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"content": "\u003cp>State regulators have released plans to clean up lead contamination from thousands of homes near the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials call it the biggest industrial waste cleanup project in California, and one of the largest in the country. But they said their funding — \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3882495-2-17-16-Exide-Letter.html#document/p1/a360466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$176.6 million\u003c/a> allocated by state legislators last year — is only sufficient to clean up about a quarter of the estimated 10,000 properties that have been contaminated in a 1.7 mile-radius around the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) hopes to pick a cleanup contractor next month and work should start shortly after that, said Mohsen Nazemi, who is overseeing the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”35xTUe4SHNIMlF8WoWwC5xFUNre4Rj1X”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators measure contamination by its concentration, expressed as parts per million. For the Exide project, the DTSC will give the highest priority to properties it considers most contaminated and that pose the greatest risk to vulnerable people. Lead is a potent neurotoxin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies have found\u003c/a> young children are especially vulnerable to lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3890581-7-6-2017-Cleanup-Plan-Exec-Summary-English-Final.html#document/p4/a361487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC’s priority list\u003c/a> will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Homes with soil lead concentrations of at least 400 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Residential properties where cumulative sampling finds contamination at less than 400 parts per million, but that have hot spots of at least 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Day care and child care centers with soil lead concentrations of 80 parts per million or higher that have not yet been cleaned.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Originally, the cleanup set a safety threshold of 80 parts per million. DTSC director Barbara Lee said the department still will clean the properties it can work on now to that level. But cleaning up where the contamination is between 80 and 400 parts per million “depends entirely on available funding,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DTSC’s plan does include some concessions to local concerns. The draft plan had proposed to give the highest priority to properties with lead contamination at or above 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That drew criticism from Angelo Bellomo, deputy director for health protection at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He noted that at that level, the soil would be contaminated enough that it would have to go to specially licensed landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, he predicted that the DTSC might underestimate some of the worst contamination, because the department arrives at its figures by averaging all the lead it discovers on a property. He cautioned that might inappropriately minimize the health threat posed by a spot of very high contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Nazemi stood by the department’s method for calculating contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”MnttNWpqmZbh9cp75FCKocNXcYwYCL13″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department’s final cleanup plan drops the threshold for priority cleanup significantly, to 400 parts per million. Department director Lee pointed out that is also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for residential cleanups and the benchmark that the state Department of Public Health uses for flagging contamination in children’s play areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final plan also takes hot spots into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi said the department took heed of another community concern as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the DTSC had proposed to give the highest priority to homes where young children or pregnant women live. But Nazemi said many people pointed out that children and pregnant women regularly visit other homes in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took all that to heart, and that’s why the prioritization in the final cleanup plan is the way it is,” Nazemi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11553819 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As members of the news media look on, East Los Angeles resident Tomás Cortes (L) answers community health worker Lindsey Lastra’s questions about his and his family’s health. Lastra is a community liaison for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Hundreds of volunteers from county agencies and community organizations joined in a survey recently to identify the possible risks and health consequences of lead contamination caused by the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who serves on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/ExideAdvisory.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC community advisory group\u003c/a>, welcomed those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what they have here is a lot more clear than what they had presented earlier,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a center of community activism concerning Exide, Monsignor John Moretta said he’s still concerned that the cleanup does not appear to address parkways. While it’s true that those tree yards are public and not formally part of residential properties, people regularly cross them and children play on them, Moretta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’ll continue to demand attention to that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide’s neighbors have been increasingly critical of the DTSC’s oversight and cleanup plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as to how much they messed up.’\u003ccite>Joe Gonzalez, cancer patient and Exide neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The battery plant shut down two years ago. Just before it closed, it was recycling as many as 40,000 car batteries a day. Authorities believe it vented a lot of pollution, showering nearby homes with lead dust for decades. The DTSC \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let the polluter operate for 33 years\u003c/a> on a permit that was supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released results of a community \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3883215-ExideCommunitySurvey.html\">survey \u003c/a>that showed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48 percent of those questioned had at least one child under 6 years of age, or that such children spent time in their homes and yards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of those surveyed reported that their yards had been tested for lead. But of those, more than half said they hadn’t received their testing results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>52 percent of those surveyed said they’re not satisfied with the pace of the cleanup.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In an email, Department of Toxic Substances Control spokeswoman Abbott Dutton writes that the DTSC is trying to protect children who might be exposed to Exide’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health and safety of this community, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, is the department’s top priority,” the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed cleanup is the largest of its kind undertaken in California; it demonstrates the Administration’s strong commitment to protecting the health of those who live in these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11553822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez blames a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the battery recycling plant for his terminal cancer \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutton notes that DTSC contractors have taken samples from some 8,221 parcels out of the total 10,129 in the area it is assigned to investigate. The department has mailed lab-certified results to the property owners of more than half the sites tested, and weekly shipments continue, Dutton writes. And she states the department holds regular workshops in how to read the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to criticisms over the pace of the cleanup, Dutton points out that work was suspended when the department was required to prepare an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. She notes that Gov. Jerry Brown originally proposed waiving the requirement for a report, but the department acceded to community and state legislative concerns and proceeded with the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference last week to announce the results of the community survey, lifelong Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez said he no longer trusts what the DTSC says. He suspects his two cancer diagnoses are linked to a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the plant. He blames the DTSC for not enforcing environmental laws sooner, and he thoroughly distrusts the current cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what happens when you put the fox in charge of the hen house,” he said. “There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as how much they messed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11560073 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R) called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant at a press conference in June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1180x905.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-960x736.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-520x399.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R), at a press conference in June, called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big question remains: how to pay to clean up the properties not covered by the DTSC’s recently announced plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis estimates the total cleanup cost at $500 million. At the press conference where the survey results were announced, Solis urged state officials to find new funding, including expedited action on applying funds from\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a new state fee \u003c/a>on car batteries to cover cleanup costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DTSC director Lee said it’s too soon to predict how much money that fee will raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide is\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> legally bound \u003c/a>to pay $26 million to help pay for cleaning up the contamination it caused to homes near the plant. So far, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3891368-IndependentReviewPanelSummary.html#document/p11/a361635\">chipped in $9 million\u003c/a>, with another $5 million due in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State regulators have released plans to clean up lead contamination from thousands of homes near the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, just east of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials call it the biggest industrial waste cleanup project in California, and one of the largest in the country. But they said their funding — \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3882495-2-17-16-Exide-Letter.html#document/p1/a360466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$176.6 million\u003c/a> allocated by state legislators last year — is only sufficient to clean up about a quarter of the estimated 10,000 properties that have been contaminated in a 1.7 mile-radius around the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) hopes to pick a cleanup contractor next month and work should start shortly after that, said Mohsen Nazemi, who is overseeing the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators measure contamination by its concentration, expressed as parts per million. For the Exide project, the DTSC will give the highest priority to properties it considers most contaminated and that pose the greatest risk to vulnerable people. Lead is a potent neurotoxin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs379/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studies have found\u003c/a> young children are especially vulnerable to lead exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3890581-7-6-2017-Cleanup-Plan-Exec-Summary-English-Final.html#document/p4/a361487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC’s priority list\u003c/a> will be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Homes with soil lead concentrations of at least 400 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Residential properties where cumulative sampling finds contamination at less than 400 parts per million, but that have hot spots of at least 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Day care and child care centers with soil lead concentrations of 80 parts per million or higher that have not yet been cleaned.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Originally, the cleanup set a safety threshold of 80 parts per million. DTSC director Barbara Lee said the department still will clean the properties it can work on now to that level. But cleaning up where the contamination is between 80 and 400 parts per million “depends entirely on available funding,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11560064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. Boyle Heights is a center of community activism concerning Exide. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DTSC’s plan does include some concessions to local concerns. The draft plan had proposed to give the highest priority to properties with lead contamination at or above 1,000 parts per million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That drew criticism from Angelo Bellomo, deputy director for health protection at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He noted that at that level, the soil would be contaminated enough that it would have to go to specially licensed landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, he predicted that the DTSC might underestimate some of the worst contamination, because the department arrives at its figures by averaging all the lead it discovers on a property. He cautioned that might inappropriately minimize the health threat posed by a spot of very high contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Nazemi stood by the department’s method for calculating contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department’s final cleanup plan drops the threshold for priority cleanup significantly, to 400 parts per million. Department director Lee pointed out that is also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standard for residential cleanups and the benchmark that the state Department of Public Health uses for flagging contamination in children’s play areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final plan also takes hot spots into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi said the department took heed of another community concern as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the DTSC had proposed to give the highest priority to homes where young children or pregnant women live. But Nazemi said many people pointed out that children and pregnant women regularly visit other homes in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We took all that to heart, and that’s why the prioritization in the final cleanup plan is the way it is,” Nazemi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11553819 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25895_ExideSurvey2-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As members of the news media look on, East Los Angeles resident Tomás Cortes (L) answers community health worker Lindsey Lastra’s questions about his and his family’s health. Lastra is a community liaison for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Hundreds of volunteers from county agencies and community organizations joined in a survey recently to identify the possible risks and health consequences of lead contamination caused by the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who serves on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/ExideAdvisory.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DTSC community advisory group\u003c/a>, welcomed those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what they have here is a lot more clear than what they had presented earlier,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Resurrection Catholic Church in Boyle Heights, a center of community activism concerning Exide, Monsignor John Moretta said he’s still concerned that the cleanup does not appear to address parkways. While it’s true that those tree yards are public and not formally part of residential properties, people regularly cross them and children play on them, Moretta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’ll continue to demand attention to that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide’s neighbors have been increasingly critical of the DTSC’s oversight and cleanup plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as to how much they messed up.’\u003ccite>Joe Gonzalez, cancer patient and Exide neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The battery plant shut down two years ago. Just before it closed, it was recycling as many as 40,000 car batteries a day. Authorities believe it vented a lot of pollution, showering nearby homes with lead dust for decades. The DTSC \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let the polluter operate for 33 years\u003c/a> on a permit that was supposed to be temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released results of a community \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3883215-ExideCommunitySurvey.html\">survey \u003c/a>that showed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48 percent of those questioned had at least one child under 6 years of age, or that such children spent time in their homes and yards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>65 percent of those surveyed reported that their yards had been tested for lead. But of those, more than half said they hadn’t received their testing results.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>52 percent of those surveyed said they’re not satisfied with the pace of the cleanup.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In an email, Department of Toxic Substances Control spokeswoman Abbott Dutton writes that the DTSC is trying to protect children who might be exposed to Exide’s lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health and safety of this community, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, is the department’s top priority,” the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed cleanup is the largest of its kind undertaken in California; it demonstrates the Administration’s strong commitment to protecting the health of those who live in these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11553822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11553822 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25901_ExideSurvey6-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez blames a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the battery recycling plant for his terminal cancer \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dutton notes that DTSC contractors have taken samples from some 8,221 parcels out of the total 10,129 in the area it is assigned to investigate. The department has mailed lab-certified results to the property owners of more than half the sites tested, and weekly shipments continue, Dutton writes. And she states the department holds regular workshops in how to read the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to criticisms over the pace of the cleanup, Dutton points out that work was suspended when the department was required to prepare an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. She notes that Gov. Jerry Brown originally proposed waiving the requirement for a report, but the department acceded to community and state legislative concerns and proceeded with the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference last week to announce the results of the community survey, lifelong Exide neighbor Joe Gonzalez said he no longer trusts what the DTSC says. He suspects his two cancer diagnoses are linked to a lifetime of exposure to contaminants from the plant. He blames the DTSC for not enforcing environmental laws sooner, and he thoroughly distrusts the current cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what happens when you put the fox in charge of the hen house,” he said. “There’s no way in heck that the DTSC should be in charge of the cleanup because all they’re going to do is try to cover their tracks as how much they messed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11560073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11560073 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R) called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant at a press conference in June.\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-800x613.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-1180x905.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-960x736.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-375x288.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/HildaSolis-520x399.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (R), at a press conference in June, called on state officials to work faster on cleaning up homes contaminated by lead dust from the Exide battery recycling plant. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big question remains: how to pay to clean up the properties not covered by the DTSC’s recently announced plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis estimates the total cleanup cost at $500 million. 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No president has ever shrunk or killed a sanctuary in the 45 years that the program’s been around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There are 11 sanctuaries or national marine monuments that were expanded or created in the last 10 years, and one of the big ones is right here in our area. The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was expanded in 2008 by President Bush, when scientists had discovered this really cool underwater dormant volcano off the coast of Monterey, called Davidson Seamount. He basically drew a square in the ocean and added that area to the Monterey Sanctuary. So Bush added that and now Trump may take it away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"1815629,1815628,1815627,1815626,1815625,1815623,1815622\" orderby=\"rand\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Watt: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">What about California’s other national marine sanctuaries? What else could lose protections under this order from the Trump Administration?\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Rogers: Fu\u003cspan class=\"s1\">rther north, the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary — which are mostly off the Marin County coast and have been there for decades — they were doubled in size by President Obama in 2015. That essentially banned new offshore oil drilling forever in those places. That is potentially on the chopping block now, and Trump may shrink those back in size as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marine Sanctuaries at Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In April, President Trump asked U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to evaluate whether 11 national marine sanctuaries and monuments created or expanded since 2007 would be appropriate for opening up to oil and gas exploration.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/9a5c4ac6-5124-4ae3-af33-a50254cc9e28/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Watt: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">What about marine sanctuaries outside of California waters, like this new one near Hawaii?\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Rogers: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">There’s a whole range of sanctuaries that could be affected. Obama created one off New England to protect canyons and underwater mountains there. George Bush created one to protect the Marianas Trench; it’s actually a national marine monument, but folks may know this is the deepest ocean area in the world, more than six miles deep. There are also areas expanded or created off American Samoa, and off the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, from Kauai all the way up to Midway, with amazing coral reefs. All of these places are now under review.[contextly_sidebar id=”a5sJFDN2aV3spPf2sLNY6tyGufNSbKGP”]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Watt: So, th\u003cspan class=\"s1\">e reason Trump wants to do this is that the administration is looking to expand oil drilling in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but I would think that just reversing the sanctuary protections isn’t enough to make that happen. 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President Obama left office saying, “No leasing off California in new areas until at least 2022.” Trump is talking about undoing that as well. The Coastal Commission would fight if they try to lease new areas. There’d be lots of lawsuits, but taking sanctuaries away is the first step to new drilling. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Watt: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">What are the oil companies saying about this?\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/26/2017-13308/review-of-national-marine-sanctuaries-and-marine-national-monuments-designated-or-expanded-since\">How to Comment\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is accepting public comments on the review of all designations and expansions of National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National Monuments since April 28, 2007. The comment period ends July 26. \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/26/2017-13308/review-of-national-marine-sanctuaries-and-marine-national-monuments-designated-or-expanded-since\">Submit a formal comment\u003c/a> to the National Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Rogers: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">Interestingly, national oil companies like the idea of taking marine sanctuaries and shrinking them. But I called the Western States Petroleum Association, which is the main industry trade group for California for oil companies, and they said none of their members are actually interested in drilling in these sanctuary areas. And they weren’t going to be submitting public comment, so apparently the oil industry in California isn’t really interested right now in drilling in these areas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Watt: \u003cspan class=\"s1\">The public comment ends on July 26. 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"content": "\u003cp>The rising sun cast a golden glow upon the rocky mountains that rise above Coyote Canyon in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We bounced along in a four-wheel drive SUV down \u003ca href=\"http://www.abdnha.org/pages/06_exploring/north/roads/022/coyotecanyon.htm\">Coyote Canyon Road\u003c/a>, bumping over rocks and, at one point, trying to figure out what winter rains did with the dirt road. The SUV was stuffed with volunteer sheep counters and what they need to survive extreme heat: shade structures, food and loads of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We made our way up to “second crossing.” This is where Coyote Creek crosses the road for the second time. The first crossing was bone-dry. Second crossing is where we would camp out for 2½ days to count sheep for the \u003ca href=\"http://theabf.org/calling-all-sheep-counters\">47th year of the Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count\u003c/a>, which attracted counters from as far as Arizona and Oregon and from as near as San Diego and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second crossing of Coyote Creek is one of the watering holes for peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Shortly beyond this, a gate closes the area during the summer so bighorn sheep are not bothered as they try to seek out water in extreme heat. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This road up a canyon wash is pretty much the same route explorer Juan Bautista de Anza took on his trek from Mexico to establish the first non-native settlement at San Francisco Bay. Somewhere out here is a marker commemorating that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this adventure, we weren't here to look for a marker. We were here to look for peninsular bighorn sheep, also known as Nelson bighorn sheep, as extreme heat forces them down to known watering holes. The movement allows volunteers to see the sheep and count them, determining how many lambs have survived since they were born, and scope out the health of the herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through other programs, some sheep are tagged. Others wear radio collars. It all contributes to knowledge about the subspecies that was declared endangered in 1998 after its local population dropped to 280 sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, former park superintendent Mark Jorgensen, one of this year’s volunteer count organizers, said developers had 21 golf courses planned inside bighorn sheep habitat in nearby Coachella Valley. The combination of development, predation and disease was taking its toll. The endangered declaration stopped the proposed development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen estimated that some 900 sheep now live in the park, which stretches down to the Mexican border. He said they’ve seen bighorn sheep expanding back into their historic range, into canyons and ranges where they haven’t been seen in 20 or 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-960x589.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The count helps to keep tabs on the sheep in the summer, when sheep researchers are gone. Jorgensen said the annual event is the longest continuous volunteer survey of bighorn sheep anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one of the greatest examples of citizen science, especially when you consider the elements that these people are subjecting themselves to,” Jorgensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was already starting to heat up as we made our 25-minute drive down Coyote Canyon. We arrived at a sandy spot along the road, pulled over to the side and set up shade shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then we waited. And waited. And drank water. And waited. Tried to identify a nearby bird. And waited. Had a snack. And waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hot desert wind toyed with the shade tarp as the temperature reached 109 degrees. The sand on the ground became super-heated to more than 150 degrees, radiating heat upward. It was like sitting in an oven. The volunteers used binoculars and scopes to scan the rocky hillside for bighorn sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sand-colored animals with horns that look like something out of “Star Wars” are stealthy. In this landscape, they look like rocks. Volunteer Gloria Kendall, who works at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, said you have to scan for their white butts or a glimpse of their curved horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I finally spot 'em, I go, ‘How long have they been standing up on that hillside watching me?’ \" she said. “They could have been there for hours. But if they're holding still and they're laying down, in the shade of a big boulder, you probably wouldn't even notice 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the day wore on, Kendall joked that she was snacking on munchies and salted cucumbers just to stay awake. The desert heat zaps your energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it can take more than that. On average, more than a dozen people die in this park each year from heat stroke and lack of water. This includes migrants, who make their way illegally across the border from Mexico and into the unforgiving Colorado Desert. Over the Fourth of July weekend count, three volunteers dealt with heat exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall said it is worth suffering in the heat to get a glimpse of the endangered bighorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Michele Gaffney of Escondido scans the horizon for endangered peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego's Coyote Canyon. Gaffney has been volunteering for the annual bighorn sheep count for about 20 years. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is an endangered species right in our own backyard, an hour and 45 minutes away from my house, that I can come and have a chance of seeing and helping add to the knowledge for the state park,” Kendall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she said she has never been “skunked,” meaning she has seen at least one bighorn sheep at each of the 20 or so counts she’s come out to. That even includes the year a dust devil, sounding like a jet plane, came through their count site, snapping their shade structures and even pulling a camera off someone’s lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiree Phillip Roullard of San Diego has also had some adventures at the sheep count. At his first one in 1980, a sheep counter in a nearby canyon started a wildfire by following the Sierra Club protocol at the time and burning his toilet paper. Part of that count was canceled, including Roullard’s site, so firefighters could battle the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not always that exciting. At a sheep count site at Borrego Palm Campground this year, Roullard called it tranquil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's nice to be out in someplace where there is no noise. It's very quiet. You can hear lots of birds, quail,” Roullard said. “It's the adrenaline rush when you do see sheep, at last, and you want to see more after that. They're magnificent animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Coyote Creek second crossing, we were having no luck. But after about 7½ hours, fellow spotter Michele Gaffney noticed something in her binoculars. At first, she wasn’t sure. She sat for a little bit, staring quietly with her binoculars at a spot in the rocks about a half-mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sitting here looking at him going, ‘It looks like a mass of horns,’ ” Gaffney said. “And I said, ‘That's weird.’ And I finally had to wait for one of them to move their head and I went, ‘OK, that's a sheep.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We finally saw our first bighorn sheep of the trip, as three rams almost magically appeared, scoping out their watering hole on Coyote Creek. But the sheep did not move. They looked. They waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counters assumed that a group in a truck that had passed the count site earlier had stopped to play in the water. The sheep seemed hesitant. Hesitant, but hot, as they visibly panted in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rams hung out for nearly an hour. We joked that they must be a bachelor party and “What happens in Borrego, stays in Borrego.” But then, the truck left the watering hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the last day of the 47th Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count, volunteers at neighboring count sites compare notes to make sure they don't have any duplicate sheep counts. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fantastic,” Kendall exclaimed, until she noticed the sheep were not going toward the life-saving water. “Oh, the sheep are running! To the left! The sheep are running away from 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three peninsular bighorn rams had not come back by an hour and a half later, when the count ended for the day. This year's volunteers counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AnzaBorregoFoundation/photos/a.326151277483602.70665.215883108510420/1292484600850260/?type=3&theater\">207 sheep\u003c/a>. That is fewer than last year's \u003ca href=\"http://anzaborrego.ucnrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sheep-Count-Results-2016.pdf\">296\u003c/a>, but one of the most popular watering holes dried up this year, and it's unclear where those sheep have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers said they would come back to count them again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if I fail, I really enjoy a good challenge,” volunteer Collette Perry of San Bernardino County said, as she sat at a count site that saw zero sheep this year. She was also wiped out by heat exhaustion the first day. “Even though this happened, that’s fine. Life goes on. I can’t wait to come back next year and do it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some volunteers at the final gathering to tally the total count joked that they've got an entire year to block out memories of the extreme heat, and remember how cool it is to spot an endangered desert bighorn sheep in California's largest state park.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The rising sun cast a golden glow upon the rocky mountains that rise above Coyote Canyon in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We bounced along in a four-wheel drive SUV down \u003ca href=\"http://www.abdnha.org/pages/06_exploring/north/roads/022/coyotecanyon.htm\">Coyote Canyon Road\u003c/a>, bumping over rocks and, at one point, trying to figure out what winter rains did with the dirt road. The SUV was stuffed with volunteer sheep counters and what they need to survive extreme heat: shade structures, food and loads of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We made our way up to “second crossing.” This is where Coyote Creek crosses the road for the second time. The first crossing was bone-dry. Second crossing is where we would camp out for 2½ days to count sheep for the \u003ca href=\"http://theabf.org/calling-all-sheep-counters\">47th year of the Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count\u003c/a>, which attracted counters from as far as Arizona and Oregon and from as near as San Diego and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second crossing of Coyote Creek is one of the watering holes for peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Shortly beyond this, a gate closes the area during the summer so bighorn sheep are not bothered as they try to seek out water in extreme heat. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This road up a canyon wash is pretty much the same route explorer Juan Bautista de Anza took on his trek from Mexico to establish the first non-native settlement at San Francisco Bay. Somewhere out here is a marker commemorating that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this adventure, we weren't here to look for a marker. We were here to look for peninsular bighorn sheep, also known as Nelson bighorn sheep, as extreme heat forces them down to known watering holes. The movement allows volunteers to see the sheep and count them, determining how many lambs have survived since they were born, and scope out the health of the herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through other programs, some sheep are tagged. Others wear radio collars. It all contributes to knowledge about the subspecies that was declared endangered in 1998 after its local population dropped to 280 sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, former park superintendent Mark Jorgensen, one of this year’s volunteer count organizers, said developers had 21 golf courses planned inside bighorn sheep habitat in nearby Coachella Valley. The combination of development, predation and disease was taking its toll. The endangered declaration stopped the proposed development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen estimated that some 900 sheep now live in the park, which stretches down to the Mexican border. He said they’ve seen bighorn sheep expanding back into their historic range, into canyons and ranges where they haven’t been seen in 20 or 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-960x589.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The count helps to keep tabs on the sheep in the summer, when sheep researchers are gone. Jorgensen said the annual event is the longest continuous volunteer survey of bighorn sheep anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one of the greatest examples of citizen science, especially when you consider the elements that these people are subjecting themselves to,” Jorgensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was already starting to heat up as we made our 25-minute drive down Coyote Canyon. We arrived at a sandy spot along the road, pulled over to the side and set up shade shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then we waited. And waited. And drank water. And waited. Tried to identify a nearby bird. And waited. Had a snack. And waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hot desert wind toyed with the shade tarp as the temperature reached 109 degrees. The sand on the ground became super-heated to more than 150 degrees, radiating heat upward. It was like sitting in an oven. The volunteers used binoculars and scopes to scan the rocky hillside for bighorn sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sand-colored animals with horns that look like something out of “Star Wars” are stealthy. In this landscape, they look like rocks. Volunteer Gloria Kendall, who works at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, said you have to scan for their white butts or a glimpse of their curved horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I finally spot 'em, I go, ‘How long have they been standing up on that hillside watching me?’ \" she said. “They could have been there for hours. But if they're holding still and they're laying down, in the shade of a big boulder, you probably wouldn't even notice 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the day wore on, Kendall joked that she was snacking on munchies and salted cucumbers just to stay awake. The desert heat zaps your energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it can take more than that. On average, more than a dozen people die in this park each year from heat stroke and lack of water. This includes migrants, who make their way illegally across the border from Mexico and into the unforgiving Colorado Desert. 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Gaffney has been volunteering for the annual bighorn sheep count for about 20 years. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is an endangered species right in our own backyard, an hour and 45 minutes away from my house, that I can come and have a chance of seeing and helping add to the knowledge for the state park,” Kendall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she said she has never been “skunked,” meaning she has seen at least one bighorn sheep at each of the 20 or so counts she’s come out to. That even includes the year a dust devil, sounding like a jet plane, came through their count site, snapping their shade structures and even pulling a camera off someone’s lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiree Phillip Roullard of San Diego has also had some adventures at the sheep count. At his first one in 1980, a sheep counter in a nearby canyon started a wildfire by following the Sierra Club protocol at the time and burning his toilet paper. Part of that count was canceled, including Roullard’s site, so firefighters could battle the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not always that exciting. At a sheep count site at Borrego Palm Campground this year, Roullard called it tranquil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's nice to be out in someplace where there is no noise. It's very quiet. You can hear lots of birds, quail,” Roullard said. “It's the adrenaline rush when you do see sheep, at last, and you want to see more after that. They're magnificent animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Coyote Creek second crossing, we were having no luck. But after about 7½ hours, fellow spotter Michele Gaffney noticed something in her binoculars. At first, she wasn’t sure. She sat for a little bit, staring quietly with her binoculars at a spot in the rocks about a half-mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sitting here looking at him going, ‘It looks like a mass of horns,’ ” Gaffney said. “And I said, ‘That's weird.’ And I finally had to wait for one of them to move their head and I went, ‘OK, that's a sheep.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We finally saw our first bighorn sheep of the trip, as three rams almost magically appeared, scoping out their watering hole on Coyote Creek. But the sheep did not move. They looked. They waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counters assumed that a group in a truck that had passed the count site earlier had stopped to play in the water. The sheep seemed hesitant. Hesitant, but hot, as they visibly panted in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rams hung out for nearly an hour. 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To the left! The sheep are running away from 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three peninsular bighorn rams had not come back by an hour and a half later, when the count ended for the day. This year's volunteers counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AnzaBorregoFoundation/photos/a.326151277483602.70665.215883108510420/1292484600850260/?type=3&theater\">207 sheep\u003c/a>. That is fewer than last year's \u003ca href=\"http://anzaborrego.ucnrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sheep-Count-Results-2016.pdf\">296\u003c/a>, but one of the most popular watering holes dried up this year, and it's unclear where those sheep have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers said they would come back to count them again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if I fail, I really enjoy a good challenge,” volunteer Collette Perry of San Bernardino County said, as she sat at a count site that saw zero sheep this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated with statement from the Governor's Office. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Gov. Jerry Brown has made clear that an extension of the state's cap-and-trade program will need GOP support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to take some Republicans,\" he said at a California Chamber of Commerce breakfast last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He echoed the sentiment \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/13/governor-brown-legislative-democrats-strike-state-budget-deal/\">weeks later\u003c/a> when he said Republicans were \"the key\" to extending the program (set to expire in 2020) that allows companies to buy and sell credits that allow them to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It now looks like Brown has gotten the Republican support he's been courting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, staff members and outside stakeholders with knowledge of the cap-and-trade negotiations said Thursday that current draft language is friendly enough to businesses that it could draw in large numbers of Republicans -- and alienate some environmentally friendly Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mvIFehVYHhTtmMQh1MsLIThOWuV6v1VQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources close to the Assembly Republican leader said as many as 15 members of the caucus could support the current proposal. The GOP caucus has been engaged on cap-and-trade talks for months, even though Republicans at the national level largely oppose cap and trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in California say that a market-based approach to reducing emissions is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/25/state-democrats-have-new-leverage-in-effort-to-curb-greenhouse-gases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">better than the alternative system\u003c/a> of mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the deal, according to sources with knowledge of the draft, has many provisions that are friendly to businesses that traditionally opposed emission regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal would continue the practice of giving some businesses free pollution allowances. Another would allow companies to carry the pollution credits purchased in auctions before 2020 into the post-2020 system. This would lower the incentive for industries to buy allowances in the future, when prices are expected to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provisions have raised red flags among environmentalists, who question whether the system would be tough enough on polluters to help California meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and legislative leaders from the Senate and Assembly held meetings during the Independence Day holiday in an attempt to reach agreement on an extension, and negotiations remain in flux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The administration is working with everyone: legislators, environmental groups, utilities, industry, economists, agriculture and business organizations, the environmental justice community and many others,\" said Brown press secretary Evan Westrup in a statement. \"Our goal is to reach an agreement and that means facilitating the exchange of ideas and language.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11552339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11552339\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Gas flaring at a Conoco refinery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-960x668.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/GasFlaring-520x362.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas flaring at a Conoco refinery. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, a group of Assembly Democrats sent the governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5xuo8qxljfytdc/Cap%20and%20Trade%20Letter%20061917.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a> urging him to extend cap and trade \"in a manner that maintains environmental integrity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This included an emphasis on reducing local pollutants in the air. That environmental justice priority was not included in the draft proposal, but could be worked out in a side bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Democrats who signed the letter expressed dismay on Thursday at the victories that business-friendly groups were able to secure in negotiations. The draft exempts oil companies from any new state regulation outside of the cap-and-trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're giving them a gift,\" the lawmaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching a compromise this week would allow a vote on Monday, before Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, a Los Angeles Democrat, moves to Congress and takes a potential \"yes\" vote with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finalizing an extension before the next scheduled \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/auction.htm\">allowance auction\u003c/a> in August could also spur demand among businesses to buy credits, especially if they will remain valid past 2020. 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They’re called the Shasta Pack and the second is the Lassen Pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"For a really long time, they’ve been extirpated, but there’s re-introductions that have happened in other states ... they had come back to Washington and Oregon and they disperse,\" Traverso said. \"We knew it was only a matter of time.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray wolves are categorized as endangered by the state and at the federal level. They can't be hunted or killed under the state's protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"We were really excited that there is another established pack in California,\" Traverso said. \"We know it’s met with a lot of mixed emotions, based on the fact that there’s a lot of different uses of land up in the northern part of the state, including a lot of cattle ranchers. But it’s also a great ecological story that wolves are re-establishing after almost 100 years.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/07/ShastaPackwolveshowlingNov2015CDFW.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/feature_cropped-1920x1061.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: Audio of Shasta Pack wolves howling in November 2015. Courtesy of CDFW\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tracking collar was put on the Lassen Pack's 75-pound female wolf on June 30 after 12 days of trapping attempts. State biologists planned the capture operation after the U.S. Forest Service found evidence of a recent wolf presence in Lassen National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The anesthesia and collaring process went smoothly and the wolf was in excellent condition,” CDFW’s senior wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Deana Clifford, said in a statement. “Furthermore, our physical examination indicated that she had given birth to pups this spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The female wolf was lactating, and state biologists believe it's her first litter. It's unclear how old the pups are. \"She’s still nursing them. It’s really hard to assess,\" Traverso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the female’s origins remain unknown, genetic samples obtained from scat indicate the male wolf originated from Oregon’s Rogue Pack. Traverso said he is the son of the famous wolf OR-7, the Rogue Pack’s breeding male -- who generated international interest when he became the first wild wolf in nearly a century to venture into Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/07/25/californias-wandering-wolf-now-has-puppies-in-oregon/\">Photos taken in 2014\u003c/a>, also by remote camera, confirmed that OR-7 had at least three pups. Today, his son's pups are the equivalent of his grand-pups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biologists are hoping to learn a lot more about the Lassen Pack via the collar on the female -- the first gray wolf collared in California. The collar will collect data about her activity patterns, survival, reproduction and prey preferences. 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