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Southern California Edison Submits $6.2B Wildfire Mitigation Plan to Regulator
May 16 (Reuters) - Southern California Edison (SCE), a unit of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted a three-year wildfire mitigation plan to California's Office of Energy ...
USDA Opens 59% of Federal Forest for Logging to Manage Wildfire Risk
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins placed nearly 113 million acres of forest — amounting to 59 percent of all federally managed forests — under an emergency determination aimed at boosting ...
New Fire Maps Put Nearly 4M Californians in Hazardous Zones
New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County, California. Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield. A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound. ...
California Wildfire Fund Could Shield Utility Balance Sheet From Fire Claims
California's $21 billion wildfire fund may shield Edison International's balance sheet if equipment owned by the company's electric utility is found to have caused a deadly Los Angeles fire last ...
Proposed Federal Act Seeks to Reduce Wildfires
Last month, Wyoming Republican U.S. Senator John Barrasso introduced legislation to reduce the destruction caused by wildfire risk, while seeking to improve forest health. Around 63 million of the ...
More Logging Proposed to Curb Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest
U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest ...
Northwest Residents Concerned About Wildfire, But About 25% Don’t Prepare
The majority of Washington and Oregon residents (82 percent) have some level of concern about growing wildfire dangers, but only about one-in-four are taking precautions to combat the impacts of ...
Canada’s 2024 Wildfire Season Ranks Sixth Highest in Past 50 Years
With summer drawing to a close in Canada, the 2024 wildfire season is shaping up as one of the most destructive on record, largely due to the devastation caused by a blaze that ripped through a ...