Politics
Trump, California Leaders Clash Over Climate’s Role in Wildfires
- President says the state should better manage forests
- Trump claims Europe has more explosive trees than California
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Donald Trump and California state officials sparred over whether climate change is contributing to out-of-control wildfires across the West, after the president insisted that poor forest management drives the conflagrations.
Wade Crowfoot, the secretary of California’s Natural Resources Agency, told Trump in a meeting in Sacramento on Monday that a warming climate is making the state’s fires worse.