Abraham Lustgarten & Talia Buford

Abrahm Lustgarten is a senior environmental reporter, with a focus at the intersection of business, climate, and energy, at ProPublica. Talia Buford covers disparities in environmental impacts for ProPublica.

Neighborhoods are empty of residents on September 13th, 2018, in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.
Economics

For North Carolina, Hurricane Florence Could Bring a Financial Reckoning

The state has bet against a megastorm for years, but now as Florence bears down on the state it could face a major money shortage to rebuild from the damage.