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As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale ...
Rocky Mountain Power has warned that more frequent and longer outages could occur, especially during periods of elevated ...
Firefighters in central Oregon are working to partially contain what has become the country's largest wildfire this year.
Utah is no exception, seeing a number of wildfires plague the state amid warm, dry conditions. “Wildfire activity has increased across the nation,” Utah Fire Info posted on social media. Major ...
FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can get in the way.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before ...
Even in places where the FEMA maps identified a flood risk, we found that the federal mapping process, its overreliance on historical data, and political influence over the updating of maps can ...
If the rule is formally repealed, millions of acres of land will be eligible for road building and logging, including almost 60% of Utah’s forest service land.
Rocky Mountain Power said it will appeal a decision by the Utah Public Service Commission to the Utah Supreme Court on a rate case denial.
(NEW YORK) -- The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities ...
Jim Vondruska/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by ...
Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire ...