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Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last two weeks alone, we learned that Facebook exposed individuals' private health information that consumers thought was in a protected closed group,\" Schakowsky told NPR, \"and collected data from third-party apps ... on issues as personal as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27/697026827/storing-health-records-on-your-phone-can-apple-live-up-to-its-privacy-values\">women's menstrual cycles and cancer treatment\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation is needed \"that sets the terms on privacy. And I think what consumers really want is transparency. They want to know what's actually being collected. They want some control and then they want some accountability,\" said Schakowsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican\"]'What's complicated is you don't allow consumers to stop your tracking of them. You tell them that you do ... but in fact you're still gathering the information.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren't many issues in Congress with bipartisan support these days, but the need for stricter privacy rules for tech companies is one. Republicans agree it's time to set some limits on what big tech companies can do with personal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he has \"not met a single American who has ever fully read the fine print of some sort of agreement when you download an app or get an update.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you're going to update it and you're going to push agree, and you're not reading the privacy policy of that company,\" he said. \"And the question is, did they even follow their own privacy policies or are the privacy policies adequate?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's complicated\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the Capitol, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, freshman Sen. 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You tell them that you do ... but in fact you're still gathering the information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Dave Grimaldi of the Interactive Advertising Bureau\"]'I think that changing or altering the Internet experience state to state would be something that would be a giant turnoff to consumers and just wouldn't help anyone.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawley and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced legislation to protect the online privacy of minors. The measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-markey-and-hawley-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-update-childrens-online-privacy-rules\">according to a press release from the senators\u003c/a>, would prohibit \"internet companies from collecting personal and location information from anyone under 13 without parental consent and from anyone 13- to 15-years old without the user's consent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of a number of bills expected to be introduced by lawmakers from both parties and chambers in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting states on the same page\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP lawmakers and the tech industry want to ensure that whatever steps Congress takes to enact privacy regulations supersede any measures enacted by the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='online-privacy' label='More from our coverage of online privacy.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624336039/california-passes-strict-internet-privacy-law-with-implications-for-the-country\">approved its own strict privacy legislation\u003c/a>. Dave Grimaldi of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which represents Facebook, Amazon (also an NPR funder) and Google among others, said the tech industry is willing to go along with new privacy regulations. But he told NPR that the industry can't navigate 50 different laws, nor could consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Internet is global,\" Grimaldi said. \"It most certainly goes over state lines. And I think that changing or altering the Internet experience state to state would be something that would be a giant turnoff to consumers and just wouldn't help anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More scrutiny to come\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech companies are facing a challenge on another front: The Federal Trade Commission last week announced a task force to take a look at recent industry mergers. 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And I think that changing or altering the Internet experience state to state would be something that would be a giant turnoff to consumers and just wouldn't help anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More scrutiny to come\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech companies are facing a challenge on another front: The Federal Trade Commission last week announced a task force to take a look at recent industry mergers. Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said it's long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they probably should have set up that task force more than a decade ago,\" Rotenberg said, \"around the time they were approving the mergers that allowed for example Google to acquire DoubleClick, the big Internet advertising firm, or Facebook to acquire WhatsApp, which was a competing messaging service. Those deals should have been subject to much more scrutiny than they were at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11732620/targeting-online-privacy-congress-sets-a-new-tone-with-big-tech","authors":["byline_news_11732620"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_1611","news_20149","news_249","news_93","news_2125","news_3195","news_17623","news_20916","news_5800"],"featImg":"news_11732621","label":"source_news_11732620"},"news_11636959":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11636959","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11636959","score":null,"sort":[1513283400000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers","title":"FCC Repeals 'Net Neutrality' Rules for Internet Providers","publishDate":1513283400,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:27 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief security evacuation, U.S. telecom regulators have voted to repeal so-called net neutrality rules, which restrict the power of internet service providers to influence loading speeds for specific websites or apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of heated controversy and protests, the Republican majority of the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to loosen Obama-era regulations for internet providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389259382/net-neutrality-up-for-vote-today-by-fcc-board\">put in place in 2015\u003c/a>, banned cable and telecom companies from blocking or slowing down any websites or apps. They also prohibited broadband providers from striking special deals that would give some websites or apps \"priority\" over others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ol3nmeZ0oqcUS7V7PW3tA8Ej8iiIgzi2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC's dramatic course reversal in favor of internet service providers has propelled the once-wonky issue of net neutrality into the mainstream, turning it into an increasingly political matter. Advocacy groups are expected to press Congress to stop the FCC's vote from taking effect under the Congressional Review Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC's decision is otherwise slated to go into effect in the coming weeks, after a review by the Office of Management and Budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the FCC took the net neutrality vote, the meeting room was briefly evacuated over a security threat, which has not been officially explained. Livestreams from inside the empty rooms showed security guards with what appeared to be bomb-sniffing dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Happens Now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In undoing the regulations, the FCC has reasserted one of the net neutrality requirements: that internet providers — such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T — disclose to their users what exactly they do to web traffic. This will essentially shift all enforcement to the Federal Trade Commission, which polices violations rather than pre-empts them through regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadband companies have been saying that they do not intend to block, slow down or prioritize any web traffic as a result of this repeal, arguing that it's not in their interest to aggravate their users by messing with their internet traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Net neutrality activists, however, have been \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/net-neutrality-supporters-break-the-internet-in-latest-protest/\">rallying widespread protests\u003c/a> against the vote, saying the repeal will empower broadband companies to act as gatekeepers of the internet, for example allowing them to prioritize their own video-streaming services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer interest groups have told NPR that they are also planning to pursue a lawsuit challenging Thursday's FCC decision, which would be the fourth related \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/14/471286113/u-s-appeals-court-holds-up-net-neutrality-rules-in-full\">court case\u003c/a> in a decade. (An appeal of the 2015 rules by AT&T, CenturyLink and a telecom trade group \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/broadband-providers-to-seek-high-court-review-on-net-neutrality\">is pending\u003c/a> at the Supreme Court.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/569983759/569983760\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional legal challenges are pending from several state attorneys general, including from Washington and New York states. They have argued, among other things, that the FCC rushed the procedure and ignored a massive outpouring of millions of public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commenting process has been mired in controversy after several reviews \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-people-post-comments-on-federal-regulations-many-are-fake-1513099188\">found a number of the comments\u003c/a> to be fraudulent or duplicative, using fake names, fake addresses and even names of dead people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who voted against the rules in 2015, has portrayed the Obama-era regulations — which put broadband providers under the strictest-ever FCC oversight — as government \"micromanaging the internet.\" He and broadband companies have argued that the regulations have stifled innovation and investment in broadband networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the internet? Certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation,\" Pai said on Thursday, adding his oft-repeated line that \"there was no problem to solve. The internet wasn't broken in 2015, we were not living in some digital dystopia. ... It is time for us to bring faster, better and cheaper internet access to all Americans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large tech companies — such as Netflix, Google and Facebook — have long spoken in support of strict net neutrality rules. However, as they've grown in size, their advocacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-tech.html?_r=0\">has become more muted\u003c/a>, putting on the forefront smaller competitors like Etsy and Vimeo, which argue that startups stand to lose the most on an internet that allows for special \"priority\" traffic deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WA8g6zxu9UZopjREKUB0PU7X7QNwcOOc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have heard from innovators, worried that we are standing up a 'mother-may-I' regime, where the broadband provider becomes arbiter of acceptable online business models,\" Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said in a blistering dissent on Thursday, adding, \"When the current 2015 net neutrality rules are laid to waste, we may be left with no single authority with the power to protect consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Internet Association, which represents dozens of tech companies, called Pai's repeal \"a departure from more than a decade of broad, bipartisan consensus on the rules governing the internet\" and amounted to \"relying\" on internet providers \"to live to their own 'promises.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly called the concerns of potential net neutrality violations \"guilt by imagination\" and \"baseless fear-mongering.\" He said, \"I'm simply not persuaded that heavy-handed rules are needed to protect from hypothetical harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: NPR's legal counsel has filed comments with the FCC on behalf of the public radio system, opposing the repeal of the 2015 net neutrality rules. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10717112197099/NPR%20Restoring%20Internet%20Freedom%20Comments.Final.pdf\">\u003cem>You can read them here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=FCC+Repeals+%27Net+Neutrality%27+Rules+For+Internet+Providers&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a brief security evacuation, the agency voted to undo Obama-era regulations that prohibit cable and telecom companies from blocking access to websites and apps or influencing how fast they load.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1513296016,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":879},"headData":{"title":"FCC Repeals 'Net Neutrality' Rules for Internet Providers | KQED","description":"After a brief security evacuation, the agency voted to undo Obama-era regulations that prohibit cable and telecom companies from blocking access to websites and apps or influencing how fast they load.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11636959 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11636959","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/14/fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers/","disqusTitle":"FCC Repeals 'Net Neutrality' Rules for Internet Providers","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Alex Edelman","nprByline":"Alina Selyukh","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"570526390","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=570526390&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/570526390/fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers?ft=nprml&f=570526390","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:54:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:30:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:54:46 -0500","path":"/news/11636959/fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:27 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief security evacuation, U.S. telecom regulators have voted to repeal so-called net neutrality rules, which restrict the power of internet service providers to influence loading speeds for specific websites or apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of heated controversy and protests, the Republican majority of the Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to loosen Obama-era regulations for internet providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/26/389259382/net-neutrality-up-for-vote-today-by-fcc-board\">put in place in 2015\u003c/a>, banned cable and telecom companies from blocking or slowing down any websites or apps. They also prohibited broadband providers from striking special deals that would give some websites or apps \"priority\" over others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC's dramatic course reversal in favor of internet service providers has propelled the once-wonky issue of net neutrality into the mainstream, turning it into an increasingly political matter. Advocacy groups are expected to press Congress to stop the FCC's vote from taking effect under the Congressional Review Act.\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 FCC's decision is otherwise slated to go into effect in the coming weeks, after a review by the Office of Management and Budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the FCC took the net neutrality vote, the meeting room was briefly evacuated over a security threat, which has not been officially explained. Livestreams from inside the empty rooms showed security guards with what appeared to be bomb-sniffing dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Happens Now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In undoing the regulations, the FCC has reasserted one of the net neutrality requirements: that internet providers — such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T — disclose to their users what exactly they do to web traffic. This will essentially shift all enforcement to the Federal Trade Commission, which polices violations rather than pre-empts them through regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadband companies have been saying that they do not intend to block, slow down or prioritize any web traffic as a result of this repeal, arguing that it's not in their interest to aggravate their users by messing with their internet traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Net neutrality activists, however, have been \u003ca href=\"https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/net-neutrality-supporters-break-the-internet-in-latest-protest/\">rallying widespread protests\u003c/a> against the vote, saying the repeal will empower broadband companies to act as gatekeepers of the internet, for example allowing them to prioritize their own video-streaming services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer interest groups have told NPR that they are also planning to pursue a lawsuit challenging Thursday's FCC decision, which would be the fourth related \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/14/471286113/u-s-appeals-court-holds-up-net-neutrality-rules-in-full\">court case\u003c/a> in a decade. (An appeal of the 2015 rules by AT&T, CenturyLink and a telecom trade group \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/broadband-providers-to-seek-high-court-review-on-net-neutrality\">is pending\u003c/a> at the Supreme Court.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/569983759/569983760\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional legal challenges are pending from several state attorneys general, including from Washington and New York states. They have argued, among other things, that the FCC rushed the procedure and ignored a massive outpouring of millions of public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commenting process has been mired in controversy after several reviews \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-people-post-comments-on-federal-regulations-many-are-fake-1513099188\">found a number of the comments\u003c/a> to be fraudulent or duplicative, using fake names, fake addresses and even names of dead people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who voted against the rules in 2015, has portrayed the Obama-era regulations — which put broadband providers under the strictest-ever FCC oversight — as government \"micromanaging the internet.\" He and broadband companies have argued that the regulations have stifled innovation and investment in broadband networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the internet? Certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation,\" Pai said on Thursday, adding his oft-repeated line that \"there was no problem to solve. The internet wasn't broken in 2015, we were not living in some digital dystopia. ... It is time for us to bring faster, better and cheaper internet access to all Americans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large tech companies — such as Netflix, Google and Facebook — have long spoken in support of strict net neutrality rules. However, as they've grown in size, their advocacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-tech.html?_r=0\">has become more muted\u003c/a>, putting on the forefront smaller competitors like Etsy and Vimeo, which argue that startups stand to lose the most on an internet that allows for special \"priority\" traffic deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have heard from innovators, worried that we are standing up a 'mother-may-I' regime, where the broadband provider becomes arbiter of acceptable online business models,\" Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said in a blistering dissent on Thursday, adding, \"When the current 2015 net neutrality rules are laid to waste, we may be left with no single authority with the power to protect consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Internet Association, which represents dozens of tech companies, called Pai's repeal \"a departure from more than a decade of broad, bipartisan consensus on the rules governing the internet\" and amounted to \"relying\" on internet providers \"to live to their own 'promises.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly called the concerns of potential net neutrality violations \"guilt by imagination\" and \"baseless fear-mongering.\" He said, \"I'm simply not persuaded that heavy-handed rules are needed to protect from hypothetical harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: NPR's legal counsel has filed comments with the FCC on behalf of the public radio system, opposing the repeal of the 2015 net neutrality rules. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10717112197099/NPR%20Restoring%20Internet%20Freedom%20Comments.Final.pdf\">\u003cem>You can read them here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=FCC+Repeals+%27Net+Neutrality%27+Rules+For+Internet+Providers&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11636959/fcc-repeals-net-neutrality-rules-for-internet-providers","authors":["byline_news_11636959"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_22057","news_19542","news_3137","news_17748","news_3195","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11637056","label":"source_news_11636959"},"news_11359491":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11359491","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11359491","score":null,"sort":[1493073024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-californias-toxic-waste-regulator-letting-enforcement-slide","title":"Is California’s Toxic Waste Regulator Letting Oversight Slide?","publishDate":1493073024,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this series of stories received financial support from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fij.org\">Fund for Investigative Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California generates an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469186-Kettleman-FAQ-Final-5-20-14.html#document/p8/a339164\" target=\"_blank\">average of 1.7 million tons\u003c/a> of hazardous waste each year. That ranges from industrial pollution to discarded household products. It includes liquids, solid, or gases that science has determined \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469185-Hwmp-defininghw111.html#document/p1/a339165\" target=\"_blank\">pose a threat\u003c/a> to human or other life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency charged with protecting California’s people and environment by making sure these substances are handled safely is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/DTSC_Overview.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).\u003c/a> The DTSC regulates thousands of businesses and institutions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/sitecleanup/\" target=\"_blank\">completes some 125 cleanups\u003c/a> a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6QfGDFTtTQRDemAtpql54frXzk5eVwbd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years the department has faced criticism from environmentalists, neighbors of industrial sites and state legislators. They accuse the department of allowing some cleanup projects to drag on, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/decades-later-industry-and-regulators-fail-to-clean-up-former-rocket-test-site/\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes for decades\u003c/a>. They point to fiscal mismanagement, sloppy record keeping and an opaque institutional culture that makes it hard to find out when the public is in danger or what’s being done about it. Some of these critics say state regulators have been indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the critiques, DTSC executives published a reform plan five years ago called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468895-Fixing-the-Foundation-WP.html\">Fixing the Foundation: Restoring Public Trust in the DTSC\u003c/a>. The plan called for improving communication with the public and identified ways to shift cleanup costs from taxpayers to polluters. It also laid out strategies to make enforcement actions more consistent and transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department has set up a branch specifically assigned to investigate and correct environmental problems in poor minority communities plagued with the worst pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, left, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-960x728.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-375x284.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-520x394.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To encourage progress, state lawmakers established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Independent-Review-Panel.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Review Panel \u003c/a> -- currently consisting of an environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Kracov.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">attorney\u003c/a>, a former San Diego County environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Vizzier.cfm\">regulator \u003c/a>and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Campbell.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">toxicologist \u003c/a> -- to make recommendations on the department's performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's suggestions have ranged from bookkeeping improvements to better public notice on how a factory’s emissions might threaten neighbors’ health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC director, Barbara Lee, says she's committed to transforming her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's staff turned down requests over two years for an interview. But in a letter to the review panel last September, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p2/a349571\">described \u003c/a>actions the department has taken to improve its programs and policies. These include including hiring seven new executive leaders over the past year; giving the department's public participation office more authority and resources; creating the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs; and starting an Organizational Excellence Initiative to make the DTSC more diverse and inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also said she's changing the permitting process for hazardous waste sites so they will be more protective, more enforceable and better explained to the public. The letter included a site-by-site \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p5/a349572\">description \u003c/a>of DTSC actions and how the department has responded to neighbors' and environmentalists' concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department executives point to the department's oversight at the Chemical Waste Management \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/CWMI_Kettleman.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">landfill in Kettleman Hills\u003c/a> as an example of the DTSC's new focus on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kettleman Hills neighbors have long fought for tougher regulation. They blame the landfill's polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, for serious illnesses and birth defects in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the DTSC settled a federal civil rights complaint filed by Kettleman Hills neighbors after the department gave permission for the landfill to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have access to agency heads that we've never had before.'\u003ccite>Kettleman Hills neighbor Maricela Mares-Alatorre\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes the department's promise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p5/a349589\">support a health assessment\u003c/a> that analyzes the health effects in Kettleman City from exposure to pollution, including air pollution, hazardous waste and other contaminants. It sets \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349588\">standards \u003c/a>for air monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three years, the agreement requires the DTSC to consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349587\">a list of factors\u003c/a> related to environmental justice in reviewing applications to expand the landfill or renew its operating permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The settlement is groundbreaking,\" said Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Kettleman Hills neighbor and community organizer for the environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://greenaction.org/?page_id=183\">Greenaction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before this, it wasn't in (the department's) nature to respond to civil rights complaints,\" she said. \"We've filed complaints where it took them 18 years to respond. But this agreement is court-enforceable. We have access to agency heads that we've never had before. We're hoping this will be a model not only for our community, but throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists say the DTSC's recent record elsewhere in California is far less promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to Lee's reports of progress on DTSC improvements, a coalition of activists from hazardous waste sites throughout the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468930-Groundtruthing-Report-Final-Draft.html#document/p1/a339161\">reported last October \u003c/a>that the department has neglected its promises to reform. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468931-CEJA-AgencyAssessment-2016-FINAL.html#document/p5/a339162\">a follow-up report from the Environmental Justice Alliance \u003c/a>gave the department poor marks for meeting principles of environmental justice such as communication. In some cases DTSC decisions taken behind closed doors have made situations worse, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gideon Kracov is chairman of the Independent Review Panel. In his \u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=4113\"> annual report to state legislators\u003c/a> in February, he, too, described some of the reform efforts as falling short.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Backlogged Permitting Process Weakens Enforcement Efforts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Permitting facilities is an area where the department struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the DTSC are responsible for issuing what's called \"Tier 1\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/upload/hazwaste_facility_permits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">permits \u003c/a>to the 118 facilities that store or handle the most hazardous waste. These permits are like company-specific regulation books, issued for 10-year terms, with operators required to seek renewal six months before their permits expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an operator meets that deadline, the facility may continue to operate under a \"continued\" permit. While the original conditions still apply, there’s no way to require improved safeguards, technologies and practices that may have been developed since the original one was issued. Further, the old permit won’t address changes that have occurred near the facility, such as new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his legislative report, Kracov said the DTSC continues to let some companies operate for years on expired permits. Seven years from now, in 2024, the department still expects to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3462861-April-21-2016-57014-F-Letter-Report-1.html#document/p5/a344874\">30 of the facilities it oversees\u003c/a> operating on permits that are more than five years past their expiration dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11368502 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an "interim" hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Failing to keep a permit up to date impedes the DTSC in regulating the company. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1180x897.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-960x730.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an interim hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon. \u003ccite>(Source: DTSC Independent Review Panel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A legislative hearing included several exchanges about the funding the department might need to process permits faster. But Shawn Martin, an analyst at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, noted that the DTSC had failed to provide a scheduled report on its funding needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s grasp on its own finances has sometimes been weak. In August 2014, the state auditor issued a withering report on the DTSC’s failure to collect an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3461892-2013-122.html#document/p3/a338491\">$194 million in cleanup costs from polluters since 1987\u003c/a>. The department failed to send out nearly $142 million in bills. For $52 million in assessments the DTSC did mail, it never collected, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his presentation to the Legislature, Kracov said the department originally thought it should be able to collect $90 million in unpaid costs. With data corrections, write-offs and settlement agreements, it actually took in $7 million, Kracov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing the Department's Culture Isn't Easy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Such lapses have drawn criticism from legislators, neighbors of contaminated sites and environmental activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Chandler, a veteran DTSC engineering geologist, says he’s seen several reform programs like the current one come to nothing over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his superiors have sometimes taken him to task for criticizing department decisions or policies, telling him that such public comments by a DTSC employee might make it appear that he's speaking for the department. Today, when he questions something the DTSC does, he stresses that he's speaking as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve worked for some bright people,\" he says. \"I didn’t like the way we did business, but that didn’t stop them from having a high IQ.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what he sees as a disconnect. \"I'd sit in these (reform program) classes and listen to them answer the questions perfectly. Then I’d watch them come back in the office and do exactly the opposite, in everyday practice, to what we’d just been taught.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler acknowledges that Lee has made a number of appointments from outside the DTSC, trying to bring in fresh ideas. Still, he says the department's entrenched culture is very difficult to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler appears to be a rarity in his willingness to be publicly identified as a department critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other DTSC employees, who asked not to be named for fear they could face retaliation at work, describe a department long demoralized by inadequate budgets, tripped up by its own bureaucracy and confused by frequent changes in leadership and mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official designation for project directors, Career Executive Assignment positions (CEA), has a parody title: Career Ends Abruptly, reportedly because it’s easy to be stripped of authority for antagonizing influential people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime employee has published a satire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Mismanagement-Freedonia-fartificatory-self-absorbed-ebook/dp/B01EPCX2WQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492810824&sr=8-1&keywords=toxic+mismanagement\">\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia,\"\u003c/a> that pokes fun at regulators bowing to corporate pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420688 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, written under a pen name by a long-time Department of Toxic Substances Control employee, pokes fun atregulators bowing to corporate pressure.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A book called \"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia\" was written under a pen name by a longtime Department of Toxic Substances Control employee. \u003ccite>(Lucretius Jones )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the DTSC’s culture -- and its commitment to change -- were redoubled late in 2015 after an advocacy group published departmental \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804447-RacistJokes.html\">emails\u003c/a> in which a pair of high-ranking regulators exchanged crudely racist jokes, sometimes about the communities they were assigned to protect. Lee has told lawmakers she disciplined and reassigned the offenders and plans extensive training in issues of environmental justice, race and cultural sensitivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gale Filter, the former deputy director for enforcement and emergency response at the department, remembers running into a colleague at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction.'\u003ccite>State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"And she says, ‘You know, your environmental justice program that you started while you were there, Gale, do you realize how hard it is to work with these people?' \" Filter recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And what was going through my mind, 'Well, how could it be any harder working with those people than the industries that have captured you?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter believes the problems are pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This organization has a lot of pathologies. And one of those pathologies is a culture that is antagonistic or at least removed from those people that it’s supposed to serve, i.e., the public,\" he said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León also sees a broad failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction of this department,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter pointed out that in such an uncertain atmosphere, what often counts most is friendship. Where the public is seen as a demanding stranger, the lobbyists of industries subject to DTSC regulation often have plenty of friends at the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isn’t it easier to work with people that you know?” Filter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Auto Recycling Methods Under New Scrutiny\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Filter points to California’s long-standing policy regarding the disposal of auto shredder waste as an example of industry getting too much of a say in decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420132 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An auto shredder at work.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1180x1918.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-960x1560.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-240x390.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-375x609.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-520x845.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An auto shredder at work at a recycling plant. Safe disposal standards for this waste are currently being reviewed by the state. \u003ccite>(Source: Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When auto recyclers recover metals from wrecked cars, they also have to figure out what to do with leftover engine fluids, rubber, plastics and dirt. The material is toxic and hard to dispose of safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordinarily, such waste, known as \"auto fluff,\" would be buried in landfills that are specially lined to contain any poisons and protect underground aquifers from contamination. That could be a big problem for the auto recycling industry, because it produces a lot of waste and these lined landfills charge high disposal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, state regulators quietly approved a recycling industry solution: coat beads of waste with a concrete sealant, kind of like heavy metal M&Ms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484273-policy-and-procedure-88-6.html#document/p4/a254564\">Policy and Procedure 88-6\u003c/a> declared auto fluff safe and regulators granted recyclers special exemptions, called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484982-a-sample-f-letter.html#document/p2/a254628\">F Letters\u003c/a>,\" that gave them permission to send their waste to less protected -- and, therefore, less expensive -- landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better for the auto recyclers, landfill operators often discount their disposal fees for industrial materials approved for use as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjQ182Zn5DSAhUijFQKHahTArAQFggnMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calrecycle.ca.gov%2Flaws%2Fregulations%2Ftitle27%2Fch3sb4a.htm&usg=AFQjCNElQFkw5JG7fQp5JLOiXzcJuseMZQ&sig2=2tIOPvCLILgogRHYik3ttA\">alternative daily cover\u003c/a>,\" used to bury rotting garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, the department's own legal department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a285571\">declared\u003c/a> the F Letters \"outdated and legally incorrect\" because they were enacted in violation of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.oal.ca.gov/rulemaking_process/regular_rulemaking_process/\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a>, which mandates public participation when a state agency seeks to implement a new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It labeled the DTSC policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a338856\">an illegal \"underground regulation.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, senior DTSC scientist Peter Wood filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488800-draft-dtsc-study-on-shredder-waste.html#document/p8/a255846\">report\u003c/a> that said both the treated and untreated shredder waste exceeded state regulatory thresholds for lead, zinc and cadmium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s laboratory model cast doubt on how well the auto fluff’s industrial lime coating could withstand the highly corrosive sludge found inside landfills. Since most landfills accepting municipal garbage are either unlined or have only a clay liner, the concern is that toxic waste could leach into local water supplies. Wood urged that, pending further investigation, the department rescind Policy and Procedure 88-6 and revoke the F letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the DTSC shelved the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11368430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg\" alt='A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. The TASR portrayed in the bottom column is \"treated auto shredder residue,\" or auto fluff. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send this material to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. In 2002, a DTSC report pointed to risks of environmental and public health threats from the treated waste. The DTSC shelved the report.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send shredded auto waste to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Department spokesman Russ Edmondson refused repeated requests for an interview with Wood. The scientist’s report has remained a subject of contention in the DTSC and the auto recycling industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, then-department director Maureen Gorsen revived the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488858-gorsen-letter.html#document/p1/a255943\">notifying\u003c/a> recyclers that she planned to carry out Wood’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Rosegay, whose legal and lobbying firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1147279&view=activity&session=2015\">represents\u003c/a> the West Coast Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3676337-Metalshredderletterto-C-Heck.html#document/p2/a349734\">wrote back fast\u003c/a>, saying that removing the auto fluff exemptions would severely injure auto recycling companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter says what came next was an intense lobbying campaign, with Rosegay and Robert Hoffman, the former chief counsel for the DTSC, pressing legislators to keep the exemptions in place until the state Environmental Protection Agency had reported on the issue. At the time, Hoffman’s firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1223535&session=2007\">represented\u003c/a> several recycling businesses, as well as an industry trade group. Neither Rosegay nor Hoffman responded to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC extended the deadline three times. In September 2009, six months after Gorsen resigned, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804329-Dropping-F-Letter-Initiative.html#document/p1/a289651\">relented\u003c/a> on steps to revoke the special permits. But they would stay in place until the department approved some substitute for the existing formula that was safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department had quietly reversed course. And no new standards for a safer substitute were forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the DTSC continues to let the recyclers send \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/MSRCleanmetals.cfm\">at least 400,000 tons of treated auto fluff\u003c/a> to landfills annually, where it is used as an acceptable material to bury trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators intervened, and in 2014 the governor signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2489411-sb-1249-bill-20140928-chaptered.html\">state law\u003c/a> aimed at making the disposal safer. It calls on the DTSC to set standards by next year that will ensure the shredder waste is not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11363914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11363914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alice Sterling says the department waited far too long to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago, Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a scientist, but I would think any armchair scientist would be able to look at this and think, 'Here's a lot of questions that haven't been answered, but that can be answered. How much lead is in this stuff? What are the components? Is it safe to breathe? Can it migrate offsite? Does it leach?' And we have these horrific winds in Simi Valley, and day after day, year after year of this stuff circulating in our air. It's landing on things,\" Sterling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't seem to run the department like a tight ship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling believes that if DTSC would only get the answers to the questions about auto fluff, it would be logically compelled to enforce appropriate regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show when the department has such detailed information -- even when its own investigators log allegedly criminal actions by a polluter -- it sometimes fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lead From Battery Recyclers Contaminates Homes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2015, as public protests mounted against the East Los Angeles battery recycler Exide Technologies for poisoning its neighbors with lead and arsenic, the company struck a deal with the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804657-Exide-Agreement.html#document/p1/a289739\">to avoid felony prosecution\u003c/a>. In the agreement, Exide admitted that for two decades, it regularly violated federal law by illegally storing and transporting lead and acid in leaky truck trailers, and that those actions could have been treated as felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I made [my kids] go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.'\u003ccite>Exide neighbor Terry Cano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company agreed to close, level and clean up its plant, and to remove lead contamination from surrounding homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that well before the period covered by the federal agreement, regulators knew Exide was operating illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in 1990, an inspection report alleged that plant operators were using an unregistered trucking company to ship hazardous plastic waste to a recycler that didn't have the proper permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(DTSC’s predecessor agency, the Department of Health Services) has twice sampled polypropylene loads en route and have found hazardous levels of lead leaking on to Interstate 5,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2491555-gnb-inc-rcra-facility-assessment-10-1990-pages-1.html#document/p6/a256858\">report states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years later, another inspector added a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494149-exide-fci2013-sov081613.html#document/p3/a256865\">handwritten note\u003c/a> to a \"notice of violations\" following a plant visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DTSC is concerned that leaking from the containers while on public roads is an on-going problem, and this issue needs to be addressed immediately. Leaking of hazardous waste is considered illegal disposal,” the note warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her seven-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\">let the Exide plant operate\u003c/a> without a fully approved hazardous waste permit for 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all that time, Exide didn’t satisfy regulators that it fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the department issued its third \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804686-2014-06-17-Exide-3rd-NOD-Complete-1.html#document/p1/a289752\">“notice of deficiency”\u003c/a> on Exide’s permit application, acknowledging that the DTSC didn’t have complete information about how much lead-contaminated waste was on the factory site. In a press release, DTSC officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804687-News-Release-T-13-14-Exide-NOD.html#document/p1/a289751\">pointed out\u003c/a> that Exide's three deficient applications required them to start proceedings for denying the company a hazardous waste permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never came to that. Exide, which had operated for so long on what was supposed to be a temporary permit, capitulated to federal prosecutors nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the department is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467015-News-Release-T-20-16.html\">working on a plan\u003c/a> to clean up some 10,000 lead-contaminated homes near the Exide plant. Yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467016-Exide-TCRA-Guidance.html\">all but the most severely polluted\u003c/a> will have to wait until after the department finishes an environmental review this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, DTSC spokeswoman Rosanna Westmoreland writes that the department needs to assess health risks for each house. The analysis will consider factors such as the amount of contamination on a property and how it is distributed, whether it is exposed in bare dirt, and whether there are pregnant women and children there, the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide neighbor Terry Cano is frightened and doesn't want to wait. She says soil tests at her home already show high lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a flashback of me playing with the kids. 'Get some fresh air. Get some exercise,' \" she recalled recently, sobbing and gasping for breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I made them go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Critics accuse the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control of being indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493077741,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":92,"wordCount":3605},"headData":{"title":"Is California’s Toxic Waste Regulator Letting Oversight Slide? | KQED","description":"Critics accuse the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control of being indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11359491 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11359491","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/24/is-californias-toxic-waste-regulator-letting-enforcement-slide/","disqusTitle":"Is California’s Toxic Waste Regulator Letting Oversight Slide?","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/04/2017-04-24a-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11359491/is-californias-toxic-waste-regulator-letting-enforcement-slide","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this series of stories received financial support from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fij.org\">Fund for Investigative Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California generates an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469186-Kettleman-FAQ-Final-5-20-14.html#document/p8/a339164\" target=\"_blank\">average of 1.7 million tons\u003c/a> of hazardous waste each year. That ranges from industrial pollution to discarded household products. It includes liquids, solid, or gases that science has determined \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3469185-Hwmp-defininghw111.html#document/p1/a339165\" target=\"_blank\">pose a threat\u003c/a> to human or other life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state agency charged with protecting California’s people and environment by making sure these substances are handled safely is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/InformationResources/DTSC_Overview.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC).\u003c/a> The DTSC regulates thousands of businesses and institutions and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/sitecleanup/\" target=\"_blank\">completes some 125 cleanups\u003c/a> a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years the department has faced criticism from environmentalists, neighbors of industrial sites and state legislators. They accuse the department of allowing some cleanup projects to drag on, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/decades-later-industry-and-regulators-fail-to-clean-up-former-rocket-test-site/\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes for decades\u003c/a>. They point to fiscal mismanagement, sloppy record keeping and an opaque institutional culture that makes it hard to find out when the public is in danger or what’s being done about it. Some of these critics say state regulators have been indifferent to the public, cozy with polluters and slow in enforcing regulations.\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>Responding to the critiques, DTSC executives published a reform plan five years ago called \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468895-Fixing-the-Foundation-WP.html\">Fixing the Foundation: Restoring Public Trust in the DTSC\u003c/a>. The plan called for improving communication with the public and identified ways to shift cleanup costs from taxpayers to polluters. It also laid out strategies to make enforcement actions more consistent and transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department has set up a branch specifically assigned to investigate and correct environmental problems in poor minority communities plagued with the worst pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, left, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-800x606.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-960x728.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-375x284.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut-520x394.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24999_BLeeAMascarenas-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Lee, director of the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, swears in Ana Mascareñas, right, as the department's first assistant director for environmental justice. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To encourage progress, state lawmakers established an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Independent-Review-Panel.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Review Panel \u003c/a> -- currently consisting of an environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Kracov.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">attorney\u003c/a>, a former San Diego County environmental \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Vizzier.cfm\">regulator \u003c/a>and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/GetInvolved/ReviewPanel/Campbell.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">toxicologist \u003c/a> -- to make recommendations on the department's performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's suggestions have ranged from bookkeeping improvements to better public notice on how a factory’s emissions might threaten neighbors’ health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC director, Barbara Lee, says she's committed to transforming her department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's staff turned down requests over two years for an interview. But in a letter to the review panel last September, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p2/a349571\">described \u003c/a>actions the department has taken to improve its programs and policies. These include including hiring seven new executive leaders over the past year; giving the department's public participation office more authority and resources; creating the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs; and starting an Organizational Excellence Initiative to make the DTSC more diverse and inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also said she's changing the permitting process for hazardous waste sites so they will be more protective, more enforceable and better explained to the public. The letter included a site-by-site \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675305-DTSC-Report-on-People-S-Senate-2015-Site.html#document/p5/a349572\">description \u003c/a>of DTSC actions and how the department has responded to neighbors' and environmentalists' concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department executives point to the department's oversight at the Chemical Waste Management \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/Projects/CWMI_Kettleman.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">landfill in Kettleman Hills\u003c/a> as an example of the DTSC's new focus on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kettleman Hills neighbors have long fought for tougher regulation. They blame the landfill's polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, for serious illnesses and birth defects in the surrounding communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the DTSC settled a federal civil rights complaint filed by Kettleman Hills neighbors after the department gave permission for the landfill to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have access to agency heads that we've never had before.'\u003ccite>Kettleman Hills neighbor Maricela Mares-Alatorre\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The agreement includes the department's promise to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p5/a349589\">support a health assessment\u003c/a> that analyzes the health effects in Kettleman City from exposure to pollution, including air pollution, hazardous waste and other contaminants. It sets \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349588\">standards \u003c/a>for air monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next three years, the agreement requires the DTSC to consider \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675334-Kettleman-TitleVI-Settlement.html#document/p4/a349587\">a list of factors\u003c/a> related to environmental justice in reviewing applications to expand the landfill or renew its operating permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The settlement is groundbreaking,\" said Maricela Mares-Alatorre, a Kettleman Hills neighbor and community organizer for the environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://greenaction.org/?page_id=183\">Greenaction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before this, it wasn't in (the department's) nature to respond to civil rights complaints,\" she said. \"We've filed complaints where it took them 18 years to respond. But this agreement is court-enforceable. We have access to agency heads that we've never had before. We're hoping this will be a model not only for our community, but throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists say the DTSC's recent record elsewhere in California is far less promising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to Lee's reports of progress on DTSC improvements, a coalition of activists from hazardous waste sites throughout the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468930-Groundtruthing-Report-Final-Draft.html#document/p1/a339161\">reported last October \u003c/a>that the department has neglected its promises to reform. In January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468931-CEJA-AgencyAssessment-2016-FINAL.html#document/p5/a339162\">a follow-up report from the Environmental Justice Alliance \u003c/a>gave the department poor marks for meeting principles of environmental justice such as communication. In some cases DTSC decisions taken behind closed doors have made situations worse, the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gideon Kracov is chairman of the Independent Review Panel. In his \u003ca href=\"http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&clip_id=4113\"> annual report to state legislators\u003c/a> in February, he, too, described some of the reform efforts as falling short.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Backlogged Permitting Process Weakens Enforcement Efforts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Permitting facilities is an area where the department struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the DTSC are responsible for issuing what's called \"Tier 1\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/upload/hazwaste_facility_permits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">permits \u003c/a>to the 118 facilities that store or handle the most hazardous waste. These permits are like company-specific regulation books, issued for 10-year terms, with operators required to seek renewal six months before their permits expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an operator meets that deadline, the facility may continue to operate under a \"continued\" permit. While the original conditions still apply, there’s no way to require improved safeguards, technologies and practices that may have been developed since the original one was issued. Further, the old permit won’t address changes that have occurred near the facility, such as new housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his legislative report, Kracov said the DTSC continues to let some companies operate for years on expired permits. Seven years from now, in 2024, the department still expects to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3462861-April-21-2016-57014-F-Letter-Report-1.html#document/p5/a344874\">30 of the facilities it oversees\u003c/a> operating on permits that are more than five years past their expiration dates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11368502 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an "interim" hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Failing to keep a permit up to date impedes the DTSC in regulating the company. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-800x608.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-1180x897.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-960x730.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-240x183.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-375x285.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24673_April-21-2016-IRP-qut-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Toxic Substances Control let Exide Technologies, an East Los Angeles battery recycling plant, operate for more than 30 years on an interim hazardous waste permit. Such permits are vital tools to regulate companies that store and handle the most dangerous pollution. Revelations about out-of-date licenses at Exide and other companies prompted a wave of public outrage. The DTSC promised to catch up. This table from a report by the department's Independent Review Panel shows that the department doesn't expect to have all licenses up to date anytime soon. \u003ccite>(Source: DTSC Independent Review Panel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A legislative hearing included several exchanges about the funding the department might need to process permits faster. But Shawn Martin, an analyst at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, noted that the DTSC had failed to provide a scheduled report on its funding needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s grasp on its own finances has sometimes been weak. In August 2014, the state auditor issued a withering report on the DTSC’s failure to collect an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3461892-2013-122.html#document/p3/a338491\">$194 million in cleanup costs from polluters since 1987\u003c/a>. The department failed to send out nearly $142 million in bills. For $52 million in assessments the DTSC did mail, it never collected, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his presentation to the Legislature, Kracov said the department originally thought it should be able to collect $90 million in unpaid costs. With data corrections, write-offs and settlement agreements, it actually took in $7 million, Kracov said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing the Department's Culture Isn't Easy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Such lapses have drawn criticism from legislators, neighbors of contaminated sites and environmental activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Chandler, a veteran DTSC engineering geologist, says he’s seen several reform programs like the current one come to nothing over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his superiors have sometimes taken him to task for criticizing department decisions or policies, telling him that such public comments by a DTSC employee might make it appear that he's speaking for the department. Today, when he questions something the DTSC does, he stresses that he's speaking as a private citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve worked for some bright people,\" he says. \"I didn’t like the way we did business, but that didn’t stop them from having a high IQ.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what he sees as a disconnect. \"I'd sit in these (reform program) classes and listen to them answer the questions perfectly. Then I’d watch them come back in the office and do exactly the opposite, in everyday practice, to what we’d just been taught.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler acknowledges that Lee has made a number of appointments from outside the DTSC, trying to bring in fresh ideas. Still, he says the department's entrenched culture is very difficult to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandler appears to be a rarity in his willingness to be publicly identified as a department critic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other DTSC employees, who asked not to be named for fear they could face retaliation at work, describe a department long demoralized by inadequate budgets, tripped up by its own bureaucracy and confused by frequent changes in leadership and mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official designation for project directors, Career Executive Assignment positions (CEA), has a parody title: Career Ends Abruptly, reportedly because it’s easy to be stripped of authority for antagonizing influential people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime employee has published a satire, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Mismanagement-Freedonia-fartificatory-self-absorbed-ebook/dp/B01EPCX2WQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492810824&sr=8-1&keywords=toxic+mismanagement\">\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia,\"\u003c/a> that pokes fun at regulators bowing to corporate pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420688 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, written under a pen name by a long-time Department of Toxic Substances Control employee, pokes fun atregulators bowing to corporate pressure.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25000_FreedoniaCover-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A book called \"The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia\" was written under a pen name by a longtime Department of Toxic Substances Control employee. \u003ccite>(Lucretius Jones )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the DTSC’s culture -- and its commitment to change -- were redoubled late in 2015 after an advocacy group published departmental \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804447-RacistJokes.html\">emails\u003c/a> in which a pair of high-ranking regulators exchanged crudely racist jokes, sometimes about the communities they were assigned to protect. Lee has told lawmakers she disciplined and reassigned the offenders and plans extensive training in issues of environmental justice, race and cultural sensitivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gale Filter, the former deputy director for enforcement and emergency response at the department, remembers running into a colleague at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction.'\u003ccite>State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"And she says, ‘You know, your environmental justice program that you started while you were there, Gale, do you realize how hard it is to work with these people?' \" Filter recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And what was going through my mind, 'Well, how could it be any harder working with those people than the industries that have captured you?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter believes the problems are pervasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This organization has a lot of pathologies. And one of those pathologies is a culture that is antagonistic or at least removed from those people that it’s supposed to serve, i.e., the public,\" he said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León also sees a broad failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have a department that has 10 new directors in the last 20 years, that speaks volumes of the internal dysfunction of this department,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter pointed out that in such an uncertain atmosphere, what often counts most is friendship. Where the public is seen as a demanding stranger, the lobbyists of industries subject to DTSC regulation often have plenty of friends at the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Isn’t it easier to work with people that you know?” Filter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Auto Recycling Methods Under New Scrutiny\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Filter points to California’s long-standing policy regarding the disposal of auto shredder waste as an example of industry getting too much of a say in decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420132 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An auto shredder at work.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"3120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-160x260.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-800x1300.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1020x1658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-1180x1918.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-960x1560.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-240x390.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-375x609.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24672_DTSC_ASW1-qut-520x845.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An auto shredder at work at a recycling plant. Safe disposal standards for this waste are currently being reviewed by the state. \u003ccite>(Source: Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When auto recyclers recover metals from wrecked cars, they also have to figure out what to do with leftover engine fluids, rubber, plastics and dirt. The material is toxic and hard to dispose of safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordinarily, such waste, known as \"auto fluff,\" would be buried in landfills that are specially lined to contain any poisons and protect underground aquifers from contamination. That could be a big problem for the auto recycling industry, because it produces a lot of waste and these lined landfills charge high disposal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, state regulators quietly approved a recycling industry solution: coat beads of waste with a concrete sealant, kind of like heavy metal M&Ms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484273-policy-and-procedure-88-6.html#document/p4/a254564\">Policy and Procedure 88-6\u003c/a> declared auto fluff safe and regulators granted recyclers special exemptions, called \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2484982-a-sample-f-letter.html#document/p2/a254628\">F Letters\u003c/a>,\" that gave them permission to send their waste to less protected -- and, therefore, less expensive -- landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better for the auto recyclers, landfill operators often discount their disposal fees for industrial materials approved for use as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjQ182Zn5DSAhUijFQKHahTArAQFggnMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calrecycle.ca.gov%2Flaws%2Fregulations%2Ftitle27%2Fch3sb4a.htm&usg=AFQjCNElQFkw5JG7fQp5JLOiXzcJuseMZQ&sig2=2tIOPvCLILgogRHYik3ttA\">alternative daily cover\u003c/a>,\" used to bury rotting garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, the department's own legal department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a285571\">declared\u003c/a> the F Letters \"outdated and legally incorrect\" because they were enacted in violation of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.oal.ca.gov/rulemaking_process/regular_rulemaking_process/\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a>, which mandates public participation when a state agency seeks to implement a new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It labeled the DTSC policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2777064-2001-Ruling.html#document/p17/a338856\">an illegal \"underground regulation.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, senior DTSC scientist Peter Wood filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488800-draft-dtsc-study-on-shredder-waste.html#document/p8/a255846\">report\u003c/a> that said both the treated and untreated shredder waste exceeded state regulatory thresholds for lead, zinc and cadmium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood’s laboratory model cast doubt on how well the auto fluff’s industrial lime coating could withstand the highly corrosive sludge found inside landfills. Since most landfills accepting municipal garbage are either unlined or have only a clay liner, the concern is that toxic waste could leach into local water supplies. Wood urged that, pending further investigation, the department rescind Policy and Procedure 88-6 and revoke the F letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the DTSC shelved the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11368430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11368430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg\" alt='A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. The TASR portrayed in the bottom column is \"treated auto shredder residue,\" or auto fluff. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send this material to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. In 2002, a DTSC report pointed to risks of environmental and public health threats from the treated waste. The DTSC shelved the report.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24669_DTSC_ASW2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from a DTSC presentation on auto recycling. Special exemptions granted by the DTSC give auto shredders permission to send shredded auto waste to landfills for use in covering rotting garbage. \u003ccite>(Source: California Department of Toxic Substances Control)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Department spokesman Russ Edmondson refused repeated requests for an interview with Wood. The scientist’s report has remained a subject of contention in the DTSC and the auto recycling industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, then-department director Maureen Gorsen revived the issue, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2488858-gorsen-letter.html#document/p1/a255943\">notifying\u003c/a> recyclers that she planned to carry out Wood’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Rosegay, whose legal and lobbying firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1147279&view=activity&session=2015\">represents\u003c/a> the West Coast Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3676337-Metalshredderletterto-C-Heck.html#document/p2/a349734\">wrote back fast\u003c/a>, saying that removing the auto fluff exemptions would severely injure auto recycling companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filter says what came next was an intense lobbying campaign, with Rosegay and Robert Hoffman, the former chief counsel for the DTSC, pressing legislators to keep the exemptions in place until the state Environmental Protection Agency had reported on the issue. At the time, Hoffman’s firm \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Firms/Detail.aspx?id=1223535&session=2007\">represented\u003c/a> several recycling businesses, as well as an industry trade group. Neither Rosegay nor Hoffman responded to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DTSC extended the deadline three times. In September 2009, six months after Gorsen resigned, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804329-Dropping-F-Letter-Initiative.html#document/p1/a289651\">relented\u003c/a> on steps to revoke the special permits. But they would stay in place until the department approved some substitute for the existing formula that was safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department had quietly reversed course. And no new standards for a safer substitute were forthcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the DTSC continues to let the recyclers send \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtsc.ca.gov/HazardousWaste/MSRCleanmetals.cfm\">at least 400,000 tons of treated auto fluff\u003c/a> to landfills annually, where it is used as an acceptable material to bury trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators intervened, and in 2014 the governor signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2489411-sb-1249-bill-20140928-chaptered.html\">state law\u003c/a> aimed at making the disposal safer. It calls on the DTSC to set standards by next year that will ensure the shredder waste is not harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11363914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11363914\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/DSC0047-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten years ago, Alice Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alice Sterling says the department waited far too long to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago, Sterling started compiling public records on auto fluff as part of her research into a proposed landfill expansion near her Simi Valley home. She’s developed a reputation among DTSC whistleblowers as a relentless investigator on shredder waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a scientist, but I would think any armchair scientist would be able to look at this and think, 'Here's a lot of questions that haven't been answered, but that can be answered. How much lead is in this stuff? What are the components? Is it safe to breathe? Can it migrate offsite? Does it leach?' And we have these horrific winds in Simi Valley, and day after day, year after year of this stuff circulating in our air. It's landing on things,\" Sterling said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don't seem to run the department like a tight ship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling believes that if DTSC would only get the answers to the questions about auto fluff, it would be logically compelled to enforce appropriate regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show when the department has such detailed information -- even when its own investigators log allegedly criminal actions by a polluter -- it sometimes fails to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lead From Battery Recyclers Contaminates Homes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2015, as public protests mounted against the East Los Angeles battery recycler Exide Technologies for poisoning its neighbors with lead and arsenic, the company struck a deal with the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804657-Exide-Agreement.html#document/p1/a289739\">to avoid felony prosecution\u003c/a>. In the agreement, Exide admitted that for two decades, it regularly violated federal law by illegally storing and transporting lead and acid in leaky truck trailers, and that those actions could have been treated as felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I made [my kids] go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.'\u003ccite>Exide neighbor Terry Cano\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company agreed to close, level and clean up its plant, and to remove lead contamination from surrounding homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that well before the period covered by the federal agreement, regulators knew Exide was operating illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in 1990, an inspection report alleged that plant operators were using an unregistered trucking company to ship hazardous plastic waste to a recycler that didn't have the proper permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(DTSC’s predecessor agency, the Department of Health Services) has twice sampled polypropylene loads en route and have found hazardous levels of lead leaking on to Interstate 5,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2491555-gnb-inc-rcra-facility-assessment-10-1990-pages-1.html#document/p6/a256858\">report states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-three years later, another inspector added a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2494149-exide-fci2013-sov081613.html#document/p3/a256865\">handwritten note\u003c/a> to a \"notice of violations\" following a plant visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DTSC is concerned that leaking from the containers while on public roads is an on-going problem, and this issue needs to be addressed immediately. Leaking of hazardous waste is considered illegal disposal,” the note warns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11420104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11420104 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her seven-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-960x643.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24641_ExideLead3-qut-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle Heights resident Claudia Gonzalez says she tries to keep her 7-month-old daughter Perla’s hands very clean, for fear that the baby might be poisoned by lead contamination in the neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2492399-exides-interim-permit.html#document/p1/a256852\">let the Exide plant operate\u003c/a> without a fully approved hazardous waste permit for 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all that time, Exide didn’t satisfy regulators that it fully met California’s rules for the safe operation of such toxic sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the department issued its third \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804686-2014-06-17-Exide-3rd-NOD-Complete-1.html#document/p1/a289752\">“notice of deficiency”\u003c/a> on Exide’s permit application, acknowledging that the DTSC didn’t have complete information about how much lead-contaminated waste was on the factory site. In a press release, DTSC officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804687-News-Release-T-13-14-Exide-NOD.html#document/p1/a289751\">pointed out\u003c/a> that Exide's three deficient applications required them to start proceedings for denying the company a hazardous waste permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It never came to that. Exide, which had operated for so long on what was supposed to be a temporary permit, capitulated to federal prosecutors nine months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the department is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467015-News-Release-T-20-16.html\">working on a plan\u003c/a> to clean up some 10,000 lead-contaminated homes near the Exide plant. Yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3467016-Exide-TCRA-Guidance.html\">all but the most severely polluted\u003c/a> will have to wait until after the department finishes an environmental review this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, DTSC spokeswoman Rosanna Westmoreland writes that the department needs to assess health risks for each house. The analysis will consider factors such as the amount of contamination on a property and how it is distributed, whether it is exposed in bare dirt, and whether there are pregnant women and children there, the email states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exide neighbor Terry Cano is frightened and doesn't want to wait. She says soil tests at her home already show high lead levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a flashback of me playing with the kids. 'Get some fresh air. Get some exercise,' \" she recalled recently, sobbing and gasping for breath.\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>\"And I made them go outside and play in dirt. And now they’re sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11359491/is-californias-toxic-waste-regulator-letting-enforcement-slide","authors":["219"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_20833","news_5798","news_382","news_3195","news_17286","news_17041","news_20830"],"featImg":"news_11420112","label":"news_72"},"science_18367":{"type":"posts","id":"science_18367","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"18367","score":null,"sort":[1402696103000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"berkeley-considers-co2-warning-labels-at-gas-pumps","title":"Berkeley Considers CO2 Warning Labels at Gas Pumps","publishDate":1402696103,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Berkeley Considers CO2 Warning Labels at Gas Pumps | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/gaspump_hosetalker2-e1402694020933.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18370 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/gaspump_hosetalker2-e1402694020933.jpg\" alt=\"A working concept of a gas pump climate change warning labels that the City of Berkeley is considering. (Courtesy 350 Bay Area)\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A working concept of gas pump climate change warning labels that the City of Berkeley is considering. (Courtesy Raymond Pajek)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The City of Berkeley is considering requiring gas stations to display climate change warning labels on gas pumps. Environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://www.350bayarea.org/\">350 Bay Area\u003c/a>, which is leading the “Beyond The Pump” campaign, says the goal is to inform the public about the harmful effects of CO2 emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to change the social context of burning gasoline,” says Jamie Brooks, with 350 Bay Area. Putting messages at the point of sale of gas will influence human behavior, he says. He compared the proposed stickers to the warning labels on cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/Gas-Label-cropped-image1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18384 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/Gas-Label-cropped-image1.jpg\" alt=\"A working concept of Berkeley's gas pump warning label. (Courtesy Raymond Pajek)\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A working concept of Berkeley’s gas pump warning label. (Credit: 350 Bay Area)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Western States Petroleum Association sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Planning_and_Development/Level_3_-_Commissions/Commission_for_Community_Environmental_Advisory/2014%2006%2012_CEAC_AGN_Item%20XII.b.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> to the City of Berkeley arguing that the ordinance is unconstitutional. The oil lobby group says it would violate a gas station owner’s right to free speech by compelling them to display statements about “alleged” impacts of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 350 members say the labels would simply cite state laws, such as AB 32, which state that emissions are harmful to humans and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that the message is accurate and noncontroversial,” said Jack Fleck, a retired transportation engineer and 350 Bay Area member. “It is simply a fact that the state has found that greenhouse gases pose a serious threat to the public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Community_Environmental_Advisory_Commission/\">Community Environmental Advisory Commission\u003c/a> voted Thursday in favor of drafting an ordinance. The city council could vote on the proposal as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Environmentalists want Berkeley drivers to see a connection between pumping gas and dumping carbon into the atmosphere.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704933492,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":292},"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Considers CO2 Warning Labels at Gas Pumps | KQED","description":"Environmentalists want Berkeley drivers to see a connection between pumping gas and dumping carbon into the atmosphere.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/18367/berkeley-considers-co2-warning-labels-at-gas-pumps","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/gaspump_hosetalker2-e1402694020933.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18370 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/gaspump_hosetalker2-e1402694020933.jpg\" alt=\"A working concept of a gas pump climate change warning labels that the City of Berkeley is considering. (Courtesy 350 Bay Area)\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A working concept of gas pump climate change warning labels that the City of Berkeley is considering. (Courtesy Raymond Pajek)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The City of Berkeley is considering requiring gas stations to display climate change warning labels on gas pumps. Environmental group \u003ca href=\"http://www.350bayarea.org/\">350 Bay Area\u003c/a>, which is leading the “Beyond The Pump” campaign, says the goal is to inform the public about the harmful effects of CO2 emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to change the social context of burning gasoline,” says Jamie Brooks, with 350 Bay Area. Putting messages at the point of sale of gas will influence human behavior, he says. He compared the proposed stickers to the warning labels on cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/Gas-Label-cropped-image1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18384 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/Gas-Label-cropped-image1.jpg\" alt=\"A working concept of Berkeley's gas pump warning label. (Courtesy Raymond Pajek)\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A working concept of Berkeley’s gas pump warning label. (Credit: 350 Bay Area)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Western States Petroleum Association sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Planning_and_Development/Level_3_-_Commissions/Commission_for_Community_Environmental_Advisory/2014%2006%2012_CEAC_AGN_Item%20XII.b.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> to the City of Berkeley arguing that the ordinance is unconstitutional. The oil lobby group says it would violate a gas station owner’s right to free speech by compelling them to display statements about “alleged” impacts of global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 350 members say the labels would simply cite state laws, such as AB 32, which state that emissions are harmful to humans and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that the message is accurate and noncontroversial,” said Jack Fleck, a retired transportation engineer and 350 Bay Area member. “It is simply a fact that the state has found that greenhouse gases pose a serious threat to the public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Community_Environmental_Advisory_Commission/\">Community Environmental Advisory Commission\u003c/a> voted Thursday in favor of drafting an ordinance. The city council could vote on the proposal as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/18367/berkeley-considers-co2-warning-labels-at-gas-pumps","authors":["1565"],"categories":["science_31","science_33","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_1665","science_194","science_556","science_952"],"featImg":"science_18370","label":"science"},"news_127920":{"type":"posts","id":"news_127920","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"127920","score":null,"sort":[1393534573000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"usda-inspector-supervisors-ignored-problems-at-petaluma-slaughterhouse","title":"USDA Inspector: Supervisors Ignored Reports of Trouble at Petaluma Slaughterhouse","publishDate":1393534573,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127921 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8993_467012475-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"California beef cattle\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancho Feeding Corp., the Petaluma slaughterhouse at the center of a massive beef recall, may have processed animals with cancer of the eye, \u003ca title=\"Slaughterhouse accused of selling meat from cows with cancer\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Slaughterhouse-accused-of-selling-meat-from-cows-5267836.php\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. That's one development reported Wednesday about the facility, which is \u003ca title=\"Rep. Jared Huffman: Prosecutors Investigating Petaluma Slaughterhouse \" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/rep-jared-huffman-prosecutors-investigating-petaluma-slaughterhouse/\">currently under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another development: \u003ca title=\"Union: Federal inspector reported problems at Petaluma slaughterhouse\" href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140225/articles/140229682\">the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports\u003c/a> that a USDA inspector tried to flag problems at the plant to her supervisors, only to be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If the inspector saw violations and was thwarted in her ability to do her job ... then USDA is culpable.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, KQED's Mina Kim talked with Tony Corbo, senior lobbyist for Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch. He noted there is an internal whistleblower line for USDA inspectors to call if they feel supervisors are ignoring violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are avenues for an inspector to contact the Office of Inspector General,\" Corbo said. \"There is a whistleblower hotline that inspectors can call to report that they're finding violations and being thwarted in their ability to do their job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether or not the USDA inspector in question called the whistleblower line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the USDA be culpable for what happened at Rancho Feeding Corp.?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For 9 million pounds of meat to go into commerce without inspection leads me to believe that there was a breakdown in the inspection process,\" Corbo said. \"If in fact the inspector on the scene saw violations of law and regulations and attempted to deal with them, and she was thwarted in her ability to do her job, then yes. USDA is culpable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136956581&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on the processing of animals with cancer of the eye, Mina Kim spoke with \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Grandin\u003c/a>, a Colorado State University professor who wrote the American Meat Institute's humane slaughter guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that USDA inspectors are required to inspect the cows live in the yard, and that cancer of the eye would be visible on a live cow to an inspector, though the disease can vary in severity from a tiny spot to where it has eaten away part of the cow's face. USDA officials say Rancho Feeding Corp. circumvented inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the health consequences of eating meat from a cow that had cancer of the eye?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very disgusting, but you're probably going to be just fine,\" Grandin said. \"There's other things I'd be a lot more worried about, like tuberculosis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Lawyer for Petaluma slaughterhouse co-owner speaks up\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawyer-for-Petaluma-slaughterhouse-co-owner-5271485.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> a lawyer for one of the owners of Rancho Feeding Corp. says the company is cooperating with the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On February 28, KQED reporter Mina Kim discussed the latest on the USDA's investigation of Rancho Feeding Corp. with Scott Shafer on KQED's \"Newsroom\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/JevsiTHz3-o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On February 18, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140218/articles/140219545#page=0\" target=\"_blank\">published a partial list\u003c/a> of specific products subject to the Rancho Feeding Corp. recall. Some affected products include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>El Monterey Beef & Cheese Taquitos – Flour Tortillas, 20 count\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>El Monterey Ranchero Steak Tornados, 4.5 lb (24 count)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Philly Steak & Cheese, 9 oz., UPC4369507107\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Croissant Crust Philly Steak & Cheese, 9 oz., UPC 4369505634\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Philly Steak & Cheese, 54 oz., UPC 4369507520\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Department of Agriculture worker reportedly tried to flag problems at Rancho Feeding Corp.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1393635018,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":561},"headData":{"title":"USDA Inspector: Supervisors Ignored Reports of Trouble at Petaluma Slaughterhouse | KQED","description":"Department of Agriculture worker reportedly tried to flag problems at Rancho Feeding Corp.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"127920 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=127920","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/usda-inspector-supervisors-ignored-problems-at-petaluma-slaughterhouse/","disqusTitle":"USDA Inspector: Supervisors Ignored Reports of Trouble at Petaluma Slaughterhouse","customPermalink":"2014/02/27/usda-supervisors-ignored-problems-petaluma-slaughterhouse-beef-recall/","path":"/news/127920/usda-inspector-supervisors-ignored-problems-at-petaluma-slaughterhouse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127921 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8993_467012475-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"California beef cattle\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David McNew/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rancho Feeding Corp., the Petaluma slaughterhouse at the center of a massive beef recall, may have processed animals with cancer of the eye, \u003ca title=\"Slaughterhouse accused of selling meat from cows with cancer\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Slaughterhouse-accused-of-selling-meat-from-cows-5267836.php\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. That's one development reported Wednesday about the facility, which is \u003ca title=\"Rep. Jared Huffman: Prosecutors Investigating Petaluma Slaughterhouse \" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/24/rep-jared-huffman-prosecutors-investigating-petaluma-slaughterhouse/\">currently under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another development: \u003ca title=\"Union: Federal inspector reported problems at Petaluma slaughterhouse\" href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140225/articles/140229682\">the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports\u003c/a> that a USDA inspector tried to flag problems at the plant to her supervisors, only to be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If the inspector saw violations and was thwarted in her ability to do her job ... then USDA is culpable.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, KQED's Mina Kim talked with Tony Corbo, senior lobbyist for Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch. He noted there is an internal whistleblower line for USDA inspectors to call if they feel supervisors are ignoring violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are avenues for an inspector to contact the Office of Inspector General,\" Corbo said. \"There is a whistleblower hotline that inspectors can call to report that they're finding violations and being thwarted in their ability to do their job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether or not the USDA inspector in question called the whistleblower line.\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>Could the USDA be culpable for what happened at Rancho Feeding Corp.?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For 9 million pounds of meat to go into commerce without inspection leads me to believe that there was a breakdown in the inspection process,\" Corbo said. \"If in fact the inspector on the scene saw violations of law and regulations and attempted to deal with them, and she was thwarted in her ability to do her job, then yes. USDA is culpable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136956581&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on the processing of animals with cancer of the eye, Mina Kim spoke with \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Grandin\u003c/a>, a Colorado State University professor who wrote the American Meat Institute's humane slaughter guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that USDA inspectors are required to inspect the cows live in the yard, and that cancer of the eye would be visible on a live cow to an inspector, though the disease can vary in severity from a tiny spot to where it has eaten away part of the cow's face. USDA officials say Rancho Feeding Corp. circumvented inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the health consequences of eating meat from a cow that had cancer of the eye?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very disgusting, but you're probably going to be just fine,\" Grandin said. \"There's other things I'd be a lot more worried about, like tuberculosis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca title=\"Lawyer for Petaluma slaughterhouse co-owner speaks up\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawyer-for-Petaluma-slaughterhouse-co-owner-5271485.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> a lawyer for one of the owners of Rancho Feeding Corp. says the company is cooperating with the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On February 28, KQED reporter Mina Kim discussed the latest on the USDA's investigation of Rancho Feeding Corp. with Scott Shafer on KQED's \"Newsroom\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/JevsiTHz3-o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On February 18, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140218/articles/140219545#page=0\" target=\"_blank\">published a partial list\u003c/a> of specific products subject to the Rancho Feeding Corp. recall. Some affected products include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>El Monterey Beef & Cheese Taquitos – Flour Tortillas, 20 count\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>El Monterey Ranchero Steak Tornados, 4.5 lb (24 count)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Philly Steak & Cheese, 9 oz., UPC4369507107\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Croissant Crust Philly Steak & Cheese, 9 oz., UPC 4369505634\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hot Pocket Philly Steak & Cheese, 54 oz., UPC 4369507520\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/127920/usda-inspector-supervisors-ignored-problems-at-petaluma-slaughterhouse","authors":["182"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_5857","news_333","news_2640","news_18543","news_2509","news_5821","news_3195"],"featImg":"news_127921","label":"news_6944"},"news_78263":{"type":"posts","id":"news_78263","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"78263","score":null,"sort":[1350322148000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"corporations-that-claim-to-do-good-need-more-oversight-experts-say","title":"Corporations That Claim To Do Good Need More Oversight, Experts Say","publishDate":1350322148,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/corporations-claim-do-good-need-more-oversight-experts-say-18363\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators need\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to have more oversight of new types of companies that claim to have a social or environmental mission, legal experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78265\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-78265\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 75 companies have registered as \"benefit\" or \"flexible purpose\" corporations since Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17276\" target=\"_blank\">signed\u003c/a> two bills into law a year ago that created the new entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is intended to shield businesses from lawsuits as they pursue social objectives, such as preserving the environment, in addition to making a profit. Traditional for-profit companies, proponents argue, could face shareholder lawsuits if they prioritize social goals at the expense of profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies that have taken advantage of the new law range from large businesses like \u003ca href=\"http://www.patagonia.com/us/home\" target=\"_blank\">Patagonia\u003c/a>, which has a long-standing history of supporting environmental causes, to startups like \u003ca href=\"http://powerhive.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Powerhive\u003c/a> in Oakland, which is working to provide clean energy to households without electricity.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But private attorneys at a National Association of State Charity Officials conference recently told an audience of state nonprofit regulators that they had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new classifications of companies are not monitored by government agencies to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, said Robert Keatinge, an attorney with Holland & Hart, and Victoria Bjorklund, an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who specializes in tax-exempt organizations. Without independent monitoring, there’s greater risk of abuse and the potential for investors to be misled, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 75 companies that have registered since the law went into effect in January, 60 firms have opted to become benefit corporations, which are required to meet third-party social, environmental, accountability and transparency standards. The other 15 are flexible-purpose corporations. As the name suggests, those corporations have greater flexibility and fewer requirements that ensure they are dedicated to a social or environmental mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics have suggested that flexibility could enable bad actors to mislead the public into thinking they’re supporting a company oriented toward social and environmental goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are going to be bad actors in both camps,\" said Erik Trojian, director of policy at B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies benefit corporations and has advocated for legislation similar to California's across the country. \"I think there’s greater protection in the benefit corporation model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keatinge thinks the benefit corporation model could give investors a false sense of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concern is that it seems to have the stamp of approval of the state,\" he said in an interview. \"If somebody is going to make an investment based on state law, the state should do something to make sure they’re in conformity with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trojian thinks concerns about a lack of state regulation are misplaced. Just like traditional corporations, he said, these new kinds of companies are regulated by shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a private matter between the shareholders and the directors. This has nothing to do with the public. Not a dollar of public money goes into this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 17 states have passed laws that enable corporations to pursue social goals, but most do not have specific regulatory requirements. Illinois is the only state that requires these companies to register with the attorney general's office, according to Keatinge and Bjorklund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angie Needels registered her personal chef business as a benefit corporation in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her business, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mamakai.org/mission\" target=\"_blank\">MamaKai\u003c/a>, is based in Berkeley and provides meals and educational services for families who are preparing for or recently had a baby. Needels said she originally wanted to start her business as a nonprofit, but found the upfront requirements were harder than becoming a benefit corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a lot of clients that come to me and say having a baby is really expensive,\" she said. She's looking into whether she could access grants that would enable her to serve low-income families in addition to her regular clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, although her business is small now, she wants to ensure that if she brings in shareholders, she will be protected from lawsuits that argue that she has put the public benefit ahead of profits. “As my business grows, I didn’t want someone else to be able to come in and change my policy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s now in the process of getting certified by B Lab.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1350322148,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":730},"headData":{"title":"Corporations That Claim To Do Good Need More Oversight, Experts Say | KQED","description":"Kendall Taggart, California Watch State regulators need to have more oversight of new types of companies that claim to have a social or environmental mission, legal experts say. 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Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17276\" target=\"_blank\">signed\u003c/a> two bills into law a year ago that created the new entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is intended to shield businesses from lawsuits as they pursue social objectives, such as preserving the environment, in addition to making a profit. Traditional for-profit companies, proponents argue, could face shareholder lawsuits if they prioritize social goals at the expense of profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies that have taken advantage of the new law range from large businesses like \u003ca href=\"http://www.patagonia.com/us/home\" target=\"_blank\">Patagonia\u003c/a>, which has a long-standing history of supporting environmental causes, to startups like \u003ca href=\"http://powerhive.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Powerhive\u003c/a> in Oakland, which is working to provide clean energy to households without electricity.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But private attorneys at a National Association of State Charity Officials conference recently told an audience of state nonprofit regulators that they had concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new classifications of companies are not monitored by government agencies to ensure compliance with statutory requirements, said Robert Keatinge, an attorney with Holland & Hart, and Victoria Bjorklund, an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who specializes in tax-exempt organizations. Without independent monitoring, there’s greater risk of abuse and the potential for investors to be misled, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 75 companies that have registered since the law went into effect in January, 60 firms have opted to become benefit corporations, which are required to meet third-party social, environmental, accountability and transparency standards. The other 15 are flexible-purpose corporations. As the name suggests, those corporations have greater flexibility and fewer requirements that ensure they are dedicated to a social or environmental mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics have suggested that flexibility could enable bad actors to mislead the public into thinking they’re supporting a company oriented toward social and environmental goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are going to be bad actors in both camps,\" said Erik Trojian, director of policy at B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies benefit corporations and has advocated for legislation similar to California's across the country. \"I think there’s greater protection in the benefit corporation model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keatinge thinks the benefit corporation model could give investors a false sense of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concern is that it seems to have the stamp of approval of the state,\" he said in an interview. \"If somebody is going to make an investment based on state law, the state should do something to make sure they’re in conformity with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trojian thinks concerns about a lack of state regulation are misplaced. Just like traditional corporations, he said, these new kinds of companies are regulated by shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a private matter between the shareholders and the directors. This has nothing to do with the public. Not a dollar of public money goes into this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 17 states have passed laws that enable corporations to pursue social goals, but most do not have specific regulatory requirements. Illinois is the only state that requires these companies to register with the attorney general's office, according to Keatinge and Bjorklund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angie Needels registered her personal chef business as a benefit corporation in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her business, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mamakai.org/mission\" target=\"_blank\">MamaKai\u003c/a>, is based in Berkeley and provides meals and educational services for families who are preparing for or recently had a baby. 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Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will require vocational schools offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to indicate in their course catalogs whether they are accredited. Schools that are not accredited must inform students of any drawbacks to their degrees, such as whether certifying agencies would prohibit them from taking licensing exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76942\" title=\"College Diploma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, schools will have to post job placement and graduation rates, and how much graduates earn, among other data. The law also requires vocational schools to post annual reports, student brochures and course catalogues on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was sponsored by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego, in response to a series of stories by The Bay Citizen, which revealed California regulators’ lax oversight of for-profit vocational schools and diploma mills.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen found that the state agency responsible for oversight, the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, had \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/state-regulators-let-vocational-1/\" target=\"_blank\">allowed dozens of unaccredited schools to operate for years without state approval or inspections\u003c/a>. In addition, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/vocational-schools-complaints-mount-lags/\" target=\"_blank\">did not investigate some complaints against schools\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/california-leads-nation-unaccredited/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down illegal diploma mills\u003c/a> – schools that offer dubious degrees for little coursework and that lack accreditation by a recognized government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was launched in January 2010 to strengthen protections for students attending private vocational schools. It replaced a regulatory agency that was disbanded in 2007 because lawmakers deemed it ineffective. State regulators said budget cuts and hiring freezes had prevented the current bureau from holding more schools accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block said the new law improves protections for the 400,000 vocational students in California, many of whom are from low-income backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At these schools, students are often spending $40,000 or more,” said Block, who is chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. “They are often doing so without sufficient information, and this will give them the information they need to make a smart consumer choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, graduates of unaccredited institutions face limited job prospects. They are barred from many civil service jobs in states such as California, Michigan and Oregon, as well as most jobs requiring professional licenses and teaching certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite past problems, bureau officials say they are prepared to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of it will be on the schools to comply,” said Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. “If schools don’t follow the law, it will be on the bureau to take enforcement actions. It is not like it is creating additional work for us, except that we will be checking to make sure the schools are making their additional disclosures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following The Bay Citizen's series, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/regulators-investigate-institute-medical/\" target=\"_blank\">state shut down a medical school\u003c/a> that made false claims about its accreditation status and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/more-75-vocational-schools-under-investigation-16462\" target=\"_blank\">regulators pledged to investigate 77 schools\u003c/a> operating without state approval. The bureau’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/enforcement-chief-postsecondary-bureau/\" target=\"_blank\">head of enforcement resigned\u003c/a>, and Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/new-chief-oversee-private-vocational/\" target=\"_blank\">named a new bureau chief\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student advocates praised Brown for signing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill takes a big step forward in better protecting students,” said Elisabeth Voigt, a senior staff attorney at Public Advocates, a civil rights organization based in San Francisco. “One of the major reasons this is so important is that it makes sure that low-income students have fact-based counterweights to very aggressive recruiting practices by for-profit schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1348768709,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":644},"headData":{"title":"Vocational Students Get More Protections | KQED","description":"by Jennifer Gollan, The Bay Citizen California’s private vocational schools must disclose critical details about the quality of their programs, including their accreditation status and graduation rates, under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will require vocational schools offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"76937 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=76937","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/27/vocational-students-get-more-protections/","disqusTitle":"Vocational Students Get More Protections","path":"/news/76937/vocational-students-get-more-protections","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/governor-signs-law-requiring-more/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76940 alignleft\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>California’s private vocational schools must disclose critical details about the quality of their programs, including their accreditation status and graduation rates, under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will require vocational schools offering associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to indicate in their course catalogs whether they are accredited. Schools that are not accredited must inform students of any drawbacks to their degrees, such as whether certifying agencies would prohibit them from taking licensing exams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76942\" title=\"College Diploma\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/College-Diploma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, schools will have to post job placement and graduation rates, and how much graduates earn, among other data. The law also requires vocational schools to post annual reports, student brochures and course catalogues on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was sponsored by Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego, in response to a series of stories by The Bay Citizen, which revealed California regulators’ lax oversight of for-profit vocational schools and diploma mills.\u003c!--more-->\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 Bay Citizen found that the state agency responsible for oversight, the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, had \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/state-regulators-let-vocational-1/\" target=\"_blank\">allowed dozens of unaccredited schools to operate for years without state approval or inspections\u003c/a>. In addition, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/vocational-schools-complaints-mount-lags/\" target=\"_blank\">did not investigate some complaints against schools\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/california-leads-nation-unaccredited/\" target=\"_blank\">shut down illegal diploma mills\u003c/a> – schools that offer dubious degrees for little coursework and that lack accreditation by a recognized government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau was launched in January 2010 to strengthen protections for students attending private vocational schools. It replaced a regulatory agency that was disbanded in 2007 because lawmakers deemed it ineffective. State regulators said budget cuts and hiring freezes had prevented the current bureau from holding more schools accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block said the new law improves protections for the 400,000 vocational students in California, many of whom are from low-income backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At these schools, students are often spending $40,000 or more,” said Block, who is chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. “They are often doing so without sufficient information, and this will give them the information they need to make a smart consumer choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, graduates of unaccredited institutions face limited job prospects. They are barred from many civil service jobs in states such as California, Michigan and Oregon, as well as most jobs requiring professional licenses and teaching certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite past problems, bureau officials say they are prepared to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of it will be on the schools to comply,” said Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. “If schools don’t follow the law, it will be on the bureau to take enforcement actions. It is not like it is creating additional work for us, except that we will be checking to make sure the schools are making their additional disclosures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following The Bay Citizen's series, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/regulators-investigate-institute-medical/\" target=\"_blank\">state shut down a medical school\u003c/a> that made false claims about its accreditation status and \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/more-75-vocational-schools-under-investigation-16462\" target=\"_blank\">regulators pledged to investigate 77 schools\u003c/a> operating without state approval. The bureau’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/enforcement-chief-postsecondary-bureau/\" target=\"_blank\">head of enforcement resigned\u003c/a>, and Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/new-chief-oversee-private-vocational/\" target=\"_blank\">named a new bureau chief\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student advocates praised Brown for signing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill takes a big step forward in better protecting students,” said Elisabeth Voigt, a senior staff attorney at Public Advocates, a civil rights organization based in San Francisco. “One of the major reasons this is so important is that it makes sure that low-income students have fact-based counterweights to very aggressive recruiting practices by for-profit schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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