NJ: New Jersey creates the nation's first Energy Resilience Bank

Greenbiz: The Third National Climate Assessment, published in May by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, affirmed that extreme weather events such as Superstorm Sandy in 2012 are already on the increase due to climate change. While scientists are cautious about attributing single weather events to climate change, a 2013 report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded, "climate-change related increases in sea level have nearly doubled today's annual probability of a Sandy-level flood recurrence as compared to 1950."

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