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The wildfire management community has made great strides incorporating new decision support tools into how it plans for and responds to wildfire incidents. Despite improvements in risk assessment and management at the incident scale, increasing fire activity and critical resource shortages reveal a system under strain in need of strategies that more efficiently allocate scarce resources across incidents while promoting the well-being of the firefighting workforce upon which the system relies. A scaled-up infusion of data-driven analysis and decision-making could enhance the performance of the entire wildfire management system.

BALTIMORE (WJZ)  — Americans are expected to be in the mood to spend this holiday season but this isn’t the year to procrastinate and experts say you may be taking a gamble by waiting for a discount.

It’s getting more expensive to gas up your car, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Energy industry analysts and supply chain experts warn that households will feel the pinch of higher energy prices in their household budgets in the coming months.

ATLANTA — The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business (“Center”) at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business is launching on October 21, 2021 the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact (“Compact”), an inclusive and collaborative initiative focused on galvanizing climate action in Georgia. Anthem, Better Earth, The Coca-Cola Company, Cox Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, Eversheds Sutherland, Goodr, Google, Interface, Norfolk Southern, Southwire, TKE, UPS, and YKK are founding members of the Compact.

Last month, the Texas legislature passed a bill, then signed by the governor, which is considered to be the most sweeping voting barrier law in the country.