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Everybody is going to end up paying for weather crisis in Texas - and elsewhere David R Baker and Mark Chediak, Bloomberg News March 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Residents shovel snow from the street in front of a home in East Austin, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.Thomas Ryan Allison / Bloomberg 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...

(Bloomberg) -- 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 burden of climate change,...

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Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and created a museum in their honor. Shelia Washington in an undated photo at the spot where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested. She recognized that their story was an important milestone in the annals of civil rights, and was determined that it be remembered. “The story dies if we don’t tell it,” she said.Credit...William H. H...

Climate Threats Could Mean Big Jumps in Insurance Costs This Year The federal government is revising rates for flood coverage on April 1. New data suggests premiums need to increase sharply for some homes. Creole, La., a day after Hurricane Delta hit the area in October.Credit...Emily Kask for The New York Times Published Feb. 22, 2021Updated March 18, 2021 WASHINGTON — The cost of federal flood insurance will need to increase significantly in much of the country to meet the growing risks of ...

California state regulators announced on Monday a step toward creating incentives to retrofit older homes to make them more resilient to fires as consecutive years of catastrophic wildfires in the state drive up the cost of insuring homes

Grantham Carnival could be gone for good after SKDC said it cannot promise funding will continue  | Updated: 16:18, 04 February 2021 The loss of Grantham Carnival would “rip the heart” out of the town, say organisers, as a question mark hangs over the future of district council funding for the event. In a document debated by the cabinet of South Kesteven District Council on Tuesday, on the setting of the budget for 2021/22, it refers to the “cessation of ongoing financial contr...

Grantham community champions Roy Wright and Courtney Finn and MP Alicia Kearns give New Year messages Roy Wright, chairman, Grantham Carnival and Events Group The beginning of any new year is a time for reflection of the year just passed and looking forward to the year ahead. I don’t think many of us want to re-live the awful havoc that Covid has brought to our lives, nor do we want to still have Brexit to think about. Grantham Carnival and Events Group chairman Roy Wright. (1933524) Both...

Christmas shooting in Tupelo landed four suspects in jail Tupelo police say the occupants of a car chased after and shot at a truck on Christmas Day. Posted: Dec 28, 2020 10:30 AM Updated: Dec 28, 2020 1:04 PM Posted By: Zac Carlisle 4 Images TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - Tupelo police continue to investigate a shooting that happened Christmas night along Gloster Street. According to the Tupelo Police Department, the occupants of a Volkswagen car pursued and shot at a Chevrolet pick-up truck, both ...

Originally published on December 18, 2020 1:05 pm William Jennings and his wife have lived in their Virginia Beach, Va., home for the last 37 years. And their plan was to stay in it through retirement. "I really like my house," Jennings says, standing in the front yard. "A two-story home. A swimming pool in the backyard." But Jennings neighborhood has flooded more often in recent years. His house did once, too. His mortgage requires flood insurance, which now costs him $2,336 a year and is se...