Extreme Weather

4 Reasons Why the Biden Administration Should Not Expand Offshore Drilling Article

An oil Derrick and surfers off coast of Huntington Beach, Orange County, California.

4 Reasons Why the Biden Administration Should Not Expand Offshore Drilling

More drilling won’t lower energy prices—but it will further burden frontline communities, pollute the ocean, and worsen climate change.

Jun 28, 2022

Zainab Mirza, Miriam Goldstein

Regulators’ Efforts To Promote Climate Risk Management by Banks Are a Positive Step Forward Article

A Linden, New Jersey, oil refinery is pictured.

Regulators’ Efforts To Promote Climate Risk Management by Banks Are a Positive Step Forward

The FDIC’s proposed climate-related risk management principles for banks are necessary to ensure the safety and soundness of the financial system.

Jun 14, 2022

Todd Phillips, Alex Fredman

Regulators Should Identify and Mitigate Climate Risks in the Insurance Industry Report

Regulators Should Identify and Mitigate Climate Risks in the Insurance Industry

State insurance regulators and the Federal Insurance Office should enact these policy recommendations to address the risks climate change poses to both insurance companies and insurance markets.

Jun 13, 2022

Alex Fredman

The 9th Summit of the Americas is an Opportunity to Center Climate Action in Regional Security Article

The 9th Summit of the Americas is an Opportunity to Center Climate Action in Regional Security

President Biden must capitalize on hosting this year’s Summit of the Americas to galvanize a regional security strategy that centers climate action.

May 26, 2022

Joel Martinez, Frances Colón

Extreme Weather Cost U.S. Taxpayers $99 Billion Last Year, and It Is Getting Worse Report

A building that burned in the Dixie Fire remains standing amid rubble on August 8, 2021, in Greenville, California. (Getty/Maranie R. Staab)

Extreme Weather Cost U.S. Taxpayers $99 Billion Last Year, and It Is Getting Worse

The financial toll of extreme weather events fueled by climate change is at an all-time high and requires that Congress take bold action to move the country toward a 100 percent clean future.

Sep 1, 2021

Kat So, Sally Hardin

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action Report

(A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020.)

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action

As the Biden administration and Congress pursue ambitious infrastructure investments, they should look to the ocean to build a clean energy future.

Apr 26, 2021

Rennie Meyers, Alexandra Carter, Miriam Goldstein

Securing a Safe, Just, and Climate-Ready Future for Florida Report

(Bird's-eye view of houses along an eroded beach/shoreline close to the water's edge.)

Securing a Safe, Just, and Climate-Ready Future for Florida

Florida leaders must address environmental racism through the creation of a Florida Future Fund that will build just, equitable, and healthy communities.

Mar 16, 2021

Bianca Majumder, Cathleen Kelly, Salome Garcia, 2 More Yoca Arditi-Rocha, Katrina Erwin

Mapping Environmental Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration Report

(President Joe Biden prepares to sign executive orders after speaking about climate change issues at the White House on January 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C.)

Mapping Environmental Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration

California’s environmental justice mapping tool offers clear lessons for identifying and targeting benefits to disadvantaged communities.

Feb 4, 2021

Aimee Barnes, Angela Luh, Matthew Gobin

Rethinking the Intersection of Climate Policy and the Federal Budget Report

(Climate change protesters block traffic in front of the U.S. Capitol on September 23, 2019, in Washington, D.C.)

Rethinking the Intersection of Climate Policy and the Federal Budget

The magnitude of risks facing the U.S. economy mean that the federal budget process can no longer ignore climate concerns.

Dec 23, 2020

Jacob Leibenluft

TPS Can Promote Stability and Recovery for Central American Countries Hit by Recent Hurricanes Report

A Honduran family who fled from the flooded La Guadalupe municipality with just two bikes and some clothes advances through the muddy water in the also-flooded municipality of La Lima near San Pedro Sula, November 20, 2020, after the passage of Hurricane Iota. (Getty/Orlando Sierra/AFP)

TPS Can Promote Stability and Recovery for Central American Countries Hit by Recent Hurricanes

Hurricanes Eta and Iota caused widespread damage to several already fragile Central American countries, leaving them incapable of safely and adequately accepting the return of their own nationals living abroad.

Dec 21, 2020

Silva Mathema, Tom Jawetz

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