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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 $400, after the crisis jacked up natural gas prices across the country. Xcel Energy’s Colorado cu...

(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, even if we don’t realize it. The national bill for global warming is here, and it’s r...

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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. Hampton Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021 Shelia Washington was cleaning her parents’ ro...

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 climate change, new data suggests, creating a political headache for the Biden administration. The N...