{"id":247261,"date":"2024-03-19T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/connecticut-wants-to-penalize-insurers-for-backing-fossil-fuels\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:48:15","slug":"connecticut-wants-to-penalize-insurers-for-backing-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/connecticut-wants-to-penalize-insurers-for-backing-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The nation\u2019s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disasters. These catastrophes have forced carriers to pay out billions in claims, and many have responded by raising premiums in disaster-prone states like Florida and Oregon or leaving certain markets altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">But many of these companies also provide coverage for fossil fuel projects, like pipelines and natural gas power plants, that would never be built without their backing. This gives the insurance industry a unique role on both sides of the climate crisis: insurers are helping make the problem worse by underwriting the very projects that warm the earth even as they bear the costs of mounting climate disasters and pass them on to customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Legislation in Connecticut, the capital of the American insurance industry and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/regulation\/connecticut-disaster-insurance-fossil-fuels\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disasters. These catastrophes have forced carriers to pay out billions in claims, and many have responded by raising premiums in disaster-prone states like Florida and Oregon or leaving certain markets altogether. 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