Opinion: Why California’s costly tree-cutting wildfire strategy fails – 5/22/2019

By Douglas Bevington California’s current approach to wildfires is pouring more and more money into subsidizing logging and fire suppression, often in remote areas. This strategy isn’t working. In recent years we have experienced skyrocketing state expenditures for this policy, paired with unprecedented loss of lives and homes. California is filled with forests and other ecosystems where wildfire is a …

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Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report-11/25/18

By Coral Davenport | Nov. 25, 2018 WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate-change policies. That sets the stage for a remarkable split-screen political reality in coming years. The administration is widely expected to …

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‘So much water.’ Trump moves to slash environmental rules on Delta, putting farms before fish -10/19/18

BY DALE KASLER | October 19, 2018 01:02 PM Updated October 21, 2018 06:41 AM The Trump administration Friday pledged to slash the thicket of federal environmental regulations that govern the Delta and much of California’s water supply, aiming to increase water deliveries to his political allies in the San Joaquin Valley. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing his underlings …

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Trump wades into California water wars, calls for diverting water to farmers in central valley-10/19/18

By STEPHANIE EBBS, JORDYN PHELPS Oct 19, 2018, 8:00 PM ET President Donald Trump is wading into California’s water wars, demanding speedy action by the federal government to divert much-needed water resources to Republican-leaning farmers in California’s central valley — a move sure to infuriate left-leaning environmentalists on the west coast. Signing a presidential memorandum in Arizona this afternoon, the president …

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California wildfires: Camp Fire-11/19/18

The death toll from the Camp Fire in Northern California increased by one Sunday to 77, while the number of people unaccounted for has decreased to 993 people. The blaze was two-thirds contained as of Sunday night after consuming some 150,000 acres. In Southern California, just outside Los Angeles, the Woolsey Fire was 91 percent contained after burning 96,949 acres …