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In late November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Oakland’s leaders voted unanimously on their own resolution\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971971/san-francisco-is-considering-a-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-what-is-a-resolution\">followed by supervisors in San Francisco\u003c/a>. While much of the debate around these measures has centered on the horrors of the war and the loss of life, Bay Area’s climate and environmental leaders — both in the streets and in elected positions — have been at the center of the push for these solidarity resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Bay Area environmental organizations — the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Communities for Better Environment (CBE) in Richmond — were integral in organizing the effort in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that on top of the loss of life, war has tremendous impacts on our climate and environment. “Global militaries are the world’s largest industrial polluters,” said Keala Uchoa, Richmond youth organizer at CBE in Richmond, pointing to a recent study that shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change\">militaries account for almost 5.5% of global greenhouse emissions annually\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991349 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three activists wearing white masks hold up a black banner that reads "No more California money for Israel's crimes." \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keala Uchoa and others stand behind a banner that reads ‘Ceasefire Now.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of APEN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People in Gaza are already vulnerable to the effects of climate change, she argued, \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021RG000762\">and live in a region that is warming twice as fast as the global average\u003c/a>. On top of that, bombs are destroying farmland and carbon sinks like forests that purify the air. “All of those things compound to create a very deadly climate [and] environmental situation,” Uchoa added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Hayward Councilmember George Syrop\"]“Why do we spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to fight climate change, just to have Israel’s bombs that we pay for emit more CO2 than 20 countries combined, accelerating an unlivable future for all of us.”[/pullquote]On Jan. 23, the Hayward City Council voted to divest its shares of companies with ties to Israel, including Caterpillar, Chevron, Hyundai and Intel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/hayward-divest-shares-four-companies-business-18628705.php\">Hayward is the first city in the Bay Area to take such a measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember George Syrop lobbied for it and made an environmental case. “Why do we spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to fight climate change, just to have Israel’s bombs that we pay for emit more CO2 than 20 countries combined, accelerating an unlivable future for all of us,” he said, \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4684768\">referring to a recent estimate led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists calculated the carbon emissions from aircraft, tanks and fuel from other vehicles and emissions generated from the manufacturing and detonation of bombs, artillery and rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Hayward being a climate forward city, I don’t know why we’re investing in Chevron in the first place,” Syrop said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From Richmond to Gaza: fighting for environmental justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond resident Katherine Lee comes from a family of refugees who fled the Laotian War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family’s history is one reason she joined in organizing for the call for a cease-fire back in October. Those experiences are “very real for what’s happening in Palestine,” too, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is a senior Richmond youth organizer at APEN. Her family’s history is only part of it. Lee grew up around the Chevron refinery in Richmond, one of the largest polluters in the state, breathing the fumes it releases into the air. “It’s just a constant thing in our environment that we have to really fight [for],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron is also \u003ca href=\"https://israel.chevron.com/en/our-businesses\">one of the largest energy companies to work in Israel\u003c/a>, bringing the government \u003ca href=\"https://israel.chevron.com/en/our-businesses/natural-gas\">billions of dollars in revenue annually\u003c/a>. APEN has called for a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-calls-for-consumer-boycott-chevron-branded-gas-stations\">boycott of Chevron\u003c/a> locally, saying it is a fight for the environmental rights of both Richmond residents and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility released nearly 3 million metric tons of planet-warming gas emissions in 2022, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/greenhouse-gas-emissions-18531155.php\">analysis from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollutants released by refineries can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524223/\">respiratory problems and chronic health issues.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://clear.ucsf.edu/reach\">A UCSF-led community health assessment of Richmond found\u003c/a> that the childhood asthma rate in Richmond is \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/5207\">double the national average\u003c/a>. People with existing heart or lung disease, diabetes, older adults, children, and people of lower socio-economic status have a greater risk of particle pollution health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991347\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a microphone and wears a yellow sweatshirt. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Lee, APEN youth organizer, speaks at an action. \u003ccite>(Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our local fights for environmental justice and destabilizing Chevron and ultimately decommissioning the refinery are connected to international solidarity work with Indigenous people, including the Indigenous people of Palestine,” Uchoa said. “There’s a sacred relationship between Indigenous people and the land that they belong to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are we losing thousands and thousands of human beings, but we’re also losing so many knowledge bearers of the land and of culture. And the land is feeling that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 3, hundreds of protesters marched in front of the Chevron facility in Richmond to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and for the company to divest from Israel. They’re asking for the public to boycott Chevron fuel until they do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to the protest, Chevron said it respects the rights of individuals to express their viewpoints peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aisha Mansour is Palestinian from a small village called Al-Walaja in the West Bank. She currently lives in Oakland, but some of her family still reside in Palestine. Mansour was one of the “Bay Bridge 78” protesters who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/dozens-of-protesters-stop-traffic-on-bay-bridge/3373428/\">shut down the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge on Nov. 16, demanding a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Aisha Mansour, communications director, Honor the Earth\"]“They got it. They got that it was bigger than them. And that was amazing.”[/pullquote]“That was an amazingly powerful day. Not just because of what we’re able to accomplish, but also just the massive amount of support from people that we were able to feel,” said Mansour, communications director at Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental organization known for their advocacy against fossil fuel pipelines. “I didn’t expect it. I thought people would be frustrated, maybe rightfully so. But they got it. They got that it was bigger than them. And that was amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mansour is motivated, in part, by the impact the war has had on her community. In December, she attended a funeral for seven people killed by a bomb in Gaza, family members of one of her Palestinian community members in the Bay Area. “Our families are being killed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991343\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1991343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aisha Mansour speaks at a Bay Bridge 78 press conference in San Francisco in December. \u003ccite>(Savannah Kuang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Legacies of past war and conflicts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The environmental impacts of war often lead to the displacement of people, whether it’s in Gaza, where Palestinians are relocating to the south of the territory, or Vietnam, Iraq and Ukraine. “You have the immediate contamination of the sites where fighting occurs,” said Logan Hennessy, a professor in the School of Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University. “But then you also have the exodus of people. And the exodus also creates other environmental issues and problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ukraine, Russian attacks on industrial sites, including factories, fuel depots, and nuclear power facilities with potential radioactive waste storage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/toxic-legacy-ukraine-war\">could result in water contamination that might linger for decades or even centuries\u003c/a>, said Hennessy, who teaches classes on international development and resource justice, as well as forest ecology and conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Keala Uchoa, Richmond youth organizer, CBE in Richmond\"]“Our local fights for environmental justice and destabilizing Chevron and ultimately decommissioning the refinery are connected to international solidarity work with Indigenous people, including the Indigenous people of Palestine.”[/pullquote]The U.S. used chemicals such as Agent Orange in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War to defoliate millions of acres of forests and farmland. This was not only harmful to the environment, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594243/\">also could have caused cancer, birth disorders, and life-threatening health complications\u003c/a> for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Israel’s use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/\">white phosphorus in the recent bombardment in Gaza\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/white-phosphorus\">not only burns the flesh of humans it touches\u003c/a>, but these chemicals will contaminate the soil for decades and are also an air pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Gaza, these displacements can strain vital resources like food, water and medicine as millions of Palestinians relocate. “You have a second wave of environmental impacts that then have cascading effects,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense that organizing efforts for moving towards better, cleaner, and more just environments here in the Bay Area have solidarity with other communities facing similar problems anywhere, Hennessy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to achieve any kind of progress, environmentally speaking, in terms of climate change by just focusing on only local issues,” he added. “The movement here for environmental justice is deeply connected to any kind of continued environmental impact we see anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991352\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991352 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a white mask on stands in front of a black banner and infront of a sign that says cease fire now. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayesha Abbasi, APEN state organizer holding up a banner that reads ‘Ceasefire Now.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of APEN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>History of Bay Area environmental movements against war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Environmental organizations, such as APEN, have been involved in anti-war efforts long before the war in Gaza. The group made activism against what they described as former President George Bush’s “war agenda” in Iraq and Afghanistan central to their environmental campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://archive.apen4ej.org/download/2002%20APEN%20annual%20report.pdf\">annual report from the organization about the Iraq war in 2003 (PDF)\u003c/a> stated that APEN’s “longer-term agenda for environmental justice that ensures basic needs such as housing are met, that rights of workers, women, girls, are valued and addressed, decision-making rests in the many, rather than an elite few. Our work is both global and local.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Logan Hennessy, professor, School of Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University\"]“The movement here for environmental justice is deeply connected to any kind of continued environmental impact we see anywhere.”[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/sayno/endorsers.html\">A few other Bay Area environmental organizations opposed the Iraq War\u003c/a>, including San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/\">People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economical Rights (PODER)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://treesfoundation.org/partner-groups/bay-area-coalition-for-headwaters/\">Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://dhventures.com/West_about_us.htm\">West County Toxics Coalition\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County, and more. In 2008, \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/25/18502090.php\">these organizations participated in anti-war protests at Chevron in San Ramon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/sayno/sierraclubpresident.html\">Sierra Club opposed an invasion of Iraq in 2003\u003c/a>. While Bay Area environmental organizations like APEN and CBE are calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, noting the destruction the war is causing to humans and the environment, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/california\">Sierra Club in California\u003c/a> has not taken any stance on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been incredibly disappointing to see the continued silence of some of the bigger green organizations like Sierra Club and others that have a really strong influence in Washington,” said Ayesha Abbasi, state organizer at APEN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club in California did not respond to an email asking for a statement about the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Abbasi, ensuring that everyone can live in a healthy environment where they can thrive should be the vision for the future, “whether it’s in Palestine or Richmond,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bay Area’s climate and environmental leaders — both in the streets and in elected positions — have been at the center of the push for cease-fire resolutions. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707505870,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1999},"headData":{"title":"From Richmond to Gaza: Bay Area Environmentalists Speak Out Against the War | KQED","description":"Bay Area’s climate and environmental leaders — both in the streets and in elected positions — have been at the center of the push for cease-fire resolutions. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1991340/from-richmond-to-gaza-bay-area-environmentalists-speak-out-against-the-war","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It has been more than 120 days now since the start of Israel’s bombing of Gaza, following an attack by Hamas that began on Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death toll in Gaza is now more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-02-05-2024-dd005061f9925525c56ea460ab5c9e77#:~:text=The%20offensive%20in%20Gaza%20that,ruled%20territory's%20Health%20Ministry%20reported.\">27,400 people\u003c/a> — NPR reports that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/14/1224674017/100-days-of-war-23-000-killed-in-gaza-with-over-60-of-homes-destroyed\">most of the dead are women and children, citing Gaza health officials\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-1-26-2024-49a168140cbca3778095e8fb437aba37\">Approximately 1,200 people in Israel have been killed since the beginning of this tragedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 25, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-25/california-city-first-in-nation-to-support-palestinians-in-gaza-with-resolution-accusing-israel-of-ethnic-cleansing\">Richmond city council was the first city in the U.S. to call for a Gaza cease-fire resolution\u003c/a>. In late November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968400/oakland-city-council-set-to-vote-on-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Oakland’s leaders voted unanimously on their own resolution\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971971/san-francisco-is-considering-a-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-what-is-a-resolution\">followed by supervisors in San Francisco\u003c/a>. While much of the debate around these measures has centered on the horrors of the war and the loss of life, Bay Area’s climate and environmental leaders — both in the streets and in elected positions — have been at the center of the push for these solidarity resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Bay Area environmental organizations — the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Communities for Better Environment (CBE) in Richmond — were integral in organizing the effort in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued that on top of the loss of life, war has tremendous impacts on our climate and environment. “Global militaries are the world’s largest industrial polluters,” said Keala Uchoa, Richmond youth organizer at CBE in Richmond, pointing to a recent study that shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change\">militaries account for almost 5.5% of global greenhouse emissions annually\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991349 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three activists wearing white masks hold up a black banner that reads "No more California money for Israel's crimes." \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Keala-Uchoa-and-others-stand-behind-ceasefire-now-banner-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keala Uchoa and others stand behind a banner that reads ‘Ceasefire Now.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of APEN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People in Gaza are already vulnerable to the effects of climate change, she argued, \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021RG000762\">and live in a region that is warming twice as fast as the global average\u003c/a>. On top of that, bombs are destroying farmland and carbon sinks like forests that purify the air. “All of those things compound to create a very deadly climate [and] environmental situation,” Uchoa added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“Why do we spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to fight climate change, just to have Israel’s bombs that we pay for emit more CO2 than 20 countries combined, accelerating an unlivable future for all of us.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Hayward Councilmember George Syrop","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Jan. 23, the Hayward City Council voted to divest its shares of companies with ties to Israel, including Caterpillar, Chevron, Hyundai and Intel. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/hayward-divest-shares-four-companies-business-18628705.php\">Hayward is the first city in the Bay Area to take such a measure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember George Syrop lobbied for it and made an environmental case. “Why do we spend years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to fight climate change, just to have Israel’s bombs that we pay for emit more CO2 than 20 countries combined, accelerating an unlivable future for all of us,” he said, \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4684768\">referring to a recent estimate led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists calculated the carbon emissions from aircraft, tanks and fuel from other vehicles and emissions generated from the manufacturing and detonation of bombs, artillery and rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Hayward being a climate forward city, I don’t know why we’re investing in Chevron in the first place,” Syrop said.\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\u003ch2>From Richmond to Gaza: fighting for environmental justice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond resident Katherine Lee comes from a family of refugees who fled the Laotian War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family’s history is one reason she joined in organizing for the call for a cease-fire back in October. Those experiences are “very real for what’s happening in Palestine,” too, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is a senior Richmond youth organizer at APEN. Her family’s history is only part of it. Lee grew up around the Chevron refinery in Richmond, one of the largest polluters in the state, breathing the fumes it releases into the air. “It’s just a constant thing in our environment that we have to really fight [for],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron is also \u003ca href=\"https://israel.chevron.com/en/our-businesses\">one of the largest energy companies to work in Israel\u003c/a>, bringing the government \u003ca href=\"https://israel.chevron.com/en/our-businesses/natural-gas\">billions of dollars in revenue annually\u003c/a>. APEN has called for a \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/news/bds-movement-calls-for-consumer-boycott-chevron-branded-gas-stations\">boycott of Chevron\u003c/a> locally, saying it is a fight for the environmental rights of both Richmond residents and Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility released nearly 3 million metric tons of planet-warming gas emissions in 2022, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/greenhouse-gas-emissions-18531155.php\">analysis from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollutants released by refineries can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524223/\">respiratory problems and chronic health issues.\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://clear.ucsf.edu/reach\">A UCSF-led community health assessment of Richmond found\u003c/a> that the childhood asthma rate in Richmond is \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/5207\">double the national average\u003c/a>. People with existing heart or lung disease, diabetes, older adults, children, and people of lower socio-economic status have a greater risk of particle pollution health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991347\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991347 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a microphone and wears a yellow sweatshirt. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Katherine-Lee-APEN-youth-organizer-speaks-at-Padilla-action-credit-Jen-Rocha--1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Lee, APEN youth organizer, speaks at an action. \u003ccite>(Jen Rocha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our local fights for environmental justice and destabilizing Chevron and ultimately decommissioning the refinery are connected to international solidarity work with Indigenous people, including the Indigenous people of Palestine,” Uchoa said. “There’s a sacred relationship between Indigenous people and the land that they belong to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are we losing thousands and thousands of human beings, but we’re also losing so many knowledge bearers of the land and of culture. And the land is feeling that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 3, hundreds of protesters marched in front of the Chevron facility in Richmond to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and for the company to divest from Israel. They’re asking for the public to boycott Chevron fuel until they do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement responding to the protest, Chevron said it respects the rights of individuals to express their viewpoints peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aisha Mansour is Palestinian from a small village called Al-Walaja in the West Bank. She currently lives in Oakland, but some of her family still reside in Palestine. Mansour was one of the “Bay Bridge 78” protesters who \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/dozens-of-protesters-stop-traffic-on-bay-bridge/3373428/\">shut down the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge on Nov. 16, demanding a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“They got it. They got that it was bigger than them. And that was amazing.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Aisha Mansour, communications director, Honor the Earth","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That was an amazingly powerful day. Not just because of what we’re able to accomplish, but also just the massive amount of support from people that we were able to feel,” said Mansour, communications director at Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental organization known for their advocacy against fossil fuel pipelines. “I didn’t expect it. I thought people would be frustrated, maybe rightfully so. But they got it. They got that it was bigger than them. And that was amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mansour is motivated, in part, by the impact the war has had on her community. In December, she attended a funeral for seven people killed by a bomb in Gaza, family members of one of her Palestinian community members in the Bay Area. “Our families are being killed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991343\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1991343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Aisha-Mansour-2-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aisha Mansour speaks at a Bay Bridge 78 press conference in San Francisco in December. \u003ccite>(Savannah Kuang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Legacies of past war and conflicts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The environmental impacts of war often lead to the displacement of people, whether it’s in Gaza, where Palestinians are relocating to the south of the territory, or Vietnam, Iraq and Ukraine. “You have the immediate contamination of the sites where fighting occurs,” said Logan Hennessy, a professor in the School of Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University. “But then you also have the exodus of people. And the exodus also creates other environmental issues and problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ukraine, Russian attacks on industrial sites, including factories, fuel depots, and nuclear power facilities with potential radioactive waste storage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/toxic-legacy-ukraine-war\">could result in water contamination that might linger for decades or even centuries\u003c/a>, said Hennessy, who teaches classes on international development and resource justice, as well as forest ecology and conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“Our local fights for environmental justice and destabilizing Chevron and ultimately decommissioning the refinery are connected to international solidarity work with Indigenous people, including the Indigenous people of Palestine.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Keala Uchoa, Richmond youth organizer, CBE in Richmond","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The U.S. used chemicals such as Agent Orange in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War to defoliate millions of acres of forests and farmland. This was not only harmful to the environment, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK594243/\">also could have caused cancer, birth disorders, and life-threatening health complications\u003c/a> for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, Israel’s use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/\">white phosphorus in the recent bombardment in Gaza\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/white-phosphorus\">not only burns the flesh of humans it touches\u003c/a>, but these chemicals will contaminate the soil for decades and are also an air pollutant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Gaza, these displacements can strain vital resources like food, water and medicine as millions of Palestinians relocate. “You have a second wave of environmental impacts that then have cascading effects,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense that organizing efforts for moving towards better, cleaner, and more just environments here in the Bay Area have solidarity with other communities facing similar problems anywhere, Hennessy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to achieve any kind of progress, environmentally speaking, in terms of climate change by just focusing on only local issues,” he added. “The movement here for environmental justice is deeply connected to any kind of continued environmental impact we see anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1991352\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1991352 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with a white mask on stands in front of a black banner and infront of a sign that says cease fire now. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/02/Ayesha-Abbasi-state-organizer-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayesha Abbasi, APEN state organizer holding up a banner that reads ‘Ceasefire Now.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of APEN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>History of Bay Area environmental movements against war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Environmental organizations, such as APEN, have been involved in anti-war efforts long before the war in Gaza. The group made activism against what they described as former President George Bush’s “war agenda” in Iraq and Afghanistan central to their environmental campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://archive.apen4ej.org/download/2002%20APEN%20annual%20report.pdf\">annual report from the organization about the Iraq war in 2003 (PDF)\u003c/a> stated that APEN’s “longer-term agenda for environmental justice that ensures basic needs such as housing are met, that rights of workers, women, girls, are valued and addressed, decision-making rests in the many, rather than an elite few. Our work is both global and local.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“The movement here for environmental justice is deeply connected to any kind of continued environmental impact we see anywhere.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Logan Hennessy, professor, School of Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/sayno/endorsers.html\">A few other Bay Area environmental organizations opposed the Iraq War\u003c/a>, including San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/\">People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economical Rights (PODER)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://treesfoundation.org/partner-groups/bay-area-coalition-for-headwaters/\">Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://dhventures.com/West_about_us.htm\">West County Toxics Coalition\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County, and more. In 2008, \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/25/18502090.php\">these organizations participated in anti-war protests at Chevron in San Ramon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/sayno/sierraclubpresident.html\">Sierra Club opposed an invasion of Iraq in 2003\u003c/a>. While Bay Area environmental organizations like APEN and CBE are calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, noting the destruction the war is causing to humans and the environment, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/california\">Sierra Club in California\u003c/a> has not taken any stance on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been incredibly disappointing to see the continued silence of some of the bigger green organizations like Sierra Club and others that have a really strong influence in Washington,” said Ayesha Abbasi, state organizer at APEN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club in California did not respond to an email asking for a statement about the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Abbasi, ensuring that everyone can live in a healthy environment where they can thrive should be the vision for the future, “whether it’s in Palestine or Richmond,” she said.\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":"/science/1991340/from-richmond-to-gaza-bay-area-environmentalists-speak-out-against-the-war","authors":["11631"],"categories":["science_31","science_35","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_505","science_5193","science_1754","science_4417","science_4414","science_5236","science_553","science_1455"],"featImg":"science_1991372","label":"science"},"science_1985830":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1985830","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1985830","score":null,"sort":[1702567849000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"18-california-children-are-suing-the-epa-over-climate-change","title":"18 California Children Are Suing the EPA Over Climate Change","publishDate":1702567849,"format":"standard","headTitle":"18 California Children Are Suing the EPA Over Climate Change | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Eighteen California children are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it violated their constitutional rights by failing to protect them from the effects of climate change. The suit is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the federal lawsuit — \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/655a2d016eb74e41dc292ed5/t/6576829a565cc6227e10b682/1702265500795/Doc+1+Complaint+2023.12.10.pdf\">Genesis B. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> — the lead plaintiff, “Genesis B.” is a 17-year-old Long Beach, California resident whose parents can’t afford air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the number of extreme heat days increases, the lawsuit said Genesis isn’t able to stay cool in her home during the day. “On many days, Genesis must wait until the evening to do schoolwork when temperatures cool down enough for her to be able to focus,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other plaintiffs range in age from eight to 17 and are identified by their first names and last initials because they are minors. For each plaintiff, the lawsuit mentions ways that climate change is affecting their lives now, such as wildfires and flooding that have damaged landscapes near them and forced them to evacuate their homes or cancel activities.[aside label=\"more on climate change\" tag=\"climate-change\"]“Time is slipping away, and the impact of the climate crisis is already hitting us directly. We are running from wildfires, being displaced by floods, panicking in hot classrooms during another heat wave,” 15-year-old plaintiff Noah said in a \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/655a2d016eb74e41dc292ed5/t/657700495cff6c371800d3a1/1702297673995/2023.12.11+EPA+Case+Filed+press+release.pdf\">statement\u003c/a> provided by the nonprofit, public interest law firm Our Children’s Trust, which filed the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit comes on the heels of a legal victory in another suit that Our Children’s Trust filed on behalf of children. This summer, a state judge in Montana handed Our Children’s Trust a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1194710955/montana-youth-climate-ruling-could-set-precedent-for-future-climate-litigation\">historic win\u003c/a>. The judge found the state violated 16 young plaintiffs’ “right to a clean and healthful environment.” That case is being appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California federal case claims the EPA violated the children’s constitutional rights by allowing carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels to warm the climate. It notes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/epa_to_label_greenhouse_gases.html\">agency’s 2009 finding\u003c/a> that carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is a public health threat, and children are the most vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is one federal agency explicitly tasked with keeping the air clean and controlling pollution to protect the health of every child and the welfare of a nation—the EPA,” said Julia Olson, chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust, in the statement. “The agency has done the opposite when it comes to climate pollution, and it’s time the EPA is held accountable by our courts for violating the U.S. Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An EPA spokesperson said because of the pending litigation, the agency could not comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit does not specifically seek financial compensation, other than plaintiff costs and attorneys’ fees. Instead, it asks for various declarations about the environmental rights of children and the EPA’s responsibility to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Children’s Trust filed a different federal lawsuit in 2015 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797416530/kids-climate-case-reluctantly-dismissed-by-appeals-court\">Juliana v. United States\u003c/a> — against the entire government. It was dismissed in 2020 but \u003ca href=\"https://e360.yale.edu/digest/juliana-youth-climate-lawsuit-trial\">revived by an Oregon judge\u003c/a> this summer. The group \u003ca href=\"https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/pending-state-actions\">also has legal actions pending\u003c/a> in Florida, Hawaii, Utah and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=18+California+children+are+suing+the+EPA+over+climate+change&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The suit, which claims that the effects of climate change — including excessive heat, wildfires, and flooding — are adversely impacting children's lives today, is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of minors.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845798,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":578},"headData":{"title":"18 California Children Are Suing the EPA Over Climate Change | KQED","description":"The suit, which claims that the effects of climate change — including excessive heat, wildfires, and flooding — are adversely impacting children's lives today, is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of minors.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"William Campbell","nprByline":"Jeff Brady","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1218499186","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1218499186&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/11/1218499186/18-california-children-are-suing-the-epa-over-climate-change?ft=nprml&f=1218499186","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:43:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:43:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 11 Dec 2023 14:43:00 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1985830/18-california-children-are-suing-the-epa-over-climate-change","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eighteen California children are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it violated their constitutional rights by failing to protect them from the effects of climate change. The suit is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the federal lawsuit — \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/655a2d016eb74e41dc292ed5/t/6576829a565cc6227e10b682/1702265500795/Doc+1+Complaint+2023.12.10.pdf\">Genesis B. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> — the lead plaintiff, “Genesis B.” is a 17-year-old Long Beach, California resident whose parents can’t afford air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the number of extreme heat days increases, the lawsuit said Genesis isn’t able to stay cool in her home during the day. “On many days, Genesis must wait until the evening to do schoolwork when temperatures cool down enough for her to be able to focus,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other plaintiffs range in age from eight to 17 and are identified by their first names and last initials because they are minors. For each plaintiff, the lawsuit mentions ways that climate change is affecting their lives now, such as wildfires and flooding that have damaged landscapes near them and forced them to evacuate their homes or cancel activities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on climate change ","tag":"climate-change"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Time is slipping away, and the impact of the climate crisis is already hitting us directly. We are running from wildfires, being displaced by floods, panicking in hot classrooms during another heat wave,” 15-year-old plaintiff Noah said in a \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/655a2d016eb74e41dc292ed5/t/657700495cff6c371800d3a1/1702297673995/2023.12.11+EPA+Case+Filed+press+release.pdf\">statement\u003c/a> provided by the nonprofit, public interest law firm Our Children’s Trust, which filed the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit comes on the heels of a legal victory in another suit that Our Children’s Trust filed on behalf of children. This summer, a state judge in Montana handed Our Children’s Trust a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1194710955/montana-youth-climate-ruling-could-set-precedent-for-future-climate-litigation\">historic win\u003c/a>. The judge found the state violated 16 young plaintiffs’ “right to a clean and healthful environment.” That case is being appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California federal case claims the EPA violated the children’s constitutional rights by allowing carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels to warm the climate. It notes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/epa_to_label_greenhouse_gases.html\">agency’s 2009 finding\u003c/a> that carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is a public health threat, and children are the most vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is one federal agency explicitly tasked with keeping the air clean and controlling pollution to protect the health of every child and the welfare of a nation—the EPA,” said Julia Olson, chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust, in the statement. “The agency has done the opposite when it comes to climate pollution, and it’s time the EPA is held accountable by our courts for violating the U.S. Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An EPA spokesperson said because of the pending litigation, the agency could not comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit does not specifically seek financial compensation, other than plaintiff costs and attorneys’ fees. Instead, it asks for various declarations about the environmental rights of children and the EPA’s responsibility to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Children’s Trust filed a different federal lawsuit in 2015 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797416530/kids-climate-case-reluctantly-dismissed-by-appeals-court\">Juliana v. United States\u003c/a> — against the entire government. It was dismissed in 2020 but \u003ca href=\"https://e360.yale.edu/digest/juliana-youth-climate-lawsuit-trial\">revived by an Oregon judge\u003c/a> this summer. The group \u003ca href=\"https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/pending-state-actions\">also has legal actions pending\u003c/a> in Florida, Hawaii, Utah and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=18+California+children+are+suing+the+EPA+over+climate+change&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\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":"/science/1985830/18-california-children-are-suing-the-epa-over-climate-change","authors":["byline_science_1985830"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_194","science_1754","science_2209","science_2080","science_4417","science_556","science_309"],"featImg":"science_1985848","label":"source_science_1985830"},"science_1985730":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1985730","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1985730","score":null,"sort":[1702395005000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"port-of-oakland-wants-to-make-more-room-for-mega-ships-will-that-increase-pollution","title":"Port of Oakland Wants to Make More Room for Mega Ships. Will That Increase Pollution?","publishDate":1702395005,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Port of Oakland Wants to Make More Room for Mega Ships. Will That Increase Pollution? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>A plan to dredge two turning basins in the bay near the Port of Oakland to better accommodate mega-sized container ships is gathering steam despite opposition from local environmental justice groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The huge container ships that frequent Oakland’s port,\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandseaport.com/performance/facts-figures/#:~:text=The%20Port%20of%20Oakland%20loads,on%20Calendar%20Year%202022%20data.\"> the ninth busiest in the U.S.\u003c/a>, often struggle to switch directions at the existing harbor basins, according to port officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the federal navigation channel that services the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has led to numerous \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/nativeson/article/Forget-highways-Bay-Area-s-biggest-traffic-jam-16074168.php\">cargo-ship traffic jams\u003c/a> in recent years, furthering backlogs amid ongoing supply chain woes, with vessels sometimes forced to anchor idly in the bay for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Army Corps’ proposal calls for widening each of the two basins by about 20 acres to allow some of the port’s largest ships to turn more easily. The agency has already completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandseaport.com/turningbasins/draft-eir/\">a draft environmental impact report\u003c/a> that is currently under review and is now seeking feedback from community members.[aside label=\"more port of oakland coverage\" tag=\"port-of-oakland\"]But some environmental justice advocates said the project would detrimentally impact the area’s already compromised air and water quality and are disappointed by what they say have been a dearth of opportunities for community members to weigh in on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have done a poor job on community engagement,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, noting that there has been only one virtual call between her group and the agencies working on the project. “All they want to talk about is the plans for construction and not the emissions from ongoing operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Container ships have grown significantly larger in recent years, expanding with an increasingly global marketplace. Currently, the port, through which about 99% of Northern California’s container cargo passes, can accommodate ships that carry as many as 18,000 standard 20-foot container boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dredging proposal would allow for shipping vessels as long as 1,310 feet — greater than the height of San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower — that can carry more than 19,000 containers through Oakland’s Inner and Outer Harbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said that widening the turning basins will improve transit efficiency, help modernize the waterway, and potentially even reduce emissions by allowing ships to plug into electricity from land rather than burning dirty diesel fuel while idle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each turning basin provides its own utilities. These properties lease out, and the leasees compete for the business,” Justin Taschek, a Port of Oakland project manager, said at last week’s Bay Conservation and Development Commission hearing. “All vessels go to both the outer and inner harbor. It’s integral to remain competitive throughout the complex to allow all vessels to visit all properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the massive undertaking would require the removal of tons of sediment and old bay mud surrounding the existing basins. While that material could be reused in the project, activists argue the process would disrupt wildlife in the area and degrade the bay’s water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are also raising concerns about the project’s impact on longer-term operations at the port. More ship traffic would likely increase emissions in the area and pose further threats to public safety and health, said Katrina Tomas, an attorney with Earthjustice, a nonprofit advocating against the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is that this project will only worsen the already existing air-quality crisis in West Oakland and the communities adjacent to the port of Oakland,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other opponents are calling for a redo of the Corps’ environmental review, arguing that the current version focuses only on construction and dredging and neglects to consider potential harms associated with ongoing operations after the project is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Corps was not looking at the operational impacts. They were almost exclusively looking at the impacts of dredging the bay,” said Tomas, adding that the analysis was limited in terms of its geographic scope. “This ignores other impacts to West Oakland specifically, a frontline community to the Port of Oakland that has borne the brunt of the industry moving in and out of the port.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandseaport.com/turningbasins/\">Public comments on the project are due\u003c/a> by Dec. 18, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A proposal to widen two cargo-ship turning basins raises serious concerns with environmental activists in West Oakland, who say doing so will be detrimental to the area's already compromised air and water quality.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845801,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":735},"headData":{"title":"Port of Oakland Wants to Make More Room for Mega Ships. 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The agency has already completed \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandseaport.com/turningbasins/draft-eir/\">a draft environmental impact report\u003c/a> that is currently under review and is now seeking feedback from community members.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more port of oakland coverage ","tag":"port-of-oakland"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But some environmental justice advocates said the project would detrimentally impact the area’s already compromised air and water quality and are disappointed by what they say have been a dearth of opportunities for community members to weigh in on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have done a poor job on community engagement,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, noting that there has been only one virtual call between her group and the agencies working on the project. “All they want to talk about is the plans for construction and not the emissions from ongoing operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Container ships have grown significantly larger in recent years, expanding with an increasingly global marketplace. Currently, the port, through which about 99% of Northern California’s container cargo passes, can accommodate ships that carry as many as 18,000 standard 20-foot container boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dredging proposal would allow for shipping vessels as long as 1,310 feet — greater than the height of San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower — that can carry more than 19,000 containers through Oakland’s Inner and Outer Harbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said that widening the turning basins will improve transit efficiency, help modernize the waterway, and potentially even reduce emissions by allowing ships to plug into electricity from land rather than burning dirty diesel fuel while idle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each turning basin provides its own utilities. These properties lease out, and the leasees compete for the business,” Justin Taschek, a Port of Oakland project manager, said at last week’s Bay Conservation and Development Commission hearing. “All vessels go to both the outer and inner harbor. It’s integral to remain competitive throughout the complex to allow all vessels to visit all properties.”\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>However, the massive undertaking would require the removal of tons of sediment and old bay mud surrounding the existing basins. While that material could be reused in the project, activists argue the process would disrupt wildlife in the area and degrade the bay’s water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents are also raising concerns about the project’s impact on longer-term operations at the port. More ship traffic would likely increase emissions in the area and pose further threats to public safety and health, said Katrina Tomas, an attorney with Earthjustice, a nonprofit advocating against the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is that this project will only worsen the already existing air-quality crisis in West Oakland and the communities adjacent to the port of Oakland,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other opponents are calling for a redo of the Corps’ environmental review, arguing that the current version focuses only on construction and dredging and neglects to consider potential harms associated with ongoing operations after the project is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Corps was not looking at the operational impacts. 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It comes just months after the Navy reported finding a radioactive deck marker, the size of a silver dollar, that once guided ships at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discoveries raise fresh questions about the city’s plans to build thousands of homes on one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites amid ongoing cleanup efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, community members with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and attorneys with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic on Thursday announced their intention to sue the Navy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to properly clean up toxic and radioactive waste at the shipyard.[pullquote align-\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kamillah Ealom, community organizer, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice\"]‘The Navy owes it to us to clean up the toxic and radioactive nightmare of a mess it made over half a century ago.’[/pullquote]“The Navy owes it to us to clean up the toxic and radioactive nightmare of a mess it made over half a century ago. We will keep fighting for health and justice,” said Kamillah Ealom, a community organizer with Greenaction and longtime resident of the nearby Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, in a statement announcing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said it found the “pea-sized” shard of glass last April, buried half a foot in the soil at Parcel B of the site, several hundred feet from the bay, and within half a mile of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sent the radioactive shard and surrounding soil to a laboratory for further analysis to determine specific contaminants but has not yet released those findings, Navy officials told the Hunters Point Shipyard Citizens Advisory Committee this week. \u003ca href=\"https://hpscac.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPNS-Fieldwork-Update_HPSCAC_04Dec2023.pdf\">Slides from the Navy’s briefing (PDF)\u003c/a> indicate that it believes the community and on-site personnel are not at risk and “the relative dose of radiation from the object is low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, in August, the Navy found the radioactive deck marker, still intact, a couple of inches below the ground in loose soil at nearby Parcel C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy did not comment for this story but confirmed the discovery of the two objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arieann Harrison, founder and CEO of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, an environmental justice group serving the Bayview community, said the Navy’s most recent radioactive discoveries are hardly surprising and correlate with the results of independent testing done on nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that we have been complaining about and telling them about, about the high rates of cancer and also respiratory lung disease, is actually obvious,” said Harrison, a fifth-generation Bayview resident, after participating in a press conference on Thursday at the site. “So when is there going to be some form of humanity where they actually admit that there’s been some human harm? That it’s been harmful and impactful on the community in a negative way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1985697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1985697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman standing outside between several other people speaks into microphones. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arieann Harrison (center), founder and CEO of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, speaks to reporters on Thursday at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, detailing a lawsuit she and other community activists plan to file against the Navy and US Environmental Protection Agency. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retired nuclear policy expert Daniel Hirsch, the former director of the Environmental and Nuclear Policy Program at UC Santa Cruz, said the most recent revelation — about the glass shard — is concerning because the Navy intends to eventually release the property to San Francisco and allow a developer to build over 10,000 homes there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t just have a single piece of small glass that’s radioactive; this is part of a much larger piece of glass,” said Hirsch, who has provided technical assistance to the nearby community. “I think this is indicative of a reason for the community to be concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirsch added, “It’s very puzzling that measurements [on the glass shard] were made half a year ago, and they’ve only now announced that they had found radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located next to a historically Black neighborhood where more than 35,000 people live, the Tetris-shaped 866-acre shipyard comprises concrete docking bays and abandoned buildings that jut out of San Francisco’s southeast shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of the last century, the Navy used the site to decontaminate ships after atomic bomb tests, a process that contaminated the soil with radionuclides, heavy metals and petroleum fuels, among other toxic compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Navy found nearly two dozen samples at the site contaminated by Strontium-90, a radioactive isotope that can cause cancer. In September 2018, the agency recovered another radioactive deck marker, more than a decade after the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Radioactive-object-found-near-homes-at-Hunters-13228476.php\">declared the area safe and free of radioactive waste\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"bayview-hunters-point\"]Environmental advocates believe these instances should have triggered a complete retesting of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has alleged that Tetra Tech EC, a contractor hired by the Navy to conduct remediation activities at the site, falsified reports during the cleanup project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, two former Tetra Tech supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/radiation-control-technician-supervisors-sentenced-falsifying-former-hunter-s-point\">pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges\u003c/a> for falsifying records, and a federal judge sentenced them to prison. The company has denied wrongdoing and said the two employees were solely responsible for the fraudulent actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our primary concerns is that the Navy is not living up to the agreement that they made with the regulators about how they’re going to handle the Tetra Tech radiological fraud,” said Steve Castleman, an attorney with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castleman said his group plans to file its lawsuit in 60 days to compel the Navy and EPA to address radioactive and toxic contamination at the site, arguing that the cleanup standards adopted in 2006 were too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re going to build housing that’s going to be lived in for 100 years or more, we want to make sure that all of the contamination that they can remove is removed,” he said. “And that will require the Navy to tighten up their cleanup standards and to retest 100% of the work that Tetra Tech did because they did it fraudulently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, the health and safety of construction workers on the site and its future residents will be “endangered significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castleman also noted the increased risks due to sea-level rise, brought on by human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First of all, the bay will rise, so that is dangerous to the surface of the shipyard. But also, the groundwater is going to rise with the bay,” he said. “And the danger is that the groundwater will inundate the landfill and then the contamination will spread with the groundwater. 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It comes just months after the Navy reported finding a radioactive deck marker, the size of a silver dollar, that once guided ships at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discoveries raise fresh questions about the city’s plans to build thousands of homes on one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites amid ongoing cleanup efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, community members with Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and attorneys with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic on Thursday announced their intention to sue the Navy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to properly clean up toxic and radioactive waste at the shipyard.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The Navy owes it to us to clean up the toxic and radioactive nightmare of a mess it made over half a century ago.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","citation":"Kamillah Ealom, community organizer, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice","label":"align-\"right\""},"numeric":["align-\"right\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Navy owes it to us to clean up the toxic and radioactive nightmare of a mess it made over half a century ago. We will keep fighting for health and justice,” said Kamillah Ealom, a community organizer with Greenaction and longtime resident of the nearby Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, in a statement announcing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said it found the “pea-sized” shard of glass last April, buried half a foot in the soil at Parcel B of the site, several hundred feet from the bay, and within half a mile of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sent the radioactive shard and surrounding soil to a laboratory for further analysis to determine specific contaminants but has not yet released those findings, Navy officials told the Hunters Point Shipyard Citizens Advisory Committee this week. \u003ca href=\"https://hpscac.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HPNS-Fieldwork-Update_HPSCAC_04Dec2023.pdf\">Slides from the Navy’s briefing (PDF)\u003c/a> indicate that it believes the community and on-site personnel are not at risk and “the relative dose of radiation from the object is low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, in August, the Navy found the radioactive deck marker, still intact, a couple of inches below the ground in loose soil at nearby Parcel C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy did not comment for this story but confirmed the discovery of the two objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arieann Harrison, founder and CEO of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, an environmental justice group serving the Bayview community, said the Navy’s most recent radioactive discoveries are hardly surprising and correlate with the results of independent testing done on nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that we have been complaining about and telling them about, about the high rates of cancer and also respiratory lung disease, is actually obvious,” said Harrison, a fifth-generation Bayview resident, after participating in a press conference on Thursday at the site. “So when is there going to be some form of humanity where they actually admit that there’s been some human harm? That it’s been harmful and impactful on the community in a negative way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1985697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1985697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman standing outside between several other people speaks into microphones. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/12/20231207-Bayview-Presser-015-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arieann Harrison (center), founder and CEO of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, speaks to reporters on Thursday at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, detailing a lawsuit she and other community activists plan to file against the Navy and US Environmental Protection Agency. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retired nuclear policy expert Daniel Hirsch, the former director of the Environmental and Nuclear Policy Program at UC Santa Cruz, said the most recent revelation — about the glass shard — is concerning because the Navy intends to eventually release the property to San Francisco and allow a developer to build over 10,000 homes there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t just have a single piece of small glass that’s radioactive; this is part of a much larger piece of glass,” said Hirsch, who has provided technical assistance to the nearby community. “I think this is indicative of a reason for the community to be concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirsch added, “It’s very puzzling that measurements [on the glass shard] were made half a year ago, and they’ve only now announced that they had found radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located next to a historically Black neighborhood where more than 35,000 people live, the Tetris-shaped 866-acre shipyard comprises concrete docking bays and abandoned buildings that jut out of San Francisco’s southeast shoreline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the middle of the last century, the Navy used the site to decontaminate ships after atomic bomb tests, a process that contaminated the soil with radionuclides, heavy metals and petroleum fuels, among other toxic compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Navy found nearly two dozen samples at the site contaminated by Strontium-90, a radioactive isotope that can cause cancer. In September 2018, the agency recovered another radioactive deck marker, more than a decade after the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Radioactive-object-found-near-homes-at-Hunters-13228476.php\">declared the area safe and free of radioactive waste\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"bayview-hunters-point"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Environmental advocates believe these instances should have triggered a complete retesting of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has alleged that Tetra Tech EC, a contractor hired by the Navy to conduct remediation activities at the site, falsified reports during the cleanup project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, two former Tetra Tech supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/radiation-control-technician-supervisors-sentenced-falsifying-former-hunter-s-point\">pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges\u003c/a> for falsifying records, and a federal judge sentenced them to prison. The company has denied wrongdoing and said the two employees were solely responsible for the fraudulent actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our primary concerns is that the Navy is not living up to the agreement that they made with the regulators about how they’re going to handle the Tetra Tech radiological fraud,” said Steve Castleman, an attorney with UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castleman said his group plans to file its lawsuit in 60 days to compel the Navy and EPA to address radioactive and toxic contamination at the site, arguing that the cleanup standards adopted in 2006 were too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re going to build housing that’s going to be lived in for 100 years or more, we want to make sure that all of the contamination that they can remove is removed,” he said. “And that will require the Navy to tighten up their cleanup standards and to retest 100% of the work that Tetra Tech did because they did it fraudulently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, the health and safety of construction workers on the site and its future residents will be “endangered significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castleman also noted the increased risks due to sea-level rise, brought on by human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First of all, the bay will rise, so that is dangerous to the surface of the shipyard. But also, the groundwater is going to rise with the bay,” he said. “And the danger is that the groundwater will inundate the landfill and then the contamination will spread with the groundwater. And that is a very dangerous thing.”\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":"/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_35","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_192","science_1754","science_4417","science_4414"],"featImg":"science_1985698","label":"science"},"science_1984643":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1984643","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1984643","score":null,"sort":[1697563519000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"reluctant-retreat-one-familys-fight-against-climate-induced-flooding","title":"California Levee Disaster: One Family's Flight From Climate-Fueled Flooding","publishDate":1697563519,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Levee Disaster: One Family’s Flight From Climate-Fueled Flooding | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the third season of KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">find that series here\u003c/a> and read about why \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984697/why-kqed-focused-a-season-of-its-housing-podcast-on-climate-change#:~:text=Sold%20Out%20Is%20Back%20With%20Season%203&text=Host%20Erin%20Baldassari%20leads%20a,an%20affordable%20place%20to%20live.\">KQED chose to focus a season of its housing podcast on climate change\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]enia Escutia dreamed of moving to Southern California to learn how to care for sick kids at UCLA. But when a river swallowed her town and destroyed her home, she deferred those dreams to take care of her family instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been seven months since a massive storm over California’s Central Coast dropped as much as 13 inches of rain in some places. Swollen with all that water, the Pajaro River ripped a 400-foot hole in the levee a few miles east of Escutia’s raised, one-story house where she lived with her mom, dad, brother and sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emotional pain of that experience, she said quietly with tears in her eyes, has not waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often I feel like crying, but I don’t want to cry in front of my siblings, so I just do it on my own time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia is 18. The recent high school graduate with shoulder-length wavy brown hair describes herself as part tomboy, part girlie girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1518433856&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late September, she visited the gutted house where the family still keeps some of their belongings. Lifting a loose floorboard, she examined the crawl space below the tan, two-bedroom home. Deep cracks cut through the soil where floodwaters washed into the dark space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager wiggled her nose at the smell of decay. Her family’s clothes and bags of canned goods lined the bedroom walls, which were once covered with posters of Disney princesses and K-pop stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia said she has flashbacks several times a day of the early morning that her future was almost washed away — floodwaters the color of chocolate milk filling her room, the trash can floating across her yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to be like, it already happened, get over it,” she said. “But they wouldn’t get over it if they were in my shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water breached the levee in March. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office ordered Pajaro’s 3,000 residents to evacuate, before flooding swamped more than 200 homes, rendering Escutia’s unlivable. Her family worried the levee would fail again, so rather than stay and rebuild, they decided to abandon Pajaro in search of someplace safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s choice — to make their future away from the floodplain — is one that other Californians will face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivers and streams across the state are penned in by thousands of miles of levees. Much of that infrastructure is aging and is not built for future storms, which could cause major flooding in any given year. With a potentially wet winter ahead, the state’s top water officials are grasping for solutions. And they are quietly considering a blasphemous idea in California politics: moving whole communities away from dangerous waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving Pajaro thrust the family into a seemingly endless search for affordable housing. And it would have a profound effect on Escutia’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We left because we don’t want the same thing to happen again,” she said. “Having to see my family be sad about something they created just washed away in a matter of minutes was difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984657 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A truck drives through chocolate milk-colored water. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-1536x894.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows a truck making its way through a flooded neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Pajaro in Monterey County, on March 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We are going to tame nature’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rivers have long served as a meeting place for people on the land we now call California. Indigenous people lived for thousands of years following the ebb and flow of water as signals to move to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lush, sprawling river valleys captivated the intrigue of those colonizing California. In that land, they saw an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They transformed rivers that once flowed freely to the sea into highly managed waterways, cut off from the people who relied on them. That hubris led to the state’s current flooding vulnerabilities, said Karla Nemeth, California’s top water official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of how we got here was we had a mindset of ‘We are going to tame nature,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she sat next to a tall potted plant with frilly green leaves in her Sacramento office, she recited a passage by John McPhee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning creative nonfiction writer: “To the conventional wisdom that one ought never to build on a floodplain, California has responded with its capital city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPhee wrote that when the state’s founding citizens \u003ca href=\"https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1454&context=hastings_environmental_law_journal\">built Sacramento alongside two roaring rivers, it exemplified the mindset that humans could control nature (CGI).\u003c/a> Nemeth said California could potentially recommend riverine residents leave the floodplain as storms get more intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Nancy Faulstich, director, Regeneración — Pájaro Valley Climate Action,']‘It feels like it’s exactly a case of environmental injustice.’[/pullquote]“Ultimately, what we are going to do is move a lot of people,” said Nemeth, who directs the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving people en masse away from rivers is a controversial practice called “managed retreat.” It is an idea that many officials are not willing to consider. But nature is forcing the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Stu Townsley, deputy district engineer for project management, US Army Corps of Engineers']‘There’s no way that you can build a levee system that will protect any community from the biggest of big storms in the future.’[/pullquote]By the end of the century, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094722000275\">climate change may make these deluges up to 37% wetter\u003c/a>, according to a study from Bay Area researchers. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain recently found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">the warming climate has already doubled the probability of a megaflood\u003c/a> — weather conditions that could unleash horrific statewide flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gotten a taste of widespread flooding this winter, but I think it’s only a taste,” said Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984647 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A brightly-colored backpack hangs from a white wall. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some scattered boxes and chairs sit inside what remains of the Escutia’s living room in Pajaro, California on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A burden overnight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the predawn hours of March 11, Escutia woke up to what she thought was her Pomeranian, Lucky, peeing on the bed. But she was wrong. Flood water trickled into her room and was ankle-deep in just a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia’s family, scared and panicked, unplugged appliances and threw anything they could onto tables, counters and beds. Another bad storm had pummeled the area just weeks before, but the levee held. Escutia’s family didn’t feel like they needed to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom was shocked by electrical currents in the water. That’s when her family decided to flee, escaping in waist-deep water to an upstairs apartment building across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, they caught a ride out of the town in military rescue vehicles. On the way to her grandmother’s, Escutia wondered if she would ever call Pajaro home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future, I feel like it will look like it is gone,” she said. “I don’t want to leave because I grew up here. But at the same time, I want to leave because I don’t want the same thing to happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spent the next two weeks hopping between the homes of different relatives. When she returned to Pajaro in late March, her house was suffocatingly warm and the carpet slick with mud. A photo of her in a blue and black quinceanera dress still hung on the living room wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia had just been accepted to UCLA. She had not yet shared the good news with her family. After the flood, her happy secret quickly transformed into a burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She couldn’t decide between pursuing her dream in Southern California or staying to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t told my parents yet, but I was planning on telling them,” she said. “All I can think about is how I’m going to be able to help my parents through this, especially financially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984654 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue t-shirt stands in a dirt yard with a young woman in brown pants. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her father Juan, talk outside their mud-coated home in Pajaro, Monterey County, on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A case of environmental injustice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had officially rated the levee along the Pajaro River a “moderate” risk of flooding. The truth is that for decades, officials knew they needed repair but didn’t act. The Corps determined that the town wasn’t worth protecting because property values were too low, according to levee records and interviews with several officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nancy Faulstich, executive director of Regeneración — Pájaro Valley Climate Action, this callousness created the tragedy in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like it’s exactly a case of environmental injustice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia agreed and said her old neighborhood deserves justice. Pajaro is home to many lower-income earners and farmworkers who work in the fields of Watsonville, Monterey County and elsewhere in this fertile region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It deserves climate justice because not everyone is financially well off,” she said. Many Pajaro residents “can’t afford housing. They help with the raspberries, strawberries and lettuce. That’s where everyone gets their food from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places around the state likely face a similar threat, but the reality is officials don’t even really know the extent of the problem. A KQED analysis of the greater San Francisco Bay Area levees found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981900/fewer-than-10-of-levees-in-the-greater-bay-area-have-a-federal-risk-rating\">just 10% have a federal risk rating\u003c/a>, and statewide levee safety varies wildly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pajaro, agencies are working to strengthen the levee that failed earlier this year, a project that’s expected to cost half a billion dollars. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.4.23-Executive-Order-water.pdf\">signed an executive order in early August to streamline levee repairs across the state (PDF)\u003c/a>, and lawmakers introduced a bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB876\">to accelerate flood control upgrades along the Pajaro River\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new levee will provide more protection to Pajaro, but there’s still no guarantee the town won’t flood again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that you can build a levee system that will protect any community from the biggest of big storms in the future,” said Stu Townsley, deputy district engineer for project management for the San Francisco region of the Corps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When crews finish building the Pajaro River levee in around a decade, it will have 1-in-100-year storm protection — half the protection some water experts believe is needed. That means a house has a 25% chance of flooding during a typical homeowner’s 30-year mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said the bare minimum standard for protection everywhere in the state should be based on the likelihood of a 1-in-200-year storm, which has around a 0.5% chance of happening in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), who oversees the region, said he intellectually has “a total appetite” for that idea but said the price tag of doubling protection everywhere in California is in the billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start to tell me how we’re going to pay for it, I want to jump off the top of the building,” he said. “I would not be surprised if it doesn’t take some crisis, just as New Orleans had theirs, to realize that we really have to up our game in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984658 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A overhead view of a mud-caked field. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The repaired Pajaro River levee looking towards Pajaro on March 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Paul Kuroda for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Failing as a mother’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Denia’s mother Carla Escutia searched all over Monterey County to find a new home to rent. She didn’t find much in her price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A two-bedroom apartment can cost upwards of $3,000 a month in this part of Monterey County, according to \u003ca href=\"https://communityrentals.ucsc.edu/cost/index.html\">rental cost statistics from UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>. She found one house on a hill in the woods about 10 miles outside Pajaro. The family loved that it was nowhere near a river, but the house fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, the Escutias lived in a small trailer just feet from their ruined house. Their landlord tore the mucky, brown carpet out of the house — no more quinceanera photo. The loss of her home and the stress of finding a new place has been too much for Carla Escutia at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I have failed as a mother because we’re in a place I didn’t want my family,” she said, with her long brown hair covered by a black baseball cap. “I want to provide the best for them, but there’s nothing we can do right now but sit and wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla Escutia moved to Pajaro from Michoacan, Mexico, over two decades ago. She works as a custodian at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so much uncertainty around them, the mother and daughter often smile. Television is their main outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an antenna that does not require Wi-Fi, and all we do is just sit here eating chips and drinking sodas while watching Top Chef,” Escutia said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally told her parents that she had been accepted to UCLA. They were supportive and encouraged her to pursue her dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want her to succeed and to be able to provide for herself so she can live somewhere else that is a bit better than what I have given her and her future children,” Carla Escutia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, Escutia decided not to go so she could stay closer to home to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to stay a little bit here longer with my mom,” she said. “I want to do community college and try to work. To help my mom with some rent and bills, so I can help provide for my siblings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984648 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a blue and white striped shirt embraces a younger woman with a black shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her mother, Carla, embrace in their now-empty home in Pajaro on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Retreat is an opportunity not a loss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Escutia’s family is fleeing the Pajaro River because of a natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe there’s another way. What if the state and communities could decide together to move away from rivers before the next disaster? But the concept of managed retreat has become a radioactive phrase in California politics while many residents refuse to move away from rivers that flood again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reluctance to consider the idea is not just an issue with Californians. Obstinance is an American trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t like the word ‘retreat’ because it sounds like we’ve lost,” said A.R. Siders, a climate scientist at the University of Delaware. “That can be a little frightening, but it can also be really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For managed retreat to succeed, Siders said entire communities and all forms of government need to buy in. It is an opportunity for Californians to stop fighting nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is not pursuing managed retreat right now along its rivers. Instead, the state is repairing levees and investing in climate modeling to better predict the intensity of storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-24/marina-sea-level-rise\">Marina, a small city in Monterey County\u003c/a>, have embraced the idea in response to sea level rise and erosion along the coast, although, as \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reporter Rosanna Xia notes in her book, \u003cem>California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline\u003c/em>, the words managed retreat “have roiled the few cities and state agencies bold enough to utter them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of Pacifica, a coastal city in San Mateo County, booted former-mayor John Keener for including the idea in the city’s sea level rise plan. His opponents sent out mailers ridiculing his policies and held a parade opposing any kind of managed retreat. Elsewhere, city leaders have stripped the term from climate plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xia told KQED that Californians need to stop thinking they are at war with water. “Ultimately, it’s shifting the question from how can we fight the rising ocean to how can we work with it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984676 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos next to each other of people standing in doors. On the left a person looks at flood damage. On the right they stand in a bare room as their mother looks on.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-800x260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1020x332.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-160x52.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-768x250.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1536x500.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-2048x667.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1920x625.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Denia Escutia outside her mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. Right: Denia and her mother, Carla Escutia, in the same room on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The impact of the flood doesn’t recede with the water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A friend of one of Escutia’s teachers invited her family to live with them in a two-story house in Watsonville, just across the river from Pajaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other word to call them but our angels,” Carla Escutia said of their new housemates. “They told me to save money, take things slow and to find a home with dignity instead of begging for a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the family has yet to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in her old room in late September, Escutia reflected on how the flood forced her to grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, Escutia drives her friends to Cabrillo Community College in a used SUV that her dad bought to replace her car that was destroyed in the flood. The SUV reminds her of a “mom car.” They like to sip iced chai lattes as they talk about their futures and the boys they’re too nervous to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia said she sometimes feels like the odd one out. Her new friends are not worried about where they will live permanently. Her dad told her she might have to give her dog up for adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad’s planning on giving it to a family friend since we don’t have anywhere to keep him,” she said. “I miss my dog a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t regret her decision to stay to help with the family’s living expenses, but now she juggles college life along with babysitting her young sister. She recently applied to be a server at a local Applebees but didn’t land the job. She works part-time teaching for an after-school program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m busy with kids and making money,” she said. She’s able to buy things for herself, like a lime green frog phone case she’s particularly excited about. “It feels great to earn my own money instead of asking my parents for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the house she grew up in, Escutia locked the door. Officials hung a yellow and black sign from the house that reads in capital letters: “Lawful only to enter for permitted cleanup purposes only.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever decides to live in this house, I hope they rethink living here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"KQED follows one family, starting on the night that a flood swallowed their hometown of Pajaro, and for months afterward, as they searched for an affordable home on higher ground.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845867,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":81,"wordCount":3273},"headData":{"title":"California Levee Disaster: One Family's Flight From Climate-Fueled Flooding | KQED","description":"KQED follows one family, starting on the night that a flood swallowed their hometown of Pajaro, and for months afterward, as they searched for an affordable home on higher ground.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Sold Out","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1984643/reluctant-retreat-one-familys-fight-against-climate-induced-flooding","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the third season of KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/soldout\">find that series here\u003c/a> and read about why \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984697/why-kqed-focused-a-season-of-its-housing-podcast-on-climate-change#:~:text=Sold%20Out%20Is%20Back%20With%20Season%203&text=Host%20Erin%20Baldassari%20leads%20a,an%20affordable%20place%20to%20live.\">KQED chose to focus a season of its housing podcast on climate change\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>enia Escutia dreamed of moving to Southern California to learn how to care for sick kids at UCLA. But when a river swallowed her town and destroyed her home, she deferred those dreams to take care of her family instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been seven months since a massive storm over California’s Central Coast dropped as much as 13 inches of rain in some places. Swollen with all that water, the Pajaro River ripped a 400-foot hole in the levee a few miles east of Escutia’s raised, one-story house where she lived with her mom, dad, brother and sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emotional pain of that experience, she said quietly with tears in her eyes, has not waned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often I feel like crying, but I don’t want to cry in front of my siblings, so I just do it on my own time,” she said.\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>Escutia is 18. The recent high school graduate with shoulder-length wavy brown hair describes herself as part tomboy, part girlie girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1518433856&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late September, she visited the gutted house where the family still keeps some of their belongings. Lifting a loose floorboard, she examined the crawl space below the tan, two-bedroom home. Deep cracks cut through the soil where floodwaters washed into the dark space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager wiggled her nose at the smell of decay. Her family’s clothes and bags of canned goods lined the bedroom walls, which were once covered with posters of Disney princesses and K-pop stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia said she has flashbacks several times a day of the early morning that her future was almost washed away — floodwaters the color of chocolate milk filling her room, the trash can floating across her yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to be like, it already happened, get over it,” she said. “But they wouldn’t get over it if they were in my shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water breached the levee in March. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office ordered Pajaro’s 3,000 residents to evacuate, before flooding swamped more than 200 homes, rendering Escutia’s unlivable. Her family worried the levee would fail again, so rather than stay and rebuild, they decided to abandon Pajaro in search of someplace safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s choice — to make their future away from the floodplain — is one that other Californians will face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivers and streams across the state are penned in by thousands of miles of levees. Much of that infrastructure is aging and is not built for future storms, which could cause major flooding in any given year. With a potentially wet winter ahead, the state’s top water officials are grasping for solutions. And they are quietly considering a blasphemous idea in California politics: moving whole communities away from dangerous waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving Pajaro thrust the family into a seemingly endless search for affordable housing. And it would have a profound effect on Escutia’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We left because we don’t want the same thing to happen again,” she said. “Having to see my family be sad about something they created just washed away in a matter of minutes was difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984657 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A truck drives through chocolate milk-colored water. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1248040045-qut-1536x894.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows a truck making its way through a flooded neighborhood in the unincorporated community of Pajaro in Monterey County, on March 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We are going to tame nature’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rivers have long served as a meeting place for people on the land we now call California. Indigenous people lived for thousands of years following the ebb and flow of water as signals to move to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lush, sprawling river valleys captivated the intrigue of those colonizing California. In that land, they saw an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They transformed rivers that once flowed freely to the sea into highly managed waterways, cut off from the people who relied on them. That hubris led to the state’s current flooding vulnerabilities, said Karla Nemeth, California’s top water official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of how we got here was we had a mindset of ‘We are going to tame nature,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she sat next to a tall potted plant with frilly green leaves in her Sacramento office, she recited a passage by John McPhee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning creative nonfiction writer: “To the conventional wisdom that one ought never to build on a floodplain, California has responded with its capital city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPhee wrote that when the state’s founding citizens \u003ca href=\"https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1454&context=hastings_environmental_law_journal\">built Sacramento alongside two roaring rivers, it exemplified the mindset that humans could control nature (CGI).\u003c/a> Nemeth said California could potentially recommend riverine residents leave the floodplain as storms get more intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It feels like it’s exactly a case of environmental injustice.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Nancy Faulstich, director, Regeneración — Pájaro Valley Climate Action,","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Ultimately, what we are going to do is move a lot of people,” said Nemeth, who directs the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving people en masse away from rivers is a controversial practice called “managed retreat.” It is an idea that many officials are not willing to consider. But nature is forcing the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s no way that you can build a levee system that will protect any community from the biggest of big storms in the future.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Stu Townsley, deputy district engineer for project management, US Army Corps of Engineers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By the end of the century, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094722000275\">climate change may make these deluges up to 37% wetter\u003c/a>, according to a study from Bay Area researchers. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain recently found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">the warming climate has already doubled the probability of a megaflood\u003c/a> — weather conditions that could unleash horrific statewide flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gotten a taste of widespread flooding this winter, but I think it’s only a taste,” said Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984647 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A brightly-colored backpack hangs from a white wall. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some scattered boxes and chairs sit inside what remains of the Escutia’s living room in Pajaro, California on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A burden overnight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the predawn hours of March 11, Escutia woke up to what she thought was her Pomeranian, Lucky, peeing on the bed. But she was wrong. Flood water trickled into her room and was ankle-deep in just a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia’s family, scared and panicked, unplugged appliances and threw anything they could onto tables, counters and beds. Another bad storm had pummeled the area just weeks before, but the levee held. Escutia’s family didn’t feel like they needed to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom was shocked by electrical currents in the water. That’s when her family decided to flee, escaping in waist-deep water to an upstairs apartment building across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, they caught a ride out of the town in military rescue vehicles. On the way to her grandmother’s, Escutia wondered if she would ever call Pajaro home again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future, I feel like it will look like it is gone,” she said. “I don’t want to leave because I grew up here. But at the same time, I want to leave because I don’t want the same thing to happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spent the next two weeks hopping between the homes of different relatives. When she returned to Pajaro in late March, her house was suffocatingly warm and the carpet slick with mud. A photo of her in a blue and black quinceanera dress still hung on the living room wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia had just been accepted to UCLA. She had not yet shared the good news with her family. After the flood, her happy secret quickly transformed into a burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She couldn’t decide between pursuing her dream in Southern California or staying to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t told my parents yet, but I was planning on telling them,” she said. “All I can think about is how I’m going to be able to help my parents through this, especially financially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984654 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue t-shirt stands in a dirt yard with a young woman in brown pants. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1362-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her father Juan, talk outside their mud-coated home in Pajaro, Monterey County, on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘A case of environmental injustice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had officially rated the levee along the Pajaro River a “moderate” risk of flooding. The truth is that for decades, officials knew they needed repair but didn’t act. The Corps determined that the town wasn’t worth protecting because property values were too low, according to levee records and interviews with several officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Nancy Faulstich, executive director of Regeneración — Pájaro Valley Climate Action, this callousness created the tragedy in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like it’s exactly a case of environmental injustice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia agreed and said her old neighborhood deserves justice. Pajaro is home to many lower-income earners and farmworkers who work in the fields of Watsonville, Monterey County and elsewhere in this fertile region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It deserves climate justice because not everyone is financially well off,” she said. Many Pajaro residents “can’t afford housing. They help with the raspberries, strawberries and lettuce. That’s where everyone gets their food from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places around the state likely face a similar threat, but the reality is officials don’t even really know the extent of the problem. A KQED analysis of the greater San Francisco Bay Area levees found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981900/fewer-than-10-of-levees-in-the-greater-bay-area-have-a-federal-risk-rating\">just 10% have a federal risk rating\u003c/a>, and statewide levee safety varies wildly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pajaro, agencies are working to strengthen the levee that failed earlier this year, a project that’s expected to cost half a billion dollars. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/8.4.23-Executive-Order-water.pdf\">signed an executive order in early August to streamline levee repairs across the state (PDF)\u003c/a>, and lawmakers introduced a bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB876\">to accelerate flood control upgrades along the Pajaro River\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new levee will provide more protection to Pajaro, but there’s still no guarantee the town won’t flood again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that you can build a levee system that will protect any community from the biggest of big storms in the future,” said Stu Townsley, deputy district engineer for project management for the San Francisco region of the Corps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When crews finish building the Pajaro River levee in around a decade, it will have 1-in-100-year storm protection — half the protection some water experts believe is needed. That means a house has a 25% chance of flooding during a typical homeowner’s 30-year mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said the bare minimum standard for protection everywhere in the state should be based on the likelihood of a 1-in-200-year storm, which has around a 0.5% chance of happening in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), who oversees the region, said he intellectually has “a total appetite” for that idea but said the price tag of doubling protection everywhere in California is in the billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you start to tell me how we’re going to pay for it, I want to jump off the top of the building,” he said. “I would not be surprised if it doesn’t take some crisis, just as New Orleans had theirs, to realize that we really have to up our game in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984658 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A overhead view of a mud-caked field. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/GettyImages-1250226412-qut-1536x863.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The repaired Pajaro River levee looking towards Pajaro on March 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Paul Kuroda for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Failing as a mother’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Denia’s mother Carla Escutia searched all over Monterey County to find a new home to rent. She didn’t find much in her price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A two-bedroom apartment can cost upwards of $3,000 a month in this part of Monterey County, according to \u003ca href=\"https://communityrentals.ucsc.edu/cost/index.html\">rental cost statistics from UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a>. She found one house on a hill in the woods about 10 miles outside Pajaro. The family loved that it was nowhere near a river, but the house fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, the Escutias lived in a small trailer just feet from their ruined house. Their landlord tore the mucky, brown carpet out of the house — no more quinceanera photo. The loss of her home and the stress of finding a new place has been too much for Carla Escutia at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I have failed as a mother because we’re in a place I didn’t want my family,” she said, with her long brown hair covered by a black baseball cap. “I want to provide the best for them, but there’s nothing we can do right now but sit and wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla Escutia moved to Pajaro from Michoacan, Mexico, over two decades ago. She works as a custodian at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with so much uncertainty around them, the mother and daughter often smile. Television is their main outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an antenna that does not require Wi-Fi, and all we do is just sit here eating chips and drinking sodas while watching Top Chef,” Escutia said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She finally told her parents that she had been accepted to UCLA. They were supportive and encouraged her to pursue her dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want her to succeed and to be able to provide for herself so she can live somewhere else that is a bit better than what I have given her and her future children,” Carla Escutia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, Escutia decided not to go so she could stay closer to home to help her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to stay a little bit here longer with my mom,” she said. “I want to do community college and try to work. To help my mom with some rent and bills, so I can help provide for my siblings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984648 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a blue and white striped shirt embraces a younger woman with a black shirt. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/04282023_pajaroupdate-253-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denia Escutia and her mother, Carla, embrace in their now-empty home in Pajaro on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Retreat is an opportunity not a loss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Escutia’s family is fleeing the Pajaro River because of a natural disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe there’s another way. What if the state and communities could decide together to move away from rivers before the next disaster? But the concept of managed retreat has become a radioactive phrase in California politics while many residents refuse to move away from rivers that flood again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reluctance to consider the idea is not just an issue with Californians. Obstinance is an American trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t like the word ‘retreat’ because it sounds like we’ve lost,” said A.R. Siders, a climate scientist at the University of Delaware. “That can be a little frightening, but it can also be really exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For managed retreat to succeed, Siders said entire communities and all forms of government need to buy in. It is an opportunity for Californians to stop fighting nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is not pursuing managed retreat right now along its rivers. Instead, the state is repairing levees and investing in climate modeling to better predict the intensity of storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-24/marina-sea-level-rise\">Marina, a small city in Monterey County\u003c/a>, have embraced the idea in response to sea level rise and erosion along the coast, although, as \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reporter Rosanna Xia notes in her book, \u003cem>California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline\u003c/em>, the words managed retreat “have roiled the few cities and state agencies bold enough to utter them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of Pacifica, a coastal city in San Mateo County, booted former-mayor John Keener for including the idea in the city’s sea level rise plan. His opponents sent out mailers ridiculing his policies and held a parade opposing any kind of managed retreat. Elsewhere, city leaders have stripped the term from climate plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xia told KQED that Californians need to stop thinking they are at war with water. “Ultimately, it’s shifting the question from how can we fight the rising ocean to how can we work with it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984676 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos next to each other of people standing in doors. On the left a person looks at flood damage. On the right they stand in a bare room as their mother looks on.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-800x260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1020x332.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-160x52.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-768x250.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1536x500.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-2048x667.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/10/Pajaro-Side-by-Side-1920x625.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Denia Escutia outside her mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. Right: Denia and her mother, Carla Escutia, in the same room on April 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The impact of the flood doesn’t recede with the water\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A friend of one of Escutia’s teachers invited her family to live with them in a two-story house in Watsonville, just across the river from Pajaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other word to call them but our angels,” Carla Escutia said of their new housemates. “They told me to save money, take things slow and to find a home with dignity instead of begging for a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the family has yet to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in her old room in late September, Escutia reflected on how the flood forced her to grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, Escutia drives her friends to Cabrillo Community College in a used SUV that her dad bought to replace her car that was destroyed in the flood. The SUV reminds her of a “mom car.” They like to sip iced chai lattes as they talk about their futures and the boys they’re too nervous to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia said she sometimes feels like the odd one out. Her new friends are not worried about where they will live permanently. Her dad told her she might have to give her dog up for adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad’s planning on giving it to a family friend since we don’t have anywhere to keep him,” she said. “I miss my dog a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn’t regret her decision to stay to help with the family’s living expenses, but now she juggles college life along with babysitting her young sister. She recently applied to be a server at a local Applebees but didn’t land the job. She works part-time teaching for an after-school program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m busy with kids and making money,” she said. She’s able to buy things for herself, like a lime green frog phone case she’s particularly excited about. “It feels great to earn my own money instead of asking my parents for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the house she grew up in, Escutia locked the door. Officials hung a yellow and black sign from the house that reads in capital letters: “Lawful only to enter for permitted cleanup purposes only.”\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>“Whoever decides to live in this house, I hope they rethink living here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1984643/reluctant-retreat-one-familys-fight-against-climate-induced-flooding","authors":["11746"],"series":["science_5071"],"categories":["science_35","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_194","science_1754","science_4417","science_4414","science_2114","science_3779","science_5072","science_5094","science_5073"],"featImg":"science_1984686","label":"source_science_1984643"},"science_1984443":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1984443","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1984443","score":null,"sort":[1695948335000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-final-vote-open-air-gravel-plant-appears-headed-to-oaklands-port","title":"After Final Vote, Open-Air Gravel Plant Appears Headed to Oakland's Port","publishDate":1695948335,"format":"standard","headTitle":"After Final Vote, Open-Air Gravel Plant Appears Headed to Oakland’s Port | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland’s Port Commission on Thursday gave the sign-off for a construction aggregate company to build an open-air sand and gravel facility at the Port of Oakland. That move marks the last step in finalizing a settlement with the Port and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. The environmental group sued to stop the project in March 2022 on the grounds that it would “expose an entire new generation of West Oaklanders to increased air pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires the developer to put in place watering and monitoring protocols to reduce dust from aggregate stockpiles. They also must use vessels that are powered by the grid and connected to the shore, when they are docked, instead of burning heavy diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about electric trucks, but that was as far as they wanted to go. So now they’re going further,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We didn’t get everything, but we got enough to say there’s a change coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984451 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person leans on a railing outside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Gordon, co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), outside the WOEIP offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lease agreement allows Eagle Rock Aggregates to build and run a Port terminal for importing, storing and distributing sand and gravel. Under the project estimates, trucks would take 70,000 trips annually to carry the material, and the facility could store as much as 2.5 million tons of sand and gravel each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, Eagle Rock President Scott Dryden said he is “excited to continue serving the Bay Area and to solidify the collaborative relationship with our neighbors in West Oakland.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Brandes, the director of maritime for the Port of Oakland, said he was pleased with the outcome and appreciates the push from the community for lower emissions and clean air. He said he understands residents’ concerns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/port-of-oakland-achieved-86-reduction-in-diesel-emissions/\">and the Port has reduced emissions significantly over the last decade. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Port is a much cleaner area than it was ten, fifteen years ago,” Brandes said. “We’re going to continue to drive down to zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said construction material from the project will also help the city of Oakland meet its housing development goals while boosting revenue for the Port. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmentalists argued in their lawsuit that the project put residents at risk by storing construction aggregates in stockpiles as high as 25 feet, holding as much as 329,000 tons each, “with no covering to block wind or rain, allowing dust and particulates to blow off the site or run off the piles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not cover the material that would blow out the port area, but we did get them to develop a plan to water it down so the particulates will not be generated through the port area,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the lawsuit brought necessary attention to concerns about the project’s impact on the community, and forced that conversation. The lawsuit also requires the Port or Eagle Rock to hold an educational session for the community regarding the aggregate terminal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the settlement. They have to come out and talk to us,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta had also joined the lawsuit over his concerns about the Port’s environmental analysis of the project, noting that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is required to reduce air pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said in \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-protect-environmental-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement that the settlement secured binding commitments\u003c/a> to mitigate the Eagle Rock project’s air quality impacts and provide other benefits for West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded. The Bureau of Environmental Justice within my office exists to right those wrongs, and today is proof that our efforts are making a positive difference,” Bonta said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Attorney General Rob Bonta\"]‘For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded.’[/pullquote]Residents in West Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood, are already breathing air that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood\">contains high levels of toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a>. They face higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease, premature death and other poor health outcomes related to air pollution than other parts of the region, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/owning-our-air-plan-summary-pdf.pdf\">according to state air officials (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, meanwhile, is caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/08/oaklands-long-running-coal-war-goes-to-trial-with-developers-pitted-against-the-city/\">legal fight\u003c/a> with a developer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/07/11/trial-begins-in-oakland-coal-fight/\">who has sought to build an export terminal at the old West Oakland Army Base located at the port.\u003c/a> Gordon’s group have pressed back on that project as well in an effort to prevent the transport of coal through their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups have \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/01/oakland-environmentalists-say-airport-expansion-bad-pollution-climate/\">also raised concern\u003c/a> about the Port’s plan to expand the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Eagle Rock project, Brian Beveridge, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, said the group will continue to keep an eye on whether the Port is keeping its part of the deal, and will keep residents informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in a neighborhood [cannot] spend their life trying to keep an eye on whether a gravel terminal is doing the right thing or not,” Beveridge said. “And so we try to serve that role and help. When there’s something the community needs to think about, we make sure they know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Port of Oakland settled a lawsuit with West Oakland environmentalists who argued the project would expose residents to pollution. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704845890,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":939},"headData":{"title":"After Final Vote, Open-Air Gravel Plant Appears Headed to Oakland's Port | KQED","description":"The Port of Oakland settled a lawsuit with West Oakland environmentalists who argued the project would expose residents to pollution. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Environmental Justice","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1984443/after-final-vote-open-air-gravel-plant-appears-headed-to-oaklands-port","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s Port Commission on Thursday gave the sign-off for a construction aggregate company to build an open-air sand and gravel facility at the Port of Oakland. That move marks the last step in finalizing a settlement with the Port and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. The environmental group sued to stop the project in March 2022 on the grounds that it would “expose an entire new generation of West Oaklanders to increased air pollution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires the developer to put in place watering and monitoring protocols to reduce dust from aggregate stockpiles. They also must use vessels that are powered by the grid and connected to the shore, when they are docked, instead of burning heavy diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about electric trucks, but that was as far as they wanted to go. So now they’re going further,” said Margaret Gordon, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “We didn’t get everything, but we got enough to say there’s a change coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1984451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1984451 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person leans on a railing outside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/09/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Gordon, co-founder of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP), outside the WOEIP offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lease agreement allows Eagle Rock Aggregates to build and run a Port terminal for importing, storing and distributing sand and gravel. Under the project estimates, trucks would take 70,000 trips annually to carry the material, and the facility could store as much as 2.5 million tons of sand and gravel each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, Eagle Rock President Scott Dryden said he is “excited to continue serving the Bay Area and to solidify the collaborative relationship with our neighbors in West Oakland.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan Brandes, the director of maritime for the Port of Oakland, said he was pleased with the outcome and appreciates the push from the community for lower emissions and clean air. He said he understands residents’ concerns, \u003ca href=\"https://www.portofoakland.com/press-releases/port-of-oakland-achieved-86-reduction-in-diesel-emissions/\">and the Port has reduced emissions significantly over the last decade. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Port is a much cleaner area than it was ten, fifteen years ago,” Brandes said. “We’re going to continue to drive down to zero emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said construction material from the project will also help the city of Oakland meet its housing development goals while boosting revenue for the Port. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmentalists argued in their lawsuit that the project put residents at risk by storing construction aggregates in stockpiles as high as 25 feet, holding as much as 329,000 tons each, “with no covering to block wind or rain, allowing dust and particulates to blow off the site or run off the piles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not cover the material that would blow out the port area, but we did get them to develop a plan to water it down so the particulates will not be generated through the port area,” Gordon said.\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 group said the lawsuit brought necessary attention to concerns about the project’s impact on the community, and forced that conversation. The lawsuit also requires the Port or Eagle Rock to hold an educational session for the community regarding the aggregate terminal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the settlement. They have to come out and talk to us,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta had also joined the lawsuit over his concerns about the Port’s environmental analysis of the project, noting that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is required to reduce air pollution in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office said in \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-settlement-protect-environmental-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement that the settlement secured binding commitments\u003c/a> to mitigate the Eagle Rock project’s air quality impacts and provide other benefits for West Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded. The Bureau of Environmental Justice within my office exists to right those wrongs, and today is proof that our efforts are making a positive difference,” Bonta said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘For too long, environmental concerns raised by West Oakland residents have not been heeded.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Attorney General Rob Bonta","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Residents in West Oakland, a historically Black neighborhood, are already breathing air that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962832/west-oakland-environmental-justice-leaders-on-whats-changed-what-hasnt-in-the-neighborhood\">contains high levels of toxic diesel particulates\u003c/a>. They face higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease, premature death and other poor health outcomes related to air pollution than other parts of the region, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/ab617-community-health/west-oakland/100219-files/owning-our-air-plan-summary-pdf.pdf\">according to state air officials (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, meanwhile, is caught in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/08/oaklands-long-running-coal-war-goes-to-trial-with-developers-pitted-against-the-city/\">legal fight\u003c/a> with a developer \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/07/11/trial-begins-in-oakland-coal-fight/\">who has sought to build an export terminal at the old West Oakland Army Base located at the port.\u003c/a> Gordon’s group have pressed back on that project as well in an effort to prevent the transport of coal through their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups have \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/08/01/oakland-environmentalists-say-airport-expansion-bad-pollution-climate/\">also raised concern\u003c/a> about the Port’s plan to expand the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Eagle Rock project, Brian Beveridge, co-director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, said the group will continue to keep an eye on whether the Port is keeping its part of the deal, and will keep residents informed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in a neighborhood [cannot] spend their life trying to keep an eye on whether a gravel terminal is doing the right thing or not,” Beveridge said. “And so we try to serve that role and help. When there’s something the community needs to think about, we make sure they know about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1984443/after-final-vote-open-air-gravel-plant-appears-headed-to-oaklands-port","authors":["11635"],"categories":["science_35","science_39","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_192","science_1754","science_4417","science_4414","science_3532"],"featImg":"science_1984452","label":"source_science_1984443"},"science_1982079":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1982079","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1982079","score":null,"sort":[1680212940000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-winters-floods-may-be-only-a-taste-of-the-megafloods-to-come-climate-scientists-warn","title":"This Winter's Floods May Be 'Only a Taste' of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn","publishDate":1680212940,"format":"standard","headTitle":"This Winter’s Floods May Be ‘Only a Taste’ of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>The street in front of Antonio Hueso’s two-story, yellow-daisy-colored home in Pajaro turned into a 5-foot-deep muddy river in the early morning hours of March 12, submerging his baby-blue Ford F-150 truck and flooding his first floor.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist\"]‘As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California.’[/pullquote] “In Pajaro, nothing is going to change, because poor people live here,” said Hueso, 72, a retired farmworker, recounting more than three decades of requests from the community for local, state and federal officials to fix the aging levee on the Pajaro River, 4 miles upstream of his town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks after the levee failed — once again — forcing thousands of Pajaro residents to flee in the predawn darkness as water rushed toward their lower-income community in northern Monterey County, Hueso is beginning the arduous task of renovating his flood-damaged home. Over the nearly five decades he’s lived here, this is now the second time he has had to do this — having already lived through an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/pajaro-valley-flood-of-1995-described-by-ksbw-8-s-jim-vanderzwaan/42479036\">equally devastating flood in 1995\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say a major levee update could begin as soon as 2025, but Hueso questions whether those plans will account for the changing climate and the increased frequency and ferocity of storms expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982087\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man wearing a hat, a plaid shirt and jeans stands in a driveway outside a house. A Ford truck is parked behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Hueso, 72, in the driveway of his home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He is now considering leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to fix my house, and when people forget about the flooding, I will sell my house and move to Madera or Fresno,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nowhere near’ a worst-case scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists warn that what Californians have lived through in recent months is just a preview of what’s to come, with exponentially worse flooding predicted in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before cities and farmland dominated the terrain, much of California was perpetually wet, with a vast system of rivers and waterways running through its core. Catastrophic floods reshaped the landscape every few centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain is unequivocal about the links between a warming climate due to the burning of fossil fuels and the significant increase in extreme flooding. A 2022 study Swain co-authored found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">the warming climate has already doubled the probability of a megaflood\u003c/a> caused by a string of extreme atmospheric rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every degree of new warming increases that likelihood even more, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, what was once considered unlikely to happen in our lifetimes “has become quite likely,” Swain said, adding that he wouldn’t be surprised if as many as four megafloods happened just in this century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982091 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mud-coated furniture and other belongings are piled outside a home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not necessarily talking about 100 years from now. We’re talking about the next 20 or 30 years,” he said. “We’ve gotten a taste of widespread flooding, but I do think it’s only a taste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already been hit by more than 30 atmospheric rivers since October. But in order to be categorized as an extreme scenario, those weather events would have had to take place in rapid succession, with little or no time in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, by contrast, there were breaks of up to a month between each of the storms. And despite the havoc they wreaked, none were technically considered “extreme,” Swain said.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"flooding\"]“This winter, we’ve gotten lucky, believe it or not, because things could have been significantly worse than they were,” he said. “It is possible to have years where there are multiple atmospheric rivers in a row that are much stronger than what we saw at any point this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said the recent storms dropped only about half the precipitation and less than a quarter of the runoff than in the “plausible worst-case scenario” he describes in his study. The resulting “megaflood” conditions, he said, would cause “widespread levee failures, and not just levees protecting primarily agricultural areas, but potentially levees that protect major urban areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of the National Levee Database found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981900/fewer-than-10-of-levees-in-the-greater-bay-area-have-a-federal-risk-rating\">only 10% of the nearly 600 levees in the greater Bay Area have a flood-risk rating\u003c/a>. The small percentage that do include the breached levee on the Pajaro River, which is rated “moderate,” as is one on the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/salinas-river-flooding-levee-break-overflowing-monterey-county-evacuations/12697763/\">Salinas River, which also failed, in January\u003c/a>, displacing thousands. Other levees rated “moderate,” in more urban areas like San José, also are at risk of significant flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve definitely gotten a taste in some areas of what a much lesser version of this would look like,” Swain said. “But we need to be preparing for and stress-testing our infrastructure for much greater events than the ones you’ve seen this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flood modeling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is taking Swain’s predictions seriously by potentially funding \u003ca href=\"https://triton.ornl.gov/\">a flood-modeling project\u003c/a> — in partnership with Swain and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — to gain a better understanding of the impact an extended series of extreme storms would have on existing infrastructure, like levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a flood model that would resolve the flood risk at one corner of someone’s house versus another corner, for example,” Swain said. “That’s how detailed it would be for the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982092\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982092 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man and younger man stand outside a light-green house, next to a pile of mud-damaged belongings, including a red refrigerator and blue office chair.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Alvarado, 22, and his father, Jesús Valtierra, 52, stand outside their home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project involves recording a host of factors, including soil conditions, river flows, forecasted precipitation, real-time snowmelt and runoff, in an effort to calculate the extent of flooding that could result from storms of various intensities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so could also help predict which parts of the state are at greatest risk of flooding and who should evacuate, said Michael Anderson, the state’s climatologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other thing we can do is start saying, ‘Wow, if that happened, how do we recover?”’ Anderson said. “How do we take that really horrible situation and try and turn it into a chance to maybe rethink how we do some things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Anderson notes the project, which could take up to a year to complete and would cost in the ballpark of half a million dollars, is coming too late for the many thousands of people already displaced by floods this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, Mother Nature kind of beat us to the punch here,” he said. “But we’re trying to develop a capability that can work with the scenario to help us better understand how to recognize when things are scaling up so that you get the right level of response dialed in. And it’s a tool we don’t have right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mud-caked, ramshackle-looking backyard. A door to a small shed stands open. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thick, foul-smelling mud coats the ground in Juan Escutia’s backyard in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Living in the shadow of an aging levee\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For young people like Armando Alvarado, who now lives in the shadow of a broken levee, the climate crisis is all too real. A week after floodwaters covered Pajaro, the 22-year-old returned home to find his garage coated with a thick layer of sticky, putrid mud — even as the rest of the elevated home his family rents was unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the wet mud in the garage ruined a number of family heirlooms, including his collection of red, white and black ostrich-leather ranchero boots.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation= \"Denia Escutia, Pajaro resident\"]‘I call this my home, but is it really my home if they don’t want to help us?’[/pullquote] “They were emotional gifts from my family in Mexico, like uncles that passed away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he’s worried about how the damage from the flood, and the remodeling it will require, will affect the price of rent in an area of California where a one-bedroom apartment can cost as much as $2,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denia Escutia, a high school senior who lives a few blocks south of Alvarado, woke up early in the morning on March 12 to the sound of water pouring into Escutia’s purple bedroom adorned with K-pop posters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I touched my feet to the rug, and the rug was wet,” said Escutia, 18, who prefers to not use any pronouns. Escutia’s entire house had filled with a thin layer of smelly, muddy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I woke up my dad, and we started unplugging a bunch of stuff,” Escutia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982088\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in rubber boots stands in a small bedroom with posters on the blue-painted wall and mud on the floor.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia, 18, in Escutia’s mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, weeks after the flooding and subsequent evacuation, the young climate activist is questioning whether or not to see a future in Pajaro because of the obvious, familiar risks — including droughts, heat waves and flooding — that will likely only get worse with a warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia, whose hometown is Pajaro and who dreams of living safely on a nearby hill, surrounded by family, fears Pajaro has no future because of climate change and the decisions made by those in power that devalue the people living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Pajaro deserves climate justice,” said Escutia. “I call this my home, but is it really my home if they don’t want to help us?”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Climate scientists warn that what Californians have lived through in recent months is just a preview of what's to come, with exponentially worse flooding predicted for the future.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846059,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1706},"headData":{"title":"This Winter's Floods May Be 'Only a Taste' of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn | KQED","description":"Climate scientists warn that what Californians have lived through in recent months is just a preview of what's to come, with exponentially worse flooding predicted for the future.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/2ab2c2f0-007c-4e7b-82e8-afd4010472d3/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1982079/this-winters-floods-may-be-only-a-taste-of-the-megafloods-to-come-climate-scientists-warn","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The street in front of Antonio Hueso’s two-story, yellow-daisy-colored home in Pajaro turned into a 5-foot-deep muddy river in the early morning hours of March 12, submerging his baby-blue Ford F-150 truck and flooding his first floor.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “In Pajaro, nothing is going to change, because poor people live here,” said Hueso, 72, a retired farmworker, recounting more than three decades of requests from the community for local, state and federal officials to fix the aging levee on the Pajaro River, 4 miles upstream of his town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks after the levee failed — once again — forcing thousands of Pajaro residents to flee in the predawn darkness as water rushed toward their lower-income community in northern Monterey County, Hueso is beginning the arduous task of renovating his flood-damaged home. Over the nearly five decades he’s lived here, this is now the second time he has had to do this — having already lived through an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/pajaro-valley-flood-of-1995-described-by-ksbw-8-s-jim-vanderzwaan/42479036\">equally devastating flood in 1995\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say a major levee update could begin as soon as 2025, but Hueso questions whether those plans will account for the changing climate and the increased frequency and ferocity of storms expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982087\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man wearing a hat, a plaid shirt and jeans stands in a driveway outside a house. A Ford truck is parked behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63905_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1133-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Hueso, 72, in the driveway of his home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He is now considering leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to fix my house, and when people forget about the flooding, I will sell my house and move to Madera or Fresno,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nowhere near’ a worst-case scenario\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists warn that what Californians have lived through in recent months is just a preview of what’s to come, with exponentially worse flooding predicted in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before cities and farmland dominated the terrain, much of California was perpetually wet, with a vast system of rivers and waterways running through its core. Catastrophic floods reshaped the landscape every few centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain is unequivocal about the links between a warming climate due to the burning of fossil fuels and the significant increase in extreme flooding. A 2022 study Swain co-authored found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">the warming climate has already doubled the probability of a megaflood\u003c/a> caused by a string of extreme atmospheric rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every degree of new warming increases that likelihood even more, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, what was once considered unlikely to happen in our lifetimes “has become quite likely,” Swain said, adding that he wouldn’t be surprised if as many as four megafloods happened just in this century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982091 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63947_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1924-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mud-coated furniture and other belongings are piled outside a home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not necessarily talking about 100 years from now. We’re talking about the next 20 or 30 years,” he said. “We’ve gotten a taste of widespread flooding, but I do think it’s only a taste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already been hit by more than 30 atmospheric rivers since October. But in order to be categorized as an extreme scenario, those weather events would have had to take place in rapid succession, with little or no time in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, by contrast, there were breaks of up to a month between each of the storms. And despite the havoc they wreaked, none were technically considered “extreme,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"flooding"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This winter, we’ve gotten lucky, believe it or not, because things could have been significantly worse than they were,” he said. “It is possible to have years where there are multiple atmospheric rivers in a row that are much stronger than what we saw at any point this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said the recent storms dropped only about half the precipitation and less than a quarter of the runoff than in the “plausible worst-case scenario” he describes in his study. The resulting “megaflood” conditions, he said, would cause “widespread levee failures, and not just levees protecting primarily agricultural areas, but potentially levees that protect major urban areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of the National Levee Database found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981900/fewer-than-10-of-levees-in-the-greater-bay-area-have-a-federal-risk-rating\">only 10% of the nearly 600 levees in the greater Bay Area have a flood-risk rating\u003c/a>. The small percentage that do include the breached levee on the Pajaro River, which is rated “moderate,” as is one on the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/salinas-river-flooding-levee-break-overflowing-monterey-county-evacuations/12697763/\">Salinas River, which also failed, in January\u003c/a>, displacing thousands. Other levees rated “moderate,” in more urban areas like San José, also are at risk of significant flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve definitely gotten a taste in some areas of what a much lesser version of this would look like,” Swain said. “But we need to be preparing for and stress-testing our infrastructure for much greater events than the ones you’ve seen this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flood modeling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is taking Swain’s predictions seriously by potentially funding \u003ca href=\"https://triton.ornl.gov/\">a flood-modeling project\u003c/a> — in partnership with Swain and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — to gain a better understanding of the impact an extended series of extreme storms would have on existing infrastructure, like levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a flood model that would resolve the flood risk at one corner of someone’s house versus another corner, for example,” Swain said. “That’s how detailed it would be for the whole state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982092\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982092 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man and younger man stand outside a light-green house, next to a pile of mud-damaged belongings, including a red refrigerator and blue office chair.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63951_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1970-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Alvarado, 22, and his father, Jesús Valtierra, 52, stand outside their home in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project involves recording a host of factors, including soil conditions, river flows, forecasted precipitation, real-time snowmelt and runoff, in an effort to calculate the extent of flooding that could result from storms of various intensities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so could also help predict which parts of the state are at greatest risk of flooding and who should evacuate, said Michael Anderson, the state’s climatologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other thing we can do is start saying, ‘Wow, if that happened, how do we recover?”’ Anderson said. “How do we take that really horrible situation and try and turn it into a chance to maybe rethink how we do some things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Anderson notes the project, which could take up to a year to complete and would cost in the ballpark of half a million dollars, is coming too late for the many thousands of people already displaced by floods this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, Mother Nature kind of beat us to the punch here,” he said. “But we’re trying to develop a capability that can work with the scenario to help us better understand how to recognize when things are scaling up so that you get the right level of response dialed in. And it’s a tool we don’t have right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mud-caked, ramshackle-looking backyard. A door to a small shed stands open. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63915_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1253-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thick, foul-smelling mud coats the ground in Juan Escutia’s backyard in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Living in the shadow of an aging levee\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For young people like Armando Alvarado, who now lives in the shadow of a broken levee, the climate crisis is all too real. A week after floodwaters covered Pajaro, the 22-year-old returned home to find his garage coated with a thick layer of sticky, putrid mud — even as the rest of the elevated home his family rents was unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the wet mud in the garage ruined a number of family heirlooms, including his collection of red, white and black ostrich-leather ranchero boots.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I call this my home, but is it really my home if they don’t want to help us?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Denia Escutia, Pajaro resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “They were emotional gifts from my family in Mexico, like uncles that passed away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he’s worried about how the damage from the flood, and the remodeling it will require, will affect the price of rent in an area of California where a one-bedroom apartment can cost as much as $2,800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denia Escutia, a high school senior who lives a few blocks south of Alvarado, woke up early in the morning on March 12 to the sound of water pouring into Escutia’s purple bedroom adorned with K-pop posters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I touched my feet to the rug, and the rug was wet,” said Escutia, 18, who prefers to not use any pronouns. Escutia’s entire house had filled with a thin layer of smelly, muddy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I woke up my dad, and we started unplugging a bunch of stuff,” Escutia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982088\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in rubber boots stands in a small bedroom with posters on the blue-painted wall and mud on the floor.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/RS63917_03242023_kqed_pajaroreturning-1292-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia, 18, in Escutia’s mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro on March 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, weeks after the flooding and subsequent evacuation, the young climate activist is questioning whether or not to see a future in Pajaro because of the obvious, familiar risks — including droughts, heat waves and flooding — that will likely only get worse with a warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escutia, whose hometown is Pajaro and who dreams of living safely on a nearby hill, surrounded by family, fears Pajaro has no future because of climate change and the decisions made by those in power that devalue the people living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Pajaro deserves climate justice,” said Escutia. “I call this my home, but is it really my home if they don’t want to help us?”\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":"/science/1982079/this-winters-floods-may-be-only-a-taste-of-the-megafloods-to-come-climate-scientists-warn","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_31","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_194","science_1754","science_4414","science_2114"],"featImg":"science_1982097","label":"science"},"science_1981077":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1981077","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1981077","score":null,"sort":[1673555130000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development","title":"State Regulators Scrutinize Climate Plan for Controversial Richmond Housing Development","publishDate":1673555130,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State Regulators Scrutinize Climate Plan for Controversial Richmond Housing Development | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The new year is a make-or-break moment for a Richmond housing development atop a contaminated former waterfront site once owned by the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4028/Campus-Bay-Mixed-Use-Project\">developing as many as 4,000 units\u003c/a> on the site have survived scrutiny by officials and legal challenges from environmental groups; the Richmond City Council approved the development years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last summer, state regulators asked the company to examine whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/deliverable_documents/5503620982/20220615%20MEETING%20NOTES%20-%20SEA-LEVEL%20RISE%20EVALUATION%20CHECK%20IN.pdf\">future sea level rise pushing up groundwater should alter the cleanup remedies (PDF)\u003c/a> for the hazardous site before development begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science of sea level rise is progressing, we’re listening to the community, and we’re saying we want more evaluation,” Ian Utz, project manager for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, or DTSC, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz also tasked two independent researchers to analyze the \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/community_involvement/4072705924/20220907%20ZENECA%20SLR%20EVALUATION.pdf\">company’s site-wide sea level rise evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a>. AstraZeneca determined that by the year 2050, the site would incur no negative impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the two scientists found the company’s conclusions inadequate. Their analysis, which KQED reviewed, shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/final_documents2?global_id=07280002&enforcement_id=60534305\">rising sea levels could surface buried contaminants\u003c/a> and expose future residents to them.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Eduardo Martinez, mayor of Richmond']‘If you make a mess in the corner, you don’t just leave it there; you clean it up. Otherwise, it becomes even more unusable.’[/pullquote]“This is a world-class scary cornucopia of chemicals, many of which will never degrade,” said Kristina Hill, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. “It just seems to me on its face to be an injustice and, frankly, stupid to put housing on a contaminated site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz will soon issue his revisions to the cleanup plan and outline next steps for the project, just as Eduardo Martinez, a new progressive mayor, takes over Richmond with the goal of forcing the company to haul away the contaminated soil, rather than the city’s current plan of removing some and capping the remainder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you make a mess in the corner, you don’t just leave it there; you clean it up. Otherwise, it becomes even more unusable,” Martinez said.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation='Marisol Cantú, Richmond Progressive Alliance ']‘I could see community members and environmental justice advocates, laying themselves down human-chain-style to make sure that no bulldozers pass.’[/pullquote]The 87-acre field of weeds and rubble with a view of Treasure Island, downtown San Francisco, the Berkeley shoreline and the Bay Bridge was once Stauffer Chemical. Climate models show this acreage nearly surrounded by water in just a few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company dumped iron pyrite cylinders into the marsh near the site and made pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeneca Corp., now called AstraZeneca, purchased the site in the 1980s. The company manufactured sulfuric acid and pesticides and closed the site in 1997; shortly after, the federal government deemed it a Superfund site. The developer, HRP Campus Bay Property LLC, did not return KQED emails for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a light blue jean jacket and a grey terry cloth skirt holds a sign reading, 'Safe Refineries, Save Lives.' She is wearing a wide brimmed grey hat and has red hair. Picketers with other white signs stand behind her. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisol Cantú walks with Chevron refinery employees and their supporters in front of Gate 14 at the Richmond refinery on April 7, 2022, to protest for worker safety and higher pay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Community resistance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Local climate activists, like 34-year-old Marisol Cantú with the Richmond Progressive Alliance, said that a developer building homes on a toxic site will only further environmental injustice and compromise the health of residents in this city of nearly 90% people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are unaware because I think they are simply trying to survive,” said Cantú of buried contaminants like lead and benzene. She organizes a youth-led climate justice podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.richmondlisteningproject.org/\">Richmond Listening Project.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you tell them there’s a contaminated site, and the [city] wants to build residential housing on it, they’re flabbergasted,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If construction begins on the housing development and there’s still contamination in the soil, Cantú said advocates will protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could see community members and environmental justice advocates, laying themselves down human-chain-style to make sure that no bulldozers pass,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades of community pushback against the development project have made the AstraZeneca site one of the highest-profile sites in the region. Hundreds, if not thousands, of polluted areas litter the shoreline. Developers are pursuing plans to build homes or businesses above many of these, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979614/for-these-black-bayview-hunters-point-residents-reparations-include-safeguarding-against-rising-toxic-contamination\">like the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, cities are under pressure to build more homes because of the region’s critical need for affordable housing. The struggle at the Richmond site is an example of the growing challenge of developing the shoreline where the Bay Area’s industrial past intersects with its climate future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tips of San Francisco buildings are in the background. A marsh and a buddy bay shore are in the middle and pink flowers are out of focus in the front of the image. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco skyline can be seen at the South Richmond Marshes on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LeBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘My community is not prepared’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the late 1990s, Eric Blum built a tan two-story cinder block photography studio a block away from what looked like an abandoned field. It was the perfect spot for his product and nature photography studio — an industrial zone off Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum’s adult children explored the marsh south of AstraZeneca when they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his family was in awe of the colors in the water, soil and a short cliff rising out of the marsh — a mix of purple, apricot and amber hues that almost mirrored the color of the sunset over the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981137\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A white-haired man wearing a dark blue hoody and blue jeans stands next to a chain link fence. On the other side of the fence is a green weedy field with geese foraging on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Blum owns a photography studio one block away from the AstraZeneca site. He says a plume of gases has moved off-site to the edge of his property. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the coming years, he realized some of those vibrant colors were from the contamination, and should have been a kind of skull-and-crossbones warning sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids walked around the marsh because it was beautiful,” he said. “I didn’t find out until later it was arsenic and heavy metals flowing around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report?global_id=07280002\">The company paid consultants to conduct a human health assessment in 2008\u003c/a> that found that cleanup workers could be exposed to contaminants while doing remediation work but that residents living off-site had a low likelihood of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AstraZeneca isn’t the only hazardous site in Richmond; there are 115 toxic spots across the city of 115,000 people, according to a KQED review of state contamination records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sites include a chemical laboratory where gases, like chloroform, are seeping up through cracks in the building’s foundation from polluted groundwater underneath the property; and gases, heavy metals, fumigants and pesticides have permeated groundwater, soil and surface water at Chevron’s Richmond refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young Richmond residents of color, like 18-year-old climate activist Lizbeth Ibarra, have called for the complete cleanup of contaminated sites like AstraZeneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My generation and future generations are going to be the ones left to deal with even worse consequences than we’re already experiencing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/lizbeth-ibarra\">Youth Vs. Apocalypse\u003c/a>, is sounding an alarm bell over climate issues in her hometown. She says people here often don’t have much time to consider future climate impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My community is not prepared, or even really aware of sea level rise and what can happen because I know a lot of us are working-class people who are just trying to survive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981083 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long black hair and black rimmed glasses kneels in a seaweed filled area of rock. She's wearing a pink shirt and ripped blue jeans at the knees. Water and hills are in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Ibarra, a leader with Youth Vs. Apocalypse, sits near the bay at the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline park in Richmond on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re stuck because of a political maneuver’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A marsh and a narrow bike trail separate the toxic site from the bay. It’s clear why developers want to turn this patch of land into shoreline housing. The property, filled with yellow flowers and shades of green shrubbery, is beautiful, with the Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco skylines in view and the natural allure of the bayfront: Birds, porpoises and crabs fill the water below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents, advocates and scientists are worried about keeping hazardous chemicals out of the natural environment. Those impacts were detailed in a study from 2012, conducted by UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory and UC Santa Barbara researchers, which found that \u003ca href=\"https://jcaa.org/news/references/Fish_Endocrine_Disruption%20in%20Saltmarsh%5b1%5d.pdf\">chemicals leaking into the marsh at the edge of the site have given fish tumors and altered their sexual anatomy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the Richmond City Council approved a cleanup plan proposed by the state to remove portions of the contaminated soil and cap the rest with a protective seal above ground. The partial cleanup was not the preferred option of many residents like Blum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re stuck because of a political maneuver,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Butt was the city’s mayor until this month. He pushed for the project and said he was “comfortable” with the DTSC and council-approved plan to leave toxics under a residential housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is our biggest need statewide and region-wide right now, and this would go a long way toward fulfilling that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981085\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981085 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A chain link fence with a sign reading, 'Caution: Hazardous Substances Area. Unauthorized persons keep out.' Behind the fence is a yellow and green weed filled filed and a dirt road. Wispy white clouds fill the blue sky. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AstraZeneca site closed in the late ’90s. For more than two decades, advocates have fought to make sure the site is fully cleaned up before it can be ready for development. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Groundwater is the conveyor belt for the chemicals’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/community_involvement/4072705924/20220907%20ZENECA%20SLR%20EVALUATION.pdf\">The company-led sea level rise evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared by consultants found that there will be no negative impacts from rising seas by the year 2050. Still, the developer might have to modify an underground barrier to treat groundwater before it reaches the bay by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s Hill and University of Arkansas geosciences professor Kevin Befus, who worked on projects for the U.S. Geological Survey modeling groundwater in the Bay Area, reviewed the evaluation for DTSC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill’s critique of the AstraZeneca study centers on the model the company’s consultants used to examine rising groundwater, which took a profile of the existing water table and raised it as “if it were frozen in shape.”[pullquote size='medium' citation='Ian Utz, project manager, California Department of Toxic Substances Control']‘We’re going to follow where the science leads us. The sea level rise evaluation is not a one-and-done thing.’[/pullquote]That’s like a “cartoon version” of how liquid moves, she said. “Groundwater isn’t like ice; it’s going to leak out to the sides. It won’t rise in some areas as much. In others, it may rise a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other independent reviewer, Befus, said his main concern is that the company’s report primarily focused on flooding hazards and not on how rising groundwater will affect contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Groundwater is the conveyor belt for the chemicals,” he said, adding that DTSC should further look at how sea level rise will alter the hydrology under the site. “[The company’s] approach is just not useful for saying which direction chemicals are going to flow. Are they going to flow faster with sea level rise? That’s just not how their model was built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A clear and easy-to-understand map of how water moves underground should be “absolutely required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing the due diligence now to make sure that 100 years from now, it isn’t someone else’s big headache, a big expense and doesn’t threaten people’s lives, I think that’s hugely important,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, AstraZeneca officials said the company is awaiting a response from DTSC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new state regulator scrutinizes old cleanup plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When DTSC hired the 27-year-old Utz as the new project manager at the AstraZeneca site in 2021, some residents were nervous. For years, they had pressed local leaders and state regulators for stronger cleanup plans at the site to little avail. They were worried a new project lead would only mean more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that skepticism began to disappear when Utz asked Hill and Befus to review the sea level rise analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re overjoyed to see this new guy,” said Robert Cheasty, executive director of the group Citizens for East Shore Parks and one of the lawyers behind several lawsuits over the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates like environmental attorney Stuart Flashman have failed to stop the project or force a more stringent cleanup through litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s the first person I’ve seen in a position of authority that’s saying, ‘You know what? We got to follow the science,’” said Flashman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz said he would issue revisions to the company-led evaluation sometime this month. For now, he won’t say whether the cleanup plan will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to follow where the science leads us,” he told KQED in November. “The sea level rise evaluation is not a one-and-done thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxics in the ground are mixing like ‘a big ball of spaghetti’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On an abnormally cold October day, Hill and two of her graduate students gathered around a dappled ivory- and gray-colored table eight miles from the toxic site in a lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill, with short blond hair and wearing a tan motorcycle jacket, characterized the toxics in the ground in Richmond as “a big ball of spaghetti” and said the company should thoroughly clean up the site before it is redeveloped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group has mapped potential plumes of toxic contamination, and Hill said they are likely moving in multiple directions toward sewer lines, businesses and a neighborhood of tract homes southwest of the Superfund site. The group has not measured for contamination in sewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981197 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-800x456.png\" alt=\"A white map showcasing sewer lines in the town of Richmond next to the a blue area representing the San Francisco Bay. Thin black lines showcase chemicals potentially moving underground. \" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-800x456.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1020x582.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-768x438.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1536x876.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1920x1095.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions.png 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The thin black lines in the middle of the map reveal how groundwater flows from high to low elevations; contaminants are lighter than water and float, moving in the same direction. UC Berkeley researchers found that the contaminants are likely already moving toward homes, sewer lines and the bay. \u003ccite>(Kristina Hill, Justin Thomas/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The toxics are also potentially moving because of the topography below the site. AstraZeneca sits above a historic, compacted riverbed, one of a bunch of fingers of an old river valley that meanders underneath Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody living on one of those fingers is going to be more affected by groundwater than people who live off of those fingers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum’s Richmond photography studio, a block from the site, sits above one of the fingers of this old riverbed. He’s worried contaminants are inching toward his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be afraid of the soil I work on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A DTSC-led groundwater remediation project could clean up the plume, but it’s still in the design phase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981080 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a blue shirt with yellow letters holds a white sign reading, 'Strike against Chevron.' A stoplight and fading blue skies are behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Martinez walks the picket line along with striking Chevron employees and their supporters during a strike for worker safety in front of Gate 14 at the Richmond refinery on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The precautionary principle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wearing a brilliant blue T-shirt with “Vote for Eduardo for Mayor” inscribed in a mustard hue, Martinez walked a thin strip of asphalt separating the bay from the toxic site last April. His wispy gray hair flounced in the wind whipping off the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always operate on the precautionary principle, which says that nothing should be there until it’s all cleaned up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 100% cleanup is the mission of the 73-year-old. He said he aims to reverse the City Council’s decision under the previous mayor for a lesser cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor controls the narrative, and I intend to do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that industry buried pollution in the soil is a symptom of the lack of care for communities of color like Richmond, according to UC Davis American Studies professor Javier Arbona, who lives in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The disposability of this landscape is linked to white supremacy,” he said. “I keep thinking of this as a site where there is so much human sacrifice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temporary cap over the contaminated soil hides a legacy of devaluing the land and the people who live and work on it, he said, walking along the barbed fence line surrounding the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Caring for each other also means thinking about the cleanliness of these sites, their preservation and access to these places,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring a complete cleanup of the AstraZeneca site would be a form of repair for past wrongs and would prevent future harm to people and the environment, in his view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could show that victories are attainable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new year is a make-or-break moment for a controversial Richmond housing development atop a contaminated former waterfront site owned by the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846113,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":70,"wordCount":2896},"headData":{"title":"State Regulators Scrutinize Climate Plan for Controversial Richmond Housing Development | KQED","description":"The new year is a make-or-break moment for a controversial Richmond housing development atop a contaminated former waterfront site owned by the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Climate Change","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/3885208a-1d8b-4586-a399-af94012db402/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The new year is a make-or-break moment for a Richmond housing development atop a contaminated former waterfront site once owned by the global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4028/Campus-Bay-Mixed-Use-Project\">developing as many as 4,000 units\u003c/a> on the site have survived scrutiny by officials and legal challenges from environmental groups; the Richmond City Council approved the development years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last summer, state regulators asked the company to examine whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/deliverable_documents/5503620982/20220615%20MEETING%20NOTES%20-%20SEA-LEVEL%20RISE%20EVALUATION%20CHECK%20IN.pdf\">future sea level rise pushing up groundwater should alter the cleanup remedies (PDF)\u003c/a> for the hazardous site before development begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The science of sea level rise is progressing, we’re listening to the community, and we’re saying we want more evaluation,” Ian Utz, project manager for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, or DTSC, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz also tasked two independent researchers to analyze the \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/community_involvement/4072705924/20220907%20ZENECA%20SLR%20EVALUATION.pdf\">company’s site-wide sea level rise evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a>. AstraZeneca determined that by the year 2050, the site would incur no negative impacts.\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>But the two scientists found the company’s conclusions inadequate. Their analysis, which KQED reviewed, shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/final_documents2?global_id=07280002&enforcement_id=60534305\">rising sea levels could surface buried contaminants\u003c/a> and expose future residents to them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you make a mess in the corner, you don’t just leave it there; you clean it up. Otherwise, it becomes even more unusable.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Eduardo Martinez, mayor of Richmond","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is a world-class scary cornucopia of chemicals, many of which will never degrade,” said Kristina Hill, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. “It just seems to me on its face to be an injustice and, frankly, stupid to put housing on a contaminated site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz will soon issue his revisions to the cleanup plan and outline next steps for the project, just as Eduardo Martinez, a new progressive mayor, takes over Richmond with the goal of forcing the company to haul away the contaminated soil, rather than the city’s current plan of removing some and capping the remainder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you make a mess in the corner, you don’t just leave it there; you clean it up. Otherwise, it becomes even more unusable,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I could see community members and environmental justice advocates, laying themselves down human-chain-style to make sure that no bulldozers pass.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Marisol Cantú, Richmond Progressive Alliance ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The 87-acre field of weeds and rubble with a view of Treasure Island, downtown San Francisco, the Berkeley shoreline and the Bay Bridge was once Stauffer Chemical. Climate models show this acreage nearly surrounded by water in just a few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company dumped iron pyrite cylinders into the marsh near the site and made pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zeneca Corp., now called AstraZeneca, purchased the site in the 1980s. The company manufactured sulfuric acid and pesticides and closed the site in 1997; shortly after, the federal government deemed it a Superfund site. The developer, HRP Campus Bay Property LLC, did not return KQED emails for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981084 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a light blue jean jacket and a grey terry cloth skirt holds a sign reading, 'Safe Refineries, Save Lives.' She is wearing a wide brimmed grey hat and has red hair. Picketers with other white signs stand behind her. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55026_010_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisol Cantú walks with Chevron refinery employees and their supporters in front of Gate 14 at the Richmond refinery on April 7, 2022, to protest for worker safety and higher pay. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Community resistance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Local climate activists, like 34-year-old Marisol Cantú with the Richmond Progressive Alliance, said that a developer building homes on a toxic site will only further environmental injustice and compromise the health of residents in this city of nearly 90% people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are unaware because I think they are simply trying to survive,” said Cantú of buried contaminants like lead and benzene. She organizes a youth-led climate justice podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.richmondlisteningproject.org/\">Richmond Listening Project.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you tell them there’s a contaminated site, and the [city] wants to build residential housing on it, they’re flabbergasted,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If construction begins on the housing development and there’s still contamination in the soil, Cantú said advocates will protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could see community members and environmental justice advocates, laying themselves down human-chain-style to make sure that no bulldozers pass,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two decades of community pushback against the development project have made the AstraZeneca site one of the highest-profile sites in the region. Hundreds, if not thousands, of polluted areas litter the shoreline. Developers are pursuing plans to build homes or businesses above many of these, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979614/for-these-black-bayview-hunters-point-residents-reparations-include-safeguarding-against-rising-toxic-contamination\">like the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, cities are under pressure to build more homes because of the region’s critical need for affordable housing. The struggle at the Richmond site is an example of the growing challenge of developing the shoreline where the Bay Area’s industrial past intersects with its climate future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tips of San Francisco buildings are in the background. A marsh and a buddy bay shore are in the middle and pink flowers are out of focus in the front of the image. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55410_008_KQED_EduardoMartinezRichmond_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco skyline can be seen at the South Richmond Marshes on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LeBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘My community is not prepared’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the late 1990s, Eric Blum built a tan two-story cinder block photography studio a block away from what looked like an abandoned field. It was the perfect spot for his product and nature photography studio — an industrial zone off Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum’s adult children explored the marsh south of AstraZeneca when they were young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, his family was in awe of the colors in the water, soil and a short cliff rising out of the marsh — a mix of purple, apricot and amber hues that almost mirrored the color of the sunset over the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981137\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A white-haired man wearing a dark blue hoody and blue jeans stands next to a chain link fence. On the other side of the fence is a green weedy field with geese foraging on it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1560-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Blum owns a photography studio one block away from the AstraZeneca site. He says a plume of gases has moved off-site to the edge of his property. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the coming years, he realized some of those vibrant colors were from the contamination, and should have been a kind of skull-and-crossbones warning sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids walked around the marsh because it was beautiful,” he said. “I didn’t find out until later it was arsenic and heavy metals flowing around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/profile_report?global_id=07280002\">The company paid consultants to conduct a human health assessment in 2008\u003c/a> that found that cleanup workers could be exposed to contaminants while doing remediation work but that residents living off-site had a low likelihood of exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AstraZeneca isn’t the only hazardous site in Richmond; there are 115 toxic spots across the city of 115,000 people, according to a KQED review of state contamination records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sites include a chemical laboratory where gases, like chloroform, are seeping up through cracks in the building’s foundation from polluted groundwater underneath the property; and gases, heavy metals, fumigants and pesticides have permeated groundwater, soil and surface water at Chevron’s Richmond refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young Richmond residents of color, like 18-year-old climate activist Lizbeth Ibarra, have called for the complete cleanup of contaminated sites like AstraZeneca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My generation and future generations are going to be the ones left to deal with even worse consequences than we’re already experiencing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra, a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/lizbeth-ibarra\">Youth Vs. Apocalypse\u003c/a>, is sounding an alarm bell over climate issues in her hometown. She says people here often don’t have much time to consider future climate impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My community is not prepared, or even really aware of sea level rise and what can happen because I know a lot of us are working-class people who are just trying to survive,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981083 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with long black hair and black rimmed glasses kneels in a seaweed filled area of rock. She's wearing a pink shirt and ripped blue jeans at the knees. Water and hills are in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55222_003_KQED_LizbethIbarraRichmond_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Ibarra, a leader with Youth Vs. Apocalypse, sits near the bay at the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline park in Richmond on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re stuck because of a political maneuver’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A marsh and a narrow bike trail separate the toxic site from the bay. It’s clear why developers want to turn this patch of land into shoreline housing. The property, filled with yellow flowers and shades of green shrubbery, is beautiful, with the Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco skylines in view and the natural allure of the bayfront: Birds, porpoises and crabs fill the water below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents, advocates and scientists are worried about keeping hazardous chemicals out of the natural environment. Those impacts were detailed in a study from 2012, conducted by UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory and UC Santa Barbara researchers, which found that \u003ca href=\"https://jcaa.org/news/references/Fish_Endocrine_Disruption%20in%20Saltmarsh%5b1%5d.pdf\">chemicals leaking into the marsh at the edge of the site have given fish tumors and altered their sexual anatomy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the Richmond City Council approved a cleanup plan proposed by the state to remove portions of the contaminated soil and cap the rest with a protective seal above ground. The partial cleanup was not the preferred option of many residents like Blum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re stuck because of a political maneuver,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Butt was the city’s mayor until this month. He pushed for the project and said he was “comfortable” with the DTSC and council-approved plan to leave toxics under a residential housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Housing is our biggest need statewide and region-wide right now, and this would go a long way toward fulfilling that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981085\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981085 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A chain link fence with a sign reading, 'Caution: Hazardous Substances Area. Unauthorized persons keep out.' Behind the fence is a yellow and green weed filled filed and a dirt road. Wispy white clouds fill the blue sky. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/IMG_1728-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The AstraZeneca site closed in the late ’90s. For more than two decades, advocates have fought to make sure the site is fully cleaned up before it can be ready for development. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Groundwater is the conveyor belt for the chemicals’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/community_involvement/4072705924/20220907%20ZENECA%20SLR%20EVALUATION.pdf\">The company-led sea level rise evaluation (PDF)\u003c/a> prepared by consultants found that there will be no negative impacts from rising seas by the year 2050. Still, the developer might have to modify an underground barrier to treat groundwater before it reaches the bay by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s Hill and University of Arkansas geosciences professor Kevin Befus, who worked on projects for the U.S. Geological Survey modeling groundwater in the Bay Area, reviewed the evaluation for DTSC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill’s critique of the AstraZeneca study centers on the model the company’s consultants used to examine rising groundwater, which took a profile of the existing water table and raised it as “if it were frozen in shape.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re going to follow where the science leads us. The sea level rise evaluation is not a one-and-done thing.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","citation":"Ian Utz, project manager, California Department of Toxic Substances Control","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s like a “cartoon version” of how liquid moves, she said. “Groundwater isn’t like ice; it’s going to leak out to the sides. It won’t rise in some areas as much. In others, it may rise a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other independent reviewer, Befus, said his main concern is that the company’s report primarily focused on flooding hazards and not on how rising groundwater will affect contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Groundwater is the conveyor belt for the chemicals,” he said, adding that DTSC should further look at how sea level rise will alter the hydrology under the site. “[The company’s] approach is just not useful for saying which direction chemicals are going to flow. Are they going to flow faster with sea level rise? That’s just not how their model was built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A clear and easy-to-understand map of how water moves underground should be “absolutely required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing the due diligence now to make sure that 100 years from now, it isn’t someone else’s big headache, a big expense and doesn’t threaten people’s lives, I think that’s hugely important,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, AstraZeneca officials said the company is awaiting a response from DTSC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new state regulator scrutinizes old cleanup plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When DTSC hired the 27-year-old Utz as the new project manager at the AstraZeneca site in 2021, some residents were nervous. For years, they had pressed local leaders and state regulators for stronger cleanup plans at the site to little avail. They were worried a new project lead would only mean more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that skepticism began to disappear when Utz asked Hill and Befus to review the sea level rise analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re overjoyed to see this new guy,” said Robert Cheasty, executive director of the group Citizens for East Shore Parks and one of the lawyers behind several lawsuits over the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates like environmental attorney Stuart Flashman have failed to stop the project or force a more stringent cleanup through litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s the first person I’ve seen in a position of authority that’s saying, ‘You know what? We got to follow the science,’” said Flashman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utz said he would issue revisions to the company-led evaluation sometime this month. For now, he won’t say whether the cleanup plan will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to follow where the science leads us,” he told KQED in November. “The sea level rise evaluation is not a one-and-done thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxics in the ground are mixing like ‘a big ball of spaghetti’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On an abnormally cold October day, Hill and two of her graduate students gathered around a dappled ivory- and gray-colored table eight miles from the toxic site in a lab at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill, with short blond hair and wearing a tan motorcycle jacket, characterized the toxics in the ground in Richmond as “a big ball of spaghetti” and said the company should thoroughly clean up the site before it is redeveloped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group has mapped potential plumes of toxic contamination, and Hill said they are likely moving in multiple directions toward sewer lines, businesses and a neighborhood of tract homes southwest of the Superfund site. The group has not measured for contamination in sewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981197 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-800x456.png\" alt=\"A white map showcasing sewer lines in the town of Richmond next to the a blue area representing the San Francisco Bay. Thin black lines showcase chemicals potentially moving underground. \" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-800x456.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1020x582.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-160x91.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-768x438.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1536x876.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions-1920x1095.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/01/Hill-and-Thomas-2022-Groundwater-flow-directions-and-sewer-line-locations-for-Richmond-south-shoreline-sites-present-conditions.png 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The thin black lines in the middle of the map reveal how groundwater flows from high to low elevations; contaminants are lighter than water and float, moving in the same direction. UC Berkeley researchers found that the contaminants are likely already moving toward homes, sewer lines and the bay. \u003ccite>(Kristina Hill, Justin Thomas/UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The toxics are also potentially moving because of the topography below the site. AstraZeneca sits above a historic, compacted riverbed, one of a bunch of fingers of an old river valley that meanders underneath Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody living on one of those fingers is going to be more affected by groundwater than people who live off of those fingers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum’s Richmond photography studio, a block from the site, sits above one of the fingers of this old riverbed. He’s worried contaminants are inching toward his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be afraid of the soil I work on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A DTSC-led groundwater remediation project could clean up the plume, but it’s still in the design phase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1981080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981080 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a blue shirt with yellow letters holds a white sign reading, 'Strike against Chevron.' A stoplight and fading blue skies are behind him. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Martinez walks the picket line along with striking Chevron employees and their supporters during a strike for worker safety in front of Gate 14 at the Richmond refinery on April 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The precautionary principle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wearing a brilliant blue T-shirt with “Vote for Eduardo for Mayor” inscribed in a mustard hue, Martinez walked a thin strip of asphalt separating the bay from the toxic site last April. His wispy gray hair flounced in the wind whipping off the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always operate on the precautionary principle, which says that nothing should be there until it’s all cleaned up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 100% cleanup is the mission of the 73-year-old. He said he aims to reverse the City Council’s decision under the previous mayor for a lesser cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor controls the narrative, and I intend to do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that industry buried pollution in the soil is a symptom of the lack of care for communities of color like Richmond, according to UC Davis American Studies professor Javier Arbona, who lives in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The disposability of this landscape is linked to white supremacy,” he said. “I keep thinking of this as a site where there is so much human sacrifice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The temporary cap over the contaminated soil hides a legacy of devaluing the land and the people who live and work on it, he said, walking along the barbed fence line surrounding the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Caring for each other also means thinking about the cleanliness of these sites, their preservation and access to these places,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring a complete cleanup of the AstraZeneca site would be a form of repair for past wrongs and would prevent future harm to people and the environment, in his view.\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>“It could show that victories are attainable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_31","science_35","science_40","science_4450","science_98"],"tags":["science_1754","science_4417","science_4414","science_554","science_206"],"featImg":"science_1981081","label":"source_science_1981077"},"science_1978046":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1978046","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1978046","score":null,"sort":[1641061248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"2022-promises-continued-climate-extremes-but-also-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-californians","title":"2022 Promises Continued Climate Extremes, But Also A Glimmer of Hope for Californians","publishDate":1641061248,"format":"image","headTitle":"2022 Promises Continued Climate Extremes, But Also A Glimmer of Hope for Californians | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It’s a brand new year, and perhaps you have hopeful resolutions in mind—losing weight, getting politically active, leaving your house more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you look over your shoulder, the demon that was 2021 is lurking behind you. In its eyes is the pandemic that kept you in your house for way too long, on its breath are the flames that nearly burned down your favorite part of the Sierra, the sweltering heat from last summer, and the wildfire smoke choking out the space in your lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Kristina Hill, UC Berkeley']“We should be planning now while things are stable, instead of running around treating it as a disaster in 20 years.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can’t promise 2022 will be that much better, but we can let you in on a little secret: There’s a lot of work happening and billions of dollars available to help Californians withstand the worst of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/staff/AssignmentDetail/223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Ehlers\u003c/a>, principal fiscal and policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office, says billions are set aside in the state budget over three years for adapting to climate change, including money for drought, wildfire, and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What got climate on the front of everyone’s mind is that we had so many climate disasters last summer,” she said. “The silver lining is it is being taken as a big priority, to help avoid some of the bad impacts on the horizon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are impacts on the horizon. Stanford climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://earth.stanford.edu/people/noah-diffenbaugh#gs.kvl2oc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Diffenbaugh\u003c/a> says Californians should get used to climate extremes like flooding, minimal snowpacks, and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a climate where we’ve had so much warming already that some of these factors are becoming much more reliable predictions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With years of inclement weather and climate events, Ehlers says Californians know what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we do now to prepare,” she asked. “So, we don’t have people losing their homes in big wildfires or have significant health impacts because it’s too hot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Michael Méndez, UC Irvine']‘If we really want to tackle climate change and our dependence on fossil fuel as an economy, directly addressing our oil production and oil imports is a key factor for our state.’[/pullquote] Ehlers says billions of dollars in the federal infrastructure bill could \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CALIFORNIA_The-Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infuse California\u003c/a> with money to ready roads and bridges for a changing climate. There are also millions to protect infrastructure against wildfires, deliver clean drinking water to communities, and expand an electric vehicle charging network across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the infusion of cash, Ehlers cautions that throwing money at climate impacts isn’t a cure for the root cause of atmospheric warming — burning fossil fuels. And just because we have the dollars doesn’t preclude \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977844/im-ready-to-act-on-climate-do-i-start-big-or-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977844/im-ready-to-act-on-climate-do-i-start-big-or-small\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">actions each of us can take to calm the storm ahead of us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelanthonymendez.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Méndez\u003c/a>, author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232158/climate-change-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Change from the Streets\u003c/a>,” says people can vote and pressure local, state and federal leaders to act on climate change and phasing out fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people care about climate change and environmental issues, it’s important, they stay active and educated about who’s running for office,” he said. “Many people think that their vote doesn’t count, but we see it does count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a glimpse of what 2022 holds for California climate-wise, click the links below.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"backtotop\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"#question1\">Weather\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question2\">Drought\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question3\">Wildfire\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question4\">Environmental Justice\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question5\">Oil & Gas\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question6\">Energy\u003c/a>| \u003ca href=\"#question7\">Electric Cars\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question8\">Sea Level Rise\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978125\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Curtains of water spray up on both sides of a truck driving on a flooded street in October 2021 in Mill Valley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water kicks up as a truck drives on a flooded street in October 2021 in Mill Valley. A category 5 atmospheric river brought heavy precipitation, high winds and power outages to the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 has been a year: A dry winter, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-09/california-records-hottest-summer-amid-heat-wave-flex-alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hottest summer on record\u003c/a>, wildfires, and atmospheric rivers. Brian Garcia, a warning meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area\u003c/a> office, says he’s excited to see California start the year soggy and wet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 2022, I would expect much more normal conditions than we’ve seen over the past few years, but also expect a warmer-than-normal summer,” Garcia said. He also says long-term climate models signal a dry-out in late January or February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be less time to prepare for storms and heat waves. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2021/12/14/warming-makes-weather-less-predictable/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent study\u003c/a> from Stanford professor \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/aditi-sheshadri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aditi Sheshadri\u003c/a> found warming is making it harder to predict 10-day forecasts accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, if we know that the window of accurate predictability is going to reduce as we go forward, that is valuable knowledge for anyone who has to respond to changing weather conditions, whether it’s extreme or not,” she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drought\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1975263\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1975263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/oroville-drought_custom-21f30a6c6bd7d461408a015ffe94746ec6b5cd7e-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"In an aerial view, low water levels are visible at Lake Oroville on April 27, 2021 in Oroville, California.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low water levels were visible at Lake Oroville on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While 2022 is starting as wet and balmy, California needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977196/newsom-declares-drought-emergency-across-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">140% of average rain\u003c/a> and snow to get reservoir levels back to average. Even with recent rains, large reservoirs the state relies on for water supply, such as Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, are still below average. But the rain has filled some small reservoirs to above-average levels; for example, Marin’s reservoir levels noticeably rise with each storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who’d like to see stricter drought restrictions this year is \u003ca href=\"https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/about/people/newsha-ajami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsha Ajami\u003c/a>. She’s the director of urban water policy for Stanford University’s Water in the West initiative. She says all the bouncing between weather extremes is just not working for California’s aging water system, built for a climate that does not exist anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s concerned heat waves will melt the Sierra Nevada snowpack and dry out wildlands early. That’s a large part of what exacerbated the scale of the drought and wildfires in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking into 2022, thinking, this is great, we are seeing another atmospheric river, lots of rain, some snow in the mountains, but I’m hoping and praying that we are not going to be hit with another heatwave that would melt all of this,” she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1975975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1975975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1020x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home burns as flames from the Dixie fire tear through the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California on July 24, 2021. Rising temperatures are drying out forests, priming them for big fires. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2021 fire season was truly ferocious, and over the past year, the sheer scale of the fires shifted the public consciousness. Californians realized how we fight wildfires isn’t working. As a result, state leaders created policy goals and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/16/prescribed-burns-could-help-reduce-californias-wildfires-a-new-bill-could-help-make-planned-fires-more-frequent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laws\u003c/a> to make it easier for fire experts to light controlled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887158/in-california-restoring-our-relationship-with-fire-is-possible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">good fires\u003c/a> that clear excess vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire experts are still concerned that large, impossible-to-control wildfires will ignite again in the early summer months through the fall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eri.ucsb.edu/people/leila-m-v-carvalho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leila Carvalho\u003c/a>, a UC Santa Barbara professor of meteorology and climatology, says long-term climate trends—like heat waves drying out vegetation early in the year or drier springs—will continue throughout 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Major fires will happen,” she said. “The cycles tend to repeat when we have the right conditions of winds and ignitions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carvalho is hopeful for two significant reasons. First, the state has set aside more than a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-fires-climate-california-eec48e6279099449851b3c7f150cda33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">billion dollars\u003c/a> to strategically remove brush and trees to rescue catastrophic wildfires. Second, so many scientists are studying the effects climate change and historic fire suppression has on drying wildland areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are trying to find solutions to mitigate and adapt because we have to deal with these swinging extremes in climate,” she said. “I’m hopeful that we are perhaps dealing with problems in ways we haven’t been doing before.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environmental Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Communities already dealing with the effects of climate change stand to benefit from $100 million in state funds to establish community resilience hubs where people can go when climate emergencies strike. The hubs will be permanent neighborhood-based facilities — youth centers, churches, senior centers — that can provide emergency response, including backup power, food, economic assistance, internet services and a respite from smoke-filled air.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Alvaro Sanchez, Greenlining Institute']“The fact that we’re still hitting up against political barriers to make the progress that we need to make just indicates how hard this is and how much growth we still need to have when it comes to addressing these challenges head-on.”[/pullquote]Still, \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/about/our-team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvaro Sanchez\u003c/a>, policy director for the Greenlining Institute, says the funds only “scratch the surface” of what’s needed for low-income communities as swings in weather increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the legislature failed to advance a bill that would have sped up meeting California’s climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that we’re still hitting up against political barriers to make the progress that we need to make just indicates how hard this is and how much growth we still need to have when it comes to addressing these challenges head-on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is excited that the state and two environmental justice-oriented groups are collaborating to develop a mapping platform that identifies the places most likely to flood, burn, dry out, etc. The maps will consider socioeconomic status, a factor that puts some populations at a greater risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to take some time to develop, but it’s going to be what keeps California in the forefront on the way that we’re addressing climate change and bringing intersectional perspectives into the climate conversation,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil & Gas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1946654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1020x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1200x824.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke drifts away from a Shell Oil refinery April 1, 2004 in Martinez, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were two milestones in 2021 for phasing out fossil fuels in California: Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/04/newsom-ban-new-oil-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned new oil fracking by 2024\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.com/2021/12/06/oil-rig-setback-rule-doesnt-go-far-enough/%3famp=1\">drafted\u003c/a> a ban on new oil and gas wells sometime after 2023 within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, or healthcare facilities. Even so, Michael Méndez, an assistant professor of environmental planning and policy at UC Irvine, says California isn’t doing enough. The state is the 7th largest crude oil producer in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we really want to tackle climate change and our dependence on fossil fuel as an economy, directly addressing our oil production and oil imports is a key factor for our state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez is also looking forward to California beginning a conversation about updating its climate roadmap this year. He says a crucial part of the plan will be ensuring that California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972789/california-says-it-will-review-cap-and-trade-amid-growing-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> system, which puts a price on carbon, actually lowers carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if we should totally scrap the cap-and-trade program, but it needs a thorough public reevaluation in the legislature,” he said. “Are these market based systems happening at the expense of immediate public health outcomes and improvements for low-income communities of color?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez says there’s a growing concern that the cap-and-trade is an insufficient policy because it allows “polluting industries to pay to pollute in communities without changing their practices.” And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975164/california-not-doing-as-well-as-it-thinks-in-reducing-carbon-investigation-finds\">report\u003c/a> last summer found that millions of carbon credits from the program do not represent real reductions in planet-warming gas emissions.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Energy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Decisions that both eased and further complicated renewable energy marked 2021—think of plans for offshore wind and reducing the rate at which homeowners can sell extra electricity from rooftop solar panels—and lots of work around holding PG&E accountable for starting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Meredith Fowlie Energy Institute, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business']‘More and more people are coming to understand the urgency of climate action, but we’re coming to terms with deep divides and social inequalities. The choices we make are going to determine how much it costs and who pays the prices.’[/pullquote]Energy experts say there will be a ramping up of greening the grid this year. California is also hosting an in-person offshore wind industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.offshorewindca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference\u003c/a> in March in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meredithfowlie.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meredith Fowlie\u003c/a>, faculty director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, says as the electricity sector further decarbonizes and renewable energy options expand in 2022, California needs to make sure the clean energy transition is equitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more people are coming to understand the urgency of climate action, but we’re coming to terms with deep divides and social inequalities,” she said. “The choices we make are going to determine how much it costs and who pays the prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies like PG&E put transmission lines underground to prevent catastrophic wildfires, the cost will likely extend to ratepayers, says \u003ca href=\"https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/callaway-duncan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duncan Callaway\u003c/a>, an associate professor of Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be harder for customers to justify purchasing that new electrified appliance or car because the cost to charge or run their electric heat pump will be too high,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last piece of exciting energy news to start off 2022 is that California is beginning to work on a Fifth Climate Assessment. \u003ca href=\"https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/andrew-d-jones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Jones\u003c/a>, an earth scientist in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, is helping build a tool to take the terabytes of data electricity companies and agencies have “about the future climate and extract useful knowledge from all of that.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Electric Cars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1931178\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1931178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric cars are growing in the Bay Area but are only 6 percent of new vehicle sales statewide. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petty much no one’s trying to kill the electric car these days— at least, not in California — and in 2022, Ford is even releasing an \u003ca href=\"https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/05/19/all-electric-ford-f-150-lightning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electric version\u003c/a> of the popular Ford F-150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the US, where we love trucks, it’s really important that people who drive those vehicles really want to drive the electric versions of them,” said \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kendall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alissa Kendall\u003c/a>. She studies electric cars as chair of the Energy Graduate Group at UC Davis. “I think that’s what we’re going to see in 2022, a positive and exciting shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kendall says what’s missing from the zero-emission vehicle conversation are ways to make electric vehicles accessible, affordable, and convenient for low-income people. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/california-must-ensure-ev-charging-access-for-all/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coalition\u003c/a> of elected officials, companies, and advocacy groups want all new multi-unit family housing to come with electric vehicle charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall thinks 2022 could be a year where there’s increased investment in charging stations in areas accessible to all Californians, not just for homeowners or businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a big access issue,” she said of both electrified public transportation and electric cars. “How do we deliver transit that actually decreases the burdens of pollution on communities already experiencing disproportionate burdens?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall says California has a few big things to figure out in 2022, including what to do with car batteries at the end of their lives and how to source and produce materials to make batteries instate.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sea Level Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1955614\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1955614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"King Tide along San Francisco's Embarcadero, in February 2011.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Tide along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, in February 2011. \u003ccite>(Dave R/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rising tides resulting from warming temperatures globally is a major climate impact the state can prepare for—even with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/world/noaa-climate-change-arctic-report/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news\u003c/a> late last year that the Arctic is rapidly losing ice—because the worst effects won’t come for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/kristina-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristina Hill\u003c/a>, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, says it’s essential to plan now for sea-level rise; otherwise, the Bay Area will undergo similar devastation mountain communities are enduring from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be planning now while things are stable, instead of running around treating it as a disaster in 20 years, which it will be if we don’t plan ahead, because the rate of change is accelerating,” she said. “This is the last period when it’s going to feel slow. After this, it’s going to be fast for hundreds of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area is beginning to prepare for rising tides. Counties, agencies, nonprofits and cities are collaborating \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to prepare for sea level rise as one region\u003c/a>. San Mateo County is planning an entire \u003ca href=\"https://oneshoreline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shoreline protection project\u003c/a>, and university scientists are researching how to prepare the most vulnerable residents for \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising water levels\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides\"> \u003c/a>(groundwater and the sea).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one area Hill says needs to be taken seriously this year is that sea level rise can cause groundwater flooding and make existing contamination worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already seeing evidence of that water coming up out of manholes and Alameda and San Leandro,” she said. “That water is rising with the high tides, under contaminated sites. It’s entering sewer pipes, it’s going to cause impacts to infrastructure, and it’s going to expose people to more health risks, from contaminants that are moving in the groundwater.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Take a look back at big climate and environmental events of 2021, and some hopeful forecasts for 2022. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846340,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2979},"headData":{"title":"2022 Promises Continued Climate Extremes, But Also A Glimmer of Hope for Californians | KQED","description":"Take a look back at big climate and environmental events of 2021, and some hopeful forecasts for 2022. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Climate Change","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/science/1978046/2022-promises-continued-climate-extremes-but-also-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-californians","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s a brand new year, and perhaps you have hopeful resolutions in mind—losing weight, getting politically active, leaving your house more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you look over your shoulder, the demon that was 2021 is lurking behind you. In its eyes is the pandemic that kept you in your house for way too long, on its breath are the flames that nearly burned down your favorite part of the Sierra, the sweltering heat from last summer, and the wildfire smoke choking out the space in your lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“We should be planning now while things are stable, instead of running around treating it as a disaster in 20 years.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kristina Hill, UC Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can’t promise 2022 will be that much better, but we can let you in on a little secret: There’s a lot of work happening and billions of dollars available to help Californians withstand the worst of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/staff/AssignmentDetail/223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Ehlers\u003c/a>, principal fiscal and policy analyst for the Legislative Analyst’s Office, says billions are set aside in the state budget over three years for adapting to climate change, including money for drought, wildfire, and environmental justice.\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>“What got climate on the front of everyone’s mind is that we had so many climate disasters last summer,” she said. “The silver lining is it is being taken as a big priority, to help avoid some of the bad impacts on the horizon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are impacts on the horizon. Stanford climate scientist \u003ca href=\"https://earth.stanford.edu/people/noah-diffenbaugh#gs.kvl2oc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Diffenbaugh\u003c/a> says Californians should get used to climate extremes like flooding, minimal snowpacks, and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a climate where we’ve had so much warming already that some of these factors are becoming much more reliable predictions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With years of inclement weather and climate events, Ehlers says Californians know what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we do now to prepare,” she asked. “So, we don’t have people losing their homes in big wildfires or have significant health impacts because it’s too hot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we really want to tackle climate change and our dependence on fossil fuel as an economy, directly addressing our oil production and oil imports is a key factor for our state.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Méndez, UC Irvine","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Ehlers says billions of dollars in the federal infrastructure bill could \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CALIFORNIA_The-Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infuse California\u003c/a> with money to ready roads and bridges for a changing climate. There are also millions to protect infrastructure against wildfires, deliver clean drinking water to communities, and expand an electric vehicle charging network across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the infusion of cash, Ehlers cautions that throwing money at climate impacts isn’t a cure for the root cause of atmospheric warming — burning fossil fuels. And just because we have the dollars doesn’t preclude \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977844/im-ready-to-act-on-climate-do-i-start-big-or-small\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977844/im-ready-to-act-on-climate-do-i-start-big-or-small\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">actions each of us can take to calm the storm ahead of us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.michaelanthonymendez.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Méndez\u003c/a>, author of the book “\u003ca href=\"https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232158/climate-change-streets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Change from the Streets\u003c/a>,” says people can vote and pressure local, state and federal leaders to act on climate change and phasing out fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people care about climate change and environmental issues, it’s important, they stay active and educated about who’s running for office,” he said. “Many people think that their vote doesn’t count, but we see it does count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a glimpse of what 2022 holds for California climate-wise, click the links below.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"backtotop\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"#question1\">Weather\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question2\">Drought\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question3\">Wildfire\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question4\">Environmental Justice\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question5\">Oil & Gas\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question6\">Energy\u003c/a>| \u003ca href=\"#question7\">Electric Cars\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"#question8\">Sea Level Rise\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978125\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Curtains of water spray up on both sides of a truck driving on a flooded street in October 2021 in Mill Valley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/12/GettyImages-1348746012-1920x1270.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water kicks up as a truck drives on a flooded street in October 2021 in Mill Valley. A category 5 atmospheric river brought heavy precipitation, high winds and power outages to the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2021 has been a year: A dry winter, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-09/california-records-hottest-summer-amid-heat-wave-flex-alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hottest summer on record\u003c/a>, wildfires, and atmospheric rivers. Brian Garcia, a warning meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area\u003c/a> office, says he’s excited to see California start the year soggy and wet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 2022, I would expect much more normal conditions than we’ve seen over the past few years, but also expect a warmer-than-normal summer,” Garcia said. He also says long-term climate models signal a dry-out in late January or February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there may be less time to prepare for storms and heat waves. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/2021/12/14/warming-makes-weather-less-predictable/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent study\u003c/a> from Stanford professor \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/aditi-sheshadri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aditi Sheshadri\u003c/a> found warming is making it harder to predict 10-day forecasts accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, if we know that the window of accurate predictability is going to reduce as we go forward, that is valuable knowledge for anyone who has to respond to changing weather conditions, whether it’s extreme or not,” she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drought\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1975263\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1975263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/06/oroville-drought_custom-21f30a6c6bd7d461408a015ffe94746ec6b5cd7e-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"In an aerial view, low water levels are visible at Lake Oroville on April 27, 2021 in Oroville, California.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low water levels were visible at Lake Oroville on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While 2022 is starting as wet and balmy, California needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1977196/newsom-declares-drought-emergency-across-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">140% of average rain\u003c/a> and snow to get reservoir levels back to average. Even with recent rains, large reservoirs the state relies on for water supply, such as Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, are still below average. But the rain has filled some small reservoirs to above-average levels; for example, Marin’s reservoir levels noticeably rise with each storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who’d like to see stricter drought restrictions this year is \u003ca href=\"https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/about/people/newsha-ajami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsha Ajami\u003c/a>. She’s the director of urban water policy for Stanford University’s Water in the West initiative. She says all the bouncing between weather extremes is just not working for California’s aging water system, built for a climate that does not exist anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s concerned heat waves will melt the Sierra Nevada snowpack and dry out wildlands early. That’s a large part of what exacerbated the scale of the drought and wildfires in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m looking into 2022, thinking, this is great, we are seeing another atmospheric river, lots of rain, some snow in the mountains, but I’m hoping and praying that we are not going to be hit with another heatwave that would melt all of this,” she said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Wildfire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1975975\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1975975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1020x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/07/RS50400_GettyImages-1234171316-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home burns as flames from the Dixie fire tear through the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California on July 24, 2021. Rising temperatures are drying out forests, priming them for big fires. \u003ccite>(JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2021 fire season was truly ferocious, and over the past year, the sheer scale of the fires shifted the public consciousness. Californians realized how we fight wildfires isn’t working. As a result, state leaders created policy goals and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/16/prescribed-burns-could-help-reduce-californias-wildfires-a-new-bill-could-help-make-planned-fires-more-frequent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laws\u003c/a> to make it easier for fire experts to light controlled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887158/in-california-restoring-our-relationship-with-fire-is-possible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">good fires\u003c/a> that clear excess vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire experts are still concerned that large, impossible-to-control wildfires will ignite again in the early summer months through the fall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eri.ucsb.edu/people/leila-m-v-carvalho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leila Carvalho\u003c/a>, a UC Santa Barbara professor of meteorology and climatology, says long-term climate trends—like heat waves drying out vegetation early in the year or drier springs—will continue throughout 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Major fires will happen,” she said. “The cycles tend to repeat when we have the right conditions of winds and ignitions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carvalho is hopeful for two significant reasons. First, the state has set aside more than a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-fires-climate-california-eec48e6279099449851b3c7f150cda33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">billion dollars\u003c/a> to strategically remove brush and trees to rescue catastrophic wildfires. Second, so many scientists are studying the effects climate change and historic fire suppression has on drying wildland areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are trying to find solutions to mitigate and adapt because we have to deal with these swinging extremes in climate,” she said. “I’m hopeful that we are perhaps dealing with problems in ways we haven’t been doing before.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question4\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Environmental Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Communities already dealing with the effects of climate change stand to benefit from $100 million in state funds to establish community resilience hubs where people can go when climate emergencies strike. The hubs will be permanent neighborhood-based facilities — youth centers, churches, senior centers — that can provide emergency response, including backup power, food, economic assistance, internet services and a respite from smoke-filled air.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“The fact that we’re still hitting up against political barriers to make the progress that we need to make just indicates how hard this is and how much growth we still need to have when it comes to addressing these challenges head-on.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alvaro Sanchez, Greenlining Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, \u003ca href=\"https://greenlining.org/about/our-team/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvaro Sanchez\u003c/a>, policy director for the Greenlining Institute, says the funds only “scratch the surface” of what’s needed for low-income communities as swings in weather increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the legislature failed to advance a bill that would have sped up meeting California’s climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that we’re still hitting up against political barriers to make the progress that we need to make just indicates how hard this is and how much growth we still need to have when it comes to addressing these challenges head-on,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez is excited that the state and two environmental justice-oriented groups are collaborating to develop a mapping platform that identifies the places most likely to flood, burn, dry out, etc. The maps will consider socioeconomic status, a factor that puts some populations at a greater risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to take some time to develop, but it’s going to be what keeps California in the forefront on the way that we’re addressing climate change and bringing intersectional perspectives into the climate conversation,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question5\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil & Gas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1946654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1020x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut-1200x824.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/RS23868_GettyImages-3188665-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke drifts away from a Shell Oil refinery April 1, 2004 in Martinez, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were two milestones in 2021 for phasing out fossil fuels in California: Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/04/newsom-ban-new-oil-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned new oil fracking by 2024\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.com/2021/12/06/oil-rig-setback-rule-doesnt-go-far-enough/%3famp=1\">drafted\u003c/a> a ban on new oil and gas wells sometime after 2023 within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, or healthcare facilities. Even so, Michael Méndez, an assistant professor of environmental planning and policy at UC Irvine, says California isn’t doing enough. The state is the 7th largest crude oil producer in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we really want to tackle climate change and our dependence on fossil fuel as an economy, directly addressing our oil production and oil imports is a key factor for our state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez is also looking forward to California beginning a conversation about updating its climate roadmap this year. He says a crucial part of the plan will be ensuring that California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972789/california-says-it-will-review-cap-and-trade-amid-growing-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> system, which puts a price on carbon, actually lowers carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if we should totally scrap the cap-and-trade program, but it needs a thorough public reevaluation in the legislature,” he said. “Are these market based systems happening at the expense of immediate public health outcomes and improvements for low-income communities of color?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Méndez says there’s a growing concern that the cap-and-trade is an insufficient policy because it allows “polluting industries to pay to pollute in communities without changing their practices.” And a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1975164/california-not-doing-as-well-as-it-thinks-in-reducing-carbon-investigation-finds\">report\u003c/a> last summer found that millions of carbon credits from the program do not represent real reductions in planet-warming gas emissions.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Energy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Decisions that both eased and further complicated renewable energy marked 2021—think of plans for offshore wind and reducing the rate at which homeowners can sell extra electricity from rooftop solar panels—and lots of work around holding PG&E accountable for starting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘More and more people are coming to understand the urgency of climate action, but we’re coming to terms with deep divides and social inequalities. The choices we make are going to determine how much it costs and who pays the prices.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Meredith Fowlie Energy Institute, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Energy experts say there will be a ramping up of greening the grid this year. California is also hosting an in-person offshore wind industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.offshorewindca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference\u003c/a> in March in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.meredithfowlie.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meredith Fowlie\u003c/a>, faculty director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, says as the electricity sector further decarbonizes and renewable energy options expand in 2022, California needs to make sure the clean energy transition is equitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more people are coming to understand the urgency of climate action, but we’re coming to terms with deep divides and social inequalities,” she said. “The choices we make are going to determine how much it costs and who pays the prices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies like PG&E put transmission lines underground to prevent catastrophic wildfires, the cost will likely extend to ratepayers, says \u003ca href=\"https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/callaway-duncan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duncan Callaway\u003c/a>, an associate professor of Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be harder for customers to justify purchasing that new electrified appliance or car because the cost to charge or run their electric heat pump will be too high,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last piece of exciting energy news to start off 2022 is that California is beginning to work on a Fifth Climate Assessment. \u003ca href=\"https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/andrew-d-jones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Jones\u003c/a>, an earth scientist in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, is helping build a tool to take the terabytes of data electricity companies and agencies have “about the future climate and extract useful knowledge from all of that.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question7\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Electric Cars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1931178\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1931178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/ElectricCars_AW_06-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric cars are growing in the Bay Area but are only 6 percent of new vehicle sales statewide. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petty much no one’s trying to kill the electric car these days— at least, not in California — and in 2022, Ford is even releasing an \u003ca href=\"https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/05/19/all-electric-ford-f-150-lightning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electric version\u003c/a> of the popular Ford F-150.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the US, where we love trucks, it’s really important that people who drive those vehicles really want to drive the electric versions of them,” said \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kendall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alissa Kendall\u003c/a>. She studies electric cars as chair of the Energy Graduate Group at UC Davis. “I think that’s what we’re going to see in 2022, a positive and exciting shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kendall says what’s missing from the zero-emission vehicle conversation are ways to make electric vehicles accessible, affordable, and convenient for low-income people. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/11/california-must-ensure-ev-charging-access-for-all/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coalition\u003c/a> of elected officials, companies, and advocacy groups want all new multi-unit family housing to come with electric vehicle charging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall thinks 2022 could be a year where there’s increased investment in charging stations in areas accessible to all Californians, not just for homeowners or businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a big access issue,” she said of both electrified public transportation and electric cars. “How do we deliver transit that actually decreases the burdens of pollution on communities already experiencing disproportionate burdens?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall says California has a few big things to figure out in 2022, including what to do with car batteries at the end of their lives and how to source and produce materials to make batteries instate.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"question8\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sea Level Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1955614\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1955614\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"King Tide along San Francisco's Embarcadero, in February 2011.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/01/kingtides.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Tide along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, in February 2011. \u003ccite>(Dave R/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rising tides resulting from warming temperatures globally is a major climate impact the state can prepare for—even with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/world/noaa-climate-change-arctic-report/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news\u003c/a> late last year that the Arctic is rapidly losing ice—because the worst effects won’t come for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/kristina-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristina Hill\u003c/a>, director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, says it’s essential to plan now for sea-level rise; otherwise, the Bay Area will undergo similar devastation mountain communities are enduring from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be planning now while things are stable, instead of running around treating it as a disaster in 20 years, which it will be if we don’t plan ahead, because the rate of change is accelerating,” she said. “This is the last period when it’s going to feel slow. After this, it’s going to be fast for hundreds of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area is beginning to prepare for rising tides. Counties, agencies, nonprofits and cities are collaborating \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to prepare for sea level rise as one region\u003c/a>. San Mateo County is planning an entire \u003ca href=\"https://oneshoreline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shoreline protection project\u003c/a>, and university scientists are researching how to prepare the most vulnerable residents for \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising water levels\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/toxictides\"> \u003c/a>(groundwater and the sea).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one area Hill says needs to be taken seriously this year is that sea level rise can cause groundwater flooding and make existing contamination worse.\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>“We’re already seeing evidence of that water coming up out of manholes and Alameda and San Leandro,” she said. “That water is rising with the high tides, under contaminated sites. It’s entering sewer pipes, it’s going to cause impacts to infrastructure, and it’s going to expose people to more health risks, from contaminants that are moving in the groundwater.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"#backtotop\">Back to top\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1978046/2022-promises-continued-climate-extremes-but-also-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-californians","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_31","science_33","science_35","science_4550","science_40","science_4450","science_98","science_3730"],"tags":["science_2924","science_194","science_572","science_845","science_134","science_1754","science_4414","science_206","science_113"],"featImg":"science_1976799","label":"source_science_1978046"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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