🤦🏻♂️ Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed
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Rob Moore
@rmoore2023.bsky.social
Works on issues related to climate adaptation, insurance, policy, and escalating disaster risks due to climate change. Also a real downer at cocktail parties.
Once again, scientists turn out to be right about climate change. Being able to say, "Told you so," still feels like an unsatisfactory result, of course. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/c...
The Balance That Keeps Climate Stable Is Out of Whack, U.N. Report Finds
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd
Join me at the next No Kings Day
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Was great to be on @americaadapts.bsky.social latest show to talk about the growing insurability crisis taking hold across the country. Me and Alfonso Pating of NRDC talk about the growing crisis and what states need to be doing. www.americaadapts.org/episodes/an-...
An Uninsurable Country: What Rising Climate Risk Means for Homeowners with NRDC — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change Podcast
An Uninsurable Country: What Rising Climate Risk Means for Homeowners. Ep. 249.
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New blog from my colleague Alfonso Pating @nrdc.org examines the reliability of homeowners insurance in an era of rapidly rising risks. www.nrdc.org/homeowners-c...
Homeowners Can’t Count on Insurance. States Can Help.
By pairing stronger insurance market oversight with risk-reduction programs and better last-resort insurance options, state regulators can help make our safety net reliable again.
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The use of a person's credit score to price homeowner's insurance is a major problem. In many states, a person's credit score has a bigger influence on their premium than the physical risk of damage. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit History
In many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
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Noem's out, Mullin's in. I'm guessing the chaos and dysfunction @FEMA and @DHS remain about the same...just with fewer uninformed public pronouncements that Sec Noem served up. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is out, Trump says, after controversial tenure
President Donald Trump announced the decision on social media and said Noem would be replaced with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.).
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Today @NRDC released "An Uninsurable Country: States must take action to fend off the looming home insurability crisis." Wondering how the turmoil in state insurance markets came to be -- and what can be done about it? Read and find out! www.nrdc.org/resources/un...
An Uninsurable Country
States must take action to fend off the looming home insurability crisis.
nrdc.org
The federal EPA wants to force Americans to give as much money as possible to oil companies. State and local leaders have a duty to their constituents to fight back. Here are 16 ways to cut pollution – by making HOUSING more available and affordable. via @climatecabineteducation.org
Housing Policy that Solves Climate Change - Climate Cabinet Education
State and local policy solutions to address the climate crisis, the affordability crisis, and the housing crisis at the same time.
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State Farm's Super Bowl ad may not have had the intended effect
NRDC@nrdc.org · 7mo agoCute ad campaign. I bet the 72,000 policyholders State Farm dropped in California appreciate the laugh. We need insurers who aren’t “halfway there”, which means: Paying covered claims. Pricing fairly. Rewarding risk reduction. Protecting people, not just company profits.
Gov. Pritzker's call for state oversight of insurance prices overlooks the need for state action on risk reduction efforts. Absent efforts to control rising risks, the state might just be rubber stamping rate increases justified by mounting disaster losses. chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-gov...
Pritzker pushes back at State Farm in fight for tighter insurance regulations
The giant insurer hit homeowners with premium increases last summer averaging 27%, and unlike some states, Illinois has zero authority to block insurance price hikes. The governor is trying to change ...
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Today's a great day. After months of inadvertently hitting the Microsoft Co-Pilot button on my laptop keyboard, my IT department is disabling it!
Mmmm. Made from scratch cornbread stuffing. One of my favorite things to make for Thanksgiving
New report from @NRDC and @EDF on funding voluntary buyouts. Buyouts not only allow high-risk property owners to move somewhere safer but also the newly acquired properties can become part of the community’s longer-term climate resilience plans. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
New Report Shows How States Can Fund Home Buyouts as Federal Resources Shrink
As costs for damages from climate-fueled disasters continue to mount, a new report from NRDC and EDF shows how states and local governments can pay for voluntary home buyouts and relocation assistance...
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First step to solving a problem is recognizing we have one...a very big one. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: 1.5 degrees ‘no longer plausible’ as global emissions hit record
The most aggressive goal of the Paris Agreement is out of reach, according to a new analysis by the Global Carbon Project.
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Illinois AG's seeking information about State Farm's huge rate increases in Illinois. That may turn up other factors, but I told @Law360 why premiums may rise for years to come. "If our homes aren't built for the future, then homes won't be insurable in the future." www.law360.com/insurance-au...
Illinois Seeking Transparency With State Farm Suit, Pros Say - Law360 Insurance Authority
In suing State Farm for homeowners insurance data, the state of Illinois is taking an approach to regulating carriers with transparency in mind that could be replicated elsewhere, but lowering climate...
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Headquartered in Illinois, State Farm is not interested on providing data to the Illinois Department of Insurance about its insurance business. Illinois AG is going to have State Farm explain this to the courts. www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/il...
State Farm faces lawsuit from Illinois amid scrutiny over rate increases
The suit alleges State Farm refused to comply with a Department of Insurance examination into its homeowners business.
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My op-ed was published today in @crainschicago.bsky.social re: whyt Illinois must do more on risk reduction and climate resilience in order to keep homeowners insurance prices stable. One need only look to LA, CA, and FL for what happens if you don't. www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/illi...
Opinion: Illinois faces an insurability crisis — not just an insurance crisis
Rising premiums show Illinois faces an insurability crisis fueled by climate risk — and price regulation alone won’t keep coverage affordable.
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Gilbert Gaul's recent piece in @yalee360.bsky.social should be required reading for state insurance regulators and officials who are responsible for bldg codes and land use. Where, what, and how we build today define tomorrow's problems. e360.yale.edu/features/cli...
How Climate Risks Are Putting Home Insurance Out of Reach
After years underestimating the risks posed by climate-fueled disasters, the U.S. home insurance industry is in turmoil. In vulnerable areas, rising insurance costs are upending housing markets and co...
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The administration's dismantling of risk reduction and disaster resilience programs will cost the nation dearly. My colleague, Anna Weber, makes a good case for keeping these programs. progressive.org/op-eds/disas...
Disaster Resilience Planning Saves Money and Lives
Instead of cutting funds for disaster planning, the Trump Administration needs to prioritize risk reduction.
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Story on "beach nourishment" project in South Carolina contains all-too-predictable sentiments that illustrate the futility of these projects 1) you can't just spray sand and expect it to stick 2) identical project done in 2014 and 2018 (see 1 above) www.postandcourier.com/charleston_s...
As peak hurricane season nears, how much sand is left after Folly Beach's $23M renourishment?
Nearly all of the new sand is still on Folly Beach a year after Army Corps began 2024 renourishment project, a good sign ahead of peak hurricane season.
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If you missed Columbia University's Climate Mobility conference in June, you can learn more about it on @americaadapts.bsky.social. www.americaadapts.org/episodes/ins...
Inside the MR2025 Conference: Planning for Adaptation, Mobility and Relocation in a Warming World — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change Podcast
Inside the MR2025 Conference: Planning for Adaptation, Mobility and Relocation in a Warming World. Ep. 233.
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Does that make sense to anyone? In the aftermath of a flash flood that led to 120+ fatalities? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
NOAA was developing a tool to help communities prepare for future rainfall. Trump officials stopped it.
The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation.
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Beautiful Spending Bill That Makes Climate Change Worse Protects Chickens From Climate Change 🐔🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods and Trump’s Tax Bill
Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.
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Put down you Rolex Sec. Noem. Times Up! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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As President Trump heads to Texas, let's reflect on some of his previous disaster site visits, as told in this book. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Whose-...
