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Residents relocating from an eroding island off Terrebonne Parish will move into homes built and designed to help weather hurricanes.

It’s monsoon season. Do you need flood insurance? Gary Sandler A few years ago, Federal Emergency Management Agency Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation Roy Wright said, "If there was ever a time to buy flood insurance, this is the time." While Wright’s message was chiefly directed at California residents, local flood officials were in agreement that some Las Cruces-area homeowners and renters would also be wise to take note of the advice. The big to...

Katie Porter, D- California, issued the following news release:. "Whether it's earthquakes or wildfires, California families know how important it is that we are prepared against natural disasters," Congresswoman Porter said. Porter's Disaster Learning and Life Saving Act would establish a National Disaster Safety Board modeled after the National...

Three thousand families in Alabama will be better protected against severe weather thanks to the Strengthen Alabama Homes program, which today funded its 3,000th FORTIFIED Roof™. Based on decades of research from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), the FORTIFIED Home™ program helps families protect their homes from severe weather by identifying key construction and roofing practices that can minimize damage from winds up to 130 mph, torrential rain and hail up to 2...

/PRNewswire/ -- Three thousand families in Alabama will be better protected against severe weather thanks to the Strengthen Alabama Homes program, which today...

Listen to the broadcast version of this story. Flood insurance will be cheaper for more than 40 percent of policy holders in Indiana. FEMA changed how it calculates the premiums in the federal flood insurance program. The agency said people with lower-valued homes have been paying more than their fair share of flood insurance. For decades, FEMA mostly based premiums off of whether you live in a flood zone and the propertys elevation. But the new pricing system looks more at the risk to that spe...

Coalition is Letting Californians Know May is Wildfire Awareness Month April 22, 2021 Last year saw a record-breaking wildfire season, with five of the 10 largest wildfires in California. The group is a coalition committed to ensuring that homeowners, communities and businesses are protected with improved vegetation management, land practices and the availability of affordable insurance. The group has been busy telling people about Wildfire Awareness Month in...

IBHS and UL expand partnership to improve asphalt shingle performance against hail UL to begin testing asphalt shingles to the IBHS Impact Resistance Test Protocol News provided by Share this article Share this article RICHBURG, S.C., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and UL today announced plans to expand their relationship to increase manufacturer access to testing to the IBHS Impact Resistance Test Protocol for Asphalt Shingles. In Ju...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Everybody Is Going to End Up Paying for Texas’ Climate Crisis Source: By David R Baker, Bloomberg • Posted: Monday, March 15, 2021 Americans already share the collective financial burden of climate change, even if they don’t realize it Fallout from last month’s deadly deep freeze in Texas has quietly spread to people living hundreds of miles away. Minnesota utilities have warned that monthly heating bills could spike by $400, after t...

How Everybody Ends Up Paying for Climate Crisis Fallout from last month’s deadly deep freeze in Texas has quietly spread to people living hundreds of miles away. Minnesota utilities have warned that monthly heating bills could spike by $400, after the crisis jacked up natural gas prices across the country. Xcel Energy’s Colorado customers could face a $7.50 per month surcharge for the next two years. This is a subtle demonstration of the way Americans already share the collective financial ...