Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.
Climate Change
California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.
A new Fed study warns that most expected flood losses are uninsured — and the lack of protection is more acute among Republican locales.
How Hurricane Milton and other climate chaos could trigger the next economic crisis.
As the storm bears down on their districts, fossil fuel-backed Reps. Greg Steube and Byron Donalds are pushing legislation claiming the climate crisis is a “false emergency.”
How climate change is breaking down the global safety net for handling life’s risks.
Texas is opening a fossil fuel-backed business court stacked with judges who’ve represented oil and gas companies.
As the climate changes, how much should we intervene to save species?
As financial safety nets collapse, regulators are letting insurers off the hook.
After Biden paused liquid natural gas exports, fossil fuel-backed Democrats have worked to undo the climate win.