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Arizona proposes law that would shift wildfire liability from utilities to insurers
Arizona lawmakers are debating a bill that would protect utilities from wildfire-related lawsuits, a move that would likely send shockwaves through the
The Arizona bill is being mooted as states throughout the Western U.S. grapple with the threat — and fallout — of wildfires made worse by climate change and over a century of fire suppression. Before, low-intensity fires would race through the understory, killing weak saplings and transforming dry leaf litter into rich ash that fertilized the soil. Those conditions created what wildfire experts call “ladder fuels,” which help carry low-intensity fires from the forest floor into the canopy, where they can turn catastrophic.
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