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Despite Climate Promises, Insurance Companies Are Still Covering Coal

Open-pit coal mine in the Powder River Basin region of northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana.

This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering ClimateNow. The insurance industry is in a state of flux because of climate change. This year has seen a record-breaking number of costly disasters in the United States, and insurance companies are on the hook for much of that property damage. But […]