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Treasury Dept. to ask insurers for data on climate risks to measure coverage affordability
The department is proposing to gather information from across the country to establish where climate change is making property insurance unaffordable or inaccessible.
Lake Charles still waits for long-term disaster aid
Homes and businesses still sit in ruins in a small Louisiana city, left behind by the government’s convoluted and unpredictable system for rebuilding communities devastated by natural disasters.
Banning gas cars is good, but it’ll take more to save the planet
People must both drive less and switch to electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Agrihoods promise fresh food and community. Can they add equity to the list?
Agrihoods promise to save farmland by turning it into a residential amenity. Can this effort to bridge housing and farmland support environmental justice?
Inside Luxembourg's experiment with free public transit
Since 2020, residents of Luxembourg have been able to ride trains and buses throughout the country without buying tickets. Is the policy paying off?
Colorado residents ponder the road ahead after wildfires
Days after what might be the most damaging wildfire in state history, residents are just beginning to make sense of the long road back and the extent of the damage.
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Wildfires threaten all of the West — and one group more than others
That threat to Latinos has grown in the past decade, and they are twice as likely to live in areas most threatened by wildfires relative to the overall U.S. population.
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