Environment California to Release Disaster Map

The following is an edited press release from Environment California.

The year of 2011 set records nationally for extreme weather and weather-related disasters, according to Environment California, which will release a report and launch an interactive online map documenting how many Californians live in counties hit by recent weather-related disasters. 

The report will also outline how global warming could lead to certain extreme weather events becoming even more common or more severe in the future.

The report will be released at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning and wil include recent extreme weather events that have impacted communities around the state and the damage caused by those extreme weather events.

The release of the report comes just two weeks after the Obama administration announced carbon pollution standards for coal-fired power plants—the largest single source of the carbon pollution that fuels global warming.

Along with the report we will release a list of elected officials in California who have signed onto a letter endorsing clean energy solutions.