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"content": "\u003cp>Highways. Trails. Roads. Ferry terminals. Bike paths. Train lines. Much of Marin County’s spiderweb of coastal and bayside transit options is at risk of inundation from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018103/king-tides-foreshadow-far-wetter-future-sf-shoreline\">rising sea levels\u003c/a> in the coming decades, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tam.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TAM-SLR-Study-May2025-Final.pdf\">recent study\u003c/a> identifying the climate vulnerabilities of its built infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county, surrounded by water on three sides, is already plagued by flooding during high tides several times a year. Now it has a greater understanding of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016813/bay-area-now-has-first-ever-regional-sea-level-rise-plan\">future sea level rise risk\u003c/a> due to the effects of human-caused climate change, thanks to the study unveiled last week by the Transportation Authority of Marin, or TAM, in collaboration with environmental consulting firm Arup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers identified 19 areas along the Marin County shoreline that are prone to flooding, sea level rise and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">groundwater rise\u003c/a>, noting that “tipping points” at which flooding becomes permanent are just decades out in some locations. In others, temporary flooding could spike in the years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transportation system is connecting all of these places, and if it fails in one community, then it fails to work for the entire county and the region,” said Mikaela Hiatt, a senior transportation planner with TAM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the bayside of Marin, the researchers found a long stretch of spots that face an outsize flood risk: Sausalito, Tiburon, Belvedere, Marin City, Manzanita, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Larkspur, Kentfield, San Rafael, Santa Venetia, Novato, Bel Marin Keys, Hamilton Wetlands, Bel Marin Keys, Highway 37 and Highway 101. On the Pacific coast, they found far fewer: Stinson Beach, Bolinas and Inverness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2028/06/GettyImages-1237523373-scaled-e1753215508590.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a white bike helmet, yellow jacket and black pants rides through several inches of water on a submerged bike trail. Hills and clouds are in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1364\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial picture taken Jan. 3, 2022, shows a man riding a bike along a flooded Sausalito/Mill Valley bike path during a king tide in Mill Valley. King tides occur when the Earth, moon and sun align in orbit to produce unusually high water levels and can cause local tidal flooding. Over time, sea level rise is raising the height of tidal systems. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s no surprise that most of the areas set to flood in the coming decades nearly perfectly align with the county’s densest population centers, where advocates in places like Marin City and San Rafael have long called for solutions for existing floodwaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>The populations at risk are in some of the most beautiful parts of the county right by the water,” said Meg Ackerson, senior climate resilience engineer with Arup. She noted that county leaders and developers built much of the bayside infrastructure on fill or in low-lying areas that were once marshland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the water wants to reclaim what was once there,” Ackerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transportation agency’s study doesn’t set any must-dos for the vulnerable areas because the agency doesn’t own roads, highways, ferry terminals, rail lines or trails but acts as a technical advisor. Instead, the study’s authors list hazards and a suite of solutions to curb flooding, including an outline of ongoing work by other agencies.[aside postID=science_1997729 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_2320.jpg']For example, Marin City, located just west of Highway 101 and Richardson Bay, has long been plagued by floodwaters. When it rains heavily and tides are high, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1980525/it-comes-to-race-marin-city-residents-demand-flood-protections\">floodwaters can block the only road in and out of the neighborhood\u003c/a>, spill onto Highway 101 and flood part of a shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, researchers found a “tipping point” by midcentury where “we start to see permanent inundation,” Hiatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategies that could protect the area include building a sea wall, raising streets, elevating the shoreline, creating a second evacuation route, breaching creek channels, and deepening the capacity of the area’s stormwater pond, according to the researchers. Caltrans is also conducting a study to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another area that already floods on “sunny days” during high tides is the Mill Valley area, “where there’s a kind of well-known photo with the kayaker next to the bicyclist,” said Anne Richman, TAM’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tipping point for Mill Valley is generally around 2050, “though temporary flooding and closures are anticipated sooner,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency identified at least two existing ongoing flood mitigation plans for the area, developed by county and city officials. Solutions could include elevating roads and trails, and Richman said local authorities could also explore the use of a horizontal levee, which is a wide, gradually sloping land buffer meant to soak up floodwaters and stop them from moving inland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997879 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/20240604_FloodedSchool-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/20240604_FloodedSchool-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/20240604_FloodedSchool-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/20240604_FloodedSchool-15_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/20240604_FloodedSchool-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richardson Bay, with Mill Valley Middle School seen in the distance on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. In October 2021, Mill Valley Middle School closed down for two days due to flooding and storm damage caused by rain-induced flooding and high tides. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Rafael is a third hotspot for future flooding, with significant effects on transportation corridors by 2050 due to its proximity to San Rafael Bay and San Rafael Creek, which splits a large portion of the city’s densely populated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Future floodwaters could cut off access to downtown, inundate the low-lying Canal neighborhood, and complicate access to Highway 101, Highway 580, and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Solutions here could include creating horizontal levees, elevating transportation routes and building out ponds on public property to capture excess stormwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 580-101 connection is critical to how people move in and out of the county,” Hiatt said. “These solutions could protect the thousands of people who live in the Canal neighborhood and who use the transportation system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the study, agency officials prioritized nature-based solutions to keep them at the forefront of the planning process as coastal cities work toward a state mandate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">develop assessments of their vulnerability to sea level rise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the study doesn’t force cities to adapt to rising tides, Richman hopes the research serves as a launching point as communities begin to take the topic seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in kind of an interesting position because we don’t actually own any of the roadways or pathways or bus stops,” Richman said. “Ultimately, it’s going to take all of these agencies pulling together to make these projects happen over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He said the reason they’d filed so many suits was simply because the administration was so frequently breaking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BRIC program, which rebranded and reformed prior disaster mitigation and funding efforts, was established in 2018 during Trump’s first administration, with broad bipartisan support. It was given additional funding in 2021 as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering how valuable pre-planning is in a disaster, and how hard it has historically been for states to fund infrastructure projects, BRIC was a milestone in foresight, according to Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, associate professor at the Columbia Climate School and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the BRIC funding did was it created a standing mechanism where states and localities, through the states, could get funding for these really sort of large, kind of expensive infrastructure projects that would actually build resilience and prevent the loss of lives and loss of livelihood,” Schlegelmilch said. “So it marked a really important turning point. It was actually a very forward-looking achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, in the past four years, the program picked nearly 2,000 projects across the country to receive a total of $4.5 billion in BRIC funding. Every state has received some federally funded mitigation grants. And four — Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas — have each avoided at least $10 billion in post-disaster costs thanks to the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sheriff’s deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic, on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after a flash flood swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Julio Cortez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit comes days after severe flooding around the country, and two weeks after tragic flooding in Texas that took the lives of more than 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal communities have received the largest portion of funds over the past four years, especially California, Louisiana, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis done by Schlegelmilch of past BRIC funding cycles indicated that projects to address flooding received the most money. Energy projects, including projects like removing vegetation to ensure electric-grid resilience during wildfires, were also some of the best-funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-illegally-shutting-down\">highlighted\u003c/a> three projects that have been approved but may not get their promised funding:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A project in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes to reduce landslides, aiming to protect homes, roads, sewer, water, gas, electricity and communication lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A project in the city of Sacramento to reduce the danger of flooding by improving floodwalls, levees and moving a pump station. The project aims to protect 4 miles of interstate highway, an airport runway and 27,000 homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A project in Kern County to retrofit the Kern Valley Healthcare District’s hospital for earthquakes. If it cannot be retrofitted, the hospital may soon need to close. Thousands in this district would then need to drive to hospitals over two hours away to seek care.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>FEMA \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250404/fema-ends-wasteful-politicized-grant-program-returning-agency-core-mission\">announced in April\u003c/a> that they would close the program, saying it was rife with “waste, fraud and abuse,” without providing examples or data. In a since-removed press release, the administration said the BRIC program had partisan political aims. FEMA is not only closing future funding rounds, but they are also not giving out already promised funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Trump administration’s goal is to get states to take care of their own disasters, Schlegelmilch believes shuttering this program makes that target much harder to hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t disagree that states do need to do more in the disaster space,” he said, “but this is one of those key programs that were designed to help states help themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the administration is allowed to strip this funding away completely, it may be years before we know the full effect of the harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, of all the disaster interventions that are damaging our resilience as a nation, I think this is the most damaging of the programs that have been cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is just the latest in a steady stream, perhaps even a firehose, of legal actions Bonta and other attorneys general and governors have taken against the current administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s becoming a hallmark of Trump’s presidency,” Bonta said. “Trampling over the separation of power, sidelining a Congress led by Trump’s own party, violating the Constitution and putting the American people in harm’s way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910625/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-on-standing-up-to-the-trump-administration\">KQED’s Forum on Thursday\u003c/a>, Bonta said his office had filed 33 lawsuits against the administration so far this year, more than one a week. He said the reason they’d filed so many suits was simply because the administration was so frequently breaking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BRIC program, which rebranded and reformed prior disaster mitigation and funding efforts, was established in 2018 during Trump’s first administration, with broad bipartisan support. It was given additional funding in 2021 as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering how valuable pre-planning is in a disaster, and how hard it has historically been for states to fund infrastructure projects, BRIC was a milestone in foresight, according to Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, associate professor at the Columbia Climate School and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the BRIC funding did was it created a standing mechanism where states and localities, through the states, could get funding for these really sort of large, kind of expensive infrastructure projects that would actually build resilience and prevent the loss of lives and loss of livelihood,” Schlegelmilch said. “So it marked a really important turning point. It was actually a very forward-looking achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, in the past four years, the program picked nearly 2,000 projects across the country to receive a total of $4.5 billion in BRIC funding. Every state has received some federally funded mitigation grants. And four — Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas — have each avoided at least $10 billion in post-disaster costs thanks to the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sheriff’s deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic, on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after a flash flood swept through the area. \u003ccite>(Julio Cortez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit comes days after severe flooding around the country, and two weeks after tragic flooding in Texas that took the lives of more than 100 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal communities have received the largest portion of funds over the past four years, especially California, Louisiana, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis done by Schlegelmilch of past BRIC funding cycles indicated that projects to address flooding received the most money. Energy projects, including projects like removing vegetation to ensure electric-grid resilience during wildfires, were also some of the best-funded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-illegally-shutting-down\">highlighted\u003c/a> three projects that have been approved but may not get their promised funding:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A project in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes to reduce landslides, aiming to protect homes, roads, sewer, water, gas, electricity and communication lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A project in the city of Sacramento to reduce the danger of flooding by improving floodwalls, levees and moving a pump station. The project aims to protect 4 miles of interstate highway, an airport runway and 27,000 homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A project in Kern County to retrofit the Kern Valley Healthcare District’s hospital for earthquakes. If it cannot be retrofitted, the hospital may soon need to close. Thousands in this district would then need to drive to hospitals over two hours away to seek care.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>FEMA \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250404/fema-ends-wasteful-politicized-grant-program-returning-agency-core-mission\">announced in April\u003c/a> that they would close the program, saying it was rife with “waste, fraud and abuse,” without providing examples or data. In a since-removed press release, the administration said the BRIC program had partisan political aims. 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"content": "\u003cp>Giovanni Figueroa put 30,000 miles on his car last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving past cheap motels and abandoned parking lots in Santa Ana, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/orange-county\">Orange County\u003c/a> social worker scanned the sidewalks for tents and shopping carts, making frequent U-turns to examine men sleeping in doorways wrapped in Mexican blankets — trying to determine whether they were one of his missing clients with schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will pull over and I will say the individual’s name, just their first name,” Figueroa said. “And if I see any movement, then I’ll be like, ‘Hey, it’s Giovanni!’ And if I see further movement, then I know that’s my person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa is among the first to work for California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">brand new CARE Courts\u003c/a>, the state’s grand experiment wading into one of medicine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944448/a-war-of-compassion-debate-over-forced-treatment-of-mental-illness-splits-california-liberals\">most vexing debates\u003c/a>: how to help people whose psychotic illness makes them unable to recognize that they’re ill, whose fixed delusions make them believe doctors are part of an alien conspiracy, or whose voices tell them medication is poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the 2022 law gives judges authority to force people into treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955211/californias-new-care-courts-prompt-orange-county-to-weigh-best-practices\">Orange County decided early on\u003c/a> that its program would be utterly voluntary, leaning on the tenets of relentless outreach to coax, rather than coerce, people into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997766\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giovanni Figueroa, a mental health specialist with the Orange County Health Care Agency, at the Central Men’s & Women’s Jails in Orange County on July 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Rodriguez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Figueroa, this means no matter how many times in a year a client tells him to get lost, he visits again the following week. No matter how many times a client spits on him or threatens him, he comes back with an offer of a hot meal, a permanent place to sleep, a doctor’s appointment. And no matter how many times a stabilized client relapses and ends up back in the hospital or jail or on the street, Figueroa returns to start the process all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could take 20, 30 or 40 visits before a client accepts a bottle of water, let alone a prescription for antipsychotic medication, but Orange County officials say this is the only way to build trust with a population that is paranoid and distrustful by nature, or has had very real traumatic experiences of being forcibly treated or hospitalized in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coercion does not work if we want to change things long term,” said Veronica Kelley, director of the Orange County Health Care Agency. “If someone said to you, ‘I need you to stop everything and come with me. I have a different way of life, and you’ll be so much better for it.’ You’re not going to hop in my van! But for some reason, we think that someone who has a mental illness should just do it. That misses the point of how humans connect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997764 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Veronica Kelley, director of Behavioral Health Services for Orange County, right, listens as Orange County Superior Judge Ebrahim Baytieh speaks during a CARE court information session at Behavioral Health Training Center on Aug. 16, 2023, in Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Figueroa stops to talk to the people lying on the street that most pedestrians step over and walk past. He said social work is his calling. His younger brother developed schizophrenia in his late teens, and when he was hearing voices or feeling paranoid, he sometimes became aggressive, broke furniture or threatened to harm his parents and siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, Figueroa watched his family call the doctor and the police only to be told the law was very strict and, unless their loved one presented an imminent danger to himself or others, there was nothing they could do to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re reaching out, we’re asking for help and no one is helping us,” he said. “Until now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARE Court created a new legal pathway to intervene sooner, and the moment Figueroa heard about it, he wanted to be part of it. The goal of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/CARE-ACT.aspx#:~:text=Senate%20Bill%20(SB)%201338%20(,who%20meet%20health%20and%20safety\">Community Assistance Recovery and Empowerment legislation\u003c/a>, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was to get people with schizophrenia into outpatient treatment before their illness reaches a crisis — and before more restrictive interventions were warranted, like involuntary hospitalization or conservatorship, where people lose all decision-making rights to a family member or public guardian.[aside postID=news_12007175 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-CARECourt-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Family members, doctors or police can file a petition to bring a person into the program, and when Figueroa gets assigned to the case, he gives the family his cell phone number and promises he will do whatever he can, for however long it takes, to persuade their loved one to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell them, ‘Look, you’ve been carrying this bag of bricks for so long, sometimes decades, give it to us now,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Figueroa finally found one client he was looking for — a young, homeless man with chronic schizophrenia who fell into street drugs to quell his symptoms — he was hostile. He told Figueroa, “Get away from me. Leave me alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa respected his wishes and left. Then he came back the next week and then the next, chatting for 10 to 15 minutes each time. Then he heard from the client’s mother that he had been hospitalized in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa drove an hour and a half to get there, and because they had met and talked a few times already, the client agreed to see him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing he says is ‘Giovanni!’ and he starts throwing his hands in the air, he’s excited to see me,” he said. “One minute later, he’s spitting on the ground, telling me to get the F out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa let him vent, and when he came back the next week, his client was crying. The following week, as the medications started to take hold, he was more stable. The week after that, Figueroa broached the subject of ongoing treatment and the client agreed. When he was discharged, Figueroa arranged to meet him at a clinic in Orange County, where he saw a doctor, got medication and was placed in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Relentless pursuit and engagement,” Figueroa said. “When they see you, one time, two times, three times, then they see you in San Bernardino County one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, and then they see you at the provider upon discharge, that’s when they realize, ‘Oh wow, they really are here to help me. They actually do care. And I’m not invisible.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997783 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-1536x1042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Superior Judge Ebrahim Baytieh listens to questions during a CARE court information session at Behavioral Health Training Center on Aug.16, 2023, in Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orange County Superior Court Judge Ebrahim Baytieh hears CARE Court cases on Tuesday mornings. The cases that actually get to him, that is. Of the eligible petitions filed in Orange County, about 10% — or 12 people — are actively engaged in treatment. The county is still looking for — or relentlessly reaching out to — the other 60, with Baytieh’s full support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. You have to be patient,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the law gives Baytieh the power to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CARE-Court-FAQ_web-1.pdf\">fine the county\u003c/a> $1,000 for each day it doesn’t produce a client, he doesn’t do it. The law also gives him the power to order people into treatment, but he doesn’t do that either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had cases where somebody says, ‘I don’t wanna take medication.’ They need it, we all agree that they need it,” he said, referring to lawyers and clinicians from the county and the public defender’s office. “The court can order it, but the court cannot enforce that order. If they refuse to do it, there’s nothing the court can do, so to me it’s counterproductive to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data collected by the Judicial Council of California from the state’s 58 county courts suggests this philosophy is widespread. As of September 30, 2025, 620 people across the state have entered care voluntarily, but only 19 people have been court-ordered into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997763 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Tom Umberg during the opening of the Hope Center in Fullerton, California, on Oct. 27, 2022. The facility is a new unified command center for health care workers, CBOs and local law enforcement to address homelessness collaboratively. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CARE Court is a civil process, and people cannot be held in contempt or sent to jail for refusing care. However, the law does create a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CARE-Court-FAQ_web-1.pdf\">pathway to conservatorship\u003c/a> for people who don’t comply with a judge’s treatment orders. State Sen. Tom Umberg, who authored the law, intended the threat of conservatorship to be a “negative incentive,” but officials in his own Orange County district, and several other counties, have refused to use this lever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatorship is a dramatic move. Basically, you’ve lost your free will,” Umberg said. “But for many folks who are gravely mentally ill and a danger to themselves or others, it’s better than just letting them live under a bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County’s purely voluntary approach exasperates some families. They want more results, more quickly. They beg workers at CARE Court clinics to use a heavier hand or to help conserve their loved one. Some are bypassing CARE Court altogether and pursuing conservatorships on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re frustrated, they’re tired. They don’t know what else to try,” said Lei Portugal Calloway, a CARE Court peer counselor and supervisor. “Maybe they’re getting along in age, and they’re asking, ‘What will my son do? Who’s going to take care of him when I’m gone?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are simply too sick, too overwhelmed by voices in their heads or too divorced from reality to ever make a rational decision to accept or reject care. More than 50% of people with schizophrenia have\u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4140620/#:~:text=Poor%20insight%20is%20a%20core,violence%20toward%20self%20or%20others.\"> no awareness that they’re ill\u003c/a>. This is not denial or obstinacy, but a symptom of the disease. No amount of persuasion will ever convince them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Word of Garden Grove church members pray for Angela during a homeless outreach event in a DMV parking lot in Santa Ana, California, on July 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Rodriguez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you build a system that is entirely dependent on the idea that eventually people will seek care, that very ill segment of the population is just trapped outside of it,” said Lisa Dailey, executive director of the nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relentless outreach that drags on for more than a year is more like never-ending outreach, she said. Involuntary tools or “light coercion,” like inducements or leaning on the threat of conservatorship, may be necessary to get some people well, Dailey argued. To simply dismiss cases where people won’t or can’t agree to treatment is unethical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re really just prolonging a miserable state for people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research on mandatory treatment programs in other states shows\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24881685/\"> mixed results\u003c/a>, but with solid funding and court oversight, approaches similar to Orange County’s that meet people where they are and surround them with services and support tend to be the most effective at\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20889634/\"> reducing hospitalization and incarceration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is little research examining whether relentless outreach alone is effective at getting people to accept comprehensive treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735818303271\">other studies\u003c/a> show that people who have a consistent and trusted ally — such as a clinician, a peer or a social worker like Figueroa — are more likely to participate in their own care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest victories of the CARE Court legislation, even to some skeptics of the law, was the new reimbursement structure it created to pay counties to do relentless outreach. The state typically doesn’t reimburse for street searches, casual visits or taking calls from family members, \u003ca href=\"https://care-act.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CARE-Act-Training_CARE-Claiming-Process.pdf\">but CARE does\u003c/a>. It incentivizes sticking with hard-to-reach clients rather than moving on to the next person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997765\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997765\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"998\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165.jpg 998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keris Myrick, right, who has schizophrenia, with her father, Dr. Howard Myrick, in June 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Keris Myrick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Relentless outreach, to me, means you don’t abandon the person,” said Keris Myrick, a mental health advocate who has schizophrenia. “The beauty of the CARE Act was lifting this thing up and putting a magnifying glass on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even ardent supporters of relentless outreach, like Myrick, are still critical of using it in a legal context, saying any involvement of judges in black robes is inherently coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of court and voluntary is an oxymoron to me,” Myrick said. “It’s everything imposed on the person, even if it’s voluntary. As I get better, I might be grateful, but I also might look back and go, ‘Wait, what the f—? That wasn’t voluntary. Why was I in court? Why was I talking to a judge?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in counties like Orange, where judges are aligned with the long and slow approach to winning consent, she argued the court’s involvement is still manipulative, and funneling money into it is misdirected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t get why we’re paying a judge to be a social worker,” Myrick said. “The social worker should be the social worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said he is sympathetic to people on both sides of the debate. He relates to the frustration of families after witnessing his brother get tossed around the health care system like a hot potato. But he said violating people’s civil liberties is not the answer. He believes the court can split the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accountability,” he said. “This is more about accountability for the county and the provider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specter of a judge staring down from the bench helps him do his job better, he said. Not by instilling fear in his client, but in his client’s doctors and therapists instead. After six months of relentless outreach, Figueroa finally convinced one client to return to therapy — but the clinic refused to take him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once they know that the CARE Act is involved, once they know that the judge is overseeing them and there’s the possibility of sanctions or fines, they play ball,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa is among the first to work for California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">brand new CARE Courts\u003c/a>, the state’s grand experiment wading into one of medicine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944448/a-war-of-compassion-debate-over-forced-treatment-of-mental-illness-splits-california-liberals\">most vexing debates\u003c/a>: how to help people whose psychotic illness makes them unable to recognize that they’re ill, whose fixed delusions make them believe doctors are part of an alien conspiracy, or whose voices tell them medication is poison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the 2022 law gives judges authority to force people into treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955211/californias-new-care-courts-prompt-orange-county-to-weigh-best-practices\">Orange County decided early on\u003c/a> that its program would be utterly voluntary, leaning on the tenets of relentless outreach to coax, rather than coerce, people into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997766\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giovanni Figueroa, a mental health specialist with the Orange County Health Care Agency, at the Central Men’s & Women’s Jails in Orange County on July 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Rodriguez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Figueroa, this means no matter how many times in a year a client tells him to get lost, he visits again the following week. No matter how many times a client spits on him or threatens him, he comes back with an offer of a hot meal, a permanent place to sleep, a doctor’s appointment. And no matter how many times a stabilized client relapses and ends up back in the hospital or jail or on the street, Figueroa returns to start the process all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could take 20, 30 or 40 visits before a client accepts a bottle of water, let alone a prescription for antipsychotic medication, but Orange County officials say this is the only way to build trust with a population that is paranoid and distrustful by nature, or has had very real traumatic experiences of being forcibly treated or hospitalized in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coercion does not work if we want to change things long term,” said Veronica Kelley, director of the Orange County Health Care Agency. “If someone said to you, ‘I need you to stop everything and come with me. I have a different way of life, and you’ll be so much better for it.’ You’re not going to hop in my van! But for some reason, we think that someone who has a mental illness should just do it. That misses the point of how humans connect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997764 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098398-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Veronica Kelley, director of Behavioral Health Services for Orange County, right, listens as Orange County Superior Judge Ebrahim Baytieh speaks during a CARE court information session at Behavioral Health Training Center on Aug. 16, 2023, in Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Figueroa stops to talk to the people lying on the street that most pedestrians step over and walk past. He said social work is his calling. His younger brother developed schizophrenia in his late teens, and when he was hearing voices or feeling paranoid, he sometimes became aggressive, broke furniture or threatened to harm his parents and siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, Figueroa watched his family call the doctor and the police only to be told the law was very strict and, unless their loved one presented an imminent danger to himself or others, there was nothing they could do to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re reaching out, we’re asking for help and no one is helping us,” he said. “Until now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARE Court created a new legal pathway to intervene sooner, and the moment Figueroa heard about it, he wanted to be part of it. The goal of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/CARE-ACT.aspx#:~:text=Senate%20Bill%20(SB)%201338%20(,who%20meet%20health%20and%20safety\">Community Assistance Recovery and Empowerment legislation\u003c/a>, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was to get people with schizophrenia into outpatient treatment before their illness reaches a crisis — and before more restrictive interventions were warranted, like involuntary hospitalization or conservatorship, where people lose all decision-making rights to a family member or public guardian.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Family members, doctors or police can file a petition to bring a person into the program, and when Figueroa gets assigned to the case, he gives the family his cell phone number and promises he will do whatever he can, for however long it takes, to persuade their loved one to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tell them, ‘Look, you’ve been carrying this bag of bricks for so long, sometimes decades, give it to us now,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Figueroa finally found one client he was looking for — a young, homeless man with chronic schizophrenia who fell into street drugs to quell his symptoms — he was hostile. He told Figueroa, “Get away from me. Leave me alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa respected his wishes and left. Then he came back the next week and then the next, chatting for 10 to 15 minutes each time. Then he heard from the client’s mother that he had been hospitalized in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa drove an hour and a half to get there, and because they had met and talked a few times already, the client agreed to see him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first thing he says is ‘Giovanni!’ and he starts throwing his hands in the air, he’s excited to see me,” he said. “One minute later, he’s spitting on the ground, telling me to get the F out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa let him vent, and when he came back the next week, his client was crying. The following week, as the medications started to take hold, he was more stable. The week after that, Figueroa broached the subject of ongoing treatment and the client agreed. When he was discharged, Figueroa arranged to meet him at a clinic in Orange County, where he saw a doctor, got medication and was placed in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Relentless pursuit and engagement,” Figueroa said. “When they see you, one time, two times, three times, then they see you in San Bernardino County one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, and then they see you at the provider upon discharge, that’s when they realize, ‘Oh wow, they really are here to help me. They actually do care. And I’m not invisible.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997783 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1357\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1612098426-1536x1042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Superior Judge Ebrahim Baytieh listens to questions during a CARE court information session at Behavioral Health Training Center on Aug.16, 2023, in Orange, California. \u003ccite>(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orange County Superior Court Judge Ebrahim Baytieh hears CARE Court cases on Tuesday mornings. The cases that actually get to him, that is. Of the eligible petitions filed in Orange County, about 10% — or 12 people — are actively engaged in treatment. The county is still looking for — or relentlessly reaching out to — the other 60, with Baytieh’s full support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. You have to be patient,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the law gives Baytieh the power to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CARE-Court-FAQ_web-1.pdf\">fine the county\u003c/a> $1,000 for each day it doesn’t produce a client, he doesn’t do it. The law also gives him the power to order people into treatment, but he doesn’t do that either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had cases where somebody says, ‘I don’t wanna take medication.’ They need it, we all agree that they need it,” he said, referring to lawyers and clinicians from the county and the public defender’s office. “The court can order it, but the court cannot enforce that order. If they refuse to do it, there’s nothing the court can do, so to me it’s counterproductive to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data collected by the Judicial Council of California from the state’s 58 county courts suggests this philosophy is widespread. As of September 30, 2025, 620 people across the state have entered care voluntarily, but only 19 people have been court-ordered into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1997763 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GettyImages-1244278587-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Tom Umberg during the opening of the Hope Center in Fullerton, California, on Oct. 27, 2022. The facility is a new unified command center for health care workers, CBOs and local law enforcement to address homelessness collaboratively. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CARE Court is a civil process, and people cannot be held in contempt or sent to jail for refusing care. However, the law does create a \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CARE-Court-FAQ_web-1.pdf\">pathway to conservatorship\u003c/a> for people who don’t comply with a judge’s treatment orders. State Sen. Tom Umberg, who authored the law, intended the threat of conservatorship to be a “negative incentive,” but officials in his own Orange County district, and several other counties, have refused to use this lever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatorship is a dramatic move. Basically, you’ve lost your free will,” Umberg said. “But for many folks who are gravely mentally ill and a danger to themselves or others, it’s better than just letting them live under a bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County’s purely voluntary approach exasperates some families. They want more results, more quickly. They beg workers at CARE Court clinics to use a heavier hand or to help conserve their loved one. Some are bypassing CARE Court altogether and pursuing conservatorships on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re frustrated, they’re tired. They don’t know what else to try,” said Lei Portugal Calloway, a CARE Court peer counselor and supervisor. “Maybe they’re getting along in age, and they’re asking, ‘What will my son do? Who’s going to take care of him when I’m gone?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are simply too sick, too overwhelmed by voices in their heads or too divorced from reality to ever make a rational decision to accept or reject care. More than 50% of people with schizophrenia have\u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4140620/#:~:text=Poor%20insight%20is%20a%20core,violence%20toward%20self%20or%20others.\"> no awareness that they’re ill\u003c/a>. This is not denial or obstinacy, but a symptom of the disease. No amount of persuasion will ever convince them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997769\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_11_2025-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Word of Garden Grove church members pray for Angela during a homeless outreach event in a DMV parking lot in Santa Ana, California, on July 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Rodriguez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you build a system that is entirely dependent on the idea that eventually people will seek care, that very ill segment of the population is just trapped outside of it,” said Lisa Dailey, executive director of the nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relentless outreach that drags on for more than a year is more like never-ending outreach, she said. Involuntary tools or “light coercion,” like inducements or leaning on the threat of conservatorship, may be necessary to get some people well, Dailey argued. To simply dismiss cases where people won’t or can’t agree to treatment is unethical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re really just prolonging a miserable state for people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research on mandatory treatment programs in other states shows\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24881685/\"> mixed results\u003c/a>, but with solid funding and court oversight, approaches similar to Orange County’s that meet people where they are and surround them with services and support tend to be the most effective at\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20889634/\"> reducing hospitalization and incarceration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is little research examining whether relentless outreach alone is effective at getting people to accept comprehensive treatment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735818303271\">other studies\u003c/a> show that people who have a consistent and trusted ally — such as a clinician, a peer or a social worker like Figueroa — are more likely to participate in their own care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest victories of the CARE Court legislation, even to some skeptics of the law, was the new reimbursement structure it created to pay counties to do relentless outreach. The state typically doesn’t reimburse for street searches, casual visits or taking calls from family members, \u003ca href=\"https://care-act.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CARE-Act-Training_CARE-Claiming-Process.pdf\">but CARE does\u003c/a>. It incentivizes sticking with hard-to-reach clients rather than moving on to the next person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997765\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997765\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"998\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165.jpg 998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/IMG_0165-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keris Myrick, right, who has schizophrenia, with her father, Dr. Howard Myrick, in June 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Keris Myrick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Relentless outreach, to me, means you don’t abandon the person,” said Keris Myrick, a mental health advocate who has schizophrenia. “The beauty of the CARE Act was lifting this thing up and putting a magnifying glass on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even ardent supporters of relentless outreach, like Myrick, are still critical of using it in a legal context, saying any involvement of judges in black robes is inherently coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of court and voluntary is an oxymoron to me,” Myrick said. “It’s everything imposed on the person, even if it’s voluntary. As I get better, I might be grateful, but I also might look back and go, ‘Wait, what the f—? That wasn’t voluntary. Why was I in court? Why was I talking to a judge?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in counties like Orange, where judges are aligned with the long and slow approach to winning consent, she argued the court’s involvement is still manipulative, and funneling money into it is misdirected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t get why we’re paying a judge to be a social worker,” Myrick said. “The social worker should be the social worker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said he is sympathetic to people on both sides of the debate. He relates to the frustration of families after witnessing his brother get tossed around the health care system like a hot potato. But he said violating people’s civil liberties is not the answer. He believes the court can split the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accountability,” he said. “This is more about accountability for the county and the provider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specter of a judge staring down from the bench helps him do his job better, he said. Not by instilling fear in his client, but in his client’s doctors and therapists instead. After six months of relentless outreach, Figueroa finally convinced one client to return to therapy — but the clinic refused to take him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once they know that the CARE Act is involved, once they know that the judge is overseeing them and there’s the possibility of sanctions or fines, they play ball,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If your \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041142/why-do-bay-area-allergies-feel-worse-this-spring\">springtime allergies have felt sneezier and sneezier\u003c/a>, you might be right. And pollen is likely not the only culprit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mold and other fungi release microscopic spores that can also trigger allergy symptoms, and a new \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GH001323\">study\u003c/a> found the invisible allergens are now showing up earlier each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the University of Michigan found that fungal spore season in the U.S. is starting nearly a month earlier than it did two decades ago, thanks to climate change. The trend is even more pronounced in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past two decades, fungal spore seasons in the U.S. have shifted significantly due to climate change,” said Ruoyu Wu, who led the research while earning her master’s at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu and her team analyzed nearly 20 years of data from 55 pollen-monitoring stations across the continental U.S. These sites, part of the \u003ca href=\"https://pollen.aaaai.org/#/\">National Allergy Bureau\u003c/a> network, track airborne allergens like pollen and spores. They found that by 2022, the average fungal spore season began 22 days earlier than it did in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fungal spore season across the country from many sites has advanced,” said Kai Zhu, the study’s senior author and an associate professor of sustainability, environment, and ecology at the University of Michigan. “One of the places they were especially strong was actually in California,” said Dan Katz, researcher on the study and assistant professor at Cornell University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four out of the five stations monitored in California showed some of the strongest advancements, which were, in some cases, arriving a full month earlier than they had previously, Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for this, according to Zhu, is California’s Mediterranean climate, which leads to a different spore calendar than the rest of the country. “With higher concentrations in the winter and springtime and lower in the summer. This is different from the other states, other areas where the climate is different,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-103_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-103_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-103_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-103_qed-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-103_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stems of purple lupine blossom along Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spore release is influenced by climate conditions like temperature, humidity, and wind, but responses vary by species, according to Zhu. And this shift matters to many people. A \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10052331/\">2023 study\u003c/a> found that roughly 1 in 5 Americans show sensitivity to fungal allergens after they analyzed clinical samples from more than 1.6 million patients in the U.S. “We know pollen is a big part [of allergy season]and that’s certainly true, but then there are 20% of people who actually suffer from fungal spore allergy,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re somebody who has allergies to fungal spores, this is bad news for you because it means a longer period of exposure,” Katz said.[aside postID=news_12041142 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/03/superbloom-lake-elsinore-e1553018080703.jpg']Finding that the allergy season starts 22 days earlier on average is going to raise concerns about how we manage allergies in vulnerable populations, Zhu added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the implications of this study go beyond health. The study also examined the fungal spore season through an ecological lens, analyzing when spores begin accumulating in high concentrations. Even by that measure, the season is starting sooner. The ecological spore season — the period when fungal spores are most abundant in the environment — now begins about 11 days earlier than it did in 2003, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal of our study is twofold. One is to assess the public health impacts, but on the other hand, we also want to look at the ecological impact,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while spores are starting to appear earlier, overall spore counts are actually declining. “The total amount of the fungal spores is actually getting lower. This is related to [a decrease] in rainfall,” Zhu said, adding that this is a very visible fingerprint of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decrease in spore count is a concern for ecosystems. Fungi play a crucial role in nature by breaking down organic matter and facilitating the cycling of nutrients through food webs. “They matter for decomposition, nutrient cycling, and plant-fungi interactions,” Zhu added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This study was inspired by a \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34140579/\">2021 study\u003c/a> that found climate change to be a major driver of changes in pollen spore seasons, Zhu said. He adds that there is still much to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if we are talking about potential for future studies, I think it will be super interesting to explore the correlation between actual hospital records — people that actually suffer from the allergies — and the change in fungal spore season as we’ve shown here, to understand better the health impacts of the changing environment and human health,” Zhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Programs like on-site pregnancy care in homeless encampments, antipsychotic medication distribution and mobile crisis teams are now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was scaling back its own expansions — such as Medi-Cal for all undocumented immigrants — back due to its own budget pressures. Now, with the federal pullback, even more cuts are likely. Programs once considered national models are quietly being dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the work requirements?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On paper, requiring Medicaid recipients to work may sound reasonable. But critics of the program have argued that in practice, these policies have been more destructive than motivational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00538\">2018 Arkansas pilot program\u003c/a> pushed 18,000 people off their Medicaid coverage — even though many of them were already employed, but workers struggled to keep up on paperwork requirements. 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Programs like on-site pregnancy care in homeless encampments, antipsychotic medication distribution and mobile crisis teams are now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was scaling back its own expansions — such as Medi-Cal for all undocumented immigrants — back due to its own budget pressures. Now, with the federal pullback, even more cuts are likely. Programs once considered national models are quietly being dismantled.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the work requirements?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On paper, requiring Medicaid recipients to work may sound reasonable. But critics of the program have argued that in practice, these policies have been more destructive than motivational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00538\">2018 Arkansas pilot program\u003c/a> pushed 18,000 people off their Medicaid coverage — even though many of them were already employed, but workers struggled to keep up on paperwork requirements. 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It also emerged during a challenging legislative year, marked by a major overhaul of the California Environmental Quality Act and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991747/heres-what-you-should-know-about-californias-budget-deal\">significantly reduced state budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the legislation had support from the public and Democratic lawmakers, the bill’s authors decided to push the idea into the next legislative cycle, erasing any chance of it becoming law this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had fewer oil bills come forward this year, and they absolutely put a target on this one,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, a co-author of the bill. “When you have this kind of money being spent by the oil industry, it is challenging, but we’ve won these fights before and we’re prepared to keep fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would have directed the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify the state’s largest polluters, those responsible for more than a billion metric tons of greenhouse gases between 1990 and 2024. Regulators would then conduct a climate cost study to determine the amount each business would need to contribute to a new fund within the state treasury. 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While oil companies did not use all of that money to oppose the Climate Superfund Act, the legislation was among a list of bills and agencies they tried to influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comparison, one of the bill’s prominent supporters, the Center for Biological Diversity, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1307553&session=2025&view=activity\">spent just over $51,000\u003c/a> on lobbying efforts in the first quarter of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters don’t buy the oil industry’s claims that gas prices would skyrocket if the bill were to become law. 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It’s a really big idea.”[aside postID=science_1997633 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/CampMysticAP2.jpg']For Addis and the bill’s main author, Sen. Caroline Menjivar, D-Panorama City, the mission to get Big Oil to pay for its climate impact is personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, major flooding wreaked havoc in at least 20 communities in Addis’ 200-mile-long district on the Central Coast during back-to-back atmospheric rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a child’s stuffed animal floating through the living room, and everything was ruined,” Addis said. One woman “broke down in tears on my shoulder, and it was because of the climate crisis that this happened. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had fewer oil bills come forward this year, and they absolutely put a target on this one,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, a co-author of the bill. “When you have this kind of money being spent by the oil industry, it is challenging, but we’ve won these fights before and we’re prepared to keep fighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would have directed the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify the state’s largest polluters, those responsible for more than a billion metric tons of greenhouse gases between 1990 and 2024. Regulators would then conduct a climate cost study to determine the amount each business would need to contribute to a new fund within the state treasury. It was modeled after similar laws in New York and Vermont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_485142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-485142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-400x245.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-768x471.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-1440x884.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-1180x724.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/01/NatGasplant-1-960x589.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California gets most of its electricity from fossil fuels, like this natural gas power plant in Long Beach. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fossil fuels are the primary driver of human-caused climate change and account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/raising-ambition/renewable-energy#:~:text=Fossil%20fuels%2C%20such%20as%20coal,of%20all%20carbon%20dioxide%20emissions.\">around 75%\u003c/a> of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations. These emissions warm the atmosphere and, in turn, play a significant role in increasingly devastating disasters, such as recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020835/southern-california-fires-could-be-most-expensive-us-history\">wildfires\u003c/a>, floods and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate researchers believe the science is clear: “Emissions need to be reduced by half by 2030” to avoid the worst impact of anthropogenic climate change, according to the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But efforts targeting companies that pump or refine fossil fuels in California are proving to be an uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Chevron, one of the most profitable oil companies in the world and operator of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022730/climate-protest-targets-chevron-after-la-fires\">Bay Area refinery\u003c/a> in Richmond, said the corporation had no comment on the latest bill.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, Jim Stanley of the Western States Petroleum Association, a trade group whose members include the state’s largest refiners, said in a statement that the legislation would likely raise gas prices and “retroactively punish companies for providing a legal product.” Stanley called the bill “a misguided proposal to retroactively punish companies for providing a legal product that was, and remains, critical to our state’s economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western States Petroleum Association spent nearly \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3042677&amendid=0\">$3.5 million on lobbying\u003c/a> in the first quarter of 2025, and Chevron spent more \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3042394&amendid=0\">$3.7 million\u003c/a>. While oil companies did not use all of that money to oppose the Climate Superfund Act, the legislation was among a list of bills and agencies they tried to influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comparison, one of the bill’s prominent supporters, the Center for Biological Diversity, \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1307553&session=2025&view=activity\">spent just over $51,000\u003c/a> on lobbying efforts in the first quarter of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters don’t buy the oil industry’s claims that gas prices would skyrocket if the bill were to become law. Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy climate director at the Center for Biological Diversity, argued that prices would be unaffected and said the oil companies’ efforts to sink the bill reveal a lack of ownership in their role in exacerbating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997633/california-could-flood-like-texas-but-thunderstorms-likely-wont-be-to-blame\">flooding in places like Texas\u003c/a>, wildfires in Los Angeles, and record-breaking heat summer after summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1995445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1995445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter points a hose to the ground amid smoldering ruins.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-025-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Department from El Dorado County work to extinguish hot spots, known as mopping up a wildfire, in Altadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area earlier in the week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is the opportunity to hold them accountable and use that money to invest in the transition as quickly as possible to get out from under the thumb of the oil industry,” Golden-Krasner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, there were also lingering questions about the bill, including whether the costs would be passed on to taxpayers or whether people might lose their jobs as a result. Additionally, legislators got caught up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046289/whats-in-californias-budget-deal\">reducing the state’s budget\u003c/a> and passing an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046558/california-lawmakers-approve-major-overhaul-of-landmark-environmental-law\">overhaul of the California Environmental Quality Act\u003c/a>, a landmark environmental law that critics say has slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Golden-Krasner said, the team behind the Climate Superfund Act decided to turn “it into a two-year bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill is absolutely not dead,” she said. “It has a huge amount of support among Californians, and everybody is still really enthusiastic about pushing for it. So, we just needed a little bit more time. It’s a really big idea.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Conservatory is extending its hours Wednesday, the organization said on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DL3YpLrSRoC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">social media post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cabbage-like leaves, called the spathe, have opened on the plant, fully revealing the tall central spike known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DLbHwC8S9qw/?img_index=1\">spadix.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bloom is a large work in progress because it takes about three years since the last bloom for all the energy to be stored up by this plant,” said Lindzy Bivings, interpretive programs manager at the Gardens of Golden Gate Park, which oversees the Conservatory of Flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1997609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/DL_502CorpseFlower_SPADIX_AND_SPATHE_PROFILE-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/DL_502CorpseFlower_SPADIX_AND_SPATHE_PROFILE-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/DL_502CorpseFlower_SPADIX_AND_SPATHE_PROFILE-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/DL_502CorpseFlower_SPADIX_AND_SPATHE_PROFILE-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/DL_502CorpseFlower_SPADIX_AND_SPATHE_PROFILE-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A corpse flower in full bloom. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Native to the islands of Sumatra in Indonesia, which are also home to the largest flower in the world, \u003ca href=\"https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/02/colossal-blossom\">the Rafflesia\u003c/a>, only a few thousand corpse flowers remain in the wild and are considered vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpse flowers produce the largest unbranched \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/science/inflorescence\">inflorescence\u003c/a> in the world — a technical term for a cluster of flowers — and are capable of reaching over 10 feet tall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpse flowers emit a uniquely pungent aroma that smells like rotting flesh or decaying meat. 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First, in the Golden State, it’s the cold winter months that bring flooding, often from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025352/atmospheric-rivers-deliver-strong-bay-area-rain-sierra-snow\">back-to-back atmospheric river storms\u003c/a>. The instability caused by these rainstorms, which douse the region in water, can generate thunderstorms of varying intensity and trigger flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t experience massive warm summertime storms because of its Mediterranean climate. The disastrous Texas flooding is a reminder that the ferocity of Mother Nature isn’t always predictable. As the climate continues to warm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982079/this-winters-floods-may-be-only-a-taste-of-the-megafloods-to-come-climate-scientists-warn\">resulting in wetter storms\u003c/a>, Californians living near waterways need to be prepared for more extreme weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California floods in the winter, there’s always the possibility of a deadly event depending on where a storm makes landfall. For instance, last November, an atmospheric river parked over the North Bay, causing localized flooding, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015534/bay-area-record-breaking-rainfall-deluge-surprises-forecasters\">killing two in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The magnitude of the severity of the flooding absolutely could happen in California, and it is the kind of flooding that we are very concerned about,” said Daniel Swain, a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources climate scientist. “But the physical meteorology involved would be very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How weather messaging works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Texas, the National Weather Service issued multiple warnings, including its highest level of alert for once-in-a-generation flooding, Swain said. However, the timing of some of the alerts — in the middle of the night — and the regularity of the warnings may have caused people to either miss them or not take them seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Lund, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, likened the immediacy of flash floods to earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1970392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1970392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/10/napa-earthquake-scaled-e1602798338426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian walks by a mobile home that shifted off its foundation at a mobile home park following a reported 6.0 earthquake on Aug. 24, 2014, in Napa, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They happen right away and with almost no warning,” he said. “You have to have an excellent warning system because if it happens in the middle of the night, most people aren’t going to hear it because they’ll be asleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Bay Area’s diverse microclimates, it’s challenging for meteorologists to precisely predict where an atmospheric river will drop the most rain. However, forecasters will alert the public to the possibility of flash flooding and update their messaging as new information becomes available. The National Weather Service’s Bay Area office has issued flash flood warnings for San Francisco during atmospheric rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For urban areas like San Francisco, if we’re getting 1 to 3 inches an hour rain rates, we can pile up water very fast because that overwhelms storm drains and can cause some pretty significant localized flooding,” said Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service’s Bay Area office.[aside postID=science_1997565 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/07/GavinNewsomGetty.jpg']Like in Kerr County in Texas, most California localities don’t use sirens to alert the public about flooding, “because our flooding kind of builds and we can see what is coming in,” state climatologist Michael Anderson said. 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Beyond the alerts, the weather service leans on traditional radio broadcasts, local authorities and news outlets to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said the difference between a warning and an advisory is that a warning suggests “there could be trouble,” but an advisory means “the trouble is coming to you.” He recommends that all Bay Area residents sign up for text emergency alerts at \u003ca href=\"http://alertthebay.org\">alertthebay.org\u003c/a> and pay attention to any “action statements” within the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the action statement says something like get to high ground immediately, that is a cue to take immediate action,” Garcia said. “Whether it’s moving to higher floors, going to the top of a hill, or moving yourself to higher ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flooding from thunderstorms is possible in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes the Bay Area’s localized flash flooding events from those in Texas is the duration of the atmospheric river, its geographic location and the level of wetness in the system. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A major thunderstorm like the one that produced devastating flash flooding in Texas over the holiday weekend is not likely in the Bay Area or most of California, but climate scientists say that if the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">perfect weather\u003c/a> at the right time of year and geography align, serious flooding can still wreak havoc here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several significant differences between the recent deluge in Texas, which has killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-07-07/texas-floods-deaths-guadalupe-river-flooding\">more than 100 people\u003c/a>, and the type of flooding that happens in California. First, in the Golden State, it’s the cold winter months that bring flooding, often from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025352/atmospheric-rivers-deliver-strong-bay-area-rain-sierra-snow\">back-to-back atmospheric river storms\u003c/a>. The instability caused by these rainstorms, which douse the region in water, can generate thunderstorms of varying intensity and trigger flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California typically doesn’t experience massive warm summertime storms because of its Mediterranean climate. The disastrous Texas flooding is a reminder that the ferocity of Mother Nature isn’t always predictable. As the climate continues to warm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982079/this-winters-floods-may-be-only-a-taste-of-the-megafloods-to-come-climate-scientists-warn\">resulting in wetter storms\u003c/a>, Californians living near waterways need to be prepared for more extreme weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California floods in the winter, there’s always the possibility of a deadly event depending on where a storm makes landfall. For instance, last November, an atmospheric river parked over the North Bay, causing localized flooding, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015534/bay-area-record-breaking-rainfall-deluge-surprises-forecasters\">killing two in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The magnitude of the severity of the flooding absolutely could happen in California, and it is the kind of flooding that we are very concerned about,” said Daniel Swain, a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources climate scientist. “But the physical meteorology involved would be very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How weather messaging works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Texas, the National Weather Service issued multiple warnings, including its highest level of alert for once-in-a-generation flooding, Swain said. However, the timing of some of the alerts — in the middle of the night — and the regularity of the warnings may have caused people to either miss them or not take them seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Lund, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, likened the immediacy of flash floods to earthquakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1970392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1970392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/10/napa-earthquake-scaled-e1602798338426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian walks by a mobile home that shifted off its foundation at a mobile home park following a reported 6.0 earthquake on Aug. 24, 2014, in Napa, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They happen right away and with almost no warning,” he said. “You have to have an excellent warning system because if it happens in the middle of the night, most people aren’t going to hear it because they’ll be asleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Bay Area’s diverse microclimates, it’s challenging for meteorologists to precisely predict where an atmospheric river will drop the most rain. However, forecasters will alert the public to the possibility of flash flooding and update their messaging as new information becomes available. The National Weather Service’s Bay Area office has issued flash flood warnings for San Francisco during atmospheric rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For urban areas like San Francisco, if we’re getting 1 to 3 inches an hour rain rates, we can pile up water very fast because that overwhelms storm drains and can cause some pretty significant localized flooding,” said Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Like in Kerr County in Texas, most California localities don’t use sirens to alert the public about flooding, “because our flooding kind of builds and we can see what is coming in,” state climatologist Michael Anderson said. However, some do, like the Marin County communities of Fairfax, Ross and San Anselmo, which \u003ca href=\"https://rossvalleyfire.org/services/creek-levels-weather#:~:text=San%20Anselmo%20Flood%20Horn,sound%20or%20maintain%20the%20horn.\">maintain flood horns or sirens\u003c/a> that they sound when flooding is imminent. \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia relies heavily on the weather service for messaging about potential flooding from storms. For instance, last December, San Franciscans were startled awake by a blaring weather alert on their phones warning them of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018477/why-did-sf-get-tornado-warning-but-not-scotts-valley-where-twister-hit\">potential tornado\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to flooding, the weather service issues watches, warnings and advisories. Flash flood warnings also have three different levels, ranging from the base level to catastrophic. Beyond the alerts, the weather service leans on traditional radio broadcasts, local authorities and news outlets to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said the difference between a warning and an advisory is that a warning suggests “there could be trouble,” but an advisory means “the trouble is coming to you.” He recommends that all Bay Area residents sign up for text emergency alerts at \u003ca href=\"http://alertthebay.org\">alertthebay.org\u003c/a> and pay attention to any “action statements” within the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the action statement says something like get to high ground immediately, that is a cue to take immediate action,” Garcia said. “Whether it’s moving to higher floors, going to the top of a hill, or moving yourself to higher ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flooding from thunderstorms is possible in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes the Bay Area’s localized flash flooding events from those in Texas is the duration of the atmospheric river, its geographic location and the level of wetness in the system. 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He said the requests come at a pivotal time because of Trump’s cuts to the U.S. Forest Service and what Newsom called the “illegal federalization of California’s National Guard troops,” pulling some of them away from firefighting missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration needs to step up, and they need to fund these efforts, not just here in California, but throughout the Western United States,” Newsom said. “Lives and property are on the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California is doing its part, “the federal government is not meeting this call,” the text of the proposed order said. Over the next year, the state has allotted more than $4 billion for wildfire protection and forest resilience. In comparison, Newsom said the Trump administration has appropriated $7 billion for the entire country’s 238 million acres of federal lands in the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft order would make it federal policy for the U.S. to match the capabilities and investments of “the most advanced states and local governments with respect to forest management and firefighting capabilities.” It would direct the Office of Management and Budget to develop spending plans to do so, including the reversal of recent staffing and funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1985183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1985183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a hard hat walks through a forest with a device to start fires.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/11/231110-PRESCRIBED-BURN-DV-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lighting a prescribed fire in the Six Rivers National Forest. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All Trump has to do is sign the order, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have an open hand as it relates to wanting to work together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Wright, director of the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, said the state and federal government are collectively treating more than 700,000 acres a year to reduce wildfire risk. But he said he is “deeply concerned that recent cutbacks” could jeopardize the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many parts of California, federal staff are the backbone of our system,” he said. “They know the terrain, they know the community, they know fire risk, they don’t need fancy computer models to tell them where to focus to make those communities safe.”[aside postID=science_1997257 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/06/Prescribed-Burn_Penn-Valley_Nevada-County06_qed.jpg']Increased federal investment is vital because the U.S. government owns 57% of the forestland in California, compared to the 3% the state owns, Newsom said. He added that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/empowering-commonsense-wildfire-prevention-and-response/\">early June executive order\u003c/a> from Trump on federal wildfire prevention and response does not go far enough to match California’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service has lost 10% of all positions, which will likely “impact wildfire response this year,” Newsom said, adding that noncompetitive federal firefighter pay has led to further staffing shortages. California, meanwhile, has nearly doubled Cal Fire’s ranks since Newsom took office in 2019, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s possible, Newsom said, because the state has doubled Cal Fire’s annual budget to $3.78 billion in that time and invested more than $4 billion in wildfire prevention and forest resilience. That work includes using AI-powered tools to locate fires, deploying drones to help conduct prescribed burns and monitor wildfires, and creating the “world’s largest civilian firefighting aviation fleet,” adding 16 helicopters and seven retrofitted U.S. Coast Guard air tankers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also established Task Force Rattlesnake, comprising 300 California National Guard members under the direction of Cal Fire, to help fight and prevent fires. 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