New York Times: President Obama’s annual budget request to Congress will propose a significant change in how the government pays to fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the risk for and cost of those fires.
The wildfire funding shift is one in a series of recent White House actions related to climate change as Mr. Obama tries to highlight the issue and build political support for his administration’s more muscular policies,......
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Obama to Propose Shift in Wildfire Funding
Posted by New York Times: Coral Davenport on February 22nd, 2014
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