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Facing natural disasters, more state lawmakers look to make oil companies pay for the damage
Vermont is the first state trying a new approach to climate policy: Charging fossil fuel companies money to cover the damages caused by natural disasters worsened by climate change. Other states could be close behind. New York lawmakers passed their own …