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California, a state with robust environmental enforcement, is seeking to transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud’s experience includes serving as a board member for the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, a group that represents the natural gas industry, among other types of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Quinn, the council’s president and CEO, said in a statement that Busterud is “uniquely qualified to provide strong and steady leadership for EPA and Region 9. John understands the issues and knows the key players, particularly here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Kammen, a UC Berkeley professor who chairs the university’s Energy and Resources Group, was critical of the appointment, saying Busterud “certainly feels like a Trump administration appointee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His resume is of an oil-and-gas knowledgeable person with exceedingly little background on the environment,” Kammen said. “EPA’s job is to protect and defend the environment, both natural and human. His background looks very much like he is someone with experience and depth on the traditional energy side of PG&E.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At PG&E, Busterud directed the department of the environment and real estate. He worked on issues related to air and water quality, endangered species, toxic waste and environmental policy, according to an EPA \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-appointment-john-busterud-region-9-administrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Paul Doherty said in an email that Busterud retired from the company’s law department in 2016 after serving 30 years with the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has deep knowledge, expertise and experience in climate policy,” Doherty said. “He helped the company advocate for its positions supporting California’s bold clean energy goals, with a focus on our customers and communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to elaborate on Busterud’s work on oil and gas issues for the utility, Doherty would only say “he had a 30-year career at the company. He had broad experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has sparred with the Trump administration over climate change and the environment more than on any other issue. California has won favorable rulings in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956379/on-the-environment-trump-is-getting-trounced-in-the-courts-at-least-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">majority\u003c/a> of environmental cases on which the courts have ruled, although many are still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Blumenfeld, California’s top environmental regulator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/EPA-names-former-PG-E-attorney-to-head-West-Coast-15047582.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told\u003c/a> the San Francisco Chronicle that Busterud “seems reasonable and generally thoughtful on the issues” and “has the potential to do a good job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, he’ll be able to fulfill EPA’s mandate to protect human health and the environment,” Blumenfeld said. “He’s going to have a tough job because the Trump administration is out to get California, San Francisco and the environment in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Justice Department dropped an antitrust investigation into four car manufacturers that sided with California in an ongoing dispute with the administration over car pollution and smog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud said in a statement that it is an “honor and privilege” to take the position with the EPA, and that he looks forward to working with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. “We are committed to building on the agency’s legacy of success by providing clean and safe air, water and land for all Americans,” Busterud said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler praised Busterud’s background in energy and environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Busterud is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with multiple active duty deployments in Iraq and on the Korean Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he will not be in a position of setting policy, he will set the tone for how thoroughly his office presses polluters to comply with regulations. 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Then came \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788861/northern-california-bay-area-storm-bomb-cyclone-weekend-forecast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the season's first real storm\u003c/a>, driven by a powerful, rapidly deepening low pressure center — a phenomenon known as extreme cyclogenesis or bombogenesis and frequently called a \"bomb storm.\" That dramatic onset of winter weather was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789142/showers-to-continue-across-bay-area-and-another-storm-is-on-the-way\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an atmospheric river-fed storm\u003c/a> that dropped 20 inches of rain in the mountains of Big Sur, nearly a foot in northern Sonoma County and 8 inches-plus in parts of Marin. So it looked like we were off and running. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1956543,news_11788861\" label=\"A Not-So-Rainy California Winter\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It kept raining through much of December — in San Francisco, measurable precipitation was recorded on 19 days during the month. But on seven of those days, it rained .07 inches or less. And despite the frequency of weather systems moving over the coast, not one dropped as much of an inch of rain on the city. San Francisco's 4.91 inches of rain in December was just ahead of the normal for the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the city and most of Northern California still lagged behind normal for the season going back to last Oct. 1. Then with January coming in below normal and no rain so far in February, San Francisco stands at just 60% of normal for the season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=RSA&product=RR4&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0\">daily National Weather Service summary of seasonal rainfall\u003c/a> throughout the state shows similarly dry numbers nearly everywhere in the state north of Monterey Bay. To the south, sites on the Central Coast and across most of Southern California were deluged early in the season with much higher totals than normal. So while it has been dry down south since the first of the year, seasonal totals are still close to or ahead of normal in places like San Diego (129% of normal), Long Beach (113%) and Paso Robles (90%). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"2019-20 Bay Area Precipitation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-S5Mht\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/S5Mht/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"880\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Snow\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Late November and December saw heavy snow fall up and down the Sierra, the Coast Ranges, the Tehachapis and even into lower elevations as a series of very cold storms swept through the mountains. By New Year's Eve, the water equivalent of the California's \"frozen reservoir\" had reached about 95% of normal for the date. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing cold temperatures have preserved much of that snowpack. But an atmospheric pattern that has persisted for weeks, shunting most storms into northern Oregon and Washington with only weak remnants sliding through the interior of California, has meant the snowpack has fallen far behind the seasonal norms. By Monday, the snowpack's water equivalent has fallen to 59%. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more, see \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=DLYSWEQ.20200210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a regional breakdown\u003c/a> of the snowpack's water content at the state Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Northern Sierra Precipitation\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The mountain snowpack figure is nearly identical to another closely watched bit of data: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11408646/explainer-the-8-stations-in-the-northern-sierra-8-station-index\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Sierra Eight-Station Index\u003c/a>. The index tracks precipitation at a series of typically very wet sites in three crucial watersheds — those of the Sacramento, the Feather and the American rivers. The index, which veteran Bay Area meteorologist Jan Null calls \"the most important number in the state\" when it comes to assessing rainfall and hydrologic conditions, stands at just 58% of normal for this part of February. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more, see \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=DLYSWEQ.20200210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a regional breakdown\u003c/a> of the snowpack's water content at the state Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Reservoirs\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Here's the bright spot in the state's dry winter. Because two of the last three winters were very wet, the state's network of reservoirs are holding more water than usual for this time of year, and many still have plenty of room for runoff if the season turns rainy and snowy again. Shasta Lake, the state's largest reservoir, is at 112% of average for mid-February. Lake Oroville, the second-biggest reservoir, is at 95% of average. San Luis Reservoir, a key facility for water shipments to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, is at 93% of average for this point in the season. The rest of the state's largest reservoirs are at or above 100% of average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more, see the CDEC's \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/precipapp/get8SIPrecipIndex.action\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">interactive eight-station index page\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>The Outlook\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>What do the next days, weeks and month hold? Is there hope that the rain and snow will return? Maybe with a \"miracle March?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, there's always hope. There's the fabled miracle March of 1991, during which a series of storms started to break the grip of a six-year drought. The eight stations in the northern Sierra index averaged about 18 inches of rain during the month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rainy season of 2017-18 was somewhat like the one we're in the middle of now. We arrived at the end of February 2018 with below-normal precipitation totals, but March storms made up much of the deficit even if they didn't bring the state back to normal for the season. (San Francisco rainfall finished at 74% of normal, and the eight-station Northern Sierra Index topped out at 76%. Southern California was bone dry, though, with most location getting just one-third of normal rainfall.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope aside, what do the forecast models show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, they're pretty much in agreement that nowhere in California except the far northwest corner of the state will see anything more than a couple of episodes of light rain through the end of the month. It's really too soon to tell about March, but so far, longer-term forecasts aren't showing much evidence things will change. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1226912797637971977\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecaster Jan Null last week tweeted the following summary of where we are in this rainy season and what history says about winding up with normal or close to normal rainfall: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ggweather/status/1224769976139018241\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To translate: We're very likely on a trajectory to a below-normal rain year. The question at this point is how far below normal. And as UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain and others have started to point out, the shape of the rest of the wet season is likely to have a strong influence on the coming fire season:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1226914827848880128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Then with January coming in below normal and no rain so far in February, San Francisco stands at just 60% of normal for the season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=RSA&product=RR4&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0\">daily National Weather Service summary of seasonal rainfall\u003c/a> throughout the state shows similarly dry numbers nearly everywhere in the state north of Monterey Bay. To the south, sites on the Central Coast and across most of Southern California were deluged early in the season with much higher totals than normal. So while it has been dry down south since the first of the year, seasonal totals are still close to or ahead of normal in places like San Diego (129% of normal), Long Beach (113%) and Paso Robles (90%). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"2019-20 Bay Area Precipitation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-S5Mht\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/S5Mht/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"880\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Snow\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Late November and December saw heavy snow fall up and down the Sierra, the Coast Ranges, the Tehachapis and even into lower elevations as a series of very cold storms swept through the mountains. 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By Monday, the snowpack's water equivalent has fallen to 59%. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more, see \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=DLYSWEQ.20200210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a regional breakdown\u003c/a> of the snowpack's water content at the state Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Northern Sierra Precipitation\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The mountain snowpack figure is nearly identical to another closely watched bit of data: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11408646/explainer-the-8-stations-in-the-northern-sierra-8-station-index\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Sierra Eight-Station Index\u003c/a>. The index tracks precipitation at a series of typically very wet sites in three crucial watersheds — those of the Sacramento, the Feather and the American rivers. The index, which veteran Bay Area meteorologist Jan Null calls \"the most important number in the state\" when it comes to assessing rainfall and hydrologic conditions, stands at just 58% of normal for this part of February. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more, see \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=DLYSWEQ.20200210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a regional breakdown\u003c/a> of the snowpack's water content at the state Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Reservoirs\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Here's the bright spot in the state's dry winter. Because two of the last three winters were very wet, the state's network of reservoirs are holding more water than usual for this time of year, and many still have plenty of room for runoff if the season turns rainy and snowy again. Shasta Lake, the state's largest reservoir, is at 112% of average for mid-February. 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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E crews have restored power to about 300,000 customers who lost electricity as strong winds slammed the Bay Area over the weekend, but about 55,000 customers were still without power as of 9:30 p.m. on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through much of Sunday, gusty winds toppled trees, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GoldenGateFerry/status/1226635008372301824?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspended ferry trips\u003c/a> and brought down power lines throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area National Weather Service said a wind advisory remains in effect in the North Bay mountains and East Bay hills until Tuesday at 11 a.m., and lower elevations will continue to experience breezy conditions Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1226835530861563904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Ferry service between San Francisco and Marin County will be delayed five to 10 minutes during commute hours Monday, due to the high winds and king tides that caused minor damage to the inner berth at the San Francisco terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wind was so strong, officials with the San Francisco Fire Department said it even contributed to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1226638516525793280?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shattering of a window\u003c/a> on the Millennium Tower in the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Sunday, the strongest winds were experienced in the North Bay at higher elevations, over 3,000 feet,\" said meteorologist David King with the National Weather Service. \"It's looking like our strongest gusts are in the upper 80 mph. Probably some isolated locations near those observation stations might have gotten something a little bit faster than that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandFireLive/status/1226599203003981824?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay was hit hardest by the wind, with the greatest concentration of outages in the East Oakland/Hayward/San Leandro area in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NWS officials, the high weekend winds were a result of a low air pressure event coming in through the Great Basin, and a high air pressure rushing in to fill the vacated space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Karly Hernandez, PG&E spokesperson\"]'To be clear, PG&E will not call a public safety power shutoff during this wind event as fuel and soil moisture values remain high due to winter precipitation.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you think of it like a garden hose, you turn the water on and the water is flowing out at a certain velocity. But as soon as you put your thumb across the hose, and decrease that area where the same volume of water is trying to go through, it increases the volume and comes out a lot faster,\" said Steve Anderson, a forecaster with NWS. \"It's the kind of setup that we've had with the winds, with the two pressure areas close together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Sunday night, PG&E spokesperson Karly Hernandez said crews would work through the night to restore power in the region and added that the company had activated emergency centers to help responders. But the utility was not contemplating shutting out power as a response to the high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be clear, PG&E will not call a public safety power shutoff during this wind event as fuel and soil moisture values remain high due to winter precipitation,\" Hernandez said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, the National Weather Service in Reno reported a potentially record-breaking gust of wind, 209 mph, on Kirkwood Mountain south of Lake Tahoe. But King said that gust has not yet been confirmed, and there may be an issue with the measuring equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, weaker wind event is expected later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Where can you find a poisonous snake, a Madagascar hissing cockroach and a leopard gecko all in one place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, thousands descended on the Cow Palace in Daly City for the 2nd annual \u003ca href=\"https://reptiliannationexpo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reptilian Naiton Expo\u003c/a>. The event drew around 100 reptile sellers and suppliers. The expo began in Fresno in 2015, organizer L.A. native Ryan Minardi said. He’s now expanded to three other California locations, as well as Las Vegas and Denver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why reptiles? “I don’t know, man,” Minardi said. “I just like them. They’re beautiful. 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It’s kind of a surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800773\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11800773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Villareal says leopard geckos are \"very friendly.\" \"When you [they] have babies, you don't know what color you're going to get. It's kinda a surprise.\" \u003ccite>(A.J. 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When they get older, they eat superworms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800769\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11800769 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41251_IMG_6934-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41251_IMG_6934-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41251_IMG_6934-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41251_IMG_6934-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41251_IMG_6934-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco native Laurie Rajeff with a Australian bearded dragon. \"They listen to you,\" she said. \"Mine watches TV.\" \u003ccite>(A.J. Ruiz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a central Australian bearded dragon propped up on her chest, San Francisco native Laurie Rajeff says that this particular reptile listens to her conversations. “Mine watches TV,” she said. The bearded dragon eats everything from mealworms to superworms to pinky mice (which are newborns). “[They’ll] chomp them right down,” Rajeff said. She also said they’ll eat Madagascar cockroaches. “Delicious, nutritious. Like fillet mignon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajeff’s friend Gladys Bancroft-Crampton, who owns a pet store in Pacifica, says she tries to educate buyers on how to properly take care of the reptiles. “Sometimes when you buy a reptile at a show, the person selling it to you hasn’t told you exactly how to take care of it,” Bancroft-Crampton said. “It’s a long time commitment. Many of these reptiles live a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those not quite ready for a 30-year-long commitment to a reptile, she suggests adopting an older one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11800770 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41261_IMG_7042-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41261_IMG_7042-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41261_IMG_7042-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41261_IMG_7042-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41261_IMG_7042-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Person from southern California conducts live venomous snake shows for a living. \"I talk about the different venoms, how they work with your body. What to do if you get bitten.\" He said in the 30 years he's been doing doing these shows, he's only been bitten once. \u003ccite>(A.J. Ruiz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carl Person from southern California knows all the ins and outs of poisonous snakes. At the expo, he showed off a variety of deadly snakes including a cottonmouth, a Gaboon viper, black Pakistan cobra, inland taipan and a western diamondback rattlesnake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Person’s show is about the medicinal application of snake venom. One example he gave was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28578650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">captopril\u003c/a>, derived from the venom of the jararaca snake. Person said “millions and millions of people worldwide depend on that drug to stay alive. 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Some of them have personalities.” Minard keeps over 20 snakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800768\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11800768 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41265_IMG_2887-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41265_IMG_2887-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41265_IMG_2887-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41265_IMG_2887-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41265_IMG_2887-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Villareal owns the company Micro Wilderness with her husband. They've been selling reptiles for two years. One of her favorites is the leopard geckos. \u003ccite>(A.J. 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It’s kind of a surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800773\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11800773 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41250_IMG_6917-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Villareal says leopard geckos are \"very friendly.\" \"When you [they] have babies, you don't know what color you're going to get. It's kinda a surprise.\" \u003ccite>(A.J. 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Stoker said no one gave a reason for his firing, but he suggested that it had to do with praise he had received from Democrats for work in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t protect public health and environment in Democratic neighborhoods when you are Democratic president or in Republican neighborhoods when you are a Republican president, you do it everywhere,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter Stoker sent to his former staff on Thursday, he said U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had praised him for his work cleaning up contamination at Hunters Point and Rep. 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His excuses and stories are simply all made up and we cannot allow them to go without response,” Schiermeyer said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for a comment on Stoker’s dismissal, Pelosi’s office sent KQED a copy of a June 28, 2018 letter addressed from the Speaker to Stoker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter read: “It was a pleasure to meet with you during your visit to the United States Capitol on June 27th. Many thanks for your commitment to the cleanup and transfer of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Your work to ensure public health, hold a transparent process that engages the public, and holding Tetra Tech accountable is critical and greatly appreciated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA is overseeing the cleanup of chemicals and radiological material at the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. Two supervisors of Tetra Tech EC, a company involved in the cleanup, were sentenced to prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to falsifying records related to those tests. The U.S. Department of Justice last year sued the company, alleging that it falsified billing claims to the Navy. The company has denied wrongdoing and says two “rogue employees” were responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoker also suggested that disagreements with Benevento lay behind his dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have personalities that clash,” he said. “But to take somebody out the way they took me out — turn off my cell phone and my laptop five minutes after hanging up with me — that only would make sense if there was just some compelling reason. Like, I would have been arrested the night before for spousal abuse or something just radical, bordering on criminal or inspector general. But none of that exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA’s inspector general had registered some reasons for concern. In 2018, the agency watchdog investigated a complaint that Stoker was traveling excessively and not spending much time at the San Francisco headquarters where the vast majority of his staff worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general found that Stoker spent more than $43,000 of taxpayer money on 35 separate trips between May 2018 and February 2019. In March 2019, the inspector general issued a “management alert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoker defended his travels as part of the job. “I can tell you right now a regional administrator is most effective if they are going out to where the issues are,” he said. “You don’t need a regional administrator who stays in the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About his decision to work from Los Angeles, Stoker said “it doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He oversaw EPA Region 9, which includes California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands and 148 tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Region 9 has eight time zones, 50 million people,” he said. “22 million of those people are in Southern California being served by the Los Angele’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the issue of climate change, Stoker told KQED Science’s Danielle Venton in June 2018 when he took the job that he personally believed that there were “questions on how much of it is man-made and how much of it is caused by Mother Nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a reporter asked if his time working with EPA scientists changed his view on the issue, Stoker said it did not. “You have Mother Nature, from volcanoes to fires to — you know, you name it — that has an angle on global warming and you have man that has an angle on global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals \u003ca href=\"https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">show\u003c/a> that 97% or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that global warming is a result of human activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction Feb. 13, 2020: This story originally said Tetra Tech had conducted fradulent environmental testing at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. 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Her space has a clean bathroom, internet access and a television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800649\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11800649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/ningxi-ebe4401c8b5fae6c85b733f91ffda0f7daf5abdd-e1581091668953.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1441\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ningxi Xu is investment manager in Jersey City. She is under quarantine for two weeks in California after returning from Wuhan, China. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ningxi Xu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The evacuees can leave their rooms, and go outside for walks within a fenced-in area. Food is provided three times a day. “I don’t feel that cramped,” she says. Health officials are trying to make things easier for the evacuees, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ningxi Xu, another evacuee under quarantine, says she can order supplies online and have them delivered. She’s been working remotely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Xu, who is 30 and an investment manager in Jersey City, wishes she could return home to her family. “It’s almost like being in prison here,” she says. “It’s just an unfortunate reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are worried about getting sick, Leonhard says. “People didn’t want to get too close. Nobody wants to be close to anybody. And also people get pretty upset if you don’t put on your mask properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this 14-day quarantine, the passengers don’t have to wear masks, although they can if they choose, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/spokesperson/braden/BRADEN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Braden\u003c/a>, deputy director for the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are asked to keep a distance from other people — about six feet, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that they’re in their quarters, they are getting symptom and temperature checks twice each day, Braden says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC doctors caring for the quarantined evacuees say they are providing any medical treatment they may need, including mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When anyone comes from a stressful situation where there’s intense community-wide transmission of an emerging disease and then they’re whisked away and put on a plane and then arrive at a new destination, obviously it’s very stressful,” says the CDC’s Dr. Henry Walke, who’s caring for evacuees at the Travis base. “So, yes, we are concerned about the mental health of the residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s a sense of gratitude among the passengers, Leonhard says. They want to concentrate on the positive, and put the experience at the Wuhan airport behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11800650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11800650 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/ap_20036748254715_custom-362d303d2c46a4b3820b34828ab572cc65347710-e1581091736332.jpg\" alt=\"Evacuees are being held in quarantine at the Westwind Inn lodging facility at Travis Air Force Base in California\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evacuees are being held in quarantine at the Westwind Inn lodging facility at Travis Air Force Base in California. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Pilch/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The process of evacuation took longer than anticipated, Braden says. A total of 345 passengers returned to the United States Wednesday on two flights. Some went to Travis Air Force Base while others landed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, near San Diego. Health officials screened the passengers upon arrival, Walke says. This follows a first flight of evacuees that landed last week, bringing the total number of people repatriated to the United States up to 540.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process to get home was frustrating, according to two passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xu had been in Wuhan visiting family for the Lunar New Year holiday. She wasn’t sure when she would be allowed to return to the United States, where she has been living for 13 years. She kept calling the State Department and the U.S. embassy, but didn’t hear back. “Looking back on it over the past three weeks, it was a progression of confusion, then some despair,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was chaotic at the airport in China, Leonhard says. 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Gold ones … red and white glittery ones … and cute little gray ones holding watering cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, yeah,” Mufson said. “A lot of different ways of interpreting the rat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. cities have canceled their Chinese New Year celebrations this year, owing to safety concerns with the spread of the new coronavirus beyond China. But in San Francisco, host to one of the oldest and largest Lunar New Year festivals and parades in the country, things are going ahead as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Ng has been attending the event for more than 30 years. 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