State Farm shedding 72,000 home insurance policies in California
State Farm, California’s largest insurer, announced it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments starting this summer, a move likely to sharply inflate housing costs for affected...
View ArticleYes, beavers can help stop wildfires. And more places in California are...
Alex Wigglesworth | Los Angeles Times (TNS) A vast burn scar unfolds in drone footage of a landscape seared by massive wildfires north of Lake Tahoe. But amid the expanses of torched trees and gray...
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Setting prairies ablaze in springtime is key to restoring damaged ecosystems,...
On a recent weekday, short but mighty flames began consuming an expanse of tallgrass in Nachusa Grasslands, their advance marked with crackles and pops. Satisfied with the blaze, a group of eight...
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Controversial plan takes shape to protect Joshua trees from climate change,...
Picture Joshua Tree National Park, but without the Joshua trees. Modeling shows that could be reality for the vast majority of the park by the end of this century if the triple threats of climate...
View ArticleHow do wildfires affect mental health? A new study examines the connection
Taylor Blatchford | (TNS) Seattle Times SEATTLE — Checking air quality and staying indoors when smoke inundates the Seattle area has become second nature during Washington’s wildfire season in recent...
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California commissioner, Farmers CEO ‘look outside’ for answers to insurance...
State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara — who is in the midst of issuing new regulations to address California’s insurance crisis — told CalMatters this week that he feels like he is “in a forced...
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Should wildfire victims get a break from California’s home solar mandate?
By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters Hundreds of homes in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the Caldor Fire. In the three years since that devastating summer, many...
View ArticleUpdated LA County climate action plan sets goals for carbon-neutral county by...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an updated climate action plan on Tuesday, April 16 with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases emitted within unincorporated county...
View ArticleReport: Communications breakdown exacerbated Maui fire’s impact
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Rebecca Boone and Claudia Lauer | Associated Press HONOLULU — As wildfires ripped across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels...
View ArticleCalifornia sees two more property insurers exit from market
By Nadia Lopez | Bloomberg California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co.,...
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