Infrastructure

Predicting landslides: Western lawmakers want better ways to save communities

By Kyle Feldscher
Published April 3, 2017 4:01am ET
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Predicting landslides: Western lawmakers want better ways to save communities
A city worker assesses a street where a landslide occurred in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles on Jan. 31. The home's backyard crumbled, sending mud and debris down a slope, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) | Richard Vogel

A bipartisan group of Western lawmakers want to find a better way to help communities protect themselves from landslides.

The National Landslide Preparedness Act aims to fill in the gaps in scientific knowledge about which areas of the country face potential landslides by increasing the amount of data available on areas at risk for landslides and help communities build infrastructure to protect themselves.

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