Tag: Hurricane Sandy
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Do You Live In One of the 16 Cities at Risk of Climate Fueled Storm Surges?
A new report from CoreLogic details how 16 cities on the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. might fare with sea-level rise and climate-fueled storm surges. The numbers are staggering. All told, 4.2 million homes are at risk of storm surges …
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Taxpayers Billed Nearly $100 Billion for Extreme Weather in 2012
National Resources Defense Council By Dan Lashof With all the debate on the federal budget in Congress, climate change rarely gets mentioned as a deficit driver. Yet dealing with climate disruption was one of the largest non-defense discretionary budge…
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New Yorkers Tell Obama: No Keystone XL, Yes Renewables
Sane Energy Project Yesterday, when President Obama came to New York City for a fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, more than 500 people were there to greet him. They came in force with signs and banners to remind him of their opposition to the Ke…
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MAYDAY-MAYDAY: Coalition Calls for New York State to Oppose LNG Port
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION —The organizations, representing thousands of citizens, called on Gov. Cuomo to oppose the creation of Liberty LNG’s “Port Ambrose” project. The port would be near the entrance to …
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The Insurance Costs of Carbon Pollution
THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT — But a groundbreaking new study by Ceres, a global advocate for sustainability in leadership whose Investor Network on Climate Risk manages $11 trillion in assets, reveals that most insurers aren’t preparing for climate change at all …