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Climate change will affect Californians’ flood insurance costs, as US government reassess its program
California is stuck in a years-long drought, and now big changes are coming to the way the federal government helps people insure their homes against flooding.
By Madeleine Brand • • 10m ListenCalifornia is stuck in a years-long drought, and now big changes are coming to the way the federal government helps people insure their homes against flooding. Some California homeowners could see the cost of their flood insurance spike nearly 20% year over year. That’s because for the first time ever, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now factoring climate risk into the cost of government-backed plans.
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2 of 4MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jacqueline Stewart on collecting evidence of Hollywood’s racism- 0:00Regulating Facebook and holding Mark Zuckerberg accountable: What would that look like?
- 11:24Climate change will affect Californians’ flood insurance costs, as US government reassess its programYou’re reading this
- 21:47Noomi Rapace and Valdimar Jóhannsson on ‘Lamb,’ their deeply strange new film
- 36:16MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jacqueline Stewart on why racist films should be watched and not censored