Chemical disasters can be devastating to local economies. Just ask West Virginia businesses whose economy lost $19 million per day after the Elk River spill in 2015. The EPA is now updating rules on ...
Along with death and taxes, natural disasters seem to have to become another unpleasant certainty these days. While losses from natural disasters are increasing, insurance costs are ballooning and ...
In a move to accelerate the fight against climate change, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, marking the federal government’s largest commitment to ...
The Public Utilities Commission approved hundreds of millions in spending for NV Energy’s natural disaster prevention and continued to allow a controversial cost recovery method that has Southern ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Like many NV Energy customers, Las Vegas senior Ann Marie Cittadino has seen her power bill recently increase. “From the last year, it went up 20 percent,” Cittadino said. Cittadino ...
Preliminary data from the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention showed that as of Oct. 5, Typhoon Bualoi and its remnants caused an estimated VND18.8 trillion (US$713.3 million ...
China has officially established the University of Emergency Management, the country's first university dedicated to ...
Since 2017, eight of the largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred. Not only are these fires getting bigger, but they’re also affecting more properties. Losses due to wildfire added up ...