Articles by Greg Hanscom
Greg Hanscom was a senior editor at Grist.
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Flood money: How Congress is botching the effort to climate-proof insurance
Lawmakers are retreating on basic reforms when they should be looking to the future, and creating even more dramatic changes.
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Flood pressure: Climate disasters drown FEMA’s insurance plans
A series of hurricanes has left the National Flood Insurance Program hopelessly in debt. A 2012 law aimed to fix that, but with residents of flood-prone areas irate, lawmakers are backpedaling.
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Street artists trace against time — and sea-level rise
Here's the story of how a quirky art project morphed into a surprisingly powerful tool for rallying communities to fight climate change.
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On defense: Cities get serious about climate resilience in 2013
This is the year we realized that being "green" is more than a tired trend. For cities, coping with climate chaos is a matter of survival.