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Restoring California’s Forests to Reduce Wildfire Risks Will Take Time, Billions of Dollars and a Broad Commitment | Best States

October 13, 2020
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By Roger Bales and Martha Conklin

Many of California’s 33 million acres of forests face widespread threats stemming from past management choices. Today the U.S. Forest Service estimates that of the 20 million acres it manages in California, 6-9 million acres need to be restored.

Forest restoration basically means removing the less fire-resistant smaller trees and returning to a forest with larger trees that are widely spaced. These stewardship projects require partnerships across the many interests who benefit from healthy forests, to help bring innovative financing to this huge challenge.

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We are engineers who work on many natural resource challenges, including forest management. We’re encouraged to see California and other western states striving to use forest management to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire.

But there are major bottlenecks. They include scarce resources and limited engagement between forest managers and many local, regional and state

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Twitter to pay $100,000 to Washington for violating state’s campaign finance laws

October 13, 2020
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Twitter will pay $100,000 to Washington after the social media platform failed to maintain public inspection records of nearly $200,000 paid to it for political ads in violation of state law, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) says.



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Twitter to pay $100,000 to Washington for violating state’s campaign finance laws

The judgement filed Tuesday in King County Superior Court asserts that since 2012, Twitter has failed to maintain records from at least 38 Washington candidates and committees that bought ads.

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Washington’s campaign finance law requires political advertisers to retain records related to political ads.

“Transparency in political advertising is critical to a free and informed electorate,” Ferguson said in a statement. “Whether you’re a local newspaper or a multinational social media platform, you must follow our campaign finance laws.”

A Twitter spokesperson said the resolution with Washington is “reflective of our commitment to transparency and accountability,”

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Groundwater depletion means ‘peak grain’ has come and gone for several High Plains states

October 6, 2020
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Oct. 6 (UPI) — Peak grain has already passed for several High Plains states, according to a new survey of groundwater depletion across the region.

To more accurately predict future grain yields, researchers looked at the relationship between levels of water extraction from the Ogallala aquifer and the amounts of grain harvested in each state over the last 50 years.

Researchers adapted analysis techniques previously used to study the relationship between peak oil production and peak grain production. The research team detailed the results of their analysis in a new paper, published Tuesday in the journal PNAS.

“We were inspired by insightful analyses of U.S. crude oil production,” lead study author Assaad Mrad, doctoral candidate at Duke University, said in a news release. “They predicted a peak in crude oil production a decade in advance.”

The new analysis showed Texas and Kansas reached peak grain in 2016. Grain yields in

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States Overpaid Covid Claims, Now They Want the Money Back

October 5, 2020
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Cher Haavind, deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, says many overpayments stemmed from workers incorrectly reporting their earnings.

States can waive recovery of overpayments for most unemployment insurance when there is no fraud involved, but the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program follows a different set of rules. It is administered as a form of disaster relief, and the statute that guides it blocks states from forgiving the debts.

Adding to the complexity, the PUA program gave new categories of workers—including gig workers and the self-employed—access to unemployment checks. But state unemployment systems were designed to calculate benefits based on traditional jobs, employer records, W-2 tax documents and verifying income with pay stubs. Re-engineering the systems to account for far more complicated self-employment income was bound to create problems, experts say.

In Ohio, thousands of workers have been overpaid through the regular unemployment-benefits system and Pandemic Unemployment

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States Overpaid Virus Unemployment Claims, and They Want the Money Back

October 5, 2020
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States accidentally overpaid thousands of workers over the spring and summer during a rush to get relief to unemployed and idled Americans. Now they want the money back.

Even though the funds have long since been spent and many of those workers continue to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic’s economic fallout, people across multiple states are being asked to repay thousands of dollars or are having their current benefits cut to make up the difference.

Individuals themselves often have no idea they are being overpaid, in part because formulas for unemployment checks can be hard to decipher. Many also waited weeks to start receiving benefits, and say they believed that large checks were simply the back payments they were owed because of delays.

Autumn Stull owns a maternity and children’s consignment store in Golden, Colo. It temporarily closed in March when the state went into lockdown, so she applied for

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States are cutting transportation construction projects amid pandemic budget shortfalls

October 3, 2020
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Experts say it will probably take years for such activities as air travel to return to normal. Meanwhile, governments will still have to figure out how to shore up aging infrastructure, alleviate traffic congestion, support mass transit and accommodate the flying public.

The Maryland Department of Transportation has proposed slashing nearly $3 billion from its six-year capital budget. The cuts include delaying $900 million in road projects and postponing construction of a $500 million baggage-handling system and terminal connection at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. The state also plans to temporarily scrap some service for commuter buses and MARC commuter trains, which have ridership hovering at about 10 percent of normal.

“Everything has been hit across our system,” Maryland Transportation Secretary Gregory Slater said. “We have to find the least amount of impact to people, but people will see and feel some of this.”

Slater said his agency is trying to

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When Zero-Carbon Nuclear Asks For Money, States Find It Hard To Say No

October 2, 2020
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The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Station

The Byron nuclear power plant, in Byron, Illinois, is one of two plants that Exelon says it will … [+] close in about one year unless Illinois changes its clean energy support scheme.

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The press release created instant shock waves. On August 27th, Exelon Corporation, one of the biggest suppliers of electricity in the U.S., announced that in a year it would close two nuclear plants in Illinois that together produce four gigawatts of power, even though the plants are licensed to operate for decades more. The two plants — Byron and Dresden — “face revenue shortfalls in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Chicago-based Exelon said.

State and local officials denounced the move as reckless saber-rattling. Not only would the plants’ closure cost thousands of good jobs, it would also jeopardize Illinois’ clean energy ambitions.

Yet Exelon’s announcement, far from unprecedented, is part of a

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Liberty Mutual Insurance to Provide Insurance Coverage to Drivers on the Lyft Platform in Five States

October 1, 2020
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BOSTON, Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Liberty Mutual Insurance today announced it has been selected by Lyft to provide coverage for drivers using its rideshare platforms throughout Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas and Utah, effective today. Under the program, Liberty Mutual provides specific coverages in five states from the time a driver has their Lyft app on to app off.

“We’re excited to have been selected to take part in Lyft’s auto insurance program,” said Liberty Mutual Insurance Sharing Economy & New Mobility Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer David Blessing. “Drawing on Liberty Mutual’s deep expertise in both commercial and personal lines, we are able to deliver complex risk management solutions to meet the insurance needs of one of the preeminent companies in the sharing economy.”

“We’re pleased that Lyft recognizes our dedication to innovation as we continue to develop compelling products

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U.S. Insurtech Next Insurance Announces Expansion of Workers’ Compensation to 24 Additional States

September 30, 2020
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Next Insurance, an insurtech seeking to transform small business insurance, announced on Wednesday the availability of its Workers’ Compensation offering to 24 additional states across the nation, which includes Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana, and Virginia.

“Workers’ Compensation is essential not only for high-risk jobs like those in construction where physical injuries can be more frequent, but also for relatively safer occupations where slip-and-fall accidents and strains can occur. Offering coverage that starts at just $14 per month, Next Insurance is helping to solve an often stressful and costly insurance requirement by giving business owners a seamless way to obtain an instant quote and explore their coverage options – all online.”

Next Insurance further explained that the expansion increases the company’s overall Workers’ Compensation coverage in the US to more than 50% now equipping small business owners in 30 states with affordable, hassle-free policies that protect them and their employees from financial

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Next Insurance Expands Workers’ Compensation to 24 Additional States

September 30, 2020
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Next Insurance, the leading digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced the availability of its Workers’ Compensation offering to 24 additional states across the nation, including Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana and Virginia (see the full list below). This expansion increases the company’s overall Workers’ Compensation coverage in the US to more than 50% now equipping small business owners in 30 states with affordable, hassle-free policies that protect them and their employees from financial harm while meeting state requirements.

Workers’ Compensation is essential not only for high-risk jobs like those in construction where physical injuries can be more frequent, but also for relatively safer occupations where slip-and-fall accidents and strains can occur. Offering coverage that starts at just $14 per month, Next Insurance is helping to solve an often stressful and costly insurance requirement by giving business owners a

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