Toxic Tides: Hazardous Facilities and Worsening Coastal Floods Put U.S. Communities at Risk

November 19, 2025

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About this webinar:

As seas rise and storms intensify due to climate change, thousands of coastal facilities across the U.S. storing or handling hazardous materials face an increasing risk of flooding. Join Climate Central, UCLA, and UC Berkeley for a webinar unveiling new research published in Nature Communications, which finds that thousands of hazardous facilities could be at risk from coastal flooding by 2100 — with vulnerable populations disproportionately in harm’s way.

In this session, you’ll get a summary of the research findings and a demo of how to use Climate Central’s interactive Toxic Tides maps to explore the data. You'll also hear from leading voices working at the intersection of climate and health on what these findings mean and how they can be used for storytelling and building resilience. Panelists will be available for a Q&A.

Panelists include:

• Dr. Lara Cushing, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity, University of California, Los Angeles

• Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

• Kelly Van Baalen, Program Manager for Sea Level Rise and Climate Services, Climate Central

• Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Professor of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

• Dr. “Hurricane” Hal Needham, Director of Extreme Weather and Disaster Science, GeoTrek

• Maddy Lauria, Independent journalist

• Dan Rizza, Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise, Climate Central (moderator)