Tag: natural disaster

New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.

We need to apply an abolitionist framework to climate change, pouring money into a safe and resilient climate and out of the oil-based economy.

What will turbocharged carbon do to our children?

Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.

Insurance companies pull out of fire-prone areas, leaving homeowners scrambling for coverage amid record-breaking climate disasters.

When the agency inked contracts with private companies to identify homes they could rent for survivors, it didn’t prohibit them from signing up properties that had been occupied by long-term residents.

These increases are driven by a potent mix of rising insurance payouts coupled with rising costs of construction as people build increasingly expensive homes and other assets in harm’s way.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are following the trend of these storms becoming supercharged and more likely to form, according to a pair of studies from the World Weather Attribution. 

"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer

The storm has also revealed cracks in emergency preparedness, as rescue efforts struggle to keep up with the scale of destruction.