1/14/2021

ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “This order will ensure that agencies effectively work together in coordinating Federal wildland fire management policy to improve funding allocations for hazardous fuel projects, performance measures for suppression operations and hazardous fuels mitigation, procurement, Federal-State cooperation and cost sharing, cross-jurisdictional post-wildfire rehabilitation, monitoring of electric transmission lines and other critical infrastructure, and […]

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10/18/2020

CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS: “I’ll tell you what, so I just left California and I was in a place that was sort of Republican… The crowds were unbelievable, unbelievable, and I don’t know why we wouldn’t win California. We’re playing it a little bit. In theory, you’re not supposed to be able, but they have everything against […]

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10/16/2020

CALIFORNIA/JOE BIDEN/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Let’s be clear: The emergency aid should have never been denied in the first place. RT @Yamiche A reversal: Trump administration rejects, then approves, emergency aid for California fires, including biggest blaze in state.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 16, 2020 1:20 pm […]

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10/16/2020

CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump administration has rejected California’s request for disaster relief aid for six major wildfires that scorched more than 1.8 million acres in land, destroyed thousands of structures and caused at least three deaths last month. The rejection of aid late Thursday [Oct. 15, 2020], a rare move in cases of […]

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10/9/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/OIL: “And infrastructure. Building roads, bridges, highways, ports, airports, and clean energy. Upgrading four million buildings and weatherizing, two million homes, creating at least a million good paying jobs in the process. Making the climate safer, saving hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. We’ll deal with climate change by creating millions of union […]

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9/21/2020

CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS: “I just left, as you know, California, I met with a governor and… I said, you’ve got to — you’ve got to manage this, it’s a management thing. He said, no, it’s global warming. And I said, when the leaves build up, and you have a floor of leaves, and the trees fall […]

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9/16/2020

2020 ELECTION/CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s climate denial may not have directly caused the record fires we’re seeing on the West Coast. But if he gets four more years in the White House, they’ll only become more common, devastating, and deadly.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 16, 2020 4:20 am […]

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9/14/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/NATURAL DISASTERS: “So we talk about forest management. And I’ve been talking about it for a long time — that they have to do that. You go to other countries, and they don’t have this problem, and they have more explosive trees — meaning they catch fire much easier. So we have to talk […]

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9/14/2020

NATURAL DISASTERS: “This is one of the biggest burns we’ve ever seen, and we have to do a lot about forest management. Obviously, forest management in California is very important. And now it extends to Washington and extends also to Oregon. There has to be good, strong forest management, which I’ve been talking about for […]

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9/14/2020

CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/NATURAL DISASTERS: [Reporter: “is it possible that it’s also forest management and climate change — it’s both of things at the same time?”] “Well, I think something is possible. I think a lot of things are possible. But with regard to the forest: When trees fall down, after a short period of time — […]

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9/14/2020

CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS: “That’s [forest management] something I feel so strongly about. You can knock this down to nothing. You know, you go to Europe and different places in Europe — countries where they’re forest countries — and they’re very, very strong on management and they don’t have a problem. They really don’t have with, as […]

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9/14/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/NATURAL DISASTERS: [Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources: “So I think one area of mutual agreement and priority is vegetation management, but I think we want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests, and actually work together with that science; that science is […]

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9/14/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “Climate change is the existential challenge that will define our future as a country. Tune in as I discuss the wildfires up and down the West Coast — and how I’ll tackle the climate crisis head-on and create millions of good-paying jobs: https://t.co/yMhodX8RYe?amp=1″ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 14, 2020 7:28 am […]

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9/14/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “[H]ere’s the deal: hurricanes don’t swerve to avoid Red States or Blue States. Wildfires don’t skip towns that voted a certain way. The impacts of climate change don’t pick and choose. That’s because it’s not a partisan phenomenon, it’s science and our response should be the same. Grounded in science. Acting together, […]

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9/14/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/NATURAL DISASTERS: “People aren’t just worried about raging fires, they’re worried about the air they breathe, about the damage to the lungs. Parents are already worried about COVID-19 for their children when they’re indoors and now they’re worried about asthma attacks if their kids are outside. Over the past two years, the total […]

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9/12/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “The science is clear, and deadly signs like the fires out West are unmistakable — climate change poses an existential threat to our way of life. We must act now to avoid a future defined by tragedies like the one American families are enduring today.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 12, 2020 8:21 […]

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9/12/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN/NATURAL DISASTERS: “The science is clear, and deadly signs like these are unmistakable — climate change poses an imminent, existential threat to our way of life. President Trump can try to deny that reality, but the facts are undeniable. We absolutely must act now to avoid a future defined by an unending barrage […]

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9/12/2020

CALIFORNIA/JOE BIDEN/NATURAL DISASTERS: “As devastating wildfires continue to rage across California, Oregon, Washington, and throughout the West, Jill and I are keeping everyone affected by this disaster in our prayers. To the families who have lost everything; to the people forced to evacuate their homes; to the brave firefighters and first responders risking their lives […]

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9/11/2020

CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THANK YOU to the 28,000+ Firefighters and other First Responders who are battling wildfires across California, Oregon, and Washington. I have approved 37 Stafford Act Declarations, including Fire Management Grants to support their brave work. We are with them all the way!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 11, 2020 2:28 pm […]

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8/20/2020

CALIFORNIA: “And I see again, the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in California. I said, ‘You got to clean your floors. You got to clean your forests.’ They have many, many years of leaves and broken trees. And they’re like, so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. I’ve been telling them […]

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6/11/2019

CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “At our urging, we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management. Remember I went to California? I saw something that nobody has ever seen. It was like a blowtorch… They were saying it was global warming. Could’ve had something to do with it. But you need forest management. You […]

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6/11/2019

CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “At our urging, we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management. Remember I went to California? I saw something that nobody has ever seen. It was like a blowtorch. It was 80-mile-an-hour winds and the death and destruction was incredible. And I said, ‘You need forest management.’ They were […]

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5/17/2019

CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT: “Talking about forests — clean up your forests; you won’t have forest fires. Clean them up. He blames it on global warming. I said, ‘No, try cleaning the floor of the forest a little bit so you don’t have four feet of leaves and broken trees that have sit there for 25 years.’ […]

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12/21/2018

AGRICULTURE/ENVIRONMENT/INTERIOR/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect people, communities, and watersheds, and to promote healthy and resilient forests, rangelands, […]

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