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"content": "\u003cp>Jeff Stanley watched in horror as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994218/after-lake-county-fire-burns-dozens-of-homes-and-vehicles-crews-will-search-for-potential-casualties\">the Boyles Fire\u003c/a> enveloped his hilly Clearlake neighborhood Sunday, consuming his friends’ homes and cars. Standing near the rubble, Stanley reached down to pick up a handful of golden, dry grass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you put a match to it, it’s almost like TNT,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews stopped the fire just blocks from his home in a Lake County neighborhood painted fluorescent pink with fire retardant and charred black with the short-term memory of flames. Thirty of his neighbors’ homes weren’t so lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley worries that the community won’t be able to rebound quickly due to a lack of money to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us here are on government checks,” he said. “I’m on Social Security. 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There’s some sad stories here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the fire scorched the southern edge of Clearlake, in a region that is no stranger to wildfires, authorities are strategizing how to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire retardant covers a home on 18th Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is working with State Sen. Mike McGuire to fund temporary housing for the families who lost their homes. But the recovery won’t be easy — complicated by a potential lack of home insurance — and while the char isn’t visible from nearby Highway 53, the scar left on the community will be felt for decades, Clearlake Mayor David Claffey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every fire leaves a scar on the community, and a large part of that is because it’s so tough to rebuild here in California,” Claffey said. “Unfortunately, Lake County has experienced a lot of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No other county has felt \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994263/california-fire-season-wakes-up-again-with-major-wildfires-and-hot-dry-conditions\">California’s wildfire crisis\u003c/a> like Lake County, where over 60% of land has burned since the 2015 Valley Fire, according to Claffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The destruction from the Boyles Fire could have been worse, Claffey said, attributing brush thinning near the burned area as part of the reason the fire didn’t spread farther.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-67-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames can be seen inside a tree near Boyles Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Only losing about 30 homes is a testament to all that work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other helpful break: a city police officer who lives nearby saw the plume of smoke and evacuated the first family out of a house that caught fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claffey said as many as 2,300 people are still under evacuation orders, staying with family and friends or at a Red Cross shelter in the nearby city of Middletown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Samantha Tarver and her 17-year-old son, Jeremy Cova, who stayed at a hotel Sunday night and visited the Red Cross shelter Monday to find out what aid might be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we are going to do if our house burns. We just rented our place in May,” Tarver said, explaining that when the family evacuated, the fire was right across the street from their mobile home. As of Monday, she wasn’t sure if her home had burned. “I don’t want to live there anymore. I want to go somewhere that isn’t dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-57-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Cerrito Fire Department firefighter Henry Becker chainsaws a tree near Boyles Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s temporary housing plan in the works with McGuire would put people who lost their homes into local hotels free of charge, according to Claffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re committed to getting folks out of the shelter as soon as possible,” he said. “The temporary housing could last several months or a very long time. Our goal is to get them in a more comfortable environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another issue the blaze surfaces is a potential lack of home insurance in the neighborhood. Claffey said the city is calculating how many people have insurance, are underinsured or are uninsured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11834132 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/FireMapCap.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirsten Priebe lives several streets away from where the fire burned. Her anxiety was heightened given that Social Security checks make up most of her monthly income, and she gave up her home insurance a few years ago when the price doubled from $900 to $1,900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s two of my two checks,” she said. “I had to let my insurance go because I couldn’t afford it. So, it makes it extra scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Priebe can’t afford home insurance, over the past few years she has prepared her home to withstand blazes like the Boyles Fire. She installed cement board siding on the home’s exterior, cut trees back, removed the grass in her yard and paved a lot of her property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the question remains whether staying in such a highly fire-prone area is feasible. 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There’s some sad stories here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the fire scorched the southern edge of Clearlake, in a region that is no stranger to wildfires, authorities are strategizing how to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1994258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/09/240909-BOYLESFIRE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire retardant covers a home on 18th Avenue in Clearlake on Sept. 9, 2024, after the Boyles Fire swept through the area on Sept. 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is working with State Sen. 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We just rented our place in May,” Tarver said, explaining that when the family evacuated, the fire was right across the street from their mobile home. As of Monday, she wasn’t sure if her home had burned. “I don’t want to live there anymore. 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She’s chemistry, biology and physics. Those realities, those extremes are here, present every day in the great state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has responded to more than 3,500 wildland fires that have burned more than 207,000 acres. That’s similar to the number of fires at this time last year but represents 197,000 more acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the last 24 hours across the state, there have been 44 new wildland fires,” said Tyler, the Cal Fire director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that 95% of all wildfires are started by human activity, Tyler offered some practical advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask that you recognize that lawnmowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, grinders, welders, tractors, and trimmers can all spark wildfires if not properly maintained,” he said. “You need to make sure that the spark arrestors are clean and maintained when mowing. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the number of people killed by drug overdose continues to skyrocket in California, state legislators are debating numerous fentanyl bills intended to save lives. This includes measures that increase access to treatment, medications that reverse overdoses, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 6,773 Californians overdosed on fentanyl, according to \u003ca href=\"https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CA\">provisional data\u003c/a> released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from \u003ca href=\"https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/?tab=CA\">2,377 just five years ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fentanyl is a very inexpensive synthetic opioid that is 20 to 40 times stronger than heroin. It can be mixed into any number of street narcotics and prescription drugs without a user knowing what they are consuming. 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It passed the Assembly unanimously and is now before the Senate.[aside postID=news_11987665 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-4_qut-1020x680.jpg']“This is so important as it involves removing barriers to the most effective and cost-effective medications,” Ciccarone said. “Prior authorization is a barrier at the clinical level as it provides just enough frustration to the clinician and the patient to dampen care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other bills would increase access to medications that can reverse an opioid overdose instantaneously. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1976\">AB 1976\u003c/a> would require businesses to carry \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/onepill/save-lives#:~:text=Naloxone%20is%20a%20medicine%20that,because%20of%20an%20opioid%20overdose.\">naloxone nasal spray\u003c/a> in first aid kits by July 2027. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1841\">AB 1841\u003c/a> would provide two doses of naloxone to residential advisors at California’s public colleges. 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Lawmakers hope he approves splitting the state’s estimated $20 billion bonding capacity between the two bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor’s made it clear that the education bond is his highest priority,” Wilson said. “I believe that whatever agreement the Legislature gives him, he will, subsequently, sign off on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, more than 170 nature and environmental justice-oriented groups are pressing lawmakers and Newsom to ensure the bond is at least $10 billion to address priority areas, including extreme heat, wildfires and sea-level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also competing ideas about what the climate bond should cover. 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"content": "\u003cp>With wildfire risk and inflation making new homeowners insurance policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980757/state-insurance-chief-tries-to-fix-insurance-market-hit-by-climate-change-rising-premiums-and-canceled-policies\">increasingly difficult to find in California\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to fast-track new regulations that could speed up state reviews of requested rate hikes by insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules Newsom requested by executive order last fall are part of a series of proposed changes from the California Department of Insurance that would go into effect at the end of this year. But speaking on Friday at a press conference, Newsom said he didn’t think that would be soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“December? I don’t think we have that much time,” Newsom said. “We need to move. We need to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to work with legislators on a trailer bill, to be attached to the state budget, that could go into effect July 1, enacting regulatory changes to streamline the information insurance companies have to provide to the state when they want to make a change to their rates, whether those are increases or decreases. The proposed changes covered by the trailer bill would also impose time limits on how long the insurance department has to approve or deny those requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, this can take many months, even several years. It’s a major complaint from the insurance industry, which has seen a growing number of insurers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">pull out of California’s homeowners market\u003c/a> in recent months. From their perspective, by the time a rate increase is approved, it’s already out of date. 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This includes allowing insurers to use forward-looking models to set rates instead of just historical data; allowing some reinsurance costs — reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies — into customer rates; and requiring insurers to write a lot more coverage in risky parts of the state, with the goal of de-populating the teetering FAIR Plan, California’s insurer of last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he appreciated the governor’s support and agreed quick action was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Epstein, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California, said it was hard to know exactly what to think about the bill until details were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, we would welcome anything that will expedite this process,” Epstein said. “It sounds great, and I hope it’s meaningful when it gets put in print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement could be a major step toward assuaging the concerns of insurers operating in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1992401,news_11980757,science_1985175\"]“I’ve been watching this happen over the last three, four or five years. And we reached that tipping point, and we fell over it,” said Karl Susman, owner of Susman Insurance Agency. “And so now everyone is rushing to try and fix the problem that has been occurring slowly. So, on one hand, I’m shocked that they’re taking this as seriously as they, frankly, should have been for quite some time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, he said, Newsom’s action on something that is already part of the Sustainable Insurance Strategy could signal to private insurance carriers that the state is serious about enacting changes. He said that may encourage them to start re-entering the insurance market sooner than the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, in a recent insurance hearing, one major company said it would return to the state once reforms are enacted. “If the regulations were in effect today, we would begin selling new homeowner insurance policies tomorrow,” said Gerald Zimmerman, senior vice president of government relations for Allstate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the changes will not likely immediately relieve homeowners paying for insurance policies. “It’s still going to be a while,” Epstein said. “And when I say relief, let’s be clear that people’s premiums and the rates are going up. Everyone agrees that [will happen]. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With wildfire risk and inflation making new homeowners insurance policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980757/state-insurance-chief-tries-to-fix-insurance-market-hit-by-climate-change-rising-premiums-and-canceled-policies\">increasingly difficult to find in California\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to fast-track new regulations that could speed up state reviews of requested rate hikes by insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules Newsom requested by executive order last fall are part of a series of proposed changes from the California Department of Insurance that would go into effect at the end of this year. But speaking on Friday at a press conference, Newsom said he didn’t think that would be soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“December? I don’t think we have that much time,” Newsom said. “We need to move. We need to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to work with legislators on a trailer bill, to be attached to the state budget, that could go into effect July 1, enacting regulatory changes to streamline the information insurance companies have to provide to the state when they want to make a change to their rates, whether those are increases or decreases. The proposed changes covered by the trailer bill would also impose time limits on how long the insurance department has to approve or deny those requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, this can take many months, even several years. It’s a major complaint from the insurance industry, which has seen a growing number of insurers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992401/homeowners-insurance-market-stretched-even-thinner-as-2-more-companies-leave-california\">pull out of California’s homeowners market\u003c/a> in recent months. From their perspective, by the time a rate increase is approved, it’s already out of date. Newsom wants to see this take only two months at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get this rate ruling process done, and that’s why we want to expedite it over a 60-day period. We need to stabilize this market. We need to send the right signals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the state’s powerful Consumer Watchdog organization pushed back on Newsom’s proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-13/california-governor-newsom-insurance-rates-fair-plan\">saying it could become a “rubber stamp” for proposed rate increases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the insurance department will continue working on the rest of a suite of regulatory overhauls under what it is calling the \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/180-climate-change/SustainableInsuranceStrategy.cfm\">Sustainable Insurance Strategy\u003c/a>. This includes allowing insurers to use forward-looking models to set rates instead of just historical data; allowing some reinsurance costs — reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies — into customer rates; and requiring insurers to write a lot more coverage in risky parts of the state, with the goal of de-populating the teetering FAIR Plan, California’s insurer of last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he appreciated the governor’s support and agreed quick action was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Epstein, CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California, said it was hard to know exactly what to think about the bill until details were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, we would welcome anything that will expedite this process,” Epstein said. “It sounds great, and I hope it’s meaningful when it gets put in print.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement could be a major step toward assuaging the concerns of insurers operating in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’ve been watching this happen over the last three, four or five years. And we reached that tipping point, and we fell over it,” said Karl Susman, owner of Susman Insurance Agency. “And so now everyone is rushing to try and fix the problem that has been occurring slowly. So, on one hand, I’m shocked that they’re taking this as seriously as they, frankly, should have been for quite some time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, he said, Newsom’s action on something that is already part of the Sustainable Insurance Strategy could signal to private insurance carriers that the state is serious about enacting changes. He said that may encourage them to start re-entering the insurance market sooner than the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, in a recent insurance hearing, one major company said it would return to the state once reforms are enacted. “If the regulations were in effect today, we would begin selling new homeowner insurance policies tomorrow,” said Gerald Zimmerman, senior vice president of government relations for Allstate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the changes will not likely immediately relieve homeowners paying for insurance policies. “It’s still going to be a while,” Epstein said. “And when I say relief, let’s be clear that people’s premiums and the rates are going up. Everyone agrees that [will happen]. So when I say relief, I mean relief from a market that is so stressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the FAIR Plan, which is so over-committed and under-resourced it is nearing a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more options,” Epstein said. “The way it all works, the more options we have for our consumers, the more stable our market, the lower the prices will get. And that’s where we were for so many years. And we need to get back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting late next year, most California residents will see a new fixed charge of up to $24.15 on their monthly electric bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s after the California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a controversial proposal that will lower the amount consumers are charged per kilowatt hour while adding the fixed charge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new charge will vary by income, with some lower-income households paying $6 or $12. But most middle- and high-income households will pay the full amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for the new charge, the price of electricity will drop by between 5 cents and 7 cents per kilowatt hour. One kilowatt hour is how much power it takes to use a 1,000-watt appliance — a coffee maker or vacuum cleaner, for instance — for one hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPUC President Alice Reynolds said the new rate structure will incentivize people to use more clean energy and help pay for modernizing the grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re marching towards the future we want to see; we want this load growth,” she said. “One where we can replace gas-guzzling cars on our roads with EVs that run on clean electricity and emit less pollutants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California now gets most of its energy from things like solar panels and wind turbines as opposed to burning coal and other fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gasses and contribute to climate change. As a result, California’s leaders have been asking residents to use more electricity than ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at a time now when our climate goals are not met by necessarily using less electricity. We need to start using more electricity overall,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more energy coverage\" tag=\"energy\"]In 2022, California accounted for 37% of the nation’s light-duty electric vehicles, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The state has also pushed policies to encourage people to electrify their homes, like installing electric heat pumps and stoves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who use a lot of energy each month, the proposal approved on Thursday will likely lower their monthly bills. People who own electric cars and have electrified their homes will save an average of between $28 and $44 per month, according to the commission. That’s because the savings they get from the price drop on electricity will be more than the amount they pay for the new fixed charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will also benefit people who live in areas of the state that get really hot. People in Fresno — where temperatures can often exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit — would save about $33 running their air conditioners during the summer, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the move to add the fixed charge, which most utilities in the U.S. already do, has been steeped in controversy, with some critics arguing it will ultimately increase monthly utility bills for middle-income families, and for households that don’t use as much energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes people who live in smaller apartments, have solar panels on their roofs or who live in cooler areas and don’t use air conditioning as much. For them, the decrease in the price of electricity would not be enough to offset the amount of the new monthly charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there are better ways to reduce California’s extremely high utility rates and encourage electrification,” said Stephanie Doyle, California state affairs director for the Solar Energy Industries Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups are also torn over the change, with some saying it will help more people convert to clean energy and others saying it won’t make much difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using more electricity has strained the state’s supply. In the summer of 2020, demand for electricity was so high that the officials had to order rolling blackouts to make sure the state didn’t run out of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have urged people to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-california-heat-waves-stress-10518035e8deed91b46743ed969899b1\">conserve energy during peak hours\u003c/a>, between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., when energy from solar is less abundant. Opponents worry this proposal, by lowering the price for electricity, will discourage people from doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to design a policy instrument that would send the signal that conservation doesn’t count, this would be it,” said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner John Reynolds noted utility companies are already allowed to increase their rates during peak hours to incentivize energy conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that this fixed charge proposal will undermine the motivation to conserve is, quite frankly, laughable,” he said. “It’s a simplistic way to view this decision, and we all know that our energy situation and rate design are anything but simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the nation’s second-highest\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php\"> utilities rate after Hawaii\u003c/a>. The national average fixed rate for electric bills is about \u003ca href=\"https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP294.pd\">$11 per month\u003c/a> — the new standard rate for California is more than double that. Currently, California operates under a pay-as-you-go model, with improvements to the power grid wrapped into the overall usage rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Lynch, former president of the CPUC, said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905607/california-puc-considers-new-fixed-charge-for-electricity\">KQED’s Forum that\u003c/a> a fixed rate would hurt coastal dwellers in apartments and small houses who don’t use a lot of air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means virtually all low-income customers in San Francisco and Oakland, and maybe even farther than that — those people are going to pay more,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cynthia Martinez, spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.predictablepower.org/#About\">Predictable Power Coalition\u003c/a>, which includes California’s three biggest utility companies, argued that a flat rate would lower costs for families struggling to pay their bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who live in hotter climates, who really have no choice but to run their air conditioning more often, they’re paying higher costs that go toward grid upkeep,” Martinez said. Separating electricity usage costs from the cost to maintain the grid, she added, is more equitable and “will provide fairness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fixed-rate plan has vexed Democrats at the state Capitol, who have been caught between wanting to promote energy conservation and help low-income customers. When a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1326\">proposal to roll back the fixed-rate plan\u003c/a> came up in the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee last month, all 14 Democrats on the panel abstained from voting — preventing the proposal from advancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions remain over incentive to electrify\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Right now, in California, if you use a lot of electricity, you pay more. If you live an energy-efficient lifestyle, you pay less. Sylvie Ashford, an energy analyst for \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network,\u003c/a> or TURN, said that won’t change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group supports the new fixed rate, which Ashford said will incentivize people to convert to clean energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consumers report one of the biggest barriers to buying electric vehicles and electric heat pumps to be the high and rising cost of electricity,” Ashford said. “When it becomes 8% to 10% cheaper on each kilowatt hour, your operating costs on your electric vehicle or your electric heat pump become that much more competitive with polluting gas alternatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashford said that while fixed rates are a good first step, the state must do more to address California’s skyrocketing electricity fees, like keeping utility revenue requirements and shareholder profits in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nihal Shrinath, an attorney with the Sierra Club, said policies designed to make more people go electric need to be paired with an electricity rate reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s naive to assume that customers are so attuned to rates that a 10% reduction will all of a sudden convince a bunch of folks to electrify,” Shrinath said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club described the proposal as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2024/03/california-public-utilities-commission-proposes-three-tiers-income-based\">“mixed bag.\u003c/a>” They would like to see the CPUC introduce a moderate-income tier and cut rates for the lowest earners to $0. As it stands now, Shrinath said the policy would charge the same $24 rate to a family making $63,000 annually and an individual who brings in millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.stoptheutilitytax.org/\">coalition\u003c/a> of more than 240 environmental and renter organizations have fought the proposal. They worry that since there is no proposed cap on the fixed rate, nothing would prevent utilities from hiking up the price in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch said PG&E rates have steadily risen over the past 20 years, then shot up in the last five. At the same time, the utility company has multiple pending rate increases. She said their statement that rates will go down “sounds a little like hopes and prayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC has said that this plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/energy-division/documents/demand-response/demand-flexibility-oir/ab205-pd-032724.pdf\">will not increase profits for PG&E and other utilities\u003c/a> but will cover their rising costs, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocates-website/files/press-room/reports-and-analyses/240118-caladvocates-fixed-charge-overview-web.pdf\">wildfire mitigation\u003c/a> and putting power lines underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill amended in the state Legislature on Wednesday would limit any increase in the new fixed charge to not more than the increase in inflation. It would also cap the amount of the fixed charge to a maximum of $10 beginning in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must do more to rein in the ever-growing cost of living in our state, not find new ways to add to it,” Republicans in the California Senate wrote in a letter urging the commission to reject the fixed charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is much lower than what the state’s investor-owned utility companies had asked for, which was a charge between $53 and $71 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from the Associated Press’ Adam Beam.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2022, California accounted for 37% of the nation’s light-duty electric vehicles, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The state has also pushed policies to encourage people to electrify their homes, like installing electric heat pumps and stoves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who use a lot of energy each month, the proposal approved on Thursday will likely lower their monthly bills. People who own electric cars and have electrified their homes will save an average of between $28 and $44 per month, according to the commission. That’s because the savings they get from the price drop on electricity will be more than the amount they pay for the new fixed charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will also benefit people who live in areas of the state that get really hot. People in Fresno — where temperatures can often exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit — would save about $33 running their air conditioners during the summer, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the move to add the fixed charge, which most utilities in the U.S. already do, has been steeped in controversy, with some critics arguing it will ultimately increase monthly utility bills for middle-income families, and for households that don’t use as much energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes people who live in smaller apartments, have solar panels on their roofs or who live in cooler areas and don’t use air conditioning as much. For them, the decrease in the price of electricity would not be enough to offset the amount of the new monthly charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that there are better ways to reduce California’s extremely high utility rates and encourage electrification,” said Stephanie Doyle, California state affairs director for the Solar Energy Industries Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups are also torn over the change, with some saying it will help more people convert to clean energy and others saying it won’t make much difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using more electricity has strained the state’s supply. In the summer of 2020, demand for electricity was so high that the officials had to order rolling blackouts to make sure the state didn’t run out of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have urged people to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-california-heat-waves-stress-10518035e8deed91b46743ed969899b1\">conserve energy during peak hours\u003c/a>, between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., when energy from solar is less abundant. Opponents worry this proposal, by lowering the price for electricity, will discourage people from doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to design a policy instrument that would send the signal that conservation doesn’t count, this would be it,” said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner John Reynolds noted utility companies are already allowed to increase their rates during peak hours to incentivize energy conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that this fixed charge proposal will undermine the motivation to conserve is, quite frankly, laughable,” he said. “It’s a simplistic way to view this decision, and we all know that our energy situation and rate design are anything but simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the nation’s second-highest\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/electricity-price-rate-pge-19429422.php\"> utilities rate after Hawaii\u003c/a>. The national average fixed rate for electric bills is about \u003ca href=\"https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP294.pd\">$11 per month\u003c/a> — the new standard rate for California is more than double that. Currently, California operates under a pay-as-you-go model, with improvements to the power grid wrapped into the overall usage rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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