Gavin Newsom Does Something Useful: Helps Extend FEMA Debris Cleanup

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) can claim to have done something to help rebuilding efforts in the Pacific Palisades — finally — after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agreed to expand debris cleanup.

Specifically, FEMA agreed to expand its debris cleanup program, run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), to multi-family dwellings and commercial buildings, which had previously been left to hire private contractors.

A day after Newsom made his request via the California Office of Emergency Services, FEMA agreed to expand the program — and also agreed to extend the deadline for residents to “opt in” or “opt out”  by signing to allow the “right of entry” (ROE) to the USACE on their property.

Newsom had, until now, been largely notable

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