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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2015/01/20150112science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26127\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Plant-mold-feature_image1-e1420852016889-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26127 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Plant-mold-feature_image1-e1420852016889-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Plant mold feature_image1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Wolfgang Schweigkofler holds up a culture of \u003cem>Phytophthora tentaculata\u003c/em> at Dominican University in Marin County. Experts there have spent years studying ways to fight Sudden Oak Death and are now turning their attention to \u003cem>P. tentaculata\u003c/em>. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, scores of trees began visibly dying off around the Bay Area, in what turned out to be the advent of \u003ca href=\"http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PRamorumChronology_12.10.14.pdf\">Sudden Oak Death\u003c/a>. The cause was a microscopic parasite, \u003cem>Phytophthora ramorum\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Phytophthora \u003c/em>comes from Greek and means “plant destroyer.” (It’s pronounced fie-TOF-thur-uh.) Of its many relatives, perhaps the best known is \u003cem>Phytophthora infestans\u003c/em>, noted for causing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/294137/Irish-Potato-Famine\">Irish Potato Famine\u003c/a>. Though sometimes classified among fungi, they’re actually part of a distinct group known as “water molds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/manuals/emergency/downloads/nprg-genericphytophthoras.pdf\">An ominous federal\u003c/a> report five years ago warned of another \u003cem>Phytophthora \u003c/em>species that had not arrived yet in North America. If it were to appear, the report said it “would likely cause severe economic impacts to the nursery trade, as well as environmental impacts on native species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in the fall of 2012, it showed up at a nursery in Monterey County. “We were like, what the heck is this?” says state plant pathologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK4-NMsDbm8\">Suzanne Latham\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She identified it through DNA testing as \u003cem>Phytophthora tentaculata\u003c/em>. 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At roughly an area of one hundred football fields, the massive project involved hauling in many thousands of plants that are native to California, at a cost of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants included a shrub called toyon and a subshrub called sticky monkey flower. Both turned out to be hosts of \u003cem>P. tentaculata\u003c/em>, which, unbeknownst to workers, was quietly hitchhiking into the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a soil-born pathogen, \u003cem>tentaculata \u003c/em>attacks and rots plant roots. Infected plants look “water-stressed,” meaning the parasite can masquerade as effects of the drought. It can spread by drifting in water, or with help from people: in contaminated potting soil, perhaps, or in dirt on workers’ boots or tools, or in the treads of truck tires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That invasive species have the potential to sabotage restoration efforts was not news to the PUC. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRe4nX6fSo\">Greg Lyman\u003c/a>, a habitat mitigation engineer, says the agency had taken pains to keep pests and pathogens out of the site, with a zero-tolerance approach to potential contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who rolled up with dirty equipment had to turn around and go power-wash it before they were allowed onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26142\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Toyon-P.1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26142\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Toyon-P.1.jpg\" alt=\"A shrub infected with Phytophthora cactorum, which rots plant roots, leading to symptoms like yellowing leaves, stunting and necrosis. 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How many kinds of plants these pathogens might eat and how much damage they might do is uncertain, but for Lyman, the nightmare scenario would be this: “We’ve introduced a pathogen into the watershed that could decimate a whole ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Before It Can Run Wild\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invasive species, once they’ve found a toehold in a new environment, can be difficult – if not impossible – to fully eradicate. The best time to try, experts say, is before they’ve had a chance to get established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were more than eight thousand outplantings of sticky monkey flower and toyon at the site in Alameda County. While not all of them were necessarily infected with \u003cem>tentaculata\u003c/em>, every one of them had to go. Workers lopped each one off at ground level, with the roots still buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ripping them out would actually increase the risk of spread,” Lyman explains, “because as you pull them out you would leave some roots behind or you would accidentally spray roots and pathogens outside of controlled areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the hope is to kill the mold where it lays, using a process called “solarization.” This entails putting sheets of plastic over the ground to trap the sun’s heat in the soil, warming it to 120 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, several inches down into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26146\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 383px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Phytophthora-tentaculata-213x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26146\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Phytophthora-tentaculata-213x162.jpg\" alt=\"Photomicrograph of Phytophthora tentaculata, showing the filaments that grow through plant tissues, secrete toxins and enzymes and absorb nutrients. 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It can spread by drifting in water, or with help from people: in contaminated potting soil, perhaps, or in dirt on workers’ boots or tools, or in the treads of truck tires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That invasive species have the potential to sabotage restoration efforts was not news to the PUC. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRe4nX6fSo\">Greg Lyman\u003c/a>, a habitat mitigation engineer, says the agency had taken pains to keep pests and pathogens out of the site, with a zero-tolerance approach to potential contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who rolled up with dirty equipment had to turn around and go power-wash it before they were allowed onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26142\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Toyon-P.1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26142\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Toyon-P.1.jpg\" alt=\"A shrub infected with Phytophthora cactorum, which rots plant roots, leading to symptoms like yellowing leaves, stunting and necrosis. 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How many kinds of plants these pathogens might eat and how much damage they might do is uncertain, but for Lyman, the nightmare scenario would be this: “We’ve introduced a pathogen into the watershed that could decimate a whole ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Before It Can Run Wild\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invasive species, once they’ve found a toehold in a new environment, can be difficult – if not impossible – to fully eradicate. The best time to try, experts say, is before they’ve had a chance to get established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were more than eight thousand outplantings of sticky monkey flower and toyon at the site in Alameda County. While not all of them were necessarily infected with \u003cem>tentaculata\u003c/em>, every one of them had to go. 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By offering it free as a gift from the kitchen, restaurants weren’t “selling” foie gras or violating the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night chefs rejoiced on Twitter. In a tweet, Chef David Bazirgan of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dirtyhabitsf.com/\">Dirty Habit \u003c/a>said: \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>CALI FOIE BAN OVERTURNED . GOOD THING I ALWAYS HAVE IT ANYWAY!!! We have lots of FOIE gras for tonight…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bazirgan created a four-course foie gras tasting menu that sold out within a few hours. “We were slammed and the chef sold out but we’re doing it again tonight,” said Jamie Law, public relations manager for Dirty Habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal rights groups have vowed to appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peta.org/\">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals\u003c/a>, President Ingrid Newkirk said force-feeding ducks and geese is akin to torture and won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A line will be drawn in the sand outside any restaurant that goes back to serving this ‘torture in a tin,’ and whoever crosses that line identifies themselves with gluttony that cannot control itself even to the point of torturing animals,” said Newkirk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26048\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Bazirgan-with-Foie-Gras-1_7_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26048\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Bazirgan-with-Foie-Gras-1_7_15.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Chef David Bazirgan holds up two lobes of foie gras moments after the statewide ban was lifted Wednesday. (Kimpton Group)\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Chef David Bazirgan holds up two lobes of foie gras moments after the statewide ban was lifted Wednesday. (Dirty Habit)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state has not said whether it will appeal the decision. A representative from \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/about\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris\u003c/a>’ office said, “we are reviewing the ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants from Los Angeles to San Francisco are offering celebratory foie gras treats from \u003ca href=\"http://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/where-to-find-free-foie-gras-to-celebrate-the-end-of-the-ban\">cotton candy\u003c/a> to foie gras burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrity chef Thomas Keller, who has been a vocal opponent of the ban said both his Yountville Calif. restaurants, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thomaskeller.com/tfl\">The French Laundry \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thomaskeller.com/yountville-california/bouchon-bistro\">Bouchon\u003c/a>, will start serving foie gras again this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled to be offering our guests the opportunity to enjoy this delicacy again,” said Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is still illegal to produce foie gras but the ruling allows restaurants to sell it, meaning California restaurants can purchase the food from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a handful of celebrity chefs like Wolfgang Puck oppose serving foie gras, most welcomed the recent news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a rite of passage to be able to serve it,” said Chef Josiah Citrin of Santa Monica’s Melisse. “It’ll be on our menu all this week.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night chefs rejoiced on Twitter. In a tweet, Chef David Bazirgan of San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dirtyhabitsf.com/\">Dirty Habit \u003c/a>said: \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>CALI FOIE BAN OVERTURNED . GOOD THING I ALWAYS HAVE IT ANYWAY!!! We have lots of FOIE gras for tonight…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bazirgan created a four-course foie gras tasting menu that sold out within a few hours. “We were slammed and the chef sold out but we’re doing it again tonight,” said Jamie Law, public relations manager for Dirty Habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal rights groups have vowed to appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://www.peta.org/\">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals\u003c/a>, President Ingrid Newkirk said force-feeding ducks and geese is akin to torture and won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A line will be drawn in the sand outside any restaurant that goes back to serving this ‘torture in a tin,’ and whoever crosses that line identifies themselves with gluttony that cannot control itself even to the point of torturing animals,” said Newkirk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26048\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 302px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Bazirgan-with-Foie-Gras-1_7_15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26048\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/Bazirgan-with-Foie-Gras-1_7_15.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Chef David Bazirgan holds up two lobes of foie gras moments after the statewide ban was lifted Wednesday. (Kimpton Group)\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Chef David Bazirgan holds up two lobes of foie gras moments after the statewide ban was lifted Wednesday. (Dirty Habit)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state has not said whether it will appeal the decision. A representative from \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/about\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris\u003c/a>’ office said, “we are reviewing the ruling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants from Los Angeles to San Francisco are offering celebratory foie gras treats from \u003ca href=\"http://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/where-to-find-free-foie-gras-to-celebrate-the-end-of-the-ban\">cotton candy\u003c/a> to foie gras burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celebrity chef Thomas Keller, who has been a vocal opponent of the ban said both his Yountville Calif. restaurants, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thomaskeller.com/tfl\">The French Laundry \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thomaskeller.com/yountville-california/bouchon-bistro\">Bouchon\u003c/a>, will start serving foie gras again this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled to be offering our guests the opportunity to enjoy this delicacy again,” said Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is still illegal to produce foie gras but the ruling allows restaurants to sell it, meaning California restaurants can purchase the food from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a handful of celebrity chefs like Wolfgang Puck oppose serving foie gras, most welcomed the recent news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a rite of passage to be able to serve it,” said Chef Josiah Citrin of Santa Monica’s Melisse. “It’ll be on our menu all this week.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/RS1213_P1000565-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/01/RS1213_P1000565-lpr.jpg\" alt=\"2014 set temperature records throughout much of the West. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 set temperature records throughout much of the West. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal climate scientists confirmed today that 2014 stands as \u003ca title=\"NOAA - summary - CA\" href=\"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/climatological-rankings/index.php?periods%5B%5D=ytd¶meter=tavg&state=4&div=0&month=12&year=2014#ranks-form\">California’s warmest year\u003c/a> on record. The state’s average temperature for the year clocked in at 61.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 4.1 degrees higher than the 20th century average. Last year’s average bested the previous record, set in 1934, by nearly two degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"NOAA - 2014 summary\" href=\"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/2014/12\">annual review\u003c/a> from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says last year was warm throughout much of the West:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The West was warmer than average for much of 2014. Nine states had a top 10 warm year. Alaska, Arizona, California, and Nevada each had their warmest year on record. Most locations from the Rockies to the East Coast were cooler than average, with the exception of New England and Florida.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Consistent temperature records date back to 1894.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warmer-than-usual weather had a wide array of effects on California. First and foremost, it \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/10/14/high-temps-intensified-california-drought/\">made an already withering drought even worse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Indeed, temperature is one of the driving factors of drought,” says Jeff Mount, co-founder of the Center for Watershed Sciences at U.C. Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount says two-thirds of California’s precipitation is routinely lost to evaporation or transpiration, the water taken up by plants. When temperatures rise, evapo-transpiration rates rise, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just the process of evaporation alone out of the soils and then the associated transpiration that comes out of plants with the warmer temperatures, the increased length of the growing season — all of these are producing moisture deficits in the soil.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how much worse the drought was made by record warmth is harder to pin down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, a study by scientists at NOAA and Columbia University concluded that climate change was not a major cause of California’s current drought. It \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/12/08/californias-drought-is-it-global-warming/\">drew immediate fire\u003c/a> from other scientists for not taking record-high temperatures into account. The authors said they were looking at causal factors, not intensifying forces, but would be interested in doing additional analysis on the influence of temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/185091766″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount says most striking have been the warm overnight lows, which stretched out the growing season and shriveled the Sierra snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get those warm temps at night, where its not freezing at night anymore, you start melting your snow very, very quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, warm weather can keep the snowpack from building up in the first place. December’s persistent storms brought water content of Sierra snows to \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/12/30/warm-temps-mean-less-snow-for-the-sierra/\">just about half\u003c/a> of the average for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down below, last year’s persistently high temperatures made the notoriously bad air quality even worse in places like the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2014 was one of our busiest years,” says A.M. Aminian, an allergist and respiratory specialist in Fresno, and chair of the Fresno-Madera Medical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we saw more people with asthma, respiratory problems, stuffy nose, and itching eyes, and also respiratory infections,” Aminian recalled. “We have been seeing more air pollution, the air was warmer, and it was very dry. That caused more particulate matter, dust in the air. Whenever there is heat and a lot of sunshine, the smog levels go up. 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For years they’ve been pushing Congress to create a national conservation area that includes a \u003ca title=\"Berryessa NCA map\" href=\"http://berryessasnowmountain.org/pdf/NCAMap%2003.05.2013.pdf\">mishmash of federal lands\u003c/a> stretching from Lake Berryessa, 100 miles north to Snow Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as bills from Democrats Mike Thompson and Barbara Boxer have languished in the House and Senate, respectively, the call has gone out for President Obama to use his executive power and designate the lands instead as a national monument. That status would create similar protections from development. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Washington-state-e1419883940895.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25687 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Washington-state-e1419883940895.jpg\" alt=\"Washington state\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Washington State Department of Transportation/flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By John Upton\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\">Climate Central\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Washington’s governor gets his legislative holiday wish, the Evergreen State in 18 months will launch one of the world’s most sophisticated and all-encompassing climate-pollution pricing programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Draft \u003ca href=\"http://www.governor.wa.gov/issues/climate/documents/CarbonPolutionAccountabilityAct2015_Z-0307.2.pdf\">legislation released last week\u003c/a> by the office of Gov. 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It would affect as great a share of carbon as any similar program operating in the U.S., while avoiding pitfalls of other programs, such as giveaways for certain polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program was crafted to help Washington \u003ca href=\"http://governor.wa.gov/issues/economy/climateWorkgroup/documents/Leidos_ExecSum_20131011.pdf\">get on track\u003c/a> toward meeting its goals, established by the legislature in 2008, of producing no more greenhouse gases in 2020 than had been the case in 1990, with a further 50 percent reduction by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Windfall \u003ca href=\"http://www.governor.wa.gov/issues/climate/documents/carbon_market_revenue.pdf\">revenue under the cap-and-trade proposal would\u003c/a> ease entrenched shortfalls in transportation and education spending, reduce taxes and fund household energy efficiency improvements for poorer residents, and help meet the general costs of running the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘He talks about polluters; we talk about these individuals as employers throughout our state.’\u003ccite>–Brandon Houskeeper,\u003cbr>\nAssociation of Washington Business government affairs official\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The program would become the latest in a growing list of worldwide schemes that charge for the act of polluting the climate — with the dual goals of slowing climate change and, in many cases, providing funds to help tackle the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Congress unwilling to take action on global warming, efforts such as Washington’s are independently burbling up from American states and regions. Fusing together and promoting these “bottom up” approaches to climate action will be a heavy focus of the next international climate treaty, \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-accord-struck-in-lima-18443\">due a year from now\u003c/a>, following the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/whats-at-stake-in-lima-climate-talks-18388\">failures of the Kyoto Protocol\u003c/a> and other attempts to dictate climate policy to nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts in the fast-growing universe of carbon markets lauded the Washington proposal’s technical prowess, which they characterized as best practice. “It’s about as good as you can design these things,” Environmental Defense Fund economist \u003ca href=\"http://www.edf.org/people/gernot-wagner\">Gernot Wagner\u003c/a> said. “It’s exactly what you ought to be doing to rein in emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business body representing many of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/docs/ECYlistofEntitieswithMajorGHGEmissions12-18-14_F.pdf\">130 companies\u003c/a> that would directly pay the new $1 billion a year pollution tax, the costs of which would presumably be spread among customers — including, ultimately, households and motorists — is less enthusiastic. It worries about the economic impacts of the new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned with how the governor is framing the debate,” Association of Washington Business government affairs official \u003ca href=\"http://www.awb.org/brandon-houskeeper/\">Brandon Houskeeper\u003c/a> said. “He talks about polluters; we talk about these individuals as employers throughout our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houskeeper said the association agrees that climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed. But he pointed to gradually declining greenhouse gas pollution rates in Washington in recent years as evidence that industry can improve its environmental performance without new regulations as it switches to more efficient energy technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25681\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Climate-Central-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Climate-Central-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"(Gov. 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He acknowledged that a “unique budget problem in Washington” could help win lawmaker support for it. “We anticipate there will be a heavy push by the governor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would cover an estimated 85 percent of the climate pollution produced by Washington — the same proportion that California’s program will \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieta.org/assets/Reports/EmissionsTradingAroundTheWorld/edf_ieta_california_case_study_may_2013.pdf\">cover in the new year\u003c/a> after it expands to include transportation fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a joint project of nine northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states plus regions of Canada, by contrast, affects electricity generation only, covering \u003ca href=\"http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R41836.pdf\">22 percent of climate pollution\u003c/a>. The European Union’s trading scheme affects the electricity and manufacturing sectors, plus flights within Europe, \u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/clima/publications/docs/factsheet_ets_en.pdf\">covering 45 percent\u003c/a> of the union’s 28 countries’ carbon pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”E8D1SbObECXTSOEexLI92g1Lrhkt6scP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inslee’s proposed program would affect pollution produced by factories, trucks and cars and power plants, including those that produce electricity in other states and import it across state lines. The program would lack the allowance giveaways for select polluters that reduce the potency of other programs, such as in Europe, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/29/poland-won-eu-2030-deal-does-the-climate-lose/\">Poland’s coal plants could get free passes\u003c/a> for decades to come. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Windfall \u003ca href=\"http://www.governor.wa.gov/issues/climate/documents/carbon_market_revenue.pdf\">revenue under the cap-and-trade proposal would\u003c/a> ease entrenched shortfalls in transportation and education spending, reduce taxes and fund household energy efficiency improvements for poorer residents, and help meet the general costs of running the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘He talks about polluters; we talk about these individuals as employers throughout our state.’\u003ccite>–Brandon Houskeeper,\u003cbr>\nAssociation of Washington Business government affairs official\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The program would become the latest in a growing list of worldwide schemes that charge for the act of polluting the climate — with the dual goals of slowing climate change and, in many cases, providing funds to help tackle the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Congress unwilling to take action on global warming, efforts such as Washington’s are independently burbling up from American states and regions. Fusing together and promoting these “bottom up” approaches to climate action will be a heavy focus of the next international climate treaty, \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-accord-struck-in-lima-18443\">due a year from now\u003c/a>, following the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/whats-at-stake-in-lima-climate-talks-18388\">failures of the Kyoto Protocol\u003c/a> and other attempts to dictate climate policy to nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts in the fast-growing universe of carbon markets lauded the Washington proposal’s technical prowess, which they characterized as best practice. “It’s about as good as you can design these things,” Environmental Defense Fund economist \u003ca href=\"http://www.edf.org/people/gernot-wagner\">Gernot Wagner\u003c/a> said. “It’s exactly what you ought to be doing to rein in emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The business body representing many of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/docs/ECYlistofEntitieswithMajorGHGEmissions12-18-14_F.pdf\">130 companies\u003c/a> that would directly pay the new $1 billion a year pollution tax, the costs of which would presumably be spread among customers — including, ultimately, households and motorists — is less enthusiastic. It worries about the economic impacts of the new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned with how the governor is framing the debate,” Association of Washington Business government affairs official \u003ca href=\"http://www.awb.org/brandon-houskeeper/\">Brandon Houskeeper\u003c/a> said. “He talks about polluters; we talk about these individuals as employers throughout our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houskeeper said the association agrees that climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed. But he pointed to gradually declining greenhouse gas pollution rates in Washington in recent years as evidence that industry can improve its environmental performance without new regulations as it switches to more efficient energy technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25681\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 510px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Climate-Central-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Climate-Central-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"(Gov. 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He acknowledged that a “unique budget problem in Washington” could help win lawmaker support for it. “We anticipate there will be a heavy push by the governor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would cover an estimated 85 percent of the climate pollution produced by Washington — the same proportion that California’s program will \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieta.org/assets/Reports/EmissionsTradingAroundTheWorld/edf_ieta_california_case_study_may_2013.pdf\">cover in the new year\u003c/a> after it expands to include transportation fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a joint project of nine northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states plus regions of Canada, by contrast, affects electricity generation only, covering \u003ca href=\"http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R41836.pdf\">22 percent of climate pollution\u003c/a>. The European Union’s trading scheme affects the electricity and manufacturing sectors, plus flights within Europe, \u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/clima/publications/docs/factsheet_ets_en.pdf\">covering 45 percent\u003c/a> of the union’s 28 countries’ carbon pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inslee’s proposed program would affect pollution produced by factories, trucks and cars and power plants, including those that produce electricity in other states and import it across state lines. The program would lack the allowance giveaways for select polluters that reduce the potency of other programs, such as in Europe, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/29/poland-won-eu-2030-deal-does-the-climate-lose/\">Poland’s coal plants could get free passes\u003c/a> for decades to come. It could permit some allowances to be traded through other carbon markets operating in the U.S. and elsewhere — creating economic linkages that economists say can drive down the overall cost of climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite widespread opposition among members of Congress, carbon pricing and trading is being embraced by governments and industry worldwide — \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/09/22/governments-businesses-support-carbon-pricing\">even by Royal Dutch Shell\u003c/a> — as an approach that can simultaneously curb greenhouse gas pollution while raising money needed to combat climate change. Many see it as logical to charge for pollution, instead of expecting society to bear its costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, such as in Inslee’s proposal, such programs can help finance government spending following declines in revenue from other fees and taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Eberhard, a researcher at the Sightline Institute, a think tank focused on sustainability issues in the Pacific Northwest, recently \u003ca href=\"http://daily.sightline.org/2014/11/17/all-the-worlds-carbon-pricing-systems-in-one-animated-map/\">counted 39 carbon pricing programs\u003c/a> in place across the world, from the flagship trading scheme operated by the European Union to a \u003ca href=\"https://icapcarbonaction.com/index.php?option=com_etsmap&task=export&format=pdf&layout=list&systems%5B%5D=46\">2-year-old program in Kazakhstan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concluded that 12 percent of the globe’s carbon pollution now comes under the control of such programs — a figure that will rise to nearly a quarter after China begins a national program in 2016. “Sightline for many years has been saying we should price pollution,” Eberhard said. “So this is an exciting proposal for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state senate is controlled by Republicans, and the Republican chair of the senate’s energy and environment committee, Doug Ericksen, also said it was too early to say what would happen to the bill if it reaches his chamber next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the battle over the legislation could be fought largely on non-environmental grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.seattletimes.com/politicsnorthwest/2014/09/11/supreme-court-finds-legislature-in-contempt-on-education-funding/\">legislature is being held in contempt of court\u003c/a> by the state’s Supreme Court for failing to provide sufficient funds for public education. Sanctions have been threatened if the problem remains unfixed by the end of 2015, and Inslee has proposed that the carbon allowance fees would be used to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/washington/chris-davis-q-a.xml\">Chris Davis\u003c/a>, a carbon markets advisor to Inslee, said “shifts the balance politically” in the cap-and-trade proposal’s favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/12/20141222science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25395\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 726px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria_feature-image.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25395\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria_feature-image.jpg\" alt=\"(Pacifica Hotels)\" width=\"726\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As water becomes scarce, Cambria develops an emergency water system that’s facing a growing opposition. (Pacifica Hotels)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>By Randol White\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://kcbx.org/\">KCBX Central Coast Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coastal tourist town of Cambria, located just below Big Sur and adjacent to Hearst Castle on California’s central coast, will begin pumping about 300 gallons a minute of treated water into the local aquifer this week. The new water source is part of a controversial emergency solution—built just this fall—to keep the community from running dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s water agency says three years of drought have pushed Cambria’s only water source, two local creek basins, to the brink of exhaustion. Officials with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cambriacsd.org/cm/Home.html\">Cambria Community Services District\u003c/a> (CCSD) say this new facility will solve the crisis, one that built up not just during the current drought but over two decades of political battles about the town’s growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were at the limit and we had to do something,” said CCSD spokesman Tom Gray during a tour of the newly built plant. “We knew we had to have a supplemental water source at some point, and figured we might as well just do it. I mean, this is the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSD estimates the cost of the project at $9.13 million, and expects that to rise, with expenses related to change orders and to environmental mitigations required by permitting agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer Scarcity Eases\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Linn has lived in the area for nearly four decades and owns the popular tourist restaurant and pie shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.linnsfruitbin.com/\">Linn’s of Cambria\u003c/a>, located in the heart of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25411\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 356px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Wine-coast-country.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Wine-coast-country.jpg\" alt=\"Cambria is a tourist town filled with restaurants and wine shops, some of which had to truck in water or use bottled water when supplies were scarce. (Wine Coast Country)\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambria is a tourist town filled with restaurants and wine shops, some of which had to truck in water or use bottled water when supplies were scarce. (Wine Coast Country)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says despite the water shortages, he’s had two record years for sales. The emergency water facility couldn’t come at a better time in his opinion, as he’s one of the top water-users in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve suffered from surcharges, and essentially the government leaning on us to try to do everything we could to conserve,” Linn said recently, during a busy Saturday lunch at his restaurant. “That’s happened in the past, but this year was certainly the worst—this past year—was certainly the worst we’ve ever seen, and the most heavy-handed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linn says in order to keep his business running by his standards, he had to truck in his own water last summer from wells at his nearby farm. Some business owners who didn’t have their own wells served bottled water. Paper plates and plastic cups cut down on the water needed for dishwashing, and porta-potties were brought in to reduce bathroom water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some question whether the project is actually needed, now that the town’s wells are starting to fill naturally. After a series of Pacific storms that hit the state during the first half of December, rainfall totals are now well above the seasonal norm for Cambria. Nonetheless, because the drought has been so severe, the \u003ca href=\"http://drought.unl.edu/\">National Drought Mitigation Center\u003c/a> lists the Central Coast area as still in exceptional drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Sivas is a professor of environmental law at \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University\u003c/a> and Director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.stanford.edu/organizations/clinics/environmental-law-clinic\">Stanford Environmental Law Clinic\u003c/a>. She’s representing \u003ca href=\"http://www.landwatch.com/California_land_for_sale/San_Luis_Obispo_County\">LandWatch\u003c/a> of San Luis Obispo County, a group that’s suing to get a more extensive environmental review of the water project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My understanding is that the aquifers there down in Cambria are really filling up,” Sivas said, “and that there’s not really a need to turn the project on at this point, there’s no emergency. We don’t believe there was even an emergency back in the summertime because the water levels were more-or-less where they typically are at that time of year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Decades of Political Battles\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambriea-Map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25444\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambriea-Map-663x1024.png\" alt=\"Cambriea Map\" width=\"331\" height=\"512\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambria has been battling over its water sources for at least two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other central coast communities have diversified their water sources by building pipelines to local reservoirs or hooking up to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/\">California State Water Project\u003c/a>, Cambria’s elected leaders have restricted town’s growth partly by restricting its water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to build a home here, there’s a water connection waiting list of nearly 700 projects that has remained unchanged since 2001.John Coleman is president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acwa.com/\">Association of California Water Agencies\u003c/a> and is also the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/\">East Bay Municipal Utility District\u003c/a>, which provides water to some 1.3 million Bay Area customers. He sees the CCSD’s inaction to secure a secondary water source over the years as a disservice to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some cases one could argue it’s almost a very selfish attitude.” Coleman said. “‘I live here, I have mine, but you’re not going to live here and we’re going to make sure that we’re not going to have you live here because we’re not going to expand our water supply to meet, not only current needs, but needs during a drought.’ So, from my personal perspective, I think it’s the wrong policy approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linn says the CCSD has tried to solve the single-source water issue, but has hit roadblocks in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The town, the CCSD, the Cambria Community Services District has tried for years and years and years to solve the problem,” Linn said, “but we had other government agencies—county, state, Coastal Commission, first and foremost among them—doing everything they could to dissuade the town from any kind of growth, to the point of suing one another. Really, as a citizen it’s insane to watch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Fast-Tracked Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring the CCSD finally pushed forward with a solution that uses a mix of groundwater and recycled water to provide nearly a third of the town’s annual supply. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/site4.aspx\">San Luis Obispo County\u003c/a> issued an emergency permit for the water project in mid-May, with a requirement that the District get a coastal development permit. That permit requires environmental analyses and mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25414\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 422px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria-desal-plant-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria-desal-plant-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Cambria’s emergency water project involves treating wastewater and pumping it back into aquifers. (Jason Lopez)\" width=\"422\" height=\"211\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambria’s emergency water project involves treating groundwater and wastewater, before pumping it back into aquifers. (Jason Lopez)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plant draws up non-potable water from beneath the District’s wastewater treatment facility, adjacent to \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=590\">Hearst San Simeon State Park\u003c/a>. That water is a combination of fresh groundwater, treated wastewater, and sea water. The plant filters this brackish water using reverse osmosis. It then pumps the water uphill, back into the local aquifer, feeding the town’s wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only about 1/30th of the saltiness of seawater, it has a little more saltiness than drinking water, so it’s brackish,” Gray said, pointing out that the facility is not technically a desalination plant, as some are calling it. “It’s mostly groundwater with some penetration of seawater in it and then between 5 and 10 percent of the treated wastewater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As communities up and down the West Coast drain their groundwater basins, seawater intrusion is becoming a concern. Gray says other locations may want to consider using this same technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict Brewing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is on board with the District’s rapid action this year, nor with its choice of solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrians for Change founder Tina Dickason says she doesn’t understand why the CCSD had to move forward with such an expensive project when there were other options available. She says the town should have built a dam, instead of a new treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickason says a reservoir with a capacity of 600-700 acre feet would be much more “environmentally desirable,” with fewer issues than the new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The more we see that it does not have dramatic and drastic environmental adverse consequences, the more this town will look back and wonder, why were we upset with this?’\u003ccite>—Mark Rochefort,Cambrians for Water\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sivas and Dickason are watching the project’s permitting process closely. They’re concerned about what will happen to the salty by-products of the reverse osmosis, and they want to be sure the plant doesn’t affect endangered species in the San Simeon Creek lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airlin Singewald with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/planning.htm\">San Luis Obispo County Planning Department\u003c/a> says those issues will be addressed in the draft environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t surprise many people if the project ends up embroiled in a legal process with the California Coastal Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the commission does not have any authority over the project. However, that would change if the county approves the Coastal Development Permit, taking away the facility’s emergency status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Rochefort is a former lawyer who moved to Cambria to retire. He started a group earlier this year called Cambrians for Water to support the CCSD’s efforts. He says he’s not looking forward to a fight with the Coastal Commission, but he and many others in town believe it’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Change is a threatening thing to a lot of people,” Rochefort says, “but I am firmly convinced that the longer this plant operates, the more we see its benefits, the more we see that it does not have dramatic and drastic environmental adverse consequences, the more this town will look back and wonder, why were we upset with this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singewald says a draft EIR could be ready in four to six months, but there is no timeline for the steps to be completed. If everything goes quickly, the planning commission could begin debating the project by late spring 2015.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer Scarcity Eases\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Linn has lived in the area for nearly four decades and owns the popular tourist restaurant and pie shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.linnsfruitbin.com/\">Linn’s of Cambria\u003c/a>, located in the heart of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25411\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 356px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Wine-coast-country.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25411\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Wine-coast-country.jpg\" alt=\"Cambria is a tourist town filled with restaurants and wine shops, some of which had to truck in water or use bottled water when supplies were scarce. (Wine Coast Country)\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambria is a tourist town filled with restaurants and wine shops, some of which had to truck in water or use bottled water when supplies were scarce. (Wine Coast Country)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says despite the water shortages, he’s had two record years for sales. The emergency water facility couldn’t come at a better time in his opinion, as he’s one of the top water-users in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve suffered from surcharges, and essentially the government leaning on us to try to do everything we could to conserve,” Linn said recently, during a busy Saturday lunch at his restaurant. “That’s happened in the past, but this year was certainly the worst—this past year—was certainly the worst we’ve ever seen, and the most heavy-handed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linn says in order to keep his business running by his standards, he had to truck in his own water last summer from wells at his nearby farm. Some business owners who didn’t have their own wells served bottled water. Paper plates and plastic cups cut down on the water needed for dishwashing, and porta-potties were brought in to reduce bathroom water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some question whether the project is actually needed, now that the town’s wells are starting to fill naturally. After a series of Pacific storms that hit the state during the first half of December, rainfall totals are now well above the seasonal norm for Cambria. Nonetheless, because the drought has been so severe, the \u003ca href=\"http://drought.unl.edu/\">National Drought Mitigation Center\u003c/a> lists the Central Coast area as still in exceptional drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deborah Sivas is a professor of environmental law at \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University\u003c/a> and Director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.stanford.edu/organizations/clinics/environmental-law-clinic\">Stanford Environmental Law Clinic\u003c/a>. She’s representing \u003ca href=\"http://www.landwatch.com/California_land_for_sale/San_Luis_Obispo_County\">LandWatch\u003c/a> of San Luis Obispo County, a group that’s suing to get a more extensive environmental review of the water project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My understanding is that the aquifers there down in Cambria are really filling up,” Sivas said, “and that there’s not really a need to turn the project on at this point, there’s no emergency. We don’t believe there was even an emergency back in the summertime because the water levels were more-or-less where they typically are at that time of year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Decades of Political Battles\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambriea-Map.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25444\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambriea-Map-663x1024.png\" alt=\"Cambriea Map\" width=\"331\" height=\"512\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambria has been battling over its water sources for at least two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other central coast communities have diversified their water sources by building pipelines to local reservoirs or hooking up to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/\">California State Water Project\u003c/a>, Cambria’s elected leaders have restricted town’s growth partly by restricting its water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to build a home here, there’s a water connection waiting list of nearly 700 projects that has remained unchanged since 2001.John Coleman is president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acwa.com/\">Association of California Water Agencies\u003c/a> and is also the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/\">East Bay Municipal Utility District\u003c/a>, which provides water to some 1.3 million Bay Area customers. He sees the CCSD’s inaction to secure a secondary water source over the years as a disservice to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some cases one could argue it’s almost a very selfish attitude.” Coleman said. “‘I live here, I have mine, but you’re not going to live here and we’re going to make sure that we’re not going to have you live here because we’re not going to expand our water supply to meet, not only current needs, but needs during a drought.’ So, from my personal perspective, I think it’s the wrong policy approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linn says the CCSD has tried to solve the single-source water issue, but has hit roadblocks in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The town, the CCSD, the Cambria Community Services District has tried for years and years and years to solve the problem,” Linn said, “but we had other government agencies—county, state, Coastal Commission, first and foremost among them—doing everything they could to dissuade the town from any kind of growth, to the point of suing one another. Really, as a citizen it’s insane to watch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Fast-Tracked Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring the CCSD finally pushed forward with a solution that uses a mix of groundwater and recycled water to provide nearly a third of the town’s annual supply. \u003ca href=\"http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/site4.aspx\">San Luis Obispo County\u003c/a> issued an emergency permit for the water project in mid-May, with a requirement that the District get a coastal development permit. That permit requires environmental analyses and mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25414\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 422px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria-desal-plant-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/12/Cambria-desal-plant-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Cambria’s emergency water project involves treating wastewater and pumping it back into aquifers. (Jason Lopez)\" width=\"422\" height=\"211\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambria’s emergency water project involves treating groundwater and wastewater, before pumping it back into aquifers. (Jason Lopez)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plant draws up non-potable water from beneath the District’s wastewater treatment facility, adjacent to \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=590\">Hearst San Simeon State Park\u003c/a>. That water is a combination of fresh groundwater, treated wastewater, and sea water. The plant filters this brackish water using reverse osmosis. It then pumps the water uphill, back into the local aquifer, feeding the town’s wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only about 1/30th of the saltiness of seawater, it has a little more saltiness than drinking water, so it’s brackish,” Gray said, pointing out that the facility is not technically a desalination plant, as some are calling it. “It’s mostly groundwater with some penetration of seawater in it and then between 5 and 10 percent of the treated wastewater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As communities up and down the West Coast drain their groundwater basins, seawater intrusion is becoming a concern. Gray says other locations may want to consider using this same technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict Brewing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is on board with the District’s rapid action this year, nor with its choice of solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambrians for Change founder Tina Dickason says she doesn’t understand why the CCSD had to move forward with such an expensive project when there were other options available. 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