reduce their power and gas bills by 20% by enrolling in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) Program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"li6\">Families of three or more people who are facing similar economic hardship can apply for a monthly discount on their power bill of 18% through the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) Program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_care\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"li6\"> People who make within 200% above the federal poverty guideline can apply for a $300 energy credit with the Relief for Energy Assistance through Community Help (REACH) program (a family of four would qualify if its annual income is less than $51,500 — look at the CARE chart \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/care/care.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_care\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a> for a full breakdown and check these \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/one-time-assistance/reach/reach-criteria-and-guidelines.page\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">guidelines\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to see if you might qualify).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"li6\">If you or someone in your home uses respirators or other life support equipment, you can get additional electricity and gas for no extra cost by signing up for the Medical Baseline Program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_medicalbaseline\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. PG&E will also send an extra notice to people enrolled in this program before a power shutoff to prevent lines from touching off a wildfire, what it calls a Public Safety Power Shutoff.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What Kind of Relief are Some Bay Area Power Providers Offering?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PG&E:\u003c/b> The utility says it has suspended service disconnections for people who can’t pay their bills and is offering flexible payment plans. Read more on that program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/protective-protocols/covid19-protections.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_covid19consumerprotections#financialAssistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CleanPowerSF: \u003c/b>Customers won’t be unenrolled from the program if they cannot make payments, and CleanPowerSF is offering flexible payment plans — you can find more information on their services \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marin Clean Energy: \u003c/b>The North Bay choice aggregator has indefinitely suspended collections for people who can’t pay their bill and pulled together cost-saving resources \u003ca href=\"https://www.mcecleanenergy.org/news/energy-affordability-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay Community Energy:\u003c/strong> EBCE suspended collections, and customers won’t be dropped from the program for nonpayment. Details on their COVID-19 Response \u003ca href=\"https://ebce.org/covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monterey Bay Community Power: \u003c/b>MBCP is deferring 50% of electricity charges for May and June. More on what they are doing \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbcommunitypower.org/covid-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Redwood Coast Energy Authority: \u003c/b>RCEA compiled a checklist of energy efficiency measures, which you can find \u003ca href=\"https://redwoodenergy.org/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Silicon Valley Clean Energy: \u003c/b>SVCE \u003ca href=\"https://www.svcleanenergy.org/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a commitment of $10 million in direct financial support for its lower-income customers and to pay for job training for electricians, plumbers and mechanical workers who have been impacted by the shutdown orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Valley Clean Energy: \u003c/b>VCE released a COVID-19 statement, which you can find \u003ca href=\"https://valleycleanenergy.org/news/vces-response-to-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Read more on that program \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/protective-protocols/covid19-protections.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_covid19consumerprotections#financialAssistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CleanPowerSF: \u003c/b>Customers won’t be unenrolled from the program if they cannot make payments, and CleanPowerSF is offering flexible payment plans — you can find more information on their services \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanpowersf.org/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Marin Clean Energy: \u003c/b>The North Bay choice aggregator has indefinitely suspended collections for people who can’t pay their bill and pulled together cost-saving resources \u003ca href=\"https://www.mcecleanenergy.org/news/energy-affordability-covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>East Bay Community Energy:\u003c/strong> EBCE suspended collections, and customers won’t be dropped from the program for nonpayment. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the dramatic reduction in car traffic and commercial flights, carbon emissions have been falling around the globe. If the slowdown continues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions\">some are estimating\u003c/a> the world could see the largest drop in emissions in the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, overall greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are still going up and the decline will likely be smaller than what scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the effects are just starting to appear. In China, the first country to lock down, greenhouse gas emissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/811019032/why-chinas-air-has-been-cleaner-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak\">dropped an estimated 25%\u003c/a> in February as factories and industrial producers slowed output. That decreased coal burning, which has come back slowly since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A month or two of shelter in place will drop carbon dioxide emissions a few percent here or there, but it won’t change the year substantially unless we stay like this for some time,” says Rob Jackson, environmental scientist at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declines are still too small to be read by greenhouse gas observatories around the world, like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/\">on top of the Mauna Loa volcano\u003c/a> in Hawaii, given the natural changes in atmosphere this time of year. Because much of the Earth’s land mass is in the northern hemisphere, plants and forests there cause carbon levels to fluctuate as they bloom in the spring, drawing carbon dioxide from the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If countries continue shelter-at-home orders, emissions declines could be greater. The U.S. Energy Information Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/\">estimates U.S. emissions from gas and energy use could drop\u003c/a> more than 7% this year, similar to a 2009 decline during the financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worldwide, early estimates put global emissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions\">dropping around 4%.\u003c/a> Still, that’s less than the \u003ca href=\"https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/cut-global-emissions-76-percent-every-year-next-decade-meet-15degc\">7.6% the U.N. says is needed\u003c/a> to avoid the worst impacts of climate change by limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To achieve those cuts, scientists say more fundamental changes are needed, like switching to renewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t the way we want to reduce our fossil fuel emissions,” says Jackson. “We don’t want tens of millions of people being out of work as a path to decarbonizing our economy. We need systemic change in our energy infrastructure and new green technologies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Jackson says the recent changes are providing useful insights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s as if a third of the cars on the road were suddenly electric, running on clean electricity and the air pollution is plummeting,” says Jackson. “It’s really a remarkable experiment and it shows the benefits of clean energy.”\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=Carbon+Emissions+Are+Falling%2C+But+Still+Not+Enough%2C+Scientists+Say&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">It’s official. After years of blustery promises and draft proposals, the Trump administration Tuesday released final rules tossing out auto emissions standards and gutting one of the U.S.’s biggest efforts to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rollback raises the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years, ends ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and finalizes a plan to eliminate California’s right to enact stricter tailpipe emissions rules than the federal government–a right the state has had for more than a half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/final-fr-safe-preamble.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">final rule\u003c/span>\u003c/a> sets mileage standards through 2026. 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She says the policy does not fit “with their statutory obligations.” \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The motivation here is to promote fossil fuels,” she said. “That’s been an underlying justification for a lot of the environmental rollbacks the Trump administration is engaged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the administration has a legal obligation to protect public health and the environment and to maximize fuel economy. “When you take a look at the justifications, they’re really trying to fit a square peg into a round hole just doesn’t fit well,” she said. \u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and about a dozen other states say they will continue resisting the Trump standards in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Waiver\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Trump administration announced its intention to withdraw California’s waiver that allowed it to set its own tougher smog rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s exemption was previously provided to the state under the Clean Air Act; state officials are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/cleancars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">suing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> keep the waiver\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, California’s top air regulator, has said the state’s ability to set its own car rules is necessary to protect public health in California and fight climate change. 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