(Outlet: CNBC) American basements are a hodgepodge of personal property, leveraged as storage units, man caves, game rooms, wine cellars, home bars and secondary living rooms. The problem is: If your basement floods, your flood insurance policy likely won’t cover damages to most — if any — of your belongings.…Read More
(Outlet: FactCheck.org) Pending regulations under review by the Biden administration could greatly increase the number of electric vehicles sold in the U.S. But if implemented, the proposals to reduce tailpipe emissions and raise the fuel efficiency standards of cars and trucks would not “ban” the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles, as a trade group for fuel makers falsely suggests in an ad campaign.…Read More
(Outlet: Wharton Business Daily) In this episode of Wharton Business Daily, Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Sarah Light explains private vs. public environmental governance, and how the former is now an accepted and powerful environmental policy tool, as discussed in her new book, Private Environmental Governance.…Read More
(Outlet: The New York Times) In this Letter to the Editor, Eric W. Orts, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, responds to “Fringe Climate Proposal, a Giant Space Parasol, Gains Interest” (front page, Feb. 3).…Read More
(Outlet: Carbon Herald) In this interview, Susanna Berkouwer, Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, explains what their cookstove research in Kenya has revealed.…Read More
(Outlet: University of Pennsylvania Almanac) R. Jisung Park, an assistant professor in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) with a secondary appointment at the Wharton School, has been selected by the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) as one of 17 visiting scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year.…Read More
(Outlet: Newsweek) California homeowners have seen the cost of their insurance surge in recent months, as several private insurers have stopped offering new policies in the state for fears of more frequent, devastating wildfires.…Read More
(Outlet: Insurance Business Magazine) Insurance policyholder advocates believe reinsurance program is needed amid insurer pullbacks.…Read More
(Outlet: The People Space) A recent paper argues there is no statistically strong relationship between diversity, equity and inclusion and better financial performance. Does this lessen the business case for investing in DEI or should the case instead rest on a cultural and moral imperative rather than profit?…Read More
(Outlet: Mother Jones) In recent years, top asset management firms from BlackRock to Vanguard have expanded what’s known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing—a way to screen investments not just for profit potential, but also for a company’s record on everything from climate change to workplace diversity. Strive’s goal, however, is the exact opposite: to undo what the fund’s leaders see as a growing culture of “wokeness” that has infected boardrooms across America. …Read More
