window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"science_1932721": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1932721",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932721",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1932692,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-520x395.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 395
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-160x122.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 122
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-601x372.jpg",
"width": 601,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-375x285.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 285
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897.jpg",
"width": 601,
"height": 457
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Loughman-and-cat-1-e1539629845897-240x182.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 182
}
},
"publishDate": 1539560566,
"modified": 1539632158,
"caption": "Colleen Loughman with one of her two cats, when she was a student in the 1950s at Holy Names University in Oakland. Loughman died in September 2017 from the heat, a day after San Francisco hit a record 106 degrees.",
"description": null,
"title": "Loughman and cat",
"credit": "Courtesy of Barbara McGovern",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1932606": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1932606",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932606",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1932598,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-520x329.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 329
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-160x101.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 101
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-960x608.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 608
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-375x238.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 238
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716.jpg",
"width": 4458,
"height": 2824
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1020x646.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 646
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1180x747.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 747
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1200x760.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 760
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-800x507.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 507
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1920x1216.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1216
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1180x747.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 747
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-1920x1216.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1216
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-768x487.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 487
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/GettyImages-1014740716-240x152.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 152
}
},
"publishDate": 1539186047,
"modified": 1539186129,
"caption": "Dewayne Johnson looks on after hearing the verdict to his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court Of California in San Francisco, California, on August 10, 2018. Monsanto will argue on Wednesday that the verdict should be thrown out. ",
"description": null,
"title": "TOPSHOT-DOUNIAMAG-US-ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH-TRIAL",
"credit": "JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1932335": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1932335",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932335",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1932331,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-520x347.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 347
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-960x641.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 641
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-375x250.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 250
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128.jpg",
"width": 2119,
"height": 1415
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1020x681.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 681
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1180x788.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 788
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1200x801.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 801
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-800x534.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 534
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1920x1282.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1282
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1180x788.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 788
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-1920x1282.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1282
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-768x513.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 513
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/iStock-515715128-240x160.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 160
}
},
"publishDate": 1538686663,
"modified": 1538686732,
"caption": "An investigation traced products possibly contaminated with Salmonella, including ground beef, to JBS Tolleson, Inc., a meat packing plant west of Phoenix.",
"description": null,
"title": "Buyer chooses minced meat in store",
"credit": "iStock",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1932147": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1932147",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932147",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1932144,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-520x403.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 403
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-160x124.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 124
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-960x745.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 745
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-375x291.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 291
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-e1538514237940.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1489
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1020x791.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 791
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1180x915.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 915
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1200x931.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 931
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-800x620.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 620
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1920x1489.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1489
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1180x915.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 915
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-1920x1489.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1489
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-768x596.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 596
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/ct-scan-240x186.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 186
}
},
"publishDate": 1538513775,
"modified": 1539193244,
"caption": "MRI of a patient's lower back.The Trump administration is quietly trying to weaken radiation rules, relying on scientific outliers who argue that a little radiation damage is actually good for you _ like a little bit of sunlight.",
"description": null,
"title": "ct scan",
"credit": "Glen Teitell/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1930258": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1930258",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1930258",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1928264,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-520x338.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 338
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-160x104.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 104
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-960x624.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 624
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-375x244.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 244
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1.jpg",
"width": 1217,
"height": 791
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-1020x663.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 663
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-1180x767.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 767
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-1200x780.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 780
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-800x520.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 520
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-1180x767.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 767
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-768x499.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 499
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/serpentinite_cropped-1-240x156.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 156
}
},
"publishDate": 1535053393,
"modified": 1535053459,
"caption": "A serpentinite outcrop near the Presidio in San Francisco gets its green color from the chromium that is naturally present in the rock. Chromium-6, a toxic and carcinogenic form of the element, has been identified in much of California's groundwater.",
"description": null,
"title": "serpentinite_cropped",
"credit": "Haakon Fossen | University of Bergen",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1931027": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1931027",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1931027",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1931000,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-520x374.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 374
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-160x115.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 115
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-960x691.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 691
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-375x270.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 270
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1.jpg",
"width": 4248,
"height": 3056
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1020x734.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 734
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1180x849.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 849
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1200x863.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 863
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-800x576.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1920x1381.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1381
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1180x849.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 849
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-1920x1381.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1381
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-768x552.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-887230120-1-240x173.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 173
}
},
"publishDate": 1536615004,
"modified": 1536615068,
"caption": "A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on December 6, 2017. ",
"description": null,
"title": "TOPSHOT-US-WEATHER-FIRES-CALIFORNIA",
"credit": "MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1931126": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1931126",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1931126",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1930718,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-520x347.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 347
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-960x640.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 640
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-375x250.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 250
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174.jpg",
"width": 5760,
"height": 3840
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1200x800.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 800
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/GettyImages-1029437174-240x160.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 160
}
},
"publishDate": 1536779453,
"modified": 1536779508,
"caption": "A woman dressed as a tree with the group The Forgotten Solution, poses for a picture at Civic Center Plaza after marching at the 'Rise For Climate' global action on September 8, 2018 in downtown San Francisco, California. ",
"description": null,
"title": "TOPSHOT-US-ENVIRONMENT-PROTEST",
"credit": "AMY OSBORNE/AFP/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1929799": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1929799",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1929799",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1929784,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-520x292.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 292
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-960x539.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 539
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-375x211.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 211
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"height": 674
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-1020x573.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 573
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-1180x663.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 663
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-1200x674.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 674
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-800x449.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 449
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-1180x663.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 663
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-768x431.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 431
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley1-240x135.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 135
}
},
"publishDate": 1534281072,
"modified": 1534284281,
"caption": "Cows graze in a smoky field north of Fresno. Smoke from the nearby Ferguson fire and other blazes burning throughout the state has drifted and settled into the Central Valley.",
"description": "Cows graze in a smoky field north of Fresno. Smoke from the nearby Ferguson fire and other blazes burning throughout the state has drifted and settled into the Central Valley.",
"title": "8_15_18_Upton_KQED_CentralValley[1]",
"credit": "Alex Hall/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1927153": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1927153",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1927153",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1927142,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-520x363.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 363
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-160x112.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 112
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-960x670.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 670
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-375x262.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 262
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-e1540254135420.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1341
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1020x712.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 712
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1180x824.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 824
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1200x838.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 838
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-800x559.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 559
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1920x1341.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1341
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1180x824.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 824
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-1920x1341.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1341
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-768x536.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 536
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-994931004-240x168.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 168
}
},
"publishDate": 1531252700,
"modified": 1554502993,
"caption": "Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson sits while his attorney speaks about his condition during the Monsanto trial in San Francisco in July 2018. ",
"description": null,
"title": "US-chemicals-environment-trial-health-cancer-illness",
"credit": "Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1929273": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1929273",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1929273",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1929271,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-520x347.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 347
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-960x640.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 640
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-375x250.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 250
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588.jpg",
"width": 3000,
"height": 2000
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1200x800.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 800
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/GettyImages-1008970588-240x160.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 160
}
},
"publishDate": 1533852825,
"modified": 1533853297,
"caption": "Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifies before a Senate committee August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove chlorpyrifos from sale in the United States within 60 days.",
"description": null,
"title": "Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Testifies At Senate Hearing On EPA Agenda",
"credit": "Win McNamee/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1928457": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1928457",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1928457",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1928448,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-520x313.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 313
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-160x96.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-960x578.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 578
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-375x226.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 226
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910.jpg",
"width": 4464,
"height": 2690
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1020x615.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 615
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1180x711.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 711
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1200x723.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 723
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-800x482.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 482
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1920x1157.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1157
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1180x711.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 711
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-1920x1157.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1157
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-768x463.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 463
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/iStock-908501910-240x145.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 145
}
},
"publishDate": 1533152390,
"modified": 1533169428,
"caption": "An oil field located just outside of Livermore, shown in the photo, will be shutting down following pushback from residents and environmental groups. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Ranch on the hill and beautiful sky",
"credit": "iStock",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_1915618": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_1915618",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1915618",
"found": true
},
"parent": 1915616,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-520x293.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 293
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-960x540.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 540
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-375x211.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 211
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1180x664.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 664
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1920x1080.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1180x664.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 664
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-1920x1080.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2017/09/trafffic-240x135.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 135
}
},
"publishDate": 1505452790,
"modified": 1533137062,
"caption": null,
"description": "State legislators voted to allow new clean cars to use \"diamond\" or carpool lanes.",
"title": "trafffic",
"credit": "Deborah Svoboda",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_science_1932598": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1932598",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1932598",
"name": "The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_science_1932331": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1932331",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1932331",
"name": "The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_science_1932144": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1932144",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1932144",
"name": "Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_science_1929784": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1929784",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1929784",
"name": "Maya Miller, Climate Central \u003cbr /> and Alex Hall, KQED",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_science_1929271": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1929271",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1929271",
"name": "Michael Biesecker\u003cbr />The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_science_1928442": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_science_1928442",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_science_1928442",
"name": "Tom Krisher and Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"mpeterson": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11223",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11223",
"found": true
},
"name": "Molly Peterson",
"firstName": "Molly",
"lastName": "Peterson",
"slug": "mpeterson",
"email": "mpeterson@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Molly Peterson reports for KQED science and news on climate change, catastrophe and risk. Previously she was environment correspondent at Southern California Public Radio. Her work has also appeared at The New York Times, The Guardian, on NPR, at High Country News, on Code Switch, and other national outlets. She has been honored with awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Los Angeles Press Club, and RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards, among others.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7908e2807131f776cc8165c649530b05?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "Mollydacious",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/radiomolly/",
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Molly Peterson | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7908e2807131f776cc8165c649530b05?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7908e2807131f776cc8165c649530b05?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/mpeterson"
},
"aahmed": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11428",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11428",
"found": true
},
"name": "Amel Ahmed",
"firstName": "Amel",
"lastName": "Ahmed",
"slug": "aahmed",
"email": "aahmed@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Amel Ahmed is a reporter for KQED. Prior to joining KQED, Amel worked at Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Now! and Punched Productions. She also helped produce \u003cem>Changing Face of Harlem\u003c/em>, a documentary that tracked gentrification in Harlem over a period of ten years. She is a 2013 graduate of Brooklyn Law School and is currently researching war on terror prosecutions for an upcoming book.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8b48ebc98e770640f3013c470d23f3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "amelscript",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": []
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": []
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Amel Ahmed | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8b48ebc98e770640f3013c470d23f3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8b48ebc98e770640f3013c470d23f3e?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/aahmed"
},
"aheidt": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11520",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11520",
"found": true
},
"name": "Amanda Heidt",
"firstName": "Amanda",
"lastName": "Heidt",
"slug": "aheidt",
"email": "aheidt@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Amanda Heidt was the 2018 Dr. Allen Fuhs KQED-CSUMB Fellow at KQED Science. Amanda came to KQED from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, where her masters research uses molecular techniques to describe communities of meiofauna, small invertebrates living between grains of sand. She has a background in education, outreach, and science communication, fostered by a recent position with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions. She has a BS in Marine Science and a minor in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her interests include climbing, diving, camping, baking, and reading. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @Scatter_Cushion.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e646090632bd7fef75fff4616269ff8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "Scatter_Cushion",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": []
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Amanda Heidt | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e646090632bd7fef75fff4616269ff8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e646090632bd7fef75fff4616269ff8c?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/aheidt"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"science_category_health": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_39",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "39",
"score": 10.886522
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 41,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Health",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "science",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 45
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/science?category=health",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 45
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"science_1932692": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1932692",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932692",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1539586961000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "climate-change-dishes-up-dangerous-heat-even-in-the-bay-area",
"title": "Even in San Francisco, Heat Is Turning Deadly. That's Not Something Colleen Loughman Expected",
"publishDate": 1539586961,
"format": "audio",
"headTitle": "Even in San Francisco, Heat Is Turning Deadly. That’s Not Something Colleen Loughman Expected | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Molly Peterson conducted a 5-month investigation into heat in California, in partnership with KQED Science. In a series of stories, we will examine who’s vulnerable and why, and what it will take to protect people who are vulnerable to heat illness and death at home or on the job.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast year, as a Labor Day heat wave descended, Claudia Hernandez was trying to pry open the windows of a house in San Francisco, from 400 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That weekend, San Francisco hit 106 degrees, an all-time record. After two straight days topping 100, Hernandez, who lives in Orange County, pleaded with her godmother, Colleen Loughman, to open her windows and let a breeze through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most in the city, Loughman’s home lacked air conditioning. “A fan, an old school fan, that’s all she had,” Hernandez said. “And her windows were like maybe one-eighth open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dW99X91eyUsWligsBKqfM4oEePyfJVkA”]Talking with her 82-year-old godmother, Hernandez felt something was off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear that she was, I don’t know, like, drained,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Loughman died the next day, in the house her parents had built. She was at risk because her aging body couldn’t acclimatize to intense, fast-arriving heat. She was vulnerable in her home, without a way to cool down. And though she was loved, she was isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June and September of 2017, two heat waves killed at least 14 people in the Bay Area, and sent hundreds more to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was caught off guard, says the city’s deputy director of public health, Naveena Bobba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were seeing is really a huge health emergency,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past five summers have been California’s hottest on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in cool, coastal parts of the state, heat, a sneaky and growing threat, is now one of the state’s top climate-related public health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1932736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-674x1200.jpg 674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-375x668.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-520x926.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why Older People Are At Risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast September, Loughman wanted her windows closed because she had been having lung trouble, and she feared smog and smoke would make it hard to breathe. She had heard air quality alerts on the news, issued by regional regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spiking heat worsens asthma and lung conditions and raises risks for older people in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older people have to work harder to stay cool, says Dr. David Eisenman, who directs the Center for Public Health and Disasters at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When your body normally gets hot, it cools down by transferring heat inside its core out to the skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Heat affects everyone differently. The National Weather Service offers this \u003ca href=\"https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/heatrisk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven-day forecast\u003c/a> to help you assess your risk.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For most people, sweat cools the body well, but not for older ones. “They have a less effective ability to sweat,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older bodies hold less water than younger ones, putting older people more at risk in a heat wave. And older people are less sensitive to becoming hot and thirsty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over several hot days, all of that means physiological heat can build up without relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Colleen Loughman wasn’t prepared for that in her foggy Parkside neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio /> program=\"KQED Science\" title=\"Heat - Who's Vulnerable and Why\" src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/10/PetersonHeatPart2.mp3\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Colleens-block-1.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Isolated in Her Own Neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>t. Cecilia Church planted a Catholic community a century ago in a neighborhood set among sand dunes and eucalyptus trees: Parkside. Loughman grew up on 14th Avenue, and in Catholic schools: elementary at St. Cecilia’s, high school at St. Rose Academy, a masters degree in music at Holy Names University, across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she never roamed too far from Parkside, where people were close knit, says her lifelong neighbor, Bob Schumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It takes almost two weeks for your body to acclimate to the heat.’\u003ccite>Naveena Bobba,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Department of Public Health\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I used to go to the house for birthday parties, and they were always playing the piano or something like that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez noticed, and wondered whether her godmother needed more care and companionship.Her parents died; then a few years ago, her sister. Some of the old guard moved out, replaced by young, new transplants. Parkside was changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a strong-willed Loughman wanted to stay put. “I’m okay,” Hernandez says her godmother told her, “I’m okay by myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Heat Builds Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>aily calls kept close a relationship that began 30 years ago between Loughman and Hernandez, as an accident of fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hernandez was just 3 years old, arriving at a new foster home, belonging to Barbara McGovern in San Diego. Visiting McGovern was a longtime friend and former piano teacher of McGovern’s, Loughman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Colleen was so thrilled just to be around that child,” McGovern remembers. “She stayed for about two weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1932748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1932748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This social media post by Claudia Hernandez shows her with her two children, Ezekial and Natalie, and godmother, Colleen Loughman. \u003ccite>(Claudia Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loughman remained a San Franciscan, born and bred; Hernandez grew up, got married, had kids and settled in Orange County. She and her kids Ezekiel, now 15, and Natalie, 12, visited San Francisco every summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daily call was usually newsy, an hour-long update: how’s your day going, how’s work, Ezekiel’s baseball, Natalie’s softball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they quarreled about open windows that Saturday, heat soured the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t call me, Loughman said. I don’t want to talk. Loughman was stubborn, and Hernandez got the point: “She didn’t want to talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she called back the next day, Sunday afternoon, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 7:30, Hernandez was calling every 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then every 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally reached a woman who ran Loughman’s errands. Please go over there, she said. Around the same time, Hernandez asked her husband, Jose. to call the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose told the dispatcher Loughman had not picked up her phone. “All right,” Police Dispatcher 236 told him, promising a welfare check. “We’ll get an officer out there as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Sept. 3, Hernandez listened over the phone in agony as Loughman’s helper found her. She was unconscious. The helper tried to rouse Loughman: Colleen, Colleen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when paramedics arrived to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recorded emergency call, responders say that someone on scene is trying resuscitation. But Loughman was pronounced dead on scene, at 9:34 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Actually, Everybody Is At Risk.’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>angerous overheating isn’t something that happens only to elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the temperate Bay Area, heat is a surprise we don’t quickly adjust to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes almost two weeks for your body to acclimate to the heat,” says SFDPH’s Bobba. “And given that heat kind of comes really quickly and leaves fairly quickly in San Francisco, our bodies don’t acclimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[emailsignup newslettername='science' align='right']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the Bay Area are particularly vulnerable to heat illness even at lower temperatures, according to Rupa Basu, chief of the air and climate epidemiology section at the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. She points out that when heat spikes in the bay, the health effects are similar to what happens in hotter cities with hotter heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s 2017 Labor Day heat wave made headlines for two consecutive 100-degree daytime records. It was also warm at night – over 80 degrees near midnight both Friday and Saturday. During hours people would normally recover from daytime heat, it was hotter than days often are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say overnight heat doesn’t only happen during spiking temperatures; a changing climate is pushing up nighttime temperatures overall. That sneaky kind of a heat wave is becoming more common in California, observes UCLA climatologist Daniel Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The magnitude and frequency of heat waves that we’re observing today would have been vanishingly unlikely in a climate without human influence,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Preventable Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s climate changes heat risk, public health officials say warning systems are changing too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area conditions are complex: Counties here can experience wildly varying weather conditions at the same time; all decide slightly differently when to issue heat alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”PGXOy6NqJyUVhG5msTkUf8CEpgj1HHpy”]Santa Clara County, which recorded five heat-related deaths last year, explicitly relies on the weather service in its heat emergency planning. So does San Francisco. After last Labor Day, the city has become more aggressive, according to SFDPH’s Bobba, initiating warnings when forecasts indicate daytime temperatures of 85 degrees or above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties are developing emergency response plans for heat. Contra Costa considers 96 degrees to be an extremely hot day in the eastern part of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excessive heat kills more Americans than any other disaster. But even in changing climate, heat-related deaths are preventable. Around the bay, public health officials and doctors, counties, cities and neighborhood groups are allied in rethinking how to find, warn and check on vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Loughman’s goddaughter is still haunted by her last words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She just said, ‘This heat is killing me. I can’t talk right now. I don’t want to talk.’” And that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the heat broke, Claudia Hernandez learned she was pregnant. Her new daughter’s middle name is Coco, her nickname for Colleen. And she lets her own air conditioning bills get higher: Hernandez says she’s now determined not to let anyone she loves suffer in heat again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: Amel Ahmed was a contributing reporter on this story. This reporting is supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "In the summer of 2017, heat waves killed 14 Bay Area residents. Officials called this climate-driven crisis a public health emergency. KQED examines who is vulnerable and why. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1727135623,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 60,
"wordCount": 1717
},
"headData": {
"title": "Even in San Francisco, Heat Is Turning Deadly. That's Not Something Colleen Loughman Expected | KQED",
"description": "In the summer of 2017, heat waves killed 14 Bay Area residents. Officials called this climate-driven crisis a public health emergency. KQED examines who is vulnerable and why. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Even in San Francisco, Heat Is Turning Deadly. That's Not Something Colleen Loughman Expected",
"datePublished": "2018-10-15T00:02:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-23T16:53:43-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"source": "Climate",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/10/PetersonHeatPart1.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"audioTrackLength": 413,
"path": "/science/1932692/climate-change-dishes-up-dangerous-heat-even-in-the-bay-area",
"audioDuration": 434000,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Molly Peterson conducted a 5-month investigation into heat in California, in partnership with KQED Science. In a series of stories, we will examine who’s vulnerable and why, and what it will take to protect people who are vulnerable to heat illness and death at home or on the job.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast year, as a Labor Day heat wave descended, Claudia Hernandez was trying to pry open the windows of a house in San Francisco, from 400 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That weekend, San Francisco hit 106 degrees, an all-time record. After two straight days topping 100, Hernandez, who lives in Orange County, pleaded with her godmother, Colleen Loughman, to open her windows and let a breeze through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most in the city, Loughman’s home lacked air conditioning. “A fan, an old school fan, that’s all she had,” Hernandez said. “And her windows were like maybe one-eighth open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Talking with her 82-year-old godmother, Hernandez felt something was off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could hear that she was, I don’t know, like, drained,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Loughman died the next day, in the house her parents had built. She was at risk because her aging body couldn’t acclimatize to intense, fast-arriving heat. She was vulnerable in her home, without a way to cool down. And though she was loved, she was isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June and September of 2017, two heat waves killed at least 14 people in the Bay Area, and sent hundreds more to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was caught off guard, says the city’s deputy director of public health, Naveena Bobba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were seeing is really a huge health emergency,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past five summers have been California’s hottest on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in cool, coastal parts of the state, heat, a sneaky and growing threat, is now one of the state’s top climate-related public health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1932736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-674x1200.jpg 674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-375x668.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/KQEDScience_Heat_181012B-520x926.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why Older People Are At Risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast September, Loughman wanted her windows closed because she had been having lung trouble, and she feared smog and smoke would make it hard to breathe. She had heard air quality alerts on the news, issued by regional regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spiking heat worsens asthma and lung conditions and raises risks for older people in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older people have to work harder to stay cool, says Dr. David Eisenman, who directs the Center for Public Health and Disasters at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When your body normally gets hot, it cools down by transferring heat inside its core out to the skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Heat affects everyone differently. The National Weather Service offers this \u003ca href=\"https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/heatrisk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven-day forecast\u003c/a> to help you assess your risk.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For most people, sweat cools the body well, but not for older ones. “They have a less effective ability to sweat,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older bodies hold less water than younger ones, putting older people more at risk in a heat wave. And older people are less sensitive to becoming hot and thirsty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over several hot days, all of that means physiological heat can build up without relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Colleen Loughman wasn’t prepared for that in her foggy Parkside neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "audio",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"program": "KQED Science",
"title": "Heat - Who's Vulnerable and Why",
"src": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2018/10/PetersonHeatPart2.mp3",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/Colleens-block-1.jpg",
"label": "/>"
},
"numeric": [
"/>"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Isolated in Her Own Neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>t. Cecilia Church planted a Catholic community a century ago in a neighborhood set among sand dunes and eucalyptus trees: Parkside. Loughman grew up on 14th Avenue, and in Catholic schools: elementary at St. Cecilia’s, high school at St. Rose Academy, a masters degree in music at Holy Names University, across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she never roamed too far from Parkside, where people were close knit, says her lifelong neighbor, Bob Schumann.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It takes almost two weeks for your body to acclimate to the heat.’\u003ccite>Naveena Bobba,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Department of Public Health\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I used to go to the house for birthday parties, and they were always playing the piano or something like that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez noticed, and wondered whether her godmother needed more care and companionship.Her parents died; then a few years ago, her sister. Some of the old guard moved out, replaced by young, new transplants. Parkside was changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a strong-willed Loughman wanted to stay put. “I’m okay,” Hernandez says her godmother told her, “I’m okay by myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Heat Builds Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>aily calls kept close a relationship that began 30 years ago between Loughman and Hernandez, as an accident of fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hernandez was just 3 years old, arriving at a new foster home, belonging to Barbara McGovern in San Diego. Visiting McGovern was a longtime friend and former piano teacher of McGovern’s, Loughman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Colleen was so thrilled just to be around that child,” McGovern remembers. “She stayed for about two weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1932748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1932748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/RS33115_IMG_6255.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This social media post by Claudia Hernandez shows her with her two children, Ezekial and Natalie, and godmother, Colleen Loughman. \u003ccite>(Claudia Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loughman remained a San Franciscan, born and bred; Hernandez grew up, got married, had kids and settled in Orange County. She and her kids Ezekiel, now 15, and Natalie, 12, visited San Francisco every summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daily call was usually newsy, an hour-long update: how’s your day going, how’s work, Ezekiel’s baseball, Natalie’s softball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when they quarreled about open windows that Saturday, heat soured the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t call me, Loughman said. I don’t want to talk. Loughman was stubborn, and Hernandez got the point: “She didn’t want to talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she called back the next day, Sunday afternoon, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 7:30, Hernandez was calling every 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then every 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally reached a woman who ran Loughman’s errands. Please go over there, she said. Around the same time, Hernandez asked her husband, Jose. to call the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose told the dispatcher Loughman had not picked up her phone. “All right,” Police Dispatcher 236 told him, promising a welfare check. “We’ll get an officer out there as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Sept. 3, Hernandez listened over the phone in agony as Loughman’s helper found her. She was unconscious. The helper tried to rouse Loughman: Colleen, Colleen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when paramedics arrived to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recorded emergency call, responders say that someone on scene is trying resuscitation. But Loughman was pronounced dead on scene, at 9:34 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Actually, Everybody Is At Risk.’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>angerous overheating isn’t something that happens only to elderly people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the temperate Bay Area, heat is a surprise we don’t quickly adjust to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes almost two weeks for your body to acclimate to the heat,” says SFDPH’s Bobba. “And given that heat kind of comes really quickly and leaves fairly quickly in San Francisco, our bodies don’t acclimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "emailsignup",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"newslettername": "science",
"align": "right",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the Bay Area are particularly vulnerable to heat illness even at lower temperatures, according to Rupa Basu, chief of the air and climate epidemiology section at the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. She points out that when heat spikes in the bay, the health effects are similar to what happens in hotter cities with hotter heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s 2017 Labor Day heat wave made headlines for two consecutive 100-degree daytime records. It was also warm at night – over 80 degrees near midnight both Friday and Saturday. During hours people would normally recover from daytime heat, it was hotter than days often are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say overnight heat doesn’t only happen during spiking temperatures; a changing climate is pushing up nighttime temperatures overall. That sneaky kind of a heat wave is becoming more common in California, observes UCLA climatologist Daniel Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The magnitude and frequency of heat waves that we’re observing today would have been vanishingly unlikely in a climate without human influence,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Preventable Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s climate changes heat risk, public health officials say warning systems are changing too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area conditions are complex: Counties here can experience wildly varying weather conditions at the same time; all decide slightly differently when to issue heat alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Santa Clara County, which recorded five heat-related deaths last year, explicitly relies on the weather service in its heat emergency planning. So does San Francisco. After last Labor Day, the city has become more aggressive, according to SFDPH’s Bobba, initiating warnings when forecasts indicate daytime temperatures of 85 degrees or above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties are developing emergency response plans for heat. Contra Costa considers 96 degrees to be an extremely hot day in the eastern part of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excessive heat kills more Americans than any other disaster. But even in changing climate, heat-related deaths are preventable. Around the bay, public health officials and doctors, counties, cities and neighborhood groups are allied in rethinking how to find, warn and check on vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Loughman’s goddaughter is still haunted by her last words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She just said, ‘This heat is killing me. I can’t talk right now. I don’t want to talk.’” And that was it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the heat broke, Claudia Hernandez learned she was pregnant. Her new daughter’s middle name is Coco, her nickname for Colleen. And she lets her own air conditioning bills get higher: Hernandez says she’s now determined not to let anyone she loves suffer in heat again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: Amel Ahmed was a contributing reporter on this story. This reporting is supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1932692/climate-change-dishes-up-dangerous-heat-even-in-the-bay-area",
"authors": [
"11223"
],
"programs": [
"science_5376"
],
"categories": [
"science_46",
"science_31",
"science_39",
"science_40",
"science_5141",
"science_43",
"science_3423"
],
"tags": [
"science_182",
"science_194",
"science_3370",
"science_2184"
],
"featImg": "science_1932721",
"label": "source_science_1932692"
},
"science_1932598": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1932598",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932598",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1539185779000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "science"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1539185779,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Landmark Monsanto Cancer Ruling Remains in Limbo",
"headTitle": "Landmark Monsanto Cancer Ruling Remains in Limbo | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>UPDATE: A judge is still deciding on whether to uphold a jury’s $289 million judgment against agribusiness giant Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos ended a two-hour hearing without making a formal ruling. Earlier in the day, she issued a tentative ruling saying she intended to toss out the jury’s $250 million punitive damage award and schedule a new trial on that issue. The judge also suggested she may reduce the rest of the award by $31 million if she upholds the jury’s decision that Monsanto’s weed-killer caused DeWayne Johnson’s cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ordered lawyers to submit written legal arguments by Friday and will formally rule later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolanos wrote plaintiff DeWayne Johnson, of Vallejo, failed to produce “clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression” by Monsanto. She wrote that he did not provide any evidence that Monsanto employees believed that exposure to the product caused his lymphoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto had argued ahead of the hearing that Johnson failed to prove that Roundup or similar herbicides caused his lymphoma, and presented no evidence that Monsanto executives were malicious in marketing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators around the world have concluded on “multiple occasions” that the active ingredient in Roundup — glyphosate — is not a human carcinogen, the attorneys said in court documents. They called the jury verdict “extraordinary” and said it requires “exceptional scrutiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=”https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5000279-Johnson-vs-Monsanto-10-10-2018-Tentative-Ruling.html#document/p1”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s attorneys responded in court documents that the jury was well-educated and attentive. The evidence at trial was “more than sufficient to support an inference” that Johnson’s cancer was caused by his exposure to Monsanto’s herbicides, the attorneys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Johnson’s story is tragic and could have been prevented if Monsanto actually showed a modicum of care about human safety,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s lawsuit is among hundreds alleging Roundup caused cancer, but it was the first one to go to trial. The jury in August determined that Roundup contributed to Johnson’s cancer, and Monsanto should have provided a label warning of a potential health hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]It awarded Johnson $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sprayed Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro, at his job as a pest control manager at a San Francisco Bay Area school district, according to his attorneys. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many government regulators have rejected a link between glyphosate and cancer. Monsanto has vehemently denied such a connection, saying hundreds of studies have established that glyphosate is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 458,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1704927409,
"excerpt": "The judge says plaintiff DeWayne Johnson failed to produce \"clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression\" by Monsanto.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The judge says plaintiff DeWayne Johnson failed to produce "clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression" by Monsanto.",
"title": "Landmark Monsanto Cancer Ruling Remains in Limbo | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Landmark Monsanto Cancer Ruling Remains in Limbo",
"datePublished": "2018-10-10T08:36:19-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:56:49-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "monsanto-to-challenge-jurys-289m-verdict-in-cancer-case",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "The Associated Press",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/science/1932598/monsanto-to-challenge-jurys-289m-verdict-in-cancer-case",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>UPDATE: A judge is still deciding on whether to uphold a jury’s $289 million judgment against agribusiness giant Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos ended a two-hour hearing without making a formal ruling. Earlier in the day, she issued a tentative ruling saying she intended to toss out the jury’s $250 million punitive damage award and schedule a new trial on that issue. The judge also suggested she may reduce the rest of the award by $31 million if she upholds the jury’s decision that Monsanto’s weed-killer caused DeWayne Johnson’s cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ordered lawyers to submit written legal arguments by Friday and will formally rule later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolanos wrote plaintiff DeWayne Johnson, of Vallejo, failed to produce “clear and convincing evidence of malice or oppression” by Monsanto. She wrote that he did not provide any evidence that Monsanto employees believed that exposure to the product caused his lymphoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto had argued ahead of the hearing that Johnson failed to prove that Roundup or similar herbicides caused his lymphoma, and presented no evidence that Monsanto executives were malicious in marketing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators around the world have concluded on “multiple occasions” that the active ingredient in Roundup — glyphosate — is not a human carcinogen, the attorneys said in court documents. They called the jury verdict “extraordinary” and said it requires “exceptional scrutiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "documentcloud",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"url": "”https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5000279-Johnson-vs-Monsanto-10-10-2018-Tentative-Ruling.html#document/p1”",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s attorneys responded in court documents that the jury was well-educated and attentive. The evidence at trial was “more than sufficient to support an inference” that Johnson’s cancer was caused by his exposure to Monsanto’s herbicides, the attorneys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Johnson’s story is tragic and could have been prevented if Monsanto actually showed a modicum of care about human safety,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s lawsuit is among hundreds alleging Roundup caused cancer, but it was the first one to go to trial. The jury in August determined that Roundup contributed to Johnson’s cancer, and Monsanto should have provided a label warning of a potential health hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It awarded Johnson $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sprayed Roundup and a similar product, Ranger Pro, at his job as a pest control manager at a San Francisco Bay Area school district, according to his attorneys. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at age 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many government regulators have rejected a link between glyphosate and cancer. Monsanto has vehemently denied such a connection, saying hundreds of studies have established that glyphosate is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1932598/monsanto-to-challenge-jurys-289m-verdict-in-cancer-case",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1932598"
],
"categories": [
"science_35",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_374",
"science_1191",
"science_5198"
],
"featImg": "science_1932606",
"label": "science"
},
"science_1932331": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1932331",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932331",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1538686751000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1538686751,
"format": "standard",
"title": "More Than 6.5 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns",
"headTitle": "More Than 6.5 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>An Arizona company voluntarily recalled more than 6.5 million pounds of beef that could be contaminated with salmonella, federal officials announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation traced products, including ground beef and beef patties to JBS Tolleson, Inc., a meat packing plant west of Phoenix. The raw beef was packed between July 26 and Sept. 7 and shipped to retailers nationwide, including Walmart, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the products have a sell or use by date in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An epidemiological investigation found 57 people in 16 states have become ill so far. That includes 15 cases in Arizona, the state’s health officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalled beef is marked with “EST.267” on the packaging. Officials say people should check their freezers for any of the meat, and either throw it out or return it to where it was purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef was sold under the names Cedar River Farms, ComNor Perfect Choice, Gourmet Burger, Grass Run Farms, Showcase at Walmart and in generic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for JBS did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people recover from salmonellosis without treatment, health officials say. Common symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever that could last up to a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Salmonella can cause serious illness, so it is critical that everyone take precautions by not eating the recalled meat and thoroughly cooking all beef products,” said Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 259,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 11
},
"modified": 1704927427,
"excerpt": "The raw beef was shipped to retailers nationwide, including Walmart. An epidemiological investigation found 57 people in 16 states have become ill so far. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The raw beef was shipped to retailers nationwide, including Walmart. An epidemiological investigation found 57 people in 16 states have become ill so far. ",
"title": "More Than 6.5 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "More Than 6.5 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns",
"datePublished": "2018-10-04T13:59:11-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:57:07-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "more-than-6-5-million-pounds-of-beef-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "The Associated Press",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Health",
"path": "/science/1932331/more-than-6-5-million-pounds-of-beef-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An Arizona company voluntarily recalled more than 6.5 million pounds of beef that could be contaminated with salmonella, federal officials announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An investigation traced products, including ground beef and beef patties to JBS Tolleson, Inc., a meat packing plant west of Phoenix. The raw beef was packed between July 26 and Sept. 7 and shipped to retailers nationwide, including Walmart, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the products have a sell or use by date in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An epidemiological investigation found 57 people in 16 states have become ill so far. That includes 15 cases in Arizona, the state’s health officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recalled beef is marked with “EST.267” on the packaging. Officials say people should check their freezers for any of the meat, and either throw it out or return it to where it was purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef was sold under the names Cedar River Farms, ComNor Perfect Choice, Gourmet Burger, Grass Run Farms, Showcase at Walmart and in generic packaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for JBS did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people recover from salmonellosis without treatment, health officials say. Common symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever that could last up to a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Salmonella can cause serious illness, so it is critical that everyone take precautions by not eating the recalled meat and thoroughly cooking all beef products,” said Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1932331/more-than-6-5-million-pounds-of-beef-recalled-over-salmonella-concerns",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1932331"
],
"categories": [
"science_36",
"science_39",
"science_3424",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_5181"
],
"featImg": "science_1932335",
"label": "source_science_1932331"
},
"science_1932144": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1932144",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1932144",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1538515215000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1538515215,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Trump Administration Relying on Questionable Science in Move to Weaken Radiation Rules",
"headTitle": "Trump Administration Relying on Questionable Science in Move to Weaken Radiation Rules | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">A recent meta-study supports the principle that even low doses of radiation can cause a significant increase in cancer rates. But the Trump administration is turning to scientific outliers who question that consensus.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The government’s current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is a cancer risk. And critics say the proposed change could lead to higher levels of exposure for workers at nuclear installations and oil and gas drilling sites, medical workers doing X-rays and CT scans, people living next to Superfund sites and any members of the public who one day might find themselves exposed to a radiation release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration already has targeted a range of other regulations on toxins and pollutants, including coal power plant emissions and car exhaust, that it sees as costly and burdensome for businesses. Supporters of the EPA’s new radiation guidance argue the government’s current no-tolerance rule for radiation damage forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars,” Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts, said in 2016. He was to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on EPA’s push for what it calls transparency in science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would require regulators to consider “various threshold models across the exposure range” when it comes to dangerous substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it does not specify that it’s addressing radiation and chemicals, an EPA news release on the rule quotes Calabrese as saying it would: “The proposal represents a major scientific step forward by recognizing the widespread occurrence of non-linear dose responses in toxicology and epidemiology for chemicals and radiation and the need to incorporate such data in the risk assessment process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment period for the science regulation has ended and the agency is currently reviewing the comments. There’s no specific date for final action by the administration. The EPA declined to make an official with its radiation-protection program available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radiation is everywhere, from potassium in bananas to the microwaves popping our popcorn. Most of it is benign. But what’s of concern is the higher-energy, shorter-wave radiation, like X-rays, that can penetrate and disrupt living cells, sometimes causing cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as this March, the EPA’s online guidelines for radiation effects advised: “Current science suggests there is some cancer risk from any exposure to radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even exposures below 100 millisieverts” — an amount roughly equivalent to 25 chest X-rays or about 14 CT chest scans — “slightly increase the risk of getting cancer in the future,” the agency’s guidance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that online guidance — separate from the rule-change proposal — was edited in July to add a section emphasizing the low individual odds of cancer: “According to radiation safety experts, radiation exposures of …100 millisieverts usually result in no harmful health effects, because radiation below these levels is a minor contributor to our overall cancer risk,” the revised policy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body’s repair mechanisms and can make people healthier. They compare it to physical exercise or sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mainstream scientific consensus on radiation is based on deceptive science, says Calabrese, who argued in a 2014 essay for “righting the past deceptions and correcting the ongoing errors in environmental regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokesman John Konkus said in an email that the proposed rule change is about “increasing transparency on assumptions” about how the body responds to different doses of dangerous substances and that the agency “acknowledges uncertainty regarding health effects at low doses” and supports more research on that.\u003cbr>\nThe radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of tobacco. He has been promoting Calabrese’s theory of healthy radiation on his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jan Beyea, a physicist whose work includes research with the National Academies of Science on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, said the EPA science proposal represents voices “generally dismissed by the great bulk of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA proposal would lead to “increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home and outdoor environment, including the vicinity of Superfund sites,” Beyea wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the level the EPA website talks about, any one person’s risk of cancer from radiation exposure is perhaps 1 percent, Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The individual risk will likely be low, but not the cumulative social risk,” Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they even look at that — no, no, no,” said Terrie Barrie, a resident of Craig, Colorado, and an advocate for her husband and other workers at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, where the U.S. government is compensating certain cancer victims regardless of their history of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no reason not to protect people as much as possible,” said Barrie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. agencies for decades have followed a policy that there is no threshold of radiation exposure that is risk-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reaffirmed that principle this year after a review of 29 public health studies on cancer rates among people exposed to low-dose radiation, via the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II, leak-prone Soviet nuclear installations, medical treatments and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of the 29 studies directly support the principle that even low-dose exposures cause a significant increase in cancer rates, said Roy Shore, chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a joint project of the United States and Japan. Scientists found most of the other studies were inconclusive and decided one was flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None supported the theory there is some safe threshold for radiation, said Shore, who chaired the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there were a threshold that it’s safe to go below, “those who profess that would have to come up with some data,”\u003cbr>\nShore said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the evidence did not point that way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates electronic devices that emit radiation, advises, broadly, that a single CT scan with a dose of 10 millisieverts may increase risks of a fatal cancer by about 1 chance in 2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say it’s time to rethink radiation regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we spend an enormous effort trying to minimize low doses” at nuclear power plants, for example, said Brant Ulsh, a physicist with the California-based consulting firm M.H. Chew and Associates. “Instead, let’s spend the resources on minimizing the effect of a really big event.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1243,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 31
},
"modified": 1704927437,
"excerpt": "The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight",
"title": "Trump Administration Relying on Questionable Science in Move to Weaken Radiation Rules | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Trump Administration Relying on Questionable Science in Move to Weaken Radiation Rules",
"datePublished": "2018-10-02T14:20:15-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:57:17-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "trump-administration-turns-to-scientific-outliers-in-moving-to-weaken-radiation-rules",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />Associated Press",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Health",
"path": "/science/1932144/trump-administration-turns-to-scientific-outliers-in-moving-to-weaken-radiation-rules",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">A recent meta-study supports the principle that even low doses of radiation can cause a significant increase in cancer rates. But the Trump administration is turning to scientific outliers who question that consensus.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The government’s current, decades-old guidance says that any exposure to harmful radiation is a cancer risk. And critics say the proposed change could lead to higher levels of exposure for workers at nuclear installations and oil and gas drilling sites, medical workers doing X-rays and CT scans, people living next to Superfund sites and any members of the public who one day might find themselves exposed to a radiation release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration already has targeted a range of other regulations on toxins and pollutants, including coal power plant emissions and car exhaust, that it sees as costly and burdensome for businesses. Supporters of the EPA’s new radiation guidance argue the government’s current no-tolerance rule for radiation damage forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars,” Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts, said in 2016. He was to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on EPA’s push for what it calls transparency in science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would require regulators to consider “various threshold models across the exposure range” when it comes to dangerous substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it does not specify that it’s addressing radiation and chemicals, an EPA news release on the rule quotes Calabrese as saying it would: “The proposal represents a major scientific step forward by recognizing the widespread occurrence of non-linear dose responses in toxicology and epidemiology for chemicals and radiation and the need to incorporate such data in the risk assessment process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment period for the science regulation has ended and the agency is currently reviewing the comments. There’s no specific date for final action by the administration. The EPA declined to make an official with its radiation-protection program available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radiation is everywhere, from potassium in bananas to the microwaves popping our popcorn. Most of it is benign. But what’s of concern is the higher-energy, shorter-wave radiation, like X-rays, that can penetrate and disrupt living cells, sometimes causing cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as this March, the EPA’s online guidelines for radiation effects advised: “Current science suggests there is some cancer risk from any exposure to radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even exposures below 100 millisieverts” — an amount roughly equivalent to 25 chest X-rays or about 14 CT chest scans — “slightly increase the risk of getting cancer in the future,” the agency’s guidance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that online guidance — separate from the rule-change proposal — was edited in July to add a section emphasizing the low individual odds of cancer: “According to radiation safety experts, radiation exposures of …100 millisieverts usually result in no harmful health effects, because radiation below these levels is a minor contributor to our overall cancer risk,” the revised policy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body’s repair mechanisms and can make people healthier. They compare it to physical exercise or sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mainstream scientific consensus on radiation is based on deceptive science, says Calabrese, who argued in a 2014 essay for “righting the past deceptions and correcting the ongoing errors in environmental regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokesman John Konkus said in an email that the proposed rule change is about “increasing transparency on assumptions” about how the body responds to different doses of dangerous substances and that the agency “acknowledges uncertainty regarding health effects at low doses” and supports more research on that.\u003cbr>\nThe radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of tobacco. He has been promoting Calabrese’s theory of healthy radiation on his blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jan Beyea, a physicist whose work includes research with the National Academies of Science on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, said the EPA science proposal represents voices “generally dismissed by the great bulk of scientists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA proposal would lead to “increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home and outdoor environment, including the vicinity of Superfund sites,” Beyea wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the level the EPA website talks about, any one person’s risk of cancer from radiation exposure is perhaps 1 percent, Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The individual risk will likely be low, but not the cumulative social risk,” Beyea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they even look at that — no, no, no,” said Terrie Barrie, a resident of Craig, Colorado, and an advocate for her husband and other workers at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, where the U.S. government is compensating certain cancer victims regardless of their history of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no reason not to protect people as much as possible,” said Barrie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. agencies for decades have followed a policy that there is no threshold of radiation exposure that is risk-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reaffirmed that principle this year after a review of 29 public health studies on cancer rates among people exposed to low-dose radiation, via the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II, leak-prone Soviet nuclear installations, medical treatments and other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of the 29 studies directly support the principle that even low-dose exposures cause a significant increase in cancer rates, said Roy Shore, chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a joint project of the United States and Japan. Scientists found most of the other studies were inconclusive and decided one was flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None supported the theory there is some safe threshold for radiation, said Shore, who chaired the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there were a threshold that it’s safe to go below, “those who profess that would have to come up with some data,”\u003cbr>\nShore said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the evidence did not point that way,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates electronic devices that emit radiation, advises, broadly, that a single CT scan with a dose of 10 millisieverts may increase risks of a fatal cancer by about 1 chance in 2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say it’s time to rethink radiation regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we spend an enormous effort trying to minimize low doses” at nuclear power plants, for example, said Brant Ulsh, a physicist with the California-based consulting firm M.H. Chew and Associates. “Instead, let’s spend the resources on minimizing the effect of a really big event.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1932144/trump-administration-turns-to-scientific-outliers-in-moving-to-weaken-radiation-rules",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1932144"
],
"categories": [
"science_30",
"science_33",
"science_3151",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"featImg": "science_1932147",
"label": "source_science_1932144"
},
"science_1928264": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1928264",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1928264",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1537383697000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "science"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1537383697,
"format": "standard",
"title": "California’s Plan to Store Water Underground Could Risk Contamination",
"headTitle": "California’s Plan to Store Water Underground Could Risk Contamination | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>As California begins handing out $2.5 billion in state funds for several new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927929/bay-area-water-supply-gets-billion-dollar-boost\">water management projects\u003c/a>, a shift is taking place in the ways officials are considering storing water. To contend with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0140-y\">likelihood of future extreme droughts\u003c/a>, some of these \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927711/the-great-era-of-california-dam-building-may-be-over-heres-whats-next\">new strategies\u003c/a> rely on underground aquifers — an approach far removed from traditional dam-based water storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While diversifying the toolbelt of water management strategies will likely help insulate the state against loss, a group of researchers at Stanford University are drawing attention to a risk they say has long ridden under the radar of public consciousness: the introduction of dangerous chemicals into California groundwater, both through industrial and natural pathways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chromium in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chromium exists naturally in two main forms that are dependent on the local chemistry of the soils. One — chromium-3 \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/chromium-compounds.pdf\">(Cr-3)\u003c/a> — is benign, and in fact can be beneficial in the body. But chromium-6 (Cr-6) is toxic, linked by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hexavalentchromium/healtheffects.html\"> health issues \u003c/a>including asthma-like symptoms, irritation of the nose, throat, eyes or skin, and in extreme cases lung cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b06627\">New research\u003c/a> draws from a growing database of groundwater data to map the elemental metal chromium in wells across the state. Researchers included wells used by government agencies to monitor pollution and the progress of cleaning projects, in addition to wells used for drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it occurs naturally, it can also enter the ground through human activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People know we have industrial contamination,” says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-fendorf\">Scott Fendorf\u003c/a> a Stanford soil chemist and co-author on the study. “That is clear within the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fendorf points to the work of activists who are fighting against industrial pollution, as Erin Brockovich did in her 1993 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-jan-june13-hinkley_03-13\">court case\u003c/a> against Pacific Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just not the only threat to groundwater. If you’re thinking larger, the natural contaminants are really widespread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is particularly true in California, Fendorf says, where the geology is rich in chromium-carrying rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927929/bay-area-water-supply-gets-billion-dollar-boost\">Also from KQED: These Bay Area Water Projects Got $1 Billion in Funding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where is it All Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fendorf and his collaborators found that all of the almost 16,000 wells they analyzed — spread throughout the majority of the state — showed Cr-6 present in low trace amounts. However, a smaller subset of wells, including 26 percent of monitoring wells and 7 percent of supply wells, had levels high enough to exceed a previous state-mandated maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 parts per billion (ppb).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to mapping chromium exposure throughout California, researchers wanted to identify the sources. By looking at other compounds found alongside Cr-6, they were able to identify three possible points of contamination: industry, agriculture, and natural input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Industries such as metal plating were linked to high Cr-6 levels in the areas outside of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay. Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the United States, and San Francisco’s proximity to Silicon Valley drives much of its industrial growth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the more rural Central Valley, researchers found that chromium was being introduced into the groundwater through agricultural practices. The heavy use of fertilizers meant that chromium was often found alongside nitrogen-based compounds which provide nutrients for crops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But parts of the Central Valley also pointed to a different source, one that researchers highlighted in their study: the presence of natural chromium in the land itself and its ability to shift from benign to toxic over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within the rocks, chromium is found in areas where oceanic and continental plates come together, as in California where the Pacific plate and North American Plate meet along the San Andreas Fault. Serpentinite is a common rock found in these zones, to which chromium lends a distinctive green color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1930018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1930018 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chromium is responsible for the vivid green color of serpentinite rocks, which are common in California due to its geology. The oceanic Pacific plate and continental North American Plate meet along the San Andreas Fault, which runs the length of the state. \u003ccite>(Ian Newman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural sources explained the chromium concentrations in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, which are close to natural outcroppings of serpentinite. It also explained how more isolated areas such as the Mojave could have elevated chromium levels despite being far from sources of industrial pollution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Fendorf, humans have the capability to aggravate these natural processes through their activities. The intentional use of chemicals to clean up toxic industrial contamination in the soil (called \u003ca href=\"https://clu-in.org/download/Citizens/a_citizens_guide_to_in_situ_chemical_oxidation.pdf\">in-situ chemical oxidation\u003c/a>), for example, can have the unintended consequence of turning the relatively harmless form (Cr-3) into the more dangerous from (Cr-6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another culprit, he says, is the overdrawing of water from the underlying aquifer, often for agricultural use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water table is made of many stacked layers, alternating between sections of loose, wet gravel and sand and tightly-packed layers of fine clay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clay acts as a sponge with all this naturally chromium-rich dirty water in it,” says Fendorf, “And when you start overdrawing, you put pressure on the clays and start pushing dirty water into the main water that you’re pumping out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much is Too Much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, Fendorf’s work shows that industry and agriculture are responsible for the most concentrated sources of chromium contamination. However, the effects of natural chromium impact a much larger area of California and a greater proportion of the drinking water supply.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the fact that chromium is present throughout California, federal and state agencies are still scrambling to decide on an acceptable minimum level.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our agency was formed for that purpose, to protect the groundwater basin that is so important. It has always been our top priority.’\u003ccite>Steve Bigley, Coachella Valley Water District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the EPA is tasked with setting federal MCLs, the maximum permissible level of a contaminant in drinking water, California has historically set many of its own thresholds with respect to environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2014, California set the state MCL for Cr-6 in drinking water at 10 ppb due to the perceived risks of exposure. However, in September 2017 this threshold was suspended by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> for failing to consider the cost to agencies and industries attempting to comply with the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/dwstandardsregulations/chromium-drinking-water\">federal\u003c/a> MCL (100 ppb) and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">state\u003c/a> MCL (50 ppb) are at odds, with both entities working to establish new guidelines based on updated regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pilot Project Hints at Cleaner Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, there are promising methods for treating toxic chromium contamination on the horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-bigley-21268820/\">Steve Bigley\u003c/a> is the Director for the Environmental Services department at the Coachella Valley Water District, a \u003ca href=\"http://ca-coachellavwd.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/57/District-Boundary-Map-PDF?bidId=\">district\u003c/a> whose boundaries are split down the middle by the San Andreas Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much naturally-occurring chromium ground up into the sands along the fault, management officials here have had to grapple with the Cr-6 issue for decades. As many as a third of their drinking water supply wells, all of which are pulling from local groundwater sources, were found to exceed the 10 ppb limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state rescinded its MCL in 2014, Bigley and his team had already begun a project to install costly treatment facilities to remove Cr-6 and remain compliant with the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qIU4OS2tKFSePD3YiQXBCQLOws3w3Xq5″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regulations currently under review, Bigley says they were able to table such expensive projects and experiment with promising new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water district recently completed a full-scale \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvwd.org/383/Stannous-Chloride-Demonstration-Project\">pilot project\u003c/a> to reduce Cr-6 to the relatively harmless Cr-3 using stannous chloride, an approved drinking water and food additive. They were able to quickly deploy inexpensive, easy-to-operate equipment capable of treating an entire water system over the course of two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefits go so far beyond cost,” Bigley says. “It is much more environmentally friendly because it has a much smaller footprint and doesn’t produce the toxic wastes that come with conventional treatment technologies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Eyes a New MCL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the broader state level, water management agencies are taking notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrin Polhemus is the Deputy Director of the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Quality, and he has made Cr-6 assessments priority number one for his department in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the removal of the previous regulations, they are now working with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> to establish a new MCL which balances a suggested \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/water/chemicals/phg/cr6phg072911.pdf\">Public Health Goal\u003c/a> of 50 ppb against the economic cost inherent in treating affected drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just trying to plug the hole that a judge found in our previous regulations,” he said. “We want to do a thorough job from scratch to incorporate new technology and research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to stannous chloride as one of several advances that have lowered the cost of treatment since the last round of research a \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/water/chemicals/phg/cr6phg072911.pdf\">decade ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Resources Control Board expects to have a draft of their recommendation ready for public comment in the summer of 2019 and a final MCL established six to nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1568,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 46
},
"modified": 1704927477,
"excerpt": "California's unique geology may be putting state residents at risk from a natural but occasionally toxic element.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "California's unique geology may be putting state residents at risk from a natural but occasionally toxic element.",
"title": "California’s Plan to Store Water Underground Could Risk Contamination | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "California’s Plan to Store Water Underground Could Risk Contamination",
"datePublished": "2018-09-19T12:01:37-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:57:57-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "californias-plan-for-underground-water-storage-will-increase-chromium-risk",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/science/1928264/californias-plan-for-underground-water-storage-will-increase-chromium-risk",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As California begins handing out $2.5 billion in state funds for several new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927929/bay-area-water-supply-gets-billion-dollar-boost\">water management projects\u003c/a>, a shift is taking place in the ways officials are considering storing water. To contend with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0140-y\">likelihood of future extreme droughts\u003c/a>, some of these \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927711/the-great-era-of-california-dam-building-may-be-over-heres-whats-next\">new strategies\u003c/a> rely on underground aquifers — an approach far removed from traditional dam-based water storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While diversifying the toolbelt of water management strategies will likely help insulate the state against loss, a group of researchers at Stanford University are drawing attention to a risk they say has long ridden under the radar of public consciousness: the introduction of dangerous chemicals into California groundwater, both through industrial and natural pathways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chromium in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chromium exists naturally in two main forms that are dependent on the local chemistry of the soils. One — chromium-3 \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/chromium-compounds.pdf\">(Cr-3)\u003c/a> — is benign, and in fact can be beneficial in the body. But chromium-6 (Cr-6) is toxic, linked by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with\u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hexavalentchromium/healtheffects.html\"> health issues \u003c/a>including asthma-like symptoms, irritation of the nose, throat, eyes or skin, and in extreme cases lung cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b06627\">New research\u003c/a> draws from a growing database of groundwater data to map the elemental metal chromium in wells across the state. Researchers included wells used by government agencies to monitor pollution and the progress of cleaning projects, in addition to wells used for drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it occurs naturally, it can also enter the ground through human activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People know we have industrial contamination,” says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-fendorf\">Scott Fendorf\u003c/a> a Stanford soil chemist and co-author on the study. “That is clear within the data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fendorf points to the work of activists who are fighting against industrial pollution, as Erin Brockovich did in her 1993 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-jan-june13-hinkley_03-13\">court case\u003c/a> against Pacific Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just not the only threat to groundwater. If you’re thinking larger, the natural contaminants are really widespread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is particularly true in California, Fendorf says, where the geology is rich in chromium-carrying rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927929/bay-area-water-supply-gets-billion-dollar-boost\">Also from KQED: These Bay Area Water Projects Got $1 Billion in Funding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where is it All Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fendorf and his collaborators found that all of the almost 16,000 wells they analyzed — spread throughout the majority of the state — showed Cr-6 present in low trace amounts. However, a smaller subset of wells, including 26 percent of monitoring wells and 7 percent of supply wells, had levels high enough to exceed a previous state-mandated maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 parts per billion (ppb).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to mapping chromium exposure throughout California, researchers wanted to identify the sources. By looking at other compounds found alongside Cr-6, they were able to identify three possible points of contamination: industry, agriculture, and natural input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Industries such as metal plating were linked to high Cr-6 levels in the areas outside of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay. Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the United States, and San Francisco’s proximity to Silicon Valley drives much of its industrial growth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the more rural Central Valley, researchers found that chromium was being introduced into the groundwater through agricultural practices. The heavy use of fertilizers meant that chromium was often found alongside nitrogen-based compounds which provide nutrients for crops.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But parts of the Central Valley also pointed to a different source, one that researchers highlighted in their study: the presence of natural chromium in the land itself and its ability to shift from benign to toxic over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within the rocks, chromium is found in areas where oceanic and continental plates come together, as in California where the Pacific plate and North American Plate meet along the San Andreas Fault. Serpentinite is a common rock found in these zones, to which chromium lends a distinctive green color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1930018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1930018 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/BC-Serpentinite.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chromium is responsible for the vivid green color of serpentinite rocks, which are common in California due to its geology. The oceanic Pacific plate and continental North American Plate meet along the San Andreas Fault, which runs the length of the state. \u003ccite>(Ian Newman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural sources explained the chromium concentrations in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, which are close to natural outcroppings of serpentinite. It also explained how more isolated areas such as the Mojave could have elevated chromium levels despite being far from sources of industrial pollution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Fendorf, humans have the capability to aggravate these natural processes through their activities. The intentional use of chemicals to clean up toxic industrial contamination in the soil (called \u003ca href=\"https://clu-in.org/download/Citizens/a_citizens_guide_to_in_situ_chemical_oxidation.pdf\">in-situ chemical oxidation\u003c/a>), for example, can have the unintended consequence of turning the relatively harmless form (Cr-3) into the more dangerous from (Cr-6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another culprit, he says, is the overdrawing of water from the underlying aquifer, often for agricultural use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water table is made of many stacked layers, alternating between sections of loose, wet gravel and sand and tightly-packed layers of fine clay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clay acts as a sponge with all this naturally chromium-rich dirty water in it,” says Fendorf, “And when you start overdrawing, you put pressure on the clays and start pushing dirty water into the main water that you’re pumping out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much is Too Much?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, Fendorf’s work shows that industry and agriculture are responsible for the most concentrated sources of chromium contamination. However, the effects of natural chromium impact a much larger area of California and a greater proportion of the drinking water supply.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the fact that chromium is present throughout California, federal and state agencies are still scrambling to decide on an acceptable minimum level.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our agency was formed for that purpose, to protect the groundwater basin that is so important. It has always been our top priority.’\u003ccite>Steve Bigley, Coachella Valley Water District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the EPA is tasked with setting federal MCLs, the maximum permissible level of a contaminant in drinking water, California has historically set many of its own thresholds with respect to environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2014, California set the state MCL for Cr-6 in drinking water at 10 ppb due to the perceived risks of exposure. However, in September 2017 this threshold was suspended by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">court ruling\u003c/a> for failing to consider the cost to agencies and industries attempting to comply with the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/dwstandardsregulations/chromium-drinking-water\">federal\u003c/a> MCL (100 ppb) and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">state\u003c/a> MCL (50 ppb) are at odds, with both entities working to establish new guidelines based on updated regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pilot Project Hints at Cleaner Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, there are promising methods for treating toxic chromium contamination on the horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-bigley-21268820/\">Steve Bigley\u003c/a> is the Director for the Environmental Services department at the Coachella Valley Water District, a \u003ca href=\"http://ca-coachellavwd.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/57/District-Boundary-Map-PDF?bidId=\">district\u003c/a> whose boundaries are split down the middle by the San Andreas Fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much naturally-occurring chromium ground up into the sands along the fault, management officials here have had to grapple with the Cr-6 issue for decades. As many as a third of their drinking water supply wells, all of which are pulling from local groundwater sources, were found to exceed the 10 ppb limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state rescinded its MCL in 2014, Bigley and his team had already begun a project to install costly treatment facilities to remove Cr-6 and remain compliant with the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regulations currently under review, Bigley says they were able to table such expensive projects and experiment with promising new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water district recently completed a full-scale \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvwd.org/383/Stannous-Chloride-Demonstration-Project\">pilot project\u003c/a> to reduce Cr-6 to the relatively harmless Cr-3 using stannous chloride, an approved drinking water and food additive. They were able to quickly deploy inexpensive, easy-to-operate equipment capable of treating an entire water system over the course of two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefits go so far beyond cost,” Bigley says. “It is much more environmentally friendly because it has a much smaller footprint and doesn’t produce the toxic wastes that come with conventional treatment technologies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Eyes a New MCL\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the broader state level, water management agencies are taking notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrin Polhemus is the Deputy Director of the California State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Quality, and he has made Cr-6 assessments priority number one for his department in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the removal of the previous regulations, they are now working with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html\">Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment\u003c/a> to establish a new MCL which balances a suggested \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/water/chemicals/phg/cr6phg072911.pdf\">Public Health Goal\u003c/a> of 50 ppb against the economic cost inherent in treating affected drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just trying to plug the hole that a judge found in our previous regulations,” he said. “We want to do a thorough job from scratch to incorporate new technology and research.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to stannous chloride as one of several advances that have lowered the cost of treatment since the last round of research a \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/water/chemicals/phg/cr6phg072911.pdf\">decade ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Resources Control Board expects to have a draft of their recommendation ready for public comment in the summer of 2019 and a final MCL established six to nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1928264/californias-plan-for-underground-water-storage-will-increase-chromium-risk",
"authors": [
"11520"
],
"categories": [
"science_29",
"science_35",
"science_38",
"science_39",
"science_40",
"science_98"
],
"tags": [
"science_3180",
"science_3370",
"science_490",
"science_201"
],
"featImg": "science_1930258",
"label": "science"
},
"science_1931000": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1931000",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1931000",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1536700183000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1536700183,
"format": "standard",
"title": "U.S. Deaths From Wildfire Smoke Could Double By 2100 Even as Air Quality Improves Overall",
"headTitle": "U.S. Deaths From Wildfire Smoke Could Double By 2100 Even as Air Quality Improves Overall | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>As wildfire season intensifies due to climate change, a new study finds that the number of U.S. deaths linked to the chronic inhalation of wildfire smoke could double by the end of the century — to more than 40,000 deaths per year.[contextly_sidebar id=”M3M5DyyUYffqWEz81xgsDJm4P5svG3Ie”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, published in \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GH000144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the journal GeoHealth\u003c/a>, is the first to simulate the effects of wildfire smoke on human health over the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at the impacts of changing fire emissions on air quality and premature deaths in the middle to late 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the model, the number of deaths from chronic inhalation of wildfire smoke could increase to more than 40,000 per year by the end of the 21st century, up from around 15,000 per year today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declines in air pollution from human sources such as cars could be offset by increases in emissions from more intense wildfires, according to co-author Jeff Pierce, associate professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the U.S. Forest Service’s wildfire suppression costs reached a record\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.fed.us/blogs/2018-predicted-be-challenging-wildfire-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> high of $2.4 billion.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoke concentrations will roughly double and this will counteract a lot of improvements gained from a reduction in emissions from human sources, such as power plants,” says Pierce.[contextly_sidebar id=”ZBSnpUWr3GDytt4NOd5KXiuOFKegGScb”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire smoke\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> poses a risk to human health\u003c/a> because of its composition, a mixture of gases and microscopic particles from burned material known as particulate matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exposure\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/wildfires/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to particulate matter\u003c/a> can irritate the eyes, aggravate respiratory issues, and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also lead\u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/wildfire_may2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to premature death\u003c/a> in people with heart or lung disease, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the study, researchers used simulated concentrations of particulate matter generated by a model for early, mid, and late-century time frames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on those concentrations, researchers then calculated the expected number of annual deaths due to chronic exposure to wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We relied on previously done epidemiological studies that have come up with relationships between particulate matter concentrations and death rates,” says Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings underscore the importance of preparing for future air quality changes caused by wildfires, according to Pierce.[contextly_sidebar id=”GDcM14JS6EO9cSJhJF2nIvYmx8v5FrMP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he cautions that more research needs to be done since the findings were based on a single simulation due to the high costs associated with doing environmental-based computational work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first simulation of its kind and we don’t have a proper probability distribution model,” says Pierce. “With more models, you can come up with a range of probabilities of what the future might look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model used in the study bases its estimates on current climate projections that corrects for future things like temperature and relative humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our study is a starting point and the information could be used as a first estimate of what to prepare for,” says Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health campaigns in conjunction with climate mitigation efforts could help reduce human exposure to wildfire smoke, according to the study’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 537,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 21
},
"modified": 1704927507,
"excerpt": "As wildfires continue to intensify due to climate change, scientists estimate that the number of deaths in the U.S. from chronic smoke inhalation could double by the turn of the century.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "As wildfires continue to intensify due to climate change, scientists estimate that the number of deaths in the U.S. from chronic smoke inhalation could double by the turn of the century.",
"title": "U.S. Deaths From Wildfire Smoke Could Double By 2100 Even as Air Quality Improves Overall | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "U.S. Deaths From Wildfire Smoke Could Double By 2100 Even as Air Quality Improves Overall",
"datePublished": "2018-09-11T14:09:43-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:58:27-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "u-s-deaths-from-wildfire-smoke-could-double-by-2100-even-as-air-quality-improves-overall",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Wildfires",
"path": "/science/1931000/u-s-deaths-from-wildfire-smoke-could-double-by-2100-even-as-air-quality-improves-overall",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As wildfire season intensifies due to climate change, a new study finds that the number of U.S. deaths linked to the chronic inhalation of wildfire smoke could double by the end of the century — to more than 40,000 deaths per year.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, published in \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GH000144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the journal GeoHealth\u003c/a>, is the first to simulate the effects of wildfire smoke on human health over the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at the impacts of changing fire emissions on air quality and premature deaths in the middle to late 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the model, the number of deaths from chronic inhalation of wildfire smoke could increase to more than 40,000 per year by the end of the 21st century, up from around 15,000 per year today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declines in air pollution from human sources such as cars could be offset by increases in emissions from more intense wildfires, according to co-author Jeff Pierce, associate professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, the U.S. Forest Service’s wildfire suppression costs reached a record\u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.fed.us/blogs/2018-predicted-be-challenging-wildfire-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> high of $2.4 billion.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smoke concentrations will roughly double and this will counteract a lot of improvements gained from a reduction in emissions from human sources, such as power plants,” says Pierce.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire smoke\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1926793/protecting-your-health-from-toxic-wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> poses a risk to human health\u003c/a> because of its composition, a mixture of gases and microscopic particles from burned material known as particulate matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exposure\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/features/wildfires/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to particulate matter\u003c/a> can irritate the eyes, aggravate respiratory issues, and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can also lead\u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/airnow/wildfire_may2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to premature death\u003c/a> in people with heart or lung disease, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the study, researchers used simulated concentrations of particulate matter generated by a model for early, mid, and late-century time frames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on those concentrations, researchers then calculated the expected number of annual deaths due to chronic exposure to wildfire smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We relied on previously done epidemiological studies that have come up with relationships between particulate matter concentrations and death rates,” says Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings underscore the importance of preparing for future air quality changes caused by wildfires, according to Pierce.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he cautions that more research needs to be done since the findings were based on a single simulation due to the high costs associated with doing environmental-based computational work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first simulation of its kind and we don’t have a proper probability distribution model,” says Pierce. “With more models, you can come up with a range of probabilities of what the future might look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model used in the study bases its estimates on current climate projections that corrects for future things like temperature and relative humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our study is a starting point and the information could be used as a first estimate of what to prepare for,” says Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health campaigns in conjunction with climate mitigation efforts could help reduce human exposure to wildfire smoke, according to the study’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1931000/u-s-deaths-from-wildfire-smoke-could-double-by-2100-even-as-air-quality-improves-overall",
"authors": [
"11428"
],
"categories": [
"science_31",
"science_35",
"science_3151",
"science_39",
"science_3424",
"science_40",
"science_3730"
],
"tags": [
"science_505",
"science_194",
"science_5181",
"science_3693"
],
"featImg": "science_1931027",
"label": "source_science_1931000"
},
"science_1930718": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1930718",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1930718",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1536325259000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1536325259,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Your Guide to Public Events Around the Global Climate Action Summit",
"headTitle": "Your Guide to Public Events Around the Global Climate Action Summit | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Experts and luminaries from around the world will descend on San Francisco for the \u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Climate Action Summit\u003c/a>, September 12 to 14. And while the summit itself is open only to credentialed attendees, hundreds of events around the Bay Area will provide opportunities to explore the climate challenge and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These side events include panels, art exhibits, film screenings — even cooking workshops, just to scratch the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide to just some of the week’s worth of scheduled activities, in chronological order, with links to more information about each event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132.jpeg 525w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenfilmfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Green Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 6-14\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCastro Theater\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe eighth annual festival, which coincides with this year’s climate summit, will feature dozens of environmental films from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1930761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1020x726.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--800x569.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--768x546.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1200x854.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1920x1366.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1180x840.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--960x683.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--240x171.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--375x267.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--520x370.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenglamworld.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Glam SF\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 5:30–11:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Features some of the leaders behind the green economy: innovators, health practitioners and leaders in sustainability industries will gather to celebrate communities working for environmental preservation and the health of future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/5-first-fridays/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changing Climates\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 6–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chabot Science Center\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interactive exhibit that will explore the impact of climate change on Earth and the mysterious climates of other planets. Create clouds, learn about the greenhouse effect, and explore how cities are preparing for rising sea levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfarts.org/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Culture for Climate\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8-16\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A creative collaboration of 12 San Francisco arts and cultural organizations. Tour some of San Francisco’s most stunning architecture and get inspired by world-class art and cultural programming. Participating organizations include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Children’s Creativity Museum. For more information on each organization’s programming, visit \u003ca href=\"https://sfarts.org/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sfarts.org.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://minnesotastreetproject.com/exhibitions/1275-minnesota-st/trace-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trace Evidence: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Climate Change\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8-29\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Minnesota Street Project\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a media exhibition and panel discussion with visual artists from China and the U.S. Panelists will explore environmental change in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ca.riseforclimate.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate March: Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice Mobilization\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 10 a.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Meet at Embarcadero Plaza\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of an \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/5AqlCKr6MvTgBPLIp2puT?domain=riseforclimate.org\">“international day of action,\u003c/a>” it’s being billed as the largest climate march ever on the West Coast. The San Francisco march starts at Embarcadero Plaza and will head southwest on Market Street and end at Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sec2sv.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 9 -15\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual event brings together founders, investors, and policy-makers from the European Union entrepreneurial ecosystem and Silicon Valley. A variety of topics will be covered including digital marketing, education, cyber security, and robotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week.png 828w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-800x788.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-768x757.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-240x237.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-375x370.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-520x512.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zerofoodprint.org/diningweekreserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zero Foodprint Dining Week\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-16\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participating restaurants and food vendors in the Bay Area have pledged to go carbon-neutral for the week. They hope to raise awareness about how food choices relate to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930848 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-960x761.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-375x297.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/climatesummit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adaptation By Design | Resilient By Design Storefront and Exhibition\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-14\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Resilient by Design Storefront\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will explore how communities can become more resilient to climate impacts. Local leaders, residents, and international experts in design, ecology, engineering and architecture will present community-based solutions . Participants will examine how communities grapple with planning for long-term impacts from sea level rise while balancing current challenges like transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1033247201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gravity of Today: Visions of Tomorrow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-15\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Public Library\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring an art exhibition that presents various possible outcomes of a world affected by climate change. The exhibit runs through October 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://groundswell.org/gcas2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharing Power: Paving the Way Toward Inclusive Solar Access\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, September 10, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mitchell Park Community Center\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a breakfast discussion that will explore finance models for solar energy that can expand access for low and moderate-income communities. Topics will include specific case studies in both rural and urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Managing Lands in a Changing Climate\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>UC Davis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day-long symposium will explore innovative strategies and actions that promote agricultural resilience, food security, and health in a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnps.org/event/urban-biodiverse-city-summit-at-the-global-climate-action-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BiodiverseCity\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biodiversecity-summit-at-the-global-climate-action-summit-tickets-48901157679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Summit\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Sept. 10, 1 – 8 p.m\u003cem>.\u003cbr>\nExploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring various panels and talks on urban nature conservation best practices and the latest thinking from San Francisco and other cities showcasing the role of urban biodiversity for climate resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/300256513864829/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stories From the Frontlines: California Youth Climate Leaders\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10, 6 -9 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Venue to be determined\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth climate leaders from across California will share stories about resistance to pipelines, toxic power plants, water privatization and more. Also featuring a pop-up art gallery and theater show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.inyenyeri.com/global-climate-action-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooking to Cool the Planet: An Evening of Flavors, Innovation, and Inspiration from Rwanda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Randall Museum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a fuel stove system that delivers clean cooking. A staff from Rwanda will cook traditional foods on low-emission pellet stoves. Napa wines will be served. There will also be a screening of a film on the connections among deforestation, cooking, and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1930842 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1020x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1020x496.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-160x78.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-800x389.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-768x373.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1200x584.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1180x574.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-960x467.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-240x117.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-375x182.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-520x253.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle.png 1386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"\">\u003cspan class=\"\">\u003cspan class=\"\">\u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/events/experience-low-income-solar-policy-innovation-in-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Experience Low-Income Solar Policy Innovation in Action\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11, 9-3pm\u003cbr>\nRSVP: \u003ca href=\"mailto:gmcnamara@gridalternatives.org\">gmcnamara@gridalternatives.org\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Elected officials, academics and NGO leaders will come together to showcase California’s efforts in making clean energy accessible to low-income communities.\u003cspan class=\"\">GRID Alternatives, a national leader in making solar technology more accessible, will be joined by leading energy expert Dr. Dan Kammen and California Senator Kevin de León to host a live solar installation event.\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/infinite-cycle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infinite Cycle: Art Intervention\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11-Oct. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chinese Cultural Center\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nAn exhibition that explores how arts organizations leverage civic awareness of environmental issues through art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/calendar/2018/sarah-bird-vision-mapping-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Bird: A Vision for Mapping Giants\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11-14\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>California College of the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Sarah Bird will present her photographic project to create a life-size portrait of a California coastal redwood tree. The project addresses the need to protect the climate and habitat of the trees by bearing witness to their magnificence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csiro.us/en/News/The-future-of-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Future of Water and Networking Panel\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11, 7:30 -10 a.m.\u003cbr>\nTo RSVP: \u003ca href=\"mailto:Trista.Acevedo@csiro.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trista.Acevedo@csiro.au\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists from around the world are searching for solutions and disruptive technologies to manage water shortage, measure water quality and increase distribution inefficiencies. A unique opportunity to engage with experts for breakfast to discuss where the future of water is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930843 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-assembly-for-climate-justice-women-leading-solutions-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-change-tickets-46867064652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 11, 1-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>The Green Room\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>*\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WECAN.Intl/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Or online via Facebook livestream\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring international advocates, policy-makers, and indigenous women leaders, the conference will focus on environmental injustice and explore root causes of the climate crisis. Participants will also present projects and strategies for shaping a healthy and equitable world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/innovation-and-climate-adaptation-in-San-Francisco-Bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation and Climate Adaptation In San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Exploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a panel of Bay Area experts, including museum educators, scientists, resilience designers, and policy leaders. Participants will share approaches to climate adaptation that help create a better future for the Bay and its communities. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theclimatemusicproject.org/play-for-the-planet-september-12th/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play for the Planet\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, Noon\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Public Library (Fulton Street side)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interactive outdoor event with musical and spoken-word artists. Hosted by the ClimateMusic Project, a science and arts collaboration that uses music to teach people about climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Fzb7CJ6PLru6ZYpHV7P_R?domain=c40.org\">Cities4Climate: The Future Is Us\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 1–4:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A conference led by global mayors on the innovative work being done by cities to drive sustainable climate action and build more resilient communities. Mayors will share how local leadership can be highly effective in a partisan political landscape. Also participating will be business leaders, entrepreneurs and climate experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/bios-of-participants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food, Fiber, and Fungi – the “Carbon Pioneers”\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evening seminar with Bay Area groups working on economically viable climate innovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark/september-13-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Dark: Climate Change\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 2018, 6 p.m.–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Exploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring interactive exhibits exploring perception, art, and science at our adults-only After Dark. Grab your friends and a drink and get immersed in mind-bending experiences and unique, thought-provoking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ei.haas.berkeley.edu/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building the Evidence Base for Accelerated Climate Action\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 2:30 -5:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Orange Silicon Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by UC Berkeley and the Brookings Institution , the event features a distinguished panel of experts offering their perspectives on the scale and urgency of climate challenge. The event will be followed by a reception where summit delegates and other attendees can interact with members of the UC Berkeley and Brookings communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-front-line-communities-could-benefit-from-a-carbon-dividend-tickets-48991394580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Front Line Communities Could Benefit from a Carbon Dividend \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 3 -5 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Google Community Space\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities on the front lines of certain industries are disproportionately affected by these sources of pollution. The panel will highlight the conditions currently faced by front line communities, as well as the positive economic benefits that might be generated by the adoption of a nationwide carbon fee and the distribution of a household carbon dividend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930847 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-160x93.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-800x466.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-768x448.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-960x560.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-240x140.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-375x219.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-520x303.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterpavilion.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Water Pavilion\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13-14\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in\">A two-day conference about water’s unique role both in climate impacts and climate solutions. Over 200 leaders from across the globe will present in-depth panels, cutting-edge technologies, and pop-up presentations. There will also be a presentation about a project for citizen scientists to crowdsource water quality data and show hot spots of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/friday-workshops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the Dirt on Dirt / Is Money Really Green? \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 8:30 am – 11:45 am\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">Featuring panel discussions on the next generation of climate solution designs including regenerative agriculture, healthy soil promotion, innovative urban infrastructure and marine permaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/friday-afternoon-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"color_23\">Visionaries Reimagining Living Systems\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"color_23\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 1:15-5:00 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A creative workshop covering subjects rarely considered together: a systems view of life and its relationship to agriculture, economies and a sustainable future; challenges with human perceptions in the 21st Century; and conversations on carbon, environmental literacy, and advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2009-epa-endangerment-finding-even-stronger-evidence-in-2018-tickets-48573416396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding: Even Stronger Evidence in 2018\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 8:30 am-10:30 am\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Marriott Marquis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a discussion among experts about the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-clean\">Endangerment Finding\u003c/a>. This finding provides foundational support for important aspects of U.S. climate policy. Recently, speculation that EPA may revisit the Endangerment Finding has been widespread. This event assembles a panel of scholars to review how the strength of the scientific evidence for endangerment has grown since 2009. Leading experts in the science of climate impacts will discuss how this new evidence lends increased support to the conclusion that these gases pose a danger to the public health and welfare. The program includes breakfast, brief presentations on key elements of the Endangerment Finding, and moderated discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/2018/09/06/come-make-a-word-sat-sept-15-sun-sept-16-at-ybca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Come Make a Word\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 15-16, 12pm-5pm\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come share your emotions and experiences related to climate change, brainstorm a new word and more. Hosted by the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an art exhibit focused on creating new language as means of better understanding our rapidly changing world due to manmade climate change and other Anthropocenic events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"listing-hero-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-fire-earth-air-mcevoy-foundation-for-the-arts-tickets-49446512851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water, Fire, Earth, Air\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 29, 3pm-6pm\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a panel discussion with four artists who are translating climate change science into art. Participating artists include Rosten Woo, an LA based artist who will be sharing Mutual Air, a public sound sculpture launching next year; Don Hankins, a traditional fire practitioner who will be sharing traditional fire practices that can lead to a more resilient landscape; Eve Mosher will examine the critical relationship between waterways, climate change and urban areas; and Ranu Mukherjee will share three recent projects that weave together historical, cultural and ecological implications of migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2020,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 70
},
"modified": 1704927520,
"excerpt": "A guide to some of the events planned around San Francisco's Global Climate Action Summit. From art installations and cooking workshops to film screenings and fashion shows, there's something for everyone. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "A guide to some of the events planned around San Francisco's Global Climate Action Summit. From art installations and cooking workshops to film screenings and fashion shows, there's something for everyone. ",
"title": "Your Guide to Public Events Around the Global Climate Action Summit | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Your Guide to Public Events Around the Global Climate Action Summit",
"datePublished": "2018-09-07T06:00:59-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:58:40-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "your-guide-to-public-events-around-the-global-climate-action-summit",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Events",
"path": "/science/1930718/your-guide-to-public-events-around-the-global-climate-action-summit",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Experts and luminaries from around the world will descend on San Francisco for the \u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Climate Action Summit\u003c/a>, September 12 to 14. And while the summit itself is open only to credentialed attendees, hundreds of events around the Bay Area will provide opportunities to explore the climate challenge and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These side events include panels, art exhibits, film screenings — even cooking workshops, just to scratch the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide to just some of the week’s worth of scheduled activities, in chronological order, with links to more information about each event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132.jpeg 525w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-240x160.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-375x250.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/pexels-photo-1117132-520x347.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenfilmfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Green Film Festival\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 6-14\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCastro Theater\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe eighth annual festival, which coincides with this year’s climate summit, will feature dozens of environmental films from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1930761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1020x726.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--800x569.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--768x546.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1200x854.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1920x1366.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--1180x840.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--960x683.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--240x171.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--375x267.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Green-Glam-GLOBAL-SUMMIT-CALENDAR--520x370.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenglamworld.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Glam SF\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 5:30–11:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Features some of the leaders behind the green economy: innovators, health practitioners and leaders in sustainability industries will gather to celebrate communities working for environmental preservation and the health of future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/events/events-listing/5-first-fridays/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changing Climates\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 7, 6–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chabot Science Center\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interactive exhibit that will explore the impact of climate change on Earth and the mysterious climates of other planets. Create clouds, learn about the greenhouse effect, and explore how cities are preparing for rising sea levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfarts.org/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Culture for Climate\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8-16\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A creative collaboration of 12 San Francisco arts and cultural organizations. Tour some of San Francisco’s most stunning architecture and get inspired by world-class art and cultural programming. Participating organizations include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Children’s Creativity Museum. For more information on each organization’s programming, visit \u003ca href=\"https://sfarts.org/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sfarts.org.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://minnesotastreetproject.com/exhibitions/1275-minnesota-st/trace-evidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trace Evidence: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Climate Change\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8-29\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Minnesota Street Project\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a media exhibition and panel discussion with visual artists from China and the U.S. Panelists will explore environmental change in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ca.riseforclimate.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate March: Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice Mobilization\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 8, 10 a.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Meet at Embarcadero Plaza\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of an \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/5AqlCKr6MvTgBPLIp2puT?domain=riseforclimate.org\">“international day of action,\u003c/a>” it’s being billed as the largest climate march ever on the West Coast. The San Francisco march starts at Embarcadero Plaza and will head southwest on Market Street and end at Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sec2sv.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 9 -15\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual event brings together founders, investors, and policy-makers from the European Union entrepreneurial ecosystem and Silicon Valley. A variety of topics will be covered including digital marketing, education, cyber security, and robotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1930778\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week.png 828w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-800x788.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-768x757.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-240x237.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-375x370.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-520x512.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-50x50.png 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ZFP-dining-week-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.zerofoodprint.org/diningweekreserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zero Foodprint Dining Week\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-16\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Multiple locations\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participating restaurants and food vendors in the Bay Area have pledged to go carbon-neutral for the week. They hope to raise awareness about how food choices relate to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930848 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-800x634.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-768x609.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-960x761.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-375x297.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ClimateSummit4-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.resilientbayarea.org/climatesummit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adaptation By Design | Resilient By Design Storefront and Exhibition\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-14\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Resilient by Design Storefront\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event will explore how communities can become more resilient to climate impacts. Local leaders, residents, and international experts in design, ecology, engineering and architecture will present community-based solutions . Participants will examine how communities grapple with planning for long-term impacts from sea level rise while balancing current challenges like transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1033247201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gravity of Today: Visions of Tomorrow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10-15\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Public Library\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring an art exhibition that presents various possible outcomes of a world affected by climate change. The exhibit runs through October 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://groundswell.org/gcas2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharing Power: Paving the Way Toward Inclusive Solar Access\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMonday, September 10, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mitchell Park Community Center\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a breakfast discussion that will explore finance models for solar energy that can expand access for low and moderate-income communities. Topics will include specific case studies in both rural and urban settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Managing Lands in a Changing Climate\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>UC Davis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day-long symposium will explore innovative strategies and actions that promote agricultural resilience, food security, and health in a changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnps.org/event/urban-biodiverse-city-summit-at-the-global-climate-action-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BiodiverseCity\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biodiversecity-summit-at-the-global-climate-action-summit-tickets-48901157679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Summit\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Sept. 10, 1 – 8 p.m\u003cem>.\u003cbr>\nExploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring various panels and talks on urban nature conservation best practices and the latest thinking from San Francisco and other cities showcasing the role of urban biodiversity for climate resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/300256513864829/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stories From the Frontlines: California Youth Climate Leaders\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10, 6 -9 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Venue to be determined\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth climate leaders from across California will share stories about resistance to pipelines, toxic power plants, water privatization and more. Also featuring a pop-up art gallery and theater show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.inyenyeri.com/global-climate-action-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooking to Cool the Planet: An Evening of Flavors, Innovation, and Inspiration from Rwanda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Randall Museum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a fuel stove system that delivers clean cooking. A staff from Rwanda will cook traditional foods on low-emission pellet stoves. Napa wines will be served. There will also be a screening of a film on the connections among deforestation, cooking, and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1930842 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1020x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1020x496.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-160x78.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-800x389.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-768x373.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1200x584.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-1180x574.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-960x467.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-240x117.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-375x182.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle-520x253.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/Infinite-Cycle.png 1386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"\">\u003cspan class=\"\">\u003cspan class=\"\">\u003ca href=\"https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/events/experience-low-income-solar-policy-innovation-in-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Experience Low-Income Solar Policy Innovation in Action\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11, 9-3pm\u003cbr>\nRSVP: \u003ca href=\"mailto:gmcnamara@gridalternatives.org\">gmcnamara@gridalternatives.org\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Elected officials, academics and NGO leaders will come together to showcase California’s efforts in making clean energy accessible to low-income communities.\u003cspan class=\"\">GRID Alternatives, a national leader in making solar technology more accessible, will be joined by leading energy expert Dr. Dan Kammen and California Senator Kevin de León to host a live solar installation event.\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/infinite-cycle/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infinite Cycle: Art Intervention\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11-Oct. 21\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chinese Cultural Center\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nAn exhibition that explores how arts organizations leverage civic awareness of environmental issues through art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/calendar/2018/sarah-bird-vision-mapping-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Bird: A Vision for Mapping Giants\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11-14\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>California College of the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist Sarah Bird will present her photographic project to create a life-size portrait of a California coastal redwood tree. The project addresses the need to protect the climate and habitat of the trees by bearing witness to their magnificence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.csiro.us/en/News/The-future-of-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Future of Water and Networking Panel\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 11, 7:30 -10 a.m.\u003cbr>\nTo RSVP: \u003ca href=\"mailto:Trista.Acevedo@csiro.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trista.Acevedo@csiro.au\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists from around the world are searching for solutions and disruptive technologies to manage water shortage, measure water quality and increase distribution inefficiencies. A unique opportunity to engage with experts for breakfast to discuss where the future of water is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930843 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/https_2F2Fcdn.evbuc_.com2Fimages2F458585192F1919621462642F12Foriginal-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-assembly-for-climate-justice-women-leading-solutions-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-change-tickets-46867064652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 11, 1-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003cu>\u003c/u>The Green Room\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003ci>*\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/WECAN.Intl/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Or online via Facebook livestream\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cu>\u003c/u>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring international advocates, policy-makers, and indigenous women leaders, the conference will focus on environmental injustice and explore root causes of the climate crisis. Participants will also present projects and strategies for shaping a healthy and equitable world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/innovation-and-climate-adaptation-in-San-Francisco-Bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation and Climate Adaptation In San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Exploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a panel of Bay Area experts, including museum educators, scientists, resilience designers, and policy leaders. Participants will share approaches to climate adaptation that help create a better future for the Bay and its communities. \u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.theclimatemusicproject.org/play-for-the-planet-september-12th/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play for the Planet\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, Noon\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Public Library (Fulton Street side)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interactive outdoor event with musical and spoken-word artists. Hosted by the ClimateMusic Project, a science and arts collaboration that uses music to teach people about climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/Fzb7CJ6PLru6ZYpHV7P_R?domain=c40.org\">Cities4Climate: The Future Is Us\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 1–4:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A conference led by global mayors on the innovative work being done by cities to drive sustainable climate action and build more resilient communities. Mayors will share how local leadership can be highly effective in a partisan political landscape. Also participating will be business leaders, entrepreneurs and climate experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/bios-of-participants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food, Fiber, and Fungi – the “Carbon Pioneers”\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evening seminar with Bay Area groups working on economically viable climate innovations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark/september-13-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Dark: Climate Change\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 2018, 6 p.m.–10 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Exploratorium\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring interactive exhibits exploring perception, art, and science at our adults-only After Dark. Grab your friends and a drink and get immersed in mind-bending experiences and unique, thought-provoking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ei.haas.berkeley.edu/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building the Evidence Base for Accelerated Climate Action\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 2:30 -5:30 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Orange Silicon Valley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by UC Berkeley and the Brookings Institution , the event features a distinguished panel of experts offering their perspectives on the scale and urgency of climate challenge. The event will be followed by a reception where summit delegates and other attendees can interact with members of the UC Berkeley and Brookings communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-front-line-communities-could-benefit-from-a-carbon-dividend-tickets-48991394580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Front Line Communities Could Benefit from a Carbon Dividend \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13, 3 -5 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Google Community Space\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities on the front lines of certain industries are disproportionately affected by these sources of pollution. The panel will highlight the conditions currently faced by front line communities, as well as the positive economic benefits that might be generated by the adoption of a nationwide carbon fee and the distribution of a household carbon dividend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1930847 alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-160x93.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-800x466.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-768x448.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-960x560.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-240x140.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-375x219.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/SanFranciscoSeptember13-14_Bringingtogetherleadersonwaterandclimateissuestosharesuccessesandexplorenewsolutions_-520x303.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterpavilion.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Water Pavilion\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 13-14\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in\">A two-day conference about water’s unique role both in climate impacts and climate solutions. Over 200 leaders from across the globe will present in-depth panels, cutting-edge technologies, and pop-up presentations. There will also be a presentation about a project for citizen scientists to crowdsource water quality data and show hot spots of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/friday-workshops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the Dirt on Dirt / Is Money Really Green? \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 8:30 am – 11:45 am\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">Featuring panel discussions on the next generation of climate solution designs including regenerative agriculture, healthy soil promotion, innovative urban infrastructure and marine permaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.climatesolutionsgroup.org/friday-afternoon-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"color_23\">Visionaries Reimagining Living Systems\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"color_23\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 1:15-5:00 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Presidio Officers Club\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A creative workshop covering subjects rarely considered together: a systems view of life and its relationship to agriculture, economies and a sustainable future; challenges with human perceptions in the 21st Century; and conversations on carbon, environmental literacy, and advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2009-epa-endangerment-finding-even-stronger-evidence-in-2018-tickets-48573416396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding: Even Stronger Evidence in 2018\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 14, 8:30 am-10:30 am\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Marriott Marquis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a discussion among experts about the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-clean\">Endangerment Finding\u003c/a>. This finding provides foundational support for important aspects of U.S. climate policy. Recently, speculation that EPA may revisit the Endangerment Finding has been widespread. This event assembles a panel of scholars to review how the strength of the scientific evidence for endangerment has grown since 2009. Leading experts in the science of climate impacts will discuss how this new evidence lends increased support to the conclusion that these gases pose a danger to the public health and welfare. The program includes breakfast, brief presentations on key elements of the Endangerment Finding, and moderated discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/2018/09/06/come-make-a-word-sat-sept-15-sun-sept-16-at-ybca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Come Make a Word\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 15-16, 12pm-5pm\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come share your emotions and experiences related to climate change, brainstorm a new word and more. Hosted by the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an art exhibit focused on creating new language as means of better understanding our rapidly changing world due to manmade climate change and other Anthropocenic events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"listing-hero-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-fire-earth-air-mcevoy-foundation-for-the-arts-tickets-49446512851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water, Fire, Earth, Air\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSept. 29, 3pm-6pm\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Featuring a panel discussion with four artists who are translating climate change science into art. Participating artists include Rosten Woo, an LA based artist who will be sharing Mutual Air, a public sound sculpture launching next year; Don Hankins, a traditional fire practitioner who will be sharing traditional fire practices that can lead to a more resilient landscape; Eve Mosher will examine the critical relationship between waterways, climate change and urban areas; and Ranu Mukherjee will share three recent projects that weave together historical, cultural and ecological implications of migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1930718/your-guide-to-public-events-around-the-global-climate-action-summit",
"authors": [
"11428"
],
"categories": [
"science_31",
"science_35",
"science_37",
"science_36",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_194",
"science_192",
"science_855",
"science_3370",
"science_3761"
],
"featImg": "science_1931126",
"label": "source_science_1930718"
},
"science_1929784": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1929784",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1929784",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1534352405000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "breathing-fire-californias-central-valley-bears-the-brunt-of-harmful-wildfire-smoke",
"title": "Breathing Fire: California's Central Valley Bears the Brunt of Harmful Wildfire Smoke",
"publishDate": 1534352405,
"format": "audio",
"headTitle": "Breathing Fire: California’s Central Valley Bears the Brunt of Harmful Wildfire Smoke | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>Worsening wildfires linked to the weather, climate change and forest management policies are causing unprecedented smoke pollution across the West and beyond, creating public health risks and undermining decades of air quality gains. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter 30 minutes of gardening, Donna Fisher’s eyes are burning. One is swollen shut. Since retiring to the forested foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range 20 years ago, the 74-year-old has cultivated a garden large enough to feed her and her husband well into the winter. For the past two years, smoke from wildfires has reduced the time she can spend tending to her vegetables before her asthma and bronchitis are triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like somebody choking you, or putting a band around your chest and pulling it tight,” she said. Wildfire seasons in the Western U.S. are \u003ca href=\"http://assets.climatecentral.org/pdfs/westernwildfires2016v2.pdf\">105 days longer\u003c/a> than they were five decades ago, billowing smoke that contains tiny chemical particles that threaten public health. “It used to be a few days, maybe a week at worse. Now it’s longer than it’s ever been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1929787 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired nurse Donna Fisher wears a hat and sunglasses to protect from the sun while she picks squash from her garden. Fisher says smoke that has settled in near her home in the Sierra Nevada foothills has affected her health. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smoke from wildfires is undermining decades of gains made in reducing air pollution from exhaust pipes and power plants. The number of days each year that wildfires foul the air is increasing in parts of the West, with worse expected as temperatures continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You might not automatically have a heart attack or get asthma, but health effects can last for a year or more.’\u003ccite>Loretta Mickley, Harvard chemist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/113/42/11770\">Wildfires are projected to continue increasing in size and frequency,\u003c/a> leading to more ‘smoke waves’ — days-long bouts of dangerous pollution. For asthmatics like Fisher, that means more days of lung-pinching pain and confinement indoors. For those who aren’t retired, it can mean missed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone exposed to smoke for a few weeks can feel health impacts long afterward, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mickley/\">Loretta Mickley\u003c/a>, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University who studies the relationship between smoke particles and health. In the longer term, exposure to the pollution is associated with earlier deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might not automatically have a heart attack or get asthma,” Mickley said. “But health effects can last for a year or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HWK9Tdsapvxh9XUBThIRFS0pCQet5a2x”]Fisher’s home is surrounded by forests that are naturally prone to burn, putting her at the front lines of smoke waves. Forty miles downhill, smoke from fires burning around California funnels into the Central Valley — a farming region where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_CentralValleyJTF.pdf\">6.5 million residents\u003c/a>, many of them poor and working outdoors, endure some of the country’s most polluted air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, residents of the San Joaquin Valley, one of the two valleys that comprise the Central Valley, experienced at least \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-air-pollution-progress-still-undermined-by-western-wildfires-21911\">40 days each year\u003c/a> when air quality was dangerous according to EPA standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1929810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg\" alt=\"Graph: AQ exceedances in the San Joaquin Valley\" width=\"1200\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-768x542.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>“We have the biggest challenge that any air district has in the nation,” said Jon Klassen, a program manager at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/08/20/air-quality-in-san-joaquin-valley/\">advances in reducing pollution\u003c/a> from farms and the trucks that haul away their produce, longer and larger wildfires burning throughout California are ushering more smoke waves into this hard-hit region. Rising temperatures, a build-up of fuel on forest floors and the growth of neighborhoods in fire-prone areas are amplifying hazards. With these wildfires, comes more smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the Central Valley endure \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/BurdenReport04-04-13_ADA.pdf\">greater risks\u003c/a> than others in the U.S. of developing asthma, suffering heart attacks and strokes, and experiencing related mental health problems. Health care costs follow. The smoke affects day-to-day activities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/21/558754511/california-wildfires-have-disrupted-school-for-a-quarter-of-a-million-students\">putting classes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/joe-davidson/article216243435.html\">sports practices on hold\u003c/a> and keeping the sick and elderly indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1929819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: detailer Danny Espinoza at work in Fresno\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detailer Danny Espinoza wipes the windows of a client’s car in Fresno. Espinoza, who works outside, says the smoke and sun bother him, but his job requires it and he’s gotten used to it. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.washington.edu/djaffe/\">Dan Jaffe\u003c/a>, a chemistry professor at the University of Washington, Bothell who studies air quality, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/10/1804353115.short?rss=1\">analyzed data\u003c/a> from air monitors. He found that since 1970, air quality on the most polluted days each year improved on average across much of the continental U.S. But it worsened across swaths of the West, including the northern half of California and other areas affected by smoke waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really has been a statistically robust increase in wildfires in the Western U.S., and that’s directly impacting air pollution,” Jaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Breathing Fire \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Sorondo was born and raised in Fresno, a San Joaquin Valley city home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fresnocitycalifornia,fresnocountycalifornia,sanluisobispocountycalifornia,US/PST045217\">500,000 \u003c/a>people. Now, she’s raising her daughter and son here. Like one in four children living in Fresno County, both have been diagnosed with asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last season to this season has been really bad,” said Sorondo, a call center employee, of the smoke from record-breaking fire seasons. “It’s really dangerous — it’s really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny particles in the smoke, released when fire burns through fuel, is what Sorondo worries about most. Small enough to sneak through defense systems in the eyes, nose and mouth, the particulate matter, called PM2.5, can pierce through the lungs and travel through the bloodstream to organs including the heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particulate matter does affect how our central nervous system works,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/meet-epa-lab-director-wayne-cascio-md\">Wayne Cascio\u003c/a>, a cardiologist and lab director at the federal EPA who studies the topic. “It also has an effect on inflammation, which we now know is an important role in driving cardiovascular outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying indoors for prolonged periods, which is one of the few ways of guarding against particulate matter, can affect mental health. The Oregon Health Authority is working to help people in the southern half of the state, where wildfire smoke from California has led to sustained exposure, find psychologists and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veil of pollution clouding much of the West this summer comes with fatal consequences. A \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2018GH000144\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003ci>GeoHealth\u003c/i> this summer concluded that early deaths related to wildfire smoke could double this century, even as deaths from breathing fossil fuel pollution decline amid a transition to cleaner energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see more patients coming in with typical symptoms of shortness of breath, wheezing, chronic cough,“ said \u003ca href=\"http://www.familyallergyasthmaclinic.com/dr-buddiga/\">Praveen Buddiga\u003c/a>, an asthma doctor who has been treating patients in Fresno for 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These particles don’t just affect people living close to burning wildfires. In the weeks after the Carr Fire broke out nearly 350 miles north of Fresno, Buddiga said there was an uptick in patients visiting his clinic — particularly children. Smoke from Western wildfires in early August reached far as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sonomatech.com/projects/2421\">Louisiana\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1027192594294628352\">New York\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s been dramatic is how the smoke is traveling eastward,” said the EPA’s Cascio. “It’s not just a local phenomena, it’s a national one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1929815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg\" alt=\"Map: national progress toward clean air goals\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-960x576.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-375x225.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>Reversing Decades of Air Quality Gains\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1990s, when monitors began \u003ca href=\"https://airnow.gov/\">tracking PM2.5\u003c/a> and the EPA began fining states for breaching its standards, air quality nationwide has been improving. The number of people exposed to particulate matter has halved, and related deaths have fallen by about a third, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EHP507.alt_.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> by the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With wildfires increasing in size and intensity, those gains are being undermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate Central \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-air-pollution-progress-still-undermined-by-western-wildfires-21911\">researchers examined the number of days each year\u003c/a> when PM2.5 levels exceeded federal standards. In both of the valleys that comprise California’s Central Valley, the number of these days decreased overall since 2000, but the proportion of those days occurring during the wildfire season increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Fire responds exponentially to warming. For every degree of warming there is in the Western U.S., the impact is a lot more.’\u003ccite>Park Williams, Columbia Univ.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Health risks depend on age, health conditions and wealth. Poorer residents may not be able to miss work, and may live in drafty homes that allow smoke to permeate indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/academics/erhs/Pages/sheryl-magzamen.aspx\">Sheryl Magzamen\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist at Colorado State University, has been tracking asthma-related hospital admissions in Western counties. At the beginning of August, as the Mendocino Complex Fire burned in northern California, she said she found that the likelihood of being hospitalized with asthma-related issues more than doubled along counties on the Oregon-California border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We breathe every minute of every day multiple times and it’s not something that we can stop doing,” said Magzamen. “That’s why this is concerning — this impacts everyone, it’s widespread and we’re seeing real impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Role of Humans\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change, the whims of the weather and a century of firefighting practices have all been contributing to the destructiveness of the West’s recent wildfire seasons. Even as scientists and California firefighters point to the role of warming temperatures in fueling blazes, the Trump administration has been downplaying or falsely denying the links.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/7596/california-temperatures-on-the-rise\">Rising temperatures in California\u003c/a> caused in part by the heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution are sucking moisture from Western landscapes and hastening the annual melting of snowpacks, drying fuel for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fire responds exponentially to warming,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/williams\">Park Williams,\u003c/a> a bioclimatologist at Columbia University. “For every degree of warming there is in the Western U.S., the impact is a lot more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/06/1718850115.short\">new residents continue to move into areas\u003c/a> that are prone to burn, increasing risks to themselves, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/humans-blamed-for-most-wildfires-us-21197\">accidentally or deliberately starting fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/u-s-forest-service-fire-suppression/\">A century of aggressive firefighting\u003c/a> to protect residents and property has also contributed to the devastation, leaving fuel on forest floors that would once have burned naturally during low-level fires kindled by lightning strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since a series of forest fires burned three million acres of Montana, Idaho and Washington in 1910, strategies for managing fires have generally favored extinguishing them as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t suppress all fires, they are part of our ecosystem and are necessary,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorado.edu/geography/colleen-reid-0\">Colleen Reid\u003c/a>, a geographer at the University of Colorado-Boulder who is investigating how controlled burns and wildfires affect public health. “The challenge is having that perspective but also caring about the health of populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the federal government has been working with local and state agencies to boost prescribed burns, where officials set and manage low-level fires that consume shrubs, small trees and leaf litter. The efforts have been be limited by funding shortfalls. And nearby residents and local agencies sometimes oppose prescribed burns, worried about smoke pollution and risks that the fires will get out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration eliminates climate protections and falsely denies climate change’s role in wildfires, it has proposed reduced spending to agencies researching and managing wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re spending $2.5 billion fighting forest fires, there’s not a lot left in the budget to do forest management,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929627/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-says-california-fires-have-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-hes-wrong\">said in a radio interview Sunday\u003c/a> with KCRA 3 in Sacramento. (During the interview, he incorrectly said this year’s wildfires have “nothing to do with climate change.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As federal government leaders reject basic science and \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/as-wildfires-rage-trump-administration-plans-to-slash-fire-science-funding/\">move to shrink programs\u003c/a> that could reduce risks, the air district that regulates air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is becoming more flexible in allowing for prescribed burns — even when the air is already dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1929790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image of smoke from the Ranch Fire, August 11, 2018. Smoke from fires across Northern California tends to get drawn into the Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Planet Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to go further than any region has before,” said Klassen, of the San Joaquin Valley’s air district. It has implemented hundreds of rules in an effort to reduce pollution, including allowing more prescribed burns in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, AJ Rassamni, who manages a car wash in Fresno, wants to see more comprehensive forest management. With fewer people leaving their homes amid recent smoke waves, fewer customers have been coming through his car wash. He provides masks to protect staff, but they can make breathing difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worried about effects from climate change, Rassamni bought an electric car and had solar panels installed at home to reduce his climate pollution. Without aggressive steps from governments to systematically reduce pollution and boost prescribed burns, though, his efforts alone will do little to protect Central Valley residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it good for us?” he said. “No. But you have a life, and you’re going to live with the weather you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced and published in partnership with \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\">\u003ci>Climate Central\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a non-advocacy group that researches and reports on the changing climate.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Worsening wildfires linked to climate change and forest management policies are causing unprecedented smoke pollution across the West and beyond, creating public health risks and undermining decades of air quality gains. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1727135657,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 50,
"wordCount": 2195
},
"headData": {
"title": "Breathing Fire: California's Central Valley Bears the Brunt of Harmful Wildfire Smoke | KQED",
"description": "Worsening wildfires linked to climate change and forest management policies are causing unprecedented smoke pollution across the West and beyond, creating public health risks and undermining decades of air quality gains. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Breathing Fire: California's Central Valley Bears the Brunt of Harmful Wildfire Smoke",
"datePublished": "2018-08-15T10:00:05-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-09-23T16:54:17-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"source": "Wildfires",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/08/HallAirQuality.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Maya Miller, Climate Central \u003cbr /> and Alex Hall, KQED",
"audioTrackLength": 290,
"path": "/science/1929784/breathing-fire-californias-central-valley-bears-the-brunt-of-harmful-wildfire-smoke",
"audioDuration": 292000,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Worsening wildfires linked to the weather, climate change and forest management policies are causing unprecedented smoke pollution across the West and beyond, creating public health risks and undermining decades of air quality gains. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter 30 minutes of gardening, Donna Fisher’s eyes are burning. One is swollen shut. Since retiring to the forested foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range 20 years ago, the 74-year-old has cultivated a garden large enough to feed her and her husband well into the winter. For the past two years, smoke from wildfires has reduced the time she can spend tending to her vegetables before her asthma and bronchitis are triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like somebody choking you, or putting a band around your chest and pulling it tight,” she said. Wildfire seasons in the Western U.S. are \u003ca href=\"http://assets.climatecentral.org/pdfs/westernwildfires2016v2.pdf\">105 days longer\u003c/a> than they were five decades ago, billowing smoke that contains tiny chemical particles that threaten public health. “It used to be a few days, maybe a week at worse. Now it’s longer than it’s ever been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1929787 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_DonnaFisher-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired nurse Donna Fisher wears a hat and sunglasses to protect from the sun while she picks squash from her garden. Fisher says smoke that has settled in near her home in the Sierra Nevada foothills has affected her health. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smoke from wildfires is undermining decades of gains made in reducing air pollution from exhaust pipes and power plants. The number of days each year that wildfires foul the air is increasing in parts of the West, with worse expected as temperatures continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You might not automatically have a heart attack or get asthma, but health effects can last for a year or more.’\u003ccite>Loretta Mickley, Harvard chemist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/113/42/11770\">Wildfires are projected to continue increasing in size and frequency,\u003c/a> leading to more ‘smoke waves’ — days-long bouts of dangerous pollution. For asthmatics like Fisher, that means more days of lung-pinching pain and confinement indoors. For those who aren’t retired, it can mean missed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone exposed to smoke for a few weeks can feel health impacts long afterward, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mickley/\">Loretta Mickley\u003c/a>, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University who studies the relationship between smoke particles and health. In the longer term, exposure to the pollution is associated with earlier deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might not automatically have a heart attack or get asthma,” Mickley said. “But health effects can last for a year or more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fisher’s home is surrounded by forests that are naturally prone to burn, putting her at the front lines of smoke waves. Forty miles downhill, smoke from fires burning around California funnels into the Central Valley — a farming region where \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_CentralValleyJTF.pdf\">6.5 million residents\u003c/a>, many of them poor and working outdoors, endure some of the country’s most polluted air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2010, residents of the San Joaquin Valley, one of the two valleys that comprise the Central Valley, experienced at least \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-air-pollution-progress-still-undermined-by-western-wildfires-21911\">40 days each year\u003c/a> when air quality was dangerous according to EPA standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1929810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg\" alt=\"Graph: AQ exceedances in the San Joaquin Valley\" width=\"1200\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-768x542.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-240x169.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/SanJoaquinExceedences-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>“We have the biggest challenge that any air district has in the nation,” said Jon Klassen, a program manager at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/08/20/air-quality-in-san-joaquin-valley/\">advances in reducing pollution\u003c/a> from farms and the trucks that haul away their produce, longer and larger wildfires burning throughout California are ushering more smoke waves into this hard-hit region. Rising temperatures, a build-up of fuel on forest floors and the growth of neighborhoods in fire-prone areas are amplifying hazards. With these wildfires, comes more smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the Central Valley endure \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/CDCB/CDPH%20Document%20Library/BurdenReport04-04-13_ADA.pdf\">greater risks\u003c/a> than others in the U.S. of developing asthma, suffering heart attacks and strokes, and experiencing related mental health problems. Health care costs follow. The smoke affects day-to-day activities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/21/558754511/california-wildfires-have-disrupted-school-for-a-quarter-of-a-million-students\">putting classes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/joe-davidson/article216243435.html\">sports practices on hold\u003c/a> and keeping the sick and elderly indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1929819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: detailer Danny Espinoza at work in Fresno\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/8_15_18_Upton_KQED_AJRamnisien1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detailer Danny Espinoza wipes the windows of a client’s car in Fresno. Espinoza, who works outside, says the smoke and sun bother him, but his job requires it and he’s gotten used to it. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://faculty.washington.edu/djaffe/\">Dan Jaffe\u003c/a>, a chemistry professor at the University of Washington, Bothell who studies air quality, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/10/1804353115.short?rss=1\">analyzed data\u003c/a> from air monitors. He found that since 1970, air quality on the most polluted days each year improved on average across much of the continental U.S. But it worsened across swaths of the West, including the northern half of California and other areas affected by smoke waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really has been a statistically robust increase in wildfires in the Western U.S., and that’s directly impacting air pollution,” Jaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Breathing Fire \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Sorondo was born and raised in Fresno, a San Joaquin Valley city home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fresnocitycalifornia,fresnocountycalifornia,sanluisobispocountycalifornia,US/PST045217\">500,000 \u003c/a>people. Now, she’s raising her daughter and son here. Like one in four children living in Fresno County, both have been diagnosed with asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last season to this season has been really bad,” said Sorondo, a call center employee, of the smoke from record-breaking fire seasons. “It’s really dangerous — it’s really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny particles in the smoke, released when fire burns through fuel, is what Sorondo worries about most. Small enough to sneak through defense systems in the eyes, nose and mouth, the particulate matter, called PM2.5, can pierce through the lungs and travel through the bloodstream to organs including the heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particulate matter does affect how our central nervous system works,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/meet-epa-lab-director-wayne-cascio-md\">Wayne Cascio\u003c/a>, a cardiologist and lab director at the federal EPA who studies the topic. “It also has an effect on inflammation, which we now know is an important role in driving cardiovascular outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staying indoors for prolonged periods, which is one of the few ways of guarding against particulate matter, can affect mental health. The Oregon Health Authority is working to help people in the southern half of the state, where wildfire smoke from California has led to sustained exposure, find psychologists and therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veil of pollution clouding much of the West this summer comes with fatal consequences. A \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2018GH000144\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003ci>GeoHealth\u003c/i> this summer concluded that early deaths related to wildfire smoke could double this century, even as deaths from breathing fossil fuel pollution decline amid a transition to cleaner energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see more patients coming in with typical symptoms of shortness of breath, wheezing, chronic cough,“ said \u003ca href=\"http://www.familyallergyasthmaclinic.com/dr-buddiga/\">Praveen Buddiga\u003c/a>, an asthma doctor who has been treating patients in Fresno for 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These particles don’t just affect people living close to burning wildfires. In the weeks after the Carr Fire broke out nearly 350 miles north of Fresno, Buddiga said there was an uptick in patients visiting his clinic — particularly children. Smoke from Western wildfires in early August reached far as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sonomatech.com/projects/2421\">Louisiana\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1027192594294628352\">New York\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s been dramatic is how the smoke is traveling eastward,” said the EPA’s Cascio. “It’s not just a local phenomena, it’s a national one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1929815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg\" alt=\"Map: national progress toward clean air goals\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-768x461.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-960x576.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-375x225.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/PM25map-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>Reversing Decades of Air Quality Gains\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1990s, when monitors began \u003ca href=\"https://airnow.gov/\">tracking PM2.5\u003c/a> and the EPA began fining states for breaching its standards, air quality nationwide has been improving. The number of people exposed to particulate matter has halved, and related deaths have fallen by about a third, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/EHP507.alt_.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> by the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With wildfires increasing in size and intensity, those gains are being undermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate Central \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-air-pollution-progress-still-undermined-by-western-wildfires-21911\">researchers examined the number of days each year\u003c/a> when PM2.5 levels exceeded federal standards. In both of the valleys that comprise California’s Central Valley, the number of these days decreased overall since 2000, but the proportion of those days occurring during the wildfire season increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Fire responds exponentially to warming. For every degree of warming there is in the Western U.S., the impact is a lot more.’\u003ccite>Park Williams, Columbia Univ.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Health risks depend on age, health conditions and wealth. Poorer residents may not be able to miss work, and may live in drafty homes that allow smoke to permeate indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/academics/erhs/Pages/sheryl-magzamen.aspx\">Sheryl Magzamen\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist at Colorado State University, has been tracking asthma-related hospital admissions in Western counties. At the beginning of August, as the Mendocino Complex Fire burned in northern California, she said she found that the likelihood of being hospitalized with asthma-related issues more than doubled along counties on the Oregon-California border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We breathe every minute of every day multiple times and it’s not something that we can stop doing,” said Magzamen. “That’s why this is concerning — this impacts everyone, it’s widespread and we’re seeing real impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Role of Humans\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change, the whims of the weather and a century of firefighting practices have all been contributing to the destructiveness of the West’s recent wildfire seasons. Even as scientists and California firefighters point to the role of warming temperatures in fueling blazes, the Trump administration has been downplaying or falsely denying the links.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/7596/california-temperatures-on-the-rise\">Rising temperatures in California\u003c/a> caused in part by the heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution are sucking moisture from Western landscapes and hastening the annual melting of snowpacks, drying fuel for wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fire responds exponentially to warming,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/williams\">Park Williams,\u003c/a> a bioclimatologist at Columbia University. “For every degree of warming there is in the Western U.S., the impact is a lot more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/06/1718850115.short\">new residents continue to move into areas\u003c/a> that are prone to burn, increasing risks to themselves, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/humans-blamed-for-most-wildfires-us-21197\">accidentally or deliberately starting fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/u-s-forest-service-fire-suppression/\">A century of aggressive firefighting\u003c/a> to protect residents and property has also contributed to the devastation, leaving fuel on forest floors that would once have burned naturally during low-level fires kindled by lightning strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since a series of forest fires burned three million acres of Montana, Idaho and Washington in 1910, strategies for managing fires have generally favored extinguishing them as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t suppress all fires, they are part of our ecosystem and are necessary,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorado.edu/geography/colleen-reid-0\">Colleen Reid\u003c/a>, a geographer at the University of Colorado-Boulder who is investigating how controlled burns and wildfires affect public health. “The challenge is having that perspective but also caring about the health of populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the federal government has been working with local and state agencies to boost prescribed burns, where officials set and manage low-level fires that consume shrubs, small trees and leaf litter. The efforts have been be limited by funding shortfalls. And nearby residents and local agencies sometimes oppose prescribed burns, worried about smoke pollution and risks that the fires will get out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration eliminates climate protections and falsely denies climate change’s role in wildfires, it has proposed reduced spending to agencies researching and managing wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re spending $2.5 billion fighting forest fires, there’s not a lot left in the budget to do forest management,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1929627/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-says-california-fires-have-nothing-to-do-with-climate-change-hes-wrong\">said in a radio interview Sunday\u003c/a> with KCRA 3 in Sacramento. (During the interview, he incorrectly said this year’s wildfires have “nothing to do with climate change.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As federal government leaders reject basic science and \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/as-wildfires-rage-trump-administration-plans-to-slash-fire-science-funding/\">move to shrink programs\u003c/a> that could reduce risks, the air district that regulates air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is becoming more flexible in allowing for prescribed burns — even when the air is already dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1929790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/RANCH_SCALE_MILES_180811-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A satellite image of smoke from the Ranch Fire, August 11, 2018. Smoke from fires across Northern California tends to get drawn into the Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Planet Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to go further than any region has before,” said Klassen, of the San Joaquin Valley’s air district. It has implemented hundreds of rules in an effort to reduce pollution, including allowing more prescribed burns in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, AJ Rassamni, who manages a car wash in Fresno, wants to see more comprehensive forest management. With fewer people leaving their homes amid recent smoke waves, fewer customers have been coming through his car wash. He provides masks to protect staff, but they can make breathing difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worried about effects from climate change, Rassamni bought an electric car and had solar panels installed at home to reduce his climate pollution. Without aggressive steps from governments to systematically reduce pollution and boost prescribed burns, though, his efforts alone will do little to protect Central Valley residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it good for us?” he said. “No. But you have a life, and you’re going to live with the weather you have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story was produced and published in partnership with \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\">\u003ci>Climate Central\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a non-advocacy group that researches and reports on the changing climate.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1929784/breathing-fire-californias-central-valley-bears-the-brunt-of-harmful-wildfire-smoke",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1929784"
],
"programs": [
"science_5376"
],
"categories": [
"science_39",
"science_40",
"science_5141",
"science_3423",
"science_3730"
],
"tags": [
"science_505",
"science_3203",
"science_1596",
"science_1487",
"science_3693"
],
"featImg": "science_1929799",
"label": "source_science_1929784"
},
"science_1927142": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1927142",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1927142",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1533937127000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1533937127,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Monsanto Found Guilty in Landmark Cancer Case Trial",
"headTitle": "Monsanto Found Guilty in Landmark Cancer Case Trial | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought by Dewayne Johnson was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal courts saying Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto was acquired by the German company Bayer AG in a deal that was completed in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors in state Superior Court agreed the product contributed to Johnson’s cancer and the company should have provided a label warning of the potential health hazard. Johnson’s attorneys sought and won $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million of the $373 million they wanted in punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This jury found Monsanto acted with malice and oppression because they knew what they were doing was wrong and doing it with reckless disregard for human life,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of Johnson’s legal team. “This should send a strong message to the boardroom of Monsanto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial was expedited due to Johnson’s terminal illness; doctors say he only has months to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Allegations of Cover-up\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 46, is a father of three who contended that Monsanto covered up research linking the weedkiller Roundup to cancer.[contextly_sidebar id=”Y6KruJH68e8Vwwwz9FzuP7UTlsOlQ6aC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He routinely applied Roundup during his employment with the Benicia school district. Lawyers for Johnson showed photos of him with severe skin lesions, which they say were developed from regular exposure to Roundup. From \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-cancer-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He sprayed large quantities from a 50-gallon tank attached to a truck, his attorney, Brent Wisner, told jurors during his opening statement. When the wind was gusty, it would cover his face, Wisner said. When a hose broke once, it soaked his entire body.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Johnson was ultimately diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also accused Monsanto of intimidating scientists. It said the company covered up research showing that glyphosate, the main chemical in Roundup, can cause cancer. From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Does-Roundup-cause-cancer-Patient-s-case-13061244.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He claims in his lawsuit that Monsanto not only failed to warn people about the “dangerous characteristics” of its product, but actually “championed falsified data and attacked legitimate studies” in a “prolonged campaign of misinformation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When an expert hired by the company raised concerns about the product’s health risks, Wisner said the company sought to find a different expert rather than warn consumers. From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wisner further cited Monsanto emails from decades prior, in which the company was working with a genotoxicity expert who reviewed a series of 1990s studies. He raised concerns about Roundup impacts on humans and suggested further areas of research. After the expert’s analyses, Monsanto representatives began considering finding a different expert and also started working on a press statement saying the product carried no risk, according to Johnson’s lawyer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s defense pointed to a decision in 2015 by the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/2016/glyphosate_IARC2016.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to classify\u003c/a> glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”[contextly_sidebar id=”hKjmOH4ZcBGSLIh7uozgzvSo7MNiTgBv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of countries have \u003ca href=\"http://responsibletechnology.org/irtnew/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2-Glyphosate-Bans-and-Restrictions-Across-the-Globe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since banned or restricted\u003c/a> the sale and use of glyphosate. In 2017, California added glyphosate to its list of carcinogens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pitting Science Against Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Monsanto accused Johnson’s lawyers of “cherrypicking” studies and countered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings by the Environmental Protection Agency deeming the product safe to use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also told the jury that non-Hodgkin lymphoma takes years to develop and therefore, Johnson must have contracted the illness before he began working for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scientific evidence is overwhelming that glyphosate-based products do not cause cancer and did not cause Mr. Johnson’s cancer,” Monsanto attorney George Lombardi said in court.[contextly_sidebar id=”SmJymgaTmxwcBrRL80LiXyGEYwMY8ggy”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1920399/us-judge-blocks-weed-killer-warning-label-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> recently blocked California\u003c/a> from requiring Monsanto to include a cancer warning label on Roundup weed killer, pointing to findings by government regulators that glyphosate is safe to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the outcome of the California trial won’t affect the other lawsuits, it could serve as a barometer of how the others might go.[contextly_sidebar id=”kwropuYeRNP2z1nG738B2G0XLbBFNLY0″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zen Honeycutt, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moms Across America\u003c/a>, a group trying to get Roundup taken off store shelves, called it the “trial of the century.” From the Chronicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health, economy, and future of America depends on eliminating exposure to toxic chemical products such as Roundup,” she told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the Guardian, Timothy Litzenburg, one of Johnson’s lawyers, called his client “incredibly brave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happens … his sons will get to know that their dad was brave enough to go up against Monsanto completely alone, and first, before he died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 843,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 30
},
"modified": 1704927576,
"excerpt": "The jury ordered Monsanto to pay Dewayne Lee Johnson, who is dying from terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nearly $290 million in damages.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The jury ordered Monsanto to pay Dewayne Lee Johnson, who is dying from terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nearly $290 million in damages.",
"title": "Monsanto Found Guilty in Landmark Cancer Case Trial | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Monsanto Found Guilty in Landmark Cancer Case Trial",
"datePublished": "2018-08-10T14:38:47-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:59:36-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "san-francisco-jury-to-rule-whether-monsanto-caused-bay-area-mans-cancer",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Health",
"path": "/science/1927142/san-francisco-jury-to-rule-whether-monsanto-caused-bay-area-mans-cancer",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit brought by Dewayne Johnson was the first to go to trial among hundreds filed in state and federal courts saying Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto was acquired by the German company Bayer AG in a deal that was completed in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors in state Superior Court agreed the product contributed to Johnson’s cancer and the company should have provided a label warning of the potential health hazard. Johnson’s attorneys sought and won $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million of the $373 million they wanted in punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This jury found Monsanto acted with malice and oppression because they knew what they were doing was wrong and doing it with reckless disregard for human life,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a member of Johnson’s legal team. “This should send a strong message to the boardroom of Monsanto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial was expedited due to Johnson’s terminal illness; doctors say he only has months to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Allegations of Cover-up\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, 46, is a father of three who contended that Monsanto covered up research linking the weedkiller Roundup to cancer.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He routinely applied Roundup during his employment with the Benicia school district. Lawyers for Johnson showed photos of him with severe skin lesions, which they say were developed from regular exposure to Roundup. From \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-cancer-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He sprayed large quantities from a 50-gallon tank attached to a truck, his attorney, Brent Wisner, told jurors during his opening statement. When the wind was gusty, it would cover his face, Wisner said. When a hose broke once, it soaked his entire body.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Johnson was ultimately diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also accused Monsanto of intimidating scientists. It said the company covered up research showing that glyphosate, the main chemical in Roundup, can cause cancer. From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Does-Roundup-cause-cancer-Patient-s-case-13061244.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He claims in his lawsuit that Monsanto not only failed to warn people about the “dangerous characteristics” of its product, but actually “championed falsified data and attacked legitimate studies” in a “prolonged campaign of misinformation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When an expert hired by the company raised concerns about the product’s health risks, Wisner said the company sought to find a different expert rather than warn consumers. From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/09/monsanto-trial-roundup-weedkiller-cancer-dewayne-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wisner further cited Monsanto emails from decades prior, in which the company was working with a genotoxicity expert who reviewed a series of 1990s studies. He raised concerns about Roundup impacts on humans and suggested further areas of research. After the expert’s analyses, Monsanto representatives began considering finding a different expert and also started working on a press statement saying the product carried no risk, according to Johnson’s lawyer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Johnson’s defense pointed to a decision in 2015 by the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/2016/glyphosate_IARC2016.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to classify\u003c/a> glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of countries have \u003ca href=\"http://responsibletechnology.org/irtnew/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2-Glyphosate-Bans-and-Restrictions-Across-the-Globe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since banned or restricted\u003c/a> the sale and use of glyphosate. In 2017, California added glyphosate to its list of carcinogens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pitting Science Against Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Monsanto accused Johnson’s lawyers of “cherrypicking” studies and countered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/glyphosate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings by the Environmental Protection Agency deeming the product safe to use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also told the jury that non-Hodgkin lymphoma takes years to develop and therefore, Johnson must have contracted the illness before he began working for the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scientific evidence is overwhelming that glyphosate-based products do not cause cancer and did not cause Mr. Johnson’s cancer,” Monsanto attorney George Lombardi said in court.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1920399/us-judge-blocks-weed-killer-warning-label-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> recently blocked California\u003c/a> from requiring Monsanto to include a cancer warning label on Roundup weed killer, pointing to findings by government regulators that glyphosate is safe to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the outcome of the California trial won’t affect the other lawsuits, it could serve as a barometer of how the others might go.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zen Honeycutt, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moms Across America\u003c/a>, a group trying to get Roundup taken off store shelves, called it the “trial of the century.” From the Chronicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health, economy, and future of America depends on eliminating exposure to toxic chemical products such as Roundup,” she told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the Guardian, Timothy Litzenburg, one of Johnson’s lawyers, called his client “incredibly brave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happens … his sons will get to know that their dad was brave enough to go up against Monsanto completely alone, and first, before he died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1927142/san-francisco-jury-to-rule-whether-monsanto-caused-bay-area-mans-cancer",
"authors": [
"11428"
],
"categories": [
"science_35",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_374",
"science_664",
"science_3370",
"science_5198"
],
"featImg": "science_1927153",
"label": "source_science_1927142"
},
"science_1929271": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1929271",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1929271",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1533852967000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1533852967,
"format": "standard",
"title": "California Court Bans Pesticide, Says Trump Admin Endangered Public Health",
"headTitle": "California Court Bans Pesticide, Says Trump Admin Endangered Public Health | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains.[contextly_sidebar id=”OgP9VC0xRLg7ig2ouofvdDfKaxkpNlpo”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/435785/farmworkers-want-common-pesticide-banned-in-calif-after-trump-epa-refuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> remove chlorpyrifos\u003c/a> from sale in the United States within 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups sued last year after then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era effort to ban chlorpyrifos, which is widely sprayed on citrus fruit, apples and other crops. The attorneys general for several states joined the case against EPA, including California, New York and Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a split decision, the court said Thursday that Pruitt, a Republican forced to resign earlier this summer amid ethics scandals, violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The panel held that there was no justification for the EPA’s decision in its 2017 order to maintain a tolerance for chlorpyrifos in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food causes neurodevelopmental damage to children,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote in the court’s opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Abboud, spokesman for acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, said the agency was reviewing the decision, but it had been unable to “fully evaluate the pesticide using the best available, transparent science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA could potentially appeal to the Supreme Court since one member of the three-judge panel dissented from the majority ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California farmworker protests use of chlorpyrifos at the state capitol in July 2017. \u003ccite>(Joan Cusick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups and public health advocates celebrated the court’s action as a major success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some things are too sacred to play politics with, and our kids top the list,” said Erik Olson, senior director of health and food at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The court has made it clear that children’s health must come before powerful polluters. This is a victory for parents everywhere who want to feed their kids fruits and veggies without fear it’s harming their brains or poisoning communities.”[contextly_sidebar id=”ABlaTASSInnefW5OPkxWOAJvU7ZFrHRh”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of California and New York also claimed victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one more example of how then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt skirted the law and endangered the health of our children — in this case, all because he refused to curb pesticide levels found in food,” Attorney General Xavier Becerra of California said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chlorpyrifos was created by Dow Chemical Co. in the 1960s. It remains among the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States, with the chemical giant selling about 5 million pounds domestically each year through its subsidiary Dow AgroSciences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow did not respond to an email seeking comment. In past statements, the company has contended the chemical helps American farmers feed the world “with full respect for human health and the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chlorpyrifos belongs to a family of organophosphate pesticides that are chemically similar to a chemical warfare agent developed by Nazi Germany before World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of its wide use as a pesticide over the past four decades, traces of chlorpyrifos are commonly found in sources of drinking water. A 2012 study at the University of California at Berkeley found that 87 percent of umbilical-cord blood samples tested from newborn babies contained detectable levels of the pesticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from federal regulators, Dow voluntarily withdrew chlorpyrifos for use as a home insecticide in 2000. EPA also placed “no-spray” buffer zones around sensitive sites, such as schools, in 2012.[contextly_sidebar id=”85BU79lm7sNpuGksTRFjptK2yeQa4BJz”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2015, the Obama administration proposed banning the pesticide’s use on food. A risk assessment memo issued by nine EPA scientists concluded: “There is a breadth of information available on the potential adverse neurodevelopmental effects in infants and children as a result of prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law requires EPA to ensure that pesticides used on food in the United States are safe for human consumption — especially children, who are typically far more sensitive to the negative effects of poisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after his appointment by President Donald Trump in 2017, Pruitt announced he was revering the Obama administration effort to ban chlorpyrifos, adopting Dow’s position that the science showing chlorpyrifos is harmful was inconclusive and flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reported in June 2017 that Pruitt announced his agency’s reversal on chlorpyrifos just 20 days after his official schedule showed a meeting with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris. At the time, Liveris headed a White House manufacturing working group, and his company had written a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following AP’s report, then-EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said that March 9, 2017, meeting on Pruitt’s schedule never happened. Bowman said the two men had instead shared only a “brief introduction in passing” while attending the same industry conference at a Houston hotel and that they never discussed chlorpyrifos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, internal EPA emails released earlier this year following a public records lawsuit filed by The Sierra Club suggest the two men shared more than a quick handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little more than a week after the conference and before Pruitt announced his decision, the EPA chief’s scheduler reached out to Liveris’ executive assistant to schedule a follow-up meeting.[contextly_sidebar id=”3rOAMFjyRxdjG2FHKoPtc2dZWxo3ls0C”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hope this email finds you well!” wrote Sydney Hupp, Pruitt’s assistant, on March 20, 2017. “I am reaching out today about setting up a meeting to continue the discussion between Dow Chemical and Administrator Scott Pruitt. My apologies for the delay in getting this email into you — it has been a crazy time over here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent emails show Hupp and Liveris’ office discussing several potential dates that the Dow CEO might come to Pruitt’s office at EPA headquarters, but it is not clear from the documents whether the two men ever linked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liveris announced his retirement from Dow in March of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruitt resigned July 6 amid more than a dozen ethics investigations focused on such issues as outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease for a Capitol Hill condo linked to an energy lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, who left EPA in May to work for GOP Sen. Joni Ernest of Iowa, declined to comment on her earlier characterization of the March 2017 interaction between Pruitt and Liveris or what “discussion” the internal email was referring to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t work for EPA anymore,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1148,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 31
},
"modified": 1704927582,
"excerpt": "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ordered the EPA to remove chlorpyrifos from sale within 60 days.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ordered the EPA to remove chlorpyrifos from sale within 60 days.",
"title": "California Court Bans Pesticide, Says Trump Admin Endangered Public Health | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "California Court Bans Pesticide, Says Trump Admin Endangered Public Health",
"datePublished": "2018-08-09T15:16:07-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T14:59:42-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-court-bans-pesticide-says-trump-administration-endangered-public-health",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Michael Biesecker\u003cbr />The Associated Press",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Environment",
"path": "/science/1929271/california-court-bans-pesticide-says-trump-administration-endangered-public-health",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/435785/farmworkers-want-common-pesticide-banned-in-calif-after-trump-epa-refuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> remove chlorpyrifos\u003c/a> from sale in the United States within 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups sued last year after then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era effort to ban chlorpyrifos, which is widely sprayed on citrus fruit, apples and other crops. The attorneys general for several states joined the case against EPA, including California, New York and Massachusetts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a split decision, the court said Thursday that Pruitt, a Republican forced to resign earlier this summer amid ethics scandals, violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The panel held that there was no justification for the EPA’s decision in its 2017 order to maintain a tolerance for chlorpyrifos in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food causes neurodevelopmental damage to children,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote in the court’s opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Abboud, spokesman for acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, said the agency was reviewing the decision, but it had been unable to “fully evaluate the pesticide using the best available, transparent science.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA could potentially appeal to the Supreme Court since one member of the three-judge panel dissented from the majority ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/08/JCP_2026-X2-960x640-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California farmworker protests use of chlorpyrifos at the state capitol in July 2017. \u003ccite>(Joan Cusick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups and public health advocates celebrated the court’s action as a major success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some things are too sacred to play politics with, and our kids top the list,” said Erik Olson, senior director of health and food at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The court has made it clear that children’s health must come before powerful polluters. This is a victory for parents everywhere who want to feed their kids fruits and veggies without fear it’s harming their brains or poisoning communities.”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys general of California and New York also claimed victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one more example of how then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt skirted the law and endangered the health of our children — in this case, all because he refused to curb pesticide levels found in food,” Attorney General Xavier Becerra of California said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chlorpyrifos was created by Dow Chemical Co. in the 1960s. It remains among the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States, with the chemical giant selling about 5 million pounds domestically each year through its subsidiary Dow AgroSciences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow did not respond to an email seeking comment. In past statements, the company has contended the chemical helps American farmers feed the world “with full respect for human health and the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chlorpyrifos belongs to a family of organophosphate pesticides that are chemically similar to a chemical warfare agent developed by Nazi Germany before World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of its wide use as a pesticide over the past four decades, traces of chlorpyrifos are commonly found in sources of drinking water. A 2012 study at the University of California at Berkeley found that 87 percent of umbilical-cord blood samples tested from newborn babies contained detectable levels of the pesticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure from federal regulators, Dow voluntarily withdrew chlorpyrifos for use as a home insecticide in 2000. EPA also placed “no-spray” buffer zones around sensitive sites, such as schools, in 2012.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2015, the Obama administration proposed banning the pesticide’s use on food. A risk assessment memo issued by nine EPA scientists concluded: “There is a breadth of information available on the potential adverse neurodevelopmental effects in infants and children as a result of prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law requires EPA to ensure that pesticides used on food in the United States are safe for human consumption — especially children, who are typically far more sensitive to the negative effects of poisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after his appointment by President Donald Trump in 2017, Pruitt announced he was revering the Obama administration effort to ban chlorpyrifos, adopting Dow’s position that the science showing chlorpyrifos is harmful was inconclusive and flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reported in June 2017 that Pruitt announced his agency’s reversal on chlorpyrifos just 20 days after his official schedule showed a meeting with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris. At the time, Liveris headed a White House manufacturing working group, and his company had written a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following AP’s report, then-EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said that March 9, 2017, meeting on Pruitt’s schedule never happened. Bowman said the two men had instead shared only a “brief introduction in passing” while attending the same industry conference at a Houston hotel and that they never discussed chlorpyrifos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, internal EPA emails released earlier this year following a public records lawsuit filed by The Sierra Club suggest the two men shared more than a quick handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little more than a week after the conference and before Pruitt announced his decision, the EPA chief’s scheduler reached out to Liveris’ executive assistant to schedule a follow-up meeting.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hope this email finds you well!” wrote Sydney Hupp, Pruitt’s assistant, on March 20, 2017. “I am reaching out today about setting up a meeting to continue the discussion between Dow Chemical and Administrator Scott Pruitt. My apologies for the delay in getting this email into you — it has been a crazy time over here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent emails show Hupp and Liveris’ office discussing several potential dates that the Dow CEO might come to Pruitt’s office at EPA headquarters, but it is not clear from the documents whether the two men ever linked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liveris announced his retirement from Dow in March of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruitt resigned July 6 amid more than a dozen ethics investigations focused on such issues as outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease for a Capitol Hill condo linked to an energy lobbyist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman, who left EPA in May to work for GOP Sen. Joni Ernest of Iowa, declined to comment on her earlier characterization of the March 2017 interaction between Pruitt and Liveris or what “discussion” the internal email was referring to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t work for EPA anymore,” Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1929271/california-court-bans-pesticide-says-trump-administration-endangered-public-health",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1929271"
],
"categories": [
"science_35",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_192",
"science_3370",
"science_381",
"science_3322"
],
"featImg": "science_1929273",
"label": "source_science_1929271"
},
"science_1928448": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1928448",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1928448",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1533165925000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1533165925,
"format": "standard",
"title": "East Bay Oil Field to Shut Down Following Local Pushback",
"headTitle": "East Bay Oil Field to Shut Down Following Local Pushback | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Alameda County’s lone oil field will close up shop after nearly five decades of production, following a county decision to deny its permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The field, located just outside of Livermore, produces about 30 barrels of oil a day and is one of two remaining oil producers in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebresources.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E&B Natural Resources\u003c/a>, which purchased the oil field in 2007, had reapplied for two 10-year conditional use permits in January that were approved in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">’Local governments can make a huge difference in the fight against climate change.’ \u003ccite>Hollin Kretzmann, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The decision was challenged by two environmental advocacy groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Livermore Eco Watchdog, because of perceived risks to Livermore’s groundwater. Accompanying the appeal was a signed letter endorsed by more than 20 public health and environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If California wants to be a leader in fighting climate change, it makes no sense for us to continue approving oil projects like this around the state,” says Hollin Kretzmann, senior attorney at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups’ appeal was brought before the Board of Supervisors last week in a hearing that ran for more than three hours. The board ultimately ruled against approving the permits in a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Nate Miley abstaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the final vote, 4-0, reflects widespread opposition from people from all parts of the county,” says Kretzmann. “The board prioritized the community rather than the profits of the oil company and they should be applauded for standing up to the oil industry and putting their constituents first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E&B, based in Bakersfield, uses a method known as waterflooding to extract oil from the ground. The process pumps water down one well, pushing the oil up through a different well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local governments can make a huge difference in the fight against climate change by reducing fossil fuel production and moving us toward renewable energy,” says Kretzmann. “Alameda County has shown bold decision-making and it can be a model for other cities and counties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for E&B called the decision “disappointing,” pointing to a recommendation to approve the permits from the county planning department and a green light from the local zoning board. He also implied that the fight isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“E&B Natural Resources will continue to explore a mutually agreeable resolution with the County on our conditional use permits,” spokesman Ted Cordova wrote in a statement emailed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E&B has been cited for safety violations over the years, including a 2015 fine for failing to report a spill and disposing of the contaminated soil without testing for toxic chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also that year, E&B agreed to an $85,000 settlement with the county for mixing sludge with non-hazardous soils. At the time, the company argued that the violation occurred before E&B took over operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two state agencies, the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources and the Water Resources Board, have said that the groundwater \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/livermore/protest-planned-public-meeting-new-exemption-oil-producer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beneath the oil field\u003c/a> is not suitable for drinking because of its high mineral and salt content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kretzmann takes issue with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their own documents show that the water could be treated and used for other types of use,” he says. “The water should be preserved for future use — especially given the fact that California is likely to experience more severe droughts in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 608,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 18
},
"modified": 1704927621,
"excerpt": "The oil field, in operation since the 1960s, is one of two remaining in Northern California.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The oil field, in operation since the 1960s, is one of two remaining in Northern California.",
"title": "East Bay Oil Field to Shut Down Following Local Pushback | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "East Bay Oil Field to Shut Down Following Local Pushback",
"datePublished": "2018-08-01T16:25:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T15:00:21-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "east-bay-oil-field-to-shut-down-following-local-pushback",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Energy",
"path": "/science/1928448/east-bay-oil-field-to-shut-down-following-local-pushback",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alameda County’s lone oil field will close up shop after nearly five decades of production, following a county decision to deny its permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The field, located just outside of Livermore, produces about 30 barrels of oil a day and is one of two remaining oil producers in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebresources.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E&B Natural Resources\u003c/a>, which purchased the oil field in 2007, had reapplied for two 10-year conditional use permits in January that were approved in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">’Local governments can make a huge difference in the fight against climate change.’ \u003ccite>Hollin Kretzmann, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The decision was challenged by two environmental advocacy groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Livermore Eco Watchdog, because of perceived risks to Livermore’s groundwater. Accompanying the appeal was a signed letter endorsed by more than 20 public health and environmental groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If California wants to be a leader in fighting climate change, it makes no sense for us to continue approving oil projects like this around the state,” says Hollin Kretzmann, senior attorney at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups’ appeal was brought before the Board of Supervisors last week in a hearing that ran for more than three hours. The board ultimately ruled against approving the permits in a 4-0 vote, with Supervisor Nate Miley abstaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the final vote, 4-0, reflects widespread opposition from people from all parts of the county,” says Kretzmann. “The board prioritized the community rather than the profits of the oil company and they should be applauded for standing up to the oil industry and putting their constituents first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E&B, based in Bakersfield, uses a method known as waterflooding to extract oil from the ground. The process pumps water down one well, pushing the oil up through a different well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local governments can make a huge difference in the fight against climate change by reducing fossil fuel production and moving us toward renewable energy,” says Kretzmann. “Alameda County has shown bold decision-making and it can be a model for other cities and counties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for E&B called the decision “disappointing,” pointing to a recommendation to approve the permits from the county planning department and a green light from the local zoning board. He also implied that the fight isn’t over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“E&B Natural Resources will continue to explore a mutually agreeable resolution with the County on our conditional use permits,” spokesman Ted Cordova wrote in a statement emailed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E&B has been cited for safety violations over the years, including a 2015 fine for failing to report a spill and disposing of the contaminated soil without testing for toxic chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also that year, E&B agreed to an $85,000 settlement with the county for mixing sludge with non-hazardous soils. At the time, the company argued that the violation occurred before E&B took over operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two state agencies, the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources and the Water Resources Board, have said that the groundwater \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/livermore/protest-planned-public-meeting-new-exemption-oil-producer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beneath the oil field\u003c/a> is not suitable for drinking because of its high mineral and salt content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kretzmann takes issue with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their own documents show that the water could be treated and used for other types of use,” he says. “The water should be preserved for future use — especially given the fact that California is likely to experience more severe droughts in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1928448/east-bay-oil-field-to-shut-down-following-local-pushback",
"authors": [
"11428"
],
"categories": [
"science_31",
"science_33",
"science_35",
"science_39",
"science_40",
"science_98"
],
"tags": [
"science_194",
"science_192",
"science_490",
"science_813",
"science_952"
],
"featImg": "science_1928457",
"label": "source_science_1928448"
},
"science_1928442": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_1928442",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1928442",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1533137312000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1533137312,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Trump Admin: Driving Would be Riskier with Tougher Fuel Standards",
"headTitle": "Trump Admin: Driving Would be Riskier with Tougher Fuel Standards | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration’s proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excerpts also show the administration plans to challenge California’s long-standing authority to enact its own, tougher pollution and fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revisions to the mileage requirements for 2021 through 2026 are still being worked on, the administration says, and changes could be made before the proposal is released as soon as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration gave notice earlier this year that it would roll back tough new fuel standards put into place in the waning days of the Obama administration. Anticipating the new regulation, California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, “improvements over time have better longer-term effects simply by not alienating consumers, as compared to great leaps forward” in fuel efficiency and other technology, the administration argues. It contends that freezing the mileage requirements at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don’t have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Zuby, chief research officer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said he’s doubtful about the administration’s estimate of lives saved because other factors could affect traffic deaths, such as automakers agreeing to make automatic emergency braking standard on all models before 2022. “They’re making assumptions about stuff that may or may not be the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the logic that heavier vehicles are safer doesn’t hold up because lighter, newer vehicles perform as well or better than older, heavier versions in crash tests, and because the weight difference between the Obama and Trump requirements would be minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allow me to be skeptical,” said Giorgio Rizzoni, an engineering professor and director of the Center for Automotive Research at Ohio State University. “To say that safety is a direct result of somehow freezing the fuel economy mandate for a few years, I think that’s a stretch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that a heavier, bigger vehicle would incur less damage in a crash with a smaller, lighter one and that fatality rates also are higher for smaller vehicles. But they also say that lighter vehicles with metals such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and lighter, high-strength steel alloys perform as well or better than their predecessors in crash tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Taub, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, said he would choose a 2017 Malibu over a heavier one from 20 years earlier. It’s engineered better, has more features to avoid crashes and additional air bags, among other things. “You want to be in the newer vehicle,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April draft from the Trump administration said freezing the requirements at 2020 levels would save people $1,900 per new vehicle. But the later draft raises that to $2,100 and even as high as $2,700 by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups questioned the justification for freezing the standards. Luke Tonachel, director of the clean-vehicle program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the risk from people driving more due to higher mileage is “tiny and maybe even negligible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Trump administration proposal, the fleet of new vehicles would have to average roughly 30 mpg in real-world driving, and that wouldn’t change through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has had the authority under the half-century-old Clean Air Act to set its own mileage under a special rule allowing the state to curb its chronic smog problem. More than a dozen states follow California’s standards, amounting to about 40 percent of the country’s new-vehicle market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he thinks a freeze in U.S. mileage standards is warranted, EPA acting administrator Andrew Wheeler told a small group of reporters at EPA headquarters last week, “I think we need to go where the technology takes us” on fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler did not elaborate. Agency spokespeople did not respond when asked specifically if the EPA acting chief was making the case that modern cars could be both fuel efficient and safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler also spoke out for what he called “a 50-state solution” that would keep the U.S car and truck market from splitting between two different mileage standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation said in a statement that the final fuel economy standards would be based on sound science. The department cautioned that a draft doesn’t capture the whole picture of the proposed regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft said a 2012 analysis of fuel economy standards under the Obama administration deliberately limited the amount of mass reduction necessary under the standards. This was done “in order to avoid the appearance of adverse safety effects,” the draft stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krisher reported from Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 918,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 26
},
"modified": 1704927626,
"excerpt": "The Trump Administration contends that freezing the mileage requirements at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives per year.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The Trump Administration contends that freezing the mileage requirements at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives per year.",
"title": "Trump Admin: Driving Would be Riskier with Tougher Fuel Standards | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Trump Admin: Driving Would be Riskier with Tougher Fuel Standards",
"datePublished": "2018-08-01T08:28:32-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T15:00:26-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "u-s-says-driving-would-be-riskier-if-fuel-standards-tougher",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Tom Krisher and Ellen Knickmeyer\u003cbr />The Associated Press",
"sticky": false,
"source": "Environment",
"path": "/science/1928442/u-s-says-driving-would-be-riskier-if-fuel-standards-tougher",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration’s proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The excerpts also show the administration plans to challenge California’s long-standing authority to enact its own, tougher pollution and fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revisions to the mileage requirements for 2021 through 2026 are still being worked on, the administration says, and changes could be made before the proposal is released as soon as this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration gave notice earlier this year that it would roll back tough new fuel standards put into place in the waning days of the Obama administration. Anticipating the new regulation, California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, “improvements over time have better longer-term effects simply by not alienating consumers, as compared to great leaps forward” in fuel efficiency and other technology, the administration argues. It contends that freezing the mileage requirements at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don’t have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Zuby, chief research officer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said he’s doubtful about the administration’s estimate of lives saved because other factors could affect traffic deaths, such as automakers agreeing to make automatic emergency braking standard on all models before 2022. “They’re making assumptions about stuff that may or may not be the same,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the logic that heavier vehicles are safer doesn’t hold up because lighter, newer vehicles perform as well or better than older, heavier versions in crash tests, and because the weight difference between the Obama and Trump requirements would be minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allow me to be skeptical,” said Giorgio Rizzoni, an engineering professor and director of the Center for Automotive Research at Ohio State University. “To say that safety is a direct result of somehow freezing the fuel economy mandate for a few years, I think that’s a stretch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that a heavier, bigger vehicle would incur less damage in a crash with a smaller, lighter one and that fatality rates also are higher for smaller vehicles. But they also say that lighter vehicles with metals such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and lighter, high-strength steel alloys perform as well or better than their predecessors in crash tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Taub, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, said he would choose a 2017 Malibu over a heavier one from 20 years earlier. It’s engineered better, has more features to avoid crashes and additional air bags, among other things. “You want to be in the newer vehicle,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An April draft from the Trump administration said freezing the requirements at 2020 levels would save people $1,900 per new vehicle. But the later draft raises that to $2,100 and even as high as $2,700 by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups questioned the justification for freezing the standards. Luke Tonachel, director of the clean-vehicle program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the risk from people driving more due to higher mileage is “tiny and maybe even negligible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Trump administration proposal, the fleet of new vehicles would have to average roughly 30 mpg in real-world driving, and that wouldn’t change through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has had the authority under the half-century-old Clean Air Act to set its own mileage under a special rule allowing the state to curb its chronic smog problem. More than a dozen states follow California’s standards, amounting to about 40 percent of the country’s new-vehicle market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he thinks a freeze in U.S. mileage standards is warranted, EPA acting administrator Andrew Wheeler told a small group of reporters at EPA headquarters last week, “I think we need to go where the technology takes us” on fuel standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler did not elaborate. Agency spokespeople did not respond when asked specifically if the EPA acting chief was making the case that modern cars could be both fuel efficient and safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler also spoke out for what he called “a 50-state solution” that would keep the U.S car and truck market from splitting between two different mileage standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation said in a statement that the final fuel economy standards would be based on sound science. The department cautioned that a draft doesn’t capture the whole picture of the proposed regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft said a 2012 analysis of fuel economy standards under the Obama administration deliberately limited the amount of mass reduction necessary under the standards. This was done “in order to avoid the appearance of adverse safety effects,” the draft stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krisher reported from Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/1928442/u-s-says-driving-would-be-riskier-if-fuel-standards-tougher",
"authors": [
"byline_science_1928442"
],
"categories": [
"science_31",
"science_35",
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_505",
"science_194",
"science_192",
"science_813"
],
"featImg": "science_1915618",
"label": "source_science_1928442"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/science?category=health": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 528,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 1297,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"science_1932692",
"science_1932598",
"science_1932331",
"science_1932144",
"science_1928264",
"science_1931000",
"science_1930718",
"science_1929784",
"science_1927142",
"science_1929271",
"science_1928448",
"science_1928442"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science_category_health": {
"isLoading": true
},
"science_39": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_39",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "39",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 41,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/health"
},
"source_science_1932692": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1932692",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Climate",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1932331": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1932331",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Health",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1932144": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1932144",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Health",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1931000": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1931000",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Wildfires",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1930718": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1930718",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Events",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1929784": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1929784",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Wildfires",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1927142": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1927142",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Health",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1929271": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1929271",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Environment",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1928448": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1928448",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Energy",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_science_1928442": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_science_1928442",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Environment",
"isLoading": false
},
"science_5376": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_5376",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "5376",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Science Podcast",
"slug": "science-podcast",
"taxonomy": "program",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Science Podcast | KQED Science",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 5376,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/program/science-podcast"
},
"science_46": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_46",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "46",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Audio",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Audio Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 48,
"slug": "audio",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/audio"
},
"science_31": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_31",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "31",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Climate",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Climate Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33,
"slug": "climate",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/climate"
},
"science_40": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_40",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "40",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 42,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/news"
},
"science_5141": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_5141",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "5141",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Podcast",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Podcast Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5141,
"slug": "podcast",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/podcast"
},
"science_43": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_43",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "43",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Radio",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Radio Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 45,
"slug": "radio",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/radio"
},
"science_3423": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3423",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3423",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science Podcast",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"socialTitle": "Bay Area Science: Stories & Insights with KQED's Science Podcasts",
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Our captivating podcasts take you on a journey through the Bay Area's vibrant scientific landscape. Discover groundbreaking research & hear expert insights.",
"title": "Bay Area Science: Stories & Insights with KQED's Science Podcasts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3423,
"slug": "science-podcast",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/science-podcast"
},
"science_182": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_182",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "182",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "climate",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "climate Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 186,
"slug": "climate-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/climate-2"
},
"science_194": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_194",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "194",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "climate change",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "climate change Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 198,
"slug": "climate-change",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/climate-change"
},
"science_3370": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3370",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3370",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3370,
"slug": "featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/featured"
},
"science_2184": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_2184",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "2184",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "heat",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "heat Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2196,
"slug": "heat",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/heat"
},
"science_35": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_35",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "35",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 37,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/environment"
},
"science_374": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_374",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "374",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "cancer",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "cancer Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 380,
"slug": "cancer",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/cancer"
},
"science_1191": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_1191",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1191",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "chemicals",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "chemicals Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1200,
"slug": "chemicals",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/chemicals"
},
"science_5198": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_5198",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "5198",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Monsanto",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Monsanto Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5198,
"slug": "monsanto",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/monsanto"
},
"science_36": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_36",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "36",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Food",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Food Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 38,
"slug": "food",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/food"
},
"science_3424": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3424",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3424",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "KQED Future of You",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "KQED Future of You Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3424,
"slug": "kqed-future-of-you",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/kqed-future-of-you"
},
"science_5181": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_5181",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "5181",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "health Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5181,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/health"
},
"science_30": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_30",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "30",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Biology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Biology Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32,
"slug": "biology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/biology"
},
"science_33": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_33",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "33",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Energy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Energy Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 35,
"slug": "energy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/energy"
},
"science_3151": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3151",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3151",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Future of You",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Future of You Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3151,
"slug": "future-of-you",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/future-of-you"
},
"science_29": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_29",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "29",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Chemistry",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Chemistry Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31,
"slug": "chemistry",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/chemistry"
},
"science_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Geology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Geology Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 40,
"slug": "geology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/geology"
},
"science_98": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_98",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "98",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Water",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Water Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 102,
"slug": "water",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/water"
},
"science_3180": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3180",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3180",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California water supply",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California water supply Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3180,
"slug": "california-water-supply",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/california-water-supply"
},
"science_490": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_490",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "490",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "groundwater",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "groundwater Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 496,
"slug": "groundwater",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/groundwater"
},
"science_201": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_201",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "201",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "water",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "water Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 205,
"slug": "water-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/water-2"
},
"science_3730": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3730",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3730",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Wildfires",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Wildfires Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3730,
"slug": "wildfires",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/wildfires"
},
"science_505": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_505",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "505",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "air pollution",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "air pollution Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 511,
"slug": "air-pollution",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/air-pollution"
},
"science_3693": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3693",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3693",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "wildfire smoke",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "wildfire smoke Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3693,
"slug": "wildfire-smoke",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/wildfire-smoke"
},
"science_37": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_37",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "37",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Events",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Events Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 39,
"slug": "events",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/events"
},
"science_192": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_192",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "192",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "environment Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 196,
"slug": "environment-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/environment-2"
},
"science_855": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_855",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "855",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "events",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "events Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 861,
"slug": "events-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/events-2"
},
"science_3761": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3761",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3761",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "global climate action summit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "global climate action summit Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3761,
"slug": "global-climate-action-summit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/global-climate-action-summit"
},
"science_3203": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3203",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3203",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "exclude",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "exclude Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3203,
"slug": "exclude",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/exclude"
},
"science_1596": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_1596",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1596",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "fire season",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "fire season Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1605,
"slug": "fire-season",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/fire-season"
},
"science_1487": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_1487",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "1487",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Joaquin Valley",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Joaquin Valley Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1496,
"slug": "san-joaquin-valley",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/san-joaquin-valley"
},
"science_664": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_664",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "664",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "disease",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "disease Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 670,
"slug": "disease",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/disease"
},
"science_381": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_381",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "381",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "toxics",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "toxics Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 387,
"slug": "toxics",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/toxics"
},
"science_3322": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_3322",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "3322",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Trump",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Trump Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3322,
"slug": "trump",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/trump"
},
"science_813": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_813",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "813",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "news Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 820,
"slug": "news-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/news-2"
},
"science_952": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_952",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "952",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "oil",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "oil Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 959,
"slug": "oil",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/oil"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
}
}
