Latest Climate Change Headlines

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5.4M U.S. Homes at Risk from Sea Level Rise, Report Using Census Data Shows

Jul 6 2017 // Nearly 10 million people living in 5.4 million homes have a high risk from rising sea levels and will be adversely impacted by climate change, according to a new report that takes data from U.S. Census tracts near the...

Could Global Warming Be Speeding Up? It’s Likely, Say Harvard Scientists

Jul 6 2017 // Two climate scientists suggest they’ve come closer to resolving a critical debate about how quickly human activity will heat up the planet. The answer isn’t good news.It’s almost universally understood...

Bank of England Governor Warns Investors Failing to Consider Climate Risks

Jun 30 2017 // Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said he’s concerned investors aren’t doing enough to assess threats that global warming will have on assets they purchase.The central bank governor who also leads the...

Grenfell Tower Fire Puts Cloud over Energy Efficiency Industry’s Building Materials

Jun 30 2017 // The fire that killed at least 79 people in a residential tower in London earlier this month has delivered a blow to an often overlooked section of the green industry that’s crucial to delivering energy...

12 States Call Out California’s ‘Affront to Sound Insurance Regulation’

Jun 22 2017 // It’s difficult to decide whether Dave Jones is underdog prize fighter Rocky Balboa or reigning champ Apollo Creed.He’s the insurance commissioner of the most populated state in the nation and that makes him a...

Senate Confirms New FEMA Chief Long

Jun 21 2017 // Brock Long was cleared by the Senate to become President Donald Trump’s emergency-management director Tuesday after gaining the support of one unlikely constituency: environmentalists.While climate advocates panned...

California Commissioner ‘Undeterred’ by Challenges to Climate Disclosure Initiative

Jun 20 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones responded to challenges to his calls for insurers to disclose their investments in fossil fuels.Oklahoma’s attorney general has sent a letter to Jones threatening legal...

Oklahoma AG Threatens California Commissioner on Insurer Fossil Fuel Rules

Jun 20 2017 // Oklahoma’s attorney general has sent a letter to California’s insurance commissioner threatening legal action if that state continues with its policy of requiring insurance companies to publicly disclose...

U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Keeps Quiet on Trump Exit from Paris Climate Accord

Jun 19 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...

Climate Change Advocates Galvanized by Trump Decision

Jun 8 2017 // You’d think climate change activists now living under a new reality created by a U.S. president making good on his promise to withdraw the nation from the Paris accord on global warming would feel at least a bit...

U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Mostly Silent on Trump Exit from Paris Climate Accord

Jun 6 2017 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry, which has been facing rising claims bills for extreme weather events, mostly reacted with silence to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the country from the...

New York Says Exxon’s Climate Change Proxy Costs May Be a `Sham’

Jun 6 2017 // New York’s top cop told a judge that an investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.’s public statements about climate change uncovered “significant evidence” the oil giant may have misled investors.In a...

California Governor Looking Around World for Climate Changes Allies

Jun 2 2017 // Looking for allies in the fight against climate change, California Gov. Jerry Brown headed to China this week in a push to build foreign support for carbon-cutting efforts that have found resistance in...

States May Seize U.S. Climate Change Leadership Following Trump’s Paris Exit

Jun 2 2017 // State governors and city mayors were quick to claim the mantle of U.S. leadership in fighting climate change after President Donald Trump said on Thursday the country will pull out of the Paris climate agreement.The...

Trump Hands Climate Leadership Role to China to Dismay of Global Leaders

Jun 2 2017 // President Donald Trump’s decision to isolate the U.S. on climate change triggered waves of complaints from government and business leaders around the world and handed China a golden opportunity to burnish its image...

Florida Youth Activist Urges Industry to Step Up Fight Against Climate Change

Jun 2 2017 // Seventeen-year-old climate activist Delaney Reynolds has a message for the insurance industry on the topic of climate change: It’s time to step up and take action against this global crisis.“Your future...

Will U.S. Go or Will It Stay in Paris Climate Accord? Trump Gets Conflicting Advice

Jun 1 2017 // President Donald Trump is poised to announce plans to withdraw the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate accord on Thursday, injecting uncertainty into the worldwide effort to combat climate change.The move, described by...

Coastal Texans Concerned About Rising Sea Levels Amid Hurricane Threats

May 31 2017 // Lalo Ojeda has lived with hurricanes all his life.The Houston Chronicle reports he was 14 when Hurricane Carla inundated Galveston Island in 1961. He evacuated as Hurricane Rita barreled toward the coast in 2005, then rode...

Trump Expected to End U.S. Participation in Paris Climate Pact

May 31 2017 // President Donald Trump plans to make good on his campaign vow to withdraw the United States from a global pact to fight climate change, a source briefed on the decision said on Wednesday, a move that promises to deepen a...

3 Fossil Fuel Groups Drop Bid to Join Teens’ Climate Change Lawsuit

May 30 2017 // Three fossil fuel industry groups dropped their attempt to intervene in a court case over climate change this week after failing to reach an agreement on a unified legal position on climate science, court filings show.The...