"In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people".

"Repeated shocks from hurricanes, fires and floods are pushing some rural communities, already struggling economically, to the brink of financial collapse."

"A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country."

"Choices about building rules, insurance programs, flood maps and more put residents at higher risk, according to climate and disaster experts."

"Populations in areas of the United States at high risk for climate disasters are growing, according to an analysis done by real estate listing service Redfin."

"Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince".

Paradise, California has "a new, ambitious town effort to identify the most high risk properties in the burn area and, if there are willing sellers, buy them and turn them into fire resistant green spaces."