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Republicans and Democrats agree on at least one thing: Wildfires are a major threat
2016-05-30 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is teaming up to do away with preordained spending caps on emergency fire recovery efforts as the American West braces for another wildfire season. Drier conditions, likely driven by climate change, have turned vast swaths of the continent into veritable tinderboxes; last summer, for example, five million acres of Alaska and 1.7 million acres across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho burned. We need to call mega-fires what they are -- disasters," said Sen. Mike...
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