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The Great American Insurance Retreat: Climate Change, Uninsurable Homes, & The Future Of Real Estate
From 2017 onward, climate change has driven a surge in extreme weather events — unprecedented wildfires, devastating hurricanes, inland flooding, and derechos — all of which are breaking traditional risk models and sending insurers running for the hills. The result? A growing number of regions where home and commercial insurance is becoming unaffordable, unreliable, or outright unavailable.
Electric Vehicle industry will persist, experts say, despite Trump cuts
“There’s not an automaker out there that I have spoken with, or a supplier out there, who said that electrification in some form or fashion isn’t going to be part of the future,” said Todd Cassidy, a managing director at investment firm Brown Gibbons Lang & Company who specializes in the auto market. “It’s just how soon it’s part of the future and how big of a part of the future it’s going to be.”
Trump’s 2.2 billion-gallon dump from California reservoirs just got even uglier. “Trumps publicity stunt.”
The Washington Post snagged a memo written by an Army Corps of Engineers official who worked on the releases
‘Goal is destruction’: Fired Calif. NOAA scientists warn of dire global consequences ‘Still in shock, still grieving’
Whether it’s the weather updates people get on their apps, the issuing of storm warnings, the protection of plant and animal life, or completing predictive modeling for multibillion-dollar industries, the financial impacts and threat to life on this planet are “beyond consequential” with every firing, Koller said.
The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
Trump slashed the Forest Service and put a timber exec in charge. It could lead to a corporate takeover of public lands Employees warn that recent firings could weaken protections for public lands.
“When you look at the other executive orders . . . our public lands are f**ked,” Carvajal said.
DOGE cuts will hobble outdoor recreation in Wyoming, advocates say
In a state where nearly half the land is public, supporters worry a thriving industry will feel the pain of budget freezes, job losses.
What does the loneliness epidemic mean for senior citizens?
Last year, the United States Surgeon General declared loneliness across the country as an epidemic, going so far as to claim that isolation and loneliness are a higher cause of death than obesity. Hit especially hard by high rates of loneliness are senior citizens across the country.
Critical infrastructure leaders must ‘wake up’ and invest in cyber, report says
A new report from the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center warned of the threats faced by critical infrastructure and urged states to spend more to protect themselves.
A Mining Billionaire’s Case for Ditching Fossil Fuels
His case? Corporate bosses must act now—and act fast—to tackle climate change, an argument he delivers with force and the unrivaled credibility that comes from decades in the carbon-spewing industry.