Insurance companies and lenders are responding to climate change — by shifting risk to taxpayers

Grist
By Naveena SadasivamMar 4, 2020, 3:59 am135 pts
In a pair of little-noticed letters sent earlier this year, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and five other Democratic senators asked two giant organizations crucial to keeping the country’s housing market running how they were preparing for the destructive power of climate change. “If we are underprepared,…

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