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Helene and Milton hurricanes are both likely to be $50 billion disasters, becoming among most costly storms

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Helene and Milton are both likely to be $50 billion disasters, joining ranks of most costly storms Monstrous hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much complex havoc that damages are still being added up, but experts in economics, insurance and risk say they are likely to be in the pantheon of super-costly $50 billion disasters. AP News

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Hurricane Milton could cost insurers up to $100 billion, analysts estimate

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Hurricane Milton could cost insurers up to $100 billion, analysts say Hurricane Milton could result in losses of up $100 billion for the global insurance industry, creating a surge in 2025 reinsurance prices that could boost some insurance companies' shares, analysts said on Wednesday. Carolyn Cohn,Noor Zainab Hussain Reuters

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Hurricane aftermath: Supplies rushed to communities isolated by Helene as death toll passes 100

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Supplies rushed to communities isolated by Helene as death toll passes 100 A crisis is unfolding in western North Carolina as officials pledged to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas that still lack power and cellular service days after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. AP News
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Hospitals, airlines and others hit by global computer system outages.

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CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions IT outages have been reported across the globe as airlines, airports, banks and media companies have suddenly experienced ongoing disruptions. ABC News ABC News
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Opinion: We built our world for a climate that no longer exists

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Opinion: We built our world for a climate that no longer exists | CNN From melting airport tarmac to power grids hit by hurricanes and reservoir dams stressed by extreme rainfall, our ‘Old World’ infrastructure is ill-equipped for climate change, writes Jeff Goodell. CNN

 

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Administration publishes final rule to increase community resilience from flooding --FEMA announcedment

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Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Rule to Increase Resilience Against Flooding Nationwide Today, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today published a Final Rule to implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The standard is a flexible framework to increase resilience against flooding and help protect communities.

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Climate change is affecting power outages in some New York neighborhoods and towns --study

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https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4636172-new-york-cities-blackouts-climate-change-study/

Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found.

Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science.

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U.S. Interior Department will grant tribal nations $120 million to fight climate-related threats

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Interior Department will give tribal nations $120 million to fight climate-related threats The Interior Department will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change. AP News

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The funding is designed to help tribal nations adapt to climate threats, including relocating infrastructure.

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Opinion: The social costs of greenhouse gas emissions in health care are astonishing --and ignored

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The social costs of greenhouse gas emissions in health care are astounding — and we’ve been ignoring them completely Despite the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are defined as the greatest threat to human health this century, the social cost of the healthcare industry’s emissions has somehow escaped the intere… ckulat The Hill

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Two large Massachusetts offshore wind turbines are sending electricity to the U.S. grid for the first time

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Two large offshore wind sites are sending power to the US grid for the first time For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two large offshore wind farms. AP News

 

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