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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 property's elevation. But the new pricing system looks more at the risk to that specific home and the cost to replace it. It also takes into account more factors — like heavy rainf...

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 May, and has released informational resources and statements from experts encouraging preparedness....

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 June 2019, IBHS released its Impact Resistance Test Protocol for Asphalt Shingles, a new test standard...

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 the crisis jacked up natural gas prices across the country. Xcel Energy’s Colorado customers could...

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 burden of climate change, even if we don’t realize it. The national bill for global warming is her...