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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">Add the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting to the list of events going virtual only this year due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Last week, AGU \u003ca href=\"https://fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-fall-meeting-is-virtual-mostly-and-remains-global-always/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that thousands of Earth scientists, geologists, researchers and science writers will attend the meeting online instead of descending on San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The conference, which will take place Dec. 7-11, is one of the largest annual scientific gatherings, usually featuring over 1,000 sessions on topics ranging from oceans to outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Kim Cobb, Georgia Tech climate scientist, on AGU's annual Fall Meeting\"]‘You’re talking about a conference that’s responsible for thousands and thousands of tons of carbon in five days. It’s something that we’re going to have to come to grips with.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The AGU joins the \u003ca href=\"https://meetings.aaas.org/aaas-annual-meeting-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Association for the Advancement of Science\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://aas.org/posts/news/2020/04/how-aas-will-organize-virtual-scientific-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Astronomical Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/we-had-act-how-coronavirus-fears-forced-physics-society-nix-giant-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Physical Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-02/coronavirus-cancelled-conferences-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">hundreds of other\u003c/span>\u003c/a> scientific organizations eschewing big in-person meetings in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">AGU’s organizers say if they get the go-ahead from San Francisco’s health officers, AGU may host a smaller regional gathering. But participants should still expect networking and poster hall presentations to occur in the digital realm, while sessions and talks will be recorded for attendees to enjoy “on demand” or to “binge watch,” according to the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Tens of thousands of people attend AGU each year, not only for the scientific presentations, but to go on field trips to local labs, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951470/take-a-google-earth-tour-of-the-bay-areas-most-epic-rock-formations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">stunning geologic formations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, meet with colleagues and mentors, and socialize at parties and happy hours hosted by academic journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aspects of conferences like AGU are especially important for early-career scientists, who are meeting future collaborators and looking for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rethinking Large Events\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cb>\u003c/b>The shift to online gatherings is part of a larger trend in reimagining experiences centered on human interaction at a time when large gatherings are mostly banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The pandemic provided a window into a world of diminished driving, as well as speculation about unnecessary office space. In California, stay-at-home orders\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963716/coronavirus-forces-huge-number-of-californians-off-road-as-tele-everything-becomes-new-climate-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">pushed so many drivers off the road \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>that vehicle emissions dropped by as much as 75%, according to a UC Davis\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_430.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">estimate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people are starting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820003/charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">return to the roads\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, state leaders and researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963716/coronavirus-forces-huge-number-of-californians-off-road-as-tele-everything-becomes-new-climate-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">hope\u003c/span>\u003c/a> investments in high-speed internet deployment and the transfer of more government functions online — virtual DMV \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv-online/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visits\u003c/a>, anyone? — can help California decarbonize transportation. Bay Area technology firms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/21/21266570/facebook-remote-work-from-home-mark-zuckerberg-twitter-covid-19-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Facebook \u003c/span>\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/keeping-our-employees-and-partners-safe-during-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Twitter \u003c/span>\u003c/a>that have expanded work-from-home options in the face of the pandemic could be bellwethers for making physical attendance at the office obsolete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>‘A Bleep Ton’ of Emissions\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s conference, promoted with the social media hashtag #AGU20, will be a test of the virtual conference experience. And hold the carbon emissions, please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Virtual participation in scientific meetings has great potential to increase access, reduce carbon footprints and diversify meeting attendance to the benefit of all participants — and to take attendees beyond conventional meeting spaces, into laboratories or remote field sites,” said Susan Lozier, \u003cspan class=\"s3\">AGU’s \u003c/span>president-elect and council chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lozier didn’t say if any changes to the conference will be permanent. But the organization acknowledged in its announcement that the virtual meeting will mean “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">our carbon footprint will be less than ever before,” and it noted an emissions calculator would be placed on its website. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calculating the carbon footprint of a conference like AGU is tricky, but in 2019, one academic \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/milankloewer/status/1204383697165856768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">estimated\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that to get to the annual meeting and back, roughly 28,000 scientists traveled a combined 151 million miles resulting in 69,300 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount of CO2 is the equivalent of the combined yearly carbon output of 1,443 \u003ca href=\"http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet#:~:text=A%20typical%20U.S.%20household%20has,t%20CO2e%2Fyr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">average American families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">“That’s a bleep ton, really just a staggering number,” said \u003c/span>Kim Cobb, a climate scientist with Georgia Tech, who has long advocated for conferences like AGU taking steps to reduce the need to travel long distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“You’re talking about a conference that’s responsible for thousands and thousands of tons of carbon in five days,” she said. “It’s something that we’re going to have to come to grips with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that science meetings improve virtual participation, consider holding major in-person gatherings biennially instead of annually, and organize smaller satellite gatherings instead of one central conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The pandemic, she says, is providing an opportunity to think about a “vision for conferences that could be done partly remotely or fully remotely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, scaling back live meetings would have an economic impact, especially for cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During AGU, the cafes, restaurants, hotels and other businesses in the South of Market neighborhood where the conference is located brim with attendees toting conference badges and spending money. An Oxford Economic \u003ca href=\"https://insights.eventscouncil.org/Full-Article/ArtMID/398/ArticleID/1445/2018-Global-Economic-Significance-of-Business-Events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> commissioned by the Events Industry Council estimates that billions of people attend conferences worldwide annually, spending over a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">A group of 12 academics \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/04/18/12-scholars-share-ideas-reducing-carbon-emissions-academic-travel-opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">noted\u003c/span>\u003c/a> last year that the footprint of a traveling scholar is likely larger than that of the average person, calling on research institutions to limit emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our institutional practices should shift to reduce academic air travel,” they wrote. “To be clear, we aren’t calling for a moratorium on flying, and specific personal and professional situations will inevitably require some of us to travel more than others. But even modest changes could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of our professional practice. To that end, we’re calling on academic associations, societies and other organizations to require less flying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the authors, Heidi Roop, a climate science at the University of Washington, said while some conferences livestream talks and other events, they don’t put everything online. She hopes the pandemic will change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t yet a pick-your-own-adventure conference virtually, where you could be in-person or virtual,” she said. “My hope is we start thinking seriously about it, not just because of the pandemic, but because of our carbon footprint and the environmental impact of all the traveling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Presenting a Paper … Over Zoom \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth scientist Chris Field took his first Stanford research appointment at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 1984. He estimates traveling as much as a third of the year to conduct climate research, meet with collaborators and attend conferences. The pace has declined, but he still takes two to four trips a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, all that travel is powered by fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being forced to work remotely has been “transformative,” he said. He’s more productive, and he doesn’t have to battle jet lag and late-night flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not tuned in to the fraction of my time that I was going to the airport, hanging out in the airport, waiting in traffic and checking into the hotel, doing whatever,” he said. \u003cspan class=\"s4\">“That’s not rocket science to figure that out. But it is impactful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">He says the experience of presenting science online is better than inside a cavernous conference hall. “I’ve done a number of presentations and webinars and conversations, and it is easier in some ways; nobody’s sitting at the back of the room and can’t see the slides. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">Add the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting to the list of events going virtual only this year due to COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Last week, AGU \u003ca href=\"https://fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-fall-meeting-is-virtual-mostly-and-remains-global-always/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">announced\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that thousands of Earth scientists, geologists, researchers and science writers will attend the meeting online instead of descending on San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The conference, which will take place Dec. 7-11, is one of the largest annual scientific gatherings, usually featuring over 1,000 sessions on topics ranging from oceans to outer space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The AGU joins the \u003ca href=\"https://meetings.aaas.org/aaas-annual-meeting-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Association for the Advancement of Science\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://aas.org/posts/news/2020/04/how-aas-will-organize-virtual-scientific-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Astronomical Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/we-had-act-how-coronavirus-fears-forced-physics-society-nix-giant-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">American Physical Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-02/coronavirus-cancelled-conferences-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">hundreds of other\u003c/span>\u003c/a> scientific organizations eschewing big in-person meetings in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">AGU’s organizers say if they get the go-ahead from San Francisco’s health officers, AGU may host a smaller regional gathering. But participants should still expect networking and poster hall presentations to occur in the digital realm, while sessions and talks will be recorded for attendees to enjoy “on demand” or to “binge watch,” according to the announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Tens of thousands of people attend AGU each year, not only for the scientific presentations, but to go on field trips to local labs, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951470/take-a-google-earth-tour-of-the-bay-areas-most-epic-rock-formations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">stunning geologic formations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, meet with colleagues and mentors, and socialize at parties and happy hours hosted by academic journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aspects of conferences like AGU are especially important for early-career scientists, who are meeting future collaborators and looking for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rethinking Large Events\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cb>\u003c/b>The shift to online gatherings is part of a larger trend in reimagining experiences centered on human interaction at a time when large gatherings are mostly banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The pandemic provided a window into a world of diminished driving, as well as speculation about unnecessary office space. In California, stay-at-home orders\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963716/coronavirus-forces-huge-number-of-californians-off-road-as-tele-everything-becomes-new-climate-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">pushed so many drivers off the road \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>that vehicle emissions dropped by as much as 75%, according to a UC Davis\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_430.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">estimate\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people are starting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11820003/charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">return to the roads\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, state leaders and researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963716/coronavirus-forces-huge-number-of-californians-off-road-as-tele-everything-becomes-new-climate-option\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">hope\u003c/span>\u003c/a> investments in high-speed internet deployment and the transfer of more government functions online — virtual DMV \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv-online/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visits\u003c/a>, anyone? — can help California decarbonize transportation. Bay Area technology firms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/21/21266570/facebook-remote-work-from-home-mark-zuckerberg-twitter-covid-19-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Facebook \u003c/span>\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/keeping-our-employees-and-partners-safe-during-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Twitter \u003c/span>\u003c/a>that have expanded work-from-home options in the face of the pandemic could be bellwethers for making physical attendance at the office obsolete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>‘A Bleep Ton’ of Emissions\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s conference, promoted with the social media hashtag #AGU20, will be a test of the virtual conference experience. And hold the carbon emissions, please.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“Virtual participation in scientific meetings has great potential to increase access, reduce carbon footprints and diversify meeting attendance to the benefit of all participants — and to take attendees beyond conventional meeting spaces, into laboratories or remote field sites,” said Susan Lozier, \u003cspan class=\"s3\">AGU’s \u003c/span>president-elect and council chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lozier didn’t say if any changes to the conference will be permanent. But the organization acknowledged in its announcement that the virtual meeting will mean “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">our carbon footprint will be less than ever before,” and it noted an emissions calculator would be placed on its website. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calculating the carbon footprint of a conference like AGU is tricky, but in 2019, one academic \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/milankloewer/status/1204383697165856768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">estimated\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that to get to the annual meeting and back, roughly 28,000 scientists traveled a combined 151 million miles resulting in 69,300 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount of CO2 is the equivalent of the combined yearly carbon output of 1,443 \u003ca href=\"http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet#:~:text=A%20typical%20U.S.%20household%20has,t%20CO2e%2Fyr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">average American families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s4\">“That’s a bleep ton, really just a staggering number,” said \u003c/span>Kim Cobb, a climate scientist with Georgia Tech, who has long advocated for conferences like AGU taking steps to reduce the need to travel long distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“You’re talking about a conference that’s responsible for thousands and thousands of tons of carbon in five days,” she said. “It’s something that we’re going to have to come to grips with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes that science meetings improve virtual participation, consider holding major in-person gatherings biennially instead of annually, and organize smaller satellite gatherings instead of one central conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">The pandemic, she says, is providing an opportunity to think about a “vision for conferences that could be done partly remotely or fully remotely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, scaling back live meetings would have an economic impact, especially for cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During AGU, the cafes, restaurants, hotels and other businesses in the South of Market neighborhood where the conference is located brim with attendees toting conference badges and spending money. An Oxford Economic \u003ca href=\"https://insights.eventscouncil.org/Full-Article/ArtMID/398/ArticleID/1445/2018-Global-Economic-Significance-of-Business-Events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> commissioned by the Events Industry Council estimates that billions of people attend conferences worldwide annually, spending over a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">A group of 12 academics \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/04/18/12-scholars-share-ideas-reducing-carbon-emissions-academic-travel-opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">noted\u003c/span>\u003c/a> last year that the footprint of a traveling scholar is likely larger than that of the average person, calling on research institutions to limit emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our institutional practices should shift to reduce academic air travel,” they wrote. “To be clear, we aren’t calling for a moratorium on flying, and specific personal and professional situations will inevitably require some of us to travel more than others. But even modest changes could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of our professional practice. To that end, we’re calling on academic associations, societies and other organizations to require less flying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the authors, Heidi Roop, a climate science at the University of Washington, said while some conferences livestream talks and other events, they don’t put everything online. She hopes the pandemic will change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t yet a pick-your-own-adventure conference virtually, where you could be in-person or virtual,” she said. “My hope is we start thinking seriously about it, not just because of the pandemic, but because of our carbon footprint and the environmental impact of all the traveling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Presenting a Paper … Over Zoom \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth scientist Chris Field took his first Stanford research appointment at the Carnegie Institution for Science in 1984. He estimates traveling as much as a third of the year to conduct climate research, meet with collaborators and attend conferences. The pace has declined, but he still takes two to four trips a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, all that travel is powered by fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being forced to work remotely has been “transformative,” he said. He’s more productive, and he doesn’t have to battle jet lag and late-night flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not tuned in to the fraction of my time that I was going to the airport, hanging out in the airport, waiting in traffic and checking into the hotel, doing whatever,” he said. \u003cspan class=\"s4\">“That’s not rocket science to figure that out. But it is impactful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">He says the experience of presenting science online is better than inside a cavernous conference hall. “I’ve done a number of presentations and webinars and conversations, and it is easier in some ways; nobody’s sitting at the back of the room and can’t see the slides. And you have control over where the pointer is on the slide and all that stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the presentations may be better, it certainly cannot replace the tangible and intangible benefits of personal interaction with colleagues, competitors, mentors and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003ci>“\u003c/i>One of the next frontiers that we’ll have to address as we think about a new way of doing business is how do you cement the pieces of personal interaction,” he said. “They are really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AGU says it will soon announce a variety of online tools meant to enable personal interaction between scientists at this year’s meeting. These “will also serve as the foundation for the future of AGU Fall Meetings.”\u003cbr>\n\u003cb>\u003cbr>\nStay-at-Home, Forever\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">While stay-at-home orders have catalyzed a movement of what is sometimes called distributed or remote work, it’s not a new idea — \u003ca href=\"https://about.gitlab.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">GitLab\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.invisionapp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">InVision\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://buffer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Buffer\u003c/span>\u003c/a> are just a few companies that operate with no central office and employees spread all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Mullenweg, the founder of the content management program WordPress, which hosts this website and many others, now runs a fully distributed company called Automattic, and long before the coronavirus swept the world, he argued, “\u003ca href=\"https://distributed.blog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Distributed is the future of work\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Mullenweg, recently penned a kind of victory \u003ca href=\"https://ma.tt/2020/05/gradually-then-suddenly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">blog post\u003c/span>\u003c/a> — titled “Gradually, then suddenly” —\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>in response to the host of top-shelf tech companies announcing they would transition their workplaces for more remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">“What’s going to be newsworthy by the end of the year is not technology companies saying they’re embracing distributed work, but those that aren’t,” Mullenweg said. “Those who thought this couldn’t work have been forced by the pandemic to do it anyway, and they’ve now seen that it’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">With demand for fossil fuels down across the state, California’s latest quarterly cap-and-trade auction generated very little money for the state to spend on key environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auction results are another sign that industrial activity in California has been severely weakened by the statewide shelter-in-place order meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s cap-and-trade program aims to limit greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, by capping industry emissions and allowing businesses to buy and sell credits at auction on a state-sponsored marketplace.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money generated from those sales is then used by the state for environmental programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The latest auction produced just $25 million in revenue, significantly less than the $600 million to $850 million raised at similar auctions during the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sold only 37% of its allowances at the auction, which was held May 20. That was the lowest percentage since August 2016, when 35% of allowances were sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board, which oversees the program, released the \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/results_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">results\u003c/span>\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Demand for Fossil Fuels Plummets\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has rapidly constricted during the coronavirus pandemic, as a statewide stay-at-home order severely reduced business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Refinery operations have contracted due to travel restrictions and reduced demand for gas. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Energy_Insights_ada.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">state’s energy commission\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, gasoline production in California declined 47.5% between March and April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jet fuel production declined 68.3% during that time, and diesel production fell 33.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Demand for natural gas has actually been higher during the pandemic compared to the same time period last year, likely due to colder weather rather than any impacts from the coronavirus. Commercial power usage has been way down, but with people sheltering at home, residential usage has been up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">With emissions reduced, businesses appear to find little need to buy credits that allow them to release more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s mainly what’s going on here,” said Chris Field, an earth scientist at Stanford. “Cap-and-trade is still a very effective way to drive emissions down. At the same time, it can generate revenues from important processes. It’s important not to overinterpret any mismatch between supply and demand during this really challenging period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Weaknesses in the Program?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an undersold market could also signal that the state’s market is bloated with more allowances than are necessary, given the paucity of economic activity in the state. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically the worst-case result,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lecturer at Stanford, referring to the latest auction. “Almost no revenue is coming into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad outcome will get blamed on COVID, but is much more the product of a weak program design that was vulnerable to surprises, with way too many allowances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field agrees the program might need to be adjusted, but he said it’s too soon to tell. As the state allows businesses to reopen, economic activity is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be a long-term consequence of the pandemic is an opportunity to decarbonize more rapidly,” Field said. “I hope that’s the case, but I don’t think we should take a hit to the economy to indicate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katelyn Roedner Sutter, U.S. climate program manager for the Environmental Defense Fund, which co-sponsored legislation to create the cap-and-trade program in 2006, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/author/kroedner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">blog post\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that the results “demonstrate the durability of cap-and-trade” because even when the program is underfunded, it still “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">provides a critical backstop, ensuring California’s targets for reductions in climate pollution are achieved.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1965133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auction illustrates the “need to diversify funding for complementary climate investments,” she acknowledged. “Rather than relying solely on a program specifically designed to \u003ci>reduce\u003c/i> emissions and lower mitigation costs (and therefore revenue), California should move toward ensuring climate priorities are a core part of the state’s long-term fiscal priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice in 2016 and once in 2017, California’s quarterly auction generated similarly low revenue. But for the last three years, the market has been stable.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cuts to Environmental Programs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state’s climate program is not generating revenue as expected, many of the state’s climate programs are facing the prospect of budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses the money to clean dirty drinking water, encourage electric vehicles use and create programs that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled uncertainty about cap-and-trade when he released his May revision to the state budget. The governor proposed a $965 million budget for the program, down from $1.4 billion last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledged that California does not know how much revenue the program will generate this year and proposed spending the money as it comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Jared Blumenfeld, secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency, said the agency would not be able to maintain current funding levels. “We are going to have to make hard decisions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He said the state will prioritize initiatives to improve air quality in disadvantaged communities, fire prevention, and a program to clean up contaminated drinking water across the state.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sold only 37% of its allowances at the auction, which was held May 20. That was the lowest percentage since August 2016, when 35% of allowances were sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board, which oversees the program, released the \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/capandtrade/auction/results_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">results\u003c/span>\u003c/a> Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Demand for Fossil Fuels Plummets\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s economy has rapidly constricted during the coronavirus pandemic, as a statewide stay-at-home order severely reduced business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Refinery operations have contracted due to travel restrictions and reduced demand for gas. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/Energy_Insights_ada.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">state’s energy commission\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, gasoline production in California declined 47.5% between March and April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jet fuel production declined 68.3% during that time, and diesel production fell 33.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Demand for natural gas has actually been higher during the pandemic compared to the same time period last year, likely due to colder weather rather than any impacts from the coronavirus. Commercial power usage has been way down, but with people sheltering at home, residential usage has been up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">With emissions reduced, businesses appear to find little need to buy credits that allow them to release more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s mainly what’s going on here,” said Chris Field, an earth scientist at Stanford. “Cap-and-trade is still a very effective way to drive emissions down. At the same time, it can generate revenues from important processes. It’s important not to overinterpret any mismatch between supply and demand during this really challenging period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Weaknesses in the Program?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an undersold market could also signal that the state’s market is bloated with more allowances than are necessary, given the paucity of economic activity in the state. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically the worst-case result,” said Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lecturer at Stanford, referring to the latest auction. “Almost no revenue is coming into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bad outcome will get blamed on COVID, but is much more the product of a weak program design that was vulnerable to surprises, with way too many allowances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field agrees the program might need to be adjusted, but he said it’s too soon to tell. As the state allows businesses to reopen, economic activity is expected to increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be a long-term consequence of the pandemic is an opportunity to decarbonize more rapidly,” Field said. “I hope that’s the case, but I don’t think we should take a hit to the economy to indicate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katelyn Roedner Sutter, U.S. climate program manager for the Environmental Defense Fund, which co-sponsored legislation to create the cap-and-trade program in 2006, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/author/kroedner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">blog post\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that the results “demonstrate the durability of cap-and-trade” because even when the program is underfunded, it still “\u003cspan class=\"s2\">provides a critical backstop, ensuring California’s targets for reductions in climate pollution are achieved.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1965133 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM.jpg 795w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/Image-5-28-20-at-12.53-PM-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the auction illustrates the “need to diversify funding for complementary climate investments,” she acknowledged. “Rather than relying solely on a program specifically designed to \u003ci>reduce\u003c/i> emissions and lower mitigation costs (and therefore revenue), California should move toward ensuring climate priorities are a core part of the state’s long-term fiscal priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice in 2016 and once in 2017, California’s quarterly auction generated similarly low revenue. But for the last three years, the market has been stable.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cuts to Environmental Programs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the state’s climate program is not generating revenue as expected, many of the state’s climate programs are facing the prospect of budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California uses the money to clean dirty drinking water, encourage electric vehicles use and create programs that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled uncertainty about cap-and-trade when he released his May revision to the state budget. The governor proposed a $965 million budget for the program, down from $1.4 billion last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledged that California does not know how much revenue the program will generate this year and proposed spending the money as it comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Jared Blumenfeld, secretary of California’s Environmental Protection Agency, said the agency would not be able to maintain current funding levels. “We are going to have to make hard decisions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He said the state will prioritize initiatives to improve air quality in disadvantaged communities, fire prevention, and a program to clean up contaminated drinking water across the state.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">After selling off more than $1 billion in assets over the last year, the University of California’s investment portfolio is now completely divested of oil, gas and other fossil fuel companies, UC \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-s-investment-portfolios-fossil-free-clean-energy-investments-top-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">While it is not the first educational system to completely rid itself of fossil fuel investments, with about 285,000 students, it is the largest in the country to withdraw financial stakes in an industry that is the principal driver of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Sherman, chair of the UC Board of Regents investments committee, said in a statement that the investment strategy includes a “hopeful view of the future.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“As long-term investors, we believe the university and its stakeholders are much better served by investing in promising opportunities in the alternative energy field rather than gambling on oil and gas,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jagdeep Singh Bachher, UC’s chief investment officer, said in a statement that fossil fuel companies posed “an unacceptable risk” financially.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">For years, the climate advocacy group 350.org and student activists have led a campaign aimed at cutting off financing to fossil fuel companies by encouraging universities and other big financial institutions to walk away from the oil, gas and coal industries. The group’s slogan is “not a penny more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Just amazing,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1262936446651990016?s=20\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">tweeted \u003c/span>\u003c/a>Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org and a leader of the movement. “Univ of California system finishes its massive divestment from fossil fuels. Such thanks to all who made this happen”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divestments from big institutions total more than $11 trillion, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://350.org/press-release/global-fossil-fuel-divestment-11t/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty other colleges and universities have also divested, including California Institute of the Arts, Chico State University and the Peralta Community College District in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">UC’s lead investors said in a Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-16/divestment-fossil-fuel-university-of-california-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> published in September that the decision to divest was not driven by the demands of environmentalists or an effort to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they framed the decision as sound financial thinking based on “risk-averse” reasoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Some might see our action as born of political pressure\u003ci>,\u003c/i> or as green movement idealism or perhaps political correctness run amok,” they wrote. “So be it; we are part of a university system where diversity of opinion thrives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the university’s shedding of $1 billion in fossil fuel assets has coincided with about the same amount of added investments in clean energy, mostly large-scale solar and wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch4>\u003cem>California’s stay-at-home order has provided a window into a world in which cars are off the road and California’s climate goals are more attainable. But how can the state retain some of these gains once the pandemic ends?\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">L\u003c/span>ike many people, Hannah Gordon has been working from home, courtesy of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Some things haven’t changed all that much. She can access the same project management software from her duplex, and she uses Google’s video conferencing service to attend meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But there is one big difference: the lack of a commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Gordon, 28, doesn’t miss it at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Before the pandemic, she trekked every day from the East Bay to her office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation='Kate Gordon, director Governor’s Office of Planning and Research']“I think a lot of people go immediately to: ‘Oh, if we just had only electric cars, and everything would be fine. But what we’ve found in looking at the models is that you actually really do have to reduce the amount that people have to travel…”[/pullquote]Taking public transit ate up about an hour-and-a-half each way, including either a drive to the Rockridge BART station, where she had to pay for parking, or a long walk home alone, in the dark. So she started driving to the city instead. Traffic can be grueling and unpredictable, and she left early to give herself time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“For however long we’re going to be doing this, it is one thing I am grateful for,” Gordon said, about working from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Another positive development: Because she’s not driving, you can subtract the carbon emissions she would have been adding to the already catastrophic global total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>A Major Driving Decline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California’s statewide stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus is providing Californians with a window into a world in which the majority of cars are off the road. Environmentally, it’s been a boon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the UC Davis Road Ecology Center \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_430.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">found\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that after a statewide stay-at-home order in March and mid-April, the total vehicle miles traveled in the state declined by 75%, with a corresponding reduction in planet-warming gases and smog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., the researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11815709/reduced-travel-causing-big-drop-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">found\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a 71% drop in car travel,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>which they estimate could amount to a 4% decrease in total greenhouse gas emissions for the country this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Vehicle miles are considered by policymakers a key indicator of more than just how much people are driving, but also health and air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“That’s a great benefit,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center, about the plummeting time on the road. “Now, if it all rebounds, if we keep driving the way we used to, we’ll have had one good year, and then it’ll go back to what it was before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1963717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1963717 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/2020CO2Peak_Monthly_en_title_lg-e1588809409138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Central\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That would not solve anything. While emissions have dropped during the pandemic, they \u003ca href=\"https://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/co2-and-the-climate-curve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still added\u003c/a> to the overall concentration of carbon in the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Shilling said the lessons to take out of the pandemic need to be applied to the climate crisis, including the reduction in driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think we’re going to learn a lot during this intervening period. How do we telecommute? How do we arrange our work at home? Our shopping trips? All of our travel in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He likened mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic to reducing the harm from climate change in that they are both a “survival goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Global CO2 Drop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The International Energy Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020/global-energy-and-co2-emissions-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">forecasts\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a whopping 8% global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 compared to 2019, which would be an unprecedented drop since measurements have been taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The rapid decline is “set to be almost twice as large as all previous declines since the end of World War II combined,” the agency wrote.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation='Fraser Shilling, co-director UC Davis Road Ecology Center ']‘That’s a great benefit. Now, if it all rebounds, if we keep driving the way we used to, we’ll have had one good year, and then it’ll go back to what it was before.’[/pullquote]The reduction in carbon emissions has put the world on an early track to meet a \u003ca href=\"https://unfccc.int/news/cut-global-emissions-by-76-percent-every-year-for-next-decade-to-meet-15degc-paris-target-un-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">target\u003c/span>\u003c/a> outlined in the Paris climate agreement, which was designed to avoid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.5 C rise in global warming\u003c/a> and even more severe environmental consequences. In November, the United Nations said emissions had to drop at least 7.6% per year through 2030 if the world was to have a chance of meeting the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The burning of fossil fuels for heat and energy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">main\u003c/span>\u003c/a> source of carbon dioxide, and the steep drop in demand for energy due to whole economies shutting down is the primary factor behind reduced emissions during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Less impactful on a global basis is the sharp decline in driving and flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, the reduction in driving has a bigger impact because the state already requires its investor-owned utilities to use renewable energy, a mandate that led to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/942b5a251fac413a84fc4eb93a67c46c/California-meets-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goal-years-early\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reduction of its\u003c/span>\u003c/a> carbon emissions below the 1990 level two years ahead of schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California’s energy efficiency \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/building-energy-efficiency-standards/2019-building-energy-efficiency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">standards\u003c/span>\u003c/a> are among the strongest in the country, and its landmark cap-and-trade program requires companies to pay for the right to emit greenhouse gases while lowering the overall limits on emissions over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>An Intractable Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Reducing the amount of time Californians have to spend driving is the state’s climate white whale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">For three decades, California has tried and failed to significantly reduce transportation emissions with policies that require cleaner gasoline; promote public transit and dense urban development; restrict tailpipe pollution; and incentivize the use of electric vehicles. Transportation-related emissions still haven’t peaked, and they’re the leading source of greenhouse gases in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Mary Nichols, the state’s top air regulator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-california-insight-idUSKCN1PQ4MJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">admitted\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the state’s failure on transportation emissions to Reuters last year. “The strategies that we’ve used up until now just haven’t been effective,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seemingly intractable problem of vehicle emissions stems in part from decades-old urban planning decisions that allowed Los Angeles and other communities to build sprawling suburbs of single-family homes, one reason that so many workers are now forced to grin-and-bear hourslong commutes.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the state was falling behind on meeting its 2030 target of reducing carbon emissions by 40% from 1990 levels, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1948712/your-suv-is-really-messing-with-the-states-climate-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by Beacon Economics commissioned by Next 10, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works on economic and environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">A key problem: more Californians driving more miles in less fuel-efficient trucks and SUVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The UC Davis Road Ecology Center report found that the shutdown order has, at least temporarily, put the state on track to reach this target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tele-Everything\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During this stay-at-home period, it’s not just workers in offices and other places of business who have been subtracted from streets and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visits to medical offices are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963133/telehealth-is-having-a-huge-moment-during-coronavirus-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">way down\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as patients and doctors have been forced to make massive use of telehealth tools for diagnoses. Since schools are closed, no one is taking their car to drop off their kids, instead relying on whatever distance learning capability their districts are offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Academic conferences have moved online, too, which some organizers\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/04/covid-19-forces-conferences-online-scientists-discover-upsides-virtual-format?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-04-28&et_rid=566128243&et_cid=3306149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> say \u003c/span>\u003c/a>could become the new normal as virtual meetings present an opportunity to reach a wider audience while reducing the carbon footprint of an event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Kate Gordon, director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, says this mass, unintentional experiment in staying home has highlighted an argument climate advocates should pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, we have been saying, we need to think about broadband and telework as opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled,” she said. “And that connection has not been as clear in the mind of a lot of climate policy people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Traditionally, Gordon says, it’s electrification that has been the solution of choice for decarbonizing the transportation sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think a lot of people go immediately to: ‘Oh, if we just had only electric cars, and everything would be fine,’” she said. “But what we’ve found in looking at the models is that you actually really do have to reduce the amount that people have to travel around the state because it has all these other associated emissions impacts, as well as being high polluting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Across the country, internet usage surged when states began ordering people to stay at home. Network providers reported a rise in usage of 20-35% in the end of March and early April, according to the Federal Communications Commission.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Much of the spike stems from increased demand in suburban, exurban and residential areas during daytime hours, likely from people who can log in and work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Gordon says California can support telecommuting by increasing broadband access and making nuts-and-bolts administrative changes that allow people to attend parole hearings, visit the DMV or perform other government functions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">When the economy opens up again, she thinks, the state can sustain some of the emission reductions by investing in systems that promote telecommuting, teleconferencing, teletrips … basically, tele-everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“The more options people have to not do their long commutes, the better for air quality and the better for our overall emissions profile,” she said. “Universal fast internet access is part of what makes teleworking even possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Digital Divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">One roadblock to a tele-everything California is that it suffers from a vast digital divide, with high-speed internet access available in many of the state’s bustling urban centers, but not in remote areas in Northern California, the Central Valley and Inland Empire.\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1963721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-768x994.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-1020x1320.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, people who could telecommute tended to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/06/telecommuting-will-likely-continue-long-after-the-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">white-collar workers with higher incomes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and that has held true during the pandemic, according to a Brookings Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/06/telecommuting-will-likely-continue-long-after-the-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Nowhere is that divide felt more acutely than in the schools. For example, Oakland has been offering online classes for weeks, but many students there still \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/04/28/oakland-parents-teachers-call-on-mayor-district-to-guarantee-internet-access-for-all-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">lack access\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Businesses Adapt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During the shutdown, businesses have found new ways to keep the economic train lurching forward, says Rufus Jeffris, senior vice president of communications for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Bay Area Council\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, an advocacy group that has long pushed for policies to reduce solo commuters on roads and freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Those who have fast internet setups have been able to adapt to working from home, leaning on an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/950cccc45ddddb919b3eaa629a3e6688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">ever-growing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> roster of video conferencing applications like Zoom, which has seen its stock price soar during the pandemic, from $68.72 a share on Jan. 2 to a peak\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>of $181.50 on April 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said although it will be “interesting to see whether this cements work-from-home practices more broadly,” he doesn’t think telecommuting can substitute for the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Business and the economy are taking a big hit right now,” he said. “We have to figure out how to save lives, but also save livelihoods. Businesses want to follow the public health and science behind this, but business leaders are eager to get to work and start figuring out safe ways to reopen as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Sunrun, a leading residential solar company, is one business that has been able to change its work protocols to stay operational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Getting a solar unit onto a customer’s house usually\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>begins with an employee scouting a home to site solar panels. Now, it’s the customers who are snapping their own photos with smartphones, sending them in to the company in an effort to limit human contact, says Anne Hoskins, Sunrun’s chief policy officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of submitting permitting documents to planning departments in person, company representatives send them electronically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We even went a step further with some of the permitting offices and said, ‘We think you could do the inspection remotely. We can do it by camera and with you on the other side.’ And some offices agreed to that, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Hoskins thinks this remote work could speed up the process and improve government permitting even after the stay-at-home orders are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>What Happens After State Order Lifted?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Which experiments in telecommuting will be maintained on a widespread basis after people eventually go back to some semblance of their pre-pandemic lives remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In the back of the mind of UC Davis’ Shilling is a “nascent irritation” that California is “going to reverse path and take us right back to the place we were before and not learn these lessons,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his colleagues express this cynicism when he talks about the\u003cbr>\n“optimistic projection” that the state can use this moment to change driving behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say: ‘Oh, no, we’re just going to go back to what we were doing before,’” Shilling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But this is too fatalistic, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like running along the edge of a cliff,” he said. “Because that’s essentially what we’re doing as a species and as a society. And if you just have this idea, I’m going to fall off the cliff and die, then you may increase your chances of doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“But if you are more optimistic and say: ‘I’m not going to fall, I’m going to try really hard to not fall off the cliff, then maybe you’re more likely to succeed. To me, being optimistic is a better survival strategy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"headline": "Coronavirus Forces Huge Number of Californians Off Road, as Tele-Everything Becomes New Climate Option",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch4>\u003cem>California’s stay-at-home order has provided a window into a world in which cars are off the road and California’s climate goals are more attainable. But how can the state retain some of these gains once the pandemic ends?\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em; float: left; line-height: 0.733em; padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0; font-family: times, serif, georgia;\">L\u003c/span>ike many people, Hannah Gordon has been working from home, courtesy of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Some things haven’t changed all that much. She can access the same project management software from her duplex, and she uses Google’s video conferencing service to attend meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But there is one big difference: the lack of a commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Gordon, 28, doesn’t miss it at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Before the pandemic, she trekked every day from the East Bay to her office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Taking public transit ate up about an hour-and-a-half each way, including either a drive to the Rockridge BART station, where she had to pay for parking, or a long walk home alone, in the dark. So she started driving to the city instead. Traffic can be grueling and unpredictable, and she left early to give herself time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“For however long we’re going to be doing this, it is one thing I am grateful for,” Gordon said, about working from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Another positive development: Because she’s not driving, you can subtract the carbon emissions she would have been adding to the already catastrophic global total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>A Major Driving Decline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California’s statewide stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus is providing Californians with a window into a world in which the majority of cars are off the road. Environmentally, it’s been a boon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the UC Davis Road Ecology Center \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_430.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">found\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that after a statewide stay-at-home order in March and mid-April, the total vehicle miles traveled in the state declined by 75%, with a corresponding reduction in planet-warming gases and smog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., the researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11815709/reduced-travel-causing-big-drop-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">found\u003c/span>\u003c/a> a 71% drop in car travel,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>which they estimate could amount to a 4% decrease in total greenhouse gas emissions for the country this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Vehicle miles are considered by policymakers a key indicator of more than just how much people are driving, but also health and air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“That’s a great benefit,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center, about the plummeting time on the road. “Now, if it all rebounds, if we keep driving the way we used to, we’ll have had one good year, and then it’ll go back to what it was before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1963717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1963717 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/2020CO2Peak_Monthly_en_title_lg-e1588809409138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Central\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That would not solve anything. While emissions have dropped during the pandemic, they \u003ca href=\"https://medialibrary.climatecentral.org/resources/co2-and-the-climate-curve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still added\u003c/a> to the overall concentration of carbon in the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Shilling said the lessons to take out of the pandemic need to be applied to the climate crisis, including the reduction in driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think we’re going to learn a lot during this intervening period. How do we telecommute? How do we arrange our work at home? Our shopping trips? All of our travel in a different way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He likened mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic to reducing the harm from climate change in that they are both a “survival goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The reduction in carbon emissions has put the world on an early track to meet a \u003ca href=\"https://unfccc.int/news/cut-global-emissions-by-76-percent-every-year-for-next-decade-to-meet-15degc-paris-target-un-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">target\u003c/span>\u003c/a> outlined in the Paris climate agreement, which was designed to avoid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1.5 C rise in global warming\u003c/a> and even more severe environmental consequences. In November, the United Nations said emissions had to drop at least 7.6% per year through 2030 if the world was to have a chance of meeting the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The burning of fossil fuels for heat and energy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/international-emissions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">main\u003c/span>\u003c/a> source of carbon dioxide, and the steep drop in demand for energy due to whole economies shutting down is the primary factor behind reduced emissions during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Less impactful on a global basis is the sharp decline in driving and flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, however, the reduction in driving has a bigger impact because the state already requires its investor-owned utilities to use renewable energy, a mandate that led to a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/942b5a251fac413a84fc4eb93a67c46c/California-meets-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goal-years-early\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">reduction of its\u003c/span>\u003c/a> carbon emissions below the 1990 level two years ahead of schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">California’s energy efficiency \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and-topics/programs/building-energy-efficiency-standards/2019-building-energy-efficiency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">standards\u003c/span>\u003c/a> are among the strongest in the country, and its landmark cap-and-trade program requires companies to pay for the right to emit greenhouse gases while lowering the overall limits on emissions over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>An Intractable Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Reducing the amount of time Californians have to spend driving is the state’s climate white whale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">For three decades, California has tried and failed to significantly reduce transportation emissions with policies that require cleaner gasoline; promote public transit and dense urban development; restrict tailpipe pollution; and incentivize the use of electric vehicles. Transportation-related emissions still haven’t peaked, and they’re the leading source of greenhouse gases in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Mary Nichols, the state’s top air regulator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-california-insight-idUSKCN1PQ4MJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">admitted\u003c/span>\u003c/a> the state’s failure on transportation emissions to Reuters last year. “The strategies that we’ve used up until now just haven’t been effective,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seemingly intractable problem of vehicle emissions stems in part from decades-old urban planning decisions that allowed Los Angeles and other communities to build sprawling suburbs of single-family homes, one reason that so many workers are now forced to grin-and-bear hourslong commutes.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the state was falling behind on meeting its 2030 target of reducing carbon emissions by 40% from 1990 levels, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1948712/your-suv-is-really-messing-with-the-states-climate-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by Beacon Economics commissioned by Next 10, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works on economic and environmental issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">A key problem: more Californians driving more miles in less fuel-efficient trucks and SUVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The UC Davis Road Ecology Center report found that the shutdown order has, at least temporarily, put the state on track to reach this target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tele-Everything\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During this stay-at-home period, it’s not just workers in offices and other places of business who have been subtracted from streets and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visits to medical offices are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963133/telehealth-is-having-a-huge-moment-during-coronavirus-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">way down\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as patients and doctors have been forced to make massive use of telehealth tools for diagnoses. Since schools are closed, no one is taking their car to drop off their kids, instead relying on whatever distance learning capability their districts are offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Academic conferences have moved online, too, which some organizers\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/04/covid-19-forces-conferences-online-scientists-discover-upsides-virtual-format?utm_campaign=news_daily_2020-04-28&et_rid=566128243&et_cid=3306149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> say \u003c/span>\u003c/a>could become the new normal as virtual meetings present an opportunity to reach a wider audience while reducing the carbon footprint of an event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Kate Gordon, director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, says this mass, unintentional experiment in staying home has highlighted an argument climate advocates should pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, we have been saying, we need to think about broadband and telework as opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled,” she said. “And that connection has not been as clear in the mind of a lot of climate policy people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Traditionally, Gordon says, it’s electrification that has been the solution of choice for decarbonizing the transportation sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think a lot of people go immediately to: ‘Oh, if we just had only electric cars, and everything would be fine,’” she said. “But what we’ve found in looking at the models is that you actually really do have to reduce the amount that people have to travel around the state because it has all these other associated emissions impacts, as well as being high polluting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Across the country, internet usage surged when states began ordering people to stay at home. Network providers reported a rise in usage of 20-35% in the end of March and early April, according to the Federal Communications Commission.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Much of the spike stems from increased demand in suburban, exurban and residential areas during daytime hours, likely from people who can log in and work from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Gordon says California can support telecommuting by increasing broadband access and making nuts-and-bolts administrative changes that allow people to attend parole hearings, visit the DMV or perform other government functions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">When the economy opens up again, she thinks, the state can sustain some of the emission reductions by investing in systems that promote telecommuting, teleconferencing, teletrips … basically, tele-everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“The more options people have to not do their long commutes, the better for air quality and the better for our overall emissions profile,” she said. “Universal fast internet access is part of what makes teleworking even possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Digital Divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">One roadblock to a tele-everything California is that it suffers from a vast digital divide, with high-speed internet access available in many of the state’s bustling urban centers, but not in remote areas in Northern California, the Central Valley and Inland Empire.\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1963721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019.jpg 1275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-768x994.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/05/CA_BB_Fixed_Downstream_Consumer_2019-1020x1320.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, people who could telecommute tended to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/06/telecommuting-will-likely-continue-long-after-the-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">white-collar workers with higher incomes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and that has held true during the pandemic, according to a Brookings Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/04/06/telecommuting-will-likely-continue-long-after-the-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Nowhere is that divide felt more acutely than in the schools. For example, Oakland has been offering online classes for weeks, but many students there still \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/04/28/oakland-parents-teachers-call-on-mayor-district-to-guarantee-internet-access-for-all-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">lack access\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Businesses Adapt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">During the shutdown, businesses have found new ways to keep the economic train lurching forward, says Rufus Jeffris, senior vice president of communications for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Bay Area Council\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, an advocacy group that has long pushed for policies to reduce solo commuters on roads and freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Those who have fast internet setups have been able to adapt to working from home, leaning on an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/950cccc45ddddb919b3eaa629a3e6688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">ever-growing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> roster of video conferencing applications like Zoom, which has seen its stock price soar during the pandemic, from $68.72 a share on Jan. 2 to a peak\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>of $181.50 on April 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said although it will be “interesting to see whether this cements work-from-home practices more broadly,” he doesn’t think telecommuting can substitute for the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“Business and the economy are taking a big hit right now,” he said. “We have to figure out how to save lives, but also save livelihoods. Businesses want to follow the public health and science behind this, but business leaders are eager to get to work and start figuring out safe ways to reopen as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Sunrun, a leading residential solar company, is one business that has been able to change its work protocols to stay operational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Getting a solar unit onto a customer’s house usually\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>begins with an employee scouting a home to site solar panels. Now, it’s the customers who are snapping their own photos with smartphones, sending them in to the company in an effort to limit human contact, says Anne Hoskins, Sunrun’s chief policy officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of submitting permitting documents to planning departments in person, company representatives send them electronically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We even went a step further with some of the permitting offices and said, ‘We think you could do the inspection remotely. We can do it by camera and with you on the other side.’ And some offices agreed to that, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Hoskins thinks this remote work could speed up the process and improve government permitting even after the stay-at-home orders are lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>What Happens After State Order Lifted?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Which experiments in telecommuting will be maintained on a widespread basis after people eventually go back to some semblance of their pre-pandemic lives remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">In the back of the mind of UC Davis’ Shilling is a “nascent irritation” that California is “going to reverse path and take us right back to the place we were before and not learn these lessons,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his colleagues express this cynicism when he talks about the\u003cbr>\n“optimistic projection” that the state can use this moment to change driving behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say: ‘Oh, no, we’re just going to go back to what we were doing before,’” Shilling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">But this is too fatalistic, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like running along the edge of a cliff,” he said. “Because that’s essentially what we’re doing as a species and as a society. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">It’s official. After years of blustery promises and draft proposals, the Trump administration Tuesday released final rules tossing out auto emissions standards and gutting one of the U.S.’s biggest efforts to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rollback raises the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years, ends ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and finalizes a plan to eliminate California’s right to enact stricter tailpipe emissions rules than the federal government–a right the state has had for more than a half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/final-fr-safe-preamble.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">final rule\u003c/span>\u003c/a> sets mileage standards through 2026. 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She says the policy does not fit “with their statutory obligations.” \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The motivation here is to promote fossil fuels,” she said. “That’s been an underlying justification for a lot of the environmental rollbacks the Trump administration is engaged in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the administration has a legal obligation to protect public health and the environment and to maximize fuel economy. “When you take a look at the justifications, they’re really trying to fit a square peg into a round hole just doesn’t fit well,” she said. \u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and about a dozen other states say they will continue resisting the Trump standards in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s Waiver\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Trump administration announced its intention to withdraw California’s waiver that allowed it to set its own tougher smog rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s exemption was previously provided to the state under the Clean Air Act; state officials are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/cleancars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">suing\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> keep the waiver\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, California’s top air regulator, has said the state’s ability to set its own car rules is necessary to protect public health in California and fight climate change. She’s called the dispute “the fight of a lifetime for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichols said in a phone call with reporters that her office has been in touch with industry representatives and they are still planning to manufacture cars to California’s standard for tailpipe emissions and electric vehicles.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will meet the requirements of our rules,” she said. “That is what they have said.” \u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“The companies, based on their legal advice and on their desire not to be directly implicated in the ongoing litigation, are saying that they will meet fleet average basis in our state and other states that follow the California rules,” Nichols said. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also announced that Volvo is considering joining Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen in a voluntary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945609/california-and-carmakers-reach-clean-vehicle-agreement-rebuking-trump-administration\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">deal\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to ramp up fuel efficiency standards over time and encourage investment in electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>\u003c/i>California Senator Dianne Feinstein criticized the Trump administration for relaxing pollution rules during a global pandemic. \u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe rolling back emissions standards for vehicles and relaxing important monitoring and reporting standards during this pandemic is a serious error,” she \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/c/d/cdaf5996-be61-47bd-ae02-1d7679241b00/22E9943A30ABA0655E2C4E0435AA0458.2020.03.31-epa-cv-letter.pdf\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">wrote\u003c/span>\u003c/a> in a letter. “Given the respiratory nature of COVID-19, I believe it is more important than ever to improve air quality, and I urge EPA to work in a collaborative fashion with state and local partners to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">She asked the Trump administration to allow California to continue to set its own tailpipe emissions standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump’s New Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s final rules come after two years of the president \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/152b4466881646268a08a02bb1d5d8ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">threatening and fighting states and automakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a> that opposed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are delivering on President Trump’s promise to correct the current fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards,” Andrew Wheeler, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said in a statement Tuesday marking the release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He said the final rule “puts in place a sensible” national program that “strikes the right regulatory balance that protects our environment, and sets reasonable targets for the auto industry. This rule supports our economy, and the safety of American families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Opponents contend the change — gutting his predecessor’s legacy effort against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions — appears driven by Trump’s push to undo the regulatory initiatives of former President Barack Obama and say even the Trump administration itself has had difficulty pointing to the kinds of specific, demonstrable benefits to drivers, public health and safety or the economy that normally accompany standards changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Trump administration says the looser mileage standards will allow consumers to keep buying the less fuel-efficient SUVs that U.S. drivers have favored for years. Opponents say it will kill several hundred more Americans a year through dirtier air, compared to the Obama standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Even “given the catastrophe they’re in with the coronavirus, they’re pursuing a policy that’s going to hurt public health and kill people,” said Chet France, a former 39-year veteran of the EPA who served as a senior official over emissions and mileage standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“This is first time that an administration has pursued a policy that will net negative benefit for society and reduce fuel savings,” France said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Trump’s Cabinet has continued a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9bc2a961143dee11fcef847be3312bc0\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">push to roll back\u003c/span>\u003c/a> public health and environment regulations despite \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">the coronavirus outbreak\u003c/span>\u003c/a> riveting the world’s attention. The administration — like others before it — is facing procedural rules that will make changes adopted before the last six months of Trump’s current term tougher to throw out, even if the White House changes occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Business Uncertainty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The standards have split the auto industry with Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen siding with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9a50451d14c94a29a460df8ec2c0cef7\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">California\u003c/span>\u003c/a> and agreeing to higher standards. Most other automakers contend the Obama-era standards were enacted hastily and will be impossible to meet because consumers have shifted dramatically away from efficient cars to SUVs and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Last year, 72% of the new vehicles purchased by U.S. consumers were trucks or SUVS. It was 51% when the current standards went into effect in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Obama administration mandated 5% annual increases in fuel economy. The Trump administration standards call for a 1.5% annual increase, backing off from an initial proposal simply to stop mandating increases in fuel efficiency after 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The transportation sector is the nation’s largest source of climate-changing emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing automakers, said the industry still wants middle ground between the two standards, and it supports year-over-year mileage increases. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally published Feb. 18, 2020\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats will go to the polls on March 3 to select a candidate to be the party’s nominee against President Donald Trump in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]Top of mind for many is our warming planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2019 Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/09/warren-biden-slip-in-california-primary-race-says-new-berkeley-igs-poll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">poll \u003c/span>\u003c/a>of likely Democratic voters, almost half named climate change as their highest priority for the next president, more than on any other issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Last July, a Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1945845/californians-concerns-about-worsening-wildfires-at-record-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">poll \u003c/span>\u003c/a>found a record number of Californians — 71% — “very concerned” about wildfires becoming more severe because of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Climate change has “gone from being a nonissue for voters to being one of the top one or two issues,” said \u003cb>Marianne Lavelle\u003c/b>, a reporter with the Pulitzer Prize-winning site \u003ca href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiAp5nyBRABEiwApTwjXgSNTyXGVfMUyBa56uXbjIzF3GfrEfjjlkCEDk7u3hPficaJCxlXXhoCR4IQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003cb>InsideClimate News\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle and her colleagues spent months crafting detailed climate profiles of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination. She also wrote an expansive analysis of President Donald Trump’s environmental record in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Trump occasionally feigns concern about climate — ‘I think about it all the time,’ he once said — his policy has been an unmitigated and relentless drive toward fossil energy development,” Lavelle wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Raquel Maria Dillon interviewed Lavelle and ICN reporter \u003cb>Georgina Gustin \u003c/b>on where the candidates stand on climate policy. \u003cspan class=\"s2\">Below are excerpts from their answers, edited for length and clarity. Some key points …\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003cb>Climate is a huge issue this election\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin:\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>We know that, at least in Iowa and New Hampshire, climate change ranked second only to health care in surveys of likely voters. That is likely because people are seeing the impacts of climate change all around them — in California, obviously, the devastating wildfires these last couple of years, and the historic flooding across the Midwest this past year. In New England, wildlife levels are dropping. Everybody sees this in their backyards and in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Democratic candidates agree on key policies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: All of the Democrats agree on getting to zero new greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, and that’s very significant because it’s in line with the science. They all agree on getting back in the Paris Accord. They all say they won’t take money from the fossil fuel industry. And each of them has embraced elements of the Green New Deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Disagreements on fracking and continued use of fossil fuels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Gustin: Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg have all said that they are open to fracking, and they have said that they would continue exporting fossil fuels. Mike Bloomberg hasn’t addressed fracking. We’re not really sure where he stands. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are out in front from a climate hawk standpoint: They would ban fracking and, to varying degrees, continued use of fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Candidates talking about their experience\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle:\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>Warren’s plan includes a fossil fuel industry disclosure of risks, and that makes it unique\u003ci>. \u003c/i>Bloomberg worked with the Sierra Club for years on the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/climate/bloomberg-climate-pledge-coal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Beyond Coal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>” campaign to shut down coal-fired power plants. His plan is to do that on a federal level. He talks a lot about resilience, and, of course, as mayor of New York City, he had to deal with Superstorm Sandy and the after effects. Biden talks about his diplomatic experience, and how he was active in the Paris climate talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Trump: All about fossil fuels\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle: Donald Trump is\u003ci> \u003c/i>ignoring climate change and doing all he can to promote fossil fuels, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1951605/its-official-feds-open-up-central-california-to-more-drilling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">opening up fracking\u003c/span>\u003c/a> on a million acres in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Gustin: This administration has tried to, or is in the process of dismantling, every major piece of climate legislation enacted by the Obama administration, including the Clean Power Plan and fuel economy standards, which were major accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>The filibuster and its 60-vote requirement to pass legislation is a big stumbling block\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lavelle: Just this past year, Congress couldn’t even pass a very small investment in renewable energy. And no matter who wins the Senate, it’s going to be a closely divided Congress. The candidates will have to work with the other party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">\u003cb>Different constituencies divided on approaches and emphasis\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: Young people look at someone like Biden, who stresses his experience, and they say, ‘So what?’ They don’t see that he accomplished anything with the Obama administration. They don’t see that a lot of work went into environmental policy that went even that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin: Rural voters who are typically very conservative and support Trump appreciate that the candidates include agriculture in their climate and rural plans. All of the candidates have agriculture proposals. Four or eight years ago, climate wasn’t an issue at all. To have candidates get into the weeds on an issue like soil carbon —which Biden and Buttigieg are semi-conversant in — is a remarkable change in the political conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p4\">Lavelle: Voters are divided on the approach that they want. Buttigieg and Sanders are sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Sanders has taken the mantle of the Green New Deal. Buttigieg seems to be the choice of people who want something more pragmatic. He garnered the largest percentage of people who place climate as their number one issue in New Hampshire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Some of the money collected from the fees will be reinvested in the city’s public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luís Bettencourt, director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, said it remains unclear how successful these new approaches will be, particularly when it comes to encouraging ride sharing. Despite lower costs already encouraging pooling, only about 15% of all rides today are shared, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report notes how much emissions would decrease if half of all rides were shared, but Bettencourt said that level of ride sharing would be difficult to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People want to go fast, they want to maybe have a private conversation, they may not be in a condition where they want to pool,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said electrification could go a long way to solving ride sharing’s carbon emissions. 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But he has divulged little about why he decided to end a successful career managing a multibillion dollar hedge fund — with investments that included fossil fuel interests — to enter politics and the climate fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a 2014 profile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mensjournal.com/features/tom-steyer-an-inconvenient-billionaire-20140218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told \u003c/a>Men’s Journal that he realized, “I really don’t want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor.” His wife, Kathryn Taylor, said the couple became embarrassed in the mid 2000s that they were profiting from investments in oil companies while committing themselves to environmental issues. In 2012, Steyer stepped down from his role at the hedge fund, sold his personal fossil fuel assets, and got involved in electoral politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Done That\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steyer’s chief climate accomplishments have come through his checkbook. The billionaire emerged as a climate-champion counterpoint to the Koch brothers, the conservative oil barons. In 2013, he devoted millions of dollars to candidates across the country, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/ken-cuccinelli-virginia-governor-2013-democrats-099255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">governor’s race in Virginia\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-10-28/environmentalists-and-big-coal-fight-it-out-small-election-washington-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county council elections\u003c/a> in Washington state, who promised to take action on climate change or oppose fossil fuel development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">He founded the nonprofit NextGen Climate the same year to build a political movement around climate action, working on voter registration and mobilization. Since then, he and Taylor have given nearly $240 million to federal candidates, parties and committees, placing them among the nation’s top donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, NextGen backed ballot initiatives in Arizona and Nevada that would require the states to get half their electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Voters rejected the measure in Arizona, but approved it in Nevada. In Michigan, his group \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/644b380367ee4cfea3cdffb6a02af6f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrew a similar initiative\u003c/a> after two utilities agreed to buy 25 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Getting Specific\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steyer’s campaign published an \u003c/span>extensive “Justice-Centered”\u003ca href=\"https://www.tomsteyer.com/climate-plan-framework/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> climate plan\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that includes a commitment to declare climate change a national emergency and support for Green New Deal legislation. The plan aims for 100 percent clean electricity by 2040 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 across all sectors, including homes and buildings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Steyer says he would build a community-based network to inform his policies and a “Civilian Climate Corps” that would be funded with $250 billion in bonds over a decade and intended to create 1 million jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• His plan would commit $50 billion to wages and benefits to help fossil fuel workers to “thrive in a cleaner, more inclusive economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Without mentioning a carbon tax, Steyer says he would eliminate “all forms of government giveaways” to fossil fuel companies, “including unlimited and unpriced global warming pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Steyer says he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.tomsteyer.com/infrastructure-creation-at-a-glance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commit $2 trillion\u003c/a> over a decade to make infrastructure more climate-friendly and resilient, which he anticipates would mobilize an additional $4 trillion from non-federal sources. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly half of likely California Democratic voters in a December 2019 poll \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957119/climate-change-is-a-top-issue-for-californias-democrats-heres-where-the-candidates-stand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">named climate change \u003c/a>as their highest priority for the next president. Here are how the candidates stack up against each other on some key proposals. Below that are some of the actions they’ve already taken related to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Democratic Candidates’ Climate Plans\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/hzj5n/1/\" height=\"490\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Democratic Candidates’ Key Climate Achievements\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4Wlbv/1/\" height=\"490\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The candidates for the Democratic nomination all agree that the country needs to reverse course from the Trump administration’s current policy of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">embracing fossil fuels\u003c/a>. Elizabeth Warren, for example, has called Trump the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/05/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-climate-leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate denier-in-chief\u003c/a>.” Bernie Sanders said Trump is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/bernie-sanders-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerously wrong\u003c/a>” on the issue. Joe Biden said Trump has “abdicated leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Analysis: The Candidates on Climate Change\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956430/joe-biden-climate-profile-surprising-embrace-of-green-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956501/michael-bloomberg-climate-profile-shutting-down-coal-modest-federal-spending%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956514/pete-buttigieg-climate-profile-making-u-s-the-worlds-clean-tech-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956525/amy-klobuchar-climate-profile-using-presidency-to-restore-clean-energy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Klobuchar\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956421/bernie-sanders-climate-profile-16-trillion-in-spending-for-most-ambitious-plan-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1957088/donald-trump-climate-profile-this-president-is-all-about-fossil-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1956437/elizabeth-warren-climate-profile-taking-up-mantle-of-former-climate-candidate-inslee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Warren\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[/pullquote]All of the candidates agree on several key climate policies: They all believe the U.S. should rejoin the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935922/nations-agree-on-rules-to-put-paris-climate-agreement-into-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris climate agreement\u003c/a>; they all want to stop issuing fossil fuel leases on public lands; and all of them except Elizabeth Warren want to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Warren is even more ambitious, with a net-zero target of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal Spending\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the candidates don’t agree on how quickly the country should stop fracking and burning natural gas or how much the federal government should spend to fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have all proposed at least a trillion dollars in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Bloomberg’s climate plan states that he “will quadruple the federal R&D investment in clean energy and a clean grid to at least $25 billion a year,” but, as NPR \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/758173003/climate-issues-where-2020-democrats-stand-on-the-green-new-deal-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">points out\u003c/a>, the plan is not clear about overall spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Green New Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Green New Deal is the congressional resolution that lays out a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/climate/green-new-deal-questions-answers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand plan\u003c/a> for tackling climate change. The legislation is co-sponsored by senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar; all of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination have endorsed at least portions of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar’s detailed \u003ca href=\"https://amyklobuchar.com/issue/climate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">description\u003c/a> of her climate plan does not mention the Green New Deal, however, and she has called the plan aspirational rather than prescriptive, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/429719-klobuchar-on-green-new-deal-i-see-it-as-aspirational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling CNN \u003c/a>that it doesn’t make sense to “get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years,” while it does make sense to “start doing concrete things, and put some aspirations out there on climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg also did not embrace the Green New Deal in his climate plan, but he has said that he supports the climate portions of it. He stresses that climate activists should focus on what’s doable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Price on Carbon\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists and some climate scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opinion/climate-change-carbon-price.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argued\u003c/a> that the best way to fight climate change is to put a price on emitting planet- warming greenhouse gases and raise that price incrementally over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren did not mention a price on carbon in her detailed climate proposals, but her campaign \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/758173003/climate-issues-where-2020-democrats-stand-on-the-green-new-deal-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told\u003c/a> NPR that she is “open to a carbon tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanders’ plan says he will “massively” raise taxes on corporate polluters’ and “raise penalties on pollution from fossil fuel energy generation.” His campaign told NPR that “a price on carbon must be part of a larger strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Bloomberg has endorsed the idea of a federal carbon tax in the past, but his climate plan does not include a price on carbon, at least not yet. “Putting a price on carbon should be one among many actions the federal government takes to combat climate change,” his campaign told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fracking Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Biden and Bloomberg have called for increased fracking oversight, but their climate plans do not mention a fracking ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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