Wildfires demand action on radically different timelines: during the crisis, before the next fire season and over the coming decades. Why it matters: Climate change is worsening the underlying risk, making everything from evacuation plans to forest management and cutting emissions part of the response. Driving the news: America's northwestern corner is having a record-breaking wildfire year, and the traditional fire season still has months to go. "Even if not a single other acre or structure burned, we already have the most active fire season in recorded history for the Pacific Northwest," said climate scientist Daniel Swain, in an Aug. 18 virtual presentation . - "Washington and Oregon together [are] already breaking their historical…
Driven by an severe 2026 wildfire season affecting air quality nationwide, a bipartisan coalition is advancing federal legislation to improve forest management and reduce fire risks. The Senate bill, supported by the White House, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and environmental groups, aims to speed up forest-thinning efforts and is being reconciled with a similar House-passed measure. Lawmakers are targeting the annual defense authorization bill to pass the legislation and address the urgent, record-setting pace of fires and acreage burned this year. CQ Roll Call's Savannah Behrmann joins LiveNOW's Anna Marsick to discuss her reporting on the proposal.
SEATTLE — Wildfire smoke blanketing this coastal city and much of the West is bringing an ominous reminder that the reach of destructive fires is growing. Why it matters: Climate scientists study how global warming increases the odds of wildfire. People living through it are confronting a more immediate question: where is truly safe anymore? The big picture: Wildfires intensified by climate change are like an unforgiving spotlight sweeping across the world. No one really knows where it will stop next. Driving the news: Right now, that spotlight is on Spokane, Washington, where a historic wildfire has destroyed neighborhoods and remains uncontrolled. Fires are also burning in the Bordeaux region in France, outside Madrid and in British…
A Washington man has been arrested and charged with starting a large wildfire ravaging the Evergreen State.
A man carrying matches and a lighter has been arrested on suspicion of starting the largest of three wildfires , which have destroyed hundreds of buildings and displaced thousands in the Spokane, Washington, area. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested and charged with first-degree arson on Monday. Farinacci has been accused of starting the Old Trails Fire, the largest of three wildfires currently ravaging the Spokane, Washington, area. The Old Trails Fire has destroyed at least 700 buildings and displaced approximately 67,000 people. Farinacci had previously been convicted of manslaughter in Arizona. According to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, Farinacci was carrying matches and a butane…Open
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded the Manhattan skyline on July 16, choked residents across Michigan, and pushed air quality into unhealthy territory in states across the northern United States. The response from Washington was swift and pointed: President Trump accused Ottawa of "Willful Negligence" in managing its vast forests and threatened to fold the economic […] The post Canadian wildfire smoke drifts south again — and so does the blame for Ottawa's forest management failures appeared first on American Almanac .
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded the Manhattan skyline on July 16, choked residents across Michigan, and pushed air quality into unhealthy territory in states across the northern United States. The response from Washington was swift and pointed: President Trump accused Ottawa of "Willful Negligence" in managing its vast forests and threatened to fold the economic cost of cross-border smoke into tariffs on Canadian imports. Trump's broadside, posted on Truth Social, did not arrive in a vacuum. A Canadian Senate committee report, forestry experts, and a delegation of Republican lawmakers had already been building the same case, that Canada's refusal to thin its forests, cut firebreaks, and conduct prescribed burns has turned a natural…Open
President Trump has criticized Canada for failing to manage its forests, linking wildfire smoke affecting U.S. cities to Canadian negligence, and threatening increased tariffs.
President Trump has criticized Canada for failing to manage its forests, linking wildfire smoke affecting U.S. cities to Canadian negligence, and threatening increased tariffs . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump has threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada , accusing the country of negligence in managing its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to blanket U.S. cities . Trump made the comments on Truth Social, citing the smoke as “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air” that is affecting millions of Americans. WHEN & WHERE: The smoke, originating from wildfires in Ontario, Canada, has affected air quality across over a dozen U.S. states and Washington, D.C. DETAIL: Smoke from the Ontario wildfires blanketed…Open
The president said on Friday in a social media post that Canada was failing to manage its wildfire response as smoke has blanketed U.S. cities including New York and Chicago.
On Tuesday's "American Agenda," Jillian Michaels reacted to the growing wildfires in California and how it will affect the Los Angeles Mayoral race between Karen Bass and Spencer Pratt.
