'It's a reality': Biden calls for urgency in California as climate crisis fuels wildfires

President calls year-round fires an emergency country can no longer ignore as he advocates for rebuilding planJoe Biden travelled to California on Monday to survey wildfire damage as the state battles a devastating fire season that is on track to outpace that of 2020, the state's worst on record.The president is using the trip to highlight the connection between the climate crisis and the west's increasingly extreme wildfires as he seeks to rally support for a $3.5tn spending plan Congress is debating. Continue reading...