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California's Sustainable Insurance Strategy: Balancing Innovation with Industry Challenges

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In the fall of 2023, California's Department of Insurance unveiled the Sustainable Insurance Strategy, a comprehensive initiative aimed at reforming the state’s insurance market. The impetus for this strategy was driven by a...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update - October 2022 #3

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New limits recommended for building homes in high-risk wildfire areas in California - The Mercury News – October 10 - At a news conference in San Diego County on October 10, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released...more

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HHS Turns Up the Heat on Climate Change with New Office

The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently established the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), reinforcing the Biden-Harris administration’s...more

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You Should Know - October 2020

Can Americans Seek Justice for Losses from Climate Change? America’s civil justice system is the great equalizer for the average citizen. Time and again, individuals have held powerful corporations, wealthy special...more

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“Purple Haze … Is It Tomorrow, Or Just the End of Time?”

We are in Yosemite, midway through our month-long RV trip out west. We planned this trip long before the world heard of Covid-19, but decided it was the lowest risk vacation we might take in 2020, so off we went. After two...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 41, November 2019

Why Everything They Say About California Fires — Including That Climate Matters Most — is Wrong - "'We’ve looked at the history of climate and fire throughout the whole state, and through much of the state, particularly...more

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[Webinar] Handling the Heat: The Evolving Nature of Washington's Wildfires - October 8th, 11:00 am PT

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Please join Nossaman Environment & Land Use Partner Linda Larson of the Firm’s Seattle office and Nossaman Water Practice Group Associate Willis Hon for "Handling the Heat: The Evolving Nature of Washington's Wildfires," a...more

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The "Disastrous" Costs of Climate Change

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"Natural" disasters cost the United States a record amount of $306 billion in 2017, topping the previous record of $215 billion in 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina. This past year also tied with 2011 for the highest number...more

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