The rising sea threatens South Florida’s drinking water – and the region’s economic viability
You grab the last box, freshly packed with life’s memories. As you drive toward the highway, you pass the ruins...
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A conundrum for affluent property owners: does it make sense to build a higher home in a neighborhood that faces chronic flooding?
A month ago, I was approached by a homeowner in a well-known, but not to be disclosed, neighborhood in South...
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A group of oil and gas firms are cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, according to policy research organization
The energy industry is waging war against climate change — and winning. The Environmental Partnership, a group of oil and...
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Tell Florida’s leaders you want the VW settlement money spent on electric transportation, not buses using fossil fuels
Known for nonsensical sayings, Yogi Berra famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Florida...
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Florida wants to buy Irma-flooded homes. Is it the start of retreat from sea rise?
When Hurricane Irma swept through the Keys, it took Kathy Reitzel’s home and livelihood with it. Nearly six feet of...
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Public Service Commission should set ambitious energy saving goals for power companies. They would improve the environment and residents’ health.
As physicians on the front line of public health, we know that energy efficiency reduces pollution, improves human health, and...
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The Miami bridge to Key Biscayne sparks a new worry on Wall Street: rising seas
Each year, the Fitch credit-ratings firm issues a report on debt backed by tolls collected on Miami’s Rickenbacker Causeway, the...
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Media roundup: Failing glacier; Boston prepares for flooding; who will pay?; California faces losses; threat to historic properties
A SUBMARINE GOES UNDER A FAILING GLACIER TO GAUGE RISING SEAS WIRED Anna Wåhlin, an oceanographer at Sweden’s University of...
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Your retirement savings are invested in green funds, but are they resilient? New technology may help answer that question.
Let’s say that, like millions of other investors around the world, you decide that you want to put some or...
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The Gulf Stream is slowing down. That could mean rising seas and a hotter Florida
The Gulf Stream, the warm current that brings the east coast of Florida the mixed blessings of abundant swordfish, mild...
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As flood threat grows, Florida must put homebuyers first and require flood risk disclosure
The climate is changing, and it has become abundantly clear that Florida is going to be badly damaged in the...
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To combat sea-level rise, Miami-Dade must become a leader in green technology
Like Noah preparing for the great flood, South Florida faces an existential choice. We can either boldly confront the challenge...
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As the planet gets hotter, South Floridians need to pay attention to Greenland’s melting ice
If you’ve ever flown between the United States and Europe, you may have noticed a giant white area showing up...
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The Florida PACE program could be a vital new source of money for people who want to make their properties more resilient to flooding
In an Invading Sea articlein June, I wrote that new building codes and large public infrastructure projects will not do...
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New Study Says Everglades Water Is Harming Keys Corals. Not Everyone Agrees
The Florida Everglades can be a contentious place. Politicians, conservationists and farmers never seem to agree on much. Debate among...
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Florida should prepare for months of 105 heat index temperatures
A pint-size heat wave last month smothered South Florida with temperatures that felt like 108 degrees, triggering rare heat advisories...
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Palm Beach County’s cities, towns taking the initiative on sea-level rise threat
Preparing our region for sea-level rise and other effects of climate change is so massive a task that it can’t...
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The climate crisis harms our health as well as the environment and must be the primary focus of the 2020 presidential race
Florida faces a clear and present danger from the climate crisis. Unfortunately, despite widespread calls in Florida’s media prior to...
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Local governments and private developers must work together to address the effects of climate change
Residents of Miami, where our law firm Bilzin Sumberg is based, need no reminder that South Florida is on the...
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Combatting Sea-Level Rise Requires ‘Top Down’ and ‘Bottom Up’ Approaches
On July 1, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection awarded $1.6 million to help Florida communities prepare for sea-level rise....
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Climate change denial ends at agency that protects waters in South Florida
At the South Florida Water Management District, the theme song for this year might be “Ding Dong The Witch Is...
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Media Roundup: Trump touts environmental record; media improve climate coverage; restoring forests; expensive Sarasota sea walls
Donald Trump Called Climate Change a Hoax. Now He's Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It Time President Donald Trump has falsely...
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FPL wanted to punish disloyal customers by withholding solar. Then that changed.
By adding 20 solar power plants and 1,490 megawatts of power over the next two years, Florida Power and Light’s...
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Living Shorelines…Will the Oysters Save Us?
The idea of re-naturalizing the Atlantic and Gulf Coast shorelines in the United States is one that is gaining a lot...
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Potential buyers need to be given more information about a property’s flood risks
Under Florida case law, a seller of a home must disclose to the buyer all known facts that materially affect...
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Protecting Our Most Vulnerable from Storm Surge and Flooding
Hurricanes are not rare, unexpected events. They are a common occurrence that climate scientists expect will increase in frequency and...
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Trump passed on climate change. What will the Democrats do?
At his campaign launch this month, President Trump boasted to supporters that he had saved them from Hillary Clinton and...
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A year of rising climate change awareness, action for South Florida
A statewide collaborative news reporting partnership that will focus on climate change issues. A new, high-ranking Chief Resilience Officer who...
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Florida’s leading news organizations announce partnership for covering climate change
Climate change is the story of Florida’s future. No other state has as much at risk. That’s why six of...
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Here are six questions about our climate crisis that the Democratic candidates for President should answer
There may be no higher test of leadership than the kind of world we leave our children. We have an...
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