California

Because Trump would be unlikely to approve them, California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives.

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For context, the dryness that enabled the fires to spread so rapidly was substantially worsened by the warming that has been caused by burning fossil fuels and releasing the CO2 into the atmosphere, and there is something of a legislative effort to get the fossil fuels industry to pay for the damage they do but the oil companies have defeated it in past years.

They’re not going to have enough money to pay these claims,” said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a nonprofit that advocates for insurance customers.

If that happens, it will trigger an assessment on every home insurance policyholder in the state to cover the outstanding claims. It’s a mechanism available under some state-backed insurance plans — one that’s known in Florida as the “hurricane tax.” Now, for the first time, Californians may be hit with the “wildfire tax.”

With supermajorities in both houses, Democrats in the California Legislature passed — and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed — laws taking effect this year that will erase medical debt from credit reports, allow public health officials to inspect immigrant detention centers, and require health insurance companies to cover fertility services such as in vitro fertilization.

Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren’t normally exposed to seawater. Gardeners know that small amounts of salt – added, say, as fertilizer – does not harm plants, but excessive salts can stress and kill plants.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24104102

Seen on reddit and other sources:

https://old.reddit.com/r/fresno/comments/1hxqlx7/the_more_i_try_to_save_energy_the_higher_the/

Its already 50c or more per kilowatt hour... https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf

On top of the "The Electric Home Rate Plan includes a $15-per-month Base Services Charge"... because people were starting to get 100% of their power from solar and it was "unfair".

I'll note that San Francisco built a system of emergency firefighting cisterns after the 1906 earthquake as a means of limiting this kind of risk. That's not replicated anywhere else in the same way.

You can easily identify them by seeing the brick circle in the pavement.

I'll note that a large chunk of the burned properties depend on the state-run FAIR plan, which provides much weaker coverage (eg: not replacement cost) than private insurers. The FAIR plan also has limited reserves, which it will replenish by issuing an assessment on commercial insurers and their policyholders.

Crazy footage from a guys dash cam that shouldn’t be there

FWIW I do NOT consider these to be latest version of the maps. Check https://app.watchduty.org/ for those