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But some education leaders, like State Board of Education President Michael Kirst, worry this federal study will be too subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"U4CqPkP2TBhE5XimFf4wL0PrOxk9L7Nt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local schools know best on lots of things, and I think what we’ve been trying to do is strike the proper balance,” Kirst said. “There is no one right way, and often people’s philosophies get tangled up in what the legal rules should be and are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next\u003c/strong>: The study is considered one way for the Trump administration to make it clear it supports local control. The inquiry will be conducted by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos -- a strong supporter of school choice programs like vouchers. She has 300 days to conduct the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issue\u003c/strong>: In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/26/trump-to-sign-executive-order-that-could-shrink-national-monuments/\" target=\"_blank\">another executive order\u003c/a>, Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Interior to examine all U.S. national monument designations since 1996 that are over 100,000 acres. This comes after a decades-long campaign by conservative groups -- many funded by the Koch Brothers and other natural resource industries -- to loosen environmental regulations that make it more difficult to extract those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"i1JGTMOqVL4OHIN7QSKYaRdfxcxNU3S3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential Impact\u003c/strong>: The review will include six national monuments in California. The San Gabriel Mountains, Mojave Trails, Carrizo Plain, Giant Sequoia and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monuments will have their designations reviewed. The entire California coast is also a national monument, meaning offshore environmental protections enacted by President Bill Clinton and expanded by President Barack Obama could be reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That potential reversal comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-25/trump-said-to-order-review-of-oil-drilling-off-california-coast\">Bloomberg reports\u003c/a> the Trump administration is planning to open up studies on the feasibility of offshore oil and gas drilling on California's coast. That has environmental activists like Marce Gutierrez-Graudins, founder of Azul in San Francisco, concerned the Trump administration is rapidly moving toward opening offshore drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We in California are very familiar with both the environmental and economic havoc that is caused by spills,\" Gutierrez-Graudins says. \"And it is something we do not want to revisit again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/04/2017-04-27d-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/OilPlatform-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Trump Administration Looking Into Offshore Drilling In California\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford environmental law professor Deborah Sivas says while it's unlikely that new oil platforms will be built in the near future, it's clear the two actions by the Trump administration signal a willingness to drill off the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Trump administration really wanting to open up offshore oil drilling, I think they need to get rid of or somehow undermine the monument status,\" Sivas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"95hirIxHzGsxVw6KOyXqoSkgYRV8lUcq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western States Petroleum Association represents the oil industry, and a spokeswoman tells KQED that no oil companies want to drill offshore in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next\u003c/strong>\u003cem>:\u003c/em> We are expecting the order to study offshore drilling near California to come as early as Friday, April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Taxes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issue\u003c/strong>: The Trump administration also \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525683530/4-questions-about-trumps-tax-plan?ft=nprml&f=1003,1004,1007,1013,1014,1017,1019,1128\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out a massive tax cut proposal\u003c/a> on Wednesday, highlighted by big cuts in the corporate tax rate. Under the plan, corporations would be taxed at a 15 percent rate, down from the current 35 percent mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blueprint offers few details to assuage concerns that big tax cuts would create a massive hole in the federal budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/04/2017-04-27c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/1040Form-375x240.jpg\" Title=\"How President Trump's Tax Plan Might Trip Up California\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the few deductions on the chopping block would place an outsized burden on California taxpayers. The Trump administration wants to end the practice of allowing taxpayers to deduct local and state taxes from federal filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tzpmc88aHITxPTvpHiEXSLIM7fQ0SuEn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential Impact\u003c/strong>: In a high-tax state like California, taxpayers could be left on the hook for tens of millions of dollars more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want to pay for cuts, it’s not a crazy way to do it,” says Joseph Bankman, professor of law and business at Stanford Law School. “It’s a little bit unfair because we’re being taxed on a different portion of our income than our counterparts in red states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next\u003c/strong>: The president's plan would have to be introduced as legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) says Trump's plan is \"along the same lines\" of what the House wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ana Tintocalis, Guy Marzorati and Julia Scott contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores — climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some scientists that once-unthinkable outer-range projections of sea rise may turn out to be too conservative. A knee-buckling new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science-1.pdf?x35230\">state-commissioned report\u003c/a> warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential result: crippled economies, compromised public safety, submerged infrastructure and a forced retreat from our iconic Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has done more than California to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and sea-level rise. But experts say that even if carbon reductions continue, residual warming of the ocean will continue unchecked, breeding surges that will impact the state’s coast and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month the U.S. Geological Survey \u003ca href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/news/disappearing-beaches-modeling-shoreline-change-southern-california\">estimated\u003c/a> that without concerted intervention, as much as 67 percent of Southern California’s beaches could be lost to rising seas by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>International airports in San Francisco and Oakland will face flooding, rendering them unusable.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Housing perched on fast-eroding coastal bluffs in Pacifica and elsewhere will continue to crash into the sea.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Malibu’s Broad Beach will dwindle into a seldom-seen slice of sand, its name an oxymoron.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flooding in the Delta will overwhelm rivers and strain levees critical to California’s water supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Power plants, nuclear waste sites and other sensitive waterside sites need to be fortified or will be lost.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roads, bridges and railways along the coast from Mendocino to San Diego will be abandoned and relocated inland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco’s Embarcadero and low-lying cities such as Huntington Beach will flood more frequently and more severely.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than 42,000 homes in California will be under water — not merely flooded, but with seawater over roofs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The grim outlook is mirrored in the latest report, which is being presented April 26 for adoption by the state’s Ocean Protection Council. Its sea-level rise projections will assist state agencies and local governments with planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No stretch of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/states/shorelines.pdf\">3,400 miles\u003c/a> of coast, bays, inlets and islands will be spared. Addressing sea-level rise will cost a staggering amount of public and private money, and will particularly impact the poor and vulnerable. The problem becomes more urgent with much of California’s wealth huddled along the coast, supporting an ocean-dependent $44 billion economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, state and local officials may come to the gut-wrenching conclusion that some coastal land should be simply abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing well at all,” said Democratic Assemblyman Mark Stone, chairman of the Select Committee on Coastal Protection and Access to Natural Resources. “We have yet to really start to answer the hard questions and make policy — saying, ‘No, we are not going to put public money here.’ Eventually we should get to the point that we are not going to do any public investment in those places any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most scientists tread lightly in the policy realm, providing the information for others to craft into regulations. Not Bill Patzert, who has for years sounded the alarm about rising oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an existential threat. It’s real. It’s gonna happen,” said Patzert, a climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Here’s the bigger issue: If you’re in the tunnel and you see the train coming at you, what do you do? Do you race towards it or do you back out? It’s just common sense. As a society, why aren’t we doing that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/regional-rs-opt.gif\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>How high will it go? \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">Check sea level rise near your neighborhood\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nScientists use maps such as this to help state and local officials plan for sea level rise and associated flooding. This interactive graphic shows potential flood zones with water up to 10 feet, the outer range of current projections. (Map by Climate Central)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>rom deep in the hive of large brains at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set hard against the San Gabriel Mountains, an intense group of scientists from Caltech and the NASA are harnessing satellites that for decades have been peering into space and are now directing their gaze to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers — with advanced degrees in physics, mathematics and oceanography — are engaged in what many consider to be the critical research of our time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are watching ice melt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting alone in a cubicle, bathed in the glow of a computer screen or staring down the barrel of a telescope, can be a balm for scientists. Concerning themselves with one finite slice of a planet-wide catastrophe allows them to compartmentalize and disengage from the entire sobering picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even professional detachment fails against the unfolding horror show depicted in the cold display of satellite imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of watching the ice sheet in Greenland disappear,” said the lab’s oceanographer Josh Willis, who leads a team studying Greenland. “This is the first time humans have been able to measure it. The last time it was shrinking at this rate was tens of thousands of years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swHW80EWIk0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The diminishment of Greenland’s ice mass has been accelerating alarmingly, losing a trillion tons in the last four years. The rapid melting is getting the attention of scientists because locked away in the Greenland ice sheet is the possibility to raise global sea levels by 24 feet. The Antarctic holds 187 feet of potential ice melt. Polar ice loss on that scale would have unfathomable consequences for continued life on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis uses satellites to measure the warmth of the waters around Greenland. Because he has a sense of humor, his project is known to all as OMG: Oceans Melting Greenland. (He preferred calling it Water Temperature Fjords, but couldn’t get the acronym past government sensibilities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As scientists, we’re witnessing these huge events, and it’s telling us how the Earth is changing,” Willis said. “Of course, I’m also a citizen, I live on this planet, and it is worrying that it’s happening. It’s sometimes profoundly shocking to wake up and realize we’re reshaping our entire planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>nderstanding the threat of sea-level rise in California depends to some extent on where you are standing: Boots in the dust of the Central Valley and you might curse the lateness of a rail shipment held up by flooding at the port of Oakland; bare feet in the sand at Huntington Beach and you may have to consider relocating your family, your home and all your possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some simple math: Every inch of sea-level rise equates to an 8- to 10-feet loss of beach. So, using the conservative projection of a 4-foot rise, and the lower-end 8-foot-per inch formula, that equates to 384 feet of coastal beach loss in the next 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10-foot rise scenario, which scientists peg as the new worst-case, would cause a land loss of 800 feet — the length of two-and-a-half football fields. The sea will not rise the same amount in every place; scientists say each discrete elevation is dependent on factors such as the shape of the sea floor and the slope of the landfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”MOJVPynj3hoY0QFxBoHsTER6Y383wdd2″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering the scope of this coming catastrophe, it does not appear to be front-of-mind to many in the state. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone unstudied. California has a peerless capacity to turn over problems until they are smooth and shiny. Understanding comes first, with action often a distant and expensive second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tour through recent scientific analyses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/the-impacts-of-sea-level-rise-on-the-california-coast/\">2009 report\u003c/a> on sea-level rise commissioned by the state paints worst-case scenarios that are the stuff of disaster movies: A half-million Californians at risk of flooding and more than $100 billion worth of infrastructure. More than two dozen coastal power plants flooded, along with hundreds of hazardous waste facilities, as well as schools, hospitals, police stations, ports and major airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacinst.org/app/uploads/2013/02/sea_level_rise_sf_bay_cec3.pdf\">report\u003c/a> prepared for the California Energy Commission focused just on the San Francisco Bay and its 1,000 miles of shoreline, concluding: “Rising sea levels will overwhelm the existing protection structures, putting the 140,000 people currently living in vulnerable areas at increased risk.” The authors cautioned their findings did not reflect worst-case scenarios. And, if no action is taken to address the vulnerabilities, the risk projections should be considered “substantially low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Assembly weighed in with a \u003ca href=\"http://lafco.smcgov.org/sites/lafco.smcgov.org/files/documents/files/Select%20Committee%20Sea-Level%20Rise%20Report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> in 2014, and the next year the Senate chimed in with its own \u003ca href=\"http://senv.senate.ca.gov/sites/senv.senate.ca.gov/files/Climate%20Change%20Adaptation_California%20State%20Senate_2015.pdf\">review\u003c/a>, amping it up a bit: “With current projections, rising seas combined with a 100-year flood event would close over 2,000 miles of roadway, the Oakland and San Francisco airports, and the Port of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sobering fact of those state-of-the-art reports, recent though they are, is that they are already out of date and not nearly comprehensive enough in describing the scope of what currently faces California. Nor remotely scary enough. What scientists are observing now is, they say, a rapid and steep change that, even as it unfolds over comparatively long periods of time, is nonetheless occurring at a breathtaking pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"A melting glacier calving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11428170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-960x584.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-240x146.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-375x228.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-520x316.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A melting glacier calving. \u003ccite>(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ea-level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the expansion of seawater as it heats up and the added water volume from melting ice. Researchers focused on glacial melt in Greenland and Antarctica see the process as an action-packed cataclysm marked by heaving ice shelves collapsing into the sea and sheets of decaying ice sloughing off the end of a continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power unleashed by that tide of ice is awesome to contemplate. Water has always been one of the most destructive and transformative forces in nature. With warmer waters creating more energy that incubates more powerful storms, some see a near future in which seas assault our coast more frequently and with greater force. Exhibit A: California’s past winter, when repeated storms lashed the state, resulting in a preliminary price tag of $569 million and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/02/14/president-trump-approves-major-disaster-declaration-california\">federal disaster declaration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8KyRocF3RKw0FoMkxWYmIMHzH54c6CW7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists warn that intensified\u003ca href=\"http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/11723/Leftover-warm-water-in-Pacific-Ocean-fueled-massive-El-Ni241o.aspx\"> El Nino \u003c/a>events, coupled with higher seas, will bring about unprecedented flooding. What civil engineers refer to as nuisance flooding — overwhelmed storm sewers and street flooding — is already more common. \u003ca href=\"http://california.kingtides.net/\">King Tides\u003c/a> are getting worse. Commuting times, the ability of first-responders to get to an accident scene, and the transportation of goods by road will be severely compromised, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That risk, too, can be observed at its point of origin. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintains tide gauges that bob and float in U.S. waters, sentinels sending out a stream of data measuring current sea levels. The information feeds tidal forecasts used by surfers and mariners, and is also monitored by emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html\">tide and currents map\u003c/a> is both colorful and alarming. The maps depict the North American continent ringed by arrows pointing straight up, denoting trending rising sea levels, like pickets defending the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out the coast is all-but defenseless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Sanders, a civil and environmental engineer at UC Irvine, is using a grant from the National Science Foundation to help inform communities along the California and northern Mexican coast about the risk of rising waters. Most people are thrilled that they’ve managed to fulfill a dream of living near the beach, Sanders said, and are unaware of what they should do to protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have done a bad job of mapping flood risk. It’s awful,” Sanders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zillow, the website that calculates residential real estate values, recently took its maps of coastal property and overlaid NOAA’s sea-level projections. Using what are now thought to be conservative projections, the company estimated 2 million coastal homes in the United States would be underwater by the end of the century. Not as in being upside down on a mortgage, but as in fish swimming through the den. The total value of those homes? Nearly $1 trillion, in California, $49 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zillow’s chief economist, Svenja Gudell, said she was surprised that when the company shared its\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/climate-change-underwater-homes-12890/\"> information\u003c/a> with mayors or city planners, officials saw it as an event that would take place far in the future. “For some of these places the time horizon is not 100 years, it’s happening now,” she said. “It’s not as top of mind as it should be or you would like it to be. People are underinsured when it comes to flood insurance. The system is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gudell said that her research showed that homeowners living in high-risk areas are not getting market cues —real estate values in beach areas destroyed by Hurricane Sandy are now higher than before the superstorm that played out on national television in the fall of 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not able to explain that rationally,” Gudell said. “We will see in the future, if you are on a cliff and that cliff is further eroding and if you put a piece of property on that land, it won’t be safe anymore. For now, the benefit of living in these homes clearly outweighs the current and future cost of living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Apartment buildings hang perilously over an increasingly eroded bluff in Pacifica.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11428176\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings hang perilously over an increasingly eroded bluff in Pacifica. \u003ccite>(Eric Cheng/The Nature Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which leaves us with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program\">National Flood Insurance Program\u003c/a>, a troubled and debt-ridden program operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood insurance covers millions of Americans living in flood zones, based on maps that are decades out of date. The program is currently $24 billion in debt and requires reauthorization from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the federal insurance say the rates don’t reflect current risks, leaving taxpayers on the hook for someone else’s folly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern represents a coastal district that includes Malibu and a string of state beaches. A lifelong surfer, he understands the attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so alluring,” he said of living by the beach. “But my whole thing is to make the market tell the truth about it. We know where sea level rise is going to happen. What I don’t want to happen is for all of us to bear the bill afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the horrific projections scientists have repeatedly shared about public health and safety associated with rising seas, it might be the economic cost that spurs action. A 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2961.epdf?referrer_access_token=cgJFXWlBrOrbB2rhtzQ-w9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NW5dzPCV1LQTM2JMQvXgeVn3tMRlxMKqplqdO2K8lMw-F6rujRXhG6lI8cdfGPsASvKqsv2kvbbX_NlaMAWQY4uy470S-qmZZAuPl9Bj3JzEiJ6pR7Mqt1NXJcMNys_U_M_ZuC\">paper\u003c/a> published in the journal Nature estimated the annual global cost for sea-level rise adaptation measures at about $421 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors of the study argue that the figure doesn’t take into account population growth and clustering around coasts. By the year 2100, the report warns, the price tag for mass relocations could exceed $14 trillion. Given California’s coastal population clusters — 75 percent of the state’s residents live in a coastal county — the figure here will be enormous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Ocean Protection Council receiving the new science report is a state agency whose mission, as its name implies, is to look after the welfare of California’s piece of the Pacific Ocean. It’s an almost laughably large responsibility, and one that the members approach thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report placed the scientific findings at the forefront, said Liz Whiteman, the science and strategy director for the Ocean Science Trust, which was a partner in the study. That means the analysis does not entertain the question of whether climate change is altering the behavior of the Pacific. Nor does it belabor stale arguments about how weather has always changed. It is, rather, an unsparing document that presents the best projections about the range of sea rise, and, for the first time, assigns a probability and risk to those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is in a great place for being willing to call the hard question and not shying away,” Whiteman said. “There is no doubt that there is some scary information contained in a report looking at sea-level rise and our future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Cayan, one of seven scientists who contributed to the newest report, is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, investigating how climate affects changes in oceans. Viewed from his office window in La Jolla, the Pacific Ocean appears benign and soothing. But a glimpse into the updated information he’s assembling paints a different, darker picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New data and more sophisticated modeling, he said, coupled with more extreme climate warming, “Is going to be pushing the amount of sea-level rise above what was thought to be reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0px;scrolling:no;width:100%;height:530px\" src=\"https://ss2.climatecentral.org/widget.html?utm_source=David%20Marks%20KQED&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=SS2-Map#6/36.880/-119.443?show=satellite&projections=1-RCP85-SLR&level=10&unit=feet&pois=hide&contentTitle=Check%20sea%20level%20rise%20near%20your%20neighborhood\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing previous projections to current ones, he said, is no longer useful. “We’re actually off this scale,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cayan pulls out the 2012 report from the National Research Council, which is the basis for California’s current sea-level rise assumptions and the predicate for the state’s coastal policies. The mid-range of its projections envisions about 3 feet of rise by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he carefully takes out a sheet with the new data. Cayan points at the the elaborate graphs to the updated mid-range projection— 8½ feet. Cayan and his colleagues shrug off questions about how to apply their science—that’s the job of the politicians. But the report does counsel state officials to consider the worst-case scenario in their deliberations, and cautions: “Waiting for scientific certainty is neither a safe nor prudent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what now? California planners and policymakers will pore over the latest report. Their deliberations will result, at some point, in “updated guidance” to use the parlance of the bureaucracy. The final document will help local officials incorporate the sea-level rise projections into their future plans for building and safety, in some cases altering zoning and building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Greenland’s summer ice melt season begins, and the 2-mile deep ice sheet that was created in the last Ice Age continues to shrink. Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice. The proliferation of these ‘melt streams’ is leading scientists to consider that the loss of Greenland’s ice may be set on an unstoppable trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longer a matter of if, but only of when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first in a series: Next up — how is California planning for the seemingly inevitable. CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>International airports in San Francisco and Oakland will face flooding, rendering them unusable.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Housing perched on fast-eroding coastal bluffs in Pacifica and elsewhere will continue to crash into the sea.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Malibu’s Broad Beach will dwindle into a seldom-seen slice of sand, its name an oxymoron.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Flooding in the Delta will overwhelm rivers and strain levees critical to California’s water supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Power plants, nuclear waste sites and other sensitive waterside sites need to be fortified or will be lost.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roads, bridges and railways along the coast from Mendocino to San Diego will be abandoned and relocated inland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco’s Embarcadero and low-lying cities such as Huntington Beach will flood more frequently and more severely.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More than 42,000 homes in California will be under water — not merely flooded, but with seawater over roofs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The grim outlook is mirrored in the latest report, which is being presented April 26 for adoption by the state’s Ocean Protection Council. Its sea-level rise projections will assist state agencies and local governments with planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No stretch of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/states/shorelines.pdf\">3,400 miles\u003c/a> of coast, bays, inlets and islands will be spared. Addressing sea-level rise will cost a staggering amount of public and private money, and will particularly impact the poor and vulnerable. The problem becomes more urgent with much of California’s wealth huddled along the coast, supporting an ocean-dependent $44 billion economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, state and local officials may come to the gut-wrenching conclusion that some coastal land should be simply abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing well at all,” said Democratic Assemblyman Mark Stone, chairman of the Select Committee on Coastal Protection and Access to Natural Resources. “We have yet to really start to answer the hard questions and make policy — saying, ‘No, we are not going to put public money here.’ Eventually we should get to the point that we are not going to do any public investment in those places any more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most scientists tread lightly in the policy realm, providing the information for others to craft into regulations. Not Bill Patzert, who has for years sounded the alarm about rising oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not an existential threat. It’s real. It’s gonna happen,” said Patzert, a climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Here’s the bigger issue: If you’re in the tunnel and you see the train coming at you, what do you do? Do you race towards it or do you back out? It’s just common sense. As a society, why aren’t we doing that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/regional-rs-opt.gif\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>How high will it go? \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">Check sea level rise near your neighborhood\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nScientists use maps such as this to help state and local officials plan for sea level rise and associated flooding. This interactive graphic shows potential flood zones with water up to 10 feet, the outer range of current projections. (Map by Climate Central)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>rom deep in the hive of large brains at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set hard against the San Gabriel Mountains, an intense group of scientists from Caltech and the NASA are harnessing satellites that for decades have been peering into space and are now directing their gaze to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers — with advanced degrees in physics, mathematics and oceanography — are engaged in what many consider to be the critical research of our time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are watching ice melt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting alone in a cubicle, bathed in the glow of a computer screen or staring down the barrel of a telescope, can be a balm for scientists. Concerning themselves with one finite slice of a planet-wide catastrophe allows them to compartmentalize and disengage from the entire sobering picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even professional detachment fails against the unfolding horror show depicted in the cold display of satellite imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the process of watching the ice sheet in Greenland disappear,” said the lab’s oceanographer Josh Willis, who leads a team studying Greenland. “This is the first time humans have been able to measure it. The last time it was shrinking at this rate was tens of thousands of years ago.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/swHW80EWIk0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/swHW80EWIk0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The diminishment of Greenland’s ice mass has been accelerating alarmingly, losing a trillion tons in the last four years. The rapid melting is getting the attention of scientists because locked away in the Greenland ice sheet is the possibility to raise global sea levels by 24 feet. The Antarctic holds 187 feet of potential ice melt. Polar ice loss on that scale would have unfathomable consequences for continued life on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis uses satellites to measure the warmth of the waters around Greenland. Because he has a sense of humor, his project is known to all as OMG: Oceans Melting Greenland. (He preferred calling it Water Temperature Fjords, but couldn’t get the acronym past government sensibilities.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As scientists, we’re witnessing these huge events, and it’s telling us how the Earth is changing,” Willis said. “Of course, I’m also a citizen, I live on this planet, and it is worrying that it’s happening. It’s sometimes profoundly shocking to wake up and realize we’re reshaping our entire planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">U\u003c/span>nderstanding the threat of sea-level rise in California depends to some extent on where you are standing: Boots in the dust of the Central Valley and you might curse the lateness of a rail shipment held up by flooding at the port of Oakland; bare feet in the sand at Huntington Beach and you may have to consider relocating your family, your home and all your possessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some simple math: Every inch of sea-level rise equates to an 8- to 10-feet loss of beach. So, using the conservative projection of a 4-foot rise, and the lower-end 8-foot-per inch formula, that equates to 384 feet of coastal beach loss in the next 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10-foot rise scenario, which scientists peg as the new worst-case, would cause a land loss of 800 feet — the length of two-and-a-half football fields. The sea will not rise the same amount in every place; scientists say each discrete elevation is dependent on factors such as the shape of the sea floor and the slope of the landfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering the scope of this coming catastrophe, it does not appear to be front-of-mind to many in the state. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone unstudied. California has a peerless capacity to turn over problems until they are smooth and shiny. Understanding comes first, with action often a distant and expensive second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tour through recent scientific analyses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/the-impacts-of-sea-level-rise-on-the-california-coast/\">2009 report\u003c/a> on sea-level rise commissioned by the state paints worst-case scenarios that are the stuff of disaster movies: A half-million Californians at risk of flooding and more than $100 billion worth of infrastructure. More than two dozen coastal power plants flooded, along with hundreds of hazardous waste facilities, as well as schools, hospitals, police stations, ports and major airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacinst.org/app/uploads/2013/02/sea_level_rise_sf_bay_cec3.pdf\">report\u003c/a> prepared for the California Energy Commission focused just on the San Francisco Bay and its 1,000 miles of shoreline, concluding: “Rising sea levels will overwhelm the existing protection structures, putting the 140,000 people currently living in vulnerable areas at increased risk.” The authors cautioned their findings did not reflect worst-case scenarios. And, if no action is taken to address the vulnerabilities, the risk projections should be considered “substantially low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Assembly weighed in with a \u003ca href=\"http://lafco.smcgov.org/sites/lafco.smcgov.org/files/documents/files/Select%20Committee%20Sea-Level%20Rise%20Report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> in 2014, and the next year the Senate chimed in with its own \u003ca href=\"http://senv.senate.ca.gov/sites/senv.senate.ca.gov/files/Climate%20Change%20Adaptation_California%20State%20Senate_2015.pdf\">review\u003c/a>, amping it up a bit: “With current projections, rising seas combined with a 100-year flood event would close over 2,000 miles of roadway, the Oakland and San Francisco airports, and the Port of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sobering fact of those state-of-the-art reports, recent though they are, is that they are already out of date and not nearly comprehensive enough in describing the scope of what currently faces California. Nor remotely scary enough. What scientists are observing now is, they say, a rapid and steep change that, even as it unfolds over comparatively long periods of time, is nonetheless occurring at a breathtaking pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"A melting glacier calving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11428170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-800x487.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-1020x621.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-960x584.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-240x146.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-375x228.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GlacierCalving-520x316.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A melting glacier calving. \u003ccite>(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ea-level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the expansion of seawater as it heats up and the added water volume from melting ice. Researchers focused on glacial melt in Greenland and Antarctica see the process as an action-packed cataclysm marked by heaving ice shelves collapsing into the sea and sheets of decaying ice sloughing off the end of a continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power unleashed by that tide of ice is awesome to contemplate. Water has always been one of the most destructive and transformative forces in nature. With warmer waters creating more energy that incubates more powerful storms, some see a near future in which seas assault our coast more frequently and with greater force. Exhibit A: California’s past winter, when repeated storms lashed the state, resulting in a preliminary price tag of $569 million and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/02/14/president-trump-approves-major-disaster-declaration-california\">federal disaster declaration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists warn that intensified\u003ca href=\"http://research.noaa.gov/News/NewsArchive/LatestNews/TabId/684/ArtMID/1768/ArticleID/11723/Leftover-warm-water-in-Pacific-Ocean-fueled-massive-El-Ni241o.aspx\"> El Nino \u003c/a>events, coupled with higher seas, will bring about unprecedented flooding. What civil engineers refer to as nuisance flooding — overwhelmed storm sewers and street flooding — is already more common. \u003ca href=\"http://california.kingtides.net/\">King Tides\u003c/a> are getting worse. Commuting times, the ability of first-responders to get to an accident scene, and the transportation of goods by road will be severely compromised, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That risk, too, can be observed at its point of origin. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintains tide gauges that bob and float in U.S. waters, sentinels sending out a stream of data measuring current sea levels. The information feeds tidal forecasts used by surfers and mariners, and is also monitored by emergency services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html\">tide and currents map\u003c/a> is both colorful and alarming. The maps depict the North American continent ringed by arrows pointing straight up, denoting trending rising sea levels, like pickets defending the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out the coast is all-but defenseless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brett Sanders, a civil and environmental engineer at UC Irvine, is using a grant from the National Science Foundation to help inform communities along the California and northern Mexican coast about the risk of rising waters. Most people are thrilled that they’ve managed to fulfill a dream of living near the beach, Sanders said, and are unaware of what they should do to protect themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have done a bad job of mapping flood risk. It’s awful,” Sanders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zillow, the website that calculates residential real estate values, recently took its maps of coastal property and overlaid NOAA’s sea-level projections. Using what are now thought to be conservative projections, the company estimated 2 million coastal homes in the United States would be underwater by the end of the century. Not as in being upside down on a mortgage, but as in fish swimming through the den. The total value of those homes? Nearly $1 trillion, in California, $49 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zillow’s chief economist, Svenja Gudell, said she was surprised that when the company shared its\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/climate-change-underwater-homes-12890/\"> information\u003c/a> with mayors or city planners, officials saw it as an event that would take place far in the future. “For some of these places the time horizon is not 100 years, it’s happening now,” she said. “It’s not as top of mind as it should be or you would like it to be. People are underinsured when it comes to flood insurance. The system is broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gudell said that her research showed that homeowners living in high-risk areas are not getting market cues —real estate values in beach areas destroyed by Hurricane Sandy are now higher than before the superstorm that played out on national television in the fall of 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not able to explain that rationally,” Gudell said. “We will see in the future, if you are on a cliff and that cliff is further eroding and if you put a piece of property on that land, it won’t be safe anymore. For now, the benefit of living in these homes clearly outweighs the current and future cost of living there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11428176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Apartment buildings hang perilously over an increasingly eroded bluff in Pacifica.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11428176\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/PacificaCoast-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings hang perilously over an increasingly eroded bluff in Pacifica. \u003ccite>(Eric Cheng/The Nature Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which leaves us with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program\">National Flood Insurance Program\u003c/a>, a troubled and debt-ridden program operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood insurance covers millions of Americans living in flood zones, based on maps that are decades out of date. The program is currently $24 billion in debt and requires reauthorization from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the federal insurance say the rates don’t reflect current risks, leaving taxpayers on the hook for someone else’s folly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern represents a coastal district that includes Malibu and a string of state beaches. A lifelong surfer, he understands the attraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so alluring,” he said of living by the beach. “But my whole thing is to make the market tell the truth about it. We know where sea level rise is going to happen. What I don’t want to happen is for all of us to bear the bill afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the horrific projections scientists have repeatedly shared about public health and safety associated with rising seas, it might be the economic cost that spurs action. A 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2961.epdf?referrer_access_token=cgJFXWlBrOrbB2rhtzQ-w9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NW5dzPCV1LQTM2JMQvXgeVn3tMRlxMKqplqdO2K8lMw-F6rujRXhG6lI8cdfGPsASvKqsv2kvbbX_NlaMAWQY4uy470S-qmZZAuPl9Bj3JzEiJ6pR7Mqt1NXJcMNys_U_M_ZuC\">paper\u003c/a> published in the journal Nature estimated the annual global cost for sea-level rise adaptation measures at about $421 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors of the study argue that the figure doesn’t take into account population growth and clustering around coasts. By the year 2100, the report warns, the price tag for mass relocations could exceed $14 trillion. Given California’s coastal population clusters — 75 percent of the state’s residents live in a coastal county — the figure here will be enormous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Ocean Protection Council receiving the new science report is a state agency whose mission, as its name implies, is to look after the welfare of California’s piece of the Pacific Ocean. It’s an almost laughably large responsibility, and one that the members approach thoughtfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report placed the scientific findings at the forefront, said Liz Whiteman, the science and strategy director for the Ocean Science Trust, which was a partner in the study. That means the analysis does not entertain the question of whether climate change is altering the behavior of the Pacific. Nor does it belabor stale arguments about how weather has always changed. It is, rather, an unsparing document that presents the best projections about the range of sea rise, and, for the first time, assigns a probability and risk to those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is in a great place for being willing to call the hard question and not shying away,” Whiteman said. “There is no doubt that there is some scary information contained in a report looking at sea-level rise and our future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Cayan, one of seven scientists who contributed to the newest report, is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, investigating how climate affects changes in oceans. Viewed from his office window in La Jolla, the Pacific Ocean appears benign and soothing. But a glimpse into the updated information he’s assembling paints a different, darker picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New data and more sophisticated modeling, he said, coupled with more extreme climate warming, “Is going to be pushing the amount of sea-level rise above what was thought to be reasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0px;scrolling:no;width:100%;height:530px\" src=\"https://ss2.climatecentral.org/widget.html?utm_source=David%20Marks%20KQED&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=SS2-Map#6/36.880/-119.443?show=satellite&projections=1-RCP85-SLR&level=10&unit=feet&pois=hide&contentTitle=Check%20sea%20level%20rise%20near%20your%20neighborhood\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing previous projections to current ones, he said, is no longer useful. “We’re actually off this scale,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cayan pulls out the 2012 report from the National Research Council, which is the basis for California’s current sea-level rise assumptions and the predicate for the state’s coastal policies. The mid-range of its projections envisions about 3 feet of rise by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he carefully takes out a sheet with the new data. Cayan points at the the elaborate graphs to the updated mid-range projection— 8½ feet. Cayan and his colleagues shrug off questions about how to apply their science—that’s the job of the politicians. But the report does counsel state officials to consider the worst-case scenario in their deliberations, and cautions: “Waiting for scientific certainty is neither a safe nor prudent option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what now? California planners and policymakers will pore over the latest report. Their deliberations will result, at some point, in “updated guidance” to use the parlance of the bureaucracy. The final document will help local officials incorporate the sea-level rise projections into their future plans for building and safety, in some cases altering zoning and building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Greenland’s summer ice melt season begins, and the 2-mile deep ice sheet that was created in the last Ice Age continues to shrink. Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice. The proliferation of these ‘melt streams’ is leading scientists to consider that the loss of Greenland’s ice may be set on an unstoppable trajectory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No longer a matter of if, but only of when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Researchers in Southern California say they've uncovered evidence that humans lived there 130,000 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it's true, it would be the oldest sign of humans in the Americas ever — predating the best evidence up to now by about 115,000 years. And the claim has scientists wondering whether to believe it or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1992, archaeologists working a highway construction site in San Diego County found the partial skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like animal now extinct. Mastodon skeletons aren't so unusual, but there was other strange stuff with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The remains were in association with a number of sharply broken rocks and broken bones,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdnhm.org/consulting-services/paleo-services/about-us/staff/\">Tom Deméré\u003c/a>, a paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum. He says the rocks showed clear marks of having been used as hammers and an anvil. And some of the mastodon bones as well as a tooth showed fractures characteristic of being whacked, apparently with those stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looked like the work of humans. Yet there were no cut marks on the bones showing that the animal was butchered for meat. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this series of stories received financial support from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fij.org\">Fund for Investigative Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California generates an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469186-Kettleman-FAQ-Final-5-20-14.html#document/p8/a339164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average of 1.7 million tons\u003c/a> of hazardous waste each year. That ranges from industrial pollution to discarded household products. It includes liquids, solid, or gases that science has determined \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469185-Hwmp-defininghw111.html#document/p1/a339165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pose a threat\u003c/a> to human or other life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency charged with protecting California’s people and environment by making sure these substances are handled safely is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/DTSC_Overview.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).\u003c/a> The DTSC regulates thousands of businesses and institutions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/sitecleanup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completes some 125 cleanups\u003c/a> a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”6QfGDFTtTQRDemAtpql54frXzk5eVwbd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years the department has faced criticism from environmentalists, neighbors of industrial sites and state legislators. They accuse the department of allowing some cleanup projects to drag on, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/decades-later-industry-and-regulators-fail-to-clean-up-former-rocket-test-site/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sometimes for decades\u003c/a>. They point to fiscal mismanagement, sloppy record keeping and an opaque institutional culture that makes it hard to find out when the public is in danger or what’s being done about it. Some of these critics say state regulators have been indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the critiques, DTSC executives published a reform plan five years ago called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468895-Fixing-the-Foundation-WP.html\">Fixing the Foundation: Restoring Public Trust in the DTSC\u003c/a>. The plan called for improving communication with the public and identified ways to shift cleanup costs from taxpayers to polluters. It also laid out strategies to make enforcement actions more consistent and transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department has set up a branch specifically assigned to investigate and correct environmental problems in poor minority communities plagued with the worst pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, left, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-960x728.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-375x284.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-520x394.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department’s first assistant director for environmental justice. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To encourage progress, state lawmakers established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Independent-Review-Panel.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Review Panel \u003c/a> — currently consisting of an environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Kracov.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attorney\u003c/a>, a former San Diego County environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Vizzier.cfm\">regulator \u003c/a>and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Campbell.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toxicologist \u003c/a> — to make recommendations on the department’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel’s suggestions have ranged from bookkeeping improvements to better public notice on how a factory’s emissions might threaten neighbors’ health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC director, Barbara Lee, says she’s committed to transforming her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s staff turned down requests over two years for an interview. But in a letter to the review panel last September, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p2/a349571\">described \u003c/a>actions the department has taken to improve its programs and policies. These include including hiring seven new executive leaders over the past year; giving the department’s public participation office more authority and resources; creating the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs; and starting an Organizational Excellence Initiative to make the DTSC more diverse and inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also said she’s changing the permitting process for hazardous waste sites so they will be more protective, more enforceable and better explained to the public. The letter included a site-by-site \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p5/a349572\">description \u003c/a>of DTSC actions and how the department has responded to neighbors’ and environmentalists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department executives point to the department’s oversight at the Chemical Waste Management \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/CWMI_Kettleman.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landfill in Kettleman Hills\u003c/a> as an example of the DTSC’s new focus on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kettleman Hills neighbors have long fought for tougher regulation. They blame the landfill’s polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, for serious illnesses and birth defects in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the DTSC settled a federal civil rights complaint filed by Kettleman Hills neighbors after the department gave permission for the landfill to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have access to agency heads that we’ve never had before.’\u003ccite>Kettleman Hills neighbor Maricela Mares-Alatorre\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes the department’s promise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p5/a349589\">support a health assessment\u003c/a> that analyzes the health effects in Kettleman City from exposure to pollution, including air pollution, hazardous waste and other contaminants. It sets \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349588\">standards \u003c/a>for air monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three years, the agreement requires the DTSC to consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349587\">a list of factors\u003c/a> related to environmental justice in reviewing applications to expand the landfill or renew its operating permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The settlement is groundbreaking,” said Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Kettleman Hills neighbor and community organizer for the environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://greenaction.org/?page_id=183\">Greenaction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before this, it wasn’t in (the department’s) nature to respond to civil rights complaints,” she said. “We’ve filed complaints where it took them 18 years to respond. But this agreement is court-enforceable. We have access to agency heads that we’ve never had before. We’re hoping this will be a model not only for our community, but throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists say the DTSC’s recent record elsewhere in California is far less promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to Lee’s reports of progress on DTSC improvements, a coalition of activists from hazardous waste sites throughout the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468930-Groundtruthing-Report-Final-Draft.html#document/p1/a339161\">reported last October \u003c/a>that the department has neglected its promises to reform. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468931-CEJA-AgencyAssessment-2016-FINAL.html#document/p5/a339162\">a follow-up report from the Environmental Justice Alliance \u003c/a>gave the department poor marks for meeting principles of environmental justice such as communication. In some cases DTSC decisions taken behind closed doors have made situations worse, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gideon Kracov is chairman of the Independent Review Panel. In his \u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=4113\"> annual report to state legislators\u003c/a> in February, he, too, described some of the reform efforts as falling short.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Backlogged Permitting Process Weakens Enforcement Efforts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Permitting facilities is an area where the department struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the DTSC are responsible for issuing what’s called “Tier 1” \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/upload/hazwaste_facility_permits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permits \u003c/a>to the 118 facilities that store or handle the most hazardous waste. These permits are like company-specific regulation books, issued for 10-year terms, with operators required to seek renewal six months before their permits expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an operator meets that deadline, the facility may continue to operate under a “continued” permit. While the original conditions still apply, there’s no way to require improved safeguards, technologies and practices that may have been developed since the original one was issued. Further, the old permit won’t address changes that have occurred near the facility, such as new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his legislative report, Kracov said the DTSC continues to let some companies operate for years on expired permits. Seven years from now, in 2024, the department still expects to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3462861-April-21-2016-57014-F-Letter-Report-1.html#document/p5/a344874\">30 of the facilities it oversees\u003c/a> operating on permits that are more than five years past their expiration dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11368502 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an "interim" hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Failing to keep a permit up to date impedes the DTSC in regulating the company. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1180x897.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-960x730.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-240x183.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-375x285.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an interim hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department’s Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn’t expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon. \u003ccite>(Source: DTSC Independent Review Panel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A legislative hearing included several exchanges about the funding the department might need to process permits faster. But Shawn Martin, an analyst at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, noted that the DTSC had failed to provide a scheduled report on its funding needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s grasp on its own finances has sometimes been weak. In August 2014, the state auditor issued a withering report on the DTSC’s failure to collect an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3461892-2013-122.html#document/p3/a338491\">$194 million in cleanup costs from polluters since 1987\u003c/a>. The department failed to send out nearly $142 million in bills. For $52 million in assessments the DTSC did mail, it never collected, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his presentation to the Legislature, Kracov said the department originally thought it should be able to collect $90 million in unpaid costs. With data corrections, write-offs and settlement agreements, it actually took in $7 million, Kracov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing the Department’s Culture Isn’t Easy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Such lapses have drawn criticism from legislators, neighbors of contaminated sites and environmental activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Chandler, a veteran DTSC engineering geologist, says he’s seen several reform programs like the current one come to nothing over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his superiors have sometimes taken him to task for criticizing department decisions or policies, telling him that such public comments by a DTSC employee might make it appear that he’s speaking for the department. Today, when he questions something the DTSC does, he stresses that he’s speaking as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked for some bright people,” he says. “I didn’t like the way we did business, but that didn’t stop them from having a high IQ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what he sees as a disconnect. “I’d sit in these (reform program) classes and listen to them answer the questions perfectly. Then I’d watch them come back in the office and do exactly the opposite, in everyday practice, to what we’d just been taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler acknowledges that Lee has made a number of appointments from outside the DTSC, trying to bring in fresh ideas. Still, he says the department’s entrenched culture is very difficult to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler appears to be a rarity in his willingness to be publicly identified as a department critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other DTSC employees, who asked not to be named for fear they could face retaliation at work, describe a department long demoralized by inadequate budgets, tripped up by its own bureaucracy and confused by frequent changes in leadership and mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official designation for project directors, Career Executive Assignment positions (CEA), has a parody title: Career Ends Abruptly, reportedly because it’s easy to be stripped of authority for antagonizing influential people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime employee has published a satire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Mismanagement-Freedonia-fartificatory-self-absorbed-ebook/dp/B01EPCX2WQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492810824&sr=8-1&keywords=toxic+mismanagement\">“The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia,”\u003c/a> that pokes fun at regulators bowing to corporate pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420688 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, written under a pen name by a long-time Department of Toxic Substances Control employee, pokes fun atregulators bowing to corporate pressure.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A book called “The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia” was written under a pen name by a longtime Department of Toxic Substances Control employee. \u003ccite>(Lucretius Jones )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the DTSC’s culture — and its commitment to change — were redoubled late in 2015 after an advocacy group published departmental \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804447-RacistJokes.html\">emails\u003c/a> in which a pair of high-ranking regulators exchanged crudely racist jokes, sometimes about the communities they were assigned to protect. Lee has told lawmakers she disciplined and reassigned the offenders and plans extensive training in issues of environmental justice, race and cultural sensitivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gale Filter, the former deputy director for enforcement and emergency response at the department, remembers running into a colleague at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction.’\u003ccite>State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And she says, ‘You know, your environmental justice program that you started while you were there, Gale, do you realize how hard it is to work with these people?’ ” Filter recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what was going through my mind, ‘Well, how could it be any harder working with those people than the industries that have captured you?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter believes the problems are pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This organization has a lot of pathologies. And one of those pathologies is a culture that is antagonistic or at least removed from those people that it’s supposed to serve, i.e., the public,” he said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León also sees a broad failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction of this department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter pointed out that in such an uncertain atmosphere, what often counts most is friendship. Where the public is seen as a demanding stranger, the lobbyists of industries subject to DTSC regulation often have plenty of friends at the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isn’t it easier to work with people that you know?” Filter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Auto Recycling Methods Under New Scrutiny\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Filter points to California’s long-standing policy regarding the disposal of auto shredder waste as an example of industry getting too much of a say in decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420132 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An auto shredder at work.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1180x1918.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-960x1560.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-240x390.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-375x609.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-520x845.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An auto shredder at work at a recycling plant. Safe disposal standards for this waste are currently being reviewed by the state. \u003ccite>(Source: Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When auto recyclers recover metals from wrecked cars, they also have to figure out what to do with leftover engine fluids, rubber, plastics and dirt. The material is toxic and hard to dispose of safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordinarily, such waste, known as “auto fluff,” would be buried in landfills that are specially lined to contain any poisons and protect underground aquifers from contamination. That could be a big problem for the auto recycling industry, because it produces a lot of waste and these lined landfills charge high disposal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, state regulators quietly approved a recycling industry solution: coat beads of waste with a concrete sealant, kind of like heavy metal M&Ms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484273-policy-and-procedure-88-6.html#document/p4/a254564\">Policy and Procedure 88-6\u003c/a> declared auto fluff safe and regulators granted recyclers special exemptions, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484982-a-sample-f-letter.html#document/p2/a254628\">F Letters\u003c/a>,” that gave them permission to send their waste to less protected — and, therefore, less expensive — landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better for the auto recyclers, landfill operators often discount their disposal fees for industrial materials approved for use as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjQ182Zn5DSAhUijFQKHahTArAQFggnMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calrecycle.ca.gov%2Flaws%2Fregulations%2Ftitle27%2Fch3sb4a.htm&usg=AFQjCNElQFkw5JG7fQp5JLOiXzcJuseMZQ&sig2=2tIOPvCLILgogRHYik3ttA\">alternative daily cover\u003c/a>,” used to bury rotting garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, the department’s own legal department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a285571\">declared\u003c/a> the F Letters “outdated and legally incorrect” because they were enacted in violation of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.oal.ca.gov/rulemaking_process/regular_rulemaking_process/\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a>, which mandates public participation when a state agency seeks to implement a new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It labeled the DTSC policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a338856\">an illegal “underground regulation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, senior DTSC scientist Peter Wood filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488800-draft-dtsc-study-on-shredder-waste.html#document/p8/a255846\">report\u003c/a> that said both the treated and untreated shredder waste exceeded state regulatory thresholds for lead, zinc and cadmium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s laboratory model cast doubt on how well the auto fluff’s industrial lime coating could withstand the highly corrosive sludge found inside landfills. Since most landfills accepting municipal garbage are either unlined or have only a clay liner, the concern is that toxic waste could leach into local water supplies. Wood urged that, pending further investigation, the department rescind Policy and Procedure 88-6 and revoke the F letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the DTSC shelved the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11368430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg\" alt='A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. The TASR portrayed in the bottom column is \"treated auto shredder residue,\" or auto fluff. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send this material to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. In 2002, a DTSC report pointed to risks of environmental and public health threats from the treated waste. The DTSC shelved the report.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send shredded auto waste to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Department spokesman Russ Edmondson refused repeated requests for an interview with Wood. The scientist’s report has remained a subject of contention in the DTSC and the auto recycling industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, then-department director Maureen Gorsen revived the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488858-gorsen-letter.html#document/p1/a255943\">notifying\u003c/a> recyclers that she planned to carry out Wood’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Rosegay, whose legal and lobbying firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1147279&view=activity&session=2015\">represents\u003c/a> the West Coast Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3676337-Metalshredderletterto-C-Heck.html#document/p2/a349734\">wrote back fast\u003c/a>, saying that removing the auto fluff exemptions would severely injure auto recycling companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter says what came next was an intense lobbying campaign, with Rosegay and Robert Hoffman, the former chief counsel for the DTSC, pressing legislators to keep the exemptions in place until the state Environmental Protection Agency had reported on the issue. At the time, Hoffman’s firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1223535&session=2007\">represented\u003c/a> several recycling businesses, as well as an industry trade group. Neither Rosegay nor Hoffman responded to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC extended the deadline three times. In September 2009, six months after Gorsen resigned, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804329-Dropping-F-Letter-Initiative.html#document/p1/a289651\">relented\u003c/a> on steps to revoke the special permits. But they would stay in place until the department approved some substitute for the existing formula that was safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department had quietly reversed course. And no new standards for a safer substitute were forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the DTSC continues to let the recyclers send \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/MSRCleanmetals.cfm\">at least 400,000 tons of treated auto fluff\u003c/a> to landfills annually, where it is used as an acceptable material to bury trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators intervened, and in 2014 the governor signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2489411-sb-1249-bill-20140928-chaptered.html\">state law\u003c/a> aimed at making the disposal safer. It calls on the DTSC to set standards by next year that will ensure the shredder waste is not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11363914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11363914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alice Sterling says the department waited far too long to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago, Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a scientist, but I would think any armchair scientist would be able to look at this and think, ‘Here’s a lot of questions that haven’t been answered, but that can be answered. How much lead is in this stuff? What are the components? Is it safe to breathe? Can it migrate offsite? Does it leach?’ And we have these horrific winds in Simi Valley, and day after day, year after year of this stuff circulating in our air. It’s landing on things,” Sterling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t seem to run the department like a tight ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling believes that if DTSC would only get the answers to the questions about auto fluff, it would be logically compelled to enforce appropriate regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show when the department has such detailed information — even when its own investigators log allegedly criminal actions by a polluter — it sometimes fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lead From Battery Recyclers Contaminates Homes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2015, as public protests mounted against the East Los Angeles battery recycler Exide Technologies for poisoning its neighbors with lead and arsenic, the company struck a deal with the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804657-Exide-Agreement.html#document/p1/a289739\">to avoid felony prosecution\u003c/a>. In the agreement, Exide admitted that for two decades, it regularly violated federal law by illegally storing and transporting lead and acid in leaky truck trailers, and that those actions could have been treated as felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I made [my kids] go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.’\u003ccite>Exide neighbor Terry Cano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company agreed to close, level and clean up its plant, and to remove lead contamination from surrounding homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that well before the period covered by the federal agreement, regulators knew Exide was operating illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in 1990, an inspection report alleged that plant operators were using an unregistered trucking company to ship hazardous plastic waste to a recycler that didn’t have the proper permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(DTSC’s predecessor agency, the Department of Health Services) has twice sampled polypropylene loads en route and have found hazardous levels of lead leaking on to Interstate 5,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2491555-gnb-inc-rcra-facility-assessment-10-1990-pages-1.html#document/p6/a256858\">report states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years later, another inspector added a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494149-exide-fci2013-sov081613.html#document/p3/a256865\">handwritten note\u003c/a> to a “notice of violations” following a plant visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DTSC is concerned that leaking from the containers while on public roads is an on-going problem, and this issue needs to be addressed immediately. Leaking of hazardous waste is considered illegal disposal,” the note warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her seven-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\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. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\">let the Exide plant operate\u003c/a> without a fully approved hazardous waste permit for 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all that time, Exide didn’t satisfy regulators that it fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the department issued its third \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804686-2014-06-17-Exide-3rd-NOD-Complete-1.html#document/p1/a289752\">“notice of deficiency”\u003c/a> on Exide’s permit application, acknowledging that the DTSC didn’t have complete information about how much lead-contaminated waste was on the factory site. In a press release, DTSC officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804687-News-Release-T-13-14-Exide-NOD.html#document/p1/a289751\">pointed out\u003c/a> that Exide’s three deficient applications required them to start proceedings for denying the company a hazardous waste permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never came to that. Exide, which had operated for so long on what was supposed to be a temporary permit, capitulated to federal prosecutors nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the department is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467015-News-Release-T-20-16.html\">working on a plan\u003c/a> to clean up some 10,000 lead-contaminated homes near the Exide plant. Yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467016-Exide-TCRA-Guidance.html\">all but the most severely polluted\u003c/a> will have to wait until after the department finishes an environmental review this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, DTSC spokeswoman Rosanna Westmoreland writes that the department needs to assess health risks for each house. The analysis will consider factors such as the amount of contamination on a property and how it is distributed, whether it is exposed in bare dirt, and whether there are pregnant women and children there, the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide neighbor Terry Cano is frightened and doesn’t want to wait. She says soil tests at her home already show high lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a flashback of me playing with the kids. ‘Get some fresh air. Get some exercise,’ ” she recalled recently, sobbing and gasping for breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I made them go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this series of stories received financial support from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fij.org\">Fund for Investigative Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California generates an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469186-Kettleman-FAQ-Final-5-20-14.html#document/p8/a339164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average of 1.7 million tons\u003c/a> of hazardous waste each year. That ranges from industrial pollution to discarded household products. It includes liquids, solid, or gases that science has determined \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469185-Hwmp-defininghw111.html#document/p1/a339165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pose a threat\u003c/a> to human or other life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency charged with protecting California’s people and environment by making sure these substances are handled safely is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/DTSC_Overview.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).\u003c/a> The DTSC regulates thousands of businesses and institutions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/sitecleanup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completes some 125 cleanups\u003c/a> a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years the department has faced criticism from environmentalists, neighbors of industrial sites and state legislators. They accuse the department of allowing some cleanup projects to drag on, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/decades-later-industry-and-regulators-fail-to-clean-up-former-rocket-test-site/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sometimes for decades\u003c/a>. They point to fiscal mismanagement, sloppy record keeping and an opaque institutional culture that makes it hard to find out when the public is in danger or what’s being done about it. Some of these critics say state regulators have been indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the critiques, DTSC executives published a reform plan five years ago called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468895-Fixing-the-Foundation-WP.html\">Fixing the Foundation: Restoring Public Trust in the DTSC\u003c/a>. The plan called for improving communication with the public and identified ways to shift cleanup costs from taxpayers to polluters. It also laid out strategies to make enforcement actions more consistent and transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department has set up a branch specifically assigned to investigate and correct environmental problems in poor minority communities plagued with the worst pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, left, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-960x728.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-375x284.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-520x394.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department’s first assistant director for environmental justice. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To encourage progress, state lawmakers established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Independent-Review-Panel.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent Review Panel \u003c/a> — currently consisting of an environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Kracov.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attorney\u003c/a>, a former San Diego County environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Vizzier.cfm\">regulator \u003c/a>and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Campbell.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toxicologist \u003c/a> — to make recommendations on the department’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel’s suggestions have ranged from bookkeeping improvements to better public notice on how a factory’s emissions might threaten neighbors’ health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC director, Barbara Lee, says she’s committed to transforming her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s staff turned down requests over two years for an interview. But in a letter to the review panel last September, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p2/a349571\">described \u003c/a>actions the department has taken to improve its programs and policies. These include including hiring seven new executive leaders over the past year; giving the department’s public participation office more authority and resources; creating the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs; and starting an Organizational Excellence Initiative to make the DTSC more diverse and inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also said she’s changing the permitting process for hazardous waste sites so they will be more protective, more enforceable and better explained to the public. The letter included a site-by-site \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p5/a349572\">description \u003c/a>of DTSC actions and how the department has responded to neighbors’ and environmentalists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department executives point to the department’s oversight at the Chemical Waste Management \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/CWMI_Kettleman.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landfill in Kettleman Hills\u003c/a> as an example of the DTSC’s new focus on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kettleman Hills neighbors have long fought for tougher regulation. They blame the landfill’s polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, for serious illnesses and birth defects in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the DTSC settled a federal civil rights complaint filed by Kettleman Hills neighbors after the department gave permission for the landfill to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have access to agency heads that we’ve never had before.’\u003ccite>Kettleman Hills neighbor Maricela Mares-Alatorre\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes the department’s promise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p5/a349589\">support a health assessment\u003c/a> that analyzes the health effects in Kettleman City from exposure to pollution, including air pollution, hazardous waste and other contaminants. It sets \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349588\">standards \u003c/a>for air monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three years, the agreement requires the DTSC to consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349587\">a list of factors\u003c/a> related to environmental justice in reviewing applications to expand the landfill or renew its operating permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The settlement is groundbreaking,” said Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Kettleman Hills neighbor and community organizer for the environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://greenaction.org/?page_id=183\">Greenaction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before this, it wasn’t in (the department’s) nature to respond to civil rights complaints,” she said. “We’ve filed complaints where it took them 18 years to respond. But this agreement is court-enforceable. We have access to agency heads that we’ve never had before. We’re hoping this will be a model not only for our community, but throughout the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists say the DTSC’s recent record elsewhere in California is far less promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to Lee’s reports of progress on DTSC improvements, a coalition of activists from hazardous waste sites throughout the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468930-Groundtruthing-Report-Final-Draft.html#document/p1/a339161\">reported last October \u003c/a>that the department has neglected its promises to reform. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468931-CEJA-AgencyAssessment-2016-FINAL.html#document/p5/a339162\">a follow-up report from the Environmental Justice Alliance \u003c/a>gave the department poor marks for meeting principles of environmental justice such as communication. In some cases DTSC decisions taken behind closed doors have made situations worse, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gideon Kracov is chairman of the Independent Review Panel. In his \u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=4113\"> annual report to state legislators\u003c/a> in February, he, too, described some of the reform efforts as falling short.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Backlogged Permitting Process Weakens Enforcement Efforts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Permitting facilities is an area where the department struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the DTSC are responsible for issuing what’s called “Tier 1” \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/upload/hazwaste_facility_permits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permits \u003c/a>to the 118 facilities that store or handle the most hazardous waste. These permits are like company-specific regulation books, issued for 10-year terms, with operators required to seek renewal six months before their permits expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an operator meets that deadline, the facility may continue to operate under a “continued” permit. While the original conditions still apply, there’s no way to require improved safeguards, technologies and practices that may have been developed since the original one was issued. Further, the old permit won’t address changes that have occurred near the facility, such as new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his legislative report, Kracov said the DTSC continues to let some companies operate for years on expired permits. Seven years from now, in 2024, the department still expects to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3462861-April-21-2016-57014-F-Letter-Report-1.html#document/p5/a344874\">30 of the facilities it oversees\u003c/a> operating on permits that are more than five years past their expiration dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11368502 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an "interim" hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Failing to keep a permit up to date impedes the DTSC in regulating the company. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1180x897.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-960x730.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-240x183.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-375x285.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an interim hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department’s Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn’t expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon. \u003ccite>(Source: DTSC Independent Review Panel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A legislative hearing included several exchanges about the funding the department might need to process permits faster. But Shawn Martin, an analyst at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, noted that the DTSC had failed to provide a scheduled report on its funding needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s grasp on its own finances has sometimes been weak. In August 2014, the state auditor issued a withering report on the DTSC’s failure to collect an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3461892-2013-122.html#document/p3/a338491\">$194 million in cleanup costs from polluters since 1987\u003c/a>. The department failed to send out nearly $142 million in bills. For $52 million in assessments the DTSC did mail, it never collected, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his presentation to the Legislature, Kracov said the department originally thought it should be able to collect $90 million in unpaid costs. With data corrections, write-offs and settlement agreements, it actually took in $7 million, Kracov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing the Department’s Culture Isn’t Easy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Such lapses have drawn criticism from legislators, neighbors of contaminated sites and environmental activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Chandler, a veteran DTSC engineering geologist, says he’s seen several reform programs like the current one come to nothing over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his superiors have sometimes taken him to task for criticizing department decisions or policies, telling him that such public comments by a DTSC employee might make it appear that he’s speaking for the department. Today, when he questions something the DTSC does, he stresses that he’s speaking as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked for some bright people,” he says. “I didn’t like the way we did business, but that didn’t stop them from having a high IQ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what he sees as a disconnect. “I’d sit in these (reform program) classes and listen to them answer the questions perfectly. Then I’d watch them come back in the office and do exactly the opposite, in everyday practice, to what we’d just been taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler acknowledges that Lee has made a number of appointments from outside the DTSC, trying to bring in fresh ideas. Still, he says the department’s entrenched culture is very difficult to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler appears to be a rarity in his willingness to be publicly identified as a department critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other DTSC employees, who asked not to be named for fear they could face retaliation at work, describe a department long demoralized by inadequate budgets, tripped up by its own bureaucracy and confused by frequent changes in leadership and mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official designation for project directors, Career Executive Assignment positions (CEA), has a parody title: Career Ends Abruptly, reportedly because it’s easy to be stripped of authority for antagonizing influential people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime employee has published a satire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Mismanagement-Freedonia-fartificatory-self-absorbed-ebook/dp/B01EPCX2WQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492810824&sr=8-1&keywords=toxic+mismanagement\">“The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia,”\u003c/a> that pokes fun at regulators bowing to corporate pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420688 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, written under a pen name by a long-time Department of Toxic Substances Control employee, pokes fun atregulators bowing to corporate pressure.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A book called “The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia” was written under a pen name by a longtime Department of Toxic Substances Control employee. \u003ccite>(Lucretius Jones )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the DTSC’s culture — and its commitment to change — were redoubled late in 2015 after an advocacy group published departmental \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804447-RacistJokes.html\">emails\u003c/a> in which a pair of high-ranking regulators exchanged crudely racist jokes, sometimes about the communities they were assigned to protect. Lee has told lawmakers she disciplined and reassigned the offenders and plans extensive training in issues of environmental justice, race and cultural sensitivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gale Filter, the former deputy director for enforcement and emergency response at the department, remembers running into a colleague at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction.’\u003ccite>State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And she says, ‘You know, your environmental justice program that you started while you were there, Gale, do you realize how hard it is to work with these people?’ ” Filter recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what was going through my mind, ‘Well, how could it be any harder working with those people than the industries that have captured you?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter believes the problems are pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This organization has a lot of pathologies. And one of those pathologies is a culture that is antagonistic or at least removed from those people that it’s supposed to serve, i.e., the public,” he said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León also sees a broad failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction of this department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter pointed out that in such an uncertain atmosphere, what often counts most is friendship. Where the public is seen as a demanding stranger, the lobbyists of industries subject to DTSC regulation often have plenty of friends at the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isn’t it easier to work with people that you know?” Filter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Auto Recycling Methods Under New Scrutiny\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Filter points to California’s long-standing policy regarding the disposal of auto shredder waste as an example of industry getting too much of a say in decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420132 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An auto shredder at work.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3120\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1180x1918.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-960x1560.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-240x390.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-375x609.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-520x845.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An auto shredder at work at a recycling plant. Safe disposal standards for this waste are currently being reviewed by the state. \u003ccite>(Source: Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When auto recyclers recover metals from wrecked cars, they also have to figure out what to do with leftover engine fluids, rubber, plastics and dirt. The material is toxic and hard to dispose of safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordinarily, such waste, known as “auto fluff,” would be buried in landfills that are specially lined to contain any poisons and protect underground aquifers from contamination. That could be a big problem for the auto recycling industry, because it produces a lot of waste and these lined landfills charge high disposal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, state regulators quietly approved a recycling industry solution: coat beads of waste with a concrete sealant, kind of like heavy metal M&Ms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484273-policy-and-procedure-88-6.html#document/p4/a254564\">Policy and Procedure 88-6\u003c/a> declared auto fluff safe and regulators granted recyclers special exemptions, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484982-a-sample-f-letter.html#document/p2/a254628\">F Letters\u003c/a>,” that gave them permission to send their waste to less protected — and, therefore, less expensive — landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better for the auto recyclers, landfill operators often discount their disposal fees for industrial materials approved for use as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjQ182Zn5DSAhUijFQKHahTArAQFggnMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calrecycle.ca.gov%2Flaws%2Fregulations%2Ftitle27%2Fch3sb4a.htm&usg=AFQjCNElQFkw5JG7fQp5JLOiXzcJuseMZQ&sig2=2tIOPvCLILgogRHYik3ttA\">alternative daily cover\u003c/a>,” used to bury rotting garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, the department’s own legal department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a285571\">declared\u003c/a> the F Letters “outdated and legally incorrect” because they were enacted in violation of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.oal.ca.gov/rulemaking_process/regular_rulemaking_process/\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a>, which mandates public participation when a state agency seeks to implement a new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It labeled the DTSC policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a338856\">an illegal “underground regulation.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, senior DTSC scientist Peter Wood filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488800-draft-dtsc-study-on-shredder-waste.html#document/p8/a255846\">report\u003c/a> that said both the treated and untreated shredder waste exceeded state regulatory thresholds for lead, zinc and cadmium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s laboratory model cast doubt on how well the auto fluff’s industrial lime coating could withstand the highly corrosive sludge found inside landfills. Since most landfills accepting municipal garbage are either unlined or have only a clay liner, the concern is that toxic waste could leach into local water supplies. Wood urged that, pending further investigation, the department rescind Policy and Procedure 88-6 and revoke the F letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the DTSC shelved the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11368430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg\" alt='A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. The TASR portrayed in the bottom column is \"treated auto shredder residue,\" or auto fluff. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send this material to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. In 2002, a DTSC report pointed to risks of environmental and public health threats from the treated waste. The DTSC shelved the report.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send shredded auto waste to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Department spokesman Russ Edmondson refused repeated requests for an interview with Wood. The scientist’s report has remained a subject of contention in the DTSC and the auto recycling industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, then-department director Maureen Gorsen revived the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488858-gorsen-letter.html#document/p1/a255943\">notifying\u003c/a> recyclers that she planned to carry out Wood’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Rosegay, whose legal and lobbying firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1147279&view=activity&session=2015\">represents\u003c/a> the West Coast Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3676337-Metalshredderletterto-C-Heck.html#document/p2/a349734\">wrote back fast\u003c/a>, saying that removing the auto fluff exemptions would severely injure auto recycling companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter says what came next was an intense lobbying campaign, with Rosegay and Robert Hoffman, the former chief counsel for the DTSC, pressing legislators to keep the exemptions in place until the state Environmental Protection Agency had reported on the issue. At the time, Hoffman’s firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1223535&session=2007\">represented\u003c/a> several recycling businesses, as well as an industry trade group. Neither Rosegay nor Hoffman responded to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC extended the deadline three times. In September 2009, six months after Gorsen resigned, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804329-Dropping-F-Letter-Initiative.html#document/p1/a289651\">relented\u003c/a> on steps to revoke the special permits. But they would stay in place until the department approved some substitute for the existing formula that was safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department had quietly reversed course. And no new standards for a safer substitute were forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the DTSC continues to let the recyclers send \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/MSRCleanmetals.cfm\">at least 400,000 tons of treated auto fluff\u003c/a> to landfills annually, where it is used as an acceptable material to bury trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators intervened, and in 2014 the governor signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2489411-sb-1249-bill-20140928-chaptered.html\">state law\u003c/a> aimed at making the disposal safer. It calls on the DTSC to set standards by next year that will ensure the shredder waste is not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11363914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11363914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alice Sterling says the department waited far too long to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago, Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a scientist, but I would think any armchair scientist would be able to look at this and think, ‘Here’s a lot of questions that haven’t been answered, but that can be answered. How much lead is in this stuff? What are the components? Is it safe to breathe? Can it migrate offsite? Does it leach?’ And we have these horrific winds in Simi Valley, and day after day, year after year of this stuff circulating in our air. It’s landing on things,” Sterling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t seem to run the department like a tight ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling believes that if DTSC would only get the answers to the questions about auto fluff, it would be logically compelled to enforce appropriate regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show when the department has such detailed information — even when its own investigators log allegedly criminal actions by a polluter — it sometimes fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lead From Battery Recyclers Contaminates Homes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2015, as public protests mounted against the East Los Angeles battery recycler Exide Technologies for poisoning its neighbors with lead and arsenic, the company struck a deal with the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804657-Exide-Agreement.html#document/p1/a289739\">to avoid felony prosecution\u003c/a>. In the agreement, Exide admitted that for two decades, it regularly violated federal law by illegally storing and transporting lead and acid in leaky truck trailers, and that those actions could have been treated as felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I made [my kids] go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.’\u003ccite>Exide neighbor Terry Cano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company agreed to close, level and clean up its plant, and to remove lead contamination from surrounding homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that well before the period covered by the federal agreement, regulators knew Exide was operating illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in 1990, an inspection report alleged that plant operators were using an unregistered trucking company to ship hazardous plastic waste to a recycler that didn’t have the proper permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(DTSC’s predecessor agency, the Department of Health Services) has twice sampled polypropylene loads en route and have found hazardous levels of lead leaking on to Interstate 5,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2491555-gnb-inc-rcra-facility-assessment-10-1990-pages-1.html#document/p6/a256858\">report states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years later, another inspector added a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494149-exide-fci2013-sov081613.html#document/p3/a256865\">handwritten note\u003c/a> to a “notice of violations” following a plant visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DTSC is concerned that leaking from the containers while on public roads is an on-going problem, and this issue needs to be addressed immediately. Leaking of hazardous waste is considered illegal disposal,” the note warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11420104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her seven-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\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. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\">let the Exide plant operate\u003c/a> without a fully approved hazardous waste permit for 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all that time, Exide didn’t satisfy regulators that it fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the department issued its third \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804686-2014-06-17-Exide-3rd-NOD-Complete-1.html#document/p1/a289752\">“notice of deficiency”\u003c/a> on Exide’s permit application, acknowledging that the DTSC didn’t have complete information about how much lead-contaminated waste was on the factory site. In a press release, DTSC officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804687-News-Release-T-13-14-Exide-NOD.html#document/p1/a289751\">pointed out\u003c/a> that Exide’s three deficient applications required them to start proceedings for denying the company a hazardous waste permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never came to that. Exide, which had operated for so long on what was supposed to be a temporary permit, capitulated to federal prosecutors nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the department is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467015-News-Release-T-20-16.html\">working on a plan\u003c/a> to clean up some 10,000 lead-contaminated homes near the Exide plant. Yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467016-Exide-TCRA-Guidance.html\">all but the most severely polluted\u003c/a> will have to wait until after the department finishes an environmental review this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, DTSC spokeswoman Rosanna Westmoreland writes that the department needs to assess health risks for each house. The analysis will consider factors such as the amount of contamination on a property and how it is distributed, whether it is exposed in bare dirt, and whether there are pregnant women and children there, the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide neighbor Terry Cano is frightened and doesn’t want to wait. She says soil tests at her home already show high lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a flashback of me playing with the kids. ‘Get some fresh air. Get some exercise,’ ” she recalled recently, sobbing and gasping for breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many scientists — and members of the science-interested public — will be taking to the streets Saturday. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/19/scientists-take-to-california-streets-this-saturday-and-ask-you-to-join-them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March for Science\u003c/a> is a vote for policies based on scientific evidence. While organizers are careful to keep the event nonpartisan, they’ve acknowledged there’s an urgency to the message in face of the Trump administration’s stand on climate change and other environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s never been more important for us to make our case for science.’\u003ccite>Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Some of the scientists who will be out in force this weekend quietly participated this week in a different kind of pro-data gathering at UC Berkeley, organized by the \u003ca href=\"http://beci.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute.\u003c/a> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://beci.berkeley.edu/philomathia-forum/2017-philomathia-forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data scientists who attended\u003c/a> ranged from people who monitor air pollution, to those who model where it’s best to put wind turbines, to those who want to make electricity grids more stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The meeting could hardly have been more timely\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">And it’s an example of the kind of exchange of ideas and information that could be hampered if, say, NASA’s climate satellites are turned off. \u003c/span>This could happen under President Trump’s current budget blueprint, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-nasa-satellites-global-warming-data.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposes killing four of NASA’s climate science missions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never been more important for us to make our case for science,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/leadership/president.html?referrer=https://duckduckgo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcia McNutt\u003c/a>, president of the National Academy of Sciences, during her keynote on Thursday. 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Sunroof is a map of much of the U.S. that calculates the potential for solar power generation and homeowner savings if solar panels are installed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#p=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check it out by entering your home address\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1576458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2662px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1576458 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM.png\" alt=\"An screenshot from Project Sunroof, which estimates the solar potential on individual roofs.\" width=\"2662\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM.png 2662w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-160x60.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-800x298.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-768x286.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-1020x379.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-1920x714.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-1180x439.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-960x357.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-240x89.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-375x139.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-2.31.03-PM-520x193.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2662px) 100vw, 2662px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from Project Sunroof, which estimates the solar potential on individual roofs. \u003ccite>(Project Sunroof/Google)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/paul-waddell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Waddell\u003c/a>, professor of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley spoke about using data-enhanced maps to improve the habitability and health of neighborhoods.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Startup companies, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.comfyapp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comfy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.valorwater.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valor\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://utilityapi.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UtilityAPI\u003c/a>, shared their vision for saving water or energy through innovative software platforms that automatically optimize the workings of buildings, public utilities or electrical storage batteries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tesla’s Brinda Thomas spoke about how Tesla hopes to make electric grids more reliable by providing \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/utilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on-demand electricity storage\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Science Saves the Day? 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"content": "\u003cp>Scientists, teachers, students — even preschool kids — are joining in on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/\">March for Science\u003c/a> in San Francisco and across the nation Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people have gathered at Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building, where several speakers are scheduled to talk before the march moves up Market Street and ends at Civic Center. At one point, the crowd could be heard yelling, “Science not silence!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say the purpose of the march is to celebrate and stand up for scientific research and promote the use of evidence-based science in public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marches are also planned in Berkeley, San Jose, Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego and Palm Springs, among dozens of other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 have been planned across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/science\">KQED Science\u003c/a> will be live-blogging the march in San Francisco, and you can follow along \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/22/live-san-francisco-march-for-science/\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are photos from the march taking place in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1020x689.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Tores (C) holds up a sign during the March for Science in San Francisco, \" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1920x1298.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Tores (C) holds up a sign during the March for Science in San Francisco, \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1020x685.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands joined the March for Science in San Francisco, including many kids.\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1920x1290.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands joined the March for Science in San Francisco, including many kids. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422191\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1020x650.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1920x1224.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617320-1020x695.jpg\" alt=\"Liz Darner holds up a sign while participating in the March.\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz Darner holds up a sign while participating in the March. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1020x1400.jpg\" alt=\"A woman marches down Market Street in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1020x1400.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-800x1098.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1920x2636.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1180x1620.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-960x1318.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-240x329.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-375x515.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-520x714.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman marches up Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1020x674.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Stofle holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1920x1269.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Stofle holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the crowd at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the crowd at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1020x1360.jpg\" alt='A man holds a sign in Downtown San Francisco that says \"More mitosis less division.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holds a sign in downtown San Francisco that says “More mitosis less division.” \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Jonah Mansky, 9, Axel Hansen, 10, and Miles cook,10. They all live in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Jonah Mansky, 9, Axel Hansen, 10, and Miles Cook,10. They all live in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Marchers on Market Street in San Francisco make their way from Justin Herman Plaza to Civic Center.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers on Market Street in San Francisco make their way from Justin Herman Plaza to Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11422044 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5361\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain View resident James Balkite with his daughter, Parker Balkite. James says his daughter sees burrowing owls where they live and likes them. “I’m hopeful that the current administration will take science more seriously, more seriously than it has so far,” he said. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"People stand with signs at the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand with signs at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the crowd at the March for Science in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the crowd at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5196-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds gather near Pier 39 for the March for Science demonstration in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather near Pier 39 for the March for Science demonstration in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11421828 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1020x765.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that says \"Deny Science=Wookie Mistake\" at the March for Science in San Francisco.' width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman holds a sign that says “Deny Science=Wookie Mistake.” \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image1-2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Desiree Labeaud, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford, with her husband, Aleksey Lavery, a neurosurgeon at Kaiser and their three kids.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Labeaud, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford, with her husband, Aleksey Lavery, a neurosurgeon at Kaiser, and their three kids. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Many hold signs at the March for Science in San Francisco\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in the middle of the crowd reads “Science is not fake news.” \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Scientists, teachers, students — even preschool kids — are joining in on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/\">March for Science\u003c/a> in San Francisco and across the nation Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people have gathered at Justin Herman Plaza across from the Ferry Building, where several speakers are scheduled to talk before the march moves up Market Street and ends at Civic Center. At one point, the crowd could be heard yelling, “Science not silence!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say the purpose of the march is to celebrate and stand up for scientific research and promote the use of evidence-based science in public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marches are also planned in Berkeley, San Jose, Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego and Palm Springs, among dozens of other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 have been planned across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/science\">KQED Science\u003c/a> will be live-blogging the march in San Francisco, and you can follow along \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/04/22/live-san-francisco-march-for-science/\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are photos from the march taking place in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1020x689.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Tores (C) holds up a sign during the March for Science in San Francisco, \" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1920x1298.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-960x649.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617294-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Tores (C) holds up a sign during the March for Science in San Francisco, \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1020x685.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands joined the March for Science in San Francisco, including many kids.\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1920x1290.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-960x645.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671624704-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands joined the March for Science in San Francisco, including many kids. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422191\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1020x650.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1920x1224.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-960x612.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617742-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671617320-1020x695.jpg\" alt=\"Liz Darner holds up a sign while participating in the March.\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz Darner holds up a sign while participating in the March. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1020x1400.jpg\" alt=\"A woman marches down Market Street in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1020x1400.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-160x220.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-800x1098.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1920x2636.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-1180x1620.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-960x1318.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-240x329.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-375x515.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671621428-520x714.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman marches up Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1020x674.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Stofle holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1920x1269.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-960x634.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/GettyImages-671618332-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Stofle holds up a sign while participating in the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the crowd at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the crowd at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1020x1360.jpg\" alt='A man holds a sign in Downtown San Francisco that says \"More mitosis less division.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5365-e1492895381846.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holds a sign in downtown San Francisco that says “More mitosis less division.” \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11422117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Jonah Mansky, 9, Axel Hansen, 10, and Miles cook,10. They all live in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5420.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Jonah Mansky, 9, Axel Hansen, 10, and Miles Cook,10. They all live in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Marchers on Market Street in San Francisco make their way from Justin Herman Plaza to Civic Center.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5321.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marchers on Market Street in San Francisco make their way from Justin Herman Plaza to Civic Center. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11422044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11422044 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5361\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5361.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain View resident James Balkite with his daughter, Parker Balkite. James says his daughter sees burrowing owls where they live and likes them. “I’m hopeful that the current administration will take science more seriously, more seriously than it has so far,” he said. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"People stand with signs at the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5226-e1492885133797.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People stand with signs at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the crowd at the March for Science in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5236.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the crowd at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5196-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds gather near Pier 39 for the March for Science demonstration in San Francisco.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather near Pier 39 for the March for Science demonstration in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11421828 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1020x765.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that says \"Deny Science=Wookie Mistake\" at the March for Science in San Francisco.' width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5203.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman holds a sign that says “Deny Science=Wookie Mistake.” \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/image1-2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Desiree Labeaud, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford, with her husband, Aleksey Lavery, a neurosurgeon at Kaiser and their three kids.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desiree Labeaud, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford, with her husband, Aleksey Lavery, a neurosurgeon at Kaiser, and their three kids. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11421831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11421831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Many hold signs at the March for Science in San Francisco\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_5244-375x281.jpg 375w, 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m.:\u003c/strong> We’re signing off of our live coverage of the San Francisco March for Science and other marches around the state and country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed our live one-hour radio special, you can listen below. Hosts Scott Shafer and Craig Miller talked with reporters and scientists in California and across the country to capture the feeling of today’s marches.\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/TCRScienceMarchSpecial.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/IMG_5203.jpg\" Title=\"March for Science Special\" program=\"KQED Science\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And check out the best photos and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/22/photos-marchforscience-takes-off-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most creative signs\u003c/a> from today’s march in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Thousands of people of all ages are taking part in marches for science across the state today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Balkite brought his daughter Parker to the San Francisco march. He is one of many people who’s worried about the federal government’s attitude toward science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that the current administration will take science more seriously, more seriously than it has so far,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"James Balkite and his daughter Parker at the San Francisco March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Balkite and his daughter Parker at the San Francisco March for Science. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parker wants to make sure the burrowing owls she sees at home in Mountain View are protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Nosek is one of many educators taking part in marches. She teaches fifth grade in Palo Alto, and she says she and other teachers are worried about the impact this could have on their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being teachers it’s kind of personal because we’re teaching kids to make decisions based on evidence, not talk,” Nosek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Nosek (left), Chloe Coponen (center) and Marie Legrand at the March for Science in San Jose. Nosek and Legrand teach in Palo Alto and Coponen is a 2nd grader in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Nosek (left), Chloe Coponen (center) and Marie Legrand at the March for Science in San Jose. Nosek and Legrand teach in Palo Alto and Coponen is a 2nd grader in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED Learning’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/learning/collections/above-the-noise/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Above the Noise\u003c/a> team was also at the march in San Francisco talking to young people about what science means to them and why they felt the drive to come out and march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here because I like science experiments and support science,” said Jadyn Washington of Parkway Heights Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-800x797.jpg\" alt=\"Above the Noise host Myles Bess (right) talks to middle schooler Jadyn Washington.\" width=\"800\" height=\"797\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-768x765.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-1020x1016.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-1180x1175.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-960x956.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5.jpg 1517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above the Noise host Myles Bess (right) talks to middle schooler Jadyn Washington. \u003ccite>(Annelise Wunderlich/KQED Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Barron showed up to the march in San Francisco in his United States Geological Survey (USGS) t-shirt. He recently retired after working for the USGS for 40 years working on historical records of climate change. He’s worried that the work he’s dedicated his life to will be under threat and funding could be cut off to the scientists continuing his research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579072\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Larnie Fox, an artist who lives in Benicia, at the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larnie Fox, an artist who lives in Benicia, at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Science is very clear that there is a human effect on climate warming,” Barron said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Comic Con fans in San Jose weren’t the only ones getting dressed up for the marches today. Larnie Fox, an artist from Benicia, says he came to the San Francisco march to defend human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Information is precious and anyone who tries to deny it is messing with one of humankind’s basic rights,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those taking to the streets are doing so because of the direct impact science has had on their lives. Lori Mandell is a lawyer and cancer survivor from Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be alive without science,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1579185 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Cancer survivor Lori Mandell at the San Francisco March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer survivor Lori Mandell at the San Francisco March for Science. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Also in Washington D.C. today, scientists gathered at the Smithsonian Institution’s Earth Optimism Summit, to share stories about where science is working to solve problems around the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers was Steve Palumbi, director of the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, who shared the story of the recovery of Monterey Bay. One of his favorite stories from the day is an effort called Pristine Seas to protect some of the last wild places in the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fabulously wonderful places full of corals and kelp and fish and mammals,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A National Geographic crew conducts research and makes documentary films of these locations, then shows them to the governments that have jurisdiction over them. So far, Pristine Seas has protected 4.5 million square kilometers of ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Nye the Science Guy arrives to lead scientists and supporters down Constitution Avenue during the March for Science on April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. The event is being described as a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579192\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Nye the Science Guy arrives to lead scientists and supporters down Constitution Avenue during the March for Science on April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. The event is being described as a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Bit by bit by bit,” Palumbi says “they’re racking up these successes just by showing people what they already have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one reason people don’t seem to value environmental science is that scientists haven’t done a good job explaining why it’s helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one thinks of a cancer scientist and says, well you’re just doing it in order to get grants,” he says. “Everybody understands that when it comes to biomedical breakthroughs, that science is working for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, he says, in a lot of cases environmental science is used to define the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really the problem is that environmental science doesn’t take that next step to show what the solution is and how everybody gets better because of it,” he says. “I think that’s what people are imagining when they’re saying, ‘Well, you’re doing this for our good but we don’t feel like you’re helping.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where scientists have to do a better job at communicating solutions, Palumbi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Outside of San Francisco, other marches in support of science are also happening across the state, country and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-04-22/photos-march-science-truly-global-affair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, the March for Science Silicon Valley is taking place right next door to Silicon Valley’s Comic Con. Organizers say more the crowd totals more than 5,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1578852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1578852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Science fiction and science mix freely on signs at the March for Science Silicon Valley which took place next door to Silicon Valley Comic Con.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-768x527.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1920x1318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-960x659.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Science fiction and science mix freely on signs at the March for Science Silicon Valley which took place next door to Silicon Valley Comic Con. \u003ccite>(Photo by Alison van Diggelen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wonderful scene,” said Tim Ritchie, founder and CEO of The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, as he walked through crowds of people in March for Science shirts and Star Trek uniforms. “It’s a real celebration of all things geeky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchie echoed other speakers from across the state today on the dangers that face society like pandemics, natural disasters and climate change that he says can only be tackled by scientists from around the world working together. He said Silicon Valley, a community built upon and around science technology, needs to lead the way in defending science and using technology for “the global good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to turn to our technologies that benefit humanity and that are globally good,” he said. “There’s lots of talent here that might be turned to more superficial and ephemeral things, but there’s a whole world that needs the brilliance of Silicon Valley to use technologies to create economic opportunity to alleviate suffering as opposed to building the next music app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even some science-themed musical performances entertaining marchers in San Jose:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-YdFQ4hRc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Duennes, an organizer of today’s march in Riverside, says she’s coming down from her research site in Yosemite National Park to demonstrate how science matters for people everyday. Duennes tracks native bumblebees around Sierra meadows, to find out whether they’re getting the nutrition they need from local flowers. These are the bumblebees that pollinate tomatoes, blueberries, and many of the fruits and vegetables on Americans’ dinner tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that plant have all the protein and fats the bees need?” Duennes asks. “Maybe it doesn’t. That’s not really great if it’s the only plant for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main March for Science is taking place in Washington D.C. where Jonathan Foley, the executive director of the California Academy of Science was one of the featured speakers. He said thousands of people brought a positive energy to the rain-soaked streets of Washington D.C. to defend science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/status/855872838330458113/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something different,” Foley said of the Trump administration’s attitude towards science. “What we’re seeing now is a deliberate attack on the science that keeps us from harm: science that deals with our health, our safety and the environment. And that’s really dangerous for all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s taken this striking attitude toward science that’s made scientists — a group Foley called “a pretty introverted bunch of folks” — stand up and take to the streets. He had strong words for the scientists who feel that marches like the one’s taking place today are a mistake and risk politicizing science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no patience for scientists who are saying, ‘No, we shouldn’t get political, let’s hide out in our laboratories.’ Well, give up your damn research grants, then, because you aren’t serving the Americans who are paying your salary. You aren’t doing your job,” Foley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was participating in the main march in Washington D.C., he said people are looking to California and the Bay Area in particular to lead on science issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are looking less at Washington as a leader but more as an obstacle,” Foley said, “and the Bay Area as a true leader with a clarion call for science serving the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/22/photos-marchforscience-takes-off-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo essay\u003c/a> of images from the San Francisco march. Here are some more photos from marches across the state and country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two women show off their sciences as they march in Cambria, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women show off their sciences as they march in Cambria, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Greta Mart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1579066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering graduate student Bereket Abraham, 25, says his entire life has been inspired by science.\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering graduate student Bereket Abraham, 25, says his entire life has been inspired by science. \u003ccite>(Photo by Liz Reid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1579065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Connell (left), 9, and Mia Coriolan, 9, at the March for Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Connell (left), 9, and Mia Coriolan, 9, at the March for Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Photo by Liz Reid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand along the side of the route of the Atlanta March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women along the side of the route of the Atlanta March for Science. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lisa Hagen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Tune in now as The California Report and KQED host a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live statewide radio special\u003c/a> on 88.5 FM. Hosts \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/scottshafer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/author/cmiller/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craig Miller\u003c/a> will check in with reporters and scientists around the state and in Washington D.C. on what’s happening and why scientists are marching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speeches are underway at the San Francisco March for Science. MythBusters host Adam Savage has just taken the stage to speak to the thousands assembled at Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first words to the crowd?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seriously, I can’t believe we have to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers have focused on the threats that the scientific community — and American society as a whole — face if fact-based science is disregarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rare diseases don’t wait,” said DJ Patil, former U.S. chief data scientist. “Finding cures requires investments in all science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchSF/status/855855190100004865/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Setian, a retired project manager at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), warned the crowd about what she says are the dangers of politicians and corporate interests having an undue influence on science, specifically calling out current EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are marching to defend and expand our hard won protections and in solidarity with others who remain resolved and organized against these threats,” Setian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the crowd took up a chant of, “Science, not silence!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDscience/status/855869257850265602/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Field is the director of the Woods Institute at Stanford University, but he’s attending the march as a private citizen concerned about what will happen if the world stops seeking out and relying on fact-based evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have a society that’s based on a careful evaluation on the information that’s available, we’re going to be a better society,” Field says. “We’re going to make better decisions and better choices about the issues of our era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lindseyhoshaw/status/855850325122490368/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m.:\u003c/strong> More than 1,000 people have made their way to Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco for the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://marchforsciencesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March for Science\u003c/a>. You can watch a live feed of the speeches taking place on our \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kqedscience/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them are toting creative signs that display their motivations for taking to the streets to support science today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BTMRmUNDFod/?tagged=sciencemarchsf\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BTMiIE3A8th/?tagged=sciencemarchsf\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BTMdwHwFlhU/?tagged=sciencemarchsf\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People of all ages are out in force preparing to defend science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lesommer/status/855845831131320320\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 10 a.m. this morning, several hundred people were already gathered in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Justin+Herman+Plaza/@37.7951195,-122.3952007,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf2d161dc05b7c8ad!8m2!3d37.7951195!4d-122.3952007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Herman Plaza\u003c/a> in solidarity with the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.marchforscience.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March for Science\u003c/a>. More than 40 rallies are expected throughout California today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco march officially starts at 11 a.m. and KQED will be live blogging the event on this page, broadcasting via \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kqedscience/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a> live and creating an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kqedscience/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instragram story\u003c/a> live from the march. You can also follow our coverage on Twitter at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KQEDScience\">@KQEDScience\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep checking this page as we post photos, quotes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. you can also find our \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live radio coverage\u003c/a> on 88.5 FM as KQED hosts \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/scottshafer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/author/cmiller/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craig Miller\u003c/a> check in with reporters and scientists around the state and in Washington D.C. on what’s happening and why scientists are marching.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that the current administration will take science more seriously, more seriously than it has so far,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"James Balkite and his daughter Parker at the San Francisco March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25017_IMG_5361-1-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Balkite and his daughter Parker at the San Francisco March for Science. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parker wants to make sure the burrowing owls she sees at home in Mountain View are protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Nosek is one of many educators taking part in marches. She teaches fifth grade in Palo Alto, and she says she and other teachers are worried about the impact this could have on their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being teachers it’s kind of personal because we’re teaching kids to make decisions based on evidence, not talk,” Nosek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Nosek (left), Chloe Coponen (center) and Marie Legrand at the March for Science in San Jose. Nosek and Legrand teach in Palo Alto and Coponen is a 2nd grader in Palo Alto.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25018_Photo-Apr-222c-11-01-04-AM-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Nosek (left), Chloe Coponen (center) and Marie Legrand at the March for Science in San Jose. Nosek and Legrand teach in Palo Alto and Coponen is a 2nd grader in Palo Alto. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED Learning’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/learning/collections/above-the-noise/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Above the Noise\u003c/a> team was also at the march in San Francisco talking to young people about what science means to them and why they felt the drive to come out and march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here because I like science experiments and support science,” said Jadyn Washington of Parkway Heights Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-800x797.jpg\" alt=\"Above the Noise host Myles Bess (right) talks to middle schooler Jadyn Washington.\" width=\"800\" height=\"797\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-800x797.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-768x765.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-1020x1016.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-1180x1175.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-960x956.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/image1-5.jpg 1517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above the Noise host Myles Bess (right) talks to middle schooler Jadyn Washington. \u003ccite>(Annelise Wunderlich/KQED Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Barron showed up to the march in San Francisco in his United States Geological Survey (USGS) t-shirt. He recently retired after working for the USGS for 40 years working on historical records of climate change. He’s worried that the work he’s dedicated his life to will be under threat and funding could be cut off to the scientists continuing his research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579072\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Larnie Fox, an artist who lives in Benicia, at the March for Science in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25019_alt_575.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larnie Fox, an artist who lives in Benicia, at the March for Science in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Science is very clear that there is a human effect on climate warming,” Barron said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Comic Con fans in San Jose weren’t the only ones getting dressed up for the marches today. Larnie Fox, an artist from Benicia, says he came to the San Francisco march to defend human rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Information is precious and anyone who tries to deny it is messing with one of humankind’s basic rights,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those taking to the streets are doing so because of the direct impact science has had on their lives. Lori Mandell is a lawyer and cancer survivor from Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be alive without science,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1579185 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Cancer survivor Lori Mandell at the San Francisco March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25020_alt_576.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer survivor Lori Mandell at the San Francisco March for Science. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Also in Washington D.C. today, scientists gathered at the Smithsonian Institution’s Earth Optimism Summit, to share stories about where science is working to solve problems around the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the speakers was Steve Palumbi, director of the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, who shared the story of the recovery of Monterey Bay. One of his favorite stories from the day is an effort called Pristine Seas to protect some of the last wild places in the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fabulously wonderful places full of corals and kelp and fish and mammals,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A National Geographic crew conducts research and makes documentary films of these locations, then shows them to the governments that have jurisdiction over them. So far, Pristine Seas has protected 4.5 million square kilometers of ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Nye the Science Guy arrives to lead scientists and supporters down Constitution Avenue during the March for Science on April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. The event is being described as a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579192\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/GettyImages-671574736-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Nye the Science Guy arrives to lead scientists and supporters down Constitution Avenue during the March for Science on April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. The event is being described as a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Bit by bit by bit,” Palumbi says “they’re racking up these successes just by showing people what they already have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one reason people don’t seem to value environmental science is that scientists haven’t done a good job explaining why it’s helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one thinks of a cancer scientist and says, well you’re just doing it in order to get grants,” he says. “Everybody understands that when it comes to biomedical breakthroughs, that science is working for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, he says, in a lot of cases environmental science is used to define the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really the problem is that environmental science doesn’t take that next step to show what the solution is and how everybody gets better because of it,” he says. “I think that’s what people are imagining when they’re saying, ‘Well, you’re doing this for our good but we don’t feel like you’re helping.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where scientists have to do a better job at communicating solutions, Palumbi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Outside of San Francisco, other marches in support of science are also happening across the state, country and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-04-22/photos-march-science-truly-global-affair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, the March for Science Silicon Valley is taking place right next door to Silicon Valley’s Comic Con. Organizers say more the crowd totals more than 5,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1578852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1578852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Science fiction and science mix freely on signs at the March for Science Silicon Valley which took place next door to Silicon Valley Comic Con.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-768x527.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1920x1318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-960x659.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/SJ-Photo-One-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Science fiction and science mix freely on signs at the March for Science Silicon Valley which took place next door to Silicon Valley Comic Con. \u003ccite>(Photo by Alison van Diggelen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wonderful scene,” said Tim Ritchie, founder and CEO of The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, as he walked through crowds of people in March for Science shirts and Star Trek uniforms. “It’s a real celebration of all things geeky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchie echoed other speakers from across the state today on the dangers that face society like pandemics, natural disasters and climate change that he says can only be tackled by scientists from around the world working together. He said Silicon Valley, a community built upon and around science technology, needs to lead the way in defending science and using technology for “the global good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to turn to our technologies that benefit humanity and that are globally good,” he said. “There’s lots of talent here that might be turned to more superficial and ephemeral things, but there’s a whole world that needs the brilliance of Silicon Valley to use technologies to create economic opportunity to alleviate suffering as opposed to building the next music app.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s even some science-themed musical performances entertaining marchers in San Jose:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pj-YdFQ4hRc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pj-YdFQ4hRc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Michelle Duennes, an organizer of today’s march in Riverside, says she’s coming down from her research site in Yosemite National Park to demonstrate how science matters for people everyday. Duennes tracks native bumblebees around Sierra meadows, to find out whether they’re getting the nutrition they need from local flowers. These are the bumblebees that pollinate tomatoes, blueberries, and many of the fruits and vegetables on Americans’ dinner tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that plant have all the protein and fats the bees need?” Duennes asks. “Maybe it doesn’t. That’s not really great if it’s the only plant for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main March for Science is taking place in Washington D.C. where Jonathan Foley, the executive director of the California Academy of Science was one of the featured speakers. He said thousands of people brought a positive energy to the rain-soaked streets of Washington D.C. to defend science.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something different,” Foley said of the Trump administration’s attitude towards science. “What we’re seeing now is a deliberate attack on the science that keeps us from harm: science that deals with our health, our safety and the environment. And that’s really dangerous for all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s taken this striking attitude toward science that’s made scientists — a group Foley called “a pretty introverted bunch of folks” — stand up and take to the streets. He had strong words for the scientists who feel that marches like the one’s taking place today are a mistake and risk politicizing science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no patience for scientists who are saying, ‘No, we shouldn’t get political, let’s hide out in our laboratories.’ Well, give up your damn research grants, then, because you aren’t serving the Americans who are paying your salary. You aren’t doing your job,” Foley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was participating in the main march in Washington D.C., he said people are looking to California and the Bay Area in particular to lead on science issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are looking less at Washington as a leader but more as an obstacle,” Foley said, “and the Bay Area as a true leader with a clarion call for science serving the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/22/photos-marchforscience-takes-off-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo essay\u003c/a> of images from the San Francisco march. Here are some more photos from marches across the state and country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two women show off their sciences as they march in Cambria, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25016_IMG_0773-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women show off their sciences as they march in Cambria, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Greta Mart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1579066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering graduate student Bereket Abraham, 25, says his entire life has been inspired by science.\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25014_8march_for_science-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineering graduate student Bereket Abraham, 25, says his entire life has been inspired by science. \u003ccite>(Photo by Liz Reid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1579065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Connell (left), 9, and Mia Coriolan, 9, at the March for Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25015_12march_for_science-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Connell (left), 9, and Mia Coriolan, 9, at the March for Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. \u003ccite>(Photo by Liz Reid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1579306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand along the side of the route of the Atlanta March for Science.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1579306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/04/RS25021_IMG_2783-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women along the side of the route of the Atlanta March for Science. \u003ccite>(Photo by Lisa Hagen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Tune in now as The California Report and KQED host a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live statewide radio special\u003c/a> on 88.5 FM. Hosts \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/scottshafer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Shafer\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/author/cmiller/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craig Miller\u003c/a> will check in with reporters and scientists around the state and in Washington D.C. on what’s happening and why scientists are marching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Speeches are underway at the San Francisco March for Science. MythBusters host Adam Savage has just taken the stage to speak to the thousands assembled at Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first words to the crowd?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seriously, I can’t believe we have to do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers have focused on the threats that the scientific community — and American society as a whole — face if fact-based science is disregarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rare diseases don’t wait,” said DJ Patil, former U.S. chief data scientist. “Finding cures requires investments in all science.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>/photo/1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Setian, a retired project manager at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), warned the crowd about what she says are the dangers of politicians and corporate interests having an undue influence on science, specifically calling out current EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are marching to defend and expand our hard won protections and in solidarity with others who remain resolved and organized against these threats,” Setian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the crowd took up a chant of, “Science, not silence!”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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