All the headlines from our Coastal Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2024 // NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Federal officials want to know if Louisiana remains committed to a nearly $3 billion planned coastal restoration project that litigation has stalled.Federal officials warned in a Friday letter to...
Oct 18 2024 // Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon.Fast-forward to today, and in...
Sep 17 2024 // Parts of North Carolina saw something Monday that has not been seen in hundreds, perhaps 1,000 years – 18 inches of rain in half a day.That’s “once in every 1,000 years!” the National Weather Service...
Sep 13 2024 // Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in...
Aug 27 2024 // Managing general underwriter SageSure announced it is collaborating with Markel to introduce new capacity to its expanded markets program, broadening underwriting eligibility in coastal states.SageSure Expanded Markets...
Jul 31 2024 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state’s insurer of last resort for homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast, will consider raising rates as climate change increases the chances of more severe storms and...
Jul 31 2024 // The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.The National Oceanic and...
Jul 26 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Proponents of a nearly $3 billion project to restore part of southeast Louisiana’s rapidly vanishing coastline released a study Tuesday touting the expected economic benefits of its construction,...
Jul 26 2024 // William & Mary has received a $100 million donation that aims to help the world’s coastal communities adapt to changing temperatures, rising seas and more intense storms, the university announced Wednesday.The...
Jul 1 2024 // Florida regulators’ effort to enforce a 2002 state law and keep insolvent insurers’ officers out of carrier leadership roles appears to be a reason behind a significant shakeup at St. Petersburg-based American...
Jun 19 2024 // Tropical storm Alberto has caused flooding and more than three feet of storm surge in parts of coastal south Texas but is not expected to strengthen to hurricane force, meteorologists say.Alberto is the first named storm...
Jun 11 2024 // A new bipartisan bill would authorize National Flood Insurance Plan payouts for structures condemned due to chronic erosion or unusual flooding.Introduced earlier this month by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and...
Jun 3 2024 // ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Five people, including a 4-year-old, were killed during a fiery three-vehicle crash near the southern South Carolina coast, authorities said Thursday.The South Carolina Highway Patrol said...
May 13 2024 // SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — American Coastal Insurance Corp. (ACIC) on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $23.6 million.The Saint Petersburg, Florida-based company, the rebranding of part of now-insolvent...
May 13 2024 // American Coastal Insurance Corp. (ACIC) has agreed to sell its subsidiary Interboro Insurance Co., a New York domiciled insurer, to Forza Insurance Holdings, a Houston-based firm that funds insurance organizations serving...
Jan 19 2024 // St. Petersburg-based American Coastal Insurance Corp. has named two to high-level positions in the company. Svetlana Castle is the new chief financial officer, starting Jan. 22, the company said in a press release. Castle,...
Nov 30 2023 // Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has announced a plan to assist the state’s 78 coastal communities from Cape Cod to the North Shore, where 2.5 million live, with their development of long-term regulatory, policy,...
Nov 14 2023 // American Coastal Insurance Corp., formerly affiliated with Florida-based United Property & Casualty Insurance, announced it has a cash buyer for Interboro Insurance Co. in New York.According to the company, the unnamed...
Oct 25 2023 // DBRS Morningstar experts anticipate increased reliance on government insurance programs as insurers exit catastrophe-prone states.New commentary from the credit ratings business said these departures could...
Sep 29 2023 // A little-known climate threat lurks under our feet: rising groundwater that could release toxic chemicals from more than 132,000 contaminated sites in coastal areas of the US. In a first of its kind study, researchers...