Chris Wright’s arguments are set to draw scrutiny from Senate Democrats during his confirmation hearing for the Energy Department post.

In the wake of the raging California wildfires, environmental groups are shifting the climate conversation away from mitigation, toward adaptation and resilience.

Gov. Newsom tilts at carbon emissions, not fire mitigation.

Health and climate experts say wildfire smoke is setting California back in its efforts to reduce air pollution.

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Mr. Davis’s ideas were shocking when the essay appeared, but the events of recent years have won a lot of people over to his way of thinking. After the 2021 Dixie fire in rural Northern California, a Los Angeles Times op-ed series raised the possibility of abandoning small fire-prone towns in favor of supposedly more defensible cities.

In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on overburdened “hand crews” from other jurisdictions to handle its brush fire emergencies.

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In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the state are growing larger and more ferocious and burning into suburbs and cities more often, experts told USA TODAY.

On arrival in 1542 to what was later to become Los Angeles, the Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo saw smoke rising from wildfires burning back in the hills. He named his anchorage “the Bay of Smokes.”