Hawaii’s Fire Alarm for Normally Safest of Stocks: Liam Denning

Climate change can be looked at in many ways. One is cost, as in who pays for the historically free privilege of emitting greenhouse gases and the novel costs of remaking our energy system and mitigating, or cleaning up, damage related to climate change. The latter is the most pertinent in connection with the recent deadly wildfire on Maui in Hawaii, even if the exact role of climate change in sparking the blaze is unclear at this point.

While the investigation continues into the fire’s cause, that trigger-happy detective known as the stock market has already settled on a culprit:

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. runs ...