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The Waldo Canyon Fire burns the mountains above Colorado Springs, Colorado in June 2012. The blaze destroyed more than 300 homes.of losses in 2017, a record surpassed in 2018 when blazes burned through $29 billion, while 2020 and 2021 took third and fourth place in the echelon of damage. Those are just direct costs;found the indirect costs of 2018’s wildfires alone — things like health care costs and disruption to the broader economy — cost almost $150 billion.
Pratt’s mortgage requires her to have homeowners insurance, putting her at risk of eventually defaulting. She tried to find another private insurer to no avail. Eventually, she turned to the, a state-backed policy that covers people who have been denied private coverage at least three times.
Technological advances have made it possible to predict hazards not only in your part of town, but also for the exact parcel of land you call home. “We’re entering a new era where you can get at the root cause of mitigating risk, as opposed to just transferring that risk,” said Attila Toth, co-founder and CEO of start-up, which uses artificial intelligence to assess properties.
Unlike most other states, California’s insurance commissioner prohibits insurers from passing on these reinsurance costs to the consumer. The goal of measures like this, according to Harvey Rosenfield, an advocate who founded the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog, was to make insurance available and affordable. During the last insurance crisis in the 1980s, the industry claimed that higher losses and, which passed in 1988.
Last winter, Pratt’s property was without power for a week, and she stayed warm hauling wood for her stove in a sled over record snowfall. Last summer, she was sweating in an“We are learning to adapt to what it’s going to take to live in this time of climate extremes,” Pratt said, noting that while she ultimately found a California FAIR plan, it doubled her cost. “Rethinking the insurance industry — in this new regime of climate disruption — is going to be needed.”Fires. Mudslides. Heat waves.
For the summer of 2023, more than 20 states so far, from Wyoming to Wisconsin to North Carolina, have flagged air-quality readings that were far higher than normal. Most of these days came in June, as skies in the midwest and eastern U.S. were blanketed with Canadian wildfire smoke.to better understand how local regulators make use of the exceptional events rule, as global heating sparks extreme wildfires more often.The adjustments came in more than 70 counties across 20 states.
“We have saved more lives in this country because we cleaned up the air than almost any other environmental policy,” said Michael Wara, the director of the climate and energy policy program at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment. “And that’s what’s being undermined.” Our analysis of local and EPA records found that in 2016, air agencies flagged 19 wildfire events as potential exceptional events. In 2018 and 2021, 52 and 50 wildfire events were flagged. In 2020, 65 were.
When wildfire caused air pollution, the rule was applied to more monitor readings over multiple days, not just to exclude particulate pollution but also smog or ozone.One or two violations at a single air monitor can flip an area from meeting air standards to missing the mark, according to Walke. Three or four violations over several years can prompt increasingly strict local pollution controls. “So a lot is riding on one, or two, or three violations,” he said.
Over hours, the clinic’s security guards got lightheaded and developed headaches. “We told them, you need to wear N95 masks, too,” Stevens said. “That kind of prolonged exposure to those things was very real.” “We really are trying to pull out all the stops,” Michael Benjamin, the chief of CARB’s air-quality planning and science division, said. Practically, he added: “We and the air districts in California will continue to take advantage of the exceptional events provisions in the Clean Air Act to try to show attainment.”Scrubbing smoke from regulatory accounting allows local governments and business to continue as usual, since the practice obscures the toll wildfires take on public health.
In 2021, they left for the suburbs of Chicago. They could afford to buy a house; the family would be closer to friends and relatives — and further, she hoped, from wildfire and smoke. This summer, as air quality worsened across Illinois from Canadian fires, Siruguri worried anew in Naperville. On a late July day, when smoke pollution had returned, she brought her child to soccer camp, and asked the camp’s director whether the air was healthy.He didn’t have an answer. “He was like, well, we kind of wait till somebody tells us what to do or you make the decision for your child,” she said.
But since 2016, the EPA has guided local regulators to apply for exceptional events only when it really matters, like when excluding that data could help a region meet federal air quality goals. But other areas in Southern California where coarse airborne particulates are also a problem continue to miss goals — specifically, the Coachella Valley and the southeast desert of San Bernardino.Fires. Mudslides. Heat waves. What questions do you need answered as you prepare for the effects of the climate emergency?Eric Rector covers his face as he runs down a hill from flames racing through the Topanga Canyon area east of Malibu on Nov. 3, 1993, when the last major fire struck the area.
Looking out across the Santa Monica Mountains, you can see small communities tucked in between dense chaparral that hasn’t burned in 30 plus years. Meaning, there’s a whole lot energy ready to fuel fires that roll through. “We know that fire history tells us on a high risk day, if we don’t suppress a fire within the first 10 minutes, it has a high probability of extending to the Pacific,” Smith said.Smith estimates that it'd take one of these worst case scenario fires about four hours to sweep westward, from the San Fernando Valley to the Pacific Ocean, destroying communities along the way. Just as we saw during the Woolsey Fire in 2018, which made its way 17 miles across L.A.
Back your car into your driveway and have your go bag in the car, ready to leave at a moment’s notice A new investigation from The California Newsroom, MuckRock and the Guardian found that local regulators are turning to the exceptional events rule for wildfires more and more often to reach air-quality goals — goals that are harder to meet as the climate crisis gets worse.
In the spring of 1998, air-quality managers in his home state found themselves in a tough spot. A wildfire on Mexico’s drought-stricken Yucatán peninsula had sent acrid smoke north, and around that time Oklahoma City exceeded its pollution limits. If the soot and ozone stayed on the books, they’d have to tighten controls on known local polluters. Instead, they argued to the EPA that the pollution shouldn’t count because it came from a wildfire, and so was “natural” and “uncontrollable”.
Local air officials often spend months, using publicly funded atmospheric modeling and meteorological data, to create hundreds of pages documenting why pollution exceedances shouldn’t count – sometimes with the help of industry-funded consultants. Businesses and industry representatives lobbied local air regulators before an event was even considered, as happened in Kentucky, and worked together with them to file exceptional event requests, as happened in Louisiana.
In response to questions, a spokesperson for the EPA, Khanya Brann, said the agency “takes our decisions related to exceptional events seriously. We recognize that even when pollution is not something that an air agency can control, people still are breathing the polluted air.” When the Clean Air Act was passed by a nearly unanimous Congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, it focused on pollution from soot-spewing smokestacks and freeways full of cars with tailpipes.
“This is a big problem,” said Leonard of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. “And you’re not only actively ignoring it, you’re actively trying to get out of doing something about it.”Fires. Mudslides. Heat waves. What questions do you need answered as you prepare for the effects of the climate emergency?Suzanne Somers poses at a ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 24, 2003 in Hollywood. Somers has died at the age of 76.
Somers said she was fired from that job when she asked to be paid equally with her male costars. In a virtual appearance of the game showhosted by LAist in 2020, Somers said it was a hard time in her life, but one that led to her later success.God, I couldn't get a job anywhere," Somers said."I got fired because I wanted to be paid commensurate with the men and my contract was up . At that timet hey didn't like the idea that we women should be paid commensurate with the men.
“Our goal is just to see less wildlife poisoned and sickened by these products,” Vanai said. “So we really think this bill will go a long way to reducing that problem.”Diphacinone is the most common"first-generation" rat poison to be found within non-target wildlife. In the 2023 report, the Department of Pesticide Regulation said there was a significant increase in the number of animals exposed to the chemical.
Raptors Are the Solution encourages people to report violators of the new ban, effective in January, to the CA Department of Pesticide Regulation or your local The lawsuit filed by Trader Joe's against Trader Joe included this tweet to support its claim that the cryptocurrency exchange modeled their brand story after the supermarket.The exchange lets users buy and sell cryptocurrency without the involvement of a bank or other third parties.Liu offered an explanation in his 2022 response to a World Intellectual Property Organization complaint filed by the supermarket — an explanation the suit filed in California dismisses.
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