"State insurance regulators are feeling pressure to address climate change before a federal counterpart established last year moves in on their territory."

"Key commissioners are ramping up their attendance at international meetings that focus on the perils of rising temperatures in order to leave their "footprint" on an emerging area of jurisdiction that they fear could be claimed by the Federal Insurance Office.

State officials are also considering whether to revisit a bitterly defeated climate survey designed to make large insurance companies publicly reveal the steps they're taking, or not taking, to prepare their policyholders, investment portfolios and bottom lines for climate-related risks."

Evan Lehman reports for ClimateWire December 21, 2011. [2]