WASHINGTON — As the McKinney fire grew to become California’s largest of the season, leaving four people dead so far in Siskiyou County, members of Congress resigned that they could do nothing but hope:
Hope that legislative expenditures mitigate future blazes; hope that laws in place help recovery; hope that funds allocated to agencies in charge are put to use.
The best thing United States senators could do was spend weeks negotiating, and days voting, to pass the largest climate investment in the nation’s history. Returns on that $369 billion injection, to be spent over the next decade, could come too late.
