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As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.
A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
US Magnesium, on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, left a legacy of environmental problems.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.
It’s the latest evidence that we have left the bounds of “normal” weather on a “normal” planet.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
"Carbon emissions? Still climbing. Rich countries' finance commitments? Delinquent."
