As record-breaking fires blacken millions of hectares in California and elsewhere in the western US this year, politicians are mostly sticking to a standard script in response. US President Joe Biden’s proposed budget this year includes a US$500 million boost to what the White House calls “forest management” and other efforts to reduce wildfire risk. In July, California lawmakers approved US$1.5 billion in similar prevention spending.
The funds are in addition to the US$2 billion the federal government spends each year fighting fires a figure twice what it was 10 years ago and roughly five times more than in the
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