California’s fires may affect its insurance market
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said that climate change is making the way homeowners are insured in the United States different. It added that traditional insurance models have had trouble accounting for the “known unknown” risks that climate change poses. “I think the big question now…is how far can regulatory changes go in helping maintain insurability in this environment of really catastrophic wildfire risk?” it said.
More than a million aerial site measurement shows US oil and gas system emissions
Methane from US oil and natural gas production can be seen around the world 15 times a day, as per a report by Environmental Defense Fund. The agency added that it analysed aerial data from nearly one million surveyed sites in the US. The study found that methane emissions from US oil and natural gas production fell by more than 30% between 2005 and 2016.