News release: “The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) at the University of Maryland have worked together to develop State Economic and Environmental Costs of Climate Change reports. Four additional state economic and environmental costs of Climate Change Reports are being released for North Carolina, Tennessee, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. Each report summarize the climatic changes affecting each states, the potential fiscal impact, and the affect of any future climate changes. The findings for Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey and Ohio were released during an Energy Conference at NCSL’s Legislative Summit in New Orleans.”