Climate change is worsening the insurance crisis. Some states have solutions
The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk.
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Infrastructure Shows Effects of Climate Change
Worldwide warming temperatures are hammering roads that were built for a different climate, ballooning repair budgets and sometimes cutting off communities from goods and services.
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How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history
“The clearest way climate change is affecting fire in the western United States and California is through the direct influence that warmer atmospheric temperatures have,” Williams ...
Why experts say California is the best-equipped state to deal with wildfires
California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State's ample resources to ...
California fires show states’ ‘last resort’ insurance plans could be overwhelmed
California residents have switched to a state-backed “last resort” insurance plan that is now facing staggering loss ...
California’s federal lands are hemorrhaging carbon dioxide. Wildfires are largely to blame
A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...
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Climate change primed LA to burn — catastrophically
A new study finds that the region's extremely dry and hot conditions were about 35 percent more likely because of climate ...
California bill would hold oil and gas companies liable for climate change-fueled damage
A bill introduced in California’s state legislature would make fossil fuel companies legally liable for damages from climate ...