Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. 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.
The federal government is ill-prepared to shoulder what could be a trillion-dollar fiscal crisis associated with extreme weather, floods, wildfires and other climate disasters through 2100, federal investigators have found.
When it comes to climate change, Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has a secret weapon none of her Democratic rivals can match — the ability to talk to the middle of the country about the threat of a warming planet.
They warned of storm surges up the Mississippi River, flooding in New Orleans and more than 2 feet of rain along parts of the Gulf Coast.
Officials warned of potentially life-threatening flooding last night as heavy rains moved across northern Louisiana more than 36 hours after Hurricane Barry made landfall at Intracoastal City, 160 miles west of New Orleans.
Southeast Louisiana could pay a heavy price for simultaneous climate disasters headed for a collision along the Gulf Coast this weekend. Super-heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Barry could combine with a swollen Mississippi River to cause dangerous flooding.