Justin Gundlach, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law; Michael Panfil, a senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund; and Romany Webb, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. In a move that could blaze a trail to meaningful climate action nationwide, New York’s Public Service Commission, which is responsible for regulating that state’s utilities, is calling on them to disclose the financial risks they face due to climate change. Requiring utilities to develop and present this information would be a potent way to push a critically important sector of the economy to reveal and respond to the consequences of climate change — and to save consumers money along the way.