Free news: Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Josh Harder (CA-09) reintroduced the Wildfire Smoke Emergency Declaration Act, legislation to help communities respond to increasingly dangerous wildfire smoke events, on June 10.
By Tate Rosentreter | The Center Square contributor
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(The Center Square ) – The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association began a campaign to bring attention to what it says is a radical climate activism’s "industrializing" of the ocean through green energy agendas and the disastrous effect such objectives have on commercial fishermen’s livelihoods.
(The Center Square) – The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change threw out one of its most extreme emissions scenarios last week, a major development in climate science that will likely echo across markets, federal and state government policy, and education.
This week's free news briefs: Klickitat Wildfire Resource Hub; Klickitat County burn ban; Hazardous Waste & Recycling steering committee; Hood River County School District gets grant; Klickitat Valley Health; Interim Skamania Co. Treasurer; Tooley Water District Board Meeting, May 20; Skamania County Board of Commissioners Meeting, May 19; and White Salmon Community Development Committee Meeting, May 18
“We’re ready for things to be drier than normal,” said Lucas King, fire and fuels program at Mt. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS). The organization works to put good fire, more commonly known as prescribed burns, on the forest floor of fire-adapted landscapes in the Gorge.