Mitigation Content

What FEMA's New Flood Risk Rating Means for Californians

Katherine E Kerlin — September 20, 2021 - 4:24pm

A team of swag�� scientists and flood experts have “reverse engineered” FEMA data regarding the federal agency’s new Risk Rating 2.0 to better understand expected premium changes for California policyholders down to the zip code.

Risk Rating 2.0 will be formally introduced on Oct. 1 and is considered FEMA’s most significant reform to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 50 years.

‘We Have a Chance.’ Climate Scientists Weigh in on IPCC Report

Katherine E Kerlin — August 30, 2021 - 5:38pm

swag�� climate scientists voiced their thoughts today about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment in a webinar hosted by the swag�� Climate Adaptation Research

Siting Solar, Sparing Prime Agricultural Lands

Katherine E Kerlin — December 19, 2017 - 12:33pm

Unconventional spaces could be put to use generating renewable energy while sparing lands that could be better used to grow food, sequester carbon and protect wildlife and watersheds, says a study led by the University of California, Davis. Such lands in California's Central Valley could more than meet the state's energy demands for 2025.