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Now an independent team of scientists will begin testing for the carcinogen and other pollutants inside the houses that the fire left standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Ten months after the Camp Fire, the Paradise Irrigation District still warns residents not to use its water for brushing teeth, making ice, cooking and drinking.[/pullquote]“The main goal is to really understand what’s going on, basically, and to address any issues that come up,” environmental health investigator Dr. Gina Solomon told residents at a recent Paradise Irrigation District meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten months after the Camp Fire, the irrigation district still \u003ca href=\"https://pidwater.com/wqadvisory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warns residents\u003c/a> not to use its water for brushing teeth, making ice, cooking and drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents have purchased tanks at a cost of thousands of dollars, filling them regularly for hundreds more. Others rely on bottled water that the district provides daily at a parking lot. A small number of people are back at their properties with an all-clear; a larger number are waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Exceeding Safe Limits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where fire didn’t destroy water systems, it has left the risk of contamination, though the extent of that risk is still unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents have not yet returned to their homes. Unless they’ve done their own testing, they likely don’t know whether benzene reached their taps; local water suppliers aren’t responsible for water quality problems in private homes. Even the testing that suppliers have done hasn’t followed a consistent standard, and it still isn’t complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts at the water districts and beyond say discerning a pattern in the contamination is difficult because the burn was so severe and widespread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise Irrigation District has \u003ca href=\"https://pidwater.com/recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sampled\u003c/a> water at more than 2,700 sites, including both the water mains and the service laterals — the pipes that connect the mains to the meters at individual properties. In those pipes that connect to burned lots, tests have found benzene tainting the water 30% of the time, as opposed to just 13% in service lines connected to homes that were left standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring Magalia, a private water provider, the Del Oro Water Company, tested for and \u003ca href=\"http://www.delorowater.com/deloro/water-information/camp-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> benzene in five of its service lines. Del Oro subsequently flushed its pipes, and tests have come back clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state sets a benzene limit in water of one part per billion, roughly equivalent to a single drop in someone’s swimming pool. The state’s standard is based on the assumption that a person might drink 2 liters of water a day for a lifetime. The federal standard is slightly higher, at 5 parts per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited testing in Butte County has found some sites significantly higher than those numbers. State and local officials stress that most positive hits for benzene have averaged around 20 parts per billion. But at one property in Paradise, testing found a benzene level of 923 parts per billion; in Del Oro, there was one found at 530 parts per billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Emerging Threat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon says benzene contamination following a fire is an emerging and complex threat. What’s happening in Paradise has only been reported once before, after the North Bay fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fire burned Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove neighborhood two years ago, tests found benzene in the area’s water main, in service components, and in service lines. At the time, local officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1920335/cancer-causing-chemical-detected-in-fountaingrove-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attributed\u003c/a> the problem to melting plastic pipes, and to system depressurization that might have helped the contamination spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the systems that burned in the Camp Fire have been found to contain benzene-tainted water in both metal and plastic pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change exacerbates wildfires, it also puts stress on infrastructure. “We are learning with everybody here how to recover a water system from a devastating fire,” says the Paradise Irrigation District’s Kevin Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this question about what’s happening between the service line and the tap,” says Solomon, a clinical professor at UC San Francisco and principal investigator at the Public Health Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question her team hopes to help answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where’s It Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, Solomon poked at water meters in locations where the Paradise Irrigation District found benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-1948255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"UCSF and Public Health Institute researcher Dr. Gina Solomon and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Yvonne Heaney examined water meters and water pipes in Paradise.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF and Public Health Institute researcher Dr. Gina Solomon and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Yvonne Heaney examined water meters and water pipes in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire burned away 90 percent of structures in town. The few houses left look like jack-o-lantern teeth sticking up between the gaps, made up of empty streets. At every lot, burned or not, the skeleton of a water system remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is melted,” Solomon confirmed, tapping a meter with a stick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon’s team, including researchers from UC San Francisco and Oakland’s Public Health Institute, plans to test for benzene at the kitchen sinks of 175 homes in burned areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public meeting, Solomon said the team wants to identify how far the toxic chemical has spread into standing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also interested in any clues as to where that benzene might be coming from,” she said. “There are theories, but there’s not really a clear scientifically supported reason that we’re quite confident of yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team will begin testing next month and hopes to have the first round of results made public by Thanksgiving. Solomon says if they find benzene in homes during this first phase, the team will go back for more detailed and broader testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clearing the System — Slowly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise Irrigation District says that 70 percent of mains and hundreds of service connections are clear. Speaking at a public meeting, a consultant to the irrigation district, Sami Kader, said that getting an individual home cleared is “tortuous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we can send someone a letter, we have to be confident that everything that connects that person to the water treatment plant has been tested and cleared,” Kader said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water districts are cautious by design, and officials in Paradise say the long-term plan is to replace all of the service laterals. In the near- term, work will focus on connections to burned lots, where tests have found contamination more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips, the water chief in Paradise, says the city will need money to replace its systems. The town is seeking help from federal authorities; it’s not yet clear how much of the cost the Federal Emergency Management Agency will pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At September’s public meeting, Phillips expressed thanks to residents for their patience as his district works to return the water system to functionality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we are behind,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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At the time, local officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1920335/cancer-causing-chemical-detected-in-fountaingrove-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attributed\u003c/a> the problem to melting plastic pipes, and to system depressurization that might have helped the contamination spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the systems that burned in the Camp Fire have been found to contain benzene-tainted water in both metal and plastic pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change exacerbates wildfires, it also puts stress on infrastructure. “We are learning with everybody here how to recover a water system from a devastating fire,” says the Paradise Irrigation District’s Kevin Phillips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this question about what’s happening between the service line and the tap,” says Solomon, a clinical professor at UC San Francisco and principal investigator at the Public Health Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question her team hopes to help answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where’s It Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday, Solomon poked at water meters in locations where the Paradise Irrigation District found benzene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-1948255\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"UCSF and Public Health Institute researcher Dr. Gina Solomon and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Yvonne Heaney examined water meters and water pipes in Paradise.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Benzene-Paradise-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF and Public Health Institute researcher Dr. Gina Solomon and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Yvonne Heaney examined water meters and water pipes in Paradise. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire burned away 90 percent of structures in town. The few houses left look like jack-o-lantern teeth sticking up between the gaps, made up of empty streets. At every lot, burned or not, the skeleton of a water system remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is melted,” Solomon confirmed, tapping a meter with a stick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon’s team, including researchers from UC San Francisco and Oakland’s Public Health Institute, plans to test for benzene at the kitchen sinks of 175 homes in burned areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a public meeting, Solomon said the team wants to identify how far the toxic chemical has spread into standing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also interested in any clues as to where that benzene might be coming from,” she said. “There are theories, but there’s not really a clear scientifically supported reason that we’re quite confident of yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team will begin testing next month and hopes to have the first round of results made public by Thanksgiving. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s last two fire seasons were brutal. As the Legislature struggles to fund fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1948013/california-lawmakers-plans-to-protect-homes-from-wildfire-fall-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safety proposals\u003c/a>, and agencies spend more on firefighting crews, a team of scientists is proposing a novel solution: extinguishing fires before they start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something we do with vaccines all the time,” said Eric Appel, materials scientist at Stanford. “You have high-risk populations and you vaccinate them against the disease in the first place. As with many things, prevention is cheaper, easier and more effective than treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel is senior author on a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907855116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003c/em>, reporting on the first field trials of a long-acting, environmentally benign fire retardant that he hopes will reshape the way fires are prevented and fought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people think that fires just sort of start willy nilly anywhere in the forest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s last two fire seasons were brutal. As the Legislature struggles to fund fire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1948013/california-lawmakers-plans-to-protect-homes-from-wildfire-fall-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safety proposals\u003c/a>, and agencies spend more on firefighting crews, a team of scientists is proposing a novel solution: extinguishing fires before they start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something we do with vaccines all the time,” said Eric Appel, materials scientist at Stanford. “You have high-risk populations and you vaccinate them against the disease in the first place. As with many things, prevention is cheaper, easier and more effective than treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel is senior author on a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907855116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> published in \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003c/em>, reporting on the first field trials of a long-acting, environmentally benign fire retardant that he hopes will reshape the way fires are prevented and fought in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people think that fires just sort of start willy nilly anywhere in the forest. But it turns out that that’s not really true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that most wildfires start in the same locations, and that the retardant will protect an area for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what that means,” Appel says, “is that you would only need to treat a very small amount of land in order to prevent a majority of fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Spark of An Idea\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For co-author Jesse Acosta, adjunct professor of Natural Resource Management at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a moment of inspiration came years ago, as he stood in the sweltering heat of Hawaii, working for the U.S. Forest Service in a Smokey Bear costume, trying to convince people to care about fire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I don’t know if it was the actual discomfort of the suit that made me think about things differently, or if it was some sort of late-night epiphany,” said the former Fire Prevention Forester, “but it became very clear to me very quickly that [outreach] was not effective in terms of preventing fires.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely, it was both, but it would take a move to Connecticut and a chance meeting with a colleague for the building blocks of a new approach to fall into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, \u003ca href=\"http://www.supramolecularbiomaterials.com/\">Eric Appel\u003c/a>, now a materials scientist at Stanford University, was studying medical drug delivery at MIT, \u003c/span>“answering the question of ‘H\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ow do we keep these drug molecules stable and get them where they need to go and keep them where they need to be?'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer lead to the development of a “hydrogel” \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">made of\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">inexpensive, renewable and benign materials that could deliver medications in a human body and keep them stable over time. For example, an early application allowed people with diabetes to receive a single injection that supplied insulin over six months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hydrogels themselves may seem an unlikely hero: They’re pale, shapeless blobs reminiscent of thick shampoo or mayonnaise. You mix them up in buckets, foregoing a lab coat for rubber boots. But to Appel, their beauty lies in the thoughtfulness of their design.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The gels we’re making are sophisticated and scalable. They form from simple components,” said Appel. “And they function like molecular Velcro,” meaning they can change their properties to allow them to be sprayed easily from a needle or nozzle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acosta was aware of Appel’s hydrogels and thought about what might happen if you replaced medications with a “molecular cargo” of flame retardants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was around midnight when it finally dawned on me to use these hydrogels,” Acosta said\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> pointing out the many commonalities shared between what makes something safe for the human body and what makes something environmentally benign. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Let’s wrap up fire retardant in these hydrogels and see if they are able to stick to fuels and persist through weather.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ilhFV7DIbxo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ilhFV7DIbxo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Out of the Lab and Into the Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this unlikely series of events, Appel, Acosta and collaborators received funding through Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://woods.stanford.edu/research/realizing-environmental-innovation-program\">Realizing Environmental Innovation Program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel and his collaborators began working with Cal Fire to identify where fires start each year. They found fires reproducibly start year-after-year in the same places, calculating that 84 percent of wildfires in California in the last 10 years have started at the same high-risk roadside spots or near utilities infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the success of a\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52f83177e4b045fae914ddf2/t/584257b446c3c4f2f7d665e2/1480742837825/Yu_Appel_PNAS.pdf\">pilot study\u003c/a> on small piles of pine shavings, this new study tests hydrogel performance on a larger scale. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They treated plots of native grass 10 feet long and 10 feet wide with their product and set both those and untreated control plots alight, watching how they burned. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey just explode,” Appel said of the control plots. “It’s a pyromaniac’s best afternoon.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appel and Acosta also wanted to address a major shortcoming of current retardants — that they are not meant to persist long beyond their initial application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, much of the millions of tons of retardant that planes drop onto fires each year are \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rendered useless by subsequent dumps of water onto active fire-lines. Even heavy dews and fogs, common along the California coast, can decrease the retardants’ efficiency.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hydrogel, by contrast, stays at full potency and continues delivering fire protection over months of the traditional fire season. The hydrogels also stand up to dew, fog, and moderate rain, although they are intentionally designed to wash away at the start of the wetter fall months.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can put 20,000 gallons of this on an area for prevention, or 1 million gallons of the traditional formulation after a fire starts,” said study lead author Anthony Yu, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at Stanford, in a media release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The New Reality of Fire in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Acosta, a policy of suppression and a cultural view that fire is villainous has pitted the country against a future where extreme fires are guaranteed. 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"content": "\u003cp>Scientists are searching for pockets of ecological resistance in the face of climate change, places that seem to be warming less quickly than others due to unique natural conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope is that as the earth continues to get hotter, these “climate refugia” could serve as strongholds for plants and animals\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/climate\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-800x799.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-768x767.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003c/a>For a decade, scientists have been studying this phenomenon in a steep mountain valley in the Sierra Nevada. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/depo/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devils Postpile National Monument\u003c/a> is known for its distinct geologic formations, where the crumbling columns of rock from an ancient lava bed resemble, well, a pile of posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Deanna Dulen began working there almost 20 years ago, she noticed something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was even colder than I ever anticipated,” said Dulen, who is now superintendent of the monument. The chill was especially noticeable on the floor of the valley, which was colder than the peaks thousands of feet above it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the opposite of what you’d expect,” she said. “Usually you expect as you go up in elevation, it will be getting colder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Toni Lynn Morelli, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center\"]‘I feel like it gives people some hope. Or at least something positive to focus on.’[/pullquote]Dulen began working with several scientists to investigate. After installing dozens of temperature sensors around the valley, they discovered it undergoes “cold air pooling,” a phenomenon that keeps a mass of cool air sitting on the valley floor for about half the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happens thanks to the Postpile’s special topography. The valley is aligned north-south, surrounded by high granite walls, which block the sunlight and cast huge shadows across the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the morning it stays shadier in the valley much later, and then it gets shadier earlier in the afternoon,” Dulen said. “That shade helps to make it cooler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cold air also gets trapped, especially in the Soda Springs meadow, where the granite walls come together at one end, leaving only a narrow opening for the air to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially that cold air bottlenecks up,” Dulen said. In the early morning, the meadow can be 18 degrees cooler than locations just a few hundred feet above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulen and her colleagues realized that this effect could prove particularly important in a warming climate. From her time working in Alaska, Dulen knew about “paleoclimate refugia,” the spots that remained relatively free of ice during the last ice age, allowing plants and animals to endure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1948174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/soda-springs-shadow-web.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The high valley walls around Soda Springs meadow cast deep shadows, keeping it cooler. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Devils Postpile could be a modern “climate refugia,” she thinks, where plants and animals would be somewhat buffered from the effects of rising temperatures. 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She may also have to defend against “conifer encroachment,” where pine trees invade mountain meadows in search of water in a hotter, drier climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948173\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1948173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-800x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-800x688.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-768x660.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-1020x877.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-1200x1031.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devils Postpile Superintendent Deanna Dulen. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dulen says knowing where climate refugia are can help land managers conserve them. The park service is looking at protecting Soda Springs meadow by keeping out invasive species and making sure the forests around it don’t become overgrown and fire-prone. She may also have to defend against “conifer encroachment,” where pine trees invade mountain meadows in search of water in a hotter, drier climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no easy answers, but it’s the challenge that we’ve been called to do, and it’s part of working for the National Park Service,” she said. “Parks are living labs for understanding our natural world and how to become better stewards so we can have this for our generation and future generations of all species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulen is hopeful their efforts will become a model for finding other climate refugia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dulen began working with several scientists to investigate. After installing dozens of temperature sensors around the valley, they discovered it undergoes “cold air pooling,” a phenomenon that keeps a mass of cool air sitting on the valley floor for about half the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happens thanks to the Postpile’s special topography. The valley is aligned north-south, surrounded by high granite walls, which block the sunlight and cast huge shadows across the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the morning it stays shadier in the valley much later, and then it gets shadier earlier in the afternoon,” Dulen said. “That shade helps to make it cooler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cold air also gets trapped, especially in the Soda Springs meadow, where the granite walls come together at one end, leaving only a narrow opening for the air to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially that cold air bottlenecks up,” Dulen said. 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She may also have to defend against “conifer encroachment,” where pine trees invade mountain meadows in search of water in a hotter, drier climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948173\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1948173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-800x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-800x688.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-160x138.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-768x660.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-1020x877.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen-1200x1031.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Deanna-Dulen.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devils Postpile Superintendent Deanna Dulen. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dulen says knowing where climate refugia are can help land managers conserve them. 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"content": "\u003cp>About 200 climate activists rallied in front of Chevron’s corporate headquarters in San Ramon. The protesters urged the oil company to get off fossil fuels by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school and middle school students of color from across the Bay Area led this action. They call themselves \u003ca href=\"http://youthvsapocalypse.org/\">Youth vs. Apocalypse\u003c/a> and maintain the company is jeopardizing their future. That’s why, they say, they’re demanding a rapid shift away from carbon-intensive energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron is a billion-dollar company that is poisoning our communities,” said Isha Clarke, an organizer and a junior from MetWest High in Oakland. “Their refineries are in low-income communities of color. We are here to tell them that you cannot keep killing our planet. And you can’t keep doing it in a way that completely disrespects people of color and low-income people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Chevron disproportionately pollutes places like Richmond, a city that is home to more than 200,000 people. U.S. Census \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/richmondcityvirginiacounty\">figures\u003c/a> indicate that nearly half of them are black. Chevron operates a 2,900-acre refinery there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 8:30 a.m. adults from the Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups hastily erected garden boxes and mockups of oil derricks. They moved the organic planter beds in front of the parking lot entrance to “represent true solutions, not ones that destroy the planet,” organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1948158 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39313_Chevron_003.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:00 a.m. the students arrived on a black bus, carrying banners and protest signs, to lead the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be accountable,” said Seray Cemre Gönen, a senior at California High School, a public school in San Ramon. “They’ve known that climate change exists for 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1948156 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39323_Chevron_013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/391260904922285/\">page\u003c/a>, the activist group says the company must “stop using their influence to harm frontline communities and our future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is also pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom to “hold Chevron accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10:00 a.m., the company invited Clarke, Gönen, and two other students inside to talk with representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spoke truth to power, and however they take that, is how they take it,” Clarke said afterward. “We will continue to push for radical action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago we probably would have heard them say climate change is not real,” she said. “Now they’re being forced to, at least, show or pretend that they are taking steps towards being better. We got their cards and we definitely will be contacting them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1948160 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-768x526.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seray Cemre Gönen (left), and Sarah Goody. 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He said the company believes that climate change is real and that human activity contributes to it, “including the use of some of our products.” Comey said that the company is taking action to address climate change by investing in technology and low-carbon business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the company disagrees with the protesters on how quickly Chevron should transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are open to a dialogue with people from a variety of viewpoints, including them,” he said. “We’re hoping events like this will drive an honest dialogue about how we balance the needs of the world for energy to fuel economic development and rising standards of living with protecting the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more about the company’s stance on climate change on their website \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/corporate-responsibility/climate-change\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Union of Concerned Scientists’ latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/10/gw-accountability-scorecard18-Chevron.pdf\">assessment\u003c/a> of how leading fossil fuel companies are addressing climate change, the group found Chevron continues a pattern of misrepresenting climate science in its public statements, holding leadership positions in trade and industry groups that spread climate disinformation and “avoids doing its part to bring about a world free from carbon pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union gave Chevron a score of “egregious” for its public statements on climate change. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About 200 climate activists rallied in front of Chevron’s corporate headquarters in San Ramon. The protesters urged the oil company to get off fossil fuels by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school and middle school students of color from across the Bay Area led this action. They call themselves \u003ca href=\"http://youthvsapocalypse.org/\">Youth vs. Apocalypse\u003c/a> and maintain the company is jeopardizing their future. That’s why, they say, they’re demanding a rapid shift away from carbon-intensive energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron is a billion-dollar company that is poisoning our communities,” said Isha Clarke, an organizer and a junior from MetWest High in Oakland. “Their refineries are in low-income communities of color. We are here to tell them that you cannot keep killing our planet. And you can’t keep doing it in a way that completely disrespects people of color and low-income people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Chevron disproportionately pollutes places like Richmond, a city that is home to more than 200,000 people. U.S. Census \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/richmondcityvirginiacounty\">figures\u003c/a> indicate that nearly half of them are black. Chevron operates a 2,900-acre refinery there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 8:30 a.m. adults from the Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups hastily erected garden boxes and mockups of oil derricks. They moved the organic planter beds in front of the parking lot entrance to “represent true solutions, not ones that destroy the planet,” organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Gavin Newsom to “hold Chevron accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 10:00 a.m., the company invited Clarke, Gönen, and two other students inside to talk with representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spoke truth to power, and however they take that, is how they take it,” Clarke said afterward. “We will continue to push for radical action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago we probably would have heard them say climate change is not real,” she said. “Now they’re being forced to, at least, show or pretend that they are taking steps towards being better. We got their cards and we definitely will be contacting them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1948160\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1948160 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-768x526.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008-1200x823.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/RS39318_Chevron_008.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seray Cemre Gönen (left), and Sarah Goody. 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He said the company believes that climate change is real and that human activity contributes to it, “including the use of some of our products.” Comey said that the company is taking action to address climate change by investing in technology and low-carbon business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the company disagrees with the protesters on how quickly Chevron should transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are open to a dialogue with people from a variety of viewpoints, including them,” he said. “We’re hoping events like this will drive an honest dialogue about how we balance the needs of the world for energy to fuel economic development and rising standards of living with protecting the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read more about the company’s stance on climate change on their website \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/corporate-responsibility/climate-change\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Union of Concerned Scientists’ latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/10/gw-accountability-scorecard18-Chevron.pdf\">assessment\u003c/a> of how leading fossil fuel companies are addressing climate change, the group found Chevron continues a pattern of misrepresenting climate science in its public statements, holding leadership positions in trade and industry groups that spread climate disinformation and “avoids doing its part to bring about a world free from carbon pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union gave Chevron a score of “egregious” for its public statements on climate change. 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Dianne Feinstein on Friday asked the deputy inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate whether EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s warning to California that it could lose federal highway funds due to poor air quality constituted “inappropriate political interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-09/documents/california_naaqs_sip.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to California, sent Tuesday to the state’s Air Resources Board, described the state’s air quality as the worst in the country, with 34 million people living in areas that do not meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency called on California to address a backlog in plans aimed at reducing air pollution, and to work with federal regulators to develop workable plans or else risk highway funding, sanctions and other penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has failed to carry out its most basic responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, and as a result, millions of Californians live in areas that do not meet our nation’s air quality standards,” Wheeler said. “EPA stands ready to work with California to meet the Trump Administration’s goal of clean, healthy air for all Americans, and we hope the state will work with us in good faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein requested an investigation into Wheeler’s threat to withold federal funds in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/f/c/fcbf953e-c764-4cf5-8f25-bba09d0d7ae4/A925F49F56735E611474F480FAF595CC.09-27-2019-letter-to-epa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> sent to EPA Deputy Inspector General Charles Sheehan. 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She noted that the EPA has listed counties in three dozen other states that do not meet air quality standards. “Yet there are no reports suggesting that any of those other states received a threat like the one sent to California to their transportation funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s letter echoes complaints by California officials in response to another communication from Wheeler, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11776819/epa-claims-sf-homeless-crisis-affecting-water-quality-breed-newsom-hit-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent\u003c/a> to Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday. That letter threatened to “take action” against California if the state doesn’t fix water pollution problems the agency alleges may be caused in part by a worsening homeless crisis in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just at a meeting yesterday of all 50 environmental directors and secretaries from each of the states, and the question was, ‘Why didn’t other states get letters?'” said California Secretary for Environmental Protection Jared Blumenfeld. “There’s certainly similar environmental issues in all 50 states, and I think everyone acknowledged that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>White House ‘Tries to Bully Us’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the issue of air quality, California’s leaders contend that they are working hard to meet current federal smog standards, but the state is hindered by the federal government’s failure to strictly control pollution from heavy-duty freight including trucks, trains, planes and ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1176623618614333441?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s top air regulator also pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Corey, the California Air Resources Board’s executive officer, responded to Wheeler’s letter by saying EPA officials weren’t doing their jobs. He pointed out that California went to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946766/federal-court-upholds-obama-era-smog-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court\u003c/a> to push the agency to enact smog standards. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The state’s top air regulator also pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Corey, the California Air Resources Board’s executive officer, responded to Wheeler’s letter by saying EPA officials weren’t doing their jobs. He pointed out that California went to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1946766/federal-court-upholds-obama-era-smog-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court\u003c/a> to push the agency to enact smog standards. Also, he said that EPA Administrator Wheeler’s letter contains “multiple inaccuracies, omissions and misstatements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Corey continued, “EPA has unclean hands: It sat on these documents for years and is now pounding the table about paperwork issues of its own creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This letter appeared only days after EPA attacked our state authority on cars, increasing air pollution while at the same time limiting our ability to reduce it,” he said. “If the Trump Administration is serious about air pollution it will reconsider revoking our waiver, and while they’re at it, why not also fund the EPA to review submitted documents in less than a decade?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California sued to stop the Trump Administration from revoking its authority to set greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, and enlisted help from other states in a battle that will shape a key component of the nation’s climate policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and the Trump Administration are fighting over dozens of environmental issues. While the EPA’s move on emissions is one of the latest points of dispute, it’s not even the only one to arise Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947918/environmental-groups-challenges-trump-over-redwood-city-salt-ponds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued\u003c/a> the federal EPA over its ruling that vast salt ponds in the South Bay are not “waters of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"c0131 c0125\">Federal law sets standards for how much pollution can come from cars and trucks. But since the 1970s, that law has permitted California to set tougher rules because it has the most cars and struggles to meet air quality standards. On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration withdrew California’s waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"c0131 c0125\">California has also sued the Trump Administration over is rollback of environmental and clean air regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jeremy Siegel of KQED and Michael Casey of the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch4>Last-minute language inserted into a measure that would have made manufacturers responsible for the recyclability of their plastic products doomed the bill for the year. Advocates are pointing fingers for the collapse, and some are vowing to put the plan on the ballot in 2020.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major effort by environmental advocates and California legislators aimed at dramatically reducing single-use plastic pollution ended anticlimactically this month when the legislative session closed without lawmakers voting on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companion bills \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1080\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 54\u003c/a>, intended to reduce the amount of waste in landfills and oceans, placed the onus on manufacturers to ensure the recyclability of plastic products like utensils, takeout boxes and beverage lids, which consumers typically use once before tossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Environmental advocate Geoff Shester\"]‘The opponents of the legislation will regret rejecting the deal that was offered this year.’[/pullquote]The bills can be taken up again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers didn’t speak from the floor to explain the decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it\">punt\u003c/a> on the measure, but environmental advocates blamed a number of late changes that muddied the waters. Among the most significant environmental proposals of the session, the bills had the support of a coalition of environmental groups, cities and celebrities like surfing legend \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kellyslater/status/1172534835912593411?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Slater\u003c/a> and actor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheJeffBridges/status/1172305199001550849?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Bridges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers promised to push the proposal at the beginning of next year’s session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We operate on a two-year session and plan to continue working to get AB 1080/SB 54 to the governor’s desk once the Legislature reconvenes in January,” said Samantha Gallegos, a spokeswoman for Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, one of the measure’s authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters are raising the prospect of a more aggressive strategy that would put a single-use plastic ban initiative on the ballot in November 2020, a presidential election year. The recycling company Recology \u003ca href=\"https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2019/09/04/recycling-sector-grapples-with-plastic-realities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has vowed\u003c/a> to put $1 million behind such an effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that’s the only way to get something done, then that’s what we’ll do,” said Eric Potashner, the company’s director of strategic affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geoff Shester, campaign director for the environmental nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://oceana.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oceana\u003c/a>, said the bill’s authors “bent over backward” to address concerns from business groups, but he expects that the next iteration will be far more stringent. “The opponents of the legislation will regret rejecting the deal that was offered this year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not think the lack of a vote meant the Legislature had decided to abandon addressing what he calls a plastic pollution crisis. “Lawmakers want to get it right,” Shester said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Industry Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan saw heavy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1947132/california-bill-puts-recycling-onus-on-plastic-manufacturers-theyre-not-happy-about-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbying\u003c/a> on both sides of the issue. The bill asked manufacturers to meet several requirements by the year 2030: Single-use plastic products would have had to be recyclable or compostable, and companies would have had to ensure a 75% reduction in plastic packaging waste. Also, single-use products made from unrecyclable material would have been banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Eric Potashner, of recycling company Recology, on a possible ballot measure\"]‘If that’s the only way to get something done, then that’s what we’ll do.’[/pullquote]A leading trade group, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grocery Manufacturers Association\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\">,\u003c/a> asserted the bill didn’t do enough to fix the state’s strained recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to the aspects of the bill regarding recycling and compostability,” said John Hewitt, director of state affairs for the association. “And we are committed to working with the Legislature on the funding and infrastructure components of the bill. We want to see something that works for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry association \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/file-manager/WEBSITE%20ROSTER%20-%20Board%20of%20Directors%20-%2007-01-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">represents\u003c/a> some of the largest food brands in the country, including General Mills and Land O’Lakes. In late August, the lobby \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled\u003c/a> it was open to a compromise, but the group was unhappy with September changes that it said dramatically expanded the bill’s scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody supported the broad concepts of recyclability and compostability,” Hewitt said. But he said the groups split on the issue of how to invest in the state’s recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘An Amateur Move’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all the legislative wrangling was unclear until the last moments of the session, says Mark Murray, executive director of the environmental organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.cawrecycles.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians Against Waste\u003c/a>, which lobbied for the bills’ passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray said the fate of the proposal was sealed with a series of amendments introduced at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. The changes triggered an exodus of support from recyclers and waste haulers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.wm.com/us/en/myhome\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wm.com/us/en/myhome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Management\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wasteconnections.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Connections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments from the administration were late, Murray said, and stakeholders did not have enough time to review them before the session ran out. “In the end, we were fighting amongst ourselves because of well-intended but poorly crafted language from the administration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, it was an amateur move. They needed to get their shit together earlier. And get amendments to the Legislature before the last week of the legislative session. We should have had that language in the beginning of August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray called the lack of a vote a setback. “Sadly the issue of plastic pollution is a problem that is only getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shester agrees the timing of the bill’s amendments meant a vote couldn’t take place until the final day of the session. But he doesn’t pin the blame on Newsom. He says some of the changes were introduced to address concerns from business and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what ultimately doomed the plan, for this year anyway, Shester says, was the plastic industry jumping on the late amendments to cast doubt and argue that the bill wasn’t ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a number of changes made close to the end. It confused some legislators and allowed the industry to seize on it and create a perception that it wasn’t fully cooked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Vicky Waters, a spokesperson for Newsom, responded to criticism over the late changes by saying that Newsom “would like to see a meaningful paradigm shift for single-use packaging manufacturing, reuse, recycling and composting that would fundamentally change the way we do recycling in California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A leading trade group, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grocery Manufacturers Association\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\">,\u003c/a> asserted the bill didn’t do enough to fix the state’s strained recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to the aspects of the bill regarding recycling and compostability,” said John Hewitt, director of state affairs for the association. “And we are committed to working with the Legislature on the funding and infrastructure components of the bill. We want to see something that works for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry association \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/file-manager/WEBSITE%20ROSTER%20-%20Board%20of%20Directors%20-%2007-01-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">represents\u003c/a> some of the largest food brands in the country, including General Mills and Land O’Lakes. In late August, the lobby \u003ca href=\"https://www.gmaonline.org/news-events/newsroom/cpg-industry-calls-on-california-to-pass-workable-recycling-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled\u003c/a> it was open to a compromise, but the group was unhappy with September changes that it said dramatically expanded the bill’s scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody supported the broad concepts of recyclability and compostability,” Hewitt said. But he said the groups split on the issue of how to invest in the state’s recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘An Amateur Move’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of all the legislative wrangling was unclear until the last moments of the session, says Mark Murray, executive director of the environmental organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.cawrecycles.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Californians Against Waste\u003c/a>, which lobbied for the bills’ passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray said the fate of the proposal was sealed with a series of amendments introduced at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. The changes triggered an exodus of support from recyclers and waste haulers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.wm.com/us/en/myhome\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wm.com/us/en/myhome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Management\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wasteconnections.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Connections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments from the administration were late, Murray said, and stakeholders did not have enough time to review them before the session ran out. “In the end, we were fighting amongst ourselves because of well-intended but poorly crafted language from the administration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, it was an amateur move. They needed to get their shit together earlier. And get amendments to the Legislature before the last week of the legislative session. We should have had that language in the beginning of August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray called the lack of a vote a setback. “Sadly the issue of plastic pollution is a problem that is only getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shester agrees the timing of the bill’s amendments meant a vote couldn’t take place until the final day of the session. But he doesn’t pin the blame on Newsom. He says some of the changes were introduced to address concerns from business and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what ultimately doomed the plan, for this year anyway, Shester says, was the plastic industry jumping on the late amendments to cast doubt and argue that the bill wasn’t ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a number of changes made close to the end. It confused some legislators and allowed the industry to seize on it and create a perception that it wasn’t fully cooked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Vicky Waters, a spokesperson for Newsom, responded to criticism over the late changes by saying that Newsom “would like to see a meaningful paradigm shift for single-use packaging manufacturing, reuse, recycling and composting that would fundamentally change the way we do recycling in California. He looks forward to seeing legislation on his desk soon after the Legislature returns in January that accomplishes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Chemistry Council originally opposed the plan, but the group, which represents companies that make plastic, switched its position to neutral during the end of session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Christman, managing director of plastic markets at the American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division, said the organization supports the broad goals of the plan and is “looking forward to working with the bill sponsors in January to resolve the remaining issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We all have to admit a challenge is the funding for the legislation,” he said. “One of the things that is going to be needed to make the legislation work is investment in recycling and composting infrastructure. “\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council has set a goal of reducing, reusing or recycling 100% of plastic packaging by 2040, Christman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Fong, president and CEO of the California Grocers Association, which announced its support after originally opposing the measure, said the discussions around reducing plastic waste have been positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is discussing what a January bill should look like,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups are huddling to discuss their next moves. 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"content": "\u003cp>After 86 people in the town of Paradise lost their lives in a massive wildfire last year, California lawmakers vowed to prepare the state for future infernos. But while millions of dollars are going toward new firefighting crews and technology, some say the state is overlooking an area in dire need of help: making homes and buildings safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='State Sen. Bob Wieckowski']‘I’m concerned that a lot of localities are going to be making a lot of bad decisions because we haven’t rung the bell that you can’t do this any longer.’[/pullquote]Several bills in the state Legislature were drafted to help millions of homeowners in high fire-risk areas retrofit their homes with fire-resistant materials. This was considered critical because most of these homes were built before California enacted its modern wildfire building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills required stepped-up inspections of fire-prone vegetation around structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But due to a lack of funding in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state budget, the bills were scaled back. They now await Newsom’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill, SB 182, would have directed cities and counties to limit how much housing is built in very high fire-hazard zones absent adequate firefighting capacity, evacuation routes and defensible space enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to concerns it could reduce the state’s housing stock, the bill failed to pass by the time legislators adjourned in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire experts have warned that California must make existing communities safer, if it’s going to tackle wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally believe that spending money upfront to prevent wildfires is a better use of funds than having to spend a lot more money later on to deal with a tragedy,” said Assemblymember Laura Friedman, who authored one of the bills, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1516\u003c/a>, now on Newsom’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting Newsom’s Signature: Improving Defensible Space, But No Cal-Fire Inspection Requirement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many houses destroyed in wildfires aren’t consumed by advancing flames; they’re ignited by embers that are blown ahead of the fire and land on brush, trees or grasses next to a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires homeowners in fire zones to minimize and clear vegetation to create “defensible space” within 100 feet of their home. In fire zones outside city limits, Cal Fire inspects homes and can issue citations for homeowners who don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire has a goal of inspecting 33 percent of structures in its jurisdiction each year, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943058/whos-checking-homes-for-flammable-brush-in-some-high-risk-areas-maybe-no-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED investigation \u003c/a>found the agency only did half that in 2018. In some parts of the state, only 6 percent of homes in risky areas were inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become really clear that our defensible space has been insufficient to protect homes from embers,” said Yana Valachovic, a fire expert with UC Cooperative Extension. “What’s immediately adjacent to a structure affects the probability of a structure’s survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first draft of AB 1516 would have required Cal Fire to reach its 33 percent inspection goal. That would have meant hiring dozens of additional inspectors, potentially costing millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without support from Gov. Newsom to fund the bill, its supporters struck a compromise. Local groups, like fire safe councils, the California Conservation Corps and those affiliated with Native American tribes, would be empowered to make defensible space assessments of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups could look at vegetation around homes but would not have the same authorization as Cal Fire to write citations requiring homeowners to reduce it. The groups would instead send that information to Cal Fire to inform its inspection program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that this will get Cal Fire to its 33 percent inspection goal,” said Assemblymember Friedman. “I would like to see 100 percent, which will mean more funding, but I do think that using these trained third parties is a really good, cost-effective way to get statewide inspections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom signs the bill, it will also create new defensible space requirements within 5 feet of homes and buildings in high-risk fire zones. Cal Fire would develop the guidelines for these “ember-resistant” areas, potentially limiting the kinds of vegetation and mulch that can touch a building, something fire experts strongly recommend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science has been clear for quite a while, but it’s been slow to incorporate into codes, standards and practices,” said Valachovic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting Newsom’s Signature: Home Retrofitting Fund Created … With No Money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-driven fire embers can also ignite a home by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1917346/wildfires-can-attack-your-house-from-the-inside-heres-how-to-prevent-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landing on its wood roof or even entering an attic vent\u003c/a>. Some communities, like Big Bear, have provided residents with grants to replace wood roofs with those that are fire-resistant. Fire experts say even more affordable retrofits, like covering attic vents with mesh, can also make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help homeowners across the state, Assemblymember Jim Wood introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 38\u003c/a>, a bill that would create a $1 billion fund for no- or low-interest loans for home retrofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it became clear the funding wasn’t prioritized in the state budget, the bill was amended. The retrofitting program would be created, but the actual funding would have to be found at a later date, potentially relying on federal hazard funds from FEMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we made some very good steps in the right direction to help protect homes and communities,” said Wood. “But we still have a massive hill to climb and we need to climb it much faster to make sure communities are as safe as they can be as soon as they can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing vs. Wildfire Protection: Restrictions on New Construction Stalls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also took up one of the biggest debates around wildfire: balancing the state’s desperate need for new housing with the need to keep housing out of fire zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imposing development restrictions has been a third-rail of fire policy. When asked about it in April, Newsom responded that he wouldn’t advocate for a ban on building in high-risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a deep analysis,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/b17b5c9200a64466b49f3f605f9202fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>. “And I think one has to be cautious about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This session, State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 182\u003c/a>, a bill that sought to dissuade local governments from building in very high fire hazard zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill required areas in which multiunit developments are approved to have a funded defensible space enforcement program, adequate emergency response capacity, and low-risk areas where residents can shelter from fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have to build, but on the other hand, we don’t want to see another Paradise,” said Jackson. “This bill is designed to work with those competing interests and is designed to meet the needs of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill got tangled up in another controversial California issue: local requirements to build housing, set to help address the state’s housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jackson’s bill specified that the wildfire building restrictions couldn’t be used to excuse an overall region from its housing requirement, some lawmakers thought it didn’t go far enough to protect housing mandates in individual cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way the bill is structured right now, it would let cities like Berkeley and some other cities off the hook and reduce their housing obligations when they have plenty of non-wildfire areas to build,” said State Sen. Scott Wiener, chair of the Senate Housing Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener agrees with the bill’s provision that regions should consider their fire risk when determining how much housing should be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cities where most of the land or all of the land is in a high wildfire risk area?” he said. “We should not be building there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill failed to pass at the end of the legislative session in September, as lawmakers struggled to hammer out a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we enter another fire season, I’m concerned that a lot of localities are going to be making a lot of bad decisions because we haven’t rung the bell that you can’t do this any longer,” State Sen. Bob Wieckowski said, when it became clear the bill wouldn’t proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says he’s confident the bill can be passed in early 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The delay is going to be a very short delay,” he said. “Taking a little bit of extra time to make sure we get it right is not going to harm anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where State Funding Is Going: Emergency Response\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as he took office, Newsom announced that tackling California’s wildfire readiness would be a priority for his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anyone is wondering if climate change is real, come to California,” he said in April. “We are in a very precarious state, literally and figuratively. It requires us to adapt. It requires us to be nimble. It requires us to meet the moment and meet the challenge. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is spending more than $900 million this year preparing for fires. More than $240 million is being directed at new firefighting crews, purchasing new aircraft and acquiring new technology. Large-scale forest management and vegetation-reduction projects received $225 million. Other funds are directed at improving emergency warning systems and 911 services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improving existing homes and buildings gets little mention in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/EmergencyPreparednessResponseandRecovery.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget document\u003c/a>, only receiving a one-time $5 million infusion for defensible space programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fire experts say improving emergency response is critical, shoring up existing communities will be as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no single solution that’s going to solve the fire problem,” said Valachovic. “It takes an all-hands-on-deck approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting Newsom’s Signature: Improving Defensible Space, But No Cal-Fire Inspection Requirement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many houses destroyed in wildfires aren’t consumed by advancing flames; they’re ignited by embers that are blown ahead of the fire and land on brush, trees or grasses next to a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires homeowners in fire zones to minimize and clear vegetation to create “defensible space” within 100 feet of their home. In fire zones outside city limits, Cal Fire inspects homes and can issue citations for homeowners who don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire has a goal of inspecting 33 percent of structures in its jurisdiction each year, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1943058/whos-checking-homes-for-flammable-brush-in-some-high-risk-areas-maybe-no-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED investigation \u003c/a>found the agency only did half that in 2018. In some parts of the state, only 6 percent of homes in risky areas were inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become really clear that our defensible space has been insufficient to protect homes from embers,” said Yana Valachovic, a fire expert with UC Cooperative Extension. “What’s immediately adjacent to a structure affects the probability of a structure’s survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first draft of AB 1516 would have required Cal Fire to reach its 33 percent inspection goal. That would have meant hiring dozens of additional inspectors, potentially costing millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without support from Gov. Newsom to fund the bill, its supporters struck a compromise. Local groups, like fire safe councils, the California Conservation Corps and those affiliated with Native American tribes, would be empowered to make defensible space assessments of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups could look at vegetation around homes but would not have the same authorization as Cal Fire to write citations requiring homeowners to reduce it. The groups would instead send that information to Cal Fire to inform its inspection program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that this will get Cal Fire to its 33 percent inspection goal,” said Assemblymember Friedman. “I would like to see 100 percent, which will mean more funding, but I do think that using these trained third parties is a really good, cost-effective way to get statewide inspections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom signs the bill, it will also create new defensible space requirements within 5 feet of homes and buildings in high-risk fire zones. Cal Fire would develop the guidelines for these “ember-resistant” areas, potentially limiting the kinds of vegetation and mulch that can touch a building, something fire experts strongly recommend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science has been clear for quite a while, but it’s been slow to incorporate into codes, standards and practices,” said Valachovic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Awaiting Newsom’s Signature: Home Retrofitting Fund Created … With No Money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-driven fire embers can also ignite a home by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1917346/wildfires-can-attack-your-house-from-the-inside-heres-how-to-prevent-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landing on its wood roof or even entering an attic vent\u003c/a>. Some communities, like Big Bear, have provided residents with grants to replace wood roofs with those that are fire-resistant. Fire experts say even more affordable retrofits, like covering attic vents with mesh, can also make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help homeowners across the state, Assemblymember Jim Wood introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 38\u003c/a>, a bill that would create a $1 billion fund for no- or low-interest loans for home retrofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it became clear the funding wasn’t prioritized in the state budget, the bill was amended. The retrofitting program would be created, but the actual funding would have to be found at a later date, potentially relying on federal hazard funds from FEMA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we made some very good steps in the right direction to help protect homes and communities,” said Wood. “But we still have a massive hill to climb and we need to climb it much faster to make sure communities are as safe as they can be as soon as they can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing vs. Wildfire Protection: Restrictions on New Construction Stalls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also took up one of the biggest debates around wildfire: balancing the state’s desperate need for new housing with the need to keep housing out of fire zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imposing development restrictions has been a third-rail of fire policy. When asked about it in April, Newsom responded that he wouldn’t advocate for a ban on building in high-risk areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a deep analysis,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/b17b5c9200a64466b49f3f605f9202fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>. “And I think one has to be cautious about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This session, State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>To reach its ambitious climate change goals, California will have to entice homeowners to electrify everything. The state is trying to become carbon neutral by 2045 and around a quarter of the state’s emissions come from energy used by buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’ll be a big step, because today, an all-electric home isn’t common in California, as Oakland resident Bruce Nilles found out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bruce Nilles, Oakland\"]‘I called three different contractors and all three of them tried to persuade me not to get rid of my gas.’[/pullquote]Nilles spent his career working on reducing the country’s use of fossil fuels, first at the Sierra Club and then at the Rocky Mountain Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking a lot about coal and how do we transition the United States off of coal,” he said, “and had missed the fact that right in my own home was this big source of fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nilles’ two-story craftsman home had four appliances that ran on natural gas: hot water heater, furnace, dryer and gas stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never occurred to me that they were a big piece of my carbon footprint,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electricity has a lower carbon footprint in California than natural gas, because the state is investing heavily in renewable energy. In 2018, half of the state’s electricity came from sources free of carbon emissions, such as solar and wind, as well as hydropower and nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945660\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1945660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-800x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-800x717.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-768x689.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Nilles shows off his electric heat pump at his Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I called three different contractors and all three of them tried to persuade me not to get rid of my gas,” Nilles said. He wanted to trade out all four systems, and found some contractors didn’t even have experience switching gas appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he found one who was game to install a new electric induction range. Nilles says it’s a far cry from the old-school electric stoves with coils that heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thing this is so fast,” he said, “you put the water on and literally, 120 seconds later, its boiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nilles also got a new electric dryer, and in the basement, a water heater and heat pump that both heats and cools his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The inspector didn’t actually didn’t sign off on our project, because on a check-box, it said there needed to be a gas shut-off valve on our hot water heater,” he said. Eventually, the city agreed to ignore the check-box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First-of-a-Kind Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Berkeley city council voted unanimously to ban natural gas in newly constructed buildings, becoming the first city in the country to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say new efficient electric appliances have lower carbon footprints than gas-powered furnaces and water heaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to tackle climate change every way that we can and by doing this, we’re not asking people to change that much,” said Kate Harrison, the Berkeley city council member who led the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bob Raymer, California Building Industry Association\"]‘People love their gas stoves. We don’t want to force something onto the consumer that makes the consumer feel uncomfortable or that they just don’t like.’[/pullquote]The ban starts next year with homes and small apartment buildings, and will rope in other kinds of buildings such as high-rises and commercial space as soon as state officials complete energy efficiency analyses of those building types. Building owners can also apply for an exemption to the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to give us a better life,” Harrison said. “We’re going to have a cleaner environment. We’re going to have less health problems. We’re going to have less danger in our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 27% of Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions come from natural gas. That’s on par with the nation; buildings, through heating and cooking, use almost a third of the natural gas consumed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural gas lines also leak one of the most potent climate pollutants, methane, directly into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change isn’t the only reason for the ban, according to the city. Berkeley sits on an earthquake fault, and a major event could cause natural gas lines to break and create explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking on gas stoves can also cause high levels of indoor air pollution, like nitrogen dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have health effects that have never been considered,” Harrison said, “that come from burning natural gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1945683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marking the boundary of the Aliso Canyon storage facility in 2016, in Porter Ranch. California Governor Jerry Brown on January 6, 2016 declared a state of emergency in the Porter Ranch area due to the continuing leak of natural gas from the Aliso Canyon storage facility operated by the Southern California Gas Co. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, stoves are the major sticking point, Harrison says. While homeowners may not have strong feelings about their water heaters, cooking is another matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy-duty gas ranges pack appliance showrooms, looking like industrial models made for restaurant kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People love their gas stoves,” said Bob Raymer, technical director with the California Building Industry Association. “We don’t want to force something onto the consumer that makes the consumer feel uncomfortable or that they just don’t like. After all, it’s their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he says, not offering those stoves could put builders at a competitive disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t support an outright ban on a particular product,” Raymer said. “What we do support are the use of regulatory and financial incentives to encourage a market to go a particular way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of restaurants today also use gas cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that restaurants, along with all ratepayers, have a diverse set of energy sources they can turn to – and that includes natural gas,” said Sharokina Shams of the California Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Raymer says some builders are already switching to all-electric homes in California, because in new construction, they save $2,000-to-$5,000 by not running gas lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Cities Following Suit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities including Sacramento, Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=6150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://sfenvironment.org/press-release/mayor-london-breed-announces-significant-efforts-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are all developing goals to cut emissions from buildings. While Sacramento has \u003ca href=\"https://engagesac.org/blog-civic-engagement/2019/3/15/converting-buildings-from-gas-to-electric-crucial-to-fighting-climate-change-commission-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started discussing a potential ban\u003c/a> on natural gas in new buildings, other cities are looking at using incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may not be far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that we have to get away from fossil natural gas combustion,” said Andrew McAllister of the California Energy Commission. “Electricity becomes cleaner and cleaner, and natural gas is methane and it’s just got carbon in it. There’s no way around that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Energy Commission is currently writing a road map for how the state can cut emissions from buildings 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, to meet its goal of becoming carbon-neutral, California will have to tackle natural gas use in existing buildings, not just new ones. That can be costlier. Many older homes don’t have large enough electrical panels or plugs that can handle 220 volts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric heat pumps and other electric appliances can be more expensive than gas-powered equivalents, especially because it can be harder to find rebates. Sacramento and San Jose are offering residents up to several thousand dollars to switch from gas to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a cultural transition that we have to undergo,” said McAllister. “It’s a big lift, but we’re in a powerful state with a big economy and a lot of creativity. So I think if anybody can do it, California can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, McAllister says, a lot of the nation’s energy efficiency rules, including for appliances, were passed by California first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nilles spent his career working on reducing the country’s use of fossil fuels, first at the Sierra Club and then at the Rocky Mountain Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking a lot about coal and how do we transition the United States off of coal,” he said, “and had missed the fact that right in my own home was this big source of fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nilles’ two-story craftsman home had four appliances that ran on natural gas: hot water heater, furnace, dryer and gas stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never occurred to me that they were a big piece of my carbon footprint,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electricity has a lower carbon footprint in California than natural gas, because the state is investing heavily in renewable energy. In 2018, half of the state’s electricity came from sources free of carbon emissions, such as solar and wind, as well as hydropower and nuclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945660\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1945660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-800x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-800x717.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-768x689.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/DSC02303-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Nilles shows off his electric heat pump at his Oakland home. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I called three different contractors and all three of them tried to persuade me not to get rid of my gas,” Nilles said. He wanted to trade out all four systems, and found some contractors didn’t even have experience switching gas appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he found one who was game to install a new electric induction range. Nilles says it’s a far cry from the old-school electric stoves with coils that heat up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thing this is so fast,” he said, “you put the water on and literally, 120 seconds later, its boiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nilles also got a new electric dryer, and in the basement, a water heater and heat pump that both heats and cools his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The inspector didn’t actually didn’t sign off on our project, because on a check-box, it said there needed to be a gas shut-off valve on our hot water heater,” he said. Eventually, the city agreed to ignore the check-box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First-of-a-Kind Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the Berkeley city council voted unanimously to ban natural gas in newly constructed buildings, becoming the first city in the country to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say new efficient electric appliances have lower carbon footprints than gas-powered furnaces and water heaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to tackle climate change every way that we can and by doing this, we’re not asking people to change that much,” said Kate Harrison, the Berkeley city council member who led the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ban starts next year with homes and small apartment buildings, and will rope in other kinds of buildings such as high-rises and commercial space as soon as state officials complete energy efficiency analyses of those building types. Building owners can also apply for an exemption to the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to give us a better life,” Harrison said. “We’re going to have a cleaner environment. We’re going to have less health problems. We’re going to have less danger in our homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 27% of Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions come from natural gas. That’s on par with the nation; buildings, through heating and cooking, use almost a third of the natural gas consumed in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural gas lines also leak one of the most potent climate pollutants, methane, directly into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change isn’t the only reason for the ban, according to the city. Berkeley sits on an earthquake fault, and a major event could cause natural gas lines to break and create explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooking on gas stoves can also cause high levels of indoor air pollution, like nitrogen dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have health effects that have never been considered,” Harrison said, “that come from burning natural gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1945683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1945683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/07/RS18585_GettyImages-503677392-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marking the boundary of the Aliso Canyon storage facility in 2016, in Porter Ranch. California Governor Jerry Brown on January 6, 2016 declared a state of emergency in the Porter Ranch area due to the continuing leak of natural gas from the Aliso Canyon storage facility operated by the Southern California Gas Co. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, stoves are the major sticking point, Harrison says. While homeowners may not have strong feelings about their water heaters, cooking is another matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy-duty gas ranges pack appliance showrooms, looking like industrial models made for restaurant kitchens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People love their gas stoves,” said Bob Raymer, technical director with the California Building Industry Association. “We don’t want to force something onto the consumer that makes the consumer feel uncomfortable or that they just don’t like. After all, it’s their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he says, not offering those stoves could put builders at a competitive disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t support an outright ban on a particular product,” Raymer said. “What we do support are the use of regulatory and financial incentives to encourage a market to go a particular way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of restaurants today also use gas cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that restaurants, along with all ratepayers, have a diverse set of energy sources they can turn to – and that includes natural gas,” said Sharokina Shams of the California Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Raymer says some builders are already switching to all-electric homes in California, because in new construction, they save $2,000-to-$5,000 by not running gas lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Cities Following Suit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities including Sacramento, Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=6150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://sfenvironment.org/press-release/mayor-london-breed-announces-significant-efforts-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are all developing goals to cut emissions from buildings. While Sacramento has \u003ca href=\"https://engagesac.org/blog-civic-engagement/2019/3/15/converting-buildings-from-gas-to-electric-crucial-to-fighting-climate-change-commission-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started discussing a potential ban\u003c/a> on natural gas in new buildings, other cities are looking at using incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state may not be far behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that we have to get away from fossil natural gas combustion,” said Andrew McAllister of the California Energy Commission. “Electricity becomes cleaner and cleaner, and natural gas is methane and it’s just got carbon in it. There’s no way around that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Energy Commission is currently writing a road map for how the state can cut emissions from buildings 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, to meet its goal of becoming carbon-neutral, California will have to tackle natural gas use in existing buildings, not just new ones. That can be costlier. Many older homes don’t have large enough electrical panels or plugs that can handle 220 volts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric heat pumps and other electric appliances can be more expensive than gas-powered equivalents, especially because it can be harder to find rebates. Sacramento and San Jose are offering residents up to several thousand dollars to switch from gas to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a cultural transition that we have to undergo,” said McAllister. “It’s a big lift, but we’re in a powerful state with a big economy and a lot of creativity. So I think if anybody can do it, California can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, McAllister says, a lot of the nation’s energy efficiency rules, including for appliances, were passed by California first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The climate crisis is making people sicker – worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and rising heat. But the impact of the climate crisis – for patients, doctors and researchers – is already being felt across every specialty of medicine, with worse feared to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote align='right' size='medium' citation='Dr. Bruce Bekkar, San Diego']‘We’re finding that we have increasing numbers of children born already in a weakened state from heat and air pollution. That’s a totally different story than thinking about climate change as the cause of hurricanes over Florida.’[/pullquote]“There’s research suggesting that our prescription medications may be causing harm because of changing heat patterns,” said Aaron Bernstein, a pediatric hospitalist who is the co-director of the Center for Climate, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/society/health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the Global Environment at Harvard University.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s evidence that extreme weather events are affecting critical medical supplies so we can’t do things as we normally would do because IV fluids aren’t available.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And there’s evidence that extreme weather events are knocking out power more and more, and that is a huge issue for providing care in healthcare facilities.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2019/09/ClimateHealthMcClurgWatt2way.mp3\" title=\"Listen to Lesley McClurg's Report on Health Impacts\" program=\"Science\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/05/SciencePlayer_BG.jpeg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent example,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that lung cancer patients undergoing radiation were less likely to survive when hurricane disasters disrupted their treatments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An August \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1906035\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">article\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the New England Journal of Medicine lays out dozens of similar studies to show how the climate crisis affects each practice of medicine. Renee Salas, a co-author of the report, who teaches emergency medicine at Harvard Medical Schoolsaid: “The climate crisis is impacting not only health for our patients but the way we deliver care and our ability to do our jobs. And that’s happening today.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1947700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003c/a>Allergies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/environment/climate-change\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> makes allergies worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As temperatures increase, plants produce more pollen for longer periods of time, intensifying the allergy seasons. Increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can make plants grow more and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25372614?dopt=Abstract\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cause more grass pollen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which causes allergies in about 20% of people. Carbon dioxide can also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publish.csiro.au/fp/FP05039\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">increase the allergy-causing effects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of pollen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neelu Tummala, an ear, nose and throat specialist at the George Washington Medical Faculty Associates in Washington DC, said she sees many patients with allergic rhinitis, or inflammation of the nasal cavity, congestion and post-nasal drip.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It used to be that tree pollens were only in spring, grasses were just in summer, ragweed was just in fall,” Tummala said. “But the timing of those is starting to overlap more.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Tummala’s patients, Kelly Kenney, had minor seasonal allergies as a child but now suffers from year-round from sinus pains, ear pressure and congestion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The last four years, my symptoms have gotten increasingly worse,” Kenney said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pregnancy and newborn complications\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pregnant people are more vulnerable to heat and the air pollution that is being made worse by climate change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\">\u003c/a>Bruce Bekkar, a San Diego-based obstetrician gynecologist who stopped practicing six years ago to spend more time as a climate activist, has compiled 68 studies from the continental US on the association between heat, smog and the tiny particles of pollution that come from fossil fuels and how they are connected with premature birth, low birth weight and stillbirth.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More smog forms when it is hot, and some research suggests particulate matter also increases with the climate crisis, although the data is less robust.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bekkar said he and his co-authors found a significant association in 58 of the 68 studies. The body of research covers 30m births in the US.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bekkar said doctors should talk to their patients about how heat waves could lead to premature births and how staying away from air pollution can help them keep their children healthy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re finding that we have increasing numbers of children born already in a weakened state from heat and air pollution. That’s a totally different story than thinking about climate change as the cause of hurricanes over Florida … It’s a much more pervasive and ongoing impact.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the developing world pregnant people can also suffer from food and water scarcity. Insect-borne illnesses – such as the Zika virus, which was spread by mosquitoes – are also a hazard to developing fetuses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-800x799.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-768x767.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003c/a>Risks for children\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children under the age of five experience the majority of the health burden from climate change, according to Salas’ report.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Ahdoot, a pediatrician in Alexandria, Virginia, treated an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old who moved from Florida after a hurricane destroyed their community and their medical records at their doctor’s office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One needed surgery for a heart condition and had to start from scratch with a new cardiologist. Both had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that was harder to treat amid the major life disruption and without records on adjustments to medication dosages. Ahdoot, who also founded the group Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action, said she has seen an influx of families moving because of weather disasters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6709.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>Infectious disease\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Changing temperature and rainfall patterns allow some insects spread farther and transmit malaria, dengue, Lyme disease and West Nile virus. Waterborne cholera and cryptosporidiosis increase with drought and flooding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heart and lung disease\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air pollution gets worse as temperatures rise, stressing both the heart and lungs. The fossil fuel pollution that causes the climate crisis also is linked with increased hospitalizations and deaths from cardiovascular disease, and it is connected with more asthma attacks and other breathing problems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More intense wildfires \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/world/2018/aug/02/wildfire-events-air-quality-health-issues-in-western-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spew dangerous smoke\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into the air, as documented in the western US this year. And hotter days make more \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/environment/2019/apr/23/americans-unsafe-air-quality-report\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smog\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which the American Lung Association describes as acting “like a sunburn on your lungs which may trigger an asthma attack”.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dehydration and kidney problems\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Much hotter days make it harder to stay hydrated. They are linked with electrolyte imbalances, kidney stones and kidney failure. Patients who need dialysis as their kidneys fail can have trouble getting treatment during extreme weather events.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1947739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6703.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\">\u003c/a>Mental health conditions\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American Psychological Association created a 69-page guide on how climate change can induce stress, depression and anxiety. The group says “the connections with mental health are often not part” of the climate-health discussion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People exposed to or displaced by extreme weather or violent conflict are at higher risk for mental health challenges. Extreme heat can also make some mental illnesses worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism found emergency calls relating to psychiatric conditions increased about 40% in Baltimore in summer 2018, when the heat index surged above 103F, as reported on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757034136/how-high-heat-can-impact-mental-health\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And some psychotropic medications interfere with the body’s ability to regulate temperature – increasing vulnerability to heat.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Neurologic disease\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fossil fuel pollution can increase the risk of stroke. Coal combustion also produces mercury – a neurotoxin for fetuses. Diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks increase the chance of neurological problems. Extreme heat is also linked with cerebrovascular disease, a disorder that affects blood supply to the brain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Skin disease\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Higher temperatures and the depletion of the ozone layer increase the risk of skin cancer. The same refrigerants and gases that damage the ozone layer contribute to climate change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"Art showing corn plants growing in dry soil, withering under an orange sun.\" width=\"386\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6712.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\">\u003c/a>Nutrition\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carbon dioxide emissions are lowering the nutritional density of food crops, reducing plant levels of protein, zinc and iron and leading to more nutritional deficiencies. Food supplies are also disrupted by drought, societal instability and inequity \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211912418300063\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">linked with climate change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Digestive illnesses\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heat is linked with higher risks for salmonella and campylobacter outbreaks. Extreme rains can contaminate drinking water. Harmful algae blooms that thrive in higher temperatures can cause gastrointestinal problems, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Trauma\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extreme weather events, including hurricanes, floods and wildfires, often cause physical injuries. Doctors see minor fractures, crush injuries and smoke inhalation. Extreme heat is also linked with aggression and violence, and the climate crisis globally is connected with violent conflict and forced migration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/16/climate-crisis-health-risks-extreme-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story\u003c/a> originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian\u003c/a>. It is republished here as part of KQED’s partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/climatenow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covering Climate Now\u003c/a>, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent example,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that lung cancer patients undergoing radiation were less likely to survive when hurricane disasters disrupted their treatments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An August \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1906035\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">article\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the New England Journal of Medicine lays out dozens of similar studies to show how the climate crisis affects each practice of medicine. Renee Salas, a co-author of the report, who teaches emergency medicine at Harvard Medical Schoolsaid: “The climate crisis is impacting not only health for our patients but the way we deliver care and our ability to do our jobs. And that’s happening today.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1947700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-800x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6704.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003c/a>Allergies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/environment/climate-change\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> makes allergies worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As temperatures increase, plants produce more pollen for longer periods of time, intensifying the allergy seasons. Increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can make plants grow more and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25372614?dopt=Abstract\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cause more grass pollen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which causes allergies in about 20% of people. Carbon dioxide can also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.publish.csiro.au/fp/FP05039\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">increase the allergy-causing effects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of pollen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neelu Tummala, an ear, nose and throat specialist at the George Washington Medical Faculty Associates in Washington DC, said she sees many patients with allergic rhinitis, or inflammation of the nasal cavity, congestion and post-nasal drip.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It used to be that tree pollens were only in spring, grasses were just in summer, ragweed was just in fall,” Tummala said. “But the timing of those is starting to overlap more.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Tummala’s patients, Kelly Kenney, had minor seasonal allergies as a child but now suffers from year-round from sinus pains, ear pressure and congestion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The last four years, my symptoms have gotten increasingly worse,” Kenney said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pregnancy and newborn complications\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pregnant people are more vulnerable to heat and the air pollution that is being made worse by climate change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1020x1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1200x1200.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707-1920x1920.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/IMG_6707.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\">\u003c/a>Bruce Bekkar, a San Diego-based obstetrician gynecologist who stopped practicing six years ago to spend more time as a climate activist, has compiled 68 studies from the continental US on the association between heat, smog and the tiny particles of pollution that come from fossil fuels and how they are connected with premature birth, low birth weight and stillbirth.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More smog forms when it is hot, and some research suggests particulate matter also increases with the climate crisis, although the data is less robust.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bekkar said he and his co-authors found a significant association in 58 of the 68 studies. The body of research covers 30m births in the US.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bekkar said doctors should talk to their patients about how heat waves could lead to premature births and how staying away from air pollution can help them keep their children healthy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’re finding that we have increasing numbers of children born already in a weakened state from heat and air pollution. That’s a totally different story than thinking about climate change as the cause of hurricanes over Florida … It’s a much more pervasive and ongoing impact.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the developing world pregnant people can also suffer from food and water scarcity. Insect-borne illnesses – such as the Zika virus, which was spread by mosquitoes – are also a hazard to developing fetuses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1947420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-1020x1019.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-800x799.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo-768x767.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/09/Covering-Climate-Now-Logo.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003c/a>Risks for children\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children under the age of five experience the majority of the health burden from climate change, according to Salas’ report.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Ahdoot, a pediatrician in Alexandria, Virginia, treated an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old who moved from Florida after a hurricane destroyed their community and their medical records at their doctor’s office.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One needed surgery for a heart condition and had to start from scratch with a new cardiologist. Both had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that was harder to treat amid the major life disruption and without records on adjustments to medication dosages. 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Coal combustion also produces mercury – a neurotoxin for fetuses. Diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks increase the chance of neurological problems. Extreme heat is also linked with cerebrovascular disease, a disorder that affects blood supply to the brain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Skin disease\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Higher temperatures and the depletion of the ozone layer increase the risk of skin cancer. 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