DAVID MARCUS: In California, environmental activism backfires into a blazing hellscape

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Environmental regulations require the state to flush water into the sea after major snowfalls, even while aqueducts and eventually fire trucks grow dry as dead leaves.
36% : For example, experts have warned for years that federal and state restrictions on controlled burns to mitigate fires are creating a tinderbox, not just in California, but in Canada, as residents of the Northeast U.S. who sucked down wildfire smoke last year learned.

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