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Daniel is a reporter covering business and markets for ClimateWire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E publications. His beat is focused on the intersection of climate change and business activity, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, clean technology and smart grid applications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
About 80 percent of U.S. mainland homes inundated by Hurricane Irma didn't have flood insurance, meaning property owners will shoulder tens of billions of dollars in losses, according to newly released data.
Much has been made about the half-million motor vehicles piling up in Houston-area dealerships and parking lots, where mechanics and insurance adjusters are performing Hurricane Harvey postmortems.
MIAMI — After a stormy night, most residents of South Florida awoke yesterday to find the sun shining on less damage than they'd feared Hurricane Irma might bring.
Millions of Florida homes being battered by Hurricane Irma this morning are sharply vulnerable to storm surge and whipping winds, potentially creating unprecedented amounts of damage two weeks after one of the most expensive storms in U.S. history flooded parts of Texas.
Ten days passed between President Trump's erasure of a federal order to limit flood damage and one of the worst inundation events in U.S. history, caused by Hurricane Harvey. Now it might happen again.