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by Tom Joyce, for The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Attorney General Charity Clark is one of 10 attorneys general who sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, hoping the agency will update its regulations to recognize extreme heat and wildfire smoke events as major disaster declarations under the Stafford Act.
The letter also wants FEMA to clarify that wildfire smoke events make communities eligible for Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) funding.
The politicians addressed their letter to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and Chief Counsel Adrian Sevier. In it, they cite climate change as a reason for increasingly common and severe extreme heat and wildfire smoke events. They also contend that these events pose serious public and financial health risks to local communities that require federal assistance to respond effectively.
“The climate change science is clear and overwhelming: our planet is getting hotter, wildfire seasons are getting longer and more destructive, and the resulting wildfire smoke is a real danger to public health,” Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum said in the release. “We need the federal government to keep up with the realities Oregonians face, and we need FEMA to have the jurisdiction to assist when we ask for help. I stand with my co-signers on this letter in urging FEMA to move quickly and amend its definition of ‘major disaster’ to include extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.”
The letter looked at the impacts of recent wildfire smoke and extreme heat events. Such examples included the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome — causing hundreds of deaths and widespread power outages — plus Canadian wildfires that blanketed the East Coast and Midwest in smoke.
“The attorneys general underscored the importance of proactive measures and federal support in mitigating the effects of these disasters,” the release said.
The politicians told FEMA to amend its “major disaster” definition to include extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.
The letter also calls for Fire Management Assistance Grant funding to address the negative impacts of wildfire smoke. The politicians want this addressed by having FMAG provide HEPA air filtration devices and “other necessary supplies to vulnerable populations,” the release said.
Plus, the letter said that such events will likely happen more in the future, making adequate FEMA response even more vital.
A spokesman for Rosenblum’s office told The Center Square that emergency heat declarations are the governor’s purview, meaning the office lacked figures as to what it thinks is appropriate for an emergency heat declaration. The governor’s office did not respond to the request for comment.
The other states signing the letter include California, Arizona, Colorado. Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.
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Categories: Disasters and Emergencies, Environment, National News
Of course Vermont signed on to this….It’s “free” money for the states, should it become a regulation. Read the states involved again… The 13 most liberal marxist governments in the USA.
This goes to show these snowflakes will whine over anything, now it’s too hot and it’s a disaster…………………….give me a break, grow a pair.
It’s summer and it’s hot, and summer has been sizzling since the beginning of time, so what is hot for you, apparently these Attorney Generals stepped out of their ” air-conditioned office “, why don’t they ask a laborer that in the heat five-seven days a week …………….the country is falling apart at the seams and all these clowns can come up with is it’s ” Too Hot “, and it’s a major disaster now that’s pathetic !!
got to keep the country in a state of emergency/// central control /// fascism/// the number 13 wow//// will this be another project for calamity clark in vermont////
Well, in their defense, it is an “existential” threat, as are white people, Catholics, and naming athletic teams after Native Americans.
First it’s too hot, do something. Then later it’s too cold, do something.
Reminds me of the fable Grasshopper and the ants. The grasshopper fiddled while the ants made sure they could survive winters. They brought the grasshopper into their nest and allowed him to survive and he played the fiddle for them.
If you can cope and prepare, no problems. The major problem is electricity. Back up systems such as generators is needed in the northern clims.. This applies to summer and winter. Too many grasshoppers want government for survival.
We’re in an ice age.
It was also much hotter in the 1930s.
The polar ice is not melting – it is building. If people bothered to look at real statistics they would learn that instead of being ignorant, willing consumers of lies and deception. Antartica hasn’t melted yet – the elite own it and control it, so no worries there. A number of minds and cognitive brain functions certainly have melted and that is the real existential threat to humankind.
The earth is fine and has been for a long, long time. The doom loop will continue until the sheep wake up en masse….it is happening…albeit excruciatingly slow.
Temperature data, easily found reveals those older than 50 seem to have been able to handle high and low temperature better than todays’ liberals.
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/burlington/highest-temperatures
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/burlington/highest-temperatures-by-year
Those alive in 1944 certainly were able to function in 101 degree record temperatures. Those folks could handle a whole lot of things better than this generation.
the cult that runs tel.//// lie.//// vision.//// has all the money it needs to keep the pushing of ///// the big lie//// the vermont news media are all paid off/////
I hereby declare hot days: SUMMER! This summer has been the best (in my memory) in five years, hot, excellent for the garden to grow and enough rain to not have to water, but not too much….except maybe the remnants of Beryl. I should have planted more melons!
The power companiesa are raking it in…