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"content": "\u003cp>The staffers who run \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s city-owned art galleries and grant programs for artists say they’ve been thrown into chaos as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/budget-cuts\">budget cuts\u003c/a> hit the Arts Commission while it is already navigating major restructuring and a broader shift toward privatizing arts funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faces a nearly $600 million budget deficit over the next two years, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is asking departments across the city to reduce personnel spending in part by laying off hundreds of workers. One of those layoffs has targeted the San Francisco Arts Commission, the city’s agency charged with championing the arts, and other workers have been asked to move departments. The way those changes have been communicated has resulted in even more frustration and confusion for staff at the small city agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Atwood, a program manager with the commission, received notice May 1 that she had been laid off after more than two years of overseeing grant-making programs. But it turned out that Atwood’s role was not going away. Instead, it had been offered to a more senior employee whose position will be eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very confusing for me. I’ve never gone through anything like this before,” Atwood said. “I take a lot of pride in my work, and that pride is a little hurt right now because, I mean, I really busted my ass for the commission, especially that week I received notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maysoun Wazwaz is the manager of exhibition and public programs with the commission’s galleries program and has worked for the city for nearly a decade. She also received a layoff notice just weeks ago and was told her position would be eliminated. But her layoff was later “rescinded,” she said, and the department offered to reassign her to another program within the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come even as the mayor has repeatedly said the arts are critical to the city’s recovery, and promoted free concerts around the city with the help of philanthropic dollars and private funding through groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081975/the-civic-joy-fund-promises-to-help-revitalize-san-francisco-some-artists-want-no-part-in-it\">Civic Joy Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco is preparing for a new exhibit on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s arts and culture ecosystem is the most vibrant in the country, and under my administration, we are working to do a better job supporting the artists and arts organizations who are driving our city’s economic recovery,” Lurie said in a statement on Wednesday, announcing two new arts grants. “In a moment when it’s more difficult than ever for our small arts organizations to thrive, we are stepping in to support our community groups and add two more grant opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team overseeing public galleries that Wazwaz was part of has been reduced by half. Even before these cuts, the San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13984752/jack-fischer-gallery-closing-minnesota-street-project\"> arts landscape had been struggling\u003c/a>. Both nonprofit and commercial art spaces in the city have closed over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep hearing how this mayor is an arts and culture mayor, and it just feels like someone who doesn’t know what we do enough well enough to be able to make like a measured decision about where a cut can happen without impacting sort of the core mission of the agency,” Wazwaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the layoff notices, Wazwaz and other staff were screened and asked to report their qualifications for their position and other roles they could potentially be moved into if their current roles were cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12083587 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maysoun Wazwaz, whose position with the San Francisco Arts Commission was recently eliminated, in San Francisco, on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are stressed out, and that obviously has an impact on the work that they’re doing,” Wazwaz said. “In inconveniencing people to ask for proof of experience, it just feels very disrespectful and really chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, sometimes called “bumping,” is intended to give employees with more public service experience more job security during budget deficit years like this one, and it is playing out across city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood and Wazwaz support the seniority protections, but said the process has felt like a game of musical chairs, sending staff into a frenzy about which positions could be cut next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels icky,” said Atwood, who has been offered a lower-paying position at City College that she’s still considering whether to take. “We’re being pitted against each other for the position in a way.”[aside postID=news_12079126 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed.jpg']The mayor has stressed that the city must make difficult decisions to get on a stronger financial footing. The city has already issued 127 layoffs, and a total of 500 are expected to be cut around $100 million in personnel spending. Other departments, like public health, have seen several positions completely cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the budget cuts at the Arts Commission also come during a time of dramatic change at the agency overall. This year, the city moved to merge the Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, and the Film Commission into a single agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize how challenging this news is. Those impacted have made meaningful contributions to our work and mission in championing and supporting the arts,” Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs, wrote in an email to staff at the Arts Commission about the layoffs. “As the budget process continues over the coming months, it is possible that additional cuts and changes may be required before the final budget is adopted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remington \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13986140/ralph-remington-director-of-cultural-affairs-retirement\">announced his retirement in February\u003c/a> and has since been serving in an advisory role. The city recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13988903/san-francisco-appoints-matthew-goudeau-to-top-arts-job\">tapped Matthew Goudeau\u003c/a> to serve as the city’s first executive director of arts and culture, steering the new superagency formed by the three merged arts agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood said there’s been a leadership vacuum in the arts during the budget process at a time of shifting priorities and a changing strategic approach to public arts in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leadership being absent and still taking a salary, and then having these layoffs take place, it’s especially demoralizing and frustrating,” Atwood said. “My worry with the merger and these layoffs is that it’s going to dilute this core focus on funding projects and organizations that represent the city’s diversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry to the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackie von Treskow, another arts agency staff member and shop steward for the local union, said the anxiety she’s heard from staff stemmed from the city’s handling of layoffs, not the bumping process itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The union’s position is that the notices as issued bypassed the verification process required before anyone can be noticed, seniority wasn’t properly reviewed, and funding insufficiency wasn’t demonstrated as required under civil service rules,” she said. “The bumping that displaced one colleague from her position isn’t an abstract labor technicality. It’s the human cost of a process that wasn’t followed correctly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials for the Arts Commission said they could not comment on specific staffing changes or individual personnel cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Arts Commission remains committed to supporting artists, cultural organizations and creative workers across San Francisco,” said Edward Tom, spokesperson for the Arts Commission. “We also value the dedication and service of the employees who help carry out that mission every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With budget negotiations still underway, von Treskow said she hopes the city will invest more public dollars in the arts through ways like tapping into reserves. Lurie’s budget proposal is due June 1.\u003cbr>\n“The layoffs and the merger make a lot more sense when you look at them alongside the administration’s broader approach to funding public services,” she said, “which is increasingly turning to private philanthropy to fill the void that public disinvestment creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But her layoff was later “rescinded,” she said, and the department offered to reassign her to another program within the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come even as the mayor has repeatedly said the arts are critical to the city’s recovery, and promoted free concerts around the city with the help of philanthropic dollars and private funding through groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081975/the-civic-joy-fund-promises-to-help-revitalize-san-francisco-some-artists-want-no-part-in-it\">Civic Joy Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco is preparing for a new exhibit on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s arts and culture ecosystem is the most vibrant in the country, and under my administration, we are working to do a better job supporting the artists and arts organizations who are driving our city’s economic recovery,” Lurie said in a statement on Wednesday, announcing two new arts grants. “In a moment when it’s more difficult than ever for our small arts organizations to thrive, we are stepping in to support our community groups and add two more grant opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team overseeing public galleries that Wazwaz was part of has been reduced by half. 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Both nonprofit and commercial art spaces in the city have closed over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep hearing how this mayor is an arts and culture mayor, and it just feels like someone who doesn’t know what we do enough well enough to be able to make like a measured decision about where a cut can happen without impacting sort of the core mission of the agency,” Wazwaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the layoff notices, Wazwaz and other staff were screened and asked to report their qualifications for their position and other roles they could potentially be moved into if their current roles were cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12083587 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maysoun Wazwaz, whose position with the San Francisco Arts Commission was recently eliminated, in San Francisco, on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are stressed out, and that obviously has an impact on the work that they’re doing,” Wazwaz said. “In inconveniencing people to ask for proof of experience, it just feels very disrespectful and really chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, sometimes called “bumping,” is intended to give employees with more public service experience more job security during budget deficit years like this one, and it is playing out across city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood and Wazwaz support the seniority protections, but said the process has felt like a game of musical chairs, sending staff into a frenzy about which positions could be cut next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels icky,” said Atwood, who has been offered a lower-paying position at City College that she’s still considering whether to take. “We’re being pitted against each other for the position in a way.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Elected leaders and community members in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> said they weren’t notified in January 2025 when the federal government leased a swath of unincorporated land near Gilroy with the intent to build a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, that information wasn’t publicly known until last month, after community members alerted the county, which conducted its own investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Santa Clara County government officials and immigrant advocates held a rally at the Santa Clara County Government Center in San José, where they promised to defend immigrant communities and fight to stop a 4,000-square-foot ICE facility from being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The move to build a detention center in unincorporated Gilroy is an attack on the immigrant community, and it’s an attack on Santa Clara County,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said. He added that his office is coordinating with state Attorney General Rob Bonta as it prepares a legal defense to block the detention center. Zoning laws in the area do not allow for a detention center, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ To our knowledge, there’s been no effort whatsoever to notice the county or any other local government that we’re aware of,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little is known about the project at 7240 Holsclaw Road, east of Gilroy Premium Outlets. LoPresti said that the country has confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security secured a $26.5 million lease for 24.5 acres over a 20-year period, and that the land is being leased from Elmwood Capital Group, a Beverly Hills-based entity associated with other detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County County Counsel Tony LoPresti addresses a crowd at the Santa Clara County Government Center in San José on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rebeca Armendariz, the director of movement building with Working Partnerships USA, and a former Gilroy city council member, said she witnessed construction workers on the property knocking down greenhouses and putting up fences this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a DHS spokesperson told KQED, “As with any transition, we are reviewing agency policies and proposals,” but did not respond directly to questions about whether the department is building an ICE facility there, and what its purpose would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson quoted the newly minted U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his recent confirmation hearings, Mullin said that he ‘will work with the community leaders and make sure that we are delivering for the American people what the President set out.”[aside postID=news_12081286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/070824-McFarland-GEO-Facility-LV_09-CM.jpeg']“We want to work with community leaders,” Mullin added. “We want to be good partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, whose district includes the planned detention center, said she hasn’t personally seen the Trump administration work with her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t know where working with our community is coming from when you’re actually targeting our community as scapegoats and rounding us up in this way,” Arenas said, adding that her district includes large populations of immigrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the facility said increased immigration enforcement by the Trump administration was already negatively impacting their community, and that an additional ICE facility would only worsen the situation. 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It’s frightening to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karsen Fricke, a San José native and college student, said the arrival of a new ICE facility in his backyard has him on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Why would I want something that’s going to be used to hurt my neighbors and my friends so close?” Fricke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karsen Fricke of San José said a planned ICE facility in Gilroy has him on edge in San José on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates are also organizing to ensure that FCI Dublin, a recently shuttered women’s prison in Alameda County, isn’t converted into an\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082440/advocates-urge-demolition-of-fci-dublin-raising-worries-it-could-become-ice-jail\"> ICE detention facility\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m terrified and anxious because I’ve experienced the heartbreaking pains of family separation,” said Kimberly Woo, a community organizer with SIREN, which is working to block ICE expansion in Gilroy and Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woo said members of her family were detained last year, resulting in one being deported and the other self-deporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ No one should experience this debilitating fear and gut-wrenching grief,” Woo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE already has a processing facility nearby in Morgan Hill. That facility already sees weekly protests, according to Morgan Hill City Councilwoman Yvonne Martínez Beltrán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083768\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bradshaw (right) and Marilyn Kalpin (left) of Gilroy attend a rally in San José opposing a planned immigration detention center in Gilroy on May 14, 2026. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martínez Beltrán said a detention center would hurt years of hard work aimed at bringing economic development to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What fares better for a community, being known for tourism and agriculture, or being known for a detention center?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Christopher, executive vice president of Christopher Ranch, a garlic farm that claims to be the largest employer in Gilroy, said the lack of communication by the federal government is causing confusion and fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Our community deserves better, and the fact that they weren’t part of the conversation, that’s the downfall,” Christopher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally’s organizers are planning a community briefing and organizing call on May 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We want to work with community leaders,” Mullin added. “We want to be good partners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, whose district includes the planned detention center, said she hasn’t personally seen the Trump administration work with her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I don’t know where working with our community is coming from when you’re actually targeting our community as scapegoats and rounding us up in this way,” Arenas said, adding that her district includes large populations of immigrant farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the facility said increased immigration enforcement by the Trump administration was already negatively impacting their community, and that an additional ICE facility would only worsen the situation. 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He has said he cooperated with investigators and that revelations of McCluskie’s betrayal were a “gut punch” to him akin to finding out about an unfaithful spouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some in the California capital’s often-overlapping circles of interest groups, lobbyists and political strategists have questioned how Becerra could not have known what the payments were for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Becerra has faced questions about whether he should have paid closer attention to his campaign account’s expenses. Strategists say $10,000 a month — the amount he agreed to be charged — is a high price for account maintenance.[aside label=\"From the 2026 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/governor,Learn about the California Governor Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/04/Aside-California-Governor-2026-Primary-Election-1200x1200@2x.png]It is common practice in California for official staff members of lawmakers and other officeholders also to work on their bosses’ political campaigns, allowing them to supplement taxpayer-funded state salaries with payments from campaign accounts. Williamson herself was paid by the California Democratic Party for political work on ballot measures during the two years she was employed in the governor’s office as Newsom’s top aide. 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The state later settled that case for $54 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office put Williamson on leave when she informed them she was under investigation in November 2024. He has also said the charges caught him by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/05/california-newsom-chief-plea-deal/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Ben Allen, a Democrat from coastal Los Angeles County who authored the plastic waste law, said the program still “massively moves the needle on this really major problem” — even if the process was messy. “This was the product of a compromise, and it was not perfect, and everybody walked away from the table, you know, unhappy about various aspects,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is the United States, but 30 years in the future,” said Joe Árvai, director of the University of Southern California’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. “What’s happening now is emblematic of trends that we are seeing worldwide … and the U.S. needs to adapt in the way that those countries are adapting in order to remain globally competitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Less plastic, more recycling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, the burden of reducing, reusing and recycling plastic waste has fallen on consumers. Once a consumer buys a product, they decide what happens to it — whether it ends up in the garbage can or the recycling blue bin — and their tax dollars fund recycling systems we have today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, California’s landmark \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-recycling-plastic-trash/\">Senate Bill 54,\u003c/a> the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, shifted that responsibility to businesses. The regulations outline what materials are covered by the law and who counts as a “producer” of plastic waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11745391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/Recolgy-1-e1778783682683.jpg\" alt=\"An employee sorts plastics at the Recology recycling plant on Pier 96 in San Francisco.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An employee sorts plastics at the Recology recycling plant on Pier 96 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new regulations are a huge milestone, said Anja Brandon, director of U.S. plastics policy for the Ocean Conservancy. “There’s plenty more steps on this journey, but I’m just really excited that we are going to start making real progress,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law applies to plastic food service ware and almost all single-use packaging — from the plastic wrap around large pallets of products shipped to retailers to a tube of toothpaste and the cardboard box around it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Our broken recycling system\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most of the plastic packaging Californians throw away isn’t recycled — and that’s not your fault as a consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the revolving green arrows symbol has urged consumers to do a better job of reducing, reusing and recycling. But the system itself started out broken, and got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people toss items into recycling bins, workers at recycling centers sort through them. Contaminated items — like a peanut butter tub with residue still inside — go straight to the landfill. Manufacturers buy clean, valuable materials like water bottles and detergent tubs and turn them into new products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a slew of other trash isn’t valuable enough to sell. It ends up in landfills, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the plastic recycling rate was only \u003ca href=\"https://www.beyondplastics.org/publications/us-plastics-recycling-rate\">6% nationwide,\u003c/a> according to a report by the advocacy group Beyond Plastics. That’s down from 8% in 2018, partly because \u003ca href=\"https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-importing-waste-has-stalled-global-recycling\">China\u003c/a> and other countries that used to buy our trash have stopped doing so. In California, most plastic packaging types are recycled at strikingly low rates, according to a 2025 CalRecycle report: Even milk jugs and detergent bottles, among the most commonly recycled plastics, reached only 19%, while most others came in at single digits or below.[aside postID=news_12027788 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250131_RIDWELL_DB_00363-KQED-1020x680.jpg']To carry out the law, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery appointed the Circular Action Alliance, a nonprofit that helps states carry out extended producer responsibility mandates, as the organizing body for producers. The alliance is responsible for coming up with a plan to meet the law’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producers — defined as companies that make more than $1 million in sales and produce products packaged in plastic or own brands under which those products are sold — must join the organization and pay fees to fund waste management. They can meet the law’s requirements by using less plastic, finding alternative materials, or investing in recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is the scale and coordination required to modernize a complex recycling system across a state as large and diverse as California,” said Sheila Estaniel, a spokesperson for the Circular Action Alliance, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s requirement that businesses reduce single-use plastic altogether makes it one of the strongest plastic waste laws in the country. It also goes further than other similar laws because it requires plastic producers to pay $5 billion over a decade to address the environmental damage their products have caused to communities — though the state doesn’t expect to start distributing those funds until 2027 at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Watered down rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plastic waste rules have had a rocky road to implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, CalRecycle developed a first draft of regulations detailing what plastic the law covers and what producers must do. The draft expired before CalRecycle finalized it. In 2025, Gov. Gavin Newsom directed regulators to rewrite the rules — a move that some advocates say say food and agriculture lobbyists pushed for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result was a second draft that carved out a broad exclusion for plastics used for food and agriculture purposes, covering products under the jurisdiction of the FDA and USDA, such as packaging for fresh produce and supplements. Advocates said the exclusion gutted the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Governor Newsom was clear when he asked CalRecycle to restart these regulations that they should work to minimize costs for small businesses and families — while ensuring California’s bold recycling law can achieve the critical goal of cutting plastic pollution,” said Anthony Martinez, a spokesperson for the governor. “That’s exactly what these draft regulations do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalRecycle submitted that draft to the Office of Administrative Law in August 2025, but withdrew it to make changes that narrowed that exclusion. Regulators ultimately excluded only plastic that federal law requires for food safety — walking back a broader carve-out that advocates said would have gutted the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Advocates gear up to sue \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not all plastics follow the same rules — and advocates object to the state’s two-track system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some materials with unique technical challenges can apply for exemptions, but must meet specific criteria to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like plastic that federal law requires for food safety, escape the rules entirely once producers complete an application to CalRecycle — no timeline, no obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/CalMatters_CA-Plastics-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/CalMatters_CA-Plastics-2.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/CalMatters_CA-Plastics-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirna Hernandez shops at Superior Groceries in Victorville on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In practice, this allows exclusions to remain in effect … even for notices that ultimately fail — creating strong incentives to submit weak or legally unsupported claims simply to delay (and effectively filibuster) compliance,” wrote Tony Hackett, a policy associate for Californians Against Waste in a public comment letter to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates raise a second concern: the regulations allow certain waste polluting technologies — ones the law specifically excluded because they generate significant quantities of hazardous waste — to count as recycling, as long as they have a hazardous waste permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These technologies include chemical recycling processes that the oil industry has long promoted as a solution to plastic pollution — a claim California’s attorney general says is deliberately misleading. Rob Bonta has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/climate/exxon-california-plastics-defamation-lawsuit.html\">sued ExxonMobil\u003c/a> alleging the company misled the public about recycling’s potential to address the plastic crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These regulations ignore explicit limits on recycling technologies and create permanent escape hatches the law never authorized,” said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhonalyn Cabello, a CalRecycle spokesperson, said the agency does not comment on pending or potential litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Allen agreed the regulations fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that the regulations as presented don’t maintain some of the core agreements that were made in the passage of the bill,” he said. When there’s too many exclusions, he said, companies are “basically forcing everybody else to pay and getting away scot free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Set up to fail?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Businesses claim they want to reduce plastic waste but feel trapped by conflicting state regulations and a lack of viable packaging alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension starts with labeling. The state’s accurate recycling labels law, Senate Bill 343, prohibits businesses from using the chasing arrows symbol to indicate recyclability unless certain criteria are met. Advocates say the restriction is necessary to avoid confusion. But businesses say it means consumers are less likely to recycle products that could be recyclable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we lose the right to use (recycling labels on) dairy cartons, our members are going to have to expand their plastic use, because that is the only other packaging type that can take a shelf stable product,” said Katie Davey, executive director of the Dairy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As investments from producers flow to cities and counties under the law, Cabello said, more materials may eventually meet the labeling criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond labeling, businesses say workable alternatives to plastic simply don’t exist yet — and that getting there will be costly. Investments needed to meet the law’s first goal alone — a 25% reduction in single-use plastic by 2032 — could cost up to $15.4 billion, according to CalRecycle estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Kelly, the chief executive of Emerald Packaging, sells film plastic packaging to farmers, who use the plastic to bag items like salads and baby carrots. Paper packaging that could replicate plastic’s ability to regulate oxygen and carbon dioxide levels — keeping produce fresh — is still in early development, he said, and mass production is decades away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to build tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure to actually produce something at the level that would be needed to replace plastics,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dairy illustrates the same problem. Alternatives to plastic milk packaging include refrigerated gable-top cartons, shelf-stable cartons, and glass. Each comes with tradeoffs. Glass is heavier — meaning fewer units per shipment — and clear glass exposes fresh milk to light that can degrade it. Switching packaging lines entirely would cost producers about $40 million for a single mid-size line, according to the Dairy Institute — a cost they would pass on to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re deeply concerned because we know that food costs are going to increase and products are going to come off the market because there literally is not a packaging solution within the required timeframe,” Davey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But USC’s Joe Árvai said producer complaints are really about the pace of change, not whether compliant packaging is possible at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether they like it or not, these changes are coming,” he said. “In the end, there are going to be players in the industry that are going to be better able to respond, and they will be better indemnified against the shocks than their partners and competitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens next\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The next major test comes in June, when the Circular Action Alliance must submit its plan to CalRecycle outlining how producers will meet the law’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon, which passed a similar law and is also facing an industry legal challenge, offers a possible model. There, grant funding is already flowing to expand reuse and refill infrastructure — helping businesses and schools replace single-use plastic products and improve recycling access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11901452 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"scientists sample bay water\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two environmental scientists strain water collected from the San Francisco Bay through two sieves to sample for microplastics. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that there’s a lawsuit in Oregon, money is moving out the door,” said the Ocean Conservancy’s Anja Brandon. She said groups like hers will closely watch the June plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll all be waiting with bated breath” to see how producers are interpreting this and what pathways they’re laying out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, advocates will be watching closely as CalRecycle begins to make decisions about who qualifies for exclusions and exemptions. The Natural Resources Defense Council is waiting for CalRecycle to post additional documents before filing its lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we let this thing get derailed and turned into a Swiss cheese of exemptions and non‑compliance, it will really harm our global progress on this issue,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/05/plastic-recycling-california-sb54-waste/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To carry out the law, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery appointed the Circular Action Alliance, a nonprofit that helps states carry out extended producer responsibility mandates, as the organizing body for producers. The alliance is responsible for coming up with a plan to meet the law’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producers — defined as companies that make more than $1 million in sales and produce products packaged in plastic or own brands under which those products are sold — must join the organization and pay fees to fund waste management. They can meet the law’s requirements by using less plastic, finding alternative materials, or investing in recycling infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge is the scale and coordination required to modernize a complex recycling system across a state as large and diverse as California,” said Sheila Estaniel, a spokesperson for the Circular Action Alliance, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s requirement that businesses reduce single-use plastic altogether makes it one of the strongest plastic waste laws in the country. It also goes further than other similar laws because it requires plastic producers to pay $5 billion over a decade to address the environmental damage their products have caused to communities — though the state doesn’t expect to start distributing those funds until 2027 at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Watered down rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plastic waste rules have had a rocky road to implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, CalRecycle developed a first draft of regulations detailing what plastic the law covers and what producers must do. The draft expired before CalRecycle finalized it. In 2025, Gov. 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When there’s too many exclusions, he said, companies are “basically forcing everybody else to pay and getting away scot free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Set up to fail?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Businesses claim they want to reduce plastic waste but feel trapped by conflicting state regulations and a lack of viable packaging alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tension starts with labeling. The state’s accurate recycling labels law, Senate Bill 343, prohibits businesses from using the chasing arrows symbol to indicate recyclability unless certain criteria are met. Advocates say the restriction is necessary to avoid confusion. 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Investments needed to meet the law’s first goal alone — a 25% reduction in single-use plastic by 2032 — could cost up to $15.4 billion, according to CalRecycle estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Kelly, the chief executive of Emerald Packaging, sells film plastic packaging to farmers, who use the plastic to bag items like salads and baby carrots. Paper packaging that could replicate plastic’s ability to regulate oxygen and carbon dioxide levels — keeping produce fresh — is still in early development, he said, and mass production is decades away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to build tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure to actually produce something at the level that would be needed to replace plastics,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dairy illustrates the same problem. Alternatives to plastic milk packaging include refrigerated gable-top cartons, shelf-stable cartons, and glass. Each comes with tradeoffs. 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Switching packaging lines entirely would cost producers about $40 million for a single mid-size line, according to the Dairy Institute — a cost they would pass on to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re deeply concerned because we know that food costs are going to increase and products are going to come off the market because there literally is not a packaging solution within the required timeframe,” Davey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But USC’s Joe Árvai said producer complaints are really about the pace of change, not whether compliant packaging is possible at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether they like it or not, these changes are coming,” he said. “In the end, there are going to be players in the industry that are going to be better able to respond, and they will be better indemnified against the shocks than their partners and competitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens next\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The next major test comes in June, when the Circular Action Alliance must submit its plan to CalRecycle outlining how producers will meet the law’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon, which passed a similar law and is also facing an industry legal challenge, offers a possible model. There, grant funding is already flowing to expand reuse and refill infrastructure — helping businesses and schools replace single-use plastic products and improve recycling access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11901452 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"scientists sample bay water\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS52997_DSC_1513_edit-qut-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two environmental scientists strain water collected from the San Francisco Bay through two sieves to sample for microplastics. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that there’s a lawsuit in Oregon, money is moving out the door,” said the Ocean Conservancy’s Anja Brandon. She said groups like hers will closely watch the June plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll all be waiting with bated breath” to see how producers are interpreting this and what pathways they’re laying out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, advocates will be watching closely as CalRecycle begins to make decisions about who qualifies for exclusions and exemptions. The Natural Resources Defense Council is waiting for CalRecycle to post additional documents before filing its lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we let this thing get derailed and turned into a Swiss cheese of exemptions and non‑compliance, it will really harm our global progress on this issue,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2026/05/plastic-recycling-california-sb54-waste/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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