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California is being hit with increasingly frequent, climate change-turbocharged wildfires and much of the disaster-recovery costs are being passed on to taxpayers and ratepayers in the form of higher, and increasingly unaffordable, insurance rates, housing costs, property taxes, utility bills, and health expenses. Some lawmakers, backed by environmental and citizen rights groups, aim to change that. Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief and Terra Verde cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra talks about ongoing legislative efforts to make the main drivers of climate disruption — fossil fuel companies and other corporate polluters — pay up with Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, and Sierra Lindsey Kos, co-founder and co-executive director of Extreme Weather Survivors, a climate disaster survivor support group.
You can lend your support for the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act here.
The post Making Climate Polluters Pay appeared first on KPFA.
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California is being hit with increasingly frequent, climate change-turbocharged wildfires and much of the disaster-recovery costs are being passed on to taxpayers and ratepayers in the form of higher, and increasingly unaffordable, insurance rates, housing costs, property taxes, utility bills, and health expenses. Some lawmakers, backed by environmental and citizen rights groups, aim to change that. Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief and Terra Verde cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra talks about ongoing legislative efforts to make the main drivers of climate disruption — fossil fuel companies and other corporate polluters — pay up with Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, and Sierra Lindsey Kos, co-founder and co-executive director of Extreme Weather Survivors, a climate disaster survivor support group.
You can lend your support for the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act here.
The post Making Climate Polluters Pay appeared first on KPFA.

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