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California Utility Shuts Power for 60,000 People to Prevent Wildfires

PG&E Corp. has deliberately left customers in the dark for the first time as a precaution to prevent wildfires from breaking out. Almost 60,000 customers in six counties across the Sierra Nevada ...

While Climate Risk Grows, States Ease Off Building Codes

The showdown in the Florida statehouse last year had all the drama of a knock-down political brawl: Powerful industries clashing. Warnings of death and destruction. And a surprise last-minute vote, ...

Insurance, Reinsurance CEOs Join Global Push to Weave Insurance Concepts Into Disaster Planning

A group of insurance, reinsurance and global broking CEOs are assisting the work of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which was launched last month to help build resilience to climate risk and ...