Democratic lawmakers who blamed the recent wildfires in Hawaii on climate
change were largely silent in response to requests for comment when asked
about evidence showing the state's main power company is responsible.

Fox News Digital contacted five lawmakers � Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff
Merkley, D-Ore., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.,
and Cori Bush, D-Mo. � who were among the voices claiming the devastating
fires were sparked by man-made global warming. While Khanna provided a
response, the four other lawmakers ignored the requests noting Maui
County, Hawaii, alleged in a lawsuit the fires were sparked by power
lines.

"The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants acted negligently by failing to
power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service
Red Flag Warning on August 7th," Maui County said in a release announcing
its lawsuit last week.

"The lawsuit further alleges [Hawaiian Electric Company's (HECO)]
energized and downed power lines ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush,
causing the fires," the announcement added. "The lawsuit also alleges
failure to maintain the system and power grid, which caused the systemic
failures starting three different fires on August 8th."

According to the county's lawsuit, HECO and its subsidiaries, which supply
Hawaii with most of its electricity, failed to follow protocol powering
down live electrical equipment allowing downed power lines to spark
multiple fires earlier this month. The fires have claimed the lives of at
least 115 people, according to the latest figures, and hundreds more
remain missing.

The county further stated in its lawsuit that HECO has a duty "to properly
maintain and repair the electric transmission lines, and other equipment
including utility poles associated with their transmission of electricity,
and to keep vegetation properly trimmed and maintained so as to prevent
contact with overhead power lines and other electric equipment."

However, before the lawsuit was filed and while the fires raged, Democrats
were quick to blame climate change.

"This is devastating. This is a climate emergency," Markey, an original
sponsor of the Green New Deal, wrote in a post on X on Aug. 10. "I stand
in solidarity with my friends and colleagues from Hawai�i � we must act
fast, provide aid, and invest in a resilient and safe future."

"Heartbreaking fires in Hawaii! Scientists are clear that climate chaos
wreaking havoc on ecosystems everywhere is the new norm," Merkley said in
a separate post. "We need to take action immediately or else it will get
even worse."

Durbin warned that the wildfires were a "devastating view of our planet as
we fail to adequately address the climate crisis."

ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE BLOCKING FOREST MANAGEMENT METHODS SAVING ICONIC
SEQUOIAS AMID YOSEMITE WILDFIRE

"My heart breaks hearing of the devastation in Maui," Bush added. "The
climate crisis is here and it's killing people. It�s time for [Biden] to
declare a climate emergency."

Additionally, Khanna, who spearheaded a recent congressional investigation
into Big Oil, called on President Biden to declare a "climate emergency"
in response to the fires. In a statement Tuesday, he said he stood by his
comment and explained dry weather made the fires harder to contain and
allowed them to spread quickly.

"Hawaiian Electric's negligence does not change the fact that hotter and
dryer weather due to climate change allowed the wildfires to spread faster
and do more damage," Khanna told Fox News Digital. "I stand by my call."

In addition, experts have thrown cold water on claims that climate change
triggered the Maui fires even before the lawsuit. Instead, they said the
event was largely a result of years of poor forest and brush management,
in addition to declining agriculture. Such conditions, they said, allow
fires to spread rapidly and make fires harder to contain.

"Blaming this on weather and climate is misleading," said Clay
Trauernicht, a University of Hawaii at Manoa professor and environmental
management expert. "Hawai'i's fire problem is due to the vast areas of
unmanaged, nonnative grasslands from decades of declining agriculture."

"These savannas now cover about a million acres across the main Hawaiian
Islands, mostly the legacy of land clearing for plantation agriculture and
ranching in the late 1800s/early 1900s," he continued. "The transformation
to savanna makes the landscape way more sensitive to bad 'fire weather' �
hot, dry, windy conditions. It also means we get huge buildups of fuels
during rainy periods."

https://news.yahoo.com/dems-blamed-hawaii-fires-climate-110013411.html

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