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It came days after the roughly 260 workers represented by the Bird Union-CWA Local 1180, who have been at the bargaining table for their first contract for over two years, voted to authorize a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very serious about getting the contract settled,” said Emily Ohman, who works for a bird sanctuary in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union alleges the Audubon Society violated federal labor laws by denying union members benefits that were given to non-union staff — including only two weeks of parental leave for union members versus enhanced leave for non-union staff — and refusing to bargain over minimum salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just not sustainable anymore to tolerate the things that we have been tolerating,” Ohman said. The 24-year-old added she had to stop seeing specialists for her chronic pain because of a change in the health care system after she joined the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Gould, former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, said there had been a “renewed surge of union organizing,” focusing on nonprofits, museums and cultural institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11999702","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-1298781702-1020x733.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also said it’s a little too early to know what will come of this effort. It has not translated to a greater union presence in the workforce, “this is still early days,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The share of U.S. workers who belong to a union has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/20/for-american-unions-membership-trails-far-behind-public-support/\">fallen since 1983\u003c/a>, when about 20% of American workers were union members, according to the Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In nonprofits and environmental nonprofits, the stakes of our work couldn’t be higher,” said Ohman, who got into birding during the pandemic and loves peregrine falcons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biologists and scientists are on the front lines of bird conservation, habitat restorations and biological surveys, Ohman said — adding that underscores the importance of a fair contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohman works two freelance roles in addition to her full-time job with Audubon, “Just to get by,” she said, noting the most food-insecure times have been while working there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, what we stand for is just a fairer, better future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Audubon Society said it is committed to ensuring its workplace is one where all employees are respected, valued and empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to our negotiation process and will continue to work constructively with the Union to achieve a mutually agreeable contract so we can further our work to halt and ultimately reverse the decline of birds across the Americas,” the nonprofit wrote in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Souza-Cole, an Audubon program manager in Sacramento, said management withheld cost-of-living increases and merit-based raises for union employees, him included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for any organization to show that they value their workers and treat them fairly,” Souza-Cole said. “Fundamental to having a good workplace is for the workers to feel valued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After alleging unfair labor practices by the Audubon Society, last week’s vote authorizes union leadership to call a strike if Audubon “continues to violate the workers’ rights under federal labor laws,” the union said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody really wants to go on strike,” Souza-Cole said. “But we’re willing to do it to show that we mean business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11999964/unionized-bird-workers-with-audubon-society-prepare-for-potential-strike","authors":["11626"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_2426","news_19204","news_20023","news_18299","news_32885","news_24590","news_20482","news_34054","news_3733"],"featImg":"news_11999965","label":"news"},"news_11996994":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11996994","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11996994","score":null,"sort":[1721778630000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"west-oakland-steel-recycler-charged-with-10-crimes-after-toxic-fire-last-summer","title":"West Oakland Steel Recycler Charged With 10 Crimes After Toxic Fire Last Summer","publishDate":1721778630,"format":"standard","headTitle":"West Oakland Steel Recycler Charged With 10 Crimes After Toxic Fire Last Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Radius Steel and two company leaders were charged with 10 environmental crimes for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957894/smelly-smoke-from-oakland-metal-recycler-fire-prompts-health-concerns\">fire that broke out last August\u003c/a> at the large scrap metal processing plant near the Port of Oakland, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges allege that Radius Steel, Daniel Woltman and Dane Morales recklessly managed hazardous materials and later engaged in a cover-up. The company and the two men are also charged with violating local air quality regulations and state toxic substance control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges are the first ever filed by an Alameda County district attorney for environmental crimes committed by a corporation, according to Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration will not allow corporate criminals to poison our community recklessly and just walk away having made a profit and get off with a slap on the wrist,” she said at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 9, 2023, the fire at Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, sent plumes of gray, toxic smoke over the East Bay. Price announced an investigation into the Oregon-based company days later. The charges were filed at the end of June following a grand jury indictment and unsealed this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large clouds of smoke rise from an industrial-looking space where many truck cabs are parked.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises from a fire burning at Schnitzer Steel in Oakland on Aug. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If found guilty, Radius would be liable for between $625,000 and $33 million in criminal fines, according to Price’s office. Woltmann and Morales could face up to three years in county jail, in addition to financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that Radius has often shrugged off the regulations when it was convenient to them, treating minor administrative fines and civil penalties as the cost of doing business,” Price said. “There is a new day in Alameda County and we intend to hold people accountable. No one is above the law, and we will no longer have a double standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Radius, said the company does not treat or store hazardous waste, and it did not hide or destroy any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully confident that the company’s actions will be proven to have prioritized public safety and compliance with the law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Hunt, a spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, said the fire started in a pile of scrap metal and was likely caused by a lithium battery. The facility shreds cars and other large appliances. The size of the scrap pile prevented firefighters from reaching the source of the fire for hours, according to Hunt. County and city officials advised residents near the Port of Oakland to avoid Jack London Square and to keep windows closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most impacted areas were immediately downwind of the fire. So that was East Oakland, West Oakland and other areas along the I-80 corridor, which are historically overburdened communities that kind of experience a disproportionate impact and exposure to poor air pollution already,” Michael Flagg, principal air quality specialist at Bay Area Air Quality Management District told KQED in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long called for the facility to leave the city, citing harmful smoke from frequent fires. The facility was the site of large fires in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832073/as-file-suit-against-state-agency-to-regulate-steel-recycler\">Oakland A’s sued\u003c/a> to have the waste materials created by the plant reclassified as hazardous, alleging that five smaller fires had occurred at the facility since 2018. The A’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/State-Supreme-Court-rejects-Oakland-A-s-legal-17726660.php\">lost\u003c/a> the legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past investigations by the Alameda County DA and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control found that the facility released particulate matter contaminated with hazardous metals such as lead, cadmium and zinc. The investigations were cited in a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-announces-41-million-settlement-schnitzer-steel\">settlement\u003c/a> between Schnitzer and the state Department of Justice over “the release of toxic air contaminants and hazardous particulates” in West Oakland and across the Oakland estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Price called the number of fires significant, the Oakland Fire Department said fires at the facility “are not frequent” compared to other fire sources the city responds to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Awareness and interest in fires at Schnitzer has grown over the last few years,” Hunt said, adding that frequent fires at homeless encampments, which often include burning plastics, pose a more daily source of local air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Gordon, the co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, an environmental justice organization, said pollution from trucks, ships and fires in and around the Port of Oakland, as well as fires at nearby homeless encampments, contribute to the poor air quality in her West Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that they saw the impact and investigated with the depth that they did,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is requesting anyone who was impacted by the fire to contact its consumer justice bureau by email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:askcjb-da@acgov.org\">askcjb-da@acgov.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The charges are the first ever filed by an Alameda County district attorney for environmental crimes committed by a corporation, according to current DA Pamela Price. 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The company and the two men are also charged with violating local air quality regulations and state toxic substance control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges are the first ever filed by an Alameda County district attorney for environmental crimes committed by a corporation, according to Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration will not allow corporate criminals to poison our community recklessly and just walk away having made a profit and get off with a slap on the wrist,” she said at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 9, 2023, the fire at Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, sent plumes of gray, toxic smoke over the East Bay. Price announced an investigation into the Oregon-based company days later. The charges were filed at the end of June following a grand jury indictment and unsealed this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Large clouds of smoke rise from an industrial-looking space where many truck cabs are parked.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises from a fire burning at Schnitzer Steel in Oakland on Aug. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If found guilty, Radius would be liable for between $625,000 and $33 million in criminal fines, according to Price’s office. Woltmann and Morales could face up to three years in county jail, in addition to financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that Radius has often shrugged off the regulations when it was convenient to them, treating minor administrative fines and civil penalties as the cost of doing business,” Price said. “There is a new day in Alameda County and we intend to hold people accountable. No one is above the law, and we will no longer have a double standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Radius, said the company does not treat or store hazardous waste, and it did not hide or destroy any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully confident that the company’s actions will be proven to have prioritized public safety and compliance with the law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Hunt, a spokesperson for the Oakland Fire Department, said the fire started in a pile of scrap metal and was likely caused by a lithium battery. The facility shreds cars and other large appliances. The size of the scrap pile prevented firefighters from reaching the source of the fire for hours, according to Hunt. County and city officials advised residents near the Port of Oakland to avoid Jack London Square and to keep windows closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most impacted areas were immediately downwind of the fire. So that was East Oakland, West Oakland and other areas along the I-80 corridor, which are historically overburdened communities that kind of experience a disproportionate impact and exposure to poor air pollution already,” Michael Flagg, principal air quality specialist at Bay Area Air Quality Management District told KQED in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long called for the facility to leave the city, citing harmful smoke from frequent fires. The facility was the site of large fires in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832073/as-file-suit-against-state-agency-to-regulate-steel-recycler\">Oakland A’s sued\u003c/a> to have the waste materials created by the plant reclassified as hazardous, alleging that five smaller fires had occurred at the facility since 2018. The A’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/State-Supreme-Court-rejects-Oakland-A-s-legal-17726660.php\">lost\u003c/a> the legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past investigations by the Alameda County DA and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control found that the facility released particulate matter contaminated with hazardous metals such as lead, cadmium and zinc. The investigations were cited in a 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-announces-41-million-settlement-schnitzer-steel\">settlement\u003c/a> between Schnitzer and the state Department of Justice over “the release of toxic air contaminants and hazardous particulates” in West Oakland and across the Oakland estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Price called the number of fires significant, the Oakland Fire Department said fires at the facility “are not frequent” compared to other fire sources the city responds to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Awareness and interest in fires at Schnitzer has grown over the last few years,” Hunt said, adding that frequent fires at homeless encampments, which often include burning plastics, pose a more daily source of local air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Gordon, the co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, an environmental justice organization, said pollution from trucks, ships and fires in and around the Port of Oakland, as well as fires at nearby homeless encampments, contribute to the poor air quality in her West Oakland neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that they saw the impact and investigated with the depth that they did,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is requesting anyone who was impacted by the fire to contact its consumer justice bureau by email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:askcjb-da@acgov.org\">askcjb-da@acgov.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11996994/west-oakland-steel-recycler-charged-with-10-crimes-after-toxic-fire-last-summer","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32413","news_18299","news_31830","news_18543","news_24461","news_19960","news_34221","news_28361","news_2318"],"featImg":"news_11996999","label":"news"},"news_11991234":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11991234","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11991234","score":null,"sort":[1719262829000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-forever-releases-water-plan-but-there-are-still-some-questions","title":"California Forever Releases Water Plan, but There Are Still Some Questions","publishDate":1719262829,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Forever Releases Water Plan, but There Are Still Some Questions | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the biggest questions surrounding California Forever’s ambitious proposal to build a city from scratch in eastern Solano County is about water, where it will come from and whether the company’s plan can withstand the inevitable yearslong drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the company released its \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">long-awaited plan\u003c/a>, outlining how it expects to provide water to a new city of 100,000 residents initially and that will eventually grow to serve 400,000 when it is fully built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the most sustainable city on Earth,” Bronson Johnson, the company’s head of infrastructure and sustainability, said to KQED. “We are creating a diverse portfolio of water supplies. It’s what you need to manage through drought conditions and what you need to manage seasonally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever plans to use a combination of water sources to supply the needs of the new city, including tapping into groundwater and surface water rights, which the company already owns thanks to its purchase of more than 60,000 acres of farmland. Right now, the water is being used to irrigate “some marginal [almond] orchards that don’t produce very much,” according to CEO Jan Sramek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expect the groundwater and local surface water to make up more than a quarter of the new city’s water supply and will be used for some of the drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever representatives said they also plan to import almost a third of their water supply “upriver from out-of-county sites in California,” conveying it through “existing points of diversion on the Sacramento River and its associated tributaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts who have reviewed California Forever’s plan said it’s clear the company did its homework, but some vital questions remain — especially around its plan to rely on water diverted from rivers in a state where drought is so commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am impressed that California Forever has engaged water resource management and legal experts to evaluate the complex issues that are raised by the proposed city,” Brian Gray, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, said to KQED. “However, the projected short- and long-term water supplies will be tight, and there are many details that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gray said it’s not uncommon for California cities to import water to serve their residents, he noted how precarious it might be for California Forever to rely so heavily on that amount of imported water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way they’re describing their imported water strategy suggests that the long-term water supplies are tenuous,” Gray said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I think there’s a lot of red flags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray also questioned where the company could import enough surface water to make up a third of the new city’s total supply, especially because California Forever has stated it will not seek water from Lake Berryessa via Solano County’s irrigation district. They have not identified precisely any other long-term water supply source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said they are in “advanced talkes on numerous aquisitions” and the details will be ironed out before it releases an environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can’t be some loose thing in the future that we’ll acquire what we need, we actually have to have the control of that water,” he said. “We’ll acquire some amount greater than what we actually need for resilience in drought years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray noted that water acquired from existing users in the Sacramento River basin would have to be conveyed through the California Department of Water Resources’ North Bay Aqueduct, which is currently “oversubscribed” by other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to importing water, California Forever plans to pump groundwater from the Fairfield-Suisun and Solano Subbasins, whose 60,000-acre property sits atop. A concern there, Gray said, is that the basins could become overdrafted, like many others, over years of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much water has been pumped from the Solano subbasin that the state’s Department of Water Resources has required local agencies to limit the amount of water landowners can use from the ground in times of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest percentage of the new city’s water supply — about 40% — will come from what the company calls a “circular economy” of recycled water powered by water and wastewater treatment plants to be built in the new city. The recycled water won’t be used for drinking, cooking, laundry or other household uses, but instead will be put to agricultural, industrial, commercial and other uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2201\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg 2201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-2048x1316.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1920x1233.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2201px) 100vw, 2201px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2180\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg 2180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-2048x1344.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2180px) 100vw, 2180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re focusing on that lower-hanging fruit,” Johnson said. “We can design those plants so that we’re able to move that recycled water where it is best used and then maintain those precious potable water supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever argued its new city won’t require as much water as other, more suburban cities because it will be dense by design and will not have room for lush, green lawns and sprawling golf courses. Its residents will only use 60 gallons of water per day, far less than other cities in Solano County, which average about 100 gallons each day. For reference, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Water%20Resources%20Annual%20Report%20FY%2020-21.pdf\">San Francisco residents\u003c/a> use up to 42 gallons per day, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/SacDOU_2019_AnnualReport-Web.pdf?db=master&la=en&vs=1&ts=20201229T1935107284#:~:text=As%20of%202009%2C%20the%20City,time%20low%20of%20152%20GPCD.\">Sacramento uses about 152 gallons per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts noticed similarities between California Forever’s water plan and those of other cities that are now amending their water plans to withstand drought. David Sedlak, director of Berkeley’s Water Center, said the use of recycled water to irrigate landscape and agriculture “is a very well-established approach in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989766,news_11987138,news_11986569\"]“The per capita water use that they use in their calculations are not very different from what is being obtained in similar developments,” he said to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outstanding question is where the new city’s wastewater might filter out to, Sedlak said, once it has been processed in the new treatment facilities. There could be environmental issues if a river or stream becomes overly saturated with waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said if the initiative is approved, they will study these options in an environmental impact report to be published next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company asked at least three water engineering firms to review its plan, and company representatives have repeatedly said that the new city will not strain water access for existing cities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for the company’s plan is slowly growing as residents and outsiders alike watch the project gradually take shape. California YIMBY, a powerful pro-housing advocacy group, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced their support for California Forever\u003c/a> this week, citing that more discussion must happen before the project is at its “best version” but that a better future starts with “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some are unconvinced by the company’s promises. The Solano Land Trust, an open space advocate for the county, opposes California Forever’s plan, with water scarcity listed as their biggest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about surface water, we’re talking about water that flows right into the delta and where Solano residents are currently pulling some of our water,” said Nicole Braddock, the group’s executive director. “It’s hard to imagine how that doesn’t affect our current water sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s view is that their water plan would not impact Solano’s current water situation, as they plan to use the same amount of surface water as ranches and farms have in the past, substituting any new diversions with recycled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Braddock remains unconvinced about the ambitious project and think the acres in east Solano County are best kept for dryland farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, they’re proposing this huge development about the size of Vacaville, which is one of our larger cities and operating it on dryland farms — basically growing food only using rainwater,” she said. “To me, [farming] is the best use of that land.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Water remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the billionaire-backed initiative to build a city on what is currently Solano County farmland. The company behind the project has released its plan, but experts said some key details are missing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1719340850,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1409},"headData":{"title":"California Forever Releases Water Plan, but There Are Still Some Questions | KQED","description":"Water remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the billionaire-backed initiative to build a city on what is currently Solano County farmland. The company behind the project has released its plan, but experts said some key details are missing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Forever Releases Water Plan, but There Are Still Some Questions","datePublished":"2024-06-24T14:00:29-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-25T11:40:50-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11991234","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11991234/california-forever-releases-water-plan-but-there-are-still-some-questions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the biggest questions surrounding California Forever’s ambitious proposal to build a city from scratch in eastern Solano County is about water, where it will come from and whether the company’s plan can withstand the inevitable yearslong drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the company released its \u003ca href=\"https://eastsolanoplan.com/news/california-forever-secures-water-for-the-first-100-000-residents-of-the-new\">long-awaited plan\u003c/a>, outlining how it expects to provide water to a new city of 100,000 residents initially and that will eventually grow to serve 400,000 when it is fully built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the most sustainable city on Earth,” Bronson Johnson, the company’s head of infrastructure and sustainability, said to KQED. “We are creating a diverse portfolio of water supplies. It’s what you need to manage through drought conditions and what you need to manage seasonally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever plans to use a combination of water sources to supply the needs of the new city, including tapping into groundwater and surface water rights, which the company already owns thanks to its purchase of more than 60,000 acres of farmland. Right now, the water is being used to irrigate “some marginal [almond] orchards that don’t produce very much,” according to CEO Jan Sramek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expect the groundwater and local surface water to make up more than a quarter of the new city’s water supply and will be used for some of the drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever representatives said they also plan to import almost a third of their water supply “upriver from out-of-county sites in California,” conveying it through “existing points of diversion on the Sacramento River and its associated tributaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water experts who have reviewed California Forever’s plan said it’s clear the company did its homework, but some vital questions remain — especially around its plan to rely on water diverted from rivers in a state where drought is so commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am impressed that California Forever has engaged water resource management and legal experts to evaluate the complex issues that are raised by the proposed city,” Brian Gray, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, said to KQED. “However, the projected short- and long-term water supplies will be tight, and there are many details that remain unresolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gray said it’s not uncommon for California cities to import water to serve their residents, he noted how precarious it might be for California Forever to rely so heavily on that amount of imported water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way they’re describing their imported water strategy suggests that the long-term water supplies are tenuous,” Gray said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I think there’s a lot of red flags.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray also questioned where the company could import enough surface water to make up a third of the new city’s total supply, especially because California Forever has stated it will not seek water from Lake Berryessa via Solano County’s irrigation district. They have not identified precisely any other long-term water supply source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said they are in “advanced talkes on numerous aquisitions” and the details will be ironed out before it releases an environmental impact report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can’t be some loose thing in the future that we’ll acquire what we need, we actually have to have the control of that water,” he said. “We’ll acquire some amount greater than what we actually need for resilience in drought years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray noted that water acquired from existing users in the Sacramento River basin would have to be conveyed through the California Department of Water Resources’ North Bay Aqueduct, which is currently “oversubscribed” by other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to importing water, California Forever plans to pump groundwater from the Fairfield-Suisun and Solano Subbasins, whose 60,000-acre property sits atop. A concern there, Gray said, is that the basins could become overdrafted, like many others, over years of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much water has been pumped from the Solano subbasin that the state’s Department of Water Resources has required local agencies to limit the amount of water landowners can use from the ground in times of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest percentage of the new city’s water supply — about 40% — will come from what the company calls a “circular economy” of recycled water powered by water and wastewater treatment plants to be built in the new city. The recycled water won’t be used for drinking, cooking, laundry or other household uses, but instead will be put to agricultural, industrial, commercial and other uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2201\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883.jpg 2201w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1536x987.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-2048x1316.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.25 PM-scaled-e1719020205883-1920x1233.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2201px) 100vw, 2201px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11991589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26%E2%80%AFPM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2180\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518.jpg 2180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-2048x1344.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Image-6-21-24-at-6.26 PM-scaled-e1719020231518-1920x1260.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2180px) 100vw, 2180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re focusing on that lower-hanging fruit,” Johnson said. “We can design those plants so that we’re able to move that recycled water where it is best used and then maintain those precious potable water supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever argued its new city won’t require as much water as other, more suburban cities because it will be dense by design and will not have room for lush, green lawns and sprawling golf courses. Its residents will only use 60 gallons of water per day, far less than other cities in Solano County, which average about 100 gallons each day. For reference, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Water%20Resources%20Annual%20Report%20FY%2020-21.pdf\">San Francisco residents\u003c/a> use up to 42 gallons per day, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/SacDOU_2019_AnnualReport-Web.pdf?db=master&la=en&vs=1&ts=20201229T1935107284#:~:text=As%20of%202009%2C%20the%20City,time%20low%20of%20152%20GPCD.\">Sacramento uses about 152 gallons per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts noticed similarities between California Forever’s water plan and those of other cities that are now amending their water plans to withstand drought. David Sedlak, director of Berkeley’s Water Center, said the use of recycled water to irrigate landscape and agriculture “is a very well-established approach in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11989766,news_11987138,news_11986569"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The per capita water use that they use in their calculations are not very different from what is being obtained in similar developments,” he said to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An outstanding question is where the new city’s wastewater might filter out to, Sedlak said, once it has been processed in the new treatment facilities. There could be environmental issues if a river or stream becomes overly saturated with waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company representatives said if the initiative is approved, they will study these options in an environmental impact report to be published next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company asked at least three water engineering firms to review its plan, and company representatives have repeatedly said that the new city will not strain water access for existing cities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for the company’s plan is slowly growing as residents and outsiders alike watch the project gradually take shape. California YIMBY, a powerful pro-housing advocacy group, \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/news-events/statement-in-support-of-the-east-solano-plan/\">voiced their support for California Forever\u003c/a> this week, citing that more discussion must happen before the project is at its “best version” but that a better future starts with “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some are unconvinced by the company’s promises. The Solano Land Trust, an open space advocate for the county, opposes California Forever’s plan, with water scarcity listed as their biggest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re talking about surface water, we’re talking about water that flows right into the delta and where Solano residents are currently pulling some of our water,” said Nicole Braddock, the group’s executive director. “It’s hard to imagine how that doesn’t affect our current water sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever’s view is that their water plan would not impact Solano’s current water situation, as they plan to use the same amount of surface water as ranches and farms have in the past, substituting any new diversions with recycled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Braddock remains unconvinced about the ambitious project and think the acres in east Solano County are best kept for dryland farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, they’re proposing this huge development about the size of Vacaville, which is one of our larger cities and operating it on dryland farms — basically growing food only using rainwater,” she said. “To me, [farming] is the best use of that land.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11991234/california-forever-releases-water-plan-but-there-are-still-some-questions","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_34061","news_33689","news_20447","news_18299","news_27626","news_1775","news_23938","news_483"],"featImg":"news_11991425","label":"news"},"news_11973469":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11973469","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11973469","score":null,"sort":[1706059424000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1706059424,"format":"standard","title":"Judge Denies Developer's $160 Million Suit Against Oakland in Ongoing Coal Terminal Battle","headTitle":"Judge Denies Developer’s $160 Million Suit Against Oakland in Ongoing Coal Terminal Battle | KQED","content":"\u003cp>The city of Oakland landed a legal victory on Tuesday in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10681403/oakland-moves-to-block-coal-at-new-terminal\"> years-long battle over a potential coal export terminal\u003c/a> at the site of the former West Oakland Army Base near the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise\u003ca href=\"https://nocoalinoakland.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-23-Final-Judgment.pdf\"> ruled against a group of developers \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nocoalinoakland.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-23-Final-Judgment.pdf\">(PDF)\u003c/a> who were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985591/oakland-might-have-lost-its-coal-war-and-could-have-to-pay-millions\"> seeking nearly $160 million from the city in what they said was lost profits\u003c/a> after the city terminated its ground lease for the terminal, thwarting the controversial project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge instead agreed with attorneys for the city, who argued the group’s projected profits were speculative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, however, means that development of the new bulk terminal — which had been halted for years due to the litigation — can now resume under an extended deadline more than two years out, putting environmental activists opposed to the project on high alert.[aside postID=\"science_1985591\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/portofoakland-qut-1020x675.jpg']“We applaud the court’s refusal to reward the would-be coal terminal developers with the massive payoff they sought by suing the City,” Ted Franklin, an organizer with the activist group No Coal in Oakland, said in a statement. But he also acknowledged the battle to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extended development deadline is “setting the stage for a renewed campaign to keep coal out of Oakland,” Franklin said. “We are ready for the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s group is among a handful of local environmental justice organizations that have long opposed a prospective coal terminal, citing concerns over increased levels of pollution from coal dust and truck exhaust that would disproportionately impact already hard-hit communities of color in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the developers decide to move forward with their plan to put a polluting coal export terminal in the Port of Oakland, even in light of the court’s decision, they can expect a long, uphill battle,” Ben Eichenberg, an attorney with San Francisco Baykeeper, said in a statement, following Tuesday’s order. “For over a decade, frontline communities have demonstrated their resolve to keep this poisonous project out of West Oakland, and the Oakland city council and city attorney’s office have remained steadfast in opposing it every step of the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wise’s latest decision follows her ruling last month, when she sided with Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal LLC (OBOT) and its owner, Phil Tagami, ruling that the city had improperly terminated its lease in 2018 when it claimed the group had missed key construction deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its suit against the city, Tagami’s group also accused officials of blocking access to necessary documents related to the project, which it argued created costly delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge then gave the group a choice between restoring its lease with the city, with the new deadline or taking just under $320,000 and walking away from the project altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group opted to renew the lease, but it continued to press for the $159.6 million in damages it had originally sought — an effort the judge quashed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OBOT’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland could still choose to appeal the court’s decision to stop the project from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we appreciate that the trial court ultimately correctly rejected OBOT’s attempts to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in damages that it is not entitled to under the contract or law, the City’s position remains that the court erred in making its initial finding in favor of OBOT on the City’s and OBOT’s dueling breach of contract claims,” Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker said in an email.”The City will continue to evaluate all of its legal options as it pursues its rights to bring this longstanding dispute to final resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad 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in Ongoing Coal Terminal Battle","datePublished":"2024-01-23T17:23:44-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-24T13:24:06-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-denies-developers-160-million-suit-against-oakland-in-ongoing-coal-terminal-battle","status":"publish","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11973469/judge-denies-developers-160-million-suit-against-oakland-in-ongoing-coal-terminal-battle","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The city of Oakland landed a legal victory on Tuesday in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10681403/oakland-moves-to-block-coal-at-new-terminal\"> years-long battle over a potential coal export terminal\u003c/a> at the site of the former West Oakland Army Base near the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise\u003ca href=\"https://nocoalinoakland.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-23-Final-Judgment.pdf\"> ruled against a group of developers \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nocoalinoakland.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-23-Final-Judgment.pdf\">(PDF)\u003c/a> who were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985591/oakland-might-have-lost-its-coal-war-and-could-have-to-pay-millions\"> seeking nearly $160 million from the city in what they said was lost profits\u003c/a> after the city terminated its ground lease for the terminal, thwarting the controversial project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge instead agreed with attorneys for the city, who argued the group’s projected profits were speculative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, however, means that development of the new bulk terminal — which had been halted for years due to the litigation — can now resume under an extended deadline more than two years out, putting environmental activists opposed to the project on high alert.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1985591","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/portofoakland-qut-1020x675.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We applaud the court’s refusal to reward the would-be coal terminal developers with the massive payoff they sought by suing the City,” Ted Franklin, an organizer with the activist group No Coal in Oakland, said in a statement. But he also acknowledged the battle to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extended development deadline is “setting the stage for a renewed campaign to keep coal out of Oakland,” Franklin said. “We are ready for the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin’s group is among a handful of local environmental justice organizations that have long opposed a prospective coal terminal, citing concerns over increased levels of pollution from coal dust and truck exhaust that would disproportionately impact already hard-hit communities of color in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the developers decide to move forward with their plan to put a polluting coal export terminal in the Port of Oakland, even in light of the court’s decision, they can expect a long, uphill battle,” Ben Eichenberg, an attorney with San Francisco Baykeeper, said in a statement, following Tuesday’s order. “For over a decade, frontline communities have demonstrated their resolve to keep this poisonous project out of West Oakland, and the Oakland city council and city attorney’s office have remained steadfast in opposing it every step of the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wise’s latest decision follows her ruling last month, when she sided with Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal LLC (OBOT) and its owner, Phil Tagami, ruling that the city had improperly terminated its lease in 2018 when it claimed the group had missed key construction deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its suit against the city, Tagami’s group also accused officials of blocking access to necessary documents related to the project, which it argued created costly delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge then gave the group a choice between restoring its lease with the city, with the new deadline or taking just under $320,000 and walking away from the project altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group opted to renew the lease, but it continued to press for the $159.6 million in damages it had originally sought — an effort the judge quashed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OBOT’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland could still choose to appeal the court’s decision to stop the project from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we appreciate that the trial court ultimately correctly rejected OBOT’s attempts to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in damages that it is not entitled to under the contract or law, the City’s position remains that the court erred in making its initial finding in favor of OBOT on the City’s and OBOT’s dueling breach of contract claims,” Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker said in an email.”The City will continue to evaluate all of its legal options as it pursues its rights to bring this longstanding dispute to final resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11973469/judge-denies-developers-160-million-suit-against-oakland-in-ongoing-coal-terminal-battle","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18299","news_20278","news_2045"],"featImg":"news_11973472","label":"news"},"news_11938273":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11938273","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11938273","score":null,"sort":[1674136807000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","title":"'Our Worst Nightmare': As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards","publishDate":1674136807,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Our Worst Nightmare’: As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Oakland waterways during record-breaking rainfall on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Castro Valley, residents reported sewage backing up into their drains and front yards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eileen White, executive officer, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board\"]‘When we’re out of the reactive mode, I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.’[/pullquote]“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board’s executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn’t be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies’] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The new normal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you’re in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it’s a wake-up call. Because I think that’s going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD’s wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility’s south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we’re talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there’s an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s already a community that’s impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD’s wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland’s Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a “red tide” event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"wastewater\"]EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we’re definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they’re not sexy, they’re out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don’t tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they’re upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn’t be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn’t be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The massive amount of rainfall quickly overwhelmed the Bay Area's sewer systems, exposing major cracks and deficiencies in the region's aging infrastructure. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718730672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1657},"headData":{"title":"'Our Worst Nightmare': As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards | KQED","description":"The massive amount of rainfall quickly overwhelmed the Bay Area's sewer systems, exposing major cracks and deficiencies in the region's aging infrastructure. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Our Worst Nightmare': As Storms Raged, Some 62 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled Into Bay Area Waterways, Streets and Yards","datePublished":"2023-01-19T06:00:07-08:00","dateModified":"2024-06-18T10:11:12-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/71b9ca2f-d288-4c91-b7e8-af8d015adef9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11938273/our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Oakland waterways during record-breaking rainfall on New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearby Castro Valley, residents reported sewage backing up into their drains and front yards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When we’re out of the reactive mode, I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Eileen White, executive officer, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is our worst nightmare,” said Michael Nelson, spokesperson for the Castro Valley Sanitary District. “Nobody wants to have to go stay in a hotel because their home is flooded with sewage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine atmospheric river storms that began dumping vast amounts of rain on the state in late December, and refused to let up until last weekend, overwhelmed aging sewer systems, forcing wastewater agencies in the nine-county Bay Area to collectively release some 62 million gallons of raw or only partially treated sewage into nearby waterways, according to initial estimates from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough sewage to fill about 94 Olympic swimming pools — more than three times the amount the board initially reported after the first round of storms in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, the board’s executive officer, confirmed those figures on Thursday, but emphasized that they are “preliminary” and “not exactly precise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local wastewater agencies are required to immediately report the estimated volume of any unauthorized sewage discharges, she said, but noted that a more accurate accounting of the extent of the spillage wouldn’t be available until next month, when their final analyses are submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it definitely gives you the magnitude,” said White, who until recently oversaw wastewater operations at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). “The intensity of the storms went beyond [most agencies’] storage and treatment capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to a rather disgusting realization: We’re going to have to change how we get rid of all our poop.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The new normal’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“You forget about it when you’re in drought for many years,” White said. “But then when you get to events that occurred over the last week, it’s a wake-up call. Because I think that’s going to be the new normal with climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These types of massive rainstorms, she notes, are expected to hit the region more frequently — and even increase in intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re out of the reactive mode,” she added, “I think it’ll be good to reflect afterwards about what can the Bay Area do to be better prepared for these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11938381 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"A sketch of the municipal wastewater pathway\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Untitled_Artwork-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simplified sketch of the basic path our sewage takes from toilet to treatment facility. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Usually — ideally — when you flush your toilet or wash your dishes, waste drains into sewer laterals, which are maintained by property owners. From there it flows into the city’s pipes, and is then diverted to \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/951ee3f1ff624b3f97f2983a5f5d0bcf\">the pipes of the local utility district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In much of the East Bay, the wastewater then passes through interceptors that act as gatekeepers: If the flow is below a certain volume, it continues to EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment facility, where it is cleaned and released into the bay. During some severe storms, excess water is also diverted to wet weather storage tanks, treated to basic standards, and then released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on New Year’s Eve — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1609513939376943111\">Oakland’s wettest day on record\u003c/a> — multiple points along that system were overwhelmed and failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unprecedented rainfall saturated the soil and seeped into old, cracked sewer laterals, adding to the volume of flow. As Castro Valley’s pipes filled to capacity, sewage backed up onto some people’s properties, spilling onto their yards — toilet paper and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A torrent of poop\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A mighty, mounting flood of poop and rainwater surged through much of EBMUD’s wastewater system. It percolated out of maintenance holes in Berkeley, Albany and Alameda, and overflowed at the utility’s south interceptor near the Oakland Coliseum, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/2022-12-31-1700-Sanitary-sewer-overflow-advisory-__-East-Bay-Municipal-Utility-District-1.pdf\">dumping some 4.7 million gallons into San Leandro Creek and the Oakland Estuary (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The huge influx of rainwater exceeded our ability to move and treat that wastewater,” said Andrea Pook, spokesperson for EBMUD. “It overflowed before it even got to our system, despite the activation of all of our wet-weather facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938382\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938382\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large drain pipe sticking out into a muddy creek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61947_020_KQED_EBMUDWastewater_01092023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drainpipe leading to a very swollen San Leandro Creek in East Oakland on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spillage in the East Bay was hardly unique. Major spills occurred throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to White, from the water board, entire neighborhoods along San Francisco’s Folsom Street flooded with a mixture of stormwater and sewage. (Interestingly, San Francisco and Sacramento, which also experienced flooding, are the only two cities in California that have a single-pipe system for both wastewater and stormwater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among a host of other soiled locations, sewage also flowed into scenic Half Moon Bay, when Pilarcitos Creek flooded the area’s wastewater treatment plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Serious health hazards\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Raw sewage — even diluted with rainwater — poses serious health hazards. “When we talk about these sewage spills, we’re talking about people being exposed to pathogens, bacteria, viruses that can cause really serious illnesses,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a regional environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choksi-Chugh strongly recommends avoiding any contact with bay water or creek water — or even street puddles — for at least several days after a major storm. “Anyone who is walking down the street is possibly exposed to raw sewage when there’s an overflow in the street from a manhole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Choksi-Chugh notes, lower-income communities of color often live in the most affected neighborhoods — the ones more susceptible to flooding and closer to the bayshore where the sewage ends up. She points out that EBMUD’s main treatment facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/50k-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spilled-into-estuary-after-power-outage-affects-ebmud-wastewater-plant/2345085/\">50,000 gallons of sewage spilled during a 2020 power outage\u003c/a>, is located in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s already a community that’s impacted really heavily by industrial pollution, and other environmental factors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a large wastewater treatment plant.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1221901314-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of EBMUD’s wastewater treatment plant in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the broader environmental impact: The pathogens and bacteria in the sewage — even a large amount of treated sewage — can also sicken fish and other wildlife, Choksi-Chugh said. “It can cause low dissolved oxygen, which can lead to fish not being able to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was on full, fetid display during a heat wave in late August, when thousands of dead fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/28/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-at-oaklands-lake-merritt/\">washed up at Oakland’s Lake Merritt and nearby shorelines\u003c/a>. The fish die-off followed an uncontrolled algal bloom — known as a “red tide” event — likely caused by the discharge of too much sewage or fertilizer into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>So, how do we fix this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With bigger and more frequent storms predicted, most Bay Area wastewater agency officials interviewed for this story agreed on the need to strengthen the region’s aging infrastructure. The question is, which parts of it?\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"wastewater"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>EBMUD contends that it is pivotal to start at the source, and encourages property owners to fix old, cracked sewer laterals that connect their toilets to municipal pipes. Doing so would prevent less rainwater from entering the system, reducing the risk of it being overwhelmed. The utility says it has already seen a 22% decrease in flow since 2011, which it attributes to homeowners and cities fixing their pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we done yet? No,” said Pook. “But we’re definitely on our way to helping to decrease those flows into our wastewater system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities can also upgrade their pipes — the next segment of the wastewater system — to increase capacity. But that’s extremely expensive, and generally requires exceedingly unpopular rate hikes. For instance, replacing the relatively small sewer system in Castro Valley — a community of fewer than 65,000 people — would cost around $500 million, said Nelson, of the sanitary district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pipes are underground, they’re not sexy, they’re out of sight, out of mind,” the Baykeeper’s Choksi-Chugh said. “City councils just don’t tend to prioritize funding maintenance of these pipes and making sure that they’re upgraded and maintained properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while acknowledging the importance of these localized approaches, Choksi-Chugh also argues that more of the onus should be placed on the utilities, rather than their customers. Water districts, she says, need to overhaul their sorely outdated treatment plants — an intimidatingly expensive proposition, but one whose costs can be partially offset by new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055841358/biden-signs-1t-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-into-law\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/\">state\u003c/a> infrastructure grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because then we wouldn’t be discharging all of this untreated sewage into the bay,” she said. “We would actually be capturing it all and recycling it. And it wouldn’t be having these kinds of impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping,” Choksi-Chugh added, “that this is a wake-up call for the wastewater industry and for the local government agencies to say we need to invest in better infrastructure around the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Lesley McClurg.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11938273/our-worst-nightmare-as-storms-raged-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-spilled-into-bay-area-waterways-streets-and-yards","authors":["11842","1263"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_295","news_18299","news_1730","news_5909","news_20287"],"featImg":"news_11938448","label":"news"},"news_11903447":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11903447","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11903447","score":null,"sort":[1643752568000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1643752568,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"'The Jury's Out': Is California's Landmark Environmental Justice Law Helping Communities With the Dirtiest Air?","title":"'The Jury's Out': Is California's Landmark Environmental Justice Law Helping Communities With the Dirtiest Air?","headTitle":"KQED News","content":"\u003cp>The South Stockton classroom where Ashley Pearl Pana spent recess trapped indoors is still there, 16 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the wind stirred up dust and soot, when the sun stewed smokestack and tailpipe exhaust into smog, when pollution squeezed her airways, Pana’s asthma forced her inside, behind the classroom’s closed door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the kids were playing outside, and I’d just watch them through the windows,” Pana, now 23, said while visiting her old elementary school. A new generation of children, masked against COVID-19’s newest threats to still-developing lungs, ran in the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ashley Pearl Pana, Stockton resident\"]'No matter what, air quality is always an issue in my life, something I have to be constantly aware about.'[/pullquote]It was a clear day, the kind that makes South Stockton’s consistently filthy air difficult to imagine. But in \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/maps-data\">one of California’s most dangerously polluted communities\u003c/a>, emergency room visits for asthma attacks are among the highest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, air quality is always an issue in my life,” Pana said, “something I have to be constantly aware about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">Assembly Bill 617, passed in 2017\u003c/a>, requires local air districts and the state Air Resources Board to reduce air pollution in marginalized communities. The law established the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp\">Community Air Protection Program\u003c/a>, which tasks residents and local officials with shaping regulations and steering state money to a handful of hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailed as “\u003ca href=\"https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/07/12/california-models-climate-and-air-pollution-action-with-balanced-approach/\">unprecedented\u003c/a>” by some environmental groups, the law was supposed to create a program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, more than $1 billion in state funds has been appropriated for community grants, industry incentives and government costs. But it's still not possible to gauge whether the program will improve the smoggy and toxic air that almost 4 million people breathe in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp-communities\">15 communities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp-communities\">communities\u003c/a> — including Richmond, West Oakland, Stockton, San Bernardino and Wilmington — have high poverty rates and are predominantly Latino, Black and Asian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, even as the law’s clean-air program prepares to fold in new neighborhoods, a major question lingers: Is it working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The jury’s out,” said \u003ca href=\"https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/jonathan-london\">Jonathan London\u003c/a>, an associate professor of human ecology at UC Davis who is keeping tabs on the law. It’s “an ongoing experiment with the potential for significant benefits, but also significant obstacles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental justice advocates have called the law \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/2017/07/justice-deferred-a-break-down-of-californias-cap-trade-bill-from-the-environmental-justice-perspective/\">toothless\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CEJA_AB617_r4-2.pdf\">warn that\u003c/a> it has “largely failed to produce the promised quantifiable, permanent, and enforceable emissions reductions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1399px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Left photo: A woman wearing glasses. Right photo: A woman's hands, filled with various breathing medications.\" width=\"1399\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png 1399w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-800x277.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-1020x354.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-160x55.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1399px) 100vw, 1399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Pearl Pana (left) in South Stockton, where she grew up. Pana (right) shows the inhalers and other medication she uses daily to manage her asthma. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The struggle to achieve the law’s ambitious goals has been marked by battles between residents and local air regulators, and by jurisdictional juggling among agencies, each responsible for a different portion of pollution. Meanwhile, people continue to suffer from inhaling dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it having the improvements that I want it to have, at the level that I wanted to have? No, we need a lot more,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a58.asmdc.org/\">Cristina Garcia\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Bell Gardens, who authored the bill. “Is it engaging the community and empowering them, so they could push for change? Oh, definitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is just one tool — and, its author acknowledges, an imperfect one at that — intending to fix decades of environmental racism, questionable land-use decisions and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/11/california-housing-crisis-podcast-freeways/\">freeway construction\u003c/a> that have left \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2019/02/cv-air-pollution-CA-web.pdf\">poor communities of color\u003c/a> hemmed in \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f555670d30a942e4b46b18293e2795a7\">by California’s industrial corridors\u003c/a>. It’s a monumental task, and experts say no one law will be a panacea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake is the health of \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f555670d30a942e4b46b18293e2795a7\">millions of people\u003c/a> who live near California’s refineries, ports and freeways that are the sources of smog and other toxic pollutants that trigger asthma attacks and have been linked to cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Air Resources Board staff recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/board/mt/2021/mt102821.pdf?_ga=2.69808464.133961995.1641835269-324582198.1598231589\">called it\u003c/a> “a catalyst to change the way we work with communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some Stockton residents and community groups have had a far different experience, tangling with local air regulators about funding decisions and delayed air-pollution monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning of this process, we were all kumbaya,” said Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, a historic preservation organization turned environmental justice group in South Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the end,” he said, “it was terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-tremendous-amount-of-frustration\">'Tremendous amount of frustration'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For more than half a century, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/history\">state\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/research/publications/50-years-of-progress\">local air regulators\u003c/a> have enacted pioneering rules to clean up pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes. Trailblazing mandates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/03/california-diesel-rules/\">to tackle diesel exhaust\u003c/a> — a known carcinogen — and other toxic air contaminants \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5b02766\">cut Californians’ risk of getting cancer from bad air by 76%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t been enough. Parts of California still have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities\">worst air quality in the country\u003c/a>, with about 87% of Californians living in areas that exceeded federal healthy air standards in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Joaquin Valley alone, breathing fine particles is estimated to cause \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/clean-air-plan-san-joaquin-valley-first-meet-all-federal-standards-fine-particle-pollution\">1,200 premature deaths\u003c/a> from respiratory and heart disease per year. Poor communities of color are still exposed to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/final_community_air_protection_blueprint_october_2018_acc.pdf\">double the cancer-causing diesel exhaust\u003c/a> than that of their more affluent neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-ab617-maps.netlify.app/#amp=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia’s law aimed to tackle pollution hot spots by creating a greater role for community activists and residents in the complex regulatory process. Local air districts responsible for regulating smokestack pollution must now work with communities to craft clean-air plans. The law also calls for increased air monitoring, bigger fines for polluters and faster deployment of new pollution-scrubbing retrofits on smokestacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-announces-new-director-office-community-air-protection#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Today%20CARB%20Executive%20Officer,Community%20Air%20Protection%20(DOCAP).\">Deldi Reyes\u003c/a>, director of the Air Resources Board’s Office of Community Air Protection, told board members at an October meeting that there has been progress since the environmental justice law was enacted, with an estimated 75 tons of fine particles expected to be cut across 11 communities — equivalent to removing 75,000 heavy-duty diesel trucks from California roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">the law\u003c/a> nor \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/final-community-air-protection-blueprint\">the state-developed guidelines\u003c/a> for its implementation include specific targets for measurably improving air quality or public health in the selected communities. Though the program relies heavily on time and effort from community members, decision-making is ultimately left to state and local air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see more accountability built into the program,” said \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/leadership/john-r-balmes-md\">Dr. John Balmes\u003c/a>, a professor of medicine at UCSF and a member of the California Air Resources Board. “I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes, however, urged patience. \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/board/books/2021/102821/21-11-3pres.pdf\">Of the 15 communities\u003c/a>, three are still developing their clean-air plans and four are in their first year of implementation, she said. “It’s just too early to point to any of the communities and say, ‘Oh, they haven’t met their goals.’ Air quality does not change on a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An environmental justice advocate in Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://woeip.org/about-woeip/margaret-gordon/\">Margaret Gordon\u003c/a>, agreed. “This is not instant. This is not Top Ramen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2017/07/california-environmental-success-poor-communities-remain-polluted/\">Even the law’s birth\u003c/a> was contentious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was framed as a companion to a bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2017/08/california-climate-deal-net-big-bucks-polluters/\">extending the life of cap and trade\u003c/a>, California’s trailblazing carbon market designed to reduce climate-warming emissions. Under cap and trade, companies operating refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities can buy or trade credits to meet a declining cap on greenhouse gases without cutting local pollution.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"environmental-justice\"]Environmental justice advocates fought the cap-and-trade extension, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2017/07/pollution-bill-legislature-just-passed-downpayment-environmental-justice/\">declaring it a “deal with the devil”\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/reporttopics/envother/env17_other/From-Plan-to-Progress-Appendix-A.pdf\">usurped local power\u003c/a> to cut carbon emissions from industrial facilities like refineries. \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002604\">One analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhoods with increasing pollution during cap and trade’s early years were more likely home to people of color and people living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law — less stringent than \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB378\">an earlier version\u003c/a> that died in the Assembly — was supposed to end the unequal pollution burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet many residents and environmental justice advocates say the law pits disadvantaged communities against each other for selection in the program, and its effectiveness varies drastically by air district. In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-10/17RD035%20-%20English%20-%20AB%20617%20UC%20Davis%20Report%20Final%20for%20distribution.pdf\">a UC Davis assessment\u003c/a>, participants described a program that fails to provide adequate training for community members who may have language barriers and limited knowledge of topics like refinery flares and pollution controls for ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was like a beautiful thing that was going to bring us something into our communities to protect them from cap and trade, and also try to get the community involved,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/magali-sanchez-hall-4617b048/\">Magali Sanchez-Hall\u003c/a>, an environmental activist and resident of Wilmington, in Los Angeles County. “That’s not what I have experienced, at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/applications/stationary-source-emissions\">a major source\u003c/a> of industrial air pollution, has said it supports the intent of the environmental justice law. But at the negotiating table with legislators, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2017/07/california-environmental-success-poor-communities-remain-polluted/\">it pushed back against stricter controls\u003c/a> over pollution and later tried, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-10/final_community_air_protection_blueprint_october_2018_appendix_c.pdf\">but failed\u003c/a>, to remove language in state guidelines that called for the “most stringent approaches for reducing emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local air regulators list frustrations of their own in implementing the law: insufficient funding, inadequate time to repair community relationships damaged over decades, and no new authority over local governments’ land-use decisions, such as warehouse construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a tremendous amount of frustration between the various community groups and the district,” said Wayne Nastri, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the powerful agency responsible for the\u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/nav/about\"> air quality of about17 million people\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles basin. “It’s difficult to put those programs together when there isn’t trust between the community groups and the regulators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-asthma-freeways-and-port-pollution-in-stockton\">Asthma, freeways and port pollution in Stockton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the banks of the \u003ca href=\"http://delta.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Delta-Map-2020-508.pdf\">San Joaquin River\u003c/a> sits Stockton, home to an inland port. Trucks roar over freeways that cleave a city spotted with heavy industry, creased by rail lines and ringed by farm fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicles are a major source of smog and fine particles in South Stockton, with port-related operations accounting for about a quarter of the area’s dangerous diesel exhaust. Two of the 18 Stockton census tracts included in the state \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp\">program\u003c/a> are ranked within the top 1% of the most pollution-burdened areas in California. Eleven are in the top 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg\" alt=\"A large highway over a river.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interstate 5 cuts over a channel off the San Joaquin River in Stockton, where freeways are a major source of pollution. The city has some of the highest rates of emergency room visits for asthma in the state. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2020-01-22/us-news-special-report-stockton-calif-is-the-most-diverse-city-in-america\">racially diverse cities in the country\u003c/a>, Stockton bears the scars of \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f167b251809c43778a2f9f040f43d2f5\">racial residential segregation and redlining\u003c/a>. State and local officials plowed the Crosstown Freeway through communities of color, with demolitions and displacements starting in the late 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the neighborhoods crushed beneath freeway expansion was Little Manila, where only two of the original buildings in a once-vibrant Filipino American community remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton neighborhoods, especially those near the freeways, have some of the highest rates of asthma-related emergency room visits in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delvo, a second-generation Filipino American who co-founded Little Manila Rising, a community preservation group, is also fighting for clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be irresponsible for us to try to save these buildings and expect people to come here, when \u003cem>this,” \u003c/em>said Delvo, gesturing at the freeway looming over him, his voice raised over the roaring trucks, “exists right here. And the fact is that there are families in this community that need to breathe this air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pana, the consequences of a childhood spent in South Stockton still linger. Her family moved there from the Philippines when she was 2 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pana has gone to the emergency room twice in just the past year for asthma attacks, and uses inhalers and other medications on a daily basis to keep her airways open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just my life, and it was normalized,” said Pana, an aspiring social worker and former youth climate advocate with Little Manila Rising. “It’s not normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Community Air Protection Program, however, hasn’t been the salve for generations of environmental racism that Pana, Delvo and others had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delvo once sat on \u003ca href=\"https://community.valleyair.org/media/1697/member-reference-guide.pdf\">the program’s community steering committee\u003c/a> before a colleague took over the role. Now he wonders whether the law can ever really be effective, given its reliance on air districts like the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District that have long presided over \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sanjoaquinvalley/epa-activities-cleaner-air\">some of the most polluted air in the country\u003c/a>. At a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hjn8PFJ0M-g?t=8459\">board meeting\u003c/a>, a top air district official called the committee merely a “consultative body” without “any direct authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses stands against a blue wall outside of a building.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, stands in front of a Stockton building that was originally the Filipino Recreation Hall but is now boarded up. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the intention of the legislation is good,” Delvo said. “But once it comes into the hands of whatever local agency is controlling it, they control the outcome of it. That’s the problem. That’s why you have widespread marginalization, specifically in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort in Stockton has been plagued by delays and jurisdictional infighting. One example: A program to monitor the air at local schools that stalled after the Stockton Unified School District refused to host the devices, according to the air district. Stockton Unified representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article253058573.html\">biggest battle\u003c/a> came when advocacy groups questioned a district program to provide $5 million to the port to help pay for cleaner equipment, tugboat engines and a pollution capture device for tankers.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dillon Delvo, executive director, Little Manila Rising\"]'I think the intention of the legislation is good. But once it comes into the hands of whatever local agency is controlling it, they control the outcome of it.'[/pullquote]“If this is just a process where we’re handing out money to industry to subsidize expanding their emissions, then that’s not something that [we] can be in support of,” Catherine Garoupa White, executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, said at a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/MvPAVp7opWU?t=2978\">community steering committee meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, state and local regulators approved a plan that eliminated the port incentives, but did not reallocate the $5 million to another Stockton program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to fertilizer importers, petroleum and biodiesel storage, cement companies, a biomass burning facility and other industries, the port supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofstockton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/POS_Facts_infographic.pdf\">thousands of jobs\u003c/a>. Another 400 acres are approved for new development. Some of its tenants are planning expansions, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jeff Wingfield, the port’s director of environmental and public affairs, said port expansion and pollution don’t necessarily go hand in hand. About 60% of the port’s cargo-handling equipment is zero emission, he said. Cleaning up operations is costly, so extra funding would help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our annual budget is, like, $50 million. That’s a significant risk, and a significant investment for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-decades-long-battle-in-la-county-s-port-communities\">A decades-long battle in LA County's port communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 350 miles south, in the southwestern end of Los Angeles County, Wilmington, Carson and West Long Beach joined the Community Air Protection Program a year ahead of Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say two sets of important emission-cutting rules enacted last year were accelerated because of the environmental justice law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the region, which is predominantly Latino, live with polluting industries almost in their backyards: \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/cerp/chapter-5b---draft---refineries---july-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=4#:~:text=The%20Wilmington%2C%20Carson%2C%20West%20Long,and%20two%20hydrogen%20production%20plants.\">five oil refineries\u003c/a>, nine rail yards, \u003ca href=\"https://www.porttechnology.org/news/top-5-ports-in-the-united-states/\">the nation’s two busiest ports\u003c/a>, 43 miles of freeway, three Superfund hazardous waste sites and other industrial facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Los Angeles/Long Beach port area visit emergency rooms for asthma attacks \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/planning/mates-v/mates-v-final-report-9-24-21.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">40% more often\u003c/a> than the state average. And their cancer risk from toxic air, primarily from diesel exhaust, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/health-studies/mates-v\">35% higher\u003c/a> than the Los Angeles basin’s average in 2018 — although less than \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/health-studies/mates-iv\">half the estimates\u003c/a> for 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]After months of discussion with community activists, the South Coast Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/cerp/final-cerp-wcwlb.pdf?sfvrsn=8\">committed \u003c/a>to cutting smog-forming gases and sulfur from oil refineries in half by 2030, and in November set \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/news-archive/2021/board-adopts-refinerery-rules-nov5-2021.pdf\">new mandates\u003c/a> to eliminate up to eight tons a day of emissions from 16 oil refineries and other industrial plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules, projected to cost the companies \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/Agendas/Governing-Board/2021/2021-Nov5-034.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">more than $2 billion\u003c/a>, are intended to satisfy \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">the environmental justice law’s requirement\u003c/a> that industries accelerate installation of the best available technology to control smog-forming emissions and other pollution. They also play a key role in the Los Angeles basin’s latest efforts to comply with national health standards for smog — a half-century-long quest for the nation’s smoggiest region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their negotiations, oil companies \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/rule-book/Proposed-Rules/1109.1/wspa-pr1109-1-small-refinery-heaters-comment-letter-to-scaqmd-august-4-2021-(final)---copy.pdf?sfvrsn=4\">asked the district\u003c/a> to prove “both technical feasibility and cost effectiveness” and “provide a reasonable schedule” to install new technology on refinery heaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the timelines stretch to 2035 — far beyond the law’s Dec. 31, 2023, deadline. About half of the emissions reductions are expected by next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure adopted last year takes aim at \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/news-archive/2021/board-adopts-waisr-may7-2021.pdf\">diesel exhaust and smog-forming gases \u003c/a>from Southern California’s warehouses, a growing source in the San Bernardino area, which is another of the 15 communities in the state’s environmental justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2021/reg6_5_210721_2021_023-pdf.pdf?la=en\">The Bay Area also enacted a rule \u003c/a>last year to cut refinery pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Wilmington, Carson and West Long Beach area, advocates called the new refinery rule a limited victory that has taken, and will take, far too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now all eyes have turned to pollution from the ports, where recent shipping backups have caused soot and smog to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/SPBP_Congestion_Anchorage_Emissions_Final.pdf\">skyrocket\u003c/a>. After years of negotiations with the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the air district board decided that if the port fails to come up with an acceptable \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/planning/fbmsm-docs/08112021-draft-marine-ports-mou-pola-polb-staff.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">clean-air plan\u003c/a> by this Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/clean-air-plans/air-quality-mgt-plan/facility-based-mobile-source-measures/comm-ports-wkng-grp\">the board will draft mandatory rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still a battle to get clean-air regulation,” said Chris Chavez, who grew up in West Long Beach and is now deputy policy director with the Coalition for Clean Air. “It’s just that we have a better shot at it now than we had a couple years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-community-groups-call-for-change\">Community groups call for change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After more than four years, the law has reached an inflection point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/PBP%20Writers%20Group%20Draft%20for%20CARB%202021.09.08_acc.pdf\">The People’s Blueprint\u003c/a>, proposed by community groups and environmental advocates, seeks explicit new policies and training promoting equity and inclusion. It also calls for greater transparency and community control over budgets, and consequences for air districts that fail to show progress or act without community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State air board officials \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/Blueprint%20Process%209.8.21%20FNL_v3.pdf\">are reviewing\u003c/a> the proposal, and plan to draft new guidelines expected to be considered next year. “There is nothing off the table,” the air board’s Reyes told CalMatters. “We really need to find ways to expand the benefits of the program … because it’s not sustainable, especially if the funding levels stay consistent in the way that they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of Californians live in thousands of census tracts the state \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/04/SB-535-Designation-Final.pdf\">considers disadvantaged\u003c/a>, in part because they may bear disproportionate burdens of pollution. Focusing on only 15 communities “is not satisfying,” said Garcia, the original bill's author. “We’re leaving behind a bunch of potential communities, and they all deserve justice.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chris Chavez, deputy policy director, Coalition for Clean Air\"]'It's still a battle to get clean air regulation. It's just that we have a better shot at it now than we had a couple years ago.'[/pullquote]Legislative efforts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccair.org/advancing-environmental-justice-through-law/\">to tackle environmental justice\u003c/a> more widely, however, have stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Garcia introduced a bill barring refineries and other facilities that fail to promptly install the latest pollution-scrubbing technology from participating in cap and trade. Bills in the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">Senate\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1296\">Assembly\u003c/a> proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">adding environmental justice representatives\u003c/a> to the Los Angeles basin air district’s board. Two more bills tried to take aim at \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB499\">industrial\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1547\">warehouse\u003c/a> expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None succeeded, though some have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">already\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\">been\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1547\">revived\u003c/a> for another pass through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, residents across the state are still waiting to find out whether California’s landmark environmental justice law will make a difference in their daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not, “then community members and organizations have to take matters into their own hands,” Pana said, standing outside her old school in Stockton. “We’re going to keep fighting for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11903447 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11903447","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/01/the-jurys-out-is-californias-landmark-environmental-justice-law-helping-communities-with-the-dirtiest-air/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":3615,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://calmatters-ab617-maps.netlify.app/#amp=1"],"paragraphCount":79},"modified":1643759286,"excerpt":"The 2017 law is meant to improve air quality in 15 hot spot communities, home to nearly 4 million people. But after more than 4 years and $1 billion invested, it remains unclear how much of a difference it's made.\r\n\r\n","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The 2017 law is meant to improve air quality in 15 hot spot communities, home to nearly 4 million people. But after more than 4 years and $1 billion invested, it remains unclear how much of a difference it's made.\r\n\r\n","title":"'The Jury's Out': Is California's Landmark Environmental Justice Law Helping Communities With the Dirtiest Air? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'The Jury's Out': Is California's Landmark Environmental Justice Law Helping Communities With the Dirtiest Air?","datePublished":"2022-02-01T13:56:08-08:00","dateModified":"2022-02-01T15:48:06-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-jurys-out-is-californias-landmark-environmental-justice-law-helping-communities-with-the-dirtiest-air","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rachel-becker/\">Rachel Becker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","source":"CalMatters","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11903447/the-jurys-out-is-californias-landmark-environmental-justice-law-helping-communities-with-the-dirtiest-air","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The South Stockton classroom where Ashley Pearl Pana spent recess trapped indoors is still there, 16 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the wind stirred up dust and soot, when the sun stewed smokestack and tailpipe exhaust into smog, when pollution squeezed her airways, Pana’s asthma forced her inside, behind the classroom’s closed door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the kids were playing outside, and I’d just watch them through the windows,” Pana, now 23, said while visiting her old elementary school. A new generation of children, masked against COVID-19’s newest threats to still-developing lungs, ran in the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'No matter what, air quality is always an issue in my life, something I have to be constantly aware about.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Ashley Pearl Pana, Stockton resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It was a clear day, the kind that makes South Stockton’s consistently filthy air difficult to imagine. But in \u003ca href=\"https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/maps-data\">one of California’s most dangerously polluted communities\u003c/a>, emergency room visits for asthma attacks are among the highest in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, air quality is always an issue in my life,” Pana said, “something I have to be constantly aware about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">Assembly Bill 617, passed in 2017\u003c/a>, requires local air districts and the state Air Resources Board to reduce air pollution in marginalized communities. The law established the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp\">Community Air Protection Program\u003c/a>, which tasks residents and local officials with shaping regulations and steering state money to a handful of hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailed as “\u003ca href=\"https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/07/12/california-models-climate-and-air-pollution-action-with-balanced-approach/\">unprecedented\u003c/a>” by some environmental groups, the law was supposed to create a program to measure and combat air pollution at the neighborhood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, more than $1 billion in state funds has been appropriated for community grants, industry incentives and government costs. But it's still not possible to gauge whether the program will improve the smoggy and toxic air that almost 4 million people breathe in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp-communities\">15 communities.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp-communities\">communities\u003c/a> — including Richmond, West Oakland, Stockton, San Bernardino and Wilmington — have high poverty rates and are predominantly Latino, Black and Asian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, even as the law’s clean-air program prepares to fold in new neighborhoods, a major question lingers: Is it working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The jury’s out,” said \u003ca href=\"https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/jonathan-london\">Jonathan London\u003c/a>, an associate professor of human ecology at UC Davis who is keeping tabs on the law. It’s “an ongoing experiment with the potential for significant benefits, but also significant obstacles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental justice advocates have called the law \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/2017/07/justice-deferred-a-break-down-of-californias-cap-trade-bill-from-the-environmental-justice-perspective/\">toothless\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CEJA_AB617_r4-2.pdf\">warn that\u003c/a> it has “largely failed to produce the promised quantifiable, permanent, and enforceable emissions reductions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1399px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Left photo: A woman wearing glasses. Right photo: A woman's hands, filled with various breathing medications.\" width=\"1399\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM.png 1399w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-800x277.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-1020x354.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-1.29.49-PM-160x55.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1399px) 100vw, 1399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Pearl Pana (left) in South Stockton, where she grew up. Pana (right) shows the inhalers and other medication she uses daily to manage her asthma. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The struggle to achieve the law’s ambitious goals has been marked by battles between residents and local air regulators, and by jurisdictional juggling among agencies, each responsible for a different portion of pollution. Meanwhile, people continue to suffer from inhaling dirty air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it having the improvements that I want it to have, at the level that I wanted to have? No, we need a lot more,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a58.asmdc.org/\">Cristina Garcia\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Bell Gardens, who authored the bill. “Is it engaging the community and empowering them, so they could push for change? Oh, definitely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is just one tool — and, its author acknowledges, an imperfect one at that — intending to fix decades of environmental racism, questionable land-use decisions and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/11/california-housing-crisis-podcast-freeways/\">freeway construction\u003c/a> that have left \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2019/02/cv-air-pollution-CA-web.pdf\">poor communities of color\u003c/a> hemmed in \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f555670d30a942e4b46b18293e2795a7\">by California’s industrial corridors\u003c/a>. It’s a monumental task, and experts say no one law will be a panacea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake is the health of \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f555670d30a942e4b46b18293e2795a7\">millions of people\u003c/a> who live near California’s refineries, ports and freeways that are the sources of smog and other toxic pollutants that trigger asthma attacks and have been linked to cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Air Resources Board staff recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/board/mt/2021/mt102821.pdf?_ga=2.69808464.133961995.1641835269-324582198.1598231589\">called it\u003c/a> “a catalyst to change the way we work with communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some Stockton residents and community groups have had a far different experience, tangling with local air regulators about funding decisions and delayed air-pollution monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning of this process, we were all kumbaya,” said Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, a historic preservation organization turned environmental justice group in South Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the end,” he said, “it was terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-tremendous-amount-of-frustration\">'Tremendous amount of frustration'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For more than half a century, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/history\">state\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/research/publications/50-years-of-progress\">local air regulators\u003c/a> have enacted pioneering rules to clean up pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes. Trailblazing mandates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/03/california-diesel-rules/\">to tackle diesel exhaust\u003c/a> — a known carcinogen — and other toxic air contaminants \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5b02766\">cut Californians’ risk of getting cancer from bad air by 76%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t been enough. Parts of California still have the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities\">worst air quality in the country\u003c/a>, with about 87% of Californians living in areas that exceeded federal healthy air standards in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Joaquin Valley alone, breathing fine particles is estimated to cause \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/clean-air-plan-san-joaquin-valley-first-meet-all-federal-standards-fine-particle-pollution\">1,200 premature deaths\u003c/a> from respiratory and heart disease per year. Poor communities of color are still exposed to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/final_community_air_protection_blueprint_october_2018_acc.pdf\">double the cancer-causing diesel exhaust\u003c/a> than that of their more affluent neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://calmatters-ab617-maps.netlify.app/#amp=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia’s law aimed to tackle pollution hot spots by creating a greater role for community activists and residents in the complex regulatory process. Local air districts responsible for regulating smokestack pollution must now work with communities to craft clean-air plans. The law also calls for increased air monitoring, bigger fines for polluters and faster deployment of new pollution-scrubbing retrofits on smokestacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-announces-new-director-office-community-air-protection#:~:text=SACRAMENTO%20%E2%80%93%20Today%20CARB%20Executive%20Officer,Community%20Air%20Protection%20(DOCAP).\">Deldi Reyes\u003c/a>, director of the Air Resources Board’s Office of Community Air Protection, told board members at an October meeting that there has been progress since the environmental justice law was enacted, with an estimated 75 tons of fine particles expected to be cut across 11 communities — equivalent to removing 75,000 heavy-duty diesel trucks from California roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">the law\u003c/a> nor \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/final-community-air-protection-blueprint\">the state-developed guidelines\u003c/a> for its implementation include specific targets for measurably improving air quality or public health in the selected communities. Though the program relies heavily on time and effort from community members, decision-making is ultimately left to state and local air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see more accountability built into the program,” said \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/leadership/john-r-balmes-md\">Dr. John Balmes\u003c/a>, a professor of medicine at UCSF and a member of the California Air Resources Board. “I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes, however, urged patience. \u003ca href=\"https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/board/books/2021/102821/21-11-3pres.pdf\">Of the 15 communities\u003c/a>, three are still developing their clean-air plans and four are in their first year of implementation, she said. “It’s just too early to point to any of the communities and say, ‘Oh, they haven’t met their goals.’ Air quality does not change on a dime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An environmental justice advocate in Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://woeip.org/about-woeip/margaret-gordon/\">Margaret Gordon\u003c/a>, agreed. “This is not instant. This is not Top Ramen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2017/07/california-environmental-success-poor-communities-remain-polluted/\">Even the law’s birth\u003c/a> was contentious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was framed as a companion to a bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2017/08/california-climate-deal-net-big-bucks-polluters/\">extending the life of cap and trade\u003c/a>, California’s trailblazing carbon market designed to reduce climate-warming emissions. Under cap and trade, companies operating refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities can buy or trade credits to meet a declining cap on greenhouse gases without cutting local pollution.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"environmental-justice"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates fought the cap-and-trade extension, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2017/07/pollution-bill-legislature-just-passed-downpayment-environmental-justice/\">declaring it a “deal with the devil”\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/reporttopics/envother/env17_other/From-Plan-to-Progress-Appendix-A.pdf\">usurped local power\u003c/a> to cut carbon emissions from industrial facilities like refineries. \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002604\">One analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhoods with increasing pollution during cap and trade’s early years were more likely home to people of color and people living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law — less stringent than \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB378\">an earlier version\u003c/a> that died in the Assembly — was supposed to end the unequal pollution burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet many residents and environmental justice advocates say the law pits disadvantaged communities against each other for selection in the program, and its effectiveness varies drastically by air district. In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-10/17RD035%20-%20English%20-%20AB%20617%20UC%20Davis%20Report%20Final%20for%20distribution.pdf\">a UC Davis assessment\u003c/a>, participants described a program that fails to provide adequate training for community members who may have language barriers and limited knowledge of topics like refinery flares and pollution controls for ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was like a beautiful thing that was going to bring us something into our communities to protect them from cap and trade, and also try to get the community involved,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/magali-sanchez-hall-4617b048/\">Magali Sanchez-Hall\u003c/a>, an environmental activist and resident of Wilmington, in Los Angeles County. “That’s not what I have experienced, at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/applications/stationary-source-emissions\">a major source\u003c/a> of industrial air pollution, has said it supports the intent of the environmental justice law. But at the negotiating table with legislators, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2017/07/california-environmental-success-poor-communities-remain-polluted/\">it pushed back against stricter controls\u003c/a> over pollution and later tried, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-10/final_community_air_protection_blueprint_october_2018_appendix_c.pdf\">but failed\u003c/a>, to remove language in state guidelines that called for the “most stringent approaches for reducing emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local air regulators list frustrations of their own in implementing the law: insufficient funding, inadequate time to repair community relationships damaged over decades, and no new authority over local governments’ land-use decisions, such as warehouse construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a tremendous amount of frustration between the various community groups and the district,” said Wayne Nastri, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the powerful agency responsible for the\u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/nav/about\"> air quality of about17 million people\u003c/a> in the Los Angeles basin. “It’s difficult to put those programs together when there isn’t trust between the community groups and the regulators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-asthma-freeways-and-port-pollution-in-stockton\">Asthma, freeways and port pollution in Stockton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the banks of the \u003ca href=\"http://delta.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Delta-Map-2020-508.pdf\">San Joaquin River\u003c/a> sits Stockton, home to an inland port. Trucks roar over freeways that cleave a city spotted with heavy industry, creased by rail lines and ringed by farm fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vehicles are a major source of smog and fine particles in South Stockton, with port-related operations accounting for about a quarter of the area’s dangerous diesel exhaust. Two of the 18 Stockton census tracts included in the state \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/capp\">program\u003c/a> are ranked within the top 1% of the most pollution-burdened areas in California. Eleven are in the top 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903575\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg\" alt=\"A large highway over a river.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_642-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interstate 5 cuts over a channel off the San Joaquin River in Stockton, where freeways are a major source of pollution. The city has some of the highest rates of emergency room visits for asthma in the state. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2020-01-22/us-news-special-report-stockton-calif-is-the-most-diverse-city-in-america\">racially diverse cities in the country\u003c/a>, Stockton bears the scars of \u003ca href=\"https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f167b251809c43778a2f9f040f43d2f5\">racial residential segregation and redlining\u003c/a>. State and local officials plowed the Crosstown Freeway through communities of color, with demolitions and displacements starting in the late 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the neighborhoods crushed beneath freeway expansion was Little Manila, where only two of the original buildings in a once-vibrant Filipino American community remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stockton neighborhoods, especially those near the freeways, have some of the highest rates of asthma-related emergency room visits in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delvo, a second-generation Filipino American who co-founded Little Manila Rising, a community preservation group, is also fighting for clean air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be irresponsible for us to try to save these buildings and expect people to come here, when \u003cem>this,” \u003c/em>said Delvo, gesturing at the freeway looming over him, his voice raised over the roaring trucks, “exists right here. And the fact is that there are families in this community that need to breathe this air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pana, the consequences of a childhood spent in South Stockton still linger. Her family moved there from the Philippines when she was 2 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pana has gone to the emergency room twice in just the past year for asthma attacks, and uses inhalers and other medications on a daily basis to keep her airways open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just my life, and it was normalized,” said Pana, an aspiring social worker and former youth climate advocate with Little Manila Rising. “It’s not normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Community Air Protection Program, however, hasn’t been the salve for generations of environmental racism that Pana, Delvo and others had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delvo once sat on \u003ca href=\"https://community.valleyair.org/media/1697/member-reference-guide.pdf\">the program’s community steering committee\u003c/a> before a colleague took over the role. Now he wonders whether the law can ever really be effective, given its reliance on air districts like the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District that have long presided over \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sanjoaquinvalley/epa-activities-cleaner-air\">some of the most polluted air in the country\u003c/a>. At a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hjn8PFJ0M-g?t=8459\">board meeting\u003c/a>, a top air district official called the committee merely a “consultative body” without “any direct authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903574\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg\" alt=\"A man with glasses stands against a blue wall outside of a building.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690.jpeg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/101321-_Stockton_Pollution_FG_CM_690-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, stands in front of a Stockton building that was originally the Filipino Recreation Hall but is now boarded up. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the intention of the legislation is good,” Delvo said. “But once it comes into the hands of whatever local agency is controlling it, they control the outcome of it. That’s the problem. That’s why you have widespread marginalization, specifically in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort in Stockton has been plagued by delays and jurisdictional infighting. One example: A program to monitor the air at local schools that stalled after the Stockton Unified School District refused to host the devices, according to the air district. Stockton Unified representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article253058573.html\">biggest battle\u003c/a> came when advocacy groups questioned a district program to provide $5 million to the port to help pay for cleaner equipment, tugboat engines and a pollution capture device for tankers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think the intention of the legislation is good. But once it comes into the hands of whatever local agency is controlling it, they control the outcome of it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Dillon Delvo, executive director, Little Manila Rising","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If this is just a process where we’re handing out money to industry to subsidize expanding their emissions, then that’s not something that [we] can be in support of,” Catherine Garoupa White, executive director of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, said at a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/MvPAVp7opWU?t=2978\">community steering committee meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, state and local regulators approved a plan that eliminated the port incentives, but did not reallocate the $5 million to another Stockton program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home to fertilizer importers, petroleum and biodiesel storage, cement companies, a biomass burning facility and other industries, the port supports \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofstockton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/POS_Facts_infographic.pdf\">thousands of jobs\u003c/a>. Another 400 acres are approved for new development. Some of its tenants are planning expansions, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jeff Wingfield, the port’s director of environmental and public affairs, said port expansion and pollution don’t necessarily go hand in hand. About 60% of the port’s cargo-handling equipment is zero emission, he said. Cleaning up operations is costly, so extra funding would help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our annual budget is, like, $50 million. That’s a significant risk, and a significant investment for us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-decades-long-battle-in-la-county-s-port-communities\">A decades-long battle in LA County's port communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 350 miles south, in the southwestern end of Los Angeles County, Wilmington, Carson and West Long Beach joined the Community Air Protection Program a year ahead of Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials say two sets of important emission-cutting rules enacted last year were accelerated because of the environmental justice law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the region, which is predominantly Latino, live with polluting industries almost in their backyards: \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/cerp/chapter-5b---draft---refineries---july-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=4#:~:text=The%20Wilmington%2C%20Carson%2C%20West%20Long,and%20two%20hydrogen%20production%20plants.\">five oil refineries\u003c/a>, nine rail yards, \u003ca href=\"https://www.porttechnology.org/news/top-5-ports-in-the-united-states/\">the nation’s two busiest ports\u003c/a>, 43 miles of freeway, three Superfund hazardous waste sites and other industrial facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Los Angeles/Long Beach port area visit emergency rooms for asthma attacks \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/planning/mates-v/mates-v-final-report-9-24-21.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">40% more often\u003c/a> than the state average. And their cancer risk from toxic air, primarily from diesel exhaust, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/health-studies/mates-v\">35% higher\u003c/a> than the Los Angeles basin’s average in 2018 — although less than \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/health-studies/mates-iv\">half the estimates\u003c/a> for 2012 and 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After months of discussion with community activists, the South Coast Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/cerp/final-cerp-wcwlb.pdf?sfvrsn=8\">committed \u003c/a>to cutting smog-forming gases and sulfur from oil refineries in half by 2030, and in November set \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/news-archive/2021/board-adopts-refinerery-rules-nov5-2021.pdf\">new mandates\u003c/a> to eliminate up to eight tons a day of emissions from 16 oil refineries and other industrial plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules, projected to cost the companies \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/Agendas/Governing-Board/2021/2021-Nov5-034.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">more than $2 billion\u003c/a>, are intended to satisfy \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB617\">the environmental justice law’s requirement\u003c/a> that industries accelerate installation of the best available technology to control smog-forming emissions and other pollution. They also play a key role in the Los Angeles basin’s latest efforts to comply with national health standards for smog — a half-century-long quest for the nation’s smoggiest region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their negotiations, oil companies \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/rule-book/Proposed-Rules/1109.1/wspa-pr1109-1-small-refinery-heaters-comment-letter-to-scaqmd-august-4-2021-(final)---copy.pdf?sfvrsn=4\">asked the district\u003c/a> to prove “both technical feasibility and cost effectiveness” and “provide a reasonable schedule” to install new technology on refinery heaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the timelines stretch to 2035 — far beyond the law’s Dec. 31, 2023, deadline. About half of the emissions reductions are expected by next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure adopted last year takes aim at \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/news-archive/2021/board-adopts-waisr-may7-2021.pdf\">diesel exhaust and smog-forming gases \u003c/a>from Southern California’s warehouses, a growing source in the San Bernardino area, which is another of the 15 communities in the state’s environmental justice program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2021/reg6_5_210721_2021_023-pdf.pdf?la=en\">The Bay Area also enacted a rule \u003c/a>last year to cut refinery pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the Wilmington, Carson and West Long Beach area, advocates called the new refinery rule a limited victory that has taken, and will take, far too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now all eyes have turned to pollution from the ports, where recent shipping backups have caused soot and smog to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/SPBP_Congestion_Anchorage_Emissions_Final.pdf\">skyrocket\u003c/a>. After years of negotiations with the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the air district board decided that if the port fails to come up with an acceptable \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/planning/fbmsm-docs/08112021-draft-marine-ports-mou-pola-polb-staff.pdf?sfvrsn=6\">clean-air plan\u003c/a> by this Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/clean-air-plans/air-quality-mgt-plan/facility-based-mobile-source-measures/comm-ports-wkng-grp\">the board will draft mandatory rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still a battle to get clean-air regulation,” said Chris Chavez, who grew up in West Long Beach and is now deputy policy director with the Coalition for Clean Air. “It’s just that we have a better shot at it now than we had a couple years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-community-groups-call-for-change\">Community groups call for change\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After more than four years, the law has reached an inflection point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/PBP%20Writers%20Group%20Draft%20for%20CARB%202021.09.08_acc.pdf\">The People’s Blueprint\u003c/a>, proposed by community groups and environmental advocates, seeks explicit new policies and training promoting equity and inclusion. It also calls for greater transparency and community control over budgets, and consequences for air districts that fail to show progress or act without community input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State air board officials \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/Blueprint%20Process%209.8.21%20FNL_v3.pdf\">are reviewing\u003c/a> the proposal, and plan to draft new guidelines expected to be considered next year. “There is nothing off the table,” the air board’s Reyes told CalMatters. “We really need to find ways to expand the benefits of the program … because it’s not sustainable, especially if the funding levels stay consistent in the way that they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of Californians live in thousands of census tracts the state \u003ca href=\"https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2017/04/SB-535-Designation-Final.pdf\">considers disadvantaged\u003c/a>, in part because they may bear disproportionate burdens of pollution. Focusing on only 15 communities “is not satisfying,” said Garcia, the original bill's author. “We’re leaving behind a bunch of potential communities, and they all deserve justice.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's still a battle to get clean air regulation. It's just that we have a better shot at it now than we had a couple years ago.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Chris Chavez, deputy policy director, Coalition for Clean Air","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Legislative efforts \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccair.org/advancing-environmental-justice-through-law/\">to tackle environmental justice\u003c/a> more widely, however, have stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Garcia introduced a bill barring refineries and other facilities that fail to promptly install the latest pollution-scrubbing technology from participating in cap and trade. Bills in the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">Senate\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1296\">Assembly\u003c/a> proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">adding environmental justice representatives\u003c/a> to the Los Angeles basin air district’s board. Two more bills tried to take aim at \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB499\">industrial\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1547\">warehouse\u003c/a> expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None succeeded, though some have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB342\">already\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\">been\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1547\">revived\u003c/a> for another pass through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, residents across the state are still waiting to find out whether California’s landmark environmental justice law will make a difference in their daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not, “then community members and organizations have to take matters into their own hands,” Pana said, standing outside her old school in Stockton. “We’re going to keep fighting for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11903447/the-jurys-out-is-californias-landmark-environmental-justice-law-helping-communities-with-the-dirtiest-air","authors":["byline_news_11903447"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2036","news_2928","news_18299"],"featImg":"news_11903576","label":"source_news_11903447"},"news_11899974":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11899974","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11899974","score":null,"sort":[1640181601000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"walmart-faces-lawsuit-for-allegedly-dumping-enormous-amounts-of-toxic-waste-in-california","title":"Walmart Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Dumping Enormous Amounts of Toxic Waste in California","publishDate":1640181601,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Walmart Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Dumping Enormous Amounts of Toxic Waste in California | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California officials have filed a statewide lawsuit against Walmart Inc. alleging that the company illegally disposed of hazardous waste at landfills across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Walmart%20Complaint.pdf\">42-page document filed Monday by state prosecutors\u003c/a>, the lawsuit alleges the retail giant illegally dumped nearly 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste, or more than 1 million items, each year in California over the last six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 12 California district attorneys said Walmart violated California’s environmental laws and regulations by dumping hazardous waste products at landfills that aren’t equipped to handle the materials, including alkaline and lithium batteries, insect killer sprays, aerosol cans, toxic cleaning supplies and LED lightbulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rob Bonta, California Attorney General\"]‘Walmart’s own audits found that the company is dumping hazardous waste at local landfills at a rate of more than one million items each year.’[/pullquote]The lawsuit also claims Walmart dumped “confidential customer information” at these landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walmart’s own audits found that the company is dumping hazardous waste at local landfills at a rate of more than one million items each year. From there, these products may seep into the state’s drinking water as toxic pollutants or into the air as dangerous gases,” Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-statewide-lawsuit-against-walmart-illegal\">in a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the lawsuit filed against the retail giant should serve as a warning to the state’s “worst offenders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to NPR, Walmart said the company will defend itself and said the lawsuit is “unjustified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have met with the state numerous times and walked them through our industry-leading hazardous waste compliance programs in an effort to avoid litigation. Instead, they filed this unjustified lawsuit,” Walmart spokesperson Randy Hargrove said. “The state is demanding a level of compliance regarding waste disposal from our stores of common household products and other items that goes beyond what is required by law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit filed against Walmart isn’t the company’s first with the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='environment']In 2010, the California Attorney General’s Office reached a $25 million settlement against the retail giant for illegally disposing of hazardous waste. But according to the attorney general’s office, a 2015 inspection found that Walmart continued to dump waste illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walmart is a responsible corporate citizen in California and everywhere we operate. We take our obligation to protect the environment seriously and have industry-leading processes in place to comply with local, state and federal environmental laws,” Hargrove said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, California investigators said 58 inspections of trash compactors taken from Walmart stores found dozens of items classified as either hazardous waste, medical waste or customer records with personal information.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State prosecutors accuse Walmart of illegally dumping nearly 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste, or more than 1 million items, each year in California over the last six years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721131583,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":484},"headData":{"title":"Walmart Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Dumping Enormous Amounts of Toxic Waste in California | KQED","description":"State prosecutors accuse Walmart of illegally dumping nearly 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste, or more than 1 million items, each year in California over the last six years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Walmart Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Dumping Enormous Amounts of Toxic Waste in California","datePublished":"2021-12-22T06:00:01-08:00","dateModified":"2024-07-16T05:06:23-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1019412563/jonathan-franklin\">Jonathan Franklin\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11899974/walmart-faces-lawsuit-for-allegedly-dumping-enormous-amounts-of-toxic-waste-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California officials have filed a statewide lawsuit against Walmart Inc. alleging that the company illegally disposed of hazardous waste at landfills across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Walmart%20Complaint.pdf\">42-page document filed Monday by state prosecutors\u003c/a>, the lawsuit alleges the retail giant illegally dumped nearly 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste, or more than 1 million items, each year in California over the last six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 12 California district attorneys said Walmart violated California’s environmental laws and regulations by dumping hazardous waste products at landfills that aren’t equipped to handle the materials, including alkaline and lithium batteries, insect killer sprays, aerosol cans, toxic cleaning supplies and LED lightbulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Walmart’s own audits found that the company is dumping hazardous waste at local landfills at a rate of more than one million items each year.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rob Bonta, California Attorney General","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The lawsuit also claims Walmart dumped “confidential customer information” at these landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walmart’s own audits found that the company is dumping hazardous waste at local landfills at a rate of more than one million items each year. From there, these products may seep into the state’s drinking water as toxic pollutants or into the air as dangerous gases,” Bonta said \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-statewide-lawsuit-against-walmart-illegal\">in a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the lawsuit filed against the retail giant should serve as a warning to the state’s “worst offenders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to NPR, Walmart said the company will defend itself and said the lawsuit is “unjustified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have met with the state numerous times and walked them through our industry-leading hazardous waste compliance programs in an effort to avoid litigation. Instead, they filed this unjustified lawsuit,” Walmart spokesperson Randy Hargrove said. “The state is demanding a level of compliance regarding waste disposal from our stores of common household products and other items that goes beyond what is required by law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit filed against Walmart isn’t the company’s first with the state of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"environment"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2010, the California Attorney General’s Office reached a $25 million settlement against the retail giant for illegally disposing of hazardous waste. But according to the attorney general’s office, a 2015 inspection found that Walmart continued to dump waste illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walmart is a responsible corporate citizen in California and everywhere we operate. We take our obligation to protect the environment seriously and have industry-leading processes in place to comply with local, state and federal environmental laws,” Hargrove said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2015, California investigators said 58 inspections of trash compactors taken from Walmart stores found dozens of items classified as either hazardous waste, medical waste or customer records with personal information.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11899974/walmart-faces-lawsuit-for-allegedly-dumping-enormous-amounts-of-toxic-waste-in-california","authors":["byline_news_11899974"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_20023","news_18299","news_24849","news_2920","news_3674","news_1563"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11899993","label":"news_253"},"news_11897470":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11897470","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11897470","score":null,"sort":[1637977508000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ahead-of-californias-ban-on-gas-powered-tools-some-landscapers-call-the-states-subsidy-inadequate","title":"Ahead of California's Ban on Gas-Powered Tools, Some Landscapers Call the State's Subsidy Inadequate","publishDate":1637977508,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Ahead of California’s Ban on Gas-Powered Tools, Some Landscapers Call the State’s Subsidy Inadequate | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/un-cupon-del-50-de-descuento-para-una-herramienta-electrica-los-jardineros-dicen-que-el-subsidio-de-california-es-inadecuado/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977168/the-sounds-of-silence-california-bans-new-gas-powered-leaf-blowers\">banning the sale of most new gas-powered tools by 2024\u003c/a>, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50% coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chain saws, brush cutters and trimmers most haul around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977168\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/10/RS52049_GettyImages-1346603572-qut-1020x695.jpg\"]In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1977672\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/RS52246_029_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]At that time, 8 in 10 landscapers said they planned on buying gas-powered equipment with many prioritizing performance, run time and cost. But operating a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour, for example, emits the same amount of pollution as driving a Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the air board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawn equipment conversion will bring the rest of the state in line with cities such as Palo Alto, Los Altos and Menlo Park, which have already banned noisy leaf blowers. The law also directs the air resources board to come up with statewide regulations for other small motor equipment, such as golf carts, small generators and power washers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the landscaping industry, the main target of the ban, says the transition has already been costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Wood purchased four batteries for his electric leaf blower after a number of communities in the Bay Area banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Woods, who owns a small landscaping business, immediately noticed the batteries don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never spent $200 on something that lasted 45 minutes,” Wood said, “and it doesn’t last for six to eight houses a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the batteries drain, Wood’s two employees resort to raking, which takes three times as long to complete a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests back him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports rated gas and electric tools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/lawn-mowers-and-tractors/ego-electric-mower-vs-honda-gas-mower-face-off-a6853992124/\">lawn mowers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">leaf blowers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">string trimmers\u003c/a>, side by side. The nonprofit consumer organization found that battery-powered tools, with low maintenance and ease of use, were strong candidates for homeowners with less than an acre of land who could wait to recharge their batteries. But when it came to larger plots, more robust weeds to whack, or long hours of use, gas tools excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry, we want this [battery-powered] equipment to be able to handle what we throw at it,” said Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association. “But it’s not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a chainsaw in the outdoors and looks up at the canopy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mijango of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping uses a chain saw to cut trees for fire mitigation at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. The landscaping company owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The air resources board said the technology is close enough. While electric tools may not have the same power, they offer other benefits, such as longer life span, better torque for some tools and savings on gas and maintenance, said air pollution specialist Christopher Dilbeck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that, yes, there will be substantial costs associated with what we are proposing,” said Dilbeck. “That is part of why this funding is available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate']The board, which will allocate the state’s $30 million subsidy, has yet to release how it will hand out incentives other than saying it will target small operators, including those without a business license. In one scenario, California could offer 12,000 small landscapers a 50% discount on all their new tools, or every sole proprietor could receive a 50% discount on one tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not going to be able to get the jobs done as fast,” said Ken Tamplen, owner of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping in Contra Costa County. “You’re not going to be able to make as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California will ban most new gas-powered lawn equipment starting in 2024, but industry officials say the $30 million incentive program for small operators is not enough.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721149260,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1198},"headData":{"title":"Ahead of California's Ban on Gas-Powered Tools, Some Landscapers Call the State's Subsidy Inadequate | KQED","description":"California will ban most new gas-powered lawn equipment starting in 2024, but industry officials say the $30 million incentive program for small operators is not enough.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Ahead of California's Ban on Gas-Powered Tools, Some Landscapers Call the State's Subsidy Inadequate","datePublished":"2021-11-26T17:45:08-08:00","dateModified":"2024-07-16T10:01:00-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jesse-bedayn/\">Jesse Bedayn\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11897470/ahead-of-californias-ban-on-gas-powered-tools-some-landscapers-call-the-states-subsidy-inadequate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/un-cupon-del-50-de-descuento-para-una-herramienta-electrica-los-jardineros-dicen-que-el-subsidio-de-california-es-inadecuado/\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977168/the-sounds-of-silence-california-bans-new-gas-powered-leaf-blowers\">banning the sale of most new gas-powered tools by 2024\u003c/a>, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50% coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chain saws, brush cutters and trimmers most haul around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1977168","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/10/RS52049_GettyImages-1346603572-qut-1020x695.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017, saw few takers until it increased rebates to 75% per tool. The district paired that with an outreach program and encouraged landscapers to test electric equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board is still figuring out who will qualify for the rebate, and Assemblymember Marc Berman, one of the authors of the bill, said he’s open to adding more funding if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not make the perfect be the enemy of the good,” said the Menlo Park Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists hailed the first-in-the-nation law for advancing California’s clean energy goals, noting the state estimates that smog-forming pollution from small gas-powered engines will surpass emissions from passenger cars this year. But electrifying the landscaping industry creates financial and physical burdens for the estimated 60,000 one-person and often unlicensed landscaping operations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm\">an industry that sees an average income under $40,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897482 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg\" alt=\"A chain saw lies on the ground, next to a red gasoline tank.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chain saw and gas can on the ground during fire mitigation work at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s an argument for subsidizing the transition. An electric leaf blower and batteries cost nearly twice as much as a comparable gas version. California estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2021/sore21/isor.pdf#page=22\">a full transition of nearly 3 million tools used by landscaping professionals will cost $1.29 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan, a landscaper who asked to be identified by his first name only because he fears losing business, uses a mix of electric and gas equipment. The electric ones fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have 10 to 15 houses a day right now, but with electric [tools], I may do seven or five houses a day,” he said. That’s a loss of $1,000 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Bryan has told his kid he can’t afford books or a new laptop. The cost of a full conversion by purchasing all electric tools, he said, would require him to raise prices 30%. He fears his residential clients will purchase their own tools and do it themselves, pushing him out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bill was signed, Berman and Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego called it a win for both the environment and human health. Electric tools have already been widely adopted by California homeowners, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/3.24.21%20Workshop%20Staff%20Presentation.pdf\">but only a fraction of commercial landscaping companies have made the switch, according to a 2018 survey by the air resources board\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1977672","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/RS52246_029_SanFrancisco_YouthClimateStrike_10292021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At that time, 8 in 10 landscapers said they planned on buying gas-powered equipment with many prioritizing performance, run time and cost. But operating a gas-powered leaf blower for one hour, for example, emits the same amount of pollution as driving a Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver, according to the air board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawn equipment conversion will bring the rest of the state in line with cities such as Palo Alto, Los Altos and Menlo Park, which have already banned noisy leaf blowers. The law also directs the air resources board to come up with statewide regulations for other small motor equipment, such as golf carts, small generators and power washers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the landscaping industry, the main target of the ban, says the transition has already been costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Wood purchased four batteries for his electric leaf blower after a number of communities in the Bay Area banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Woods, who owns a small landscaping business, immediately noticed the batteries don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never spent $200 on something that lasted 45 minutes,” Wood said, “and it doesn’t last for six to eight houses a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the batteries drain, Wood’s two employees resort to raking, which takes three times as long to complete a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests back him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports rated gas and electric tools, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/lawn-mowers-and-tractors/ego-electric-mower-vs-honda-gas-mower-face-off-a6853992124/\">lawn mowers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">leaf blowers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/leaf-blowers/buying-guide/index.htm\">string trimmers\u003c/a>, side by side. The nonprofit consumer organization found that battery-powered tools, with low maintenance and ease of use, were strong candidates for homeowners with less than an acre of land who could wait to recharge their batteries. But when it came to larger plots, more robust weeds to whack, or long hours of use, gas tools excelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an industry, we want this [battery-powered] equipment to be able to handle what we throw at it,” said Sandra Giarde, executive director of the California Landscape Contractors Association. “But it’s not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up a chainsaw in the outdoors and looks up at the canopy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/111621-Gas-Lawn-Ban-CAD-CM-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mijango of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping uses a chain saw to cut trees for fire mitigation at a property along Via Floreado in Orinda on Nov. 16, 2021. The landscaping company owns around 50 gas-powered tools that could be affected by a state ban on new small gas motors. \u003ccite>(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The air resources board said the technology is close enough. While electric tools may not have the same power, they offer other benefits, such as longer life span, better torque for some tools and savings on gas and maintenance, said air pollution specialist Christopher Dilbeck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that, yes, there will be substantial costs associated with what we are proposing,” said Dilbeck. “That is part of why this funding is available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"climate"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The board, which will allocate the state’s $30 million subsidy, has yet to release how it will hand out incentives other than saying it will target small operators, including those without a business license. In one scenario, California could offer 12,000 small landscapers a 50% discount on all their new tools, or every sole proprietor could receive a 50% discount on one tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are not going to be able to get the jobs done as fast,” said Ken Tamplen, owner of Ken’s Rototilling and Landscaping in Contra Costa County. “You’re not going to be able to make as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11897470/ahead-of-californias-ban-on-gas-powered-tools-some-landscapers-call-the-states-subsidy-inadequate","authors":["byline_news_11897470"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2036","news_23716","news_19204","news_255","news_18299","news_21405","news_6402","news_2920"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11897480","label":"news_18481"},"news_11895438":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11895438","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11895438","score":null,"sort":[1636477234000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1636477234,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Richmond to Chevron: Listen to Our Residents' Safety Concerns","title":"Richmond to Chevron: Listen to Our Residents' Safety Concerns","headTitle":"KQED News","content":"\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zeUjeOeM24s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUjeOeM24s\">recording of a recent city council meeting\u003c/a> to Chevron executives documenting the concerns local residents have about a significant malfunction the oil giant's refinery recently experienced that has led the facility to send gases to its flares on and off for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to send the video to the company, which passed unanimously last Tuesday night, came after two Chevron officials gave a presentation to the city council about the accident that took place during last month's massive storm, which triggered the facility to belch out flames and smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the city council and local residents said at the meeting they were dissatisfied by the explanation and are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Chevron presentation was a lot of talk and nothing was learned,\" said Randy Joseph, who lives in Richmond. \"There were a bunch of non-answers. We've learned nothing about what happened during the flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">problems began Oct. 4\u003c/a>, when an \"atmospheric river\" brought strong rain and wind to the Bay Area. The refinery says it lost some power and steam production, leading to a small fire and several process units going offline. That triggered a safety technique, known as flaring, in which the facility sends gases to its flares to relieve pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Richmond resident Floy Andrews said she could smell what seemed like fuel from her porch. \"I was basically slammed with this petroleum odor. It was overwhelming,\" she told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11860400 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\" alt=\"View from a rocky shoreline across the bay to a refinery spewing a massive plume of smoke.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaring at Chevron's Richmond refinery as seen from Berkeley's César Chávez Park on Nov. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Queena Kim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several days after the refinery lost steam and power, the company sent a \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County health officials that revealed that, in the first two days of flaring, the facility released close to 17 tons of sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report to the county, during last Tuesday's presentation and in multiple statements, Chevron has emphasized that the air quality tests it took — and ones that local agencies conducted — did not detect any violations of health standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local air regulators are investigating whether Chevron's flaring led to a series of odors in the area, according to Ralph Borrmann, a representative of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the storm, the West Contra Costa Unified School District closed Richmond High along with Ford and Peres elementary schools because of a strong fuel-like odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Oct. 28, teachers and students at Richmond High smelled gas again and were briefly evacuated.[aside postID=news_11894150,news_11893678,news_11894079 label='Related Posts']It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tom Butt, mayor of Richmond\"]'I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this.'[/pullquote]Councilmember Nate Bates proposed that the city send a recording of the meeting to Chevron executives so they could see and hear the concerns from members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to understand how serious this community is about flaring,\" Bates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city then sent a link of a one-hour portion of the meeting to Chevron. A top company executive said he watched the video and would share it with others at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After decades working in refining, I understand that flaring can be a concern to some that aren't familiar with its essential function in protecting people and the environment,\" Chris Cavote, a Chevron executive, wrote to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote said a key refinery official, a facility manager, couldn't make it to the meeting because the closed session of the hearing ran longer than expected and the manager had to leave for a personal matter. He said that the company plans to respond to some of the questions the council posed that the two other refinery officials couldn't answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we would rather not flare, it is sometimes necessary to relieve pressure or combust gases we can't recover so that they aren't vented into the atmosphere,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote then warned that as the refinery ramped up to full operations over several days, there could be more intermittent flaring on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has had more flaring operations than any other refinery in the county the last five years, according to data from the health department. The recent round, though, has increased worries from Contra Costa's top refinery regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Contra Costa Health Services is extremely concerned with the increased number of flaring incidents at [the] Chevron Richmond refinery,\" Matthew Kaufmann, director of the county's hazardous materials program, wrote in an email last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agency has asked Chevron to provide more details about its recent problems, with \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\">a response due later this month and set to be posted here\u003c/a>. The air district also requires the company to submit a causal report 60 days after the initial incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/research-and-data/flare-data/flare-causal-reports\">which is expected to be posted here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"11895438 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11895438","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/09/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1449,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":42},"modified":1636497336,"excerpt":"Richmond city leaders sent a recording of a recent city council meeting to Chevron executives documenting residents' concerns about a major refinery malfunction last month that resulted in days of gas flaring.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Richmond city leaders sent a recording of a recent city council meeting to Chevron executives documenting residents' concerns about a major refinery malfunction last month that resulted in days of gas flaring.","title":"Richmond to Chevron: Listen to Our Residents' Safety Concerns | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Richmond to Chevron: Listen to Our Residents' Safety Concerns","datePublished":"2021-11-09T09:00:34-08:00","dateModified":"2021-11-09T14:35:36-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems","status":"publish","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zeUjeOeM24s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zeUjeOeM24s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Richmond city leaders sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUjeOeM24s\">recording of a recent city council meeting\u003c/a> to Chevron executives documenting the concerns local residents have about a significant malfunction the oil giant's refinery recently experienced that has led the facility to send gases to its flares on and off for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to send the video to the company, which passed unanimously last Tuesday night, came after two Chevron officials gave a presentation to the city council about the accident that took place during last month's massive storm, which triggered the facility to belch out flames and smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the city council and local residents said at the meeting they were dissatisfied by the explanation and are looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That Chevron presentation was a lot of talk and nothing was learned,\" said Randy Joseph, who lives in Richmond. \"There were a bunch of non-answers. We've learned nothing about what happened during the flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">problems began Oct. 4\u003c/a>, when an \"atmospheric river\" brought strong rain and wind to the Bay Area. The refinery says it lost some power and steam production, leading to a small fire and several process units going offline. That triggered a safety technique, known as flaring, in which the facility sends gases to its flares to relieve pressure and stabilize operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That day, Richmond resident Floy Andrews said she could smell what seemed like fuel from her porch. \"I was basically slammed with this petroleum odor. It was overwhelming,\" she told the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11860400 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg\" alt=\"View from a rocky shoreline across the bay to a refinery spewing a massive plume of smoke.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/chevron-flaring-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flaring at Chevron's Richmond refinery as seen from Berkeley's César Chávez Park on Nov. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Queena Kim/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several days after the refinery lost steam and power, the company sent a \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County health officials that revealed that, in the first two days of flaring, the facility released close to 17 tons of sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report to the county, during last Tuesday's presentation and in multiple statements, Chevron has emphasized that the air quality tests it took — and ones that local agencies conducted — did not detect any violations of health standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, local air regulators are investigating whether Chevron's flaring led to a series of odors in the area, according to Ralph Borrmann, a representative of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the storm, the West Contra Costa Unified School District closed Richmond High along with Ford and Peres elementary schools because of a strong fuel-like odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, on Oct. 28, teachers and students at Richmond High smelled gas again and were briefly evacuated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11894150,news_11893678,news_11894079","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It's unclear what caused the odors at the school campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as last Friday afternoon, county supervisor John Gioia, who sits on the board that oversees the air district, said he felt sick from an odor at Richmond's Martin Luther King Jr. track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a strong objectionable gasoline odor here,\" Gioia tweeted. \"I can hardly stand it. It makes me feel nauseous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Chevron representative Linsi Crain emphasized that the company does not believe the odor Gioia experienced was tied to the refinery's flaring and that company crews conducted air samplings and found no health violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe this report is linked to our facility,\" Crain wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During last Tuesday's council meeting, Chevron's refinery process safety manager Patricia Roberts tried to soothe concerns from local residents and city officials about the problems the refinery has been experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, we only want to come to the city council with good news,\" Roberts said at the beginning of her presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry to have to come to talk to you guys about an incident. I understand there's a lot of community concern about flaring and the noise and the visual impacts that it makes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts emphasized that flaring is a safety technique that helps the refinery reduce dangers to the surrounding area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We never want to flare. We do everything that we can to avoid it. And, when we do have to flare, we try to stop it as fast as possible,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Chevron official, refinery reliability manager Laura Leeds, told the council all of the company's air quality tests showed that none of the releases violated health regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't feel that anybody should be concerned about their health because there was nothing detectable,\" Leeds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's presentation before the council did not reveal anything the Chevron's 72-hour report hadn't said a week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt said the refinery should have provided more details, an apology and a plan to fix the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm disappointed in the presentation,\" Butt said. \"I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this. I think you should show a little contriteness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts and Leeds explained that another refinery official, who could have addressed some of the council's questions, couldn't make the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the council, including Melvin Willis, said the intermittent releases had their constituents worried about their health and yearning for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing the rain and then seeing flames in the air one day and then to wake up the next day with more flames and wake up in the middle of the night to text messages at 3 a.m., talking about more flaring and people reporting odors, it's kind of hard not to be concerned,\" Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and county officials — and some members of the public — say Chevron just needs to provide more detailed information about what's going on when the refinery is having problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The communication with the community is vital,\" said Richmond resident Don Gosney. \"Chevron needs to do a better job. Everybody needs to do a better job on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron does post some information about refinery accidents on its Facebook page and often refers people to its fence-line air monitoring \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page\u003c/a>. County and city officials often issue alerts through Nixle and Twitter. Many of those posts, though, do not include details about the cause of a refinery problem or how long it may lead to gas releases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I expect something better from Chevron when they're invited to come to talk to the public like this.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tom Butt, mayor of Richmond","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Councilmember Nate Bates proposed that the city send a recording of the meeting to Chevron executives so they could see and hear the concerns from members of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They need to understand how serious this community is about flaring,\" Bates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city then sent a link of a one-hour portion of the meeting to Chevron. A top company executive said he watched the video and would share it with others at the firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After decades working in refining, I understand that flaring can be a concern to some that aren't familiar with its essential function in protecting people and the environment,\" Chris Cavote, a Chevron executive, wrote to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote said a key refinery official, a facility manager, couldn't make it to the meeting because the closed session of the hearing ran longer than expected and the manager had to leave for a personal matter. He said that the company plans to respond to some of the questions the council posed that the two other refinery officials couldn't answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While we would rather not flare, it is sometimes necessary to relieve pressure or combust gases we can't recover so that they aren't vented into the atmosphere,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cavote then warned that as the refinery ramped up to full operations over several days, there could be more intermittent flaring on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has had more flaring operations than any other refinery in the county the last five years, according to data from the health department. The recent round, though, has increased worries from Contra Costa's top refinery regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Contra Costa Health Services is extremely concerned with the increased number of flaring incidents at [the] Chevron Richmond refinery,\" Matthew Kaufmann, director of the county's hazardous materials program, wrote in an email last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agency has asked Chevron to provide more details about its recent problems, with \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\">a response due later this month and set to be posted here\u003c/a>. The air district also requires the company to submit a causal report 60 days after the initial incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/research-and-data/flare-data/flare-causal-reports\">which is expected to be posted here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_19906","news_28250","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_4223","news_18299","news_19960","news_579"],"featImg":"news_11860400","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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