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Phil Weiser: “The way we can avoid these rising home insurance premiums is…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 40:38

… fee to be able to allow us to invest better in clean energy and in the transition that we have need. And Mr. Weiser, you shouldn't have to pay. And The way we can avoid these rising home insurance premiums is to take on the risk to wildfires. And right now in Colorado, we're not doing that well enough. There's all this forest where you've got dying trees right now. And those are not only a risk to wildfires, they're a risk from a climate perspective. (40:38–40:50)

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Asserts that Colorado is not adequately addressing wildfire risks, which affects rising home insurance premiums.

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