Utilities and energy companies can implement strategies to mitigate risks from more frequent environmental disasters and infrastructure failures.

In the early morning of June 11, 2023, a tanker truck carrying gasoline up I-95 in Philadelphia crashed and caught fire, and the overpass above buckled and collapsed. The section of the highway is critical to the roughly 160,000 vehicles that cross it daily. The immediate cause of the collapse is believed to be either the heat from the flames or the impact of the explosion weakening the steel beams supporting the overpass. Some, however, identified a more fundamental problem: “the fragility of the state’s aging infrastructure.”