Climate Adaptation
California Governor Says ‘This Is a Climate Damn Emergency’
- 1,000-mile sheet of smoke smothers the U.S. West Coast
- Oregon prepares for ‘mass fatality incident’ amid fires
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing to speed up his state’s effort to fight climate change as wildfires rip through the region at a record pace and a 1,000-mile sheet of smoke drives air quality to dangerous levels.
“This is a climate damn emergency. This is real,” Newsom said in a briefing Friday from a fire zone in Butte County, surrounded by charred trees shrouded in smoke.