Hearing on Federal Response to Escalating Wildfires
2023-06-08T10:02:37-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZTU2XC8wMDNcLzE2ODYyMzMxNTVfMDAzLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19Officials from the Agriculture and Interior departments, among others, testified on the federal response to escalating wildfires before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The hearing came amid ongoing smoke from Canadian wildfires especially affecting air quality in the eastern United States. A key topic of the hearing was increasing the pay and expanding the benefits of federal firefighters--which is included in President Biden’s 2024 Interior and Agriculture budget requests--in order for increased recruitment and retention. Some senators also asked about the role of climate change in exacerbating the fires and solutions to mitigate the issue.
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Officials from the Agriculture and Interior departments, among others, testified on the federal response to escalating wildfires before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The hearing came amid ongoing smoke from Canadian wildfires especially affecting air quality in the eastern United States. A key topic of the hearing was increasing the pay and expanding the benefits of federal firefighters--which is included in President Biden’s 2024 Interior and Agriculture budget requests--in order for increased recruitment and retention. Some senators also asked about the role of climate change in exacerbating the fires and solutions to mitigate the issue. close
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