4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (292+ words) For the first time in three years, capacity is returning to the California homeowners insurance market. Those commitments are showing up in policy counts, not just press releases. After three years of pullback, the trend seems to be finally turning....

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (595+ words) The wildfires that plagued Washington for nearly half the summer put new Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer and her office to a test. Kuderer has been in office for over a year-and-a-half. However, she’s relatively new considering her predecessor, Washington Commissioner…...

6+ day, 13+ min ago   (278+ words) Hurricane Lowell passed west of Hawaii, where heavy rains may cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. Lowell, with top winds of 105 miles (169 kilometers) per hour, edged west of Kauai but is still dropping heavy rain, as well as…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (359+ words) A judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from sending landmark California vehicle emissions rules for a potential repeal to the Republican-controlled Congress. If the Trump administration is successful, it would bar California indefinitely from regulating tailpipe…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (442+ words) New York’s attempt to make fossil fuel-producing industries pay into a $75 billion fund to repair the damage wrought by climate change was struck down by a federal judge, who said the sweeping law reaches beyond a state’s responsibility and into…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1414+ words) In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (166+ words) “El Niño is adding heat to the system, but it is doing so on top of decades of human-driven warming,” said Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at Copernicus’ European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. “As ocean temperatures continue to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (426+ words) A California agency on Wednesday approved long-delayed regulations designed to protect homes from wildfire, but they’re less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. The new rules, which apply to about 2 million homes, were mandated by a 2020 state law…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (241+ words) Newswise — A new report documenting California’s rapidly growing silicosis epidemic among quartz countertop workers underscores the urgent need for a national effort focused on stronger surveillance, earlier diagnosis and policy interventions to protect workers from a preventable yet often fatal…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (264+ words) Growing solar power in a swath of the US Midwest dominated by Republican leadership has led that region’s electric grid to become the nation’s biggest in terms of electric supply. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, which provides power to 45 million…...