Current:Home > ContactWhen Sea Levels Rise, Who Should Pay? -FutureProof Finance
When Sea Levels Rise, Who Should Pay?
View
Date:2025-04-26 14:32:44
Facebook's campus on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay is at risk from rising sea levels. So is a nearby low-income community. That's raising questions about who should be paying for climate change. Taxpayers or private landowners (in this case, some of the world's largest tech companies) with waterfront property? NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer explains in the first of two episodes.
For more on this story, including pictures and videos, click here.
Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
This episode was produced by Brit Hanson, fact-checked by Berly McKoy and edited by Gisele Grayson.
veryGood! (41871)
Related
- Sonya Massey's father decries possible release of former deputy charged with her death
- New Parents Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen Sneak Out for Red Carpet Date Night
- Human torso brazenly dropped off at medical waste facility, company says
- Kelis and Bill Murray Are Sparking Romance Rumors and the Internet Is Totally Shaken Up
- Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
- As California’s Drought Worsens, the Biden Administration Cuts Water Supplies and Farmers Struggle to Compensate
- Chelsea Handler Has a NSFW Threesome Confession That Once Led to a Breakup
- Chelsea Handler Has a NSFW Threesome Confession That Once Led to a Breakup
- Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
- The BET Award Nominations 2023 Are Finally Here: See the Full List
Ranking
- The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
- Thousands of Low-Income Residents in Flooded Port Arthur Suffer Slow FEMA Aid
- ‘This Is an Emergency’: 1 Million African Americans Live Near Oil, Gas Facilities
- Kelis and Bill Murray Are Sparking Romance Rumors and the Internet Is Totally Shaken Up
- EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
- As Extreme Weather Batters America’s Farm Country, Costing Billions, Banks Ignore the Financial Risks of Climate Change
- Melissa Rivers Shares What Saved Her After Mom Joan Rivers' Sudden Death
- Selma Blair, Sarah Michelle Gellar and More React to Shannen Doherty's Cancer Update
Recommendation
What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez, Robert De Niro's grandson, dies at age 19
China Ramps Up Coal Power Again, Despite Pressure to Cut Emissions
Trump EPA Targets More Coal Ash Rules for Rollback. Water Pollution Rules, Too.
Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked, Pentagon says
Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Response Plan, with Tribe’s Input
These Cities Want to Ban Natural Gas. But Would It Be Legal?
Ohio Gov. DeWine asks Biden for major disaster declaration for East Palestine after train derailment