Satellites Are Helping the Municipal-Bond Market Assess Climate Risk February 6, 2020 By Amanda Albright and Mallika Mitra The $3.8 trillion municipal-bond market has found a new tool in its effort to understand the impact of climate change:...
Extreme Weather Has Gardeners Looking for Resilient Plants February 5, 2020 By Dean Fosdick Fiercer and more frequent natural disasters in recent years have many homeowners re-evaluating their landscaping. Many are restocking with trees...
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why February 4, 2020 By Eric Roston There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they’ve agreed on what it would take to heat the planet...
Australian Wildfires Fan Argument Over Impact of Arsonists February 3, 2020 By Rod Mcguirk CANBERRA, Australia — What’s to blame for scores of wildfires devastating Australia’s southeast? There’s an increasingly bitter face-off between those...
PG&E Surges on Plan for Board Overhaul in Bankruptcy Exit February 3, 2020 By Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. shares jumped after the company outlined plans to overhaul its board of directors, bring in safety experts and...
Wine ‘Smoke Taint’ Disputes Linger 2 Years After Wildfires January 31, 2020 By Tyler Gerking Recent wildfires in California Wine Country, particularly those that devastated parts of Napa and Sonoma counties in October 2017, have...
PG&E Judge Demands Details on Potential Wildfire Payout Conflict January 16, 2020 By Steven Church Time is running out for PG&E Corp. to end the biggest-ever U.S. utility bankruptcy, so the company must set reorganization...
PG&E Tries to Assure Strict Judge It’s Safer on Wildfires January 16, 2020 By Joel Rosenblatt and Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. told a federal judge who has kept the troubled utility under a tight leash that it’s close —...
Forecast Storms Bring Both Relief and New Risks for Fire-stricken Australia January 15, 2020 By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE — Severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days from huge bushfires scorching Australia but...
PG&E Fire Victims Fight FEMA Over Multibillion-Dollar Payout January 10, 2020 By Mark Chediak and Steven Church Victims of wildfires blamed on PG&E Corp.’s power lines and government agencies that provided them disaster relief are tussling over...