Today: Climate disaster scores make or break home sales as buyers assess environmental risks; U.S. offshore wind outlook remains turbulent despite court wins; Republicans want to make it easier to use new chemicals.

Welcome back: Millions of home sellers and buyers are caught in a battle over how to rate a home’s exposure to natural disasters—and who gets to see that information.

Until November, all major home-listing platforms showcased scores from First Street, a small but influential climate-research company. It rates homes by their vulnerability to wildfire, flood, wind, heat and poor air quality.

But sellers are becoming increasingly spooked that information related to climate change and the results of it, are affecting sales. Home buyers meanwhile are becoming especially attuned to how climate change is unleashing disasters with unexpected frequency, location and intensity, the Wall Street Journal’s Jean Eaglesham and Nicole Friedman report.

With the housing market shifting in buyers favor, they can avoid homes with high risk scores or use the warnings to negotiate lower prices.

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Three East Coast wind projects scored court victories over Trump administration attempts to shut them down last week, but government opposition to offshore turbines could hamper any industry plans for building new ones.

“It’s not good for companies to have this level of very increased risk coming from the erratic policy environment,” said Ben Backwell, chief executive of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group.

Last week’s court rulings mean three projects that were already well under way can move forward for now. Judges grilled government lawyers defending the administration’s halt on wind projects in court, asserting that some of their legal arguments didn’t make sense or were “all over the map.”

That might not be enough to convince the industry that now is the time to develop new projects, despite fast-growing demand for power in the U.S, WSJ Pro Sustainable Business Reports.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are set to propose legislation aimed at helping companies to more quickly get the government’s blessing to use and sell many more new chemicals, from those used in heavy manufacturing to household disinfectants, Clara Hudson reports exclusively for WSJ Pro Sustainable Business.

Draft legislation seen by WSJ Pro Sustainable Business would implement a series of changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act—a sprawling law covering the impact of thousands of chemicals on the environment and public health. The legislation, first enacted in the 1970s, tasks the Environmental Protection Agency with chemical safety reviews.

The changes would make it easier for a swath of industries to get the green light to use new chemicals ranging from oil-and-gas additives to ingredients for cleaning products. It would also apply to new uses of already-approved chemicals.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce said it is going to hold a hearing on its plans on Jan. 22.

• The $100 Billion of U.S. Goods at Risk of Tariffs in Trump’s Greenland Push (WSJ)
   
• Trump is pushing gas to power AI boom, but building plants takes years (Bloomberg)

• Nestlé chief blames Trump for company going quiet on sustainability (FT)
   
• How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change (NYT)
   
• Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows (Guardian)

• UK homes to get £15bn for solar and green tech to cut energy bills (BBC)

• How EPA ethics officials cleared former industry insiders for regulatory roles (WaPo)

• With a nudge from industry, Congress takes aim at California recycling laws (LA Times)

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