How America Created Cities Built To Burn (Part 2)
Decades of real estate lobbying pushed Californians further into fire zones. Will the fires force the state to rethink how to house its population?
Climate Change
We Will All Be Paying For L.A.’s Wildfires
Los Angeles’ wildfires and an industry-tied insurance regulator may prove a tipping point for the country’s faltering financial safety net.
How To End This Disaster Movie
We get to decide whether the L.A. fires are a wake-up call or a funeral pyre.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Biden’s Grand Finale
Biden drills down on offshore drilling, credit scores get healthier, social security gets a hand, and sketchy mortgage lenders are locked out.
The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation
Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.
The L.A. Fires And The Uninsurable Earth (Part 1)
The urban inferno is a warning about America’s future — if we do not combat the climate crisis and adapt to its threats.
How Big Oil Hindered The Fight Against L.A.’s Wildfires
California’s oil and gas companies avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes that could have been used to fight the inferno.
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: In With The Good Energy, Out With The Bad
California looks to the renewable future, while New York probes the polluted past.
Floods: An Impending Partisan Disaster
A new Fed study warns that most expected flood losses are uninsured — and the lack of protection is more acute among Republican locales.
GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups
Democrats are helping give Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and there’s already a road map on how to defund clean energy groups.