Western Wildfires Taint Vineyards With Taste Of Smoke September 25, 2020 By Andrew Selsky Smoke from the West Coast wildfires has tainted grapes in some of the nation’s most celebrated wine regions with an...
Few Resources, Old-Growth Forest Allowed Growth of California Wildfire September 23, 2020 By Christopher Weber A lack of firefighting resources in the hours after it was sparked allowed a fast-moving wildfire to make an unprecedented...
California Burnin’ – a Warning Against One-Party Rule: Opinion September 22, 2020 By Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg Opinion “California, folks, is America fast forward.” Thus said Governor Gavin Newsom, hoarsely, amid brown smoke at the North Complex Fire...
Fire Weather May Improve for Pacific Northwest, No Such Luck for Tinderbox California September 18, 2020 By Don Jergler Rains may bring some reprieve to those suffering from massive blazes in the Pacific Northwest in the next few weeks,...
Moody’s Says Property/Casualty Insurers Face Significant Losses from Western Wildfires September 17, 2020 Dozens of wildfires raging in California, Oregon, Washington and other Western states have resulted in loss of life, damaged or...
California Commissioner Holding Hearing on Homeowners Rates in Wake of Wildfires September 16, 2020 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said today that he will convene an investigatory hearing in October in advance of initiating...
Bad Air From Western Wildfires Just Won’t Ease up September 15, 2020 By Sara Cline and Gillian Flaccus Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or...
CalFire: 14K Firefighters on the Line at 29 Major Wildfires September 11, 2020 As critical fire weather conditions subsided, firefighters accomplished full containment on one of the many fires burning in the state,...
Explained: How California’s Wildfires Could Spark a Financial Crisis September 10, 2020 By Ann Saphir Wildfires across the U.S. West are among the sparks from climate change that could ignite a U.S. financial crisis by...
Record 2 Million Acres Burned in California Wildfires September 9, 2020 By Marcio Jose Sanchez and Christopher Weber Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so...