Disasters

US Oversight Disappearing As Refineries Explode. Who’s In Charge Now?

"An El Segundo refinery fire has renewed questions about who is investigating the state’s oil industry after serious accidents. With the U.S. Chemical Safety Board defunded, California has yet to fill the gap."

Source: CalMatters, 10/10/2025

"Fla. County Battered By 2024 Hurricanes Spends $125M On Beach Restoration"

"The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine."

Source: AP, 10/09/2025

California Residents, Once Wary, Embrace ‘Controlled Burns’

"For most of her life, Thea Maria Carlson did not like fire. Even though she had studied earth systems at Stanford University and knew, intellectually, that burning had an environmental purpose in her home of California, she still wanted nothing to do with it."

Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/07/2025

Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s

"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."

Source: AP, 10/06/2025

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