A new study finds the push to secure more water in California may hurt the state’s ability to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals.
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Governor Newsom released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2021-22 on January 10, 2021 and released the May Revision to the proposed budget on May 14, 2021.
Millions of Californians are at risk of losing their homes to wildfire. When tragedy strikes, people often rebuild in the same risky places, according to researchers at UC Berkeley and Next 10, a nonprofit think tank, who are urging California policymakers to rethink how communities are rebuilt after destructive wildfires.
The scenery is breathtaking — rolling hills, steep canyons and stately vineyards, a pastoral landscape ruled by cattle, sheep and the occasional coyote. But there are also grim markers of the worst wildfire season in modern California history, in the form of blackened oaks and pines.
California state and local officials are encouraging rebuilding in areas destroyed by wildfires at a time when people should be redirected away from those areas if the state wants to reduce the economic and human impact of increasingly destructive wildfires, according to a report published Thursday.
The West Coast housing market is metaphorically on fire — with rotting shacks selling for millions. Decades of policies to restrict housing in desirable neighborhoods has pushed prices up — and it has also pushed houses out into more rural, forested areas. As a result, West Coast housing is periodically on fire in the literal sense as well.
As California’s wildfire season grows longer and more devastating blazes sweep through communities, researchers say the state must overhaul its development policies and community rebuilding efforts or risk greater tragedy and loss of lives.
A new report from the Next 10, a non-partisan think tank at UC Berkeley, says California is getting it all wrong when it comes to building and rebuilding after wildfires.
University of California, Berkeley researchers are urging state officials to avoid rebuilding homes in areas destroyed by wildfires, saying it will keep homeowners out of harm's way. But some people say it’s not as easy as it sounds.
A new study finds public policy around wildfires in California needs to change in order to keep people and property safe.