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"content": "\u003cp>It’s impossible to divorce the 2019 fire season in Northern California from the two that came immediately before. Those were nothing short of disastrous, so much so that many Californians entered last summer filled with dread of a third consecutive year of incinerated homes, mass evacuations and tragic loss of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, with those recent calamities haunting the state, officials took some unprecedented steps to avert a devastating repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did they work? Well, judging by the results tallied at the end of the year, \u003cem>something\u003c/em> went right. The number of acres burned was the lowest since 2011, and the wildfire-related death toll dropped to three, down from the dozens of fatalities in both 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-pb0w9\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"California Wildfire \" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/pb0w9/1/\" height=\"244\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var e in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+e)||document.querySelector(\"iframe[src*='\"+e+\"']\");t&&(t.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][e]+\"px\")}})}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most extreme preventive measure came from PG&E, the state’s largest utility, whose transmission line had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789259/state-probe-says-pge-missed-deadly-flaw-on-line-that-sparked-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked\u003c/a> the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. Last fall the company implemented several large-scale power shutoffs affecting up to 2 million people during periods of high-risk for wildfire, and the outages deprived some residents of electricity for as long as a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency procedures evolved as well. During the Kincade Fire, the state’s largest of the year, officials forced about 200,000 residents out of their homes in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10239056-181/battle-against-kincade-fire-takes\">reportedly\u003c/a> the biggest evacuation in Sonoma County history. The magnitude of the response was prompted by major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654027/my-world-was-burning-the-north-bay-fires-and-what-went-wrong\">problems\u003c/a> concerning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644154/north-bay-fires-what-took-authorities-so-long-to-warn-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency procedures\u003c/a> during the devastating North Bay Fires of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to repeat that experience,” Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin told KQED’s Lisa Pickoff-White in October. “So they evacuated large numbers of the population in Sonoma County early.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Acres Burned\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1LWY8\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1LWY8/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>PG&E’s Planned Outages: Did They Help?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility executed a series power outages when high winds coincided with other dangerous conditions. After PG&E carried out its first shutoff, from Oct. 9 to Oct. 12, the company said it found dozens of locations where downed trees or other equipment failures would have created conditions ripe for a wildfire. “It is possible that any one of these instances could have been a potential source of ignition had a PSPS (public safety power shutoff) not been initiated,” PG&E said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191014_15_things_you_need_to_know_about_pges_oct_9-12_public_safety_power_shutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Gorin, the Sonoma County supervisor, said the power shutoffs at the very least helped in an indirect way. When the Kincade Fire broke out, the county already had its emergency operations center up and running in response to the outage, “because we needed to work with the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that PG&E has acknowleded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782609/map-pge-transmission-lines-near-kincade-fire-ignition-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">malfunctioning\u003c/a> of one of its transmission lines near the origin of the Kincade Fire just seven minutes before the blaze ignited. Ironically, the line was located in an area subject to one of the company’s planned outages, but only on lower-voltage lines. (The official cause of the Kincade Fire is still under investigation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever good may have come from the outages — which PG&E says will continue — \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/10/10/unacceptable-pge-faces-backlash-over-power-shutoff-as-newsom-increases-criticism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officials\u003c/a> hurled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/energy-environment/pge-blackout-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withering criticism\u003c/a> at the company for poor execution in keeping the public informed during the blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Fortuitous Weather\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Other factors most certainly contributed to a relatively subdued fire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">From year to year, there are dramatic differences in weather and forest conditions. Last year, the wet winter helped to dampen potential fuel, as did a late-May rain that left vegetation with high levels of moisture throughout the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“The moderate weather pattern this year was very conducive to the [low] totals that we have as far as acres burned,” said Scott McLean, a Cal Fire spokesman. “In 2017 and 2018 you saw hundred-degree weather that was consistent for weeks at a time\u003cb> \u003c/b>with winds. This year … started out with a good weather pattern. We stayed in that moderate weather pattern, but really no wind. Until you hit the fall, and then you started seeing fires because the wind picked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">California was also lucky, given the risk caused by wind storms repeatedly sweeping across Northern California’s parched chaparral in October and early November, before the region received any rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warming Climate, Intensifying Fires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reasons for a less horrifying year — better policy, good weather, luck — it’s obviously too early to declare victory, especially with the acceleration of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect there to be big year-to-year swings in the area burned by fire, even though, in general, climate change is creating upward pressure on fire risk,” said Alex Hall, director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kincade Fire was driven by a series of unique wind events, and while there’s no evidence that climate change is causing stronger winds, Jim Randerson, a climate and ecology scientist at UC Irvine, says global warming could be contributing to a decrease in wind humidity in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“That decline in humidity increases the fire risk, even if the wind strength remains similar,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, says the research is increasingly clear that hotter, drier summer conditions play a big role in wildfires’ increasing intensity.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Fires are driven by an incredibly complex set of factors,” said Herring, the \u003c/span>editor of the \u003cspan class=\"s3\">\u003ci>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on attribution science, which calculates how much climate change contributes to specific natural disasters. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">“There have been numerous papers now that showed climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in the West, in particular.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means wildfire is likely going to be an issue for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s impossible to divorce the 2019 fire season in Northern California from the two that came immediately before. Those were nothing short of disastrous, so much so that many Californians entered last summer filled with dread of a third consecutive year of incinerated homes, mass evacuations and tragic loss of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, with those recent calamities haunting the state, officials took some unprecedented steps to avert a devastating repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did they work? Well, judging by the results tallied at the end of the year, \u003cem>something\u003c/em> went right. The number of acres burned was the lowest since 2011, and the wildfire-related death toll dropped to three, down from the dozens of fatalities in both 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-pb0w9\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"California Wildfire \" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/pb0w9/1/\" height=\"244\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Table\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var e in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+e)||document.querySelector(\"iframe[src*='\"+e+\"']\");t&&(t.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][e]+\"px\")}})}();\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most extreme preventive measure came from PG&E, the state’s largest utility, whose transmission line had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789259/state-probe-says-pge-missed-deadly-flaw-on-line-that-sparked-camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked\u003c/a> the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. Last fall the company implemented several large-scale power shutoffs affecting up to 2 million people during periods of high-risk for wildfire, and the outages deprived some residents of electricity for as long as a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency procedures evolved as well. During the Kincade Fire, the state’s largest of the year, officials forced about 200,000 residents out of their homes in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10239056-181/battle-against-kincade-fire-takes\">reportedly\u003c/a> the biggest evacuation in Sonoma County history. The magnitude of the response was prompted by major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654027/my-world-was-burning-the-north-bay-fires-and-what-went-wrong\">problems\u003c/a> concerning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11644154/north-bay-fires-what-took-authorities-so-long-to-warn-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency procedures\u003c/a> during the devastating North Bay Fires of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to repeat that experience,” Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin told KQED’s Lisa Pickoff-White in October. “So they evacuated large numbers of the population in Sonoma County early.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"California Acres Burned\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1LWY8\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1LWY8/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>PG&E’s Planned Outages: Did They Help?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility executed a series power outages when high winds coincided with other dangerous conditions. After PG&E carried out its first shutoff, from Oct. 9 to Oct. 12, the company said it found dozens of locations where downed trees or other equipment failures would have created conditions ripe for a wildfire. “It is possible that any one of these instances could have been a potential source of ignition had a PSPS (public safety power shutoff) not been initiated,” PG&E said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20191014_15_things_you_need_to_know_about_pges_oct_9-12_public_safety_power_shutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Gorin, the Sonoma County supervisor, said the power shutoffs at the very least helped in an indirect way. When the Kincade Fire broke out, the county already had its emergency operations center up and running in response to the outage, “because we needed to work with the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that PG&E has acknowleded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782609/map-pge-transmission-lines-near-kincade-fire-ignition-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">malfunctioning\u003c/a> of one of its transmission lines near the origin of the Kincade Fire just seven minutes before the blaze ignited. Ironically, the line was located in an area subject to one of the company’s planned outages, but only on lower-voltage lines. (The official cause of the Kincade Fire is still under investigation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever good may have come from the outages — which PG&E says will continue — \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/10/10/unacceptable-pge-faces-backlash-over-power-shutoff-as-newsom-increases-criticism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officials\u003c/a> hurled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/business/energy-environment/pge-blackout-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withering criticism\u003c/a> at the company for poor execution in keeping the public informed during the blackouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cb>Fortuitous Weather\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Other factors most certainly contributed to a relatively subdued fire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">From year to year, there are dramatic differences in weather and forest conditions. Last year, the wet winter helped to dampen potential fuel, as did a late-May rain that left vegetation with high levels of moisture throughout the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“The moderate weather pattern this year was very conducive to the [low] totals that we have as far as acres burned,” said Scott McLean, a Cal Fire spokesman. “In 2017 and 2018 you saw hundred-degree weather that was consistent for weeks at a time\u003cb> \u003c/b>with winds. This year … started out with a good weather pattern. We stayed in that moderate weather pattern, but really no wind. Until you hit the fall, and then you started seeing fires because the wind picked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">California was also lucky, given the risk caused by wind storms repeatedly sweeping across Northern California’s parched chaparral in October and early November, before the region received any rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warming Climate, Intensifying Fires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reasons for a less horrifying year — better policy, good weather, luck — it’s obviously too early to declare victory, especially with the acceleration of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect there to be big year-to-year swings in the area burned by fire, even though, in general, climate change is creating upward pressure on fire risk,” said Alex Hall, director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kincade Fire was driven by a series of unique wind events, and while there’s no evidence that climate change is causing stronger winds, Jim Randerson, a climate and ecology scientist at UC Irvine, says global warming could be contributing to a decrease in wind humidity in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“That decline in humidity increases the fire risk, even if the wind strength remains similar,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Stephanie Herring, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, says the research is increasingly clear that hotter, drier summer conditions play a big role in wildfires’ increasing intensity.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Fires are driven by an incredibly complex set of factors,” said Herring, the \u003c/span>editor of the \u003cspan class=\"s3\">\u003ci>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on attribution science, which calculates how much climate change contributes to specific natural disasters. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">“There have been numerous papers now that showed climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in the West, in particular.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which means wildfire is likely going to be an issue for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Rain and Some Snow in Bay Area Forecast (Plus, More Snow in the Sierra)",
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"content": "\u003cp>You want rain, Bay Area? It's coming, along with a possible dusting of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A moderate winter storm is expected to drop 0.5 to 2 inches of rain on the Bay Area from Wednesday to Thursday, including snow in some of the region's highest elevations, meteorologists say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm will move in Wednesday night, with most of the rainfall expected Thursday morning, said Spencer Tangen, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's San Francisco Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely could impact the morning commute on Thursday as we get that band of moderate to heavy rain moving through,\" Tangen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1216525463297773568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half an inch of rain is likely in urban areas, while coastal hills — like those in the North and South Bay — could get up to 2 inches. Meteorologists aren't expecting any major flooding, more likely nuisance ones, such as ponding of water on highways, Tangen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Spencer Tangen, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area office']'These upcoming storms will help to make up some ground, but it would take quite a few decent storm systems to get to 100% (of normal) again.'[/pullquote]But a cold front accompanying the storm could move the snow level down to 3,000 feet on Thursday afternoon, Tangen said, meaning Bay Area peaks like Mount St. Helena, Mount Hamilton, Mount Diablo and Mount Umunhum could get 2-3 inches of snow. Higher regional elevations do get dustings of snow several times a year, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This kind of storm isn't too out of the ordinary with these snow levels,\" Tangen said. \"But it's exciting when it happens because a lot of storms are too warm for snow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796036\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11796036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/snow_Bay-Area-snow_Mount-Saint-Helena_02182010-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Saint Helena covered with a rare coating of snow. Feb. 18, 2010.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/snow_Bay-Area-snow_Mount-Saint-Helena_02182010-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/snow_Bay-Area-snow_Mount-Saint-Helena_02182010-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/snow_Bay-Area-snow_Mount-Saint-Helena_02182010-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount St. Helena covered with a rare coating of snow on Feb. 18, 2010. \u003ccite>(Zug Zwang/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rain should taper off by Thursday evening, and Friday will be all clear just ahead of a weaker storm expected over the weekend, Tangen said. The Bay Area, which started off the rainy season fairly dry, has experienced some storms to help get the region back to normal — but is still lagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These upcoming storms will help to make up some ground, but it would take quite a few decent storm systems to get to 100% again,\" Tangen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An area that has made up a lot of ground? The Sierra Nevada, where meteorologists are expecting 1-2 feet of snow ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend and up to a foot more in higher elevations. In early January, researchers determined the snowpack near Lake Tahoe was at 97% of normal during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1954436/california-snowpack-starts-off-the-year-at-nearly-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first manual survey\u003c/a> of the season — \"just just below where we need to be,\" said Emily Heller, a meteorologist in the NWS Sacramento office. \"This will probably set us back to what we would historically see for mid-January.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1217151897385283584\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heller said the moderate winter storm — a cold system coming in from the northwest — was expected to move in Wednesday night and continue through Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like there could be periods of heavy mountain snow, gusty winds, which could lead to maybe some whiteout conditions, and periods of dangerous travel over the Sierra during that time frame, especially Wednesday night through Thursday,\" added Heller, who cautioned holidaymakers against heading to the area on Thursday and instead wait until Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1954436]The Sierra Nevada should experience the weaker storm on Saturday that's following the bigger mid-week one, she said. Those heading to the area for the weekend should be prepared for some snow on Saturday, making getting around in the mountains somewhat difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But overall ... Sunday looks like a great day to be skiing,\" Heller added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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On the 100-acre campus, just behind the casino and hotel, Jana Ganion opens a chain-link fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're up on a little platform that can oversee most of the array,\" she said. \"This is the view I like the best.\" [aside tag='pge' label='More Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, in an area half the size of a football field, are more than 1,500 solar panels slanted toward the noonday sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganion is the sustainability director with the Blue Lake Rancheria, which includes about 50 members. 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It's a visceral reminder that you need to go home and make sure there's nothing heavy, like a framed painting or bookshelf, that could fall on your bed, should a quake hit while you're sleeping.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hepenstal has another suggestion: place a pair of shoes under your bed, next to that flashlight you keep there for when you need to respond to things that go bump in the dark. \"The biggest injury from nighttime earthquakes is cut feet.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Los Altos History Museum wants to inspire you to plan ahead, to take care of yourself and those you love while waiting for outside help. \u003c/span>The exhibit features sample emergency kits — past as well as present — and local stories of those who survived disasters and lived to tell the tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 759px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780713 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg\" alt=\"A house in Redwood Grove in the Santa Cruz mountains that was pushed laterally off its cement foundation.\" width=\"759\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg 759w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in Redwood Grove in the Santa Cruz mountains that was pushed laterally off its cement foundation. \u003ccite>(J.K. 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If you weren’t there on October 17th, 1989, it’s hard to imagine how devastating it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named after the mountain peak near its epicenter, Loma Prieta killed 63 people, injured nearly 3,800 more and caused an estimated $6 billion in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we do remember, if we remember it, often comes from photographs and TV footage of the most dramatic damage: cars dangling from a broken section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, desperate rescue crews combing through wreckage of the Cypress Freeway in West Oakland, crumpled apartment buildings sagging onto the streets of the Marina district in San Francisco and giant piles of rubble on the streets of downtown Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares.jpg\" alt=\"This exhibit aims to bring that sobering sense of possibility home with displays that highlight the history of emergency preparedness and disasters in Los Altos.\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares.jpg 2200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares-800x437.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares-1020x558.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares-1200x656.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/OurCommunityPrepares-1920x1050.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2200px) 100vw, 2200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This exhibit aims to bring that sobering sense of possibility home with displays that highlight the history of emergency preparedness and disasters in Los Altos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Los Altos History Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Great writers like Joan Didion and Mike Davis have written about the continuous presence of natural disasters in the consciousness of Californians. After all, not a year passes without something major in the headlines, happening to or near someone we know. [aside label=\"More Earthquake Coverage\" tag=earthquake]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet a curious disassociation takes place after the smoke clears from the air. Hepenstal said most people fail to imagine an earthquake, wildfire or mudslide could hit their particular neighborhood, until it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the damage from Loma Prieta in Los Altos was as minor as shelves disgorging their contents onto the floor, those photos still makes an impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a newcomer [from the Midwest], I could say, 'Wow, I was in that store last Saturday, and that's what it looked like after the [Loma Prieta] quake.' It brings it to a very personal level,\" said Hepenstal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various child-focused displays help engage and prepare the smallest Californians, too, to think about what they can do ahead of whatever \"Big One\" hits next. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Friday at 12:46 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">$222 billion state budget\u003c/a> this morning, saying it attempts to confront two of California's persistent problems: risks caused by climate change and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said the budget proposal, his second, also seeks to tackle long-standing problems in the state's education system, including the teacher shortage and pervasive achievement gap between black California students and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to expand access to healthcare for undocumented seniors in California, lower prescription drug costs by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11794968/california-wants-to-create-its-own-generic-drug-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating a generic state drug label\u003c/a>; and see state policy recognize the link between stable housing and mental and physical health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1215720653300486144\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe in universal health care, we believe universal health care lowers costs,\" he said. \"We believe its the right thing to do morally and ethically, and the financially responsible thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's proposing a new tax on nicotine vaping products that he estimated could raise up to $32 million next fiscal year — money he said will be used to prevent youth vaping, and other enforcement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. 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These problems — our widespread affordability crisis, expanding homelessness crisis and catastrophic wildfires — have been decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal laid out Friday kicks off budget season in California; lawmakers have the next six months to debate and refine Newsom's proposal and must pass a final budget by mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1215705149022167040?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom said it's \"self-evident\" that the state should focus resources on the 23 high-poverty school districts where African American students are disproportionately clustered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'If you wanna support children, you have to support caregivers. If you wanna support parents you have to support children.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is proposing $900 million to help train and support teachers in the state's high-poverty schools; and $250 million to help reform the special education system. He also wants lawmakers to appropriate $300 million for one-time grants and technical assistance to create improvement plans at California's lowest-performing schools and another $300 million for one-time grants to help support kids' mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also proposes the creation of a Department of Early Childhood Development to create a more \"unified, quality affordable child system.\" The budget would fund 10,000 new preschool spots as part of the state's goal to eventually provide preschool to all low-income four-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you wanna support children, you have to support caregivers. If you wanna support parents you have to support children,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor announced that his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, has been working with his administration on a $70 million expansion of the state's school nutrition program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing and Homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom called homelessness the issue that \"defines our time\" and said the state will invest more than $1 billion to help cities and counties tackle the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11794599/newsom-seeks-750m-for-homeless-services-and-shelter-in-proposed-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released part of his proposal on homelessness and housing\u003c/a>, calling for $1.4 billion in spending on a wide range of programs and signing an executive order aimed at getting people on the streets into shelter immediately. He's directing state agencies to make land available immediately to local governments and nonprofits to shelter homeless Californians — as long as the use of the land doesn't delay affordable housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also included in that proposal is a new fund, managed by the Department of Social Services, that will give direct support to both individuals facing homelessness, in the form of rental assistance; as well as help local governments develop housing and provide funding for board and care homes. Newsom said this $750 million plan is unique because the money will go directly to service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor is also calling for the state to more closely acknowledge the connection between healthcare and homelessness. He's proposing $695 million within the Medi-Cal budget for housing and supportive services for the chronically homeless, with the idea that such programs can keep people out of the emergency rooms or expensive health care clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that not one dollar of the $1.75 billion included in this year's budget to increase housing production has been sent out to local governments yet, but said that money is starting to flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Climate Change\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom is proposing a $4.75 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955578/california-climate-budget-to-include-1-billion-green-loan-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"climate resilience bond\"\u003c/a> for the November ballot aimed at funding projects that will reduce climate risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also wants to create a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1 billion revolving loan fund would help \"level the playing field\" for smaller actors and seed innovative projects that private companies may be wary of investing in. He cited recycling, transportation and agriculture projects as areas that that fund could help kickstart.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'If protecting Californians' interests and ensuring the necessary transformation requires further intervention, including a state takeover of the utility, the administration will work with the Legislature.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is also proposing hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent and fight fires, including investments in new technology, more firefighters, home hardening and vegetation management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On PG&E, California's largest and only bankrupt utility, Newsom continued to leave open the possibility of state intervention —including a public takeover. His budget introduction notes that the goal is for the utility to emerge from bankruptcy by this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget reflects necessary support for the administration's efforts to achieve the required transformation of PG&E within the bankruptcy process,\" the budget states. \"However, if protecting Californians' interests and ensuring the necessary transformation requires further intervention, including a state takeover of the utility, the administration will work with the Legislature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said that if a takeover is necessary, it would be structured to protect the state's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's budget forecasts an end to private prison contracting by April, and says that if population trends hold, the state could close a prison within five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I wanna close a state prison, and I wanna do it on my watch,\" he said, adding that he hopes his watch extends to another term. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"gavin-newsom\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said depending on prison population numbers he thinks the state could shutter a prison by 2022 at the earliest and 2024 at the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"And we have a strategy and a plan to shut down a prison and that's enlivening,\" he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he also wants to \"transform\" prision life, noting that the budget calls for investments in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11795091/returning-as-good-neighbors-for-young-prisoners-newsom-proposes-rehab-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rehabilitation programs in state prisons\u003c/a>; technology for inmates who are going to school; and more training of correctional officers and counselors so they can help support the expansion of programs that will help inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to reform the probation system, capping probation supervision at two years but also allowing probation for some misdemeanor convictions. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed sharply limiting environmental reviews of pipelines and other major federally permitted infrastructure projects, a move that would sweep away a hurdle slowing his agenda for unfettered fossil fuel development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new guidance would curb federal agencies from considering climate impacts by specifying that agencies are only required to analyze impacts that are immediate, local and direct. The administration’s proposed rule, which will be open for public comment before being finalized, also would relieve agencies of any duty to consider cumulative environmental impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of America’s most critical infrastructure projects have been tied up and bogged down by an outrageously burdensome federal approval process,” Trump said in an address from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “From day one, my administration has made fixing this regulatory nightmare a top priority. For the first time in 40 years, we’re going to completely overhaul the dysfunctional bureaucratic system that has created these massive obstructions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to overhaul implementation rules for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which marked its 50th anniversary on Jan. 1, was portrayed by Trump as a modernization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics argue that the president is proposing changes that would undermine the bedrock environmental protection law, which establishes the duty of the federal government to act “as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.” They vowed to fight the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While our world is burning, President Trump is adding fuel to the fire by taking away our right to be informed and to protect ourselves from irreparable harm,” said Gina McCarthy, the new president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). McCarthy, who served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Obama administration, added: “We will use every tool in our toolbox to stop this dangerous move and safeguard our children’s future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by men in hard hats and orange construction vests, industry officials and members of his economic team, Trump stressed his aim to speed the building of highways, roads and bridges. But the NEPA impact that has proved most nettlesome to the administration has been stalling the oil and gas pipelines and coal leasing Trump’s administration has sought to push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s move follows a series of federal court rulings that have stymied his efforts to spur fossil fuel projects—most notably the high-profile Keystone XL pipeline to expand U.S. imports of carbon-intensive Canadian tar sands oil. Trump had \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23032017/keystone-xl-pipeline-donald-trump-rex-tillerson-state-department-nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> within days of taking office to reverse President Barack Obama’s decision to halt the project over climate concerns. But Keystone XL has been tied up in litigation since then, with \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082018/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-map-new-route-environmental-impact-statement-nepa-transcanada-tar-sands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal judge ruling last August\u003c/a> that federal agencies “cannot escape their responsibility” to evaluate alternatives under NEPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the Trump administration’s all-out effort to ease the regulatory burden on the fossil energy industry, federal courts have repeatedly ruled that agencies were failing to live up to their duties under NEPA. Courts \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082017/court-rejects-ferc-pipeline-approval-orders-climate-environment-impact-review-sabal-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slowed construction of a major natural gas pipeline\u003c/a> in the Southeast, and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26032018/coal-mining-climate-impacts-powder-river-basin-fossil-fuels-wyoming-montana-blm-nepa-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expansion of coal mining \u003c/a>in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/17-17320/17-17320-2019-07-29.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Navajo land in Arizona\u003c/a>. The federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office in September voluntarily suspended 130 oil and gas leases \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112019/oil-gas-leases-suspended-climate-impact-federal-nepa-assessment-blm-utah-colorado-wyoming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under the threat of NEPA lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist now in charge of agencies that oversee oil, gas and coal leasing on federal lands and coastlines, called the NEPA plan “a really, really big proposal” that “affects virtually every significant decision made by the federal government that affects the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning from the podium to Trump, Bernhardt said, “I believe it will be the most significant deregulatory proposal you ultimately implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoiding the Consideration of Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry and its allies have long railed against NEPA, especially over the past decade, when courts began ruling that NEPA required that both direct and indirect climate impacts be assessed. 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The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s own statistics show that 95 percent of the more than 50,000 actions subject to NEPA each year are already exempt from detailed environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups argue that the subset of actions that require a detailed review—like the Keystone XL Pipeline—warrant the scrutiny, pointing to the spill of thousands of gallons of oil from the Keystone system in North Dakota this past October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Responsibilities as ‘Trustee of the Environment’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEPA, among the first environmental laws passed by Congress and signed by President Richard Nixon, requires comprehensive studies into the potential environmental impacts of “major” federal actions or projects—with an analysis of alternatives. 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But the NEPA impact that has proved most nettlesome to the administration has been stalling the oil and gas pipelines and coal leasing Trump’s administration has sought to push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s move follows a series of federal court rulings that have stymied his efforts to spur fossil fuel projects—most notably the high-profile Keystone XL pipeline to expand U.S. imports of carbon-intensive Canadian tar sands oil. Trump had \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23032017/keystone-xl-pipeline-donald-trump-rex-tillerson-state-department-nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> within days of taking office to reverse President Barack Obama’s decision to halt the project over climate concerns. But Keystone XL has been tied up in litigation since then, with \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082018/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-map-new-route-environmental-impact-statement-nepa-transcanada-tar-sands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a federal judge ruling last August\u003c/a> that federal agencies “cannot escape their responsibility” to evaluate alternatives under NEPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the Trump administration’s all-out effort to ease the regulatory burden on the fossil energy industry, federal courts have repeatedly ruled that agencies were failing to live up to their duties under NEPA. Courts \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082017/court-rejects-ferc-pipeline-approval-orders-climate-environment-impact-review-sabal-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slowed construction of a major natural gas pipeline\u003c/a> in the Southeast, and \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26032018/coal-mining-climate-impacts-powder-river-basin-fossil-fuels-wyoming-montana-blm-nepa-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expansion of coal mining \u003c/a>in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/17-17320/17-17320-2019-07-29.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Navajo land in Arizona\u003c/a>. The federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office in September voluntarily suspended 130 oil and gas leases \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112019/oil-gas-leases-suspended-climate-impact-federal-nepa-assessment-blm-utah-colorado-wyoming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under the threat of NEPA lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist now in charge of agencies that oversee oil, gas and coal leasing on federal lands and coastlines, called the NEPA plan “a really, really big proposal” that “affects virtually every significant decision made by the federal government that affects the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning from the podium to Trump, Bernhardt said, “I believe it will be the most significant deregulatory proposal you ultimately implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoiding the Consideration of Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry and its allies have long railed against NEPA, especially over the past decade, when courts began ruling that NEPA required that both direct and indirect climate impacts be assessed. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) led \u003ca href=\"https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2010/4/post-1bc00795-802a-23ad-46c9-8d25ff8ecb50\">an effort to amend NEPA \u003c/a>to bar consideration of global warming impacts, but it never garnered sufficient support to advance in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the start, Trump took up the cause of NEPA reform with all the enthusiasm of a real estate developer who saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060367799\">his own projects\u003c/a> derailed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fight-save-plum-island\">over environmental concerns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has issued and proposed five other pieces of guidance to circumscribe NEPA reviews, including a plan floated last summer to limit consideration of greenhouse gas emissions in planning for federal projects. But in the new proposal, the White House said it determined it was “not appropriate” to address a single category of impacts in regulations. Instead, the proposal seeks to limit the scope of all NEPA reviews in a way that appears to rule out consideration of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only environmental effects that federal agencies would be required to consider are those that are “reasonably foreseeable and have a reasonably close causal relationship to the proposed action or alternatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effects should not be considered significant if they are remote in time, geographically remote, or the product of a lengthy causal chain,” the proposal says. It also specifies that environmental reviews are not required under NEPA for non-discretionary decisions or for those with minimal federal funding or involvement—giving many developers an opportunity to elude the environmental review process altogether. The proposal sets a time limit of two years for detailed environmental reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vickie Patton, general counsel of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the proposal would “punch loopholes into long-standing protections under the National Environmental Policy Act and would put communities at risk and worsen climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters, called it “one of the most egregious actions the Trump administration has taken to limit the federal government’s response to climate change yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump’s Red Tape Claims vs. White House Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, in essence, would fulfill \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-environment-nepa/industry-groups-urge-white-house-to-finish-overhauling-u-s-environmental-review-process-idUSKBN1XW1AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a wish list delivered to the White House\u003c/a> last fall by 33 industry groups, led by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who complained of “unreasonable costs and long project delays” caused by NEPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>API President and CEO Mike Sommers praised the proposal in a prepared statement: “Reforming the NEPA process is a critical step toward meeting growing demand for cleaner energy and unlocking job-creating infrastructure projects currently stuck in a maze of red tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s description of the NEPA process—”It takes 20 years, 30 years, it takes numbers nobody would even believe”—is at odds with reality for the vast majority of projects. 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"content": "\u003cp>Another round of the year’s highest tides is set to roll into the Bay Area in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/learn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">king tides\u003c/a>, as they are colloquially known, occur when the sun and moon are aligned so that their gravitational pull tugs Earth’s waters a few feet higher than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, for example, at Rincon Point near the Bay Bridge, the forecast calls for a high tide of 7.26 feet on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 11:20 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1955598\"]These days, the tides are frequently observed as a preview of a climate-change-driven rise in sea level, and how it might affect coastal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> California King Tides Project\u003c/a> lists more than dozen viewing events in the Bay Area and throughout the state, taking place Saturday, Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activities include a guided birding tour of Oakland’s Arrowhead Marsh with the Golden Gate Audubon Society, a beach cleanup at Bodega Bay, and a hike through the wetlands of Marin’s China Camp State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This link contains a \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full list of events.\u003c/a> Below is an interactive map showing the times and locations of the February king tides. Use the plus and minus signs on the lower left side of the map to zoom in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1lS8SEF6LfcWqRErr-g2hngubrL_IoX42&w=640&h=480]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>February will mark the second wave of king tides to hit the Bay Area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1955870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1955870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-768x537.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-1200x839.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebastian Jasper plays in the pools of water resulting from the spilling of king tides onto the sidewalk at Rincon Point in downtown San Francisco on Jan. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People who want to see the tides in person can \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/participate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upload their photos\u003c/a> to the California King Tides Project’s interactive map. The project’s website also reminds folks to watch their footing when they view or photograph the high water:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>“The most important thing to remember is to \u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003ci>be safe\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>! Take extra precautions when you walk on slippery areas or near big waves, and always be conscious of your surroundings and the weather conditions. Don’t turn your back on the ocean!”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiovvLqm_LmAhUXHzQIHQcpCBQQFjAKegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.epa.gov%2Fsites%2Fproduction%2Ffiles%2F2014-04%2Fdocuments%2Fking_tides_factsheet.pdf&usg=AOvVaw28ml8wKBDkbo8JGjO25_1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extreme high tides\u003c/a> occur several times a year. After February, the next chance to spot king tides in California will be in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>These days, the tides are frequently observed as a preview of a climate-change-driven rise in sea level, and how it might affect coastal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> California King Tides Project\u003c/a> lists more than dozen viewing events in the Bay Area and throughout the state, taking place Saturday, Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activities include a guided birding tour of Oakland’s Arrowhead Marsh with the Golden Gate Audubon Society, a beach cleanup at Bodega Bay, and a hike through the wetlands of Marin’s China Camp State Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This link contains a \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full list of events.\u003c/a> Below is an interactive map showing the times and locations of the February king tides. Use the plus and minus signs on the lower left side of the map to zoom in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n src='https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1lS8SEF6LfcWqRErr-g2hngubrL_IoX42&w=640&h=480'\n title='https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1lS8SEF6LfcWqRErr-g2hngubrL_IoX42&w=640&h=480'\n width='640'\n height='480'\n scrolling='no'\n frameborder='no'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>February will mark the second wave of king tides to hit the Bay Area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1955870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1955870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-768x537.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2-1200x839.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/KingTides_007-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebastian Jasper plays in the pools of water resulting from the spilling of king tides onto the sidewalk at Rincon Point in downtown San Francisco on Jan. 11, 2019. \u003ccite>(Lindsey Moore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People who want to see the tides in person can \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/participate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upload their photos\u003c/a> to the California King Tides Project’s interactive map. The project’s website also reminds folks to watch their footing when they view or photograph the high water:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>“The most important thing to remember is to \u003c/i>\u003cb>\u003ci>be safe\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>! Take extra precautions when you walk on slippery areas or near big waves, and always be conscious of your surroundings and the weather conditions. Don’t turn your back on the ocean!”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiovvLqm_LmAhUXHzQIHQcpCBQQFjAKegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.epa.gov%2Fsites%2Fproduction%2Ffiles%2F2014-04%2Fdocuments%2Fking_tides_factsheet.pdf&usg=AOvVaw28ml8wKBDkbo8JGjO25_1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extreme high tides\u003c/a> occur several times a year. After February, the next chance to spot king tides in California will be in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States dropped last year after a sharp increase in 2018, new data released Tuesday show. The drop resumed a long-term downward trend driven chiefly by a shift away from coal power generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of the emissions decline has largely been one of \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">market forces\u003c/a>—rather than policies—that have made utilities close coal plants in favor of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. But this shift to lower-carbon energy has been restricted to the electricity sector, and the nation’s emissions cuts are still not on track to meet the targets it agreed to under the \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/paris-climate-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris climate accord\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to meet those goals, experts say, federal policies will likely need to target other sectors that collectively make up a majority of U.S. emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart1.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart1-160x91.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell about 2 percent in 2019, according to \u003ca href=\"https://rhg.com/research/preliminary-us-emissions-2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary estimates\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://rhg.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rhodium Group\u003c/a>, an economic analysis firm. The previous year, strong economic growth and other factors had pushed emissions up roughly 3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2019 drop was driven by a nearly 10 percent fall in emissions from the power sector, the biggest decline in decades, according to Rhodium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the story there is all about coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart2.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart2-160x97.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coal generation in the U.S. fell by 18 percent last year, the largest annual decline on record, according to Rhodium. \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change\">Another study\u003c/a>, published in December, found a smaller but still dramatic drop for coal generation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renewable power sources such as wind and solar have seen sharp increases in recent years as \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/content/chart-renewable-energy-costs-are-falling-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their costs of generation\u003c/a> have fallen below that of coal. But natural gas has replaced far more coal generation capacity than renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3-160x97.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fracking boom sent natural gas prices plummeting, helping drive a rapid shift by electric utilities away from coal. But while burning gas is cleaner than burning coal, natural gas power generation still emits carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more about how the natural gas rush is driving a global rise in fossil fuel emissions\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emissions from natural gas power generation increased by more than 40 million metric tons last year, compared to a drop of 190 million metric tons for coal, according to Rhodium. That does not include emissions during oil and gas \u003cem>production,\u003c/em> such as methane, a potent short-lived climate pollutant, which are counted separately (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news on emissions cuts ends with the power sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4-160x93.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., and emissions were essentially flat in 2019, declining by 0.3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does represent a shift after several years of small increases, but emissions remain about where they were before the Great Recession started in 2007. Hannah Pitt, a senior analyst with Rhodium, said improved fuel efficiency is helping slow or end the rise in emissions, even as people fly and drive more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP-160x93.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the change from 2018 to last year can be explained by the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP (the value of all final goods and services produced in the country), expanded by a relatively robust 2.9 percent. But the first three quarters of last year saw slower GDP growth of 2.3 percent, according to Rhodium. A slower economy tamped down growth in domestic air travel and also in shipping by trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet emissions from other sectors of the economy continued to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart5.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart5-160x97.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emissions from industry rose slightly last year and are now greater than those from coal-fired power plants. Emissions from buildings were up, too. And emissions from other sectors of the economy collectively grew by more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the growth within the “other” category came from methane emitted by oil and gas production. The U.S. is now the world’s top oil and gas producer, and it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/aeo2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">projected to continue\u003c/a> expanding output in coming years. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has started the process of pulling out of the Paris accord, and it has been working to \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082019/methane-regulation-oil-gas-storage-pipelines-epa-rollback-trump-wheeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roll back regulations\u003c/a> adopted by the Obama administration that limited methane emissions from new and existing oil and gas wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These other, \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/global-warming-pollution-industrial-sources-cement-steel-trade-solutions-technology-shipping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harder to tackle sectors\u003c/a> are an increasingly important piece of the story, and Pitt said federal policies will have to target them if the U.S. is to hit the targets it agreed to as part of the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to meet those, we would need to really be seeing some pretty sizable annual declines in emissions that we’re not seeing now,” she said. “And if we’re relying purely on the power sector market dynamics to get there, I don’t see that happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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But natural gas has replaced far more coal generation capacity than renewables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart3-160x97.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fracking boom sent natural gas prices plummeting, helping drive a rapid shift by electric utilities away from coal. But while burning gas is cleaner than burning coal, natural gas power generation still emits carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122019/fossil-fuel-emissions-2019-natural-gas-bridge-oil-coal-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more about how the natural gas rush is driving a global rise in fossil fuel emissions\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emissions from natural gas power generation increased by more than 40 million metric tons last year, compared to a drop of 190 million metric tons for coal, according to Rhodium. That does not include emissions during oil and gas \u003cem>production,\u003c/em> such as methane, a potent short-lived climate pollutant, which are counted separately (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news on emissions cuts ends with the power sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportChart4-160x93.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., and emissions were essentially flat in 2019, declining by 0.3 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That does represent a shift after several years of small increases, but emissions remain about where they were before the Great Recession started in 2007. Hannah Pitt, a senior analyst with Rhodium, said improved fuel efficiency is helping slow or end the rise in emissions, even as people fly and drive more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1954788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP.png 648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/2020EmissionsReportGDP-160x93.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the change from 2018 to last year can be explained by the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP (the value of all final goods and services produced in the country), expanded by a relatively robust 2.9 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131#LAO_Assessment_of_Policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a> Monday on how well the state’s energy policies are working in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Ross Brown, Legislative Analyst's Office\"]‘In many cases, there’s not a lot of great information evaluating either the suite of policies or a specific policy.’[/pullquote]The analysis found that the state requirement that utilities continually increase the amount of renewable energy they provide has been a “significant” driver in curbing emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO, however, was not able to determine exact figures for how much the cut in emissions is attributable to state law versus other factors, and the agency cited as problematic a lack of specific research that evaluates California climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO couldn’t find a robust, peer-reviewed study on the effect of the state’s clean energy requirement for utilities, called the renewables portfolio standard. Instead, the agency’s analysts developed their own estimate based on “back-of-the-envelope” calculations, said Ross Brown, a policy analyst for the LAO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, there’s not a lot of great information evaluating either the suite of policies or a specific policy,” Brown said. “We think that this is an important thing from a public policy perspective, as well as thinking about California as a leader for other jurisdictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the dearth of specific research, the LAO study had to rely heavily on a review of existing academic literature, as well as on data from state agencies and interviews with researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Energy Sector Drives Emissions Reductions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO, a nonpartisan advisory agency for the state Legislature, was still able to estimate that in 2018 the requirement that utilities increase their portfolio of renewable energy reduced emissions by “the low tens of millions of tons,” at a cost of an additional $60 to $70 per ton over nonrenewable energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of renewable resources continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951005/the-cost-of-battery-storage-plummets-at-the-right-moment-for-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plummet\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951005/the-cost-of-battery-storage-plummets-at-the-right-moment-for-california\">. \u003c/a>That lower cost as well as federal policies also played a role in reducing the state’s annual emissions, according to the LAO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The electricity sector and specifically the kind of megaresources that we used to provide electricity has been a key driver of the state’s emission reductions over the last number of years,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2006, the state’s annual emissions from the energy sector have dropped by about 40 million metric tons, a reduction of 40%. These big cuts were the primary reason California reached its overall 2020 emissions target four years \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-adv-california-climate-pollution-20180722-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ahead of schedule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, California’s power use has remained relatively constant, even as in recent years the state’s economy has grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1954718 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig4.png 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig4-160x113.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1954716 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig5.png 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/Fig5-160x145.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">In a state burdened by billions of dollars in wildfire damage, California lawmakers are hoping for an advance loan before the next climate-fueled catastrophe hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated state Legislature return to work Monday for the second year of a two-year session. Their to-do list includes a $4.2 billion climate bond, an ambitious proposal to borrow money before they need it to prepare for the types of natural disasters that have plagued the state. The disasters are so destructive they forced the nation’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, to file for bankruptcy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">The borrowing proposal is one of dozens of holdover bills from last year that are still alive in 2020 but must pass at least one legislative chamber by the end of January to have a chance at becoming law. The logjam is complicated by an accelerated election cycle that puts many lawmakers on primary election ballots in March instead of June, making it less likely for politically risky proposals to advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">“We have kind of a perfect storm,” said veteran Democratic political consultant Andrew Acosta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Catastrophic wildfires have destroyed thousands of homes, generating billions of dollars in insurance claims and costing taxpayers billions more in cleanup costs. The bulk of the borrowing proposal, detailed in similar efforts authored by Democrat Ben Allen in the Senate and Democrat Eduardo Garcia in the Assembly, would go toward reducing wildfire risk throughout the state. It also includes money to protect farmland from climate change, bolster the state’s scarce water sources and help coastal communities plan for sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">The $4.2 billion price tag could grow as lawmakers discuss adding more projects for things like buying solar batteries and fuel cells to keep the lights on at nursing homes and other vulnerable sites when utility companies preemptively shut off electricity to prevent wildfires during windy conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">“We’ve been really good about investing in suppression — in other words, firefighters and helicopters,” said Democratic Sen. 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He also wants to temporarily block a state law that requires utilities to buy more expensive solar and wind power and upgrade their equipment to make it less likely to spark wildfires during windstorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Gallagher questioned whether borrowing is the best practice “considering the amount of debt we have right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">“There are existing dollars in government that I think we could just better target,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Other proposals in legislative limbo include a controversial bill by Sen. Scott Wiener to boost housing density near public transportation by allowing apartment buildings in areas currently zoned for single-family homes. Atkins said Wiener is working on some amendments around “local flexibility” that she said might help the bill make it through the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">If it does, it could find a receptive audience in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">“I don’t like to comment on pending legislation, but I definitely think there is value in increasing housing density along certain corridors,” Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Potentially overshadowing pending legislation is the fate of Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the nation’s largest electric utility, which filed for bankruptcy after facing up to $30 billion in potential damages from wildfires started by its equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-47 Component-p-0-2-40\">Democratic Gov. 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Voters could be weary of more bonds because the state has borrowed so much money in recent years that officials are having trouble spending it all. 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