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Local News 09 23 25 · KMUD News

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  Speaker A: Foreign.
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  Speaker B: Good evening and welcome to the local news. Today is Tuesday, September 23rd and I'm Nat Cardos reporting for KMUD. In tonight's news, Shelter Cove man arrested following high Speed Pursuit Assault on deputies State Water board will meet October 8th to address Smith river contamination and arrest made in Eureka March shooting incident so stay tuned. Those stories and more. Coming up.
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  Speaker C: Redwood Community Radio acknowledges that its transmitter sites are located on the unceded territory.
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  Speaker D: Of the Sinkion, Huilaqui, Wiat, Wilkat and Kato people.
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  Speaker C: We honor ancestors past, present and emerging and acknowledge the ongoing cultural, spiritual, spiritual.
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  Speaker D: And physical connection these tribes have to this region.
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  Speaker B: On September 21st, at approximately 10:03pm, Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies engaged in a high speed pursuit starting in Shelter Cove, which ultimately ended near the Willits area when California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit and disabled the vehicle using a spike strip. KMO News spoke with Aaron Inskip, Public Information Officer for the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department for more information on the incident.
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  Speaker A: On September 21, 2025 at approximately 10:03pm, Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies were patrolling eastbound on Shelter Cove Road near Redwood Road when they observed a white Jeep Cherokee traveling at a high rate of speed. Deputies attempted to catch up to the vehicle in order to initiate a traffic stop, but lost sight of it due to its speed. Shortly after, the same Jeep was seen traveling at an excessive speed southbound on Lower Pacific Road and Shelter Cove. The driver made a rapid turn onto Maki Drive and into the parking lot of Mario's Marina Bar, narrowly missing pedestrians and parked vehicles. Once the deputies caught up to the vehicle, they activated their emergency lights and siren. However, the driver failed to yield and fled at a high rate of speed. Due to the danger posed to public safety, deputies initiated a pursuit eastbound on on Shelter Cove Road. The Jeep came to a temporary stop near Toth Road. Deputies issued multiple commands to the driver who was later identified as Matthew James Hayes, 39 years of age, of Shelter Cove. While attempting to detain him, Hayes suddenly accelerated, striking the front passenger door of the patrol vehicle and as the Jeep fled, both deputies were struck by the Jeep, sustaining minor arm injuries. The pursuit continued due to the immediate threat to public safety. Approximately three miles outside of Redway, the California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit which continued southbound on Highway 101 to the Willits area. CHP successfully disabled the vehicle using a spike strip and Hayes was taken into custody without further incident and booked into the Mendocino County Jail.
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  Speaker B: One deputy was treated at a local hospital and was released. Both deputies sustained minor injuries. Hayes was charged with felony evading, assault with a deadly weapon and obstructing or resisting an executive officer.
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  Speaker A: I've already seen a couple of comments related to the press release commenting on, you know, why a spike strip wasn't put out earlier and it was requested. But as you know, we have a limited number of officers in this area, so one wasn't able to be put out onto Shelter Cove Road, but it was, it was requested. I mean, we would have liked to have terminated it sooner. We just weren't able to.
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  Speaker B: Anyone with information related to this case or other associated criminal activity is encouraged to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff's office at 707-445-7251 or the crime tip line at 707-268-2539. On Oct. 8, the California North Coast Regional Water Board will have a special meeting in Crescent City to hear testimony from a growing coalition of residents, scientists and conservation organizations that are seeking to eliminate toxic pesticide use on lands that surround the Smith river estuary. The concerns surrounding pesticides in the lower Smith river have been an ongoing issue for the past couple decades. The pesticides are used in growing Easter lilies in the Smith river estuary and have been contaminating the waterways and river. KMO News spoke with Greg King, executive director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy, for more information.
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  Speaker E: The pesticides off the Easter lily fields have been contaminating the river probably since at least the 1960s. The first significant detections were in the early 1980s when residents started complaining about their water making them sick. And it was found that they were contaminated with the Easter lily fumigant called 12 dichloropropane, 1 2D for short. And it was found in a couple dozen wells, domestic wells. People were, you know, showering in it, drinking it, and it's very toxic carcinogen. And some of the findings in wells of the Smith river were among the highest detections in the country of 1,2d as a pernicious groundwater contaminant. So so that after about 10 years was phased out and replaced with a chemical called 1, 3D, 13 dichloropropene. And that one is highly controversial in California right now. It's banned in the European Union and 36 other countries. And it's controversial because it's sickening people, it's widespread use and it shouldn't be used at all. But anyway, that's the biggest pesticide amount used in smith river is 1 3d, more than £100,000 a year Metham sodium and other really toxic carcinogen that's, you know, used there and a dozen others that are really damaging to not only humans, but in particular aquatic ecosystems. And that's, that's where we're coming from here. You know, we have done a lot with the population there to protect them. But right now we're focused with this upcoming water board on the fishery that is being possibly destroyed in the Smith River. Even the Smith river, right, One of the healthiest fisheries left in California by these pesticides and just these pesticides, nothing else.
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  Speaker B: The pesticides not only affect the environment of the river, but also the town of Smith river where testing has shown that contamination has reached both the air and water for individuals. Cayman News spoke with Josefina Barrantes, 30x30 coordinator for the Environmental Protection Information Center EPIC, for more about how these pesticides affect people.
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  Speaker D: So the chemicals affect both the air and the water. Residents have been complaining of rashes on their bodies from showering and also in the air. They are complaining of coughing, wheezing, asthma, even sores developing on the skin from the pesticides flowing through the air. These lily bulb fields are sited on the Smith river plain that are. It's right in the community of Smith river near churches, elementary schools, neighborhoods. People are directly affected by this because, you know, they have to go home, they have to go to school. This is where they live and they have to breathe the air and drink the water where they live. And this is what they're subject to because of the lily bulb farming of the world's. Lily bulbs are grown in the Smith river estuary. And it is sad that we see the continuation of this practice in the community of Smith River, a very vulnerable community that is just being subject to this contamination. Multiple people have died of cancer and it is believed to be linked to the lily bulbs, the pesticides used on the farms. So it is unfortunate and we are demanding a ban of the use of all pesticides on the seasonal wetlands that surround the Smith river estuary. Because of course, it rains so much up here, just as much in Humboldt county as it does in Del Norte County. And the small barriers that are put around the lily bulb fields that are just pieces of land, just little bluffs to try to drain out the pesticides between the fields and the estuary, the rivers and the tributaries to the Smith river and to the community, it's not enough to filter out the hundreds of thousands of pounds of pesticides that are being dumped on these plains, especially with how much it rains. Nothing could filter out that amount of pesticides.
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  Speaker B: Currently under the federal Clean Water act, the water board is creating an agricultural permit which would require lily farmers to lower pesticides to a safe level. Groups like the Siskiyou Land Conservancy and EPIC are pushing for the board to require zero discharge of all pesticides, stating that any pesticide contamination is not safe. King elaborates more on the effects of this contamination.
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  Speaker E: The reason that zero discharge is so important is because even small amounts of pesticide inundation can impact not only the food chain, as previously mentioned, right. That food goes away, but also the salmonid sense of smell, which is crucial for allowing the fish to find their natal streams, right? They go out to the ocean, they live for three or four years, they come back to their natal stream, but if they are reared in the estuary and their sense of smell is destroyed, they're pretty much doomed, right? So there's that, there's, there's many, many reasons to get the pesticides out of this estuary. And it's not just, you know, salmon. If you look at the tidewater goby, It's a very small indicator species fish that exists only in California and it's going extinct from south to north. Right now, the most important habitat of this fully protected, listed as endangered aquatic species, the tidewater goby, is in Tillis Slough, which is part of the Smith river estuary and is highly impacted by pesticides. We could see gobies go away, even their potentially best remaining habitat. There's also sturgeon, there's lamprey, there's usual on smelt. I don't know if I've ever pronounced that correctly. That are all protected allegedly by state and federal environmental laws. So for this type of excessive pesticide inundation to be allowed to occur at any threshold level is really sort of appalling, right? That the state, especially in the face of federal action now to weaken environmental laws and restraints across the board. You know, the state really needs to step up, at the very least for its most pristine, possibly most important watershed in terms of recolonizing other rivers up and down the California Oregon coast.
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  Speaker B: The water board has been facing backlash over contamination for decades and has been accused of failing to enforce the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water act is a federal law in the United States that governs water pollution and establishes the basic structure of maintaining clean waters. As far back as 2018, concern has been raised about the Endangered Species act by the National Marine Fisheries Service over the pesticide runoff hurting the coho salmon population in the area. Here's King with more.
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  Speaker E: The Water Board is failing to enforce the Clean Water act, which requires that, you know, Clean Water act does allow for discharges. That's what they're developing, these thresholds that you can't go above this. Right. But also if you there is demonstrable impacts to the habitat which we have seen now with the destruction of the food chain, then those discharges are not allowed. The Clean Water act also requires timely addressing of these issues, which the Water Board has failed to do. This has been going on for decades and the Water Board has simply walked away, started processes and walked away from them. What's also important is that the Water Board has the authority to Endangered Species act, state and federal, and the state Port of Cologne Clean Water act, and these are being violated. There is already a letter as far back as 2018 by the National Marine Fisheries Service to lily growers stating that they are in danger of violating the Endangered Species act for illegal take of coho salmon. Unfortunately, nymphs did not act on that at all. You know, I know that they tried here in the Arcata office to get the justice department in D.C. to take action against the lily growers, which is significant. Justice would not do it even during the Biden administration. So that was unfortunate. And now, of course, we'll get no federal action, except perhaps a negative action. So, you know, really, the state has the authority to enforce these laws. The state has the authority to require zero discharges, does not have the authority to disallow pesticide use, which is unfortunate. But it does have the authority to put in this order that if there are detections found, if there is a damage to the food chain, then pesticide uses on those watersheds has to stop. And they could do that. And that's what we're asking for.
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  Speaker B: On October 8th at 6pm the Water Board will be having a meeting to hear testimony from the public. It will be held at the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors chambers in Crescent City. And the public may attend in person or online@tinyurl.com SmithRiverTownhall Borrantes explains more about how to join.
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  Speaker D: I would say they can show up to the meeting. And there's also a way to show up virtually. If you go to tinyurl outurl.com it'll take you to a waterboard website where you can fill out a virtual speaker card the day before the event. So if you don't want to drive all the way to Christian City, totally understandable. You can submit a request to speak online the day prior and, you know, say your piece talk about the ecological impacts, you know, the people that this harms, the proximity to elementary schools and neighborhoods and churches, the fact that the chemicals and pesticides being used on these farms are banned in the European Union. There's so much that somebody can take an issue with with this. So I definitely encourage the community to show up either in person or online for this issue.
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  Speaker B: For more information, the websites are wildcalifornia.org or siskuland.org On March 24 at approximately 11:14pm Eureka Police officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of Garland street after a shooting was reported. Upon arrival, officers determined that a male victim had been shot during the investigation. Detectives identified David Anthony Alvarez of Eureka as being involved in the shooting and obtained a warrant for his arrest. KMUN News spoke with Laura Montagna, public Information Officer for the Eureka Police Department for more information on the incident and the ensuing arrest.
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  Speaker F: On March 24, 2025 at about 11:15 hours, officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of Garland street for a shooting that had just occurred. Upon arrival, officers determined that a male victim had been shot and the suspects had fled the scene. The victim was transported to the hospital and treated for his injuries. An EPD detective responded and began investigating the incident. During the ensuing investigation, detectives identified David Anthony Olivera's birth date of 571990 of Eureka as being involved in the shooting. On 9 17, 2025, a warrant was obtained for the Oliveira's arrest. On 919 2025, at about 10:55, Oliveros was observed driving in the area of Boone and K streets. EPD patrol officers conducted a traffic stop on Olivera's vehicle and took him into custody without incident. Olivera was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of PC 664187 attempted murder PC 18622 participation in a criminal street gang PC 246 shooting from a vehicle PC 182 criminal conspiracy PC 182.5 criminal conspiracy while participating in a street gang.
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  Speaker B: This is still an ongoing investigation and if you have any information in regards to the incident, you can contact the Eureka Police Department's Criminal Investigations Unit, Detective Nunez at 707-441-4430. Turning to Mendocino Fort Bragg hires new police chief Mendocino Local Public Media's Elise.
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  Speaker F: Cox reports in Fort Bragg, the police Department has begun its transition to a new chief. I'm Elise Cox reporting for KMUD News and Mendo Local Public Media. Fort Bragg Police Chief Neil Sorvenka bid a heartfelt farewell to the community he has served for three years at the City Council meeting on Monday.
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  Speaker G: Thank you.
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  Speaker E: My last meeting in government, so it's been an absolute pleasure. I want to thank the City Council. I want to thank this community. It's been outstanding and I really want to acknowledge the staff of Fort Bragg and all the employees of Fort Bragg. They wear many, many hats, they do a lot of work and they are human. They do make mistakes and that's okay. And the amount of heart that I have seen from this staff of this city is beyond any that I've ever seen. And this entire community should be incredibly proud of the employees of this city for keeping it running so well, so efficiently, bringing in so many grants, doing so many new things in technology, being the forefront and the leaders for such a small community on a rural north coast of beautiful California.
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  Speaker F: The council reciprocated Cervenka's sentiments. Mayor Jason Godic expressed profound thanks and said he would hire Cervenka tomorrow. Councilmember Peters, who was part of the panel that initially hired Cervenka, said he was proud of his work and grateful that the chief is staying in the community. Council member Alvin Smith specifically cited the chief's success in bringing in electric trucks for the department for free. Ensuring continuity the City Council unanimously approved a resolution to name Eric Swift as interim chief. Swift is a former Marine who served the Santa Rosa Police Department and the Napa County Sheriff's Department for two decades. His background includes leadership in patrol operations, training and recruitment, policy development, implementation of technology and transparency initiatives. He's also dedicated to building community trust and has implemented programs such as Coffee with a Cop, National Night out and Youth Outreach. He most recently served as a major in Clark County, Georgia, and as a regional advisor and performance coach for Performance Protocol, a human capital management firm focused on law enforcement. Mr. Swift's temporary at will employment agreement is set to begin on October 1, 2025. He'll steer the department while the city searches for a more permanent leader. Joe Gordon, the lead recruiter for Bob hall and Associates hired by the city, praised Cervenka for putting in place initiatives like Officer Wellness and Electric Police Trucks.
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  Speaker G: I think that's going to be very attractive to an incoming police chief, gordon emphasized.
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  Speaker F: The goal is not just to find competence, but someone who is truly a community fit for Fort Bragg. Gordon reminded people of an upcoming meeting Sept. 29 at Town hall at 5:30pm where residents can share what they hope for in the next chief, and he described his outreach Plans.
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  Speaker G: We'll invite any of the community advocates that would like to show up and provide feedback as to what they believe is important in the next police chief. Just to give you an idea of some of the soliciting and feedback that I do. We reach out to the business community, we reach out to youth in schools, our faith based community. I have an appointment also set up to meet with the peace Officers association because they have an interest in who their boss is going to be and then any other stakeholder that, that the city provides me or in fact, if the council thinks I should speak to somebody, I'm happy to speak with anybody.
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  Speaker F: Council member Lindy Peters said he wanted to make sure the candidates know what they are getting into in terms of the remoteness of Fort Bragg.
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  Speaker G: We have no airport, we have no deep water port, we have no major freeway. We have two lane windy roads coming in and out. It takes you a long time, takes you an hour and a half to get to the county seat. Sometimes if it's wintertime, you know, there's a lot of things that people when they get here, don't quite understand and then they get here and they're not happy.
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  Speaker F: The city of Fort Bragg, he said, has been burned before.
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  Speaker G: We've been burned more than once, especially in the city manager position. When we're all ready to hire, we even put out a press release that we've hired and they suddenly want more money and if we don't get them, they get another job and sometimes use this to help them get that other job and say, hey, by the way, if you don't give me a raise, I'm going take that job. And for. So I just, you know, as you recruit these people, can you understand where we're coming from as a community and how difficult it is and, and make sure that it's not going to be a problem in this selection as it has been in other selections for other positions in the past. Well, that's a great question and, and I wish I could say absolutely, I promise. But what I can promise is that they will know exactly, without a doubt what those parameters are.
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  Speaker F: Candidates who make the short list will go through three separate assessment panels, professional, community and staff before the city manager makes the final hiring decision. The new chief is currently anticipated to begin work sometime after late November. For KMUD news and Mendo local public media, I'm Elise Cox.
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  Speaker B: In state News. California becomes first state to ban face coverings by ICE other law enforcement officers. KPFA's Caitlin Clift reports.
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  Speaker C: Quote, Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You're welcome, America. End quote. Those were the words Governor Gavin Newsom posted on X right before signing a package of five bills into law, all of which instill key protections for immigrants in California, including the first measure to ban law enforcement from wearing facial coverings. Newsom announced the new legislation at a press conference on Saturday.
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  Speaker G: I'll be signing a bill, first in the nation, saying, enough ice, Unmask. What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? You're going to go out and you're going to do enforcement, provide an id, tell us which agency you represent. Provide us basic information that all local law enforcement is required to provide.
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  Speaker C: California's new legislation prohibits neck gaiters, ski masks and other facial coverings for officers, including ICE agents, while they conduct official business. It makes exceptions for undercover agents, medical masks, such as N95s or tactical gear. And it does not apply to state police. The law is a direct response to the recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, which have prompted days of protest and led President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops and Marines into the city.
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  Speaker G: It's like a dystopian sci fi movie. Unmarked cars, people en masse, people quite literally disappearing. No due process, no rights, no rights. In a democracy where we have rights, immigrants have rights, and we have the right to stand up and push back, and that's what we're doing here today.
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  Speaker C: However, the bill has many critics who say that California does not have authority over federal agents and that the ban would put agents at risk. Bill Asale, Acting U.S. attorney for Southern California, said on X that the state does not have the jurisdiction and that the mask ban has, quote, no effect on our operations. Our agents will continue to protect their identities, end quote. Trisha McLaughlin, a top Homeland Security official, also called the measure despicable and a flagrant attempt to endanger our officers, end quote. However, Newsom has shut down these claims.
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  Speaker G: There's an assertion that somehow there is exponential increase in assaults on officers, but they will not provide the data. They will not provide that information. All they have provided is misinformation and misdirection.
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  Speaker C: Proponents of the law say it is more important now than ever, especially as the Supreme Court has ruled this month that the Trump administration can continue its sweeping immigration rates in Los Angeles. Supporters also say it can boost public trust in law enforcement, as well as stop individuals from impersonating officers. Newsom also emphasized the importance of the law during the press conference.
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  Speaker G: 27% of Californians are foreign born. You heard the superintendent talk about all the mixed status families. Our status is unique in the United States of America. It's what makes California great. It's what makes America great. And it's under assault by this administration.
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  Speaker C: Democrats in Congress and lawmakers in several states, including Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have also introduced proposals calling for mask bans. Besides the mask ban, Newsom signed four other bills into law on Saturday, including the California Safe Haven Schools Act. The act prevents immigration agents from entering schools without a valid warrant or judicial order, requires schools to notify families and teachers when agents are on campus, and prohibits districts from providing information about students, their families and school employees to immigration authorities without a warrant.
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  Speaker G: Have the decency not to threaten people as they go to school, to go out parking lots proximate to these schools to create chill. I thought Jon Stewart said it best. This is not about the pronoun police. This is about the secret police. We're not North Korea, Mr. President. We're not the Soviet Union. This is the United States of America.
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  Speaker C: The new legislation also includes protections on the health care end. It prevents immigration agents from entering health care facilities without a valid warrant and prevents health care officials from disclosing a patient's status or birthplace to immigration authorities without a search warrant or court order. Newsom closed the press conference by stating that he expects other states to follow suit. Quote, as is often the case with California, the future happens here. First, reporting for KPFA News, I'm Caitlin Clift.
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  Speaker B: In National Native News, Antonia Gonzalez reads today's headlines.
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  Speaker H: This is National Native News. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. The Radiation Exposure Compensation act, or rica, was recently renewed. It provides compensation for uranium miners and people exposed to Cold War era nuclear testing. In what could be a final round of applications, allegations of predatory representation and solicitation are on the rise targeting tribal communities. As KJZ's Gabriel Pietrazio reports, President Trump.
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  Speaker B: Signed the RICA renewal on the Fourth of July as part of his sweeping One big beautiful Bill Act.
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  Speaker D: By the fifth, I started getting these calls immediately.
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  Speaker B: Loretta Anderson noticed a problem. She's a tribal member from the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and says some attorneys and companies see Rica as an opportunity to cash in.
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  Speaker E: They're not only going door to door.
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  Speaker D: But they're also having meetings almost every week.
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  Speaker B: This year marks eight decades since the US Detonated its first atomic bomb at the Trinity Test Site in the New Mexico desert. Yet until now, no one in the land of enchantment could have ever filed a downwinder claim.
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  Speaker E: They mined them, made billions of dollars off the uranium, and when it was.
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  Speaker D: All said and done, they just left.
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  Speaker E: Left our people sick, suffering and dying.
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  Speaker B: More than $2.6 billion has been already paid out for 42,000 claims. Members from 24 tribes account for at least 5,300 of those claims, most of which are linked to the Navajo Nation. Depending on their occupation or condition, claimants are eligible for up to $100,000. And that leads Anderson to worry about those very victims also falling prey to opportunistic third parties.
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  Speaker E: They're all coming out of the woodwork again. This angers me.
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  Speaker B: For National Native News, I'm Gabriel Pieterrazio.
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  Speaker H: Renewable energy provides a sizable share of power in some rural Alaska communities, but these are tough times to seek federal funding for wind and solar. Denali Commission Programs Director Jocelyn Fenton testified recently to a U.S. senate committee about the energy needs in rural Alaska. She emphasized fossil fuels life in these.
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  Speaker B: Villages depends on a fragile but vital infrastructure system, small diesel powerhouses, bulk fuel tank farms and water treatment systems.
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  Speaker H: President Trump has paused or defunded renewable energy projects across the country. His 2026 budget would reduce funding for the Office of Indian Energy while disallowing any of it for wind, solar or battery projects. The hearing in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee was entitled Unleashing Indian Energy. That's a twist on President Trump's executive orders that call for unleashing American and Alaska's energy. But for participants in the hearing, the nuanced message is that renewables should be unleashed, too. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who chairs the committee, says government programs should not favor one energy source over another.
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  Speaker F: The projects that we can get online, quickest and quite honestly cheapest right now, are wind and solar. And we do have several of these that are in that pause category, along with some battery storage.
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  Speaker H: The top Democrat on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, said his information is that the Office of Indian Energy is Sitting on about $30 million, nearly half of the funds Congress appropriated for the fiscal year. The year ends in a few weeks, though some funds can be held over from one budget cycle to the next. The acting head of the office, David Conrad, said he's not discriminating against renewables with that money, just waiting for word from higher ups and in the administration that he has approval to spend it. I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
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  Speaker E: Native Voice 1, the Native American radio Network.
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