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Report: 243 million Americans affected by weather disasters since 2007
2013-04-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Drought, record heat and Hurricane Sandy were among the major weather-related disasters that affected the United States in 2012. But just how many Americans felt the impact of these events? A newly released report from the Environment America Research and Policy Center says 243 million people nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population live in counties that experienced at least one weather-related disaster since 2007. The report, titled In the Path of the Storm, is based on six years of county-level...
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