A CalFire firefighter points at a potential hot spot during the Rabbit Fire in Moreno Valley. Companies and researchers are using AI to both detect wildfires early and help prevent megafires. (Jon Putman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Lots of industries have embraced artificial intelligence as a tool this past year, including climate solutions companies. From detecting pollution to wildfires, companies are finding AI can help translate vast amounts of climate-related data faster and more efficiently, says Sasha Luccioni, climate lead for AI company Hugging Face.
Luccioni notes it’s important to be cautious about whether AI is always necessary. Generative AI, which makes new content, can use large amounts of energy and have a big carbon footprint. But she says there are many applications for AI in the green transition.
Here are four ways companies, researchers and governments use AI for climate solutions.
Using AI to detect planet-heating methane
Methane emissions, the second biggest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, are climbing. The highly potent pollutant — the main ingredient in natural gas — gets released by the energy sector, as well as agriculture and decomposing material in landfills.
Now, researchers and companies are using AI to interpret huge quantities of satellite images to track global methane emissions on a daily basis.
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“Before we could mine satellite information with AI, we had no idea where methane was coming from,” says Antoine Halff, co-founder and chief analyst at Kayrros, a climate analytics firm. “We understood the climate risk that this represented. But there was no understanding of the sources.”
When Kayrros began in 2016, Halff says the world knew about only a handful of occurrences of large methane leaks and other releases. He says his team can now detect dozens of them every week and thousands yearly. “For methane,” Halff says, “AI really reveals things that could not be known.”
The United Nations uses Kayrros’s AI-fueled data to verify that companies’ reports on methane emissions are accurate. Other governments are gearing up for more methane monitoring: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Union recently passed new methane regulations.
Because methane is so potent, targeting it through AI makes strategic sense, Halff says. “If you eliminate methane emissions today,” he says, “you can very quickly have an impact on the curve of global warming.”
Using AI for early detection of forest fires
Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, and those burns are making up an increasing share of planet-heating pollution.
Now, a Berlin-based startup uses AI with sensors in forests to find small burns before they spread into megafires. Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Dryad, uses AI to train sensors to detect the specific gasses that get released when organic material burns.
“They’re basically like an electronic nose that we embed in the forest,” Brinkschulte says.
The nose-like sensors can detect the fires early in the smoldering stage, “when it’s still easy or relatively easy to extinguish the fire,” he says.
The company has 50 sensor installations from the Middle East to California. Last month in Lebanon, sensors reacted to a small fire within 30 minutes, Brinkschulte says.
Using AI to prevent new wildfires
Another way to stop megafires is to set “controlled burns” outside of fire season to remove the excess brush and vegetation that become fuel for fires.
Typically, so-called burn managers — who are people from utilities, the federal forest service or other entities — deploy teams to designated areas to set controlled burns. (Native tribes have a long history of making these controlled burns.)
But to do the work safely, burn managers need lots of information to know how the fire might behave so it doesn’t spin out of control. They need to know things like the wind conditions and amount of moisture in the vegetation, says Yolanda Gil, director for strategic AI and data science initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.
After interviewing fire scientists, Gil and their team used AI to create a so-called intelligent or smart assistant —like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa —that can access vast data sets and complex models. Burn managers can use these Siri-like assistants to decide where and when to make controlled burns. “It’s kind of like Siri, but for burn managers,” Gil says.
Gil says burn managers can ask the smart assistant about a particular area. The assistant can take information about the topography, the vegetation, weather patterns and recommend a potential burn model —a way to make a safe controlled burn, Gil says. The goal, they say, is to make these assistants widely available for utilities, the forest service, and others doing controlled burns to make them safer and plentiful.
They plan to send out the first prototypes of the smart assistants in the coming months.
Using AI in green tech mining
Climate solutions from solar panels to electric vehicles require immense amounts of minerals like cobalt, lithium and copper. But current supplies are not enough to meet growing demand. By 2030, projected lithium demand will be five times the current global supply, according to the International Energy Agency.
Now, governments, researchers, and companies are using AI to explore critical minerals. Colin Williams, mineral resources program coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, writes in an email that his team uses AI to analyze data to determine which areas in the U.S. have the best potential for mining critical metals. He adds that using AI means “dramatic time savings.”
There is a lot of data out there about what it looks like under the earth’s surface. Using AI to sift through all this data helps minimize uncertainty, Williams says. Because mining operations spend billions of dollars trying to find profitable areas to exploit, companies say using AI can help save a lot of time and money in locating minerals.
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Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now","publishDate":1717163461,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambitious proposal for a regional tax seen as crucial to the long-term survival of Bay Area public transit agencies is dead, the casualty of a dispute over the scope of the measure and who would control the billions of dollars it would raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Aisha Wahab of Hayward, the Democratic co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031\">SB 1031\u003c/a>, announced late Thursday they were pulling the bill from further consideration this year in the face of growing opposition across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked very hard over the course of this year to try to build consensus within the region around this measure,” Wiener said in an interview. “It became clear that we didn’t have enough time to get that done this year. There are times when you have to take a deep breath, hit the reset button and start over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab issued a statement saying the needs the bill addressed, including efficiency, agency consolidation and improved governance, are still urgent. “Riders deserve that, and stakeholders need to prioritize these efforts to save public transit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, dubbed the Connect Bay Area Act, would authorize a November 2026 vote on a multicounty tax measure to raise as much as $1.5 billion a year to help pay for train, bus and ferry operations and for initiatives to help better integrate the 27 agencies that deliver those services. The bill would also pay for some street and highway work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he remains committed to crafting a plan that will allow transit agencies to head off major deficits and deep service cuts and promised to bring a new measure to the Legislature early next year. Work on a new proposal will begin immediately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — I can’t guarantee it — but my hope is that by late 2024 we’ll at least have a structure in place so we can be optimistic about 2025 and give the (transit) operators that same optimism” that financial help is on the way, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has been seen as crucial to ensuring that BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other agencies aren’t forced to slash service because of catastrophic deficits they’re facing in the next few years. The shortfalls are due mostly to the loss of ridership and fare revenue thanks to the pandemic and continuing shifts in work and commute patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was also seen as a vehicle to pay for making transit more frequent, reliable and affordable across the region. It would do that not only by helping agencies purchase more vehicles, but by integrating fares and schedules among agencies and requiring large employers to subsidize all-you-can-ride transit passes for their workers.[aside postID=\"news_11985190,news_11985965\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, which is just as complex as its 10,000-word length implies, drew resistance from many quarters. Progressive transportation advocates said they’d oppose the measure if it allowed funding for highway expansion projects. Officials with some transit operators, like Caltrain, didn’t like a provision that would require a study of how to consolidate at least some of the region’s 27 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a falling out about what kind of taxes or fees the bill should allow. The proposal offered several alternatives: a half-cent sales tax, a parcel tax on property owners, a payroll tax to be paid by employers, or a future vehicle registration surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business groups, including the Bay Area Council, said they’d oppose a payroll tax. Some bill supporters were cool to the idea of a sales tax, a levy that would fall most heavily on lower-income residents in an already heavily taxed region. Bill sponsors rejected a proposal from progressive transit advocates to consider a regional income tax on higher-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most significant disagreements centered on the issue of “return to source,” or how much money raised in each Bay Area county would be available to use there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provided that tax proceeds would be funneled through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It guaranteed that during the proposed tax measure’s first five years, at least 70% of revenue generated in a county would be invested in projects and programs that benefited that county. That percentage would rise to 90% after the initial five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials came out against the measure, saying that the initial 70% allocation was too low and that funds should come back directly to the county without the MTC’s involvement. Officials in the South Bay said they were also concerned that a new sales tax would interfere with several existing sales taxes that support transit operations in the county and are being used to help pay for the $12.7 billion BART extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dispute came to a head last Friday when the bill made it to the State Senate floor. Sen. Dave Cortese, a San José Democrat, called the SB 1031 tax proposal “an existential threat” to Santa Clara County and complained that his proposal to send revenue from the tax directly to the counties had been “flat out rejected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That told me that we need to organize people in my area and we need to make sure we do everything we can to put a stop to this,” Cortese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Wiener and Wahab promising further work on the bill, the Senate approved it 26-10 and sent it to the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener on Thursday acknowledged Santa Clara County’s influence in the decision to pull the bill, but he said it’s crucial to find a way to put public transportation on a healthy financial footing for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge that we have is how do we fund these priorities in a way that all the different counties around the region feel like they’re being treated fairly and feel like they are getting a strong benefit from the measure?” he said. “If we’re asking people to pay in, we want people to be confident that they are getting a benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Griffiths, the policy director for Seamless Bay Area, a grassroots group that was one of the bill’s chief advocates, said he was disappointed the measure has been withdrawn. But he says that creates an opportunity to better communicate the benefits a transit tax measure could deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said advocates could do that “by spending time over the next six months developing a clear service vision of the transit network that we’re trying to create. We’ve talked about policies like integrated fares and integrated service, but actually having a … map of service improvements across the region, really I think can help make it more real” for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026, is currently projected at $385 million, with annual shortfalls of $350 million or more continuing into the foreseeable future. San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs Muni transit service, expects its deficit to top $200 million during the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both agencies, like most other transit operators across the country, have survived on massive infusions of federal cash to replace lost fare revenue. They have warned of drastic service cuts if new operating support isn’t forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-transit-death-spiral-19472978.php\">earlier this week\u003c/a> that major service cuts could begin next year. BART, which has said it may have to shut down two of its five lines, shutter some stations and run trains as much as 60 minutes apart, has not talked about when such steps might be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither agency responded immediately to requests for comment on the latest legislative developments.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amid growing opposition, sponsors pull measure that would authorize regional vote on a tax that would have raised as much as $1.5 billion a year. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Bill to Save Bay Area Transit From Fiscal Disaster Is Dead, at Least for Now","datePublished":"2024-05-31T06:51:01-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T18:29:40-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988365","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ambitious proposal for a regional tax seen as crucial to the long-term survival of Bay Area public transit agencies is dead, the casualty of a dispute over the scope of the measure and who would control the billions of dollars it would raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Aisha Wahab of Hayward, the Democratic co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031\">SB 1031\u003c/a>, announced late Thursday they were pulling the bill from further consideration this year in the face of growing opposition across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked very hard over the course of this year to try to build consensus within the region around this measure,” Wiener said in an interview. “It became clear that we didn’t have enough time to get that done this year. There are times when you have to take a deep breath, hit the reset button and start over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab issued a statement saying the needs the bill addressed, including efficiency, agency consolidation and improved governance, are still urgent. “Riders deserve that, and stakeholders need to prioritize these efforts to save public transit,” 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>The legislation, dubbed the Connect Bay Area Act, would authorize a November 2026 vote on a multicounty tax measure to raise as much as $1.5 billion a year to help pay for train, bus and ferry operations and for initiatives to help better integrate the 27 agencies that deliver those services. The bill would also pay for some street and highway work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he remains committed to crafting a plan that will allow transit agencies to head off major deficits and deep service cuts and promised to bring a new measure to the Legislature early next year. Work on a new proposal will begin immediately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — I can’t guarantee it — but my hope is that by late 2024 we’ll at least have a structure in place so we can be optimistic about 2025 and give the (transit) operators that same optimism” that financial help is on the way, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has been seen as crucial to ensuring that BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other agencies aren’t forced to slash service because of catastrophic deficits they’re facing in the next few years. The shortfalls are due mostly to the loss of ridership and fare revenue thanks to the pandemic and continuing shifts in work and commute patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was also seen as a vehicle to pay for making transit more frequent, reliable and affordable across the region. It would do that not only by helping agencies purchase more vehicles, but by integrating fares and schedules among agencies and requiring large employers to subsidize all-you-can-ride transit passes for their workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11985190,news_11985965","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, which is just as complex as its 10,000-word length implies, drew resistance from many quarters. Progressive transportation advocates said they’d oppose the measure if it allowed funding for highway expansion projects. Officials with some transit operators, like Caltrain, didn’t like a provision that would require a study of how to consolidate at least some of the region’s 27 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a falling out about what kind of taxes or fees the bill should allow. The proposal offered several alternatives: a half-cent sales tax, a parcel tax on property owners, a payroll tax to be paid by employers, or a future vehicle registration surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business groups, including the Bay Area Council, said they’d oppose a payroll tax. Some bill supporters were cool to the idea of a sales tax, a levy that would fall most heavily on lower-income residents in an already heavily taxed region. Bill sponsors rejected a proposal from progressive transit advocates to consider a regional income tax on higher-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most significant disagreements centered on the issue of “return to source,” or how much money raised in each Bay Area county would be available to use there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provided that tax proceeds would be funneled through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It guaranteed that during the proposed tax measure’s first five years, at least 70% of revenue generated in a county would be invested in projects and programs that benefited that county. That percentage would rise to 90% after the initial five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials came out against the measure, saying that the initial 70% allocation was too low and that funds should come back directly to the county without the MTC’s involvement. Officials in the South Bay said they were also concerned that a new sales tax would interfere with several existing sales taxes that support transit operations in the county and are being used to help pay for the $12.7 billion BART extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dispute came to a head last Friday when the bill made it to the State Senate floor. Sen. Dave Cortese, a San José Democrat, called the SB 1031 tax proposal “an existential threat” to Santa Clara County and complained that his proposal to send revenue from the tax directly to the counties had been “flat out rejected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That told me that we need to organize people in my area and we need to make sure we do everything we can to put a stop to this,” Cortese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Wiener and Wahab promising further work on the bill, the Senate approved it 26-10 and sent it to the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener on Thursday acknowledged Santa Clara County’s influence in the decision to pull the bill, but he said it’s crucial to find a way to put public transportation on a healthy financial footing for the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge that we have is how do we fund these priorities in a way that all the different counties around the region feel like they’re being treated fairly and feel like they are getting a strong benefit from the measure?” he said. “If we’re asking people to pay in, we want people to be confident that they are getting a benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Griffiths, the policy director for Seamless Bay Area, a grassroots group that was one of the bill’s chief advocates, said he was disappointed the measure has been withdrawn. But he says that creates an opportunity to better communicate the benefits a transit tax measure could deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said advocates could do that “by spending time over the next six months developing a clear service vision of the transit network that we’re trying to create. We’ve talked about policies like integrated fares and integrated service, but actually having a … map of service improvements across the region, really I think can help make it more real” for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026, is currently projected at $385 million, with annual shortfalls of $350 million or more continuing into the foreseeable future. San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency, which runs Muni transit service, expects its deficit to top $200 million during the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both agencies, like most other transit operators across the country, have survived on massive infusions of federal cash to replace lost fare revenue. They have warned of drastic service cuts if new operating support isn’t forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-transit-death-spiral-19472978.php\">earlier this week\u003c/a> that major service cuts could begin next year. BART, which has said it may have to shut down two of its five lines, shutter some stations and run trains as much as 60 minutes apart, has not talked about when such steps might be taken.\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>Neither agency responded immediately to requests for comment on the latest legislative developments.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988365/a-bill-to-save-bay-area-transit-from-fiscal-disaster-is-dead-at-least-for-now","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24191","news_269","news_20008","news_320","news_1764","news_18188","news_1217"],"featImg":"news_11941203","label":"news"},"news_11988253":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988253","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988253","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-assembly-divided-as-controversial-shoplifting-bill-secures-narrow-victory","title":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory","publishDate":1717178430,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> did something exceptional last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the only legislator to vote “no” on a controversial piece of legislation, while nearly half of the 80 members in the state Assembly — and a majority of the Democrats — did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which would make it easier to arrest shoplifters, is a recent example of a pattern CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">revealed in April\u003c/a> with legislators dodging votes to avoid offending the bill’s supporters or eliminating a record of their opposition on controversial topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1990\">Assembly Bill 1990\u003c/a> passed the Assembly 44–1 last week with 35 lawmakers not casting a vote, including 32 of the 62 Democrats and the Assembly speaker, Robert Rivas. Some of those not voting had excused absences, but the Legislature’s online record does not distinguish between an absence, an abstention or not voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would allow police to arrest for shoplifting without a warrant, even if they did not witness the crime. Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/wendy-carrillo-144588\">Assemblymember Wendy Carillo\u003c/a>, who authored the bill with five Democratic and two Republican coauthors, said it is “in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257760?t=1500&f=4c57845c6abf19d3cc28364cfc28ecb2\">alarming escalation of organized retail theft\u003c/a>,” which has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-climate-health-homelessness/\">hot-button political issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressive Democrats, leery of increasing incarceration rates for minor offenses, were uncomfortable with the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: AB 1990 will not stop retail theft,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/tina-mckinnor-35053\">Tina McKinnor\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=432&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">told her colleagues\u003c/a>. “AB 1990 will increase the unnecessary harassment, detention, arrest and mass incarceration of Black and brown Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=549&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">She concluded her speech\u003c/a>: “I am asking all of you to please vote ‘no’ on AB 1990.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, however, did not vote on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not respond to CalMatters’ request for an explanation about why she did not vote despite her clear opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra, of San Jose, also did not respond to a request from CalMatters to explain why he cast the lone “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalra has been a longtime champion of progressive causes. He’s a former deputy public defender and the former chair of the Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/offices-caucuses/legislative-progressive-caucus\">Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>. He has advocated for legislation that seeks to end \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2542\">systematic racism in the justice system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, it seemed Kalra would not be the lone Democrat to vote “no” on AB 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rick-chavez-zbur-165429\">Rick Chavez Zbur\u003c/a> of Los Angeles was also listed as voting “no,” according \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=845&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">to a video of the voting roll call\u003c/a> captured by CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zbur, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"https://a51.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240524-zbur-bill-eliminate-barriers-home-supportive-services-ihss-advances-senate\">Assembly Democratic Caucus\u003c/a>, changed his vote after the bill passed so that he would be formally listed as not voting. In the Assembly, members can change their vote on a bill after a hearing has concluded, as long as it doesn’t change the final outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to explain why he changed his vote, his spokesperson, Vienna Montague, said in an email that Zbur “does not have a comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While AB 1990 survived to advance to the Senate, despite so many lawmakers not voting, other bills haven’t fared as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11987415,news_11982393,news_11980483\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Last year, at least 15 bills died due to lack of votes instead of lawmakers voting “no” on them. So far this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database indicates at least 17 bills have died because lawmakers declined to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Senate and Assembly leaders have repeatedly refused to answer CalMatters’ questions about whether the Legislature’s voting rules should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians may think not voting helps their political career in the long run since they believe it’ll be more difficult for someone to use a controversial “no” vote against them in a campaign ad, said \u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/kousser-profile.html\">Thad Kousser\u003c/a>, a former California legislative staffer who’s now a political science professor at UC San Diego. But he said that’s shortsighted. He said any savvy political operative can just as easily say they “failed to support this bill” in an ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kousser said if lawmakers really do have strong feelings against a bill, they’re better off voting “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians’ political interests are probably best served by taking a stand that best fits their values and explaining that to voters,” Kousser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not voting, he said, is “just another way of saying, ‘I didn’t represent you on this bill.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Only one legislator in the California Assembly voted against a controversial shoplifting bill, while dozens of progressive lawmakers declined to vote.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717265717,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":769},"headData":{"title":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory | KQED","description":"Only one legislator in the California Assembly voted against a controversial shoplifting bill, while dozens of progressive lawmakers declined to vote.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Assembly Divided as Controversial Shoplifting Bill Secures Narrow Victory","datePublished":"2024-05-31T11:00:30-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-01T11:15:17-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988253","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988253/california-assembly-divided-as-controversial-shoplifting-bill-secures-narrow-victory","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> did something exceptional last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the only legislator to vote “no” on a controversial piece of legislation, while nearly half of the 80 members in the state Assembly — and a majority of the Democrats — did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which would make it easier to arrest shoplifters, is a recent example of a pattern CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/\">revealed in April\u003c/a> with legislators dodging votes to avoid offending the bill’s supporters or eliminating a record of their opposition on controversial topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab1990\">Assembly Bill 1990\u003c/a> passed the Assembly 44–1 last week with 35 lawmakers not casting a vote, including 32 of the 62 Democrats and the Assembly speaker, Robert Rivas. Some of those not voting had excused absences, but the Legislature’s online record does not distinguish between an absence, an abstention or not voting.\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 bill would allow police to arrest for shoplifting without a warrant, even if they did not witness the crime. Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/wendy-carrillo-144588\">Assemblymember Wendy Carillo\u003c/a>, who authored the bill with five Democratic and two Republican coauthors, said it is “in response to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257760?t=1500&f=4c57845c6abf19d3cc28364cfc28ecb2\">alarming escalation of organized retail theft\u003c/a>,” which has become a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/gavin-newsom-climate-health-homelessness/\">hot-button political issue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But progressive Democrats, leery of increasing incarceration rates for minor offenses, were uncomfortable with the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: AB 1990 will not stop retail theft,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/tina-mckinnor-35053\">Tina McKinnor\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Inglewood, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=432&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">told her colleagues\u003c/a>. “AB 1990 will increase the unnecessary harassment, detention, arrest and mass incarceration of Black and brown Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=549&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">She concluded her speech\u003c/a>: “I am asking all of you to please vote ‘no’ on AB 1990.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKinnor, however, did not vote on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office did not respond to CalMatters’ request for an explanation about why she did not vote despite her clear opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra, of San Jose, also did not respond to a request from CalMatters to explain why he cast the lone “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalra has been a longtime champion of progressive causes. He’s a former deputy public defender and the former chair of the Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.assembly.ca.gov/offices-caucuses/legislative-progressive-caucus\">Progressive Caucus\u003c/a>. He has advocated for legislation that seeks to end \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2542\">systematic racism in the justice system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time, it seemed Kalra would not be the lone Democrat to vote “no” on AB 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/rick-chavez-zbur-165429\">Rick Chavez Zbur\u003c/a> of Los Angeles was also listed as voting “no,” according \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258003?t=845&f=b5127361b557aa9ab030737c51631ae7\">to a video of the voting roll call\u003c/a> captured by CalMatters’ \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zbur, who chairs the \u003ca href=\"https://a51.asmdc.org/press-releases/20240524-zbur-bill-eliminate-barriers-home-supportive-services-ihss-advances-senate\">Assembly Democratic Caucus\u003c/a>, changed his vote after the bill passed so that he would be formally listed as not voting. In the Assembly, members can change their vote on a bill after a hearing has concluded, as long as it doesn’t change the final outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked to explain why he changed his vote, his spokesperson, Vienna Montague, said in an email that Zbur “does not have a comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While AB 1990 survived to advance to the Senate, despite so many lawmakers not voting, other bills haven’t fared as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11987415,news_11982393,news_11980483","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last year, at least 15 bills died due to lack of votes instead of lawmakers voting “no” on them. So far this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database indicates at least 17 bills have died because lawmakers declined to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Senate and Assembly leaders have repeatedly refused to answer CalMatters’ questions about whether the Legislature’s voting rules should change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians may think not voting helps their political career in the long run since they believe it’ll be more difficult for someone to use a controversial “no” vote against them in a campaign ad, said \u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/kousser-profile.html\">Thad Kousser\u003c/a>, a former California legislative staffer who’s now a political science professor at UC San Diego. But he said that’s shortsighted. He said any savvy political operative can just as easily say they “failed to support this bill” in an ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kousser said if lawmakers really do have strong feelings against a bill, they’re better off voting “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians’ political interests are probably best served by taking a stand that best fits their values and explaining that to voters,” Kousser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not voting, he said, is “just another way of saying, ‘I didn’t represent you on this bill.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988253/california-assembly-divided-as-controversial-shoplifting-bill-secures-narrow-victory","authors":["byline_news_11988253"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2842","news_2960","news_4500","news_2027"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11988260","label":"news_18481"},"news_11988452":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988452","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988452","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"raising-kids-in-california-they-may-have-college-savings-accounts-you-dont-know-about","title":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About","publishDate":1717268405,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don’t Know About | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, CalKIDS began targeting high school seniors, through social media, email and direct mail, according to DeAnda. By May, the number of claims among high school seniors increased by 74%. They have partnered with school districts, such as Hawthorne School District in Los Angeles County, where 87% of seniors have claimed their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most of the funds for marketing CalKIDS remain unused. The 2023–24 California state budget reappropriated $8 million to CalKIDS for a statewide media campaign, and the Scholarshare Investment Board is currently soliciting proposals for marketing services, which were anticipated to start on April 1, but have not begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If families are not aware of this program, then it’s not going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Martinez said.[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"financial-aid\"]The fact that many families don’t start thinking about college until high school is one cultural obstacle that college savings programs like CalKIDS run up against, says Willie Elliott, a professor of social work and founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we can’t expect that we put one of these programs in place, and, instantly, people get it and start functioning in that way,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott has helped develop state and local college savings programs in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C. He says that enrollment is not the best measure of success of programs like CalKIDS, especially this early on in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have in place in California is the infrastructure and now you have to do the work of making communities aware,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests that creating a culture around college savings through programs like CalKIDs will lead to positive outcomes. Those include increased account enrollment, more family conversations about going to college, and generally less stress for families who will be hopeful for their children’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations about college are as important as the amount of money actually in the account, Elliott said. Elliott’s research has shown that lower-income students with a college savings account are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740912004379?via%3Dihub\">attend college\u003c/a> and four times more likely to graduate than students without an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the CalKIDS website. \u003ccite>(CalKIDS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cook, a mother of six who has four children eligible for CalKIDS, is the homeless student advocate at Marysville Joint Unified School District in Yuba County, where she works to support homeless students and help them graduate. She said a lot of the families she works with don’t have college at the top of their mind because they’re thinking about urgent concerns like where they will sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if schools were able to register students, it would be helpful for the families she supports. She also said training for school staff and counselors on the program as well as outreach from California Health and Human Services would help build awareness for schools and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-calkids-joins-local-programs-investing-in-students-education-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">CalKIDS joins local programs investing in students’ education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many students, CalKIDS can be coupled with one of more than a dozen local child’s savings account programs in California. Launched in 2010 by then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newson, Kindergarten to College was the first program in the country to include automatic and universal enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 14 years, the program has been able to refine its outreach efforts to meet the needs of San Franciscans, said Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications at the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector. Students are eligible no matter their documentation status and can easily make cash deposits into their accounts.[aside label=\"Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"california-colleges\"]“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The state is directly investing money for lower-income students and all newborns to attend college. After 2 years, the program is still not widely known by the students who need the most financial assistance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717269311,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1826},"headData":{"title":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About | KQED","description":"The state is directly investing money for lower-income students and all newborns to attend college. After 2 years, the program is still not widely known by the students who need the most financial assistance.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Raising Kids in California? They May Have College Savings Accounts You Don't Know About","datePublished":"2024-06-01T12:00:05-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-01T12:15:11-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jacqueline-munis/\">Jacqueline Munis\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988452","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988452/raising-kids-in-california-they-may-have-college-savings-accounts-you-dont-know-about","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly 3.7 million students and 667,000 newborns in California have money invested in a savings account to help pay for college. But most families don’t know the money is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citlali Lopez, a second-year psychology student at Sacramento State, found out a few months ago she had $500 sitting in a California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) account. Although she’s been eligible to use the funds since she graduated high school in 2022, she had no idea until her sister, who works at a nonprofit that supports lower-income students with scholarships and financial aid, told her to check her eligibility. Lopez was skeptical at first, but found she was eligible and registered her account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really surprised that I was able to get some extra help,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial aid had been top of mind for her and guided her decision to go to Sacramento State. She plans on using the money to finish general education classes over the summer if financial aid will not cover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/050924-Citlali-Lopez-CalKIDS-MG-CM-03-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citlali Lopez is a 2nd-year student at Sacramento State University and a beneficiary of the state’s CalKIDS program. May 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So who gets money? Under CalKIDS, all babies born in California receive a sum. Babies born between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 received $25 deposits, and all babies born after July 1, 2023 receive $100 deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the program, all first grade students with low-income receive a onetime deposit of $500. First graders who are in foster care receive an extra $500 and homeless first graders receive $500 more, totaling $1500 for some students. All the accounts are tax-free, and the money is invested whether or not families claim their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the state spent $1.8 billion in the 2021–22 budget to provide a onetime deposit to all lower-income students in grades 1 through 12 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, of the 4.3 million student accounts created, only 313,445 accounts have been claimed by families, meaning they have \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/get-started/\">registered online\u003c/a> and seen the amount in their accounts. Only 6.3% of newborn accounts have been claimed and 7.4% of student accounts have been claimed as of March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-the-state-is-slowly-building-awareness-about-college-savings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The state is slowly building awareness about college savings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CalKIDS is run by a three-person team led by Julio Martinez, the executive director of the Scholarshare Investment Board, an agency within the State Treasurer’s Office. It administers the state’s 529 college savings accounts, which allow families to invest money tax free to cover education related expenses in the future. The team is responsible for creating the accounts, notifying families about the accounts and explaining what CalKIDS can provide to families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these programs, it takes time to kind of build brand awareness, and also to break down the skepticism that often exists when you get a letter in the mail that says you have free money,” Martinez said. CalKIDS staffers go to college fairs and financial aid nights and host \u003ca href=\"https://www.scholarshare529.com/events\">online informational sessions\u003c/a> to reach families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/sub-3-may-7-agenda-final.pdf\">$22 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in the 2022 and 2023 budgets to market the program. In Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, and Sonoma counties, CalKIDS program info is sent to all families that request a birth certificate, according to Joe DeAnda, the director of communication at the State Treasurer’s Office. During the first three months of this year, registration in the newborn program has more than doubled, from 20,608 to 42,312 newborns.\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>In April, CalKIDS began targeting high school seniors, through social media, email and direct mail, according to DeAnda. By May, the number of claims among high school seniors increased by 74%. They have partnered with school districts, such as Hawthorne School District in Los Angeles County, where 87% of seniors have claimed their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most of the funds for marketing CalKIDS remain unused. The 2023–24 California state budget reappropriated $8 million to CalKIDS for a statewide media campaign, and the Scholarshare Investment Board is currently soliciting proposals for marketing services, which were anticipated to start on April 1, but have not begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If families are not aware of this program, then it’s not going to have the impact that we think it’s going to have,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories ","tag":"financial-aid"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fact that many families don’t start thinking about college until high school is one cultural obstacle that college savings programs like CalKIDS run up against, says Willie Elliott, a professor of social work and founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, we can’t expect that we put one of these programs in place, and, instantly, people get it and start functioning in that way,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elliott has helped develop state and local college savings programs in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C. He says that enrollment is not the best measure of success of programs like CalKIDS, especially this early on in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have in place in California is the infrastructure and now you have to do the work of making communities aware,” Elliott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests that creating a culture around college savings through programs like CalKIDs will lead to positive outcomes. Those include increased account enrollment, more family conversations about going to college, and generally less stress for families who will be hopeful for their children’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversations about college are as important as the amount of money actually in the account, Elliott said. Elliott’s research has shown that lower-income students with a college savings account are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740912004379?via%3Dihub\">attend college\u003c/a> and four times more likely to graduate than students without an account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/051724-CalKIDS-Website-CM-01-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the CalKIDS website. \u003ccite>(CalKIDS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cook, a mother of six who has four children eligible for CalKIDS, is the homeless student advocate at Marysville Joint Unified School District in Yuba County, where she works to support homeless students and help them graduate. She said a lot of the families she works with don’t have college at the top of their mind because they’re thinking about urgent concerns like where they will sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if schools were able to register students, it would be helpful for the families she supports. She also said training for school staff and counselors on the program as well as outreach from California Health and Human Services would help build awareness for schools and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-calkids-joins-local-programs-investing-in-students-education-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">CalKIDS joins local programs investing in students’ education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many students, CalKIDS can be coupled with one of more than a dozen local child’s savings account programs in California. Launched in 2010 by then-mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newson, Kindergarten to College was the first program in the country to include automatic and universal enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last 14 years, the program has been able to refine its outreach efforts to meet the needs of San Franciscans, said Amanda Fried, the chief of policy and communications at the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector. Students are eligible no matter their documentation status and can easily make cash deposits into their accounts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Higher Education Stories ","tag":"california-colleges"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People have so many things on their plate, and so many competing priorities, and I think a huge mistrust of the financial system, which is totally warranted,” Fried said. “So this program just kind of eliminates so many barriers for families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program’s five-person team hosts weekly \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/help-center\">online office hours\u003c/a> in English and Spanish, texts resources and reminders to parents and trains teachers and counselors as school ambassadors to explain the program and answer questions. Students take field trips to Citibank to make deposits into their accounts, so they can physically contribute to their futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have an intentional focus on schools where typically students are much less likely to go to college. That’s where we focus our in-person resources,” Fried said. “We’re on the ground at those schools, talking to families constantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a> has a child’s savings program that starts in kindergarten, also called Kindergarten to College, alongside a program for newborns for Medi-Cal eligible families called Brilliant Baby. Veena Pawloski, the chief program officer at Oakland Promise, said they use community-based organizations to act as enrolling partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-can-college-savings-accounts-help-combat-poverty-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can college savings accounts help combat poverty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The aim of college savings programs like CalKIDS is not for money deposited by the state to grow enough to pay for college entirely. Rather, the program intends to ease some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/when-is-a-california-college-degree-worth-the-cost-a-new-study-has-answers/\">burden of college costs\u003c/a> and help students create a college-bound identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, UCLA \u003ca href=\"https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty-and-research/CalKids-Institute\">opened\u003c/a> the CalKIDS Institute in partnership with the state to boost outreach as well as research the program’s reach and which demographics they should be targeting based on enrollment. The institute’s director, Nayiri Nahabedian, said that, ultimately, the point of all these programs is to make college seem like an attainable goal for students and show them that the state, their community and their family believe that they can pursue higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalKIDS made me realize more how much people are willing to help students,” said Lopez, the Sacramento State student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of students [the money] can make the difference between deciding to go and not deciding to go. It can be the difference between having a laptop and not having a laptop, having WiFi at home and not having WiFi at home,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to registering, students can connect their CalKIDS account to a ScholarShare 529 account where families can contribute their own money, which is invested. Six percent of claimed student accounts and 35% of claimed newborn accounts have been connected to a ScholarShare 529 account. According to Martinez, families have, on average, $2,890 in their Scholarshare 529 account connected via their CalKIDS account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Garcia Romero, a senior at Calistoga Junior-Senior High School, did not know before talking to CalMatters that she could add her own money into a Scholarshare 529 that has accrued $32 in addition to the original $500 deposit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like every cent counts and makes a difference,” said Garcia Romero, who plans on using her CalKIDS money and future savings to go to law school. “So, having an extra $500 would be so helpful and will definitely encourage me to attend college even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988452/raising-kids-in-california-they-may-have-college-savings-accounts-you-dont-know-about","authors":["byline_news_11988452"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_33638","news_31933","news_22810","news_32239","news_20013","news_30211","news_22697"],"featImg":"news_11988478","label":"news"},"news_11988398":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988398","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988398","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"anchor-brewings-sale-to-chobani-ceo-good-news-for-everybody-co-op-leader-says","title":"Anchor Brewing's Sale to Chobani CEO 'Good News for Everybody,' Co-Op Leader Says","publishDate":1717178769,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Anchor Brewing’s Sale to Chobani CEO ‘Good News for Everybody,’ Co-Op Leader Says | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaire founder and CEO of the Chobani yogurt brand has purchased Anchor Brewing Co., setting up the 127-year-old San Francisco craft brewery for a return \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955487/as-anchor-brewing-closes-liquidates-business-workers-hope-for-a-miracle\">after it closed last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamdi Ulukaya announced Friday that he had acquired all of the historic beer brand’s recipes, warehouses and facilities — including the company’s Potrero Hill brewery and tap room — for an undisclosed price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is at the heart of Anchor Brewing, and Anchor embodies so much of what makes this city great,” Ulukaya said in a statement. “I believe brands born in places like this are incredibly special and must be treasured, respected and loved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor was shut down last July by Japanese beer giant Sapporo, which had bought the brewery in 2017. As beer sales declined in 2016, Anchor started facing financial challenges, and in 2019, its workers organized to become the first unionized craft brewing company in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owner comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956482/san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-company-could-still-stay-open\">multiple interested buyers\u003c/a> were looking into swooping up Anchor’s assets, including venture capitalist Mike Walsh and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969893/former-anchor-workers-move-forward-with-efforts-to-resurrect-beloved-sf-beer\">the brewery’s own workers\u003c/a>, who formed a cooperative to explore a collective ownership model and raised more than $115,000 for the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are glad it’s not another corporation coming in and buying it up. We want this to be positive; this is good news for everybody,” said Patrick Costello, board chair for Anchor’s five-member worker cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to know how many of Anchor’s 61 workers could return once the company starts brewing again, Costello said. Most, including Costello himself, have taken new jobs in the months since the brewery closed, but he said he’s hopeful that many will want to return soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people have either moved out of the Bay Area or decided to go in a different direction, but once we have more concrete details with this guy and what the plan is, I’m pretty optimistic that half, if not two-thirds, of the people, will want to come back,” Costello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some plans for the business’ next chapter are already in the works. Anchor plans to revive its beloved old logos and will refocus on selling its beer in local San Francisco establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anchor-brewing\"]Many fans of Anchor’s storied history in San Francisco and as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969212/how-san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-started-the-craft-beer-craze\">one of the country’s first craft breweries\u003c/a> had mourned the loss of Anchor’s classic hand-drawn steam beer labels when the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/San-Francisco-Anchor-Brewing-response-fan-backlash-15905489.php\">modernized its brand\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning the brewery would close last summer, Anchor lovers flocked to the taproom to stock up on drinks and merchandise, and bars in San Francisco touted their final kegs of the classic Anchor Steam beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our primary focus will be on trying to get our kegs back into most if not all, the bars in the city and hit the ground running as quickly as possible with the workers we still have contacts with, who are excited about the news,” Costello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulukaya, who was born in Turkey, grew up on a Kurdish dairy farm and founded Chobani in 2005 in New York, has not yet reached out to the worker cooperative, Costello said. But text messages among the brewery’s former workers felt positive, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s kind of a parallel between this and when Fritz bought it back in the ‘60s. He was a big dairy farm guy and saw something he loved and bought it,” Costello said, referring to former Anchor owner Frederick Louis “Fritz” Maytag, who bought the brewery in 1965. “We don’t know what’s going to happen down the line, but the buyer seems like a good fit.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Anchor plans to revive its beloved old logos and will refocus on selling its beer in local San Francisco establishments after being bought by billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717186167,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":665},"headData":{"title":"Anchor Brewing's Sale to Chobani CEO 'Good News for Everybody,' Co-Op Leader Says | KQED","description":"Anchor plans to revive its beloved old logos and will refocus on selling its beer in local San Francisco establishments after being bought by billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Anchor Brewing's Sale to Chobani CEO 'Good News for Everybody,' Co-Op Leader Says","datePublished":"2024-05-31T11:06:09-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T13:09:27-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988398","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988398/anchor-brewings-sale-to-chobani-ceo-good-news-for-everybody-co-op-leader-says","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billionaire founder and CEO of the Chobani yogurt brand has purchased Anchor Brewing Co., setting up the 127-year-old San Francisco craft brewery for a return \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955487/as-anchor-brewing-closes-liquidates-business-workers-hope-for-a-miracle\">after it closed last fall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamdi Ulukaya announced Friday that he had acquired all of the historic beer brand’s recipes, warehouses and facilities — including the company’s Potrero Hill brewery and tap room — for an undisclosed price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is at the heart of Anchor Brewing, and Anchor embodies so much of what makes this city great,” Ulukaya said in a statement. “I believe brands born in places like this are incredibly special and must be treasured, respected and loved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anchor was shut down last July by Japanese beer giant Sapporo, which had bought the brewery in 2017. As beer sales declined in 2016, Anchor started facing financial challenges, and in 2019, its workers organized to become the first unionized craft brewing company in the state.\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 new owner comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956482/san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-company-could-still-stay-open\">multiple interested buyers\u003c/a> were looking into swooping up Anchor’s assets, including venture capitalist Mike Walsh and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969893/former-anchor-workers-move-forward-with-efforts-to-resurrect-beloved-sf-beer\">the brewery’s own workers\u003c/a>, who formed a cooperative to explore a collective ownership model and raised more than $115,000 for the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are glad it’s not another corporation coming in and buying it up. We want this to be positive; this is good news for everybody,” said Patrick Costello, board chair for Anchor’s five-member worker cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s too early to know how many of Anchor’s 61 workers could return once the company starts brewing again, Costello said. Most, including Costello himself, have taken new jobs in the months since the brewery closed, but he said he’s hopeful that many will want to return soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people have either moved out of the Bay Area or decided to go in a different direction, but once we have more concrete details with this guy and what the plan is, I’m pretty optimistic that half, if not two-thirds, of the people, will want to come back,” Costello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some plans for the business’ next chapter are already in the works. Anchor plans to revive its beloved old logos and will refocus on selling its beer in local San Francisco establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"anchor-brewing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Many fans of Anchor’s storied history in San Francisco and as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969212/how-san-franciscos-anchor-brewing-started-the-craft-beer-craze\">one of the country’s first craft breweries\u003c/a> had mourned the loss of Anchor’s classic hand-drawn steam beer labels when the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/San-Francisco-Anchor-Brewing-response-fan-backlash-15905489.php\">modernized its brand\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning the brewery would close last summer, Anchor lovers flocked to the taproom to stock up on drinks and merchandise, and bars in San Francisco touted their final kegs of the classic Anchor Steam beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our primary focus will be on trying to get our kegs back into most if not all, the bars in the city and hit the ground running as quickly as possible with the workers we still have contacts with, who are excited about the news,” Costello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulukaya, who was born in Turkey, grew up on a Kurdish dairy farm and founded Chobani in 2005 in New York, has not yet reached out to the worker cooperative, Costello said. But text messages among the brewery’s former workers felt positive, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s kind of a parallel between this and when Fritz bought it back in the ‘60s. He was a big dairy farm guy and saw something he loved and bought it,” Costello said, referring to former Anchor owner Frederick Louis “Fritz” Maytag, who bought the brewery in 1965. “We don’t know what’s going to happen down the line, but the buyer seems like a good fit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988398/anchor-brewings-sale-to-chobani-ceo-good-news-for-everybody-co-op-leader-says","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32908","news_21212","news_27626","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11969213","label":"news"},"news_11988472":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988472","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988472","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","title":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US)","publishDate":1717239648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What to Know About Mexico’s Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US) | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987267/mexican-citizens-in-california-could-play-key-role-in-countrys-upcoming-election\">millions of Mexican voters will head to the polls \u003c/a>to elect the country’s next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this election, two female candidates are leading the polls — something never seen before in the history of Mexico. And whoever wins out of the two will become the first female president to lead the nation of 126 million people with one of the biggest economies in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Are you a Mexican citizen in the Bay Area and want to vote in this election? You may still be able to\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Poll after poll show Claudia Sheinbaum, former Mayor of Mexico City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">at least 20 points ahead of her closest rival\u003c/a>, Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum represents the left-leaning MORENA party which has been in power since 2018, when outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who is also known as “AMLO”) won the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gálvez, on the other hand, leads a coalition of three parties that have historically been bitter rivals but have come together to oppose MORENA — a party that has existed for less than 15 years but under AMLO’s leadership has amassed an incredible amount of power in all branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s Sheinbaum or Gálvez — or long-shot third-party candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez who’s polling at 10% — whoever voters elect to succeed AMLO will face monumental challenges. The country has experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/cme-group/2023/06/01/mexico-is-outpacing-latam-economies-can-it-continue/?sh=10fea61146b4\">strong economic growth in recent years\u003c/a> but climate change and economic inequality threaten that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in Mexico is of enormous importance to the United States — and nowhere is that more important than in California,” said Harley Shaiken, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, who previously led the university’s Center for Latin American Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials will announce the presidential winner on Sunday night, sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. PST. Ahead of the big announcement, we’ve brought together the big Mexican election stories to watch out for this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Could Sheinbaum match her mentor AMLO?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In politics, nothing is ever certain. But the general consensus is that Sheinbaum’s sizable and consistent lead in every major poll for the past two years now makes this her race to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheinbaum, however, does not have the same appeal as her mentor AMLO, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-sheinbaum-lopez-obrador-e7e0b95c4812f4c4504a5e1803328aad\">who is by far the more popular of the two politicians\u003c/a>. In 2018, AMLO swept into power with 54% of the vote in a four-way race — a feat not seen since the 1980s, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or PRI in Spanish) \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Institutional-Revolutionary-Party\">held almost absolute control over Mexican politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claudia Sheinbaum is underrated by many,” said Shaiken. “She governed Mexico City for five years under very difficult circumstances and has some impressive things to show for that in the area of policing, renewable energy and community development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of ‘Sigamos Haciendo Historia’ coalition waves to supporters during the 2024 closing campaign event at Zocalo on May 29, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Hector Vivas/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One frequent criticism the opposition has leveled at Sheinbaum is that she’s heavily influenced by AMLO, and that a Sheinbaum presidency would in fact just be a second AMLO term. But Shaiken doesn’t buy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has she been close to López Obrador? Positively … but she’s her own person,” he added. “One area where I think we will see some very different things is in the environment,” said Shaiken, noting that Sheinbaum has a PhD in energy engineering and “has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/sheinbaum-planea-gastar-miles-de-millones-en-plantas-solares-y-de-gas\">very committed to doing things on solar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Sheinbaum can match — or potentially exceed — AMLO’s electoral success could ultimately show whether she can wield as much political influence as her mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the role of Mexicans abroad in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 12 million Mexicans live outside Mexico — and 97% live in the United States. For months, Mexican consulates across the U.S. have been promoting the different ways Mexicans living abroad can vote in this year’s presidential contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/elecciones2018\">roughly 98,000 Mexicans abroad voted in that year’s election\u003c/a> — an extremely tiny fraction of the eligible population. But this year, Mexican officials have invested more time and resources to engage the diaspora with the voting process, said María Antonieta Mejía, reporter with Univision 14 Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía has covered many Mexican elections, both from Mexico and the U.S., and this year she’s specifically been following efforts by consulates locally to inform the Mexican community in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the San Francisco and San José consulates have been very open in talking to folks who want to get their INE cards,” she said, pointing at multiple workshops held on Saturdays where Mexican nationals could register for an INE card without needing an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez of ‘Fuerza y Corazón por México’ coalition speaks, during the 2024 closing campaign event at Arena Monterrey on May 29, 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Medios y Media/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of her reporting, Mejía spoke to dozens of Mexican families now living in the Bay Area about their attitudes to the election. Those who told her they \u003cem>weren’t \u003c/em>planning to vote cited reasons like not having their INE voter card in time, or that it wasn’t a priority “because they have been living here for so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mejía also met Mexican nationals who were very engaged with the electoral process — and still felt heavily invested in the country’s politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, “many are sending remittances back, others still have a lot of family in their hometowns,” she said. Millions of Mexicans working in the U.S. frequently send some of their wages back to their families. Last year, Mexicans abroad sent back \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-remittances-record-money-migrants-275a49302e840fdaa8060d5cab9c7a24\">a total of $63.3 billion\u003c/a>, making remittances \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/manufacturing-remittances-tourism-and-oil-key-factors-for-mexicos-economy-in-2020-and-beyond\">one of the biggest contributors to Mexico’s GDP\u003c/a> — a testament to the outsize role the diaspora plays in the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for party support, “both MORENA and its partisans have — to my knowledge — been the most active here,” she said, and “it’s been difficult to find any type of political activity at their level organized by the opposition parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AMLO visited San Francisco last November during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, a Bay Area group of very energetic fans of the Mexican president — who call themselves “AMLOvers” — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/biden-to-meet-with-mexicos-president-l-pez-obrador\">quickly organized a rally outside the APEC security zone to express their loyalty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that in the Bay Area, the number of Mexican nationals who vote on Sunday will be in the hundreds. “When we talk about numbers, this may not seem big,” she said. “But this moment is important, because it opens the door to more people participating in the electoral process in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much more can AMLO’s party win?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Besides the presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-explainer-claudia-sheinbaum-xochitl-galvez-59fc84d8e757675ea9c5110f700e09bc\">more than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs\u003c/a> in Sunday’s Mexican elections. MORENA controls both chambers of Congress and keeping that majority is essential for Sheinbaum to follow through on campaign promises, including a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality between men and women and having Supreme Court justices picked by popular vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the table on Election Day is the head of government for Mexico City and the governor’s seat in eight states: Jalisco, Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos, Tabasco and Yucatán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MORENA and its allies already hold power in Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Morelos and Tabasco but are looking to win over the remaining three. If they do so, that would deal a significant blow to the opposition, as each of these states hold significant economic and symbolic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jalisco, an economic powerhouse, is currently governed by the center-left Citizen’s Movement Party and \u003ca href=\"https://politico.mx/quien-va-ganando-las-encuestas-en-jalisco-pablo-lemus-claudia-delgadillo-o-laura-haro-segun-polls-mx\">their candidate is hanging onto a slim advantage over MORENA in state polls\u003c/a>. The conservative Party for National Action (or PAN in Spanish), which has been the loudest voice of opposition against AMLO, holds Guanajuato and Yucatán — and has invested millions of pesos in keeping these two states in their roster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If MORENA manages to pull off these wins, they will control 26 out of 32 states, something only the PRI managed to do \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/life-after-dictatorship/mexicos-pri/9CEDCDB3A6847B72D413A5BF490A4FA4\">when it held almost absolute power over Mexico for more than six decades\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Álvarez Máynez, the long-shot Mexican presidential candidate of the Citizens & Movement party (MC), is campaigning in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, seeking the youth vote at the CETYS University campus. Maynez, the only male candidate in the race, is trailing both front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena ruling party and opponent Xochitl Galvez of the PRI-PAN-PRD opposition coalition in national polls. \u003ccite>(Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If the opposition doesn’t beat MORENA, what then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this race, Xóchitl Gálvez may be in the trickiest position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She represents a coalition made up of Mexico’s three historic parties: The right-leaning PAN, the moderate PRI and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (or PRD in Spanish) on the left. For decades, these parties have been at odds with each other — but MORENA’s rapid growth forced the three to put ideological differences aside and stick together to have a shot at the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all three parties \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cv22e6g3x59o\">are very unpopular among voters\u003c/a>. And rather than galvanize their bases, this union has frequently highlighted the ideological gulfs between each of the coalition parties. Take the issue of abortion, for example. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198039758/mexico-abortion-decriminalization-supreme-court\">As access to abortion expands in Mexico\u003c/a>, the PAN remains firmly opposed to abortion while the PRD supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gálvez was asked by an abortion rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/urielesqueda4/status/1707397006665126127\">about her stance on abortion last September\u003c/a>, she replied that as a coalition candidate, she represents multiple viewpoints and in turn, must represent each different viewpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team has responded to these contradictions by instead positioning Gálvez as first and foremost the candidate for those frustrated with AMLO and MORENA. But this message hasn’t yet convinced voters: Gálvez \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">has consistently polled somewhere between the high 20s and low 30s\u003c/a>, a long way from Sheinbaum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the Citizens’ Movement Party, has polled even lower, sticking to the low 10s. He’s employed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/elecciones-2024/canciones-y-tiktoks-la-estrategia-de-maynez-para-colocarse-entre-los-jovenes-11999278.html\">a social media-heavy strategy in order to court youth votes\u003c/a> and has targeted MORENA’s left-leaning flank by promoting policies AMLO hasn’t yet taken on, such as establishing a progressive tax scheme. Support for Álvarez Máynez still remains largely concentrated in his party’s strongholds of Jalisco and Nuevo León.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If election results match the polls and Gálvez loses by a big margin, that could spell the end of her coalition. “I think we will definitely see soul-searching,” said Shaiken of such a potential loss at the ballot box. “Both the Citizens’ Movement and the coalition that Gálvez leads are looking towards the future. They know the die is cast for this Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re going to see whether they meet expectations — or do they exceed them? That could be an important difference as to where they go,” predicted Shaiken.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What could this election spell for AMLO’s legacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to constitutional rules, AMLO cannot run for reelection. But the outgoing president has transformed the political landscape of Mexico since he first entered the national spotlight back in 2000, when he was elected mayor of Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his three presidential runs (in 2006, 2012 and his successful 2018 campaign), AMLO \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicans-say-they-will-vote-for-change-on-sunday-1530264601\">crisscrossed the country building a massive network of fervent supporters\u003c/a>. By railing against the political and economic elite, he won the votes of millions of Mexicans living in poverty, who he frequently refers to as “el pueblo bueno y sabio” — “the good and wise working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is speaking at a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day and the signing of the decree to create the Pension Fund for Welfare. \u003ccite>(Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As president, AMLO has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2022/11/16/mexicos-presidents-social-programs-are-effective-at-boosting-his-popularity/?sh=727b4acb3688\">dozens of social welfare programs that directly benefit the country’s elderly and poorest families\u003c/a>. His government has also poured billions of dollars in infrastructure projects all over Mexico, notably in states that historically have seen little investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while polls show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/la-aprobacion-de-amlo-sube-al-60-a-un-mes-de-las-elecciones/\">a majority of Mexicans still support AMLO\u003c/a>, others have become frustrated with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/the-end-of-macronism/\">Jupiterian style of governing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO’s critics — be they opposition politicians, journalists or community organizers — have often found themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-23/amlo-says-he-doesn-t-regret-sharing-nyt-reporter-s-number\">quickly and publicly discredited by the president in his morning press briefings\u003c/a>. He shrugs off criticism that homicides across Mexico have continued to increase during his term — “I have other data,” he says — \u003ca href=\"https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Suman-171085-homicidios-en-el-sexenio-de-AMLO-20240117-0008.html\">despite these numbers coming from his own government’s agencies\u003c/a>. And many former allies have left MORENA in response to AMLO’s close relationship with the military, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels\">an institution accused of violence and civil rights violations against journalists and civilians\u003c/a> during the country’s war against drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been concerns from international groups, including the United States, about Mexico sliding away from democratic practice in certain areas,” Shaiken said. “That’s going to be a challenge that Claudia Sheinbaum will face if she actually becomes president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO has repeatedly said that once his term ends, he will completely exit the public sphere and retire to his ranch called “La Chingada” in the southwest state of Chiapas. But it’s nonetheless difficult to imagine this outsized personality that has dominated Mexican politics for decades will fully disappear from the halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>I’m a Mexican national — can I still vote in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the National Electoral Institute (or INE in Spanish) provided Mexicans abroad with three different ways to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">\u003cstrong>Voting by mail:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This option has been available for multiple election cycles. Eligible Mexican citizens needed to register with the INE weeks in advance for this option. If you chose this voting method, you should have already received your ballot by mail. INE officials recommend \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">you complete it and mail it back as soon as you can so it arrives in Mexico before June 2\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">\u003cstrong>Voting electronically:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Eligible voters should have registered for this option by May 3. If you chose this voting method, you should have received an email from the INE with instructions on how to access the voting portal. \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">You have till 5 p.m. PST on June 2 to complete your electronic ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">\u003cstrong>Voting on the day of the election at your nearest consulate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> If you didn’t register for the other two options and still want to vote in this year’s presidential election, this is now your only available option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, go to the consulate that is nearest to you and let officials know that you are there to vote in the election (see the \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">locations of participating consulates and available voting times\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: You will need to have a valid INE voter card to access a voting booth. If you do not have an INE card, you will not be able to vote (American state IDs or other identification will not be accepted.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Millions of Mexicans will be going to the polls for Mexico's presidential elections Sunday. Here's everything you need to know, from the main candidates and issues to how you can vote from the US. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717204369,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2714},"headData":{"title":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US) | KQED","description":"Millions of Mexicans will be going to the polls for Mexico's presidential elections Sunday. Here's everything you need to know, from the main candidates and issues to how you can vote from the US. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What to Know About Mexico's Historic Election This Weekend (and How to Vote From the US)","datePublished":"2024-06-01T04:00:48-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T18:12:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988472/what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987267/mexican-citizens-in-california-could-play-key-role-in-countrys-upcoming-election\">millions of Mexican voters will head to the polls \u003c/a>to elect the country’s next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this election, two female candidates are leading the polls — something never seen before in the history of Mexico. And whoever wins out of the two will become the first female president to lead the nation of 126 million people with one of the biggest economies in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump to: Are you a Mexican citizen in the Bay Area and want to vote in this election? You may still be able to\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Poll after poll show Claudia Sheinbaum, former Mayor of Mexico City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">at least 20 points ahead of her closest rival\u003c/a>, Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum represents the left-leaning MORENA party which has been in power since 2018, when outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (who is also known as “AMLO”) won the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gálvez, on the other hand, leads a coalition of three parties that have historically been bitter rivals but have come together to oppose MORENA — a party that has existed for less than 15 years but under AMLO’s leadership has amassed an incredible amount of power in all branches of government.\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>Whether it’s Sheinbaum or Gálvez — or long-shot third-party candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez who’s polling at 10% — whoever voters elect to succeed AMLO will face monumental challenges. The country has experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/cme-group/2023/06/01/mexico-is-outpacing-latam-economies-can-it-continue/?sh=10fea61146b4\">strong economic growth in recent years\u003c/a> but climate change and economic inequality threaten that progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in Mexico is of enormous importance to the United States — and nowhere is that more important than in California,” said Harley Shaiken, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, who previously led the university’s Center for Latin American Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials will announce the presidential winner on Sunday night, sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. PST. Ahead of the big announcement, we’ve brought together the big Mexican election stories to watch out for this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Could Sheinbaum match her mentor AMLO?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In politics, nothing is ever certain. But the general consensus is that Sheinbaum’s sizable and consistent lead in every major poll for the past two years now makes this her race to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheinbaum, however, does not have the same appeal as her mentor AMLO, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-sheinbaum-lopez-obrador-e7e0b95c4812f4c4504a5e1803328aad\">who is by far the more popular of the two politicians\u003c/a>. In 2018, AMLO swept into power with 54% of the vote in a four-way race — a feat not seen since the 1980s, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or PRI in Spanish) \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Institutional-Revolutionary-Party\">held almost absolute control over Mexican politics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claudia Sheinbaum is underrated by many,” said Shaiken. “She governed Mexico City for five years under very difficult circumstances and has some impressive things to show for that in the area of policing, renewable energy and community development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155224956-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of ‘Sigamos Haciendo Historia’ coalition waves to supporters during the 2024 closing campaign event at Zocalo on May 29, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Hector Vivas/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One frequent criticism the opposition has leveled at Sheinbaum is that she’s heavily influenced by AMLO, and that a Sheinbaum presidency would in fact just be a second AMLO term. But Shaiken doesn’t buy that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Has she been close to López Obrador? Positively … but she’s her own person,” he added. “One area where I think we will see some very different things is in the environment,” said Shaiken, noting that Sheinbaum has a PhD in energy engineering and “has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/sheinbaum-planea-gastar-miles-de-millones-en-plantas-solares-y-de-gas\">very committed to doing things on solar\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether Sheinbaum can match — or potentially exceed — AMLO’s electoral success could ultimately show whether she can wield as much political influence as her mentor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the role of Mexicans abroad in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 12 million Mexicans live outside Mexico — and 97% live in the United States. For months, Mexican consulates across the U.S. have been promoting the different ways Mexicans living abroad can vote in this year’s presidential contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/elecciones2018\">roughly 98,000 Mexicans abroad voted in that year’s election\u003c/a> — an extremely tiny fraction of the eligible population. But this year, Mexican officials have invested more time and resources to engage the diaspora with the voting process, said María Antonieta Mejía, reporter with Univision 14 Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía has covered many Mexican elections, both from Mexico and the U.S., and this year she’s specifically been following efforts by consulates locally to inform the Mexican community in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both the San Francisco and San José consulates have been very open in talking to folks who want to get their INE cards,” she said, pointing at multiple workshops held on Saturdays where Mexican nationals could register for an INE card without needing an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155253358-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez of ‘Fuerza y Corazón por México’ coalition speaks, during the 2024 closing campaign event at Arena Monterrey on May 29, 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Medios y Media/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of her reporting, Mejía spoke to dozens of Mexican families now living in the Bay Area about their attitudes to the election. Those who told her they \u003cem>weren’t \u003c/em>planning to vote cited reasons like not having their INE voter card in time, or that it wasn’t a priority “because they have been living here for so long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mejía also met Mexican nationals who were very engaged with the electoral process — and still felt heavily invested in the country’s politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, “many are sending remittances back, others still have a lot of family in their hometowns,” she said. Millions of Mexicans working in the U.S. frequently send some of their wages back to their families. Last year, Mexicans abroad sent back \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-remittances-record-money-migrants-275a49302e840fdaa8060d5cab9c7a24\">a total of $63.3 billion\u003c/a>, making remittances \u003ca href=\"https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/manufacturing-remittances-tourism-and-oil-key-factors-for-mexicos-economy-in-2020-and-beyond\">one of the biggest contributors to Mexico’s GDP\u003c/a> — a testament to the outsize role the diaspora plays in the country’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for party support, “both MORENA and its partisans have — to my knowledge — been the most active here,” she said, and “it’s been difficult to find any type of political activity at their level organized by the opposition parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When AMLO visited San Francisco last November during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, a Bay Area group of very energetic fans of the Mexican president — who call themselves “AMLOvers” — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/biden-to-meet-with-mexicos-president-l-pez-obrador\">quickly organized a rally outside the APEC security zone to express their loyalty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates that in the Bay Area, the number of Mexican nationals who vote on Sunday will be in the hundreds. “When we talk about numbers, this may not seem big,” she said. “But this moment is important, because it opens the door to more people participating in the electoral process in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How much more can AMLO’s party win?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Besides the presidency, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mexico-elections-explainer-claudia-sheinbaum-xochitl-galvez-59fc84d8e757675ea9c5110f700e09bc\">more than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs\u003c/a> in Sunday’s Mexican elections. MORENA controls both chambers of Congress and keeping that majority is essential for Sheinbaum to follow through on campaign promises, including a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality between men and women and having Supreme Court justices picked by popular vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the table on Election Day is the head of government for Mexico City and the governor’s seat in eight states: Jalisco, Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Morelos, Tabasco and Yucatán.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MORENA and its allies already hold power in Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Morelos and Tabasco but are looking to win over the remaining three. If they do so, that would deal a significant blow to the opposition, as each of these states hold significant economic and symbolic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jalisco, an economic powerhouse, is currently governed by the center-left Citizen’s Movement Party and \u003ca href=\"https://politico.mx/quien-va-ganando-las-encuestas-en-jalisco-pablo-lemus-claudia-delgadillo-o-laura-haro-segun-polls-mx\">their candidate is hanging onto a slim advantage over MORENA in state polls\u003c/a>. The conservative Party for National Action (or PAN in Spanish), which has been the loudest voice of opposition against AMLO, holds Guanajuato and Yucatán — and has invested millions of pesos in keeping these two states in their roster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If MORENA manages to pull off these wins, they will control 26 out of 32 states, something only the PRI managed to do \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/life-after-dictatorship/mexicos-pri/9CEDCDB3A6847B72D413A5BF490A4FA4\">when it held almost absolute power over Mexico for more than six decades\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2153643722-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Álvarez Máynez, the long-shot Mexican presidential candidate of the Citizens & Movement party (MC), is campaigning in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, seeking the youth vote at the CETYS University campus. Maynez, the only male candidate in the race, is trailing both front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena ruling party and opponent Xochitl Galvez of the PRI-PAN-PRD opposition coalition in national polls. \u003ccite>(Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If the opposition doesn’t beat MORENA, what then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this race, Xóchitl Gálvez may be in the trickiest position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She represents a coalition made up of Mexico’s three historic parties: The right-leaning PAN, the moderate PRI and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (or PRD in Spanish) on the left. For decades, these parties have been at odds with each other — but MORENA’s rapid growth forced the three to put ideological differences aside and stick together to have a shot at the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But all three parties \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cv22e6g3x59o\">are very unpopular among voters\u003c/a>. And rather than galvanize their bases, this union has frequently highlighted the ideological gulfs between each of the coalition parties. Take the issue of abortion, for example. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198039758/mexico-abortion-decriminalization-supreme-court\">As access to abortion expands in Mexico\u003c/a>, the PAN remains firmly opposed to abortion while the PRD supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gálvez was asked by an abortion rights activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/urielesqueda4/status/1707397006665126127\">about her stance on abortion last September\u003c/a>, she replied that as a coalition candidate, she represents multiple viewpoints and in turn, must represent each different viewpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team has responded to these contradictions by instead positioning Gálvez as first and foremost the candidate for those frustrated with AMLO and MORENA. But this message hasn’t yet convinced voters: Gálvez \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/sheinbaum-llega-al-cierre-de-campanas-presidenciales-con-ventaja-de-20-puntos-sobre-galvez-encuesta-reforma/\">has consistently polled somewhere between the high 20s and low 30s\u003c/a>, a long way from Sheinbaum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the Citizens’ Movement Party, has polled even lower, sticking to the low 10s. He’s employed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/elecciones-2024/canciones-y-tiktoks-la-estrategia-de-maynez-para-colocarse-entre-los-jovenes-11999278.html\">a social media-heavy strategy in order to court youth votes\u003c/a> and has targeted MORENA’s left-leaning flank by promoting policies AMLO hasn’t yet taken on, such as establishing a progressive tax scheme. Support for Álvarez Máynez still remains largely concentrated in his party’s strongholds of Jalisco and Nuevo León.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If election results match the polls and Gálvez loses by a big margin, that could spell the end of her coalition. “I think we will definitely see soul-searching,” said Shaiken of such a potential loss at the ballot box. “Both the Citizens’ Movement and the coalition that Gálvez leads are looking towards the future. They know the die is cast for this Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re going to see whether they meet expectations — or do they exceed them? That could be an important difference as to where they go,” predicted Shaiken.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What could this election spell for AMLO’s legacy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Due to constitutional rules, AMLO cannot run for reelection. But the outgoing president has transformed the political landscape of Mexico since he first entered the national spotlight back in 2000, when he was elected mayor of Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his three presidential runs (in 2006, 2012 and his successful 2018 campaign), AMLO \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicans-say-they-will-vote-for-change-on-sunday-1530264601\">crisscrossed the country building a massive network of fervent supporters\u003c/a>. By railing against the political and economic elite, he won the votes of millions of Mexicans living in poverty, who he frequently refers to as “el pueblo bueno y sabio” — “the good and wise working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2150460638-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is speaking at a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day and the signing of the decree to create the Pension Fund for Welfare. \u003ccite>(Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As president, AMLO has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2022/11/16/mexicos-presidents-social-programs-are-effective-at-boosting-his-popularity/?sh=727b4acb3688\">dozens of social welfare programs that directly benefit the country’s elderly and poorest families\u003c/a>. His government has also poured billions of dollars in infrastructure projects all over Mexico, notably in states that historically have seen little investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while polls show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com.mx/la-aprobacion-de-amlo-sube-al-60-a-un-mes-de-las-elecciones/\">a majority of Mexicans still support AMLO\u003c/a>, others have become frustrated with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/the-end-of-macronism/\">Jupiterian style of governing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO’s critics — be they opposition politicians, journalists or community organizers — have often found themselves \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-23/amlo-says-he-doesn-t-regret-sharing-nyt-reporter-s-number\">quickly and publicly discredited by the president in his morning press briefings\u003c/a>. He shrugs off criticism that homicides across Mexico have continued to increase during his term — “I have other data,” he says — \u003ca href=\"https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Suman-171085-homicidios-en-el-sexenio-de-AMLO-20240117-0008.html\">despite these numbers coming from his own government’s agencies\u003c/a>. And many former allies have left MORENA in response to AMLO’s close relationship with the military, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels\">an institution accused of violence and civil rights violations against journalists and civilians\u003c/a> during the country’s war against drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been concerns from international groups, including the United States, about Mexico sliding away from democratic practice in certain areas,” Shaiken said. “That’s going to be a challenge that Claudia Sheinbaum will face if she actually becomes president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AMLO has repeatedly said that once his term ends, he will completely exit the public sphere and retire to his ranch called “La Chingada” in the southwest state of Chiapas. But it’s nonetheless difficult to imagine this outsized personality that has dominated Mexican politics for decades will fully disappear from the halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>I’m a Mexican national — can I still vote in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the National Electoral Institute (or INE in Spanish) provided Mexicans abroad with three different ways to vote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">\u003cstrong>Voting by mail:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This option has been available for multiple election cycles. Eligible Mexican citizens needed to register with the INE weeks in advance for this option. If you chose this voting method, you should have already received your ballot by mail. INE officials recommend \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-postal\">you complete it and mail it back as soon as you can so it arrives in Mexico before June 2\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">\u003cstrong>Voting electronically:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Eligible voters should have registered for this option by May 3. If you chose this voting method, you should have received an email from the INE with instructions on how to access the voting portal. \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-por-internet\">You have till 5 p.m. PST on June 2 to complete your electronic ballot.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">\u003cstrong>Voting on the day of the election at your nearest consulate:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> If you didn’t register for the other two options and still want to vote in this year’s presidential election, this is now your only available option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, go to the consulate that is nearest to you and let officials know that you are there to vote in the election (see the \u003ca href=\"https://votoextranjero.mx/web/vmre/voto-presencial\">locations of participating consulates and available voting times\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: You will need to have a valid INE voter card to access a voting booth. If you do not have an INE card, you will not be able to vote (American state IDs or other identification will not be accepted.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988472/what-to-know-about-mexicos-historic-election-this-weekend-and-how-to-vote-from-the-us","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_23121","news_34094"],"featImg":"news_11988500","label":"news"},"news_11988511":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988511","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988511","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults","title":"Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults","publishDate":1717201461,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed he would not fix the state’s budget deficit by removing health insurance from low-income adults living in the country without legal permission, calling the state’s policy “something I believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom would eliminate an important health benefit for some low-income immigrants with disabilities, angering his allies who are now accusing the second-term governor of breaking his word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was one of the first states to give free health insurance to all low-income adults \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-medicaid-expansion-undocumented-immigrants-34d8deb2186e9195b253f499e81a3d77\">regardless of their immigration status\u003c/a>. The multibillion-dollar project, completed in January, made more than 1 million people eligible for California’s Medicaid program, including many people who had never before had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just five months later and with California facing an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gov-gavin-newsom-8f502d57d00d551c0b6b6331367f7a25#:~:text=Officially%2C%20Newsom%20said%20the%20state's,Legislature%20agreed%20to%20in%20March.\">$45 billion deficit\u003c/a>, Newsom wants the state to stop paying for caregivers to come to the homes of some disabled people — who are living in the country without legal permission — to help them with cooking, cleaning and other tasks so they can stay out of nursing homes. Everyone else would keep that benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration said this would save about $94 million and impact fewer than 3,000 people out of the more than 15 million enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. However, eliminating the benefit would also prevent thousands more from becoming eligible in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newom’s proposal “is a betrayal,” said David Kane, an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Ronald Coleman Baeza, managing policy director for California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, called it “indefensible” and compared the proposal to a notorious ballot proposition from the 1990s that sought to bar immigrants from accessing government assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988527 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda poses for a photo at her home in Madera, Madera County, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it could move us back in the sense of treating undocumented as different,” said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who has pushed for the Medicaid expansion for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal for immigrants would impact a benefit known as in-home supportive services, which are becoming more expensive for the state to provide. The average hourly wage for caregivers has gone up 6% since 2014. And starting this year, with some emergency federal funding provided during the pandemic expiring, there have been cost increases of about $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once people qualify for the program, they get to hire their own caregiver. It’s often a relative, meaning the program often acts as financial assistance for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Estela Pineda, a 42-year-old woman originally from El Salvador who now lives in California’s Central Valley, lost her eyesight at 30 because of glaucoma. She started getting in-home supportive services earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, Mayde Pineda, said the government has been paying her $16.50 per hour for a total of 84 hours a month to care for her mother, which includes things like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Mayde Pineda, 22, said the money helped stabilize the family financially while she finished college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda, holding a mirror, gets makeup applied by her daughter Mayde at their home in Madera, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without (this program), I won’t be able to care for her without significant hardships,” Mayde Pineda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services, which administers the program, said it would work “to mitigate any negative impact to currently assisted individuals,” including helping them find other government-funded programs that could provide similar services. One option would be Medi-Cal’s community-based adult services program, which pays for things like personal care, food and professional nursing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on his proposal, the governor’s office pointed to remarks Newsom made earlier this month when he announced his budget plan that included an array of painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t find any joy in this — but we’ve got to do it, we have to be responsible. We have to be accountable. We have to balance the budget,” Newsom said.[aside postID=news_11979626 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/SAUL-PEDROZA-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Newsom for much of his tenure has basked in the praises of progressives as he used a string of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-california-gavin-newsom-5aa5ab19800a5e91c209ff1268ac40bc\">historic surpluses\u003c/a> to expand government services. However, back-to-back multibillion-dollar deficits are forcing Newsom to make some hard choices that have put him on a collision course with some of his most vocal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating these conflicts will be critical for Newsom, who has been building his national profile ahead of a potential presidential campaign. So far, Newsom has been moving quickly to address them. When the state’s largest teachers union ran ads \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-schools-newsom-teachers-union-e8de3476bfdec82f916b54223d9bf061\">criticizing him\u003c/a> for his proposed cuts to education, Newsom struck a deal with them that resolved much of their concerns. That deal still must be approved by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other negotiations will be more difficult. Newsom’s health care proposal for immigrants is just one of many proposed cuts across the state’s wide array of social services programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, plans to pass its version of the budget by June 15. This plan would restore nearly all of those cuts, including the health care cuts for some immigrants. It does this by increasing a temporary tax hike on businesses while also slashing about $1 billion from the state’s prison budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have ensured that the budget is not balanced on our most vulnerable populations,” said Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a Democrat from Moreno Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislative leaders will negotiate over the next few weeks on a final spending plan, with the goal of passing a budget around the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. While the Legislature votes on the budget, Newsom has a lot of influence. He decides whether to sign the budget into law. California lawmakers have rarely ever overturned a governor’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom faces criticism for proposing to cut a Medicaid benefit that provides in-home caregivers for some disabled immigrants. Advocates feel betrayed, but Newsom argues the budget requires difficult decisions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717266009,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1055},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults | KQED","description":"Gov. Gavin Newsom faces criticism for proposing to cut a Medicaid benefit that provides in-home caregivers for some disabled immigrants. Advocates feel betrayed, but Newsom argues the budget requires difficult decisions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Faces Backlash for Plan to Cut In-Home Care for Undocumented Disabled Adults","datePublished":"2024-05-31T17:24:21-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-01T11:20:09-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Adam Beam, The Associated Press","nprStoryId":"kqed-11988511","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988511/newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed he would not fix the state’s budget deficit by removing health insurance from low-income adults living in the country without legal permission, calling the state’s policy “something I believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom would eliminate an important health benefit for some low-income immigrants with disabilities, angering his allies who are now accusing the second-term governor of breaking his word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was one of the first states to give free health insurance to all low-income adults \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-medicaid-expansion-undocumented-immigrants-34d8deb2186e9195b253f499e81a3d77\">regardless of their immigration status\u003c/a>. The multibillion-dollar project, completed in January, made more than 1 million people eligible for California’s Medicaid program, including many people who had never before had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, just five months later and with California facing an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-gov-gavin-newsom-8f502d57d00d551c0b6b6331367f7a25#:~:text=Officially%2C%20Newsom%20said%20the%20state's,Legislature%20agreed%20to%20in%20March.\">$45 billion deficit\u003c/a>, Newsom wants the state to stop paying for caregivers to come to the homes of some disabled people — who are living in the country without legal permission — to help them with cooking, cleaning and other tasks so they can stay out of nursing homes. Everyone else would keep that benefit.\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 Newsom administration said this would save about $94 million and impact fewer than 3,000 people out of the more than 15 million enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. However, eliminating the benefit would also prevent thousands more from becoming eligible in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newom’s proposal “is a betrayal,” said David Kane, an attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Ronald Coleman Baeza, managing policy director for California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, called it “indefensible” and compared the proposal to a notorious ballot proposition from the 1990s that sought to bar immigrants from accessing government assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988527 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173581917-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda poses for a photo at her home in Madera, Madera County, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it could move us back in the sense of treating undocumented as different,” said state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Democrat from Los Angeles who has pushed for the Medicaid expansion for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal for immigrants would impact a benefit known as in-home supportive services, which are becoming more expensive for the state to provide. The average hourly wage for caregivers has gone up 6% since 2014. And starting this year, with some emergency federal funding provided during the pandemic expiring, there have been cost increases of about $200 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once people qualify for the program, they get to hire their own caregiver. It’s often a relative, meaning the program often acts as financial assistance for families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin Estela Pineda, a 42-year-old woman originally from El Salvador who now lives in California’s Central Valley, lost her eyesight at 30 because of glaucoma. She started getting in-home supportive services earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, Mayde Pineda, said the government has been paying her $16.50 per hour for a total of 84 hours a month to care for her mother, which includes things like cooking, cleaning and laundry. Mayde Pineda, 22, said the money helped stabilize the family financially while she finished college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11988531 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24152173841689-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Estela Pineda, holding a mirror, gets makeup applied by her daughter Mayde at their home in Madera, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gary Kazanjian/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Without (this program), I won’t be able to care for her without significant hardships,” Mayde Pineda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services, which administers the program, said it would work “to mitigate any negative impact to currently assisted individuals,” including helping them find other government-funded programs that could provide similar services. One option would be Medi-Cal’s community-based adult services program, which pays for things like personal care, food and professional nursing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked for comment on his proposal, the governor’s office pointed to remarks Newsom made earlier this month when he announced his budget plan that included an array of painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t find any joy in this — but we’ve got to do it, we have to be responsible. We have to be accountable. We have to balance the budget,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11979626","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/SAUL-PEDROZA-26-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom for much of his tenure has basked in the praises of progressives as he used a string of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-california-gavin-newsom-5aa5ab19800a5e91c209ff1268ac40bc\">historic surpluses\u003c/a> to expand government services. However, back-to-back multibillion-dollar deficits are forcing Newsom to make some hard choices that have put him on a collision course with some of his most vocal supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating these conflicts will be critical for Newsom, who has been building his national profile ahead of a potential presidential campaign. So far, Newsom has been moving quickly to address them. When the state’s largest teachers union ran ads \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-schools-newsom-teachers-union-e8de3476bfdec82f916b54223d9bf061\">criticizing him\u003c/a> for his proposed cuts to education, Newsom struck a deal with them that resolved much of their concerns. That deal still must be approved by the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other negotiations will be more difficult. Newsom’s health care proposal for immigrants is just one of many proposed cuts across the state’s wide array of social services programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, plans to pass its version of the budget by June 15. This plan would restore nearly all of those cuts, including the health care cuts for some immigrants. It does this by increasing a temporary tax hike on businesses while also slashing about $1 billion from the state’s prison budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have ensured that the budget is not balanced on our most vulnerable populations,” said Assemblymember Corey Jackson, a Democrat from Moreno Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislative leaders will negotiate over the next few weeks on a final spending plan, with the goal of passing a budget around the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. While the Legislature votes on the budget, Newsom has a lot of influence. He decides whether to sign the budget into law. California lawmakers have rarely ever overturned a governor’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988511/newsom-faces-backlash-for-plan-to-cut-in-home-care-for-undocumented-disabled-adults","authors":["byline_news_11988511"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21845","news_25262","news_16","news_683","news_20202","news_19960"],"featImg":"news_11988517","label":"news"},"news_11988510":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988510","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988510","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august","title":"Case of Former San José Police Union Official Charged With Attempting to Import Illegal Drugs Could Be Resolved by August","publishDate":1717199331,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Case of Former San José Police Union Official Charged With Attempting to Import Illegal Drugs Could Be Resolved by August | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The long-running case of a former San José police union employee charged with attempting to illegally import drugs to the U.S. could be resolved by August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Segovia, the former longtime executive director at the San José Police Officers’ Association, appeared in federal court today in San José for the first time since her initial hearing in March 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia, now 65, was charged in connection with an apparent international drug ring scheming to bring illicit opioids into the Bay Area and the U.S. She came to the attention of Homeland Security Investigations agents who were pursuing leads in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of her charging, officials said she could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, though it appears the case could be headed toward a plea bargain, according to legal filings and statements by attorneys in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins told prosecutors and Segovia’s defense attorneys on Tuesday they’d need to appear in court Friday to give a status update on the case, which has been continued 14 times while the two sides discussed facts and circumstances of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the requests by attorneys for time extensions came just hours before a hearing was scheduled to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins reminded the attorneys of the public interest in the “prompt disposition of criminal cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 14 continuances made me think then and now that the public’s interest was not being satisfied,” Cousins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, told Cousins the government is “keenly interested” in bringing the case to a resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened yet, despite extensive discussions, because there are a number of very unusual factual issues that this case presents,” Tartakovsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked the court for a month more time, but said he wouldn’t seek another extension after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One last extension. At that point, the government will either present the court with a resolution or the government will indict. But that will be the end of the line,” Tartakovsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for the extensions in the case are “differences in the government’s and the defendant’s views of the facts,” Segovia’s attorney Will Edelman, wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edelman, citing health issues and personal difficulties, is withdrawing from the case and Segovia will be represented by attorney Adam Gasner. Edelman noted in his filing that finding a new attorney for Segovia and transitioning the case to Gasner also required some additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, “the parties have engaged in extensive back-and-forth discussions about such potential resolutions, including multiple meetings, presentations, and detailed correspondence,” Edleman wrote. He characterized the talks as productive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A potential case resolution that has been discussed and refined extensively remains a possibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner asked the court to schedule the next hearing for August 15, to ensure he has time to review all the details of the case, and Cousins granted the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Jayne, a white-collar criminal defense attorney based in Berkeley, said the length of this case is not exceptional, as two sides are trying to find a middle ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what should be done in every case, right? If you want to potentially resolve it, you go back and forth, you talk about it, to try to figure out a resolution. Sometimes that takes time,” Jayne said. “(The attorneys) are basically saying ‘it’s not like we’ve been sitting around doing nothing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tartatovsky, Gasner and Segovia all declined to comment when leaving the courthouse Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors listed just one alleged crime in a March 2023 criminal complaint against Segovia, a supporting report written by a Homeland Security special agent laid out a series of alleged actions by Segovia over several years which officials said are consistent with the shipping, receiving and distributing of illicit drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia used both her personal computer and a computer at the police union office to order thousands of opioid and other pills to her San José home “and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 shipments mailed to her home originating from a variety of other nations. While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained things like “Wedding Party Favors,” “Gift Makeup,” or “Chocolate and Sweets,” investigators believe they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted and opened five of these shipments and found that they contained thousands of pills of controlled substances, including the synthetic opioids Tramadol and Tapentadol,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Investigators seized drugs at both her home and office, including hundreds of Tapentadol pills at her police union office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia used CashApp and PayPal to send money to people in various countries, and WhatsApp to send and receive hundreds of logistics messages and photos to a person with an India country code phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one image she is alleged to have sent showing a PayPal payment confirmation of $999.99, her work computer monitor can be seen along with a San José Police Officers’ Association letter opener and one of her police union business cards below the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11945256,news_11983119,news_11983106\"]When initially confronted about the alleged drug shipments, federal investigators said Segovia lied to them about her activities, and tried to shift blame onto her housekeeper. Though Segovia is not a police officer and was an administrative employee for the union representing roughly 1,100 San José police officers, investigators said she claimed at one point to “work for the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case have not commented on what a possible deal might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where a case involves serious drugs, that involves any kind of distribution, somebody is often looking at prison time,” Jayne said. She noted the amounts of drugs involved, and mitigating issues like addiction, could also factor into any potential deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the roughly 14 months after Segovia’s first court hearing, federal judges approved some travel for her, allowing her to attend family events out of state and go on vacation. She was not permitted to travel internationally, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired by the police union on April 7, 2023, after an initial internal investigation by police union executives. In the wake of the drug charge revelations, union officials claimed there were no other union employees or police officers involved in the alleged drug crimes, and that no one knew about Segovia’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police union leaders said last year the organization would also hire an outside investigator to look into Segovia’s alleged actions, and examine the union’s own internal processes to see if there were steps that could have been taken to identify her alleged behavior sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Attorneys in the case told a federal judge there have been 'extensive' discussions about a resolution to the drug smuggling case of former police union employee Joanne Segovia.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717199907,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1271},"headData":{"title":"Case of Former San José Police Union Official Charged With Attempting to Import Illegal Drugs Could Be Resolved by August | KQED","description":"Attorneys in the case told a federal judge there have been 'extensive' discussions about a resolution to the drug smuggling case of former police union employee Joanne Segovia.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Case of Former San José Police Union Official Charged With Attempting to Import Illegal Drugs Could Be Resolved by August","datePublished":"2024-05-31T16:48:51-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T16:58:27-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988510","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The long-running case of a former San José police union employee charged with attempting to illegally import drugs to the U.S. could be resolved by August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Segovia, the former longtime executive director at the San José Police Officers’ Association, appeared in federal court today in San José for the first time since her initial hearing in March 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia, now 65, was charged in connection with an apparent international drug ring scheming to bring illicit opioids into the Bay Area and the U.S. She came to the attention of Homeland Security Investigations agents who were pursuing leads in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of her charging, officials said she could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, though it appears the case could be headed toward a plea bargain, according to legal filings and statements by attorneys in court.\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>Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins told prosecutors and Segovia’s defense attorneys on Tuesday they’d need to appear in court Friday to give a status update on the case, which has been continued 14 times while the two sides discussed facts and circumstances of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the requests by attorneys for time extensions came just hours before a hearing was scheduled to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousins reminded the attorneys of the public interest in the “prompt disposition of criminal cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 14 continuances made me think then and now that the public’s interest was not being satisfied,” Cousins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, told Cousins the government is “keenly interested” in bringing the case to a resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened yet, despite extensive discussions, because there are a number of very unusual factual issues that this case presents,” Tartakovsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked the court for a month more time, but said he wouldn’t seek another extension after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One last extension. At that point, the government will either present the court with a resolution or the government will indict. But that will be the end of the line,” Tartakovsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for the extensions in the case are “differences in the government’s and the defendant’s views of the facts,” Segovia’s attorney Will Edelman, wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edelman, citing health issues and personal difficulties, is withdrawing from the case and Segovia will be represented by attorney Adam Gasner. Edelman noted in his filing that finding a new attorney for Segovia and transitioning the case to Gasner also required some additional time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, “the parties have engaged in extensive back-and-forth discussions about such potential resolutions, including multiple meetings, presentations, and detailed correspondence,” Edleman wrote. He characterized the talks as productive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A potential case resolution that has been discussed and refined extensively remains a possibility,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner asked the court to schedule the next hearing for August 15, to ensure he has time to review all the details of the case, and Cousins granted the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Jayne, a white-collar criminal defense attorney based in Berkeley, said the length of this case is not exceptional, as two sides are trying to find a middle ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what should be done in every case, right? If you want to potentially resolve it, you go back and forth, you talk about it, to try to figure out a resolution. Sometimes that takes time,” Jayne said. “(The attorneys) are basically saying ‘it’s not like we’ve been sitting around doing nothing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tartatovsky, Gasner and Segovia all declined to comment when leaving the courthouse Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors listed just one alleged crime in a March 2023 criminal complaint against Segovia, a supporting report written by a Homeland Security special agent laid out a series of alleged actions by Segovia over several years which officials said are consistent with the shipping, receiving and distributing of illicit drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia used both her personal computer and a computer at the police union office to order thousands of opioid and other pills to her San José home “and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 shipments mailed to her home originating from a variety of other nations. While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained things like “Wedding Party Favors,” “Gift Makeup,” or “Chocolate and Sweets,” investigators believe they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted and opened five of these shipments and found that they contained thousands of pills of controlled substances, including the synthetic opioids Tramadol and Tapentadol,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Investigators seized drugs at both her home and office, including hundreds of Tapentadol pills at her police union office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia used CashApp and PayPal to send money to people in various countries, and WhatsApp to send and receive hundreds of logistics messages and photos to a person with an India country code phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one image she is alleged to have sent showing a PayPal payment confirmation of $999.99, her work computer monitor can be seen along with a San José Police Officers’ Association letter opener and one of her police union business cards below the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11945256,news_11983119,news_11983106"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When initially confronted about the alleged drug shipments, federal investigators said Segovia lied to them about her activities, and tried to shift blame onto her housekeeper. Though Segovia is not a police officer and was an administrative employee for the union representing roughly 1,100 San José police officers, investigators said she claimed at one point to “work for the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case have not commented on what a possible deal might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where a case involves serious drugs, that involves any kind of distribution, somebody is often looking at prison time,” Jayne said. She noted the amounts of drugs involved, and mitigating issues like addiction, could also factor into any potential deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the roughly 14 months after Segovia’s first court hearing, federal judges approved some travel for her, allowing her to attend family events out of state and go on vacation. She was not permitted to travel internationally, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired by the police union on April 7, 2023, after an initial internal investigation by police union executives. In the wake of the drug charge revelations, union officials claimed there were no other union employees or police officers involved in the alleged drug crimes, and that no one knew about Segovia’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police union leaders said last year the organization would also hire an outside investigator to look into Segovia’s alleged actions, and examine the union’s own internal processes to see if there were steps that could have been taken to identify her alleged behavior sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august","authors":["11906"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_2587","news_27626","news_18541","news_667"],"featImg":"news_11988518","label":"news"},"news_11988397":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988397","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988397","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"many-protesters-arrested-at-uc-santa-cruz-pro-palestinian-encampment","title":"About 80 Protesters Arrested at UC Santa Cruz Pro-Palestinian Encampment","publishDate":1717177777,"format":"standard","headTitle":"About 80 Protesters Arrested at UC Santa Cruz Pro-Palestinian Encampment | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:35 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in riot gear arrested about 80 protesters at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">blocked campus entrances\u003c/a>, according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11 p.m. Thursday, officers gathered near the encampment. Video \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/police-israel-hamas-war-protesters-uc-santa-cruz/3553482/\">shot by NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> shows the protesters standing in line, linking arms across the campus and facing a line of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Hindery, a student negotiator for the UC Santa Cruz Palestine Solidarity Encampment, estimated there were hundreds of protesters outnumbering the police. Within the first few hours, officers started arresting protesters, Hindery included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt unheard by our administration; our demands are still unmet,” Hindery said. “We see all of the attacks in Rafah over the last week, and we felt a need to make our voices a little louder in calling for divestment, boycott and disclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests capped a chaotic few weeks for UC Santa Cruz, which was the first University of California campus to see its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987173/uc-academic-workers-strike-is-limited-to-santa-cruz-so-far-heres-why\">unionized academic workers go on strike\u003c/a> May 20. That pushed the university to pause in-person instruction, which it had just resumed Tuesday when protesters blocked the campus’ entrances, forcing another switch to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests also come as Israel faces mounting international condemnation over its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, with airstrikes Sunday killing as many as 45 people sheltering in tents for displaced Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bomb-rafah-civilians-israel-us-ada219d17926a14ca8c179338d53d109\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Santa Cruz, encampment participants had been warned repeatedly to stop blocking access to the campus and its resources using chained barricades made of pallets and other materials, Chancellor Cynthia Larive said in a statement to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those warnings continued Friday morning, police cleared the barricades and the encampment, but some demonstrators remained at the campus’ main entrance, Larive said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larive said the protesters were “well-intentioned” but ultimately disrupted campus operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the disruptions we experienced these weeks were harmful to others in our community,” Larive wrote. “This decision was not made because individuals demonstrated; it was because they have chosen to do so through unlawful actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11988039,news_11987905,news_11987737 label=\"related coverage\"]Community members were unable to leave campus to pick up their children, access medical care off campus, show up to off-campus jobs, leave campus after an early morning shift or come onto campus for an afternoon or evening shift, Larive said in an earlier statement Tuesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hindery pushed back on those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that blocking the road might be seen as not peaceful, but we had a plan to allow emergency access,” he said. “We were allowing families that lived on campus to get their kids. We were dealing with these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larive also wrote that the university could not meet protesters’ demands to end its ties to organizations that “support our Jewish students” and to funders that support “important student success work and happen to be Jewish organizations,” nor to condemn the use of funding from certain federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Functionally, the encampment wanted to prevent our researchers from pursuing research related to topics with which they disagree,” Larive said, calling it a “dangerous precedent and to give in to it would undermine academic freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the executive board of the United Auto Workers Local 4811, representing 48,000 academic workers across the UC system, called on UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego and UC Irvine to join in solidarity strikes next week. Graduate teaching assistants, researchers and others will walk out at Santa Barbara and San Diego on Monday and Irvine on Wednesday, joining those at UC Santa Cruz, UCLA and UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 4811 has staged rolling strikes across the UC system since mid-May, protesting the use of police against what the union said were largely peaceful pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego while also threatening the free speech rights and academic freedom of UC employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last month, UC has used and condoned violence against workers and students peacefully protesting on campus for peace and freedom in Palestine,” UAW 4811 President Rafael Jaime said in a statement. “Rather than put their energies into resolution, UC is attempting to halt the strike through legal procedures. They have not been successful, and this strike will roll on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state labor board is now reviewing a complaint by the UC system alleging that UAW 4811’s strikes violate a no-strike clause in its contract. The California Public Employment Relations Board is expected to make a decision next week, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Police in riot gear arrested protesters at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had blocked campus entrances, according to the university.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717191459,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":799},"headData":{"title":"About 80 Protesters Arrested at UC Santa Cruz Pro-Palestinian Encampment | KQED","description":"Police in riot gear arrested protesters at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had blocked campus entrances, according to the university.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"About 80 Protesters Arrested at UC Santa Cruz Pro-Palestinian Encampment","datePublished":"2024-05-31T10:49:37-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T14:37:39-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988397","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988397/many-protesters-arrested-at-uc-santa-cruz-pro-palestinian-encampment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:35 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police in riot gear arrested about 80 protesters at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Santa Cruz early Friday after the demonstrators had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">blocked campus entrances\u003c/a>, according to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11 p.m. Thursday, officers gathered near the encampment. Video \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/police-israel-hamas-war-protesters-uc-santa-cruz/3553482/\">shot by NBC Bay Area\u003c/a> shows the protesters standing in line, linking arms across the campus and facing a line of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Hindery, a student negotiator for the UC Santa Cruz Palestine Solidarity Encampment, estimated there were hundreds of protesters outnumbering the police. Within the first few hours, officers started arresting protesters, Hindery included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt unheard by our administration; our demands are still unmet,” Hindery said. “We see all of the attacks in Rafah over the last week, and we felt a need to make our voices a little louder in calling for divestment, boycott and disclosure.”\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 arrests capped a chaotic few weeks for UC Santa Cruz, which was the first University of California campus to see its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987173/uc-academic-workers-strike-is-limited-to-santa-cruz-so-far-heres-why\">unionized academic workers go on strike\u003c/a> May 20. That pushed the university to pause in-person instruction, which it had just resumed Tuesday when protesters blocked the campus’ entrances, forcing another switch to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests also come as Israel faces mounting international condemnation over its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, with airstrikes Sunday killing as many as 45 people sheltering in tents for displaced Palestinians, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bomb-rafah-civilians-israel-us-ada219d17926a14ca8c179338d53d109\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Santa Cruz, encampment participants had been warned repeatedly to stop blocking access to the campus and its resources using chained barricades made of pallets and other materials, Chancellor Cynthia Larive said in a statement to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those warnings continued Friday morning, police cleared the barricades and the encampment, but some demonstrators remained at the campus’ main entrance, Larive said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larive said the protesters were “well-intentioned” but ultimately disrupted campus operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the disruptions we experienced these weeks were harmful to others in our community,” Larive wrote. “This decision was not made because individuals demonstrated; it was because they have chosen to do so through unlawful actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11988039,news_11987905,news_11987737","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Community members were unable to leave campus to pick up their children, access medical care off campus, show up to off-campus jobs, leave campus after an early morning shift or come onto campus for an afternoon or evening shift, Larive said in an earlier statement Tuesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hindery pushed back on those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that blocking the road might be seen as not peaceful, but we had a plan to allow emergency access,” he said. “We were allowing families that lived on campus to get their kids. We were dealing with these issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larive also wrote that the university could not meet protesters’ demands to end its ties to organizations that “support our Jewish students” and to funders that support “important student success work and happen to be Jewish organizations,” nor to condemn the use of funding from certain federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Functionally, the encampment wanted to prevent our researchers from pursuing research related to topics with which they disagree,” Larive said, calling it a “dangerous precedent and to give in to it would undermine academic freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the executive board of the United Auto Workers Local 4811, representing 48,000 academic workers across the UC system, called on UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego and UC Irvine to join in solidarity strikes next week. Graduate teaching assistants, researchers and others will walk out at Santa Barbara and San Diego on Monday and Irvine on Wednesday, joining those at UC Santa Cruz, UCLA and UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UAW 4811 has staged rolling strikes across the UC system since mid-May, protesting the use of police against what the union said were largely peaceful pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego while also threatening the free speech rights and academic freedom of UC employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last month, UC has used and condoned violence against workers and students peacefully protesting on campus for peace and freedom in Palestine,” UAW 4811 President Rafael Jaime said in a statement. “Rather than put their energies into resolution, UC is attempting to halt the strike through legal procedures. They have not been successful, and this strike will roll on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state labor board is now reviewing a complaint by the UC system alleging that UAW 4811’s strikes violate a no-strike clause in its contract. The California Public Employment Relations Board is expected to make a decision next week, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988397/many-protesters-arrested-at-uc-santa-cruz-pro-palestinian-encampment","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_34008","news_20013","news_27626","news_33333","news_33647","news_34090","news_34114","news_25682"],"featImg":"news_11988399","label":"news"},"news_11953853":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11953853","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11953853","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-find-a-camping-spot-in-california-when-they-always-seem-to-be-fully-booked","title":"How to Find a Camping Spot in California (When They Always Seem to Be Fully Booked)","publishDate":1717165827,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How to Find a Camping Spot in California (When They Always Seem to Be Fully Booked) | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":17986,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A version of this story first appeared in the Bay Curious newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/bay-curious\">Sign up to get Bay Curious in your inbox every month.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever tried to grab a spot at one of the state’s more popular campgrounds, especially campsites near San Francisco, you’ve probably experienced this frustrating moment: You log in at the exact minute reservations are opened and … everything’s already booked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it’s such a common experience that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11450483/cant-get-that-camping-spot-it-could-be-bots\">many people assume that bots are to blame for snagging all the best campsites\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s get this out of the way first: Bots aren’t actually a problem anymore, says California State Parks information officer Jorge Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state parks moved to a third-party online reservation system called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/\">Reserve California\u003c/a> in 2017, many campers did complain about bots automatically snapping up spots faster than a human could click a button. But Moreno says that’s why, in 2019, that site’s parent company, Reserve America, added a captcha and verification step to the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 2021, to be sure the new methods were effective, they did an analysis of the reservation IPs and time stamps. “It was determined that automated bots were no longer an issue,” he said. Additionally, any account caught using bots or reselling reservations now earns a ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, then why are so many campsites still already full the second they open up for reservations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Demand is greater than inventory,” Moreno said. For some of the most popular spots — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/682/766\">the cabins at Steep Ravine in Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a> — there might be 100 people logging on for one of eight cabins. “It’s really like a lottery,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can you find a campsite near you? Are there free campgrounds near San Francisco? KQED talked to the experts to learn several tips for booking a camping spot in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#campingnearme\">The different kinds of California campsites, and how to book them\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#walkincampsites\">How to find cancellations and day-of reservations\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#hiddengemscamping\">Under-the-radar campsites in California that are less crowded\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Be ready with all your info — ahead of time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Low-hanging fruit first: Moreno recommends creating an account on the camping reservation website and confirming all your account details are up to date — before you need to reserve your campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also have all other information you might need on hand, even your vehicle license plate (some campgrounds require that when you’re finalizing your reservation).[aside postID=news_11920867 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57480_Photo-by-Todd-Trapani-Pexels-qut-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of making sure you have all the info you need? Understanding all the various California camping options out there — which can definitely be confusing — and making sure you have the right one (keep reading for those tips).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, get logged into the reservation site before the time slot opens, so you’re ready to go when the clock strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"campingnearme\">\u003c/a>Understand the different types of California campsites\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s also key to know that there are many different parks and campgrounds in California, with varying availability and reservation processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State parks and national parks are often the most crowded. Local and regional parks are sometimes overlooked, and can have open spots. And the (very rustic) U.S. Forest Service camping spots are often virtually empty if you want a real adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping via the National Park Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> For GGNRA and Pt. Reyes it’s three months in advance at 7 a.m. (except for a handful of sites in Pt. Reyes National Seashore that are held back until 14 days in advance or for same-day reservations); for the Presidio campground and others it’s six months in advance at 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, National Parks Service campgrounds include those at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/camping.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/campgrounds.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, as well as the one campsite within San Francisco proper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidio.gov/lodging/rob-hill-campground\">the Rob Hill campground in the Presidio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in California State Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/\">ReserveCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Typically, six months in advance at 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, California State Parks camping areas include \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/682\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/683\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/695\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/656\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/614\">Angel Island State Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in county and local parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/\">ReserveAmerica.com\u003c/a> and individual park websites\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, there are campgrounds run locally — like the East Bay Regional Park District campgrounds at \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/explore/del-valle/EB/110003/overview\">Lake Del Valle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/explore/anthony-chabot/EB/110004/overview\">Anthony Chabot\u003c/a> (which open in two six-month blocks in 2024 on Jan. 3 and May 1) or the Santa Clara County campgrounds at \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/uvas-canyon-county-park\">Uvas Canyon\u003c/a> or Coyote Lake (which open six months in advance).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping via the US Forest Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>, but\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\"> dispersed camping\u003c/a> — i.e., camping not in a campground — is allowed for free across the country on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land and in most cases on Forest Service land. Backcountry camping, or thru-camping, however, may require specific permits with the local ranger.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service land is found farther away from the Bay Area, in the national forests around Tahoe, the Mendocino National Forest or the wilderness area outside Big Sur. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/ivm/index.html?minx=-13627654&miny=4108556&maxx=-13158025&maxy=4329306&exploremenu=no&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=Bay%20Curious%20Newsletter&mc_key=90524295\">Use the Forest Service map to find possible campgrounds.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready to try dispersed camping in one of California’s national forests? It’s one way to nearly guarantee yourself a last-minute campsite. Don’t be intimidated: \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/sierra/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5121831\">Dispersed camping\u003c/a> just means camping not in a developed campground — so you need to pack-in and pack-out all waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\">Here’s how to find free dispersed camping sites and get started.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in private campgrounds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> Individual websites and/or sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.hipcamp.com/\">Hipcamp\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations\u003c/em> open: Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In popular camping areas near San Francisco — like around the Russian River — there are also private campgrounds. Services like Hipcamp can help narrow those down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a brown tent in a forest, with a canopy extended from its top.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It pays to know about your different camping options before you try to secure a site. \u003ccite>(Twenty47studio/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"walkincampsites\">\u003c/a>Look for last-minute cancellations and day-of walk-up spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s easiest to find open campsites on weekdays (especially if you work remotely) or on non-holiday weekends. But if you have some flexibility, then you can also utilize last-minute camping options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hit the road and cruise for reservation-free spots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where we once more must shout out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\">the benefits of dispersed camping and backpacking\u003c/a>. If you make a list of possible dispersed and backcountry campsites, then you can hit them up on the road until you find one that’s open — just remember to download an offline map of the area using a service like Google Maps, in case you lose cellphone service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want a weekend spot? Try making a booking that starts a few days before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because reservations can fill up three or six months in advance (depending on the campground), many industrious campers will book a spot starting Wednesday or Thursday that extends through the weekend. This approach allows you to get into the reservation system earlier and book the weekend before it fills up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you’re trying this, it’s important to know what the deadline is by which you need to arrive at your campsite — so you don’t lose your spot. For example, Moreno said, state parks require you to be there by noon the day after your arrival date — and you need to actually call the park if you’re going to be late. How many days you can book out a campsite also varies by agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be vigilant for cancellations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of that coin is a surprising number of people don’t actually use their hard-earned reservations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/california-law-campsite-reservations/\">A bill that passed the state Legislature this past fall\u003c/a> incentivizes people to cancel their reservations early, opening them up to others. You can then use the reservation websites to look for last-minute cancellations or call the campgrounds to find out whether there are no-shows. (Or, if you’re an adventurous person with flexibility, you can also just show up — and hope someone else doesn’t.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t want to keep pressing refresh? \u003ca href=\"https://campnab.com/\">The site Campnab lets you know if a cancellation opens up.\u003c/a> (Yes, this service is something of a bot – but it doesn’t book the reservation for you, rather just tells you when it opens up.) You can also set notification alerts on both the state and national park websites to email you if a spot opens up within your parameters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know about day-of spots and walk-in sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore, for example, holds back a handful of campsites both to give out two weeks beforehand and a few to hand out each day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233359?tab=info\">These spots open up online at 7 a.m.\u003c/a> for camping either in two weeks or for later that day, depending on the site, so you still need to reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for walk-ins, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22230\">many popular campgrounds also operate first-come, first-serve sites\u003c/a>, which you can typically claim if you get there by noon — but if you want the site for a busy weekend, then you probably need to be there on Friday morning or Thursday evening for long weekends. The farther you’re willing to walk, the more likely you are to find a campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of popular walk-in campgrounds are currently still closed from storm damage, but some remaining open options are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Muir/PantollCG.html\">Bootjack and Pantoll walk-in campsites\u003c/a> on Mount Tamalpais\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26658\">Five backcountry sites at Castle Rock\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29736\">Huckleberry Campground at Portola Redwoods\u003c/a> has four hike or bike first-come, first-serve sites\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://coepark.net/camping/\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a> opens up backpacking permits first-come, first-serve\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1348\">Five campsites at Ruck-a-Chucky\u003c/a> at Auburn State Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A portion of all the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/tahoe/recreation/camping-cabins\">family campgrounds in the Tahoe National Forest\u003c/a> are held back for first-come, first serve.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"hiddengemscamping\">\u003c/a>Finally, hit up lesser-known camping spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moreno also recommends using the Reserve California recommendation engine to find other state park campgrounds. When you input certain dates, the site will then suggest other parks nearby that have availability. Having a few options on your list can help you book if your Plan A is full — and heading to places that are less well-known will help you find more open campsites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A couple of Moreno’s favorite hidden gem campsites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=557\">Caswell Memorial State Park\u003c/a> along the Stanislaus River\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=435\">Navarro Beach Campground\u003c/a> (first-come, first-serve), where the river hits the ocean along the Mendocino coast\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other campgrounds farther afield\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/camp.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a>, a great Yosemite alternative\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a> up past Fort Ross along the water on Highway 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/lavo/planyourvisit/juniper-lake-campground.htm\">Juniper Lake\u003c/a> near Lassen Volcanic National Park remains closed in 2024\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin\u003c/a> is an easily reachable, large area, and also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/706\">cabins available for rental\u003c/a>. And if you really want to try something different, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/tomales-bay-boat-in-camping.htm\">boat-in camping on Tomales Bay\u003c/a> is almost always open — but you’ll need to rent a kayak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on June 23, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Why can't I find camping near me that's available?' is a common refrain in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have tips for how to find a campsite this summer — yes, even on a weekend.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717166434,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":55,"wordCount":2071},"headData":{"title":"How to Find a Camping Spot in California (When They Always Seem to Be Fully Booked) | KQED","description":"'Why can't I find camping near me that's available?' is a common refrain in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have tips for how to find a campsite this summer — yes, even on a weekend.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How to Find a Camping Spot in California (When They Always Seem to Be Fully Booked)","datePublished":"2024-05-31T07:30:27-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-31T07:40:34-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11953853/how-to-find-a-camping-spot-in-california-when-they-always-seem-to-be-fully-booked","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>A version of this story first appeared in the Bay Curious newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/bay-curious\">Sign up to get Bay Curious in your inbox every month.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever tried to grab a spot at one of the state’s more popular campgrounds, especially campsites near San Francisco, you’ve probably experienced this frustrating moment: You log in at the exact minute reservations are opened and … everything’s already booked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it’s such a common experience that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11450483/cant-get-that-camping-spot-it-could-be-bots\">many people assume that bots are to blame for snagging all the best campsites\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s get this out of the way first: Bots aren’t actually a problem anymore, says California State Parks information officer Jorge Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state parks moved to a third-party online reservation system called \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/\">Reserve California\u003c/a> in 2017, many campers did complain about bots automatically snapping up spots faster than a human could click a button. But Moreno says that’s why, in 2019, that site’s parent company, Reserve America, added a captcha and verification step to the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 2021, to be sure the new methods were effective, they did an analysis of the reservation IPs and time stamps. “It was determined that automated bots were no longer an issue,” he said. Additionally, any account caught using bots or reselling reservations now earns a ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, then why are so many campsites still already full the second they open up for reservations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Demand is greater than inventory,” Moreno said. For some of the most popular spots — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/682/766\">the cabins at Steep Ravine in Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a> — there might be 100 people logging on for one of eight cabins. “It’s really like a lottery,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can you find a campsite near you? Are there free campgrounds near San Francisco? KQED talked to the experts to learn several tips for booking a camping spot in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#campingnearme\">The different kinds of California campsites, and how to book them\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#walkincampsites\">How to find cancellations and day-of reservations\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#hiddengemscamping\">Under-the-radar campsites in California that are less crowded\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Be ready with all your info — ahead of time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Low-hanging fruit first: Moreno recommends creating an account on the camping reservation website and confirming all your account details are up to date — before you need to reserve your campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also have all other information you might need on hand, even your vehicle license plate (some campgrounds require that when you’re finalizing your reservation).\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11920867","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57480_Photo-by-Todd-Trapani-Pexels-qut-1020x681.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another part of making sure you have all the info you need? Understanding all the various California camping options out there — which can definitely be confusing — and making sure you have the right one (keep reading for those tips).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, get logged into the reservation site before the time slot opens, so you’re ready to go when the clock strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"campingnearme\">\u003c/a>Understand the different types of California campsites\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s also key to know that there are many different parks and campgrounds in California, with varying availability and reservation processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State parks and national parks are often the most crowded. Local and regional parks are sometimes overlooked, and can have open spots. And the (very rustic) U.S. Forest Service camping spots are often virtually empty if you want a real adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping via the National Park Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> For GGNRA and Pt. Reyes it’s three months in advance at 7 a.m. (except for a handful of sites in Pt. Reyes National Seashore that are held back until 14 days in advance or for same-day reservations); for the Presidio campground and others it’s six months in advance at 7 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, National Parks Service campgrounds include those at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/camping.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/campgrounds.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, as well as the one campsite within San Francisco proper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidio.gov/lodging/rob-hill-campground\">the Rob Hill campground in the Presidio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in California State Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/\">ReserveCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Typically, six months in advance at 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, California State Parks camping areas include \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/682\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/683\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/695\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/656\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/614\">Angel Island State Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in county and local parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/\">ReserveAmerica.com\u003c/a> and individual park websites\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, there are campgrounds run locally — like the East Bay Regional Park District campgrounds at \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/explore/del-valle/EB/110003/overview\">Lake Del Valle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reserveamerica.com/explore/anthony-chabot/EB/110004/overview\">Anthony Chabot\u003c/a> (which open in two six-month blocks in 2024 on Jan. 3 and May 1) or the Santa Clara County campgrounds at \u003ca href=\"https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/uvas-canyon-county-park\">Uvas Canyon\u003c/a> or Coyote Lake (which open six months in advance).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping via the US Forest Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/\">Recreation.gov\u003c/a>, but\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\"> dispersed camping\u003c/a> — i.e., camping not in a campground — is allowed for free across the country on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land and in most cases on Forest Service land. Backcountry camping, or thru-camping, however, may require specific permits with the local ranger.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations open:\u003c/em> Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service land is found farther away from the Bay Area, in the national forests around Tahoe, the Mendocino National Forest or the wilderness area outside Big Sur. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/ivm/index.html?minx=-13627654&miny=4108556&maxx=-13158025&maxy=4329306&exploremenu=no&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=Bay%20Curious%20Newsletter&mc_key=90524295\">Use the Forest Service map to find possible campgrounds.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ready to try dispersed camping in one of California’s national forests? It’s one way to nearly guarantee yourself a last-minute campsite. Don’t be intimidated: \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/sierra/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5121831\">Dispersed camping\u003c/a> just means camping not in a developed campground — so you need to pack-in and pack-out all waste. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\">Here’s how to find free dispersed camping sites and get started.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camping in private campgrounds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reserve through:\u003c/em> Individual websites and/or sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.hipcamp.com/\">Hipcamp\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Reservations\u003c/em> open: Varies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In popular camping areas near San Francisco — like around the Russian River — there are also private campgrounds. Services like Hipcamp can help narrow those down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a brown tent in a forest, with a canopy extended from its top.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66536_GettyImages-1366211065-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It pays to know about your different camping options before you try to secure a site. \u003ccite>(Twenty47studio/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"walkincampsites\">\u003c/a>Look for last-minute cancellations and day-of walk-up spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s easiest to find open campsites on weekdays (especially if you work remotely) or on non-holiday weekends. But if you have some flexibility, then you can also utilize last-minute camping options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hit the road and cruise for reservation-free spots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where we once more must shout out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\">the benefits of dispersed camping and backpacking\u003c/a>. If you make a list of possible dispersed and backcountry campsites, then you can hit them up on the road until you find one that’s open — just remember to download an offline map of the area using a service like Google Maps, in case you lose cellphone service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want a weekend spot? Try making a booking that starts a few days before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because reservations can fill up three or six months in advance (depending on the campground), many industrious campers will book a spot starting Wednesday or Thursday that extends through the weekend. This approach allows you to get into the reservation system earlier and book the weekend before it fills up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you’re trying this, it’s important to know what the deadline is by which you need to arrive at your campsite — so you don’t lose your spot. For example, Moreno said, state parks require you to be there by noon the day after your arrival date — and you need to actually call the park if you’re going to be late. How many days you can book out a campsite also varies by agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be vigilant for cancellations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of that coin is a surprising number of people don’t actually use their hard-earned reservations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/california-law-campsite-reservations/\">A bill that passed the state Legislature this past fall\u003c/a> incentivizes people to cancel their reservations early, opening them up to others. You can then use the reservation websites to look for last-minute cancellations or call the campgrounds to find out whether there are no-shows. (Or, if you’re an adventurous person with flexibility, you can also just show up — and hope someone else doesn’t.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t want to keep pressing refresh? \u003ca href=\"https://campnab.com/\">The site Campnab lets you know if a cancellation opens up.\u003c/a> (Yes, this service is something of a bot – but it doesn’t book the reservation for you, rather just tells you when it opens up.) You can also set notification alerts on both the state and national park websites to email you if a spot opens up within your parameters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know about day-of spots and walk-in sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore, for example, holds back a handful of campsites both to give out two weeks beforehand and a few to hand out each day. \u003ca href=\"https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233359?tab=info\">These spots open up online at 7 a.m.\u003c/a> for camping either in two weeks or for later that day, depending on the site, so you still need to reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for walk-ins, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22230\">many popular campgrounds also operate first-come, first-serve sites\u003c/a>, which you can typically claim if you get there by noon — but if you want the site for a busy weekend, then you probably need to be there on Friday morning or Thursday evening for long weekends. The farther you’re willing to walk, the more likely you are to find a campsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of popular walk-in campgrounds are currently still closed from storm damage, but some remaining open options are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodhikes.com/Muir/PantollCG.html\">Bootjack and Pantoll walk-in campsites\u003c/a> on Mount Tamalpais\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26658\">Five backcountry sites at Castle Rock\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29736\">Huckleberry Campground at Portola Redwoods\u003c/a> has four hike or bike first-come, first-serve sites\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://coepark.net/camping/\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a> opens up backpacking permits first-come, first-serve\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1348\">Five campsites at Ruck-a-Chucky\u003c/a> at Auburn State Recreation Area\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A portion of all the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/tahoe/recreation/camping-cabins\">family campgrounds in the Tahoe National Forest\u003c/a> are held back for first-come, first serve.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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>\u003ca id=\"hiddengemscamping\">\u003c/a>Finally, hit up lesser-known camping spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Moreno also recommends using the Reserve California recommendation engine to find other state park campgrounds. When you input certain dates, the site will then suggest other parks nearby that have availability. Having a few options on your list can help you book if your Plan A is full — and heading to places that are less well-known will help you find more open campsites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A couple of Moreno’s favorite hidden gem campsites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=557\">Caswell Memorial State Park\u003c/a> along the Stanislaus River\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=435\">Navarro Beach Campground\u003c/a> (first-come, first-serve), where the river hits the ocean along the Mendocino coast\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other campgrounds farther afield\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/camp.htm\">Pinnacles National Park\u003c/a>, a great Yosemite alternative\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=453\">Salt Point State Park\u003c/a> up past Fort Ross along the water on Highway 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/lavo/planyourvisit/juniper-lake-campground.htm\">Juniper Lake\u003c/a> near Lassen Volcanic National Park remains closed in 2024\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin\u003c/a> is an easily reachable, large area, and also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/#!park/706\">cabins available for rental\u003c/a>. And if you really want to try something different, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/tomales-bay-boat-in-camping.htm\">boat-in camping on Tomales Bay\u003c/a> is almost always open — but you’ll need to rent a kayak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on June 23, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11953853/how-to-find-a-camping-spot-in-california-when-they-always-seem-to-be-fully-booked","authors":["1459"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_20023","news_4747"],"featImg":"news_11953871","label":"news_17986"},"news_11988320":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988320","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988320","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-pelicans-released-back-into-the-wild-after-hundreds-found-starving","title":"California Pelicans Released Back Into the Wild After Hundreds Found Starving","publishDate":1717156805,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Pelicans Released Back Into the Wild After Hundreds Found Starving | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992713/sick-brown-pelicans-are-turning-up-along-the-coast-and-we-dont-know-why\">California brown pelicans found starving\u003c/a> off the Northern California coast are returning to the wild following weeks of rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife rescue crews have taken in hundreds of emaciated brown pelicans up and down the coast since April, including in Bay Area roosting grounds like Alameda Point. On Thursday, bird rescuers brought eight pelicans to the base of the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Baker in Sausalito. There, the pelicans spread their 7-foot wingspans and took off to the skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these releases, we’re sending them home to the ocean healthy and in great condition to fly wherever they need to go,” said Dr. Rebecca Duerr, director of research and veterinary science at International Bird Rescue, in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last two months, International Bird Rescue in Sausalito has been helping take nearly 340 brown pelicans — a fully protected species — discovered between Monterey and Santa Cruz to the organization’s wildlife rescue centers. Of the eight birds released Thursday, the longest stay in Bird Rescue’s care was 39 days, and the shortest was 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The birds come in with a variety of challenges. The one thing they all have in common is starvation and anemia,” JD Bergeron, chief executive officer of International Bird Rescue, told KQED. “Some birds require medication; some require veterinary surgical interventions because of injuries they’ve endured from trying more desperate attempts to find food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Bird Rescue members release eight rehabilitated brown pelicans, the first group to be returned to the wild, at Fort Baker in Sausalito on May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bergeron was one of three to release the birds, alongside Bird Rescue’s Russ Curtis and Cheryl Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts are still baffled by the die-off, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992933/california-has-a-theory-on-why-brown-pelicans-are-starving-and-dying\">theories behind the tragedy\u003c/a> include weather patterns affecting the food supply and making the water murkier, making it more difficult for the birds to see and catch fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating the onslaught of hurt pelicans. The issue mirrored a similar case in 2022 when nearly 800 starving pelicans were rescued following severe storms in California that year. Of those rescued, about 394 pelicans returned to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Bird Rescue members release eight rehabilitated brown pelicans at Fort Baker in Sausalito on May 30, 2024. Hundreds of these birds were found beginning in mid-April. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bird Rescue has a banding program that will allow its researchers to monitor how the birds do in the wild after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As food on beaches has become harder to come by, brown pelicans have shown up in some unusual places, like ponds, backyards and even Giants stadium.[aside postID=science_1993017 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/DSC_0557-1-scaled-e1716592525607-1020x737.jpg']“Fans were excited to see that bird, but we knew that the bird was experiencing challenges and disorientation, that’s not normal behavior,” Bergeron said. “People are seeing more pelicans in places they don’t normally hang out, and that is the number one sign” that there is a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as some birds have recovered and are released, more pelicans are still showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep them in care forever, and we can’t fix what’s ailing the ocean,” Duerr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urges people to keep a safe distance from pelicans and not touch the birds. Report an injured or sick pelican to the \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Laboratories/Wildlife-Health/Rehab/Facilities?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">local wildlife rehabilitation facility\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ninathorsen\">Nina Thorsen\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After weeks of rehabilitation, the first group of rescued California brown pelicans returned to the wild on Thursday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717116289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":621},"headData":{"title":"California Pelicans Released Back Into the Wild After Hundreds Found Starving | KQED","description":"After weeks of rehabilitation, the first group of rescued California brown pelicans returned to the wild on Thursday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Pelicans Released Back Into the Wild After Hundreds Found Starving","datePublished":"2024-05-31T05:00:05-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-30T17:44:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988320/california-pelicans-released-back-into-the-wild-after-hundreds-found-starving","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992713/sick-brown-pelicans-are-turning-up-along-the-coast-and-we-dont-know-why\">California brown pelicans found starving\u003c/a> off the Northern California coast are returning to the wild following weeks of rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife rescue crews have taken in hundreds of emaciated brown pelicans up and down the coast since April, including in Bay Area roosting grounds like Alameda Point. On Thursday, bird rescuers brought eight pelicans to the base of the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Baker in Sausalito. There, the pelicans spread their 7-foot wingspans and took off to the skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With these releases, we’re sending them home to the ocean healthy and in great condition to fly wherever they need to go,” said Dr. Rebecca Duerr, director of research and veterinary science at International Bird Rescue, in a press release.\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>Over the last two months, International Bird Rescue in Sausalito has been helping take nearly 340 brown pelicans — a fully protected species — discovered between Monterey and Santa Cruz to the organization’s wildlife rescue centers. Of the eight birds released Thursday, the longest stay in Bird Rescue’s care was 39 days, and the shortest was 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The birds come in with a variety of challenges. The one thing they all have in common is starvation and anemia,” JD Bergeron, chief executive officer of International Bird Rescue, told KQED. “Some birds require medication; some require veterinary surgical interventions because of injuries they’ve endured from trying more desperate attempts to find food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-31-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Bird Rescue members release eight rehabilitated brown pelicans, the first group to be returned to the wild, at Fort Baker in Sausalito on May 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bergeron was one of three to release the birds, alongside Bird Rescue’s Russ Curtis and Cheryl Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts are still baffled by the die-off, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992933/california-has-a-theory-on-why-brown-pelicans-are-starving-and-dying\">theories behind the tragedy\u003c/a> include weather patterns affecting the food supply and making the water murkier, making it more difficult for the birds to see and catch fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating the onslaught of hurt pelicans. The issue mirrored a similar case in 2022 when nearly 800 starving pelicans were rescued following severe storms in California that year. Of those rescued, about 394 pelicans returned to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240530-BrownPelicans-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Bird Rescue members release eight rehabilitated brown pelicans at Fort Baker in Sausalito on May 30, 2024. Hundreds of these birds were found beginning in mid-April. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bird Rescue has a banding program that will allow its researchers to monitor how the birds do in the wild after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As food on beaches has become harder to come by, brown pelicans have shown up in some unusual places, like ponds, backyards and even Giants stadium.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1993017","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/DSC_0557-1-scaled-e1716592525607-1020x737.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Fans were excited to see that bird, but we knew that the bird was experiencing challenges and disorientation, that’s not normal behavior,” Bergeron said. “People are seeing more pelicans in places they don’t normally hang out, and that is the number one sign” that there is a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as some birds have recovered and are released, more pelicans are still showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep them in care forever, and we can’t fix what’s ailing the ocean,” Duerr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urges people to keep a safe distance from pelicans and not touch the birds. Report an injured or sick pelican to the \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Laboratories/Wildlife-Health/Rehab/Facilities?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">local wildlife rehabilitation facility\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ninathorsen\">Nina Thorsen\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988320/california-pelicans-released-back-into-the-wild-after-hundreds-found-starving","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18848","news_1386","news_18538","news_27626","news_28199","news_1276","news_3788","news_2705","news_38","news_721","news_655","news_3187"],"featImg":"news_11988324","label":"news"},"news_11971382":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11971382","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11971382","found":true},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1704227447,"format":"standard","title":"4 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change","headTitle":"4 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change | KQED","content":"\u003cp>Lots of industries have embraced artificial intelligence as a tool this past year, including climate solutions companies. From detecting pollution to wildfires, companies are finding AI can help translate vast amounts of climate-related data faster and more efficiently, says Sasha Luccioni, climate lead for AI company Hugging Face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luccioni notes it’s important to be cautious about whether AI is always necessary. Generative AI, which makes new content, can use large amounts of energy and have a big carbon footprint. But she says there are many applications for AI in the green transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four ways companies, researchers and governments use AI for climate solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to detect planet-heating methane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane emissions, the second biggest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, are climbing. The highly potent pollutant — the main ingredient in natural gas — gets released by the energy sector, as well as agriculture and decomposing material in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-11-23-ai-automatically-detects-methane-plumes-space-could-be-powerful-tool-combating\"> researchers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.accenture.com/us-en/case-studies/utilities/duke-energy-powers-ai-platform\">companies\u003c/a> are using AI to interpret huge quantities of satellite images to track global methane emissions on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we could mine satellite information with AI, we had no idea where methane was coming from,” says Antoine Halff, co-founder and chief analyst at Kayrros, a climate analytics firm. “We understood the climate risk that this represented. But there was no understanding of the sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kayrros began in 2016, Halff says the world knew about only a handful of occurrences of large methane leaks and other releases. He says his team can now detect dozens of them every week and thousands yearly. “For methane,” Halff says, “AI really reveals things that could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations uses Kayrros’s AI-fueled data to verify that companies’ reports on methane emissions are accurate. Other governments are gearing up for more methane monitoring:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216401828/epa-aims-to-slash-the-oil-industrys-climate-warming-methane-pollution\"> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/eu-methane-emissions-law-pollution-0c7e15ee81a05aad88e56935ae24216f\"> the European Union\u003c/a> recently passed new methane regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because methane is so potent, targeting it through AI makes strategic sense, Halff says. “If you eliminate methane emissions today,” he says, “you can very quickly have an impact on the curve of global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971401\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"a field of gas and oil drills\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI for early detection of forest fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, and those burns are making up an\u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2023/03/02/wildfires-in-2021-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-carbon-dioxide/\"> increasing share\u003c/a> of planet-heating pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a Berlin-based startup uses AI with sensors in forests to find small burns before they spread into megafires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryad.net/team\">Carsten Brinkschulte\u003c/a>, CEO of Dryad, uses AI to train sensors to detect the specific gasses that get released when organic material burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically like an electronic nose that we embed in the forest,” Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nose-like sensors can detect the fires early in the smoldering stage, “when it’s still easy or relatively easy to extinguish the fire,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has 50 sensor installations from the Middle East to California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/18/2797950/0/en/Dryad-s-Silvanet-Detects-Unauthorized-Wildfire-in-Lebanon-in-30-Minutes-Prompting-Timely-Response-and-Resolution.html\">Last month in Lebanon\u003c/a>, sensors reacted to a small fire within 30 minutes, Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to prevent new wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another way to stop megafires is to set “controlled burns” outside of fire season to remove the excess brush and vegetation that become fuel for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, so-called burn managers — who are people from utilities, the federal forest service or other entities — deploy teams to designated areas to set controlled burns. (Native tribes have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">long history of making these controlled burns\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do the work safely, burn managers need lots of information to know how the fire might behave so it doesn’t spin out of control. They need to know things like the wind conditions and amount of moisture in the vegetation, says Yolanda Gil, director for strategic AI and data science initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After interviewing fire scientists, Gil and their team used AI to create a so-called intelligent or smart assistant —like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa —that can access vast data sets and complex models. Burn managers can use these Siri-like assistants to decide where and when to make controlled burns. “It’s kind of like Siri, but for burn managers,” Gil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil says burn managers can ask the smart assistant about a particular area. The assistant can take information about the topography, the vegetation, weather patterns and recommend a potential burn model —a way to make a safe controlled burn, Gil says. The goal, they say, is to make these assistants widely available for utilities, the forest service, and others doing controlled burns to make them safer and plentiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to send out the first prototypes of the smart assistants in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2542px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/companies-like-kobold-metals-and-earth-ai-are-using-ai-to-speed-up-the-search-for-critical-minerals-like-lithium-cobalt-and-copper-these-minerals-are-key-for-climate-solutions-like-solar-panels-and/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971385\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292.jpg\" alt=\"a dump truck mining a field of minerals\" width=\"2542\" height=\"1907\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292.jpg 2542w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1244574317-8e6dbce1f990a88457afe5db80dc8cb8d5cde292-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2542px) 100vw, 2542px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI in green tech mining\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate solutions from solar panels to electric vehicles require immense amounts of minerals like cobalt, lithium and copper. But current supplies are not enough to meet growing demand. By 2030, projected lithium demand will be five times the current global supply, according to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.iea.org/\"> International Energy Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, governments, researchers, and companies are using AI to explore critical minerals. Colin Williams, mineral resources program coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, writes in an email that his team\u003ca href=\"https://criticalminerals.darpa.mil/\"> uses AI\u003c/a> to analyze data to determine which areas in the U.S. have the best potential for mining critical metals. He adds that using AI means “dramatic time savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a lot of data out there about what it looks like under the earth’s surface. Using AI to sift through all this data helps minimize uncertainty, Williams says. Because mining operations \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/research/ces-2023-monetary-tightening-weighs-down-exploration-activity\">spend billions of dollars\u003c/a> trying to find profitable areas to exploit, companies say using AI can help save a lot of time and money in locating minerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/mining-looks-to-ai-for-edge-in-finding-new-metal-76345909\">all over the world\u003c/a> —from Australian \u003ca href=\"https://sensore.com/about/\">SensOre\u003c/a> to California-based\u003ca href=\"https://www.koboldmetals.com/\"> KoBold Metals\u003c/a> —are now using AI to explore for minerals on several continents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca>www.npr.org.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1118,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":27},"modified":1704228251,"excerpt":"From detecting methane to managing controlled burns, companies use artificial intelligence to manage huge amounts of climate-related data.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"From detecting methane to managing controlled burns, companies use artificial intelligence to manage huge amounts of climate-related data.","title":"4 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"4 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change","datePublished":"2024-01-02T12:30:47-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-02T12:44:11-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1538649049-1a3d138870057dbb2c364ff6f2f5af00074eaa4a-1020x765.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"byline_news_11971382","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_news_11971382","name":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1119646476/julia-simon\">Julia Simon\u003c/a>","isLoading":false}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1538649049-1a3d138870057dbb2c364ff6f2f5af00074eaa4a-1020x765.jpg","width":1020,"mimeType":"image/jpeg","height":765},"ogImageWidth":"1020","ogImageHeight":"765","twitterImageUrl":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1538649049-1a3d138870057dbb2c364ff6f2f5af00074eaa4a-1020x765.jpg","twImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1538649049-1a3d138870057dbb2c364ff6f2f5af00074eaa4a-1020x765.jpg","width":1020,"mimeType":"image/jpeg","height":765},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["AI","artificial intelligence","climate change","global warming"]}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1218677963&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:01:13 -0500","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:01:13 -0500","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1218677963/ai-climate-change-solutions-fires-lithium-methane?ft=nprml&f=1218677963","nprAudio":"https://play.podtrac.com/npr-1179119151/ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/12/20231228_atc_ai_climate_solutions_end_of_year.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1167&d=226&story=1218677963&ft=nprml&f=1218677963","nprImageAgency":"SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett","source":"NPR","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11222083710-b44a36.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1167&d=226&story=1218677963&ft=nprml&f=1218677963","nprStoryId":"1218677963","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1218677963/ai-climate-change-solutions-fires-lithium-methane","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1119646476/julia-simon\">Julia Simon\u003c/a>","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Jon Putman","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:01:00 -0500","path":"/news/11971382/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change","audioUrl":"https://play.podtrac.com/npr-1179119151/ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/12/20231228_atc_ai_climate_solutions_end_of_year.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1167&d=226&story=1218677963&ft=nprml&f=1218677963","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lots of industries have embraced artificial intelligence as a tool this past year, including climate solutions companies. From detecting pollution to wildfires, companies are finding AI can help translate vast amounts of climate-related data faster and more efficiently, says Sasha Luccioni, climate lead for AI company Hugging Face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luccioni notes it’s important to be cautious about whether AI is always necessary. Generative AI, which makes new content, can use large amounts of energy and have a big carbon footprint. But she says there are many applications for AI in the green transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four ways companies, researchers and governments use AI for climate solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to detect planet-heating methane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Methane emissions, the second biggest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, are climbing. The highly potent pollutant — the main ingredient in natural gas — gets released by the energy sector, as well as agriculture and decomposing material in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-11-23-ai-automatically-detects-methane-plumes-space-could-be-powerful-tool-combating\"> researchers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.accenture.com/us-en/case-studies/utilities/duke-energy-powers-ai-platform\">companies\u003c/a> are using AI to interpret huge quantities of satellite images to track global methane emissions on a daily basis.\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>“Before we could mine satellite information with AI, we had no idea where methane was coming from,” says Antoine Halff, co-founder and chief analyst at Kayrros, a climate analytics firm. “We understood the climate risk that this represented. But there was no understanding of the sources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Kayrros began in 2016, Halff says the world knew about only a handful of occurrences of large methane leaks and other releases. He says his team can now detect dozens of them every week and thousands yearly. “For methane,” Halff says, “AI really reveals things that could not be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United Nations uses Kayrros’s AI-fueled data to verify that companies’ reports on methane emissions are accurate. Other governments are gearing up for more methane monitoring:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1216401828/epa-aims-to-slash-the-oil-industrys-climate-warming-methane-pollution\"> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/eu-methane-emissions-law-pollution-0c7e15ee81a05aad88e56935ae24216f\"> the European Union\u003c/a> recently passed new methane regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because methane is so potent, targeting it through AI makes strategic sense, Halff says. “If you eliminate methane emissions today,” he says, “you can very quickly have an impact on the curve of global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/02/4-ways-ai-could-help-fight-climate-change/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11971401\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"a field of gas and oil drills\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/gettyimages-1351224007_custom-0e5e0ed77722cb64595a41f527f6769e6304ddff-s1600-c85-1536x1012.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies like KoBold Metals and Earth AI are using AI to speed up the search for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and copper. These minerals are key for climate solutions like solar panels and electric vehicles. \u003ccite>(Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Using AI for early detection of forest fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, and those burns are making up an\u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2023/03/02/wildfires-in-2021-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-carbon-dioxide/\"> increasing share\u003c/a> of planet-heating pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a Berlin-based startup uses AI with sensors in forests to find small burns before they spread into megafires. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryad.net/team\">Carsten Brinkschulte\u003c/a>, CEO of Dryad, uses AI to train sensors to detect the specific gasses that get released when organic material burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically like an electronic nose that we embed in the forest,” Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nose-like sensors can detect the fires early in the smoldering stage, “when it’s still easy or relatively easy to extinguish the fire,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has 50 sensor installations from the Middle East to California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/18/2797950/0/en/Dryad-s-Silvanet-Detects-Unauthorized-Wildfire-in-Lebanon-in-30-Minutes-Prompting-Timely-Response-and-Resolution.html\">Last month in Lebanon\u003c/a>, sensors reacted to a small fire within 30 minutes, Brinkschulte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Using AI to prevent new wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another way to stop megafires is to set “controlled burns” outside of fire season to remove the excess brush and vegetation that become fuel for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, so-called burn managers — who are people from utilities, the federal forest service or other entities — deploy teams to designated areas to set controlled burns. (Native tribes have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-california-looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along\">long history of making these controlled burns\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to do the work safely, burn managers need lots of information to know how the fire might behave so it doesn’t spin out of control. They need to know things like the wind conditions and amount of moisture in the vegetation, says Yolanda Gil, director for strategic AI and data science initiatives at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After interviewing fire scientists, Gil and their team used AI to create a so-called intelligent or smart assistant —like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa —that can access vast data sets and complex models. Burn managers can use these Siri-like assistants to decide where and when to make controlled burns. “It’s kind of like Siri, but for burn managers,” Gil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gil says burn managers can ask the smart assistant about a particular area. The assistant can take information about the topography, the vegetation, weather patterns and recommend a potential burn model —a way to make a safe controlled burn, Gil says. 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Colin Williams, mineral resources program coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, writes in an email that his team\u003ca href=\"https://criticalminerals.darpa.mil/\"> uses AI\u003c/a> to analyze data to determine which areas in the U.S. have the best potential for mining critical metals. He adds that using AI means “dramatic time savings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a lot of data out there about what it looks like under the earth’s surface. Using AI to sift through all this data helps minimize uncertainty, Williams says. 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