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Canaries and coal mines, US insurers and climate change

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Canaries are the most familiar of “sentinel species” – animals (and plants) that can alert us to threats to human health and the environment. Those who know their mining history also know that canaries were first used in...more

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The Boston Globe reports another climate change casualty, it is still way too hard to protect ourselves against rising waters &...

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The Boston Globe is following the Nantucket Current in reporting on another of the countless casualties of coastal erosion caused by our GHG-supercharged climate. Such reports have become common place over the past several...more

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New York State Department of Financial Services Issues Guidance to Insurers Concerning Climate Change

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The New York State Department of Financial Services ("DFS")--one of the primary state regulatory authorities in New York--has now issued guidance to insurers concerning managing the risks associated with climate change. This...more

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Climate Change and State Insurance Regulation: What Could Change After President Biden’s May 20 Executive Order

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US President Joe Biden’s May 20, 2021, executive order laid out an aggressive, whole-of-government plan to address climate change risk, including a set of directives that will have a major impact on the operations of the...more

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Insuring Against Climate Change: How Traditional Insurers and Start-Up Companies are Implementing Innovative Technologies to...

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Over the last decade, there has been a global increase in the focus on climate change and the risks and dangers associated with it. And for good reason. Damage from climate-related disasters was in the billions of dollars in...more

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Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain: The Dissolution of Cooperative Federalism in the Trump Era

The Trump Administration’s recent lawsuit against California’s climate change policies has cast a spotlight on a stark and troubling reality.  U.S. v. California is just the latest salvo in a sustained, direct assault by EPA...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights: October 2019 #3

Pennsylvania, CNX Reach $1.48M Settlement on Abandoned Wells - "The order covers 141 conventional wells and five shale gas wells in Allegheny, Washington, Greene and Westmoreland counties." Why this is important: The...more

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