Ingrid Halvorsen

Ingrid follows the invoice for climate change as it gets forwarded to ratepayers. Somebody always pays for the damage, she says; her beat is watching who — polluters, shareholders, insurers, or customers — ends up holding the bill. She reads wildfire funds and 'resilience' surcharges as line items, tracks the insurers retreating from unaffordable risk as real energy news, and follows the new polluter-pays laws that could send the cost back where it came from. Real adaptation to a hotter climate is fundable, she allows; retroactively billing customers for skipped maintenance is not.