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fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

New California laws aim to ease ongoing home insurance crisis

New California laws provide grants and reforms to stabilize the home insurance market, fund wildfire mitigation for low- and middle-income homeowners, ease recovery after fires.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Exclusive: Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense | TechCrunch

Sonic Fire Tech developed an acoustic fire suppression system that extinguishes flames and aims to protect structures from wildfires, raising $3.5 million in seed funding.
Environment
fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 week ago

Palo Alto buries power lines, boosts education to lower wildfire risks - San Jose Spotlight

Palo Alto is undergrounding about nine miles of overhead power lines, improving vegetation setbacks and communications to reduce wildfire risk and strengthen emergency response.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Letters: Prescribed burns help homeowners and the environment

As a Los Altos Hills homeowner who treasures the open space that surrounds my neighborhood, I applaud the efforts of the Santa Clara County FireSafe Council to seek a grant to set up a South Bay Prescribed Burn Association. Prescribed burns reduce fuels, leading to less intense wildfires, along with other proven benefits, such as promoting the resilience of forest habitats.
Environment
Environment
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

California needs biomass energy to meet its wildfire goals. Its projects keep going South

Arbor Energy’s biomass project converting forest-thinning waste into energy with underground carbon sequestration failed in California due to regulatory hurdles and opposition, moving to Louisiana.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

After insurance pullback, advocates demand a 'bill of rights' for California policyholders

A leading consumer group is proposing a policyholder rights initiative that would require insurers to offer coverage to California homeowners who fireproof their homes - or lose the right to sell home or auto insurance in the state for five years. The Insurance Policyholder Bill of Rights was filed with state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office last week by Consumer Watchdog, the Los Angeles advocacy group whose founder Harvey Rosenfield authored Proposition 103, the 1988 initiative that governs California insurance law.
California
#trailbuilding
fromBikeMag
1 month ago
Bicycling

How Winning This Handmade Bike Also Builds Better Trails

Donors can win a custom bike while directly funding Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship trail expansion, wildfire-hardened trail techniques, and completion of Beckwourth Peak Trail.
fromBikeMag
1 month ago
Bicycling

How Winning This Handmade Bike Also Builds Better Trails

SBTS fundraiser offers donors a chance to win a custom handmade mountain bike while funding Lost Sierra trail-building and community projects.
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Letters: Put fire safety focus on neighborhoods, not backcountry

Wildfire protection should prioritize neighborhoods, homes, and people through defensible space, ember-resistant materials, and community mitigation rather than distant forest thinning.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Letters: Put fire safety focus on neighborhoods, not backcountry

Prioritize community-focused wildfire measures—defensible space, ember-resistant construction, local mitigation—rather than distant backcountry forest thinning.
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

Colorado To Force Insurers To Reward Wildfire Prep-but Will Rates Really Fall?

When neighbors in Summit County pooled a half-million dollars to clear dead pines and carve out a massive fire break... they thought they'd done everything right.
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Portland food
fromKqed
5 months ago

PG&E Proposes New Rate Increase, But Says Customer Bills Won't Rise - Yet | KQED

PG&E requests a rate increase citing reduced operation costs but faces criticism for overspending and mismanagement.
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