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George Booth, executive director of the Floodplain Management Association, is photographed in front of Folsom Dam, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Folsom, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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Conflicting federal policies may cost residents more on flood insurance

The problem stems from a complex set of flood policies and some national security precautions taken after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

FILE - A flag hangs on the side of the Andeavor Mandan Refinery in Mandan, N.D., Sept. 6, 2017. Nineteen Republican state attorneys general have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in a dispute over climate-change lawsuits. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Republican AGs ask U.S. Supreme Court to block states’ climate change lawsuits

Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against...

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