In recent years, the concept of double materiality—once primarily a European regulatory focus—has begun shaping strategic conversations in U.S. boardrooms. While American securities law...

In a move aimed at streamlining wildfire response, the U.S. Department of the Interior officially unveiled the U.S. Wildland Fire Service on Monday, marking a new chapter in the nation’s approach to combating wildfires. The initiative seeks to consolidate the firefighting forces scattered across multiple Interior sub-agencies, including the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The announcement follows a September declaration by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who outlined the department’s intention to establish a unified wildfire-fighting service. This effort builds on a June executive order by President Donald Trump, which directed all agencies represented by the National Interagency Fire Center to strengthen...

In late September 2024, as Hurricane Helene roared toward Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm, its 130-mph winds churning the sunset skies, it was hard not to ask a familiar question: Is this the new normal? It’s a question that has echoed through many hurricane seasons over the past two decades. Some years feel apocalyptic. Others are eerily quiet. The science, as always, is more nuanced than the headlines. Are more major hurricanes hitting the U.S.? If we focus strictly on the continental United States, the long-term record going back to 1900 offers a surprising answer: there has been no statistically significant increase or decrease in the number of major (Category 3–5) hurricanes making landfall. That might...