CSPAN3 Hearing On The Impact Of Wildfires February 4, 2020
>> sub committee on environment and climate change will now come to order. the chair recognizes themselvesst himself for five minutes for the purposes of an opening statement. good morning, again. today the committees convene for a joint sub committee hearing to conduct oversight of an issue ravaging communities and plaguing the environment. fires often occur within the u.s. an average of 73,000 wildfires burn seven million acres of u.s. land each and every year. though these fires are in some cases part of the healthy ecosystem, their destruction has defr sta devastated communities ...