Climate change

Proposed guidelines for federal tax credits could undermine the effort to build a clean hydrogen market, critics say.

Efforts at every level to respond to the growing problem of extreme heat are beginning to reshape how state and local governments think about emergency management.

Challenges to laws banning investment banks from underwriting municipal bonds and the targeting of other financial firms for divestment purposes may result from a recent Oklahoma ruling.

In Texas, the Austin City Council set a climate bond election for no later than November 2026, while an Arizona water authority is dealing with a funding drought.

The new rule will require FEMA to consider climate change's impact on future flood patterns in determining how and sometimes if to build back after flooding. 

Neither presidential candidate is talking enough about the "unsustainable" U.S. deficit, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said.

FEMA's rule is among the first adopted by a federal agency that will require federally funded projects to be sited and designed with future climate impacts in mind, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

After the west abutment on the Rapidan Dam partially failed last week, it's up to the Blue Earth County board of commissioners to pursue repair or removal.

To meet the ambitious goals of the Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, innovative financing models can be adapted from established municipal finance systems.

Passed every two years since 2016, the Water Resources Development Act of 2024 hits on many of President Biden's climate and resiliency goals.