US Forest Service fires 3,400 workers, Park Service cuts 1,000
The U.S. Forest Service is firing around 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 under ...
US retail sales drop by most in two years amid fires, storms
U.S. retail sales slumped in January by the most in nearly two years, indicating an abrupt pullback by consumers after a ...
Trump Officials Fire, Abruptly Rehire, Overseers of U.S. Nuclear Stockpile
Trump administration officials on Friday began rescinding termination notices given just 24 hours earlier to more than 300 ...
US wildfire data misused following devastating LA wildfires
Following devastating Southern California blazes in January 2025, a post on X claimed US acreage lost to wildfires is ...
Trump funding freeze halts wildfire prevention work
The Trump administration has halted funding for federal programs to reduce wildfire risk in Western states and has frozen ...
No, LA wildfires haven't emitted more CO2 than all US cars | Fact check
Two days of January wildfires in Southern California did not produce anywhere near as much CO2 as U.S. cars have emitted over ...
Human-caused fires growing faster than lightning fires in Western US, study suggests
A study published in PNAS Nexus shows that there are almost twice as many risky days for large human-caused fires in the ...
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Readers Respond to Wildfires and Taxes
Pacific Power has always worked hard to stay ahead of wildfire mitigation efforts. Just last year, a study by Stanford ...