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douglas9

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Wed Jun 23, 2021, 11:26 AM Jun 2021

Newsom Misled the Public About Wildfire Prevention Efforts Ahead Of Worst Fire Season On Record

On Gavin Newsom’s first full day in office, Jan. 8, 2019, the newly elected governor stood before the cameras, clad in jeans and sneakers and surrounded by emergency responders, and declared war on wildfires.

“Everybody has had enough,” the governor said, announcing he’d signed a sweeping executive order overhauling the state’s approach to wildfire prevention. Climate change was sparking fires more frequent, ferocious, and far-reaching than ever before, Newsom said, and confronting them would have to become a year-round effort.

The state’s response, Newsom added, “fundamentally has to change.”

But two-and-a-half years later, as California approaches what could be the worst wildfire season on record, it does so with little evidence of the year-round attention Newsom promised.

An investigation from CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention. The investigation found Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns in the very forestry projects he said needed to be prioritized to protect the state’s most vulnerable communities. Newsom has claimed that 35 “priority projects” carried out as a result of his executive order resulted in fire prevention work on 90,000 acres. But the state’s own data show the actual number is 11,399.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/06/23/newsom-misled-the-public-about-wildfire-prevention-efforts-ahead-of-worst-fire-season-on-record/



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Newsom Misled the Public About Wildfire Prevention Efforts Ahead Of Worst Fire Season On Record (Original Post) douglas9 Jun 2021 OP
Nothing is mentioned that most of those acres where the fires occurred were under FEDERAL JohnSJ Jun 2021 #1

JohnSJ

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1. Nothing is mentioned that most of those acres where the fires occurred were under FEDERAL
Wed Jun 23, 2021, 11:39 AM
Jun 2021

authority to maintain

Have no idea who Scott Rodd is, but just doing a brief search he sure has been going out of his way to report anti-Newsom articles, and seems to give a lot of voice to trumpers on his twitter feed

California was still working with the 2018 one billion dollar wildfire prevention bill that Jerry Brown had signed

Coincidence that this is a few months before the recall election when this is supposedly from 2019?

I don't think so.

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