A new Treasury Department report finds that more than half of U.S. counties — populated by millions of Americans — face heightened future exposure to at least one of the three leading climate hazards: flooding, wildfire or extreme heat.
And for some Americans, the report’s findings may feel even more immediate. That’s especially true at the end of a summer marked by record-high temperatures in parts of Texas, Arizona and elsewhere, costly flooding in Vermont, and compromised breathing as Canadian wildfire smoke drifted down…
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