New research on plastic is already stirring up debate as countries prepare to meet in Ottawa, Canada this week for United Nations-sponsored negotiations.
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The agency will work with state insurance regulators after its plans to collect its own data faced pushback from the industry and Republicans in Congress.
“Last resort” state home insurance programs are taking on trillions of dollars in risk as private insurers pull out of the US markets most susceptible to climate disaster, from California to Florida.
Fierce storms, especially in the US, were responsible for more than half of the world’s insured catastrophe losses this year, according to the Swiss Re Institute.