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How to Address Sea Level Risks in California Real Estate Transactions

Legal Planet

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. In 2017, over 95,000 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders submitted claims to FEMA for approximately $8.7 In fact, the U.S.

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Supreme Court Allows Major State, Local Government Climate Change Litigation to Proceed on Merits

Legal Planet

Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. This climate change litigation template was quickly embraced and replicated by state and local governments across the United States, who followed suit by filing their own, similar cases against the fossil fuel industry.

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2021 Election Preview: Two Cities, Facing Floods and Aridity, Eye Big Public Works

Circle of Blue

Virginia Beach is located in a region that is experiencing the highest relative sea-level rise on the U.S. feet of sea-level rise. To deal with several feet of sea-level rise that is projected by the end of the century, larger structural items like tidal gates, levees, and raising roads would be required.

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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Saltwater intrusion on Chalmers’ rice paddies is forcing him to look for land elsewhere.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. How has Paxton responded?

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Danger Season and Hurricane Season Have Ended, Work for Impacted Communities Has Not

Union of Concerned Scientists

Hurricanes Fiona and Ian brought destruction and death: the former to Puerto Rico, which still has not recovered from Hurricane María in 2017, and the latter to Florida, destroying the Fort Myers area. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.

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Planning for a Climate-Adaptive Future

Washington Nature

Many communities are facing increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires, rising sea levels, more extreme rain, flooding, heat, and drought. For the past several years, TNC has worked alongside lawmakers, organizational partners, and communities across the state to update the GMA to incorporate considerations of climate change.