Tag: California wildfire

  • California town declares climate emergency 4 months after state’s deadliest wildfire

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    Four months after the Camp Fire destroyed the northern California towns of Paradise and Magalia, city council members in the neighboring town of Chico voted this week to declare a climate emergency that threatens their lives and well-being. Chico’s emergency declaration calls on the city to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030, […]

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  • For-Profit Firefighting Was Terrible for America. Climate Change Is Bringing It Back.

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    The worst vision for our future is on full display in California as wildfires burn While residents of Paradise, California fled down freeways choked with ash and hollowed-out cars, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West rested easy this week. Like many wealthy Californians, the ultrarich couple hired a private firefighting force to protect their $60 million mansion from […]

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  • Trump to visit California wildfire zones after criticizing forest management

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    “It seems that many more people are missing than anyone thought even possible,” Trump said before leaving for California. President Donald Trump headed to California on Saturday to visit parts of the state devastated by wildfires despite criticizing forest management there just one week earlier. Answering questions on the White House Southern Lawn, Trump called […]

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