The most prominent is First Street, whose dozens of government clients include the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and all 12 Federal Reserve Banks. First Street is cited in the president’s 2023 budget, and its data is used in a new White House “Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool.” … First Street’s website lists a large bench of scientists and economists as part of its “full research lab team.” But several said they had little affiliation. “I haven’t done any work for them,” said Brett Sanders, a professor of civil engineering at UC Irvine. He believes that he is listed because he is working on a model of flood risk in Southern California, and he wanted to see how his model compared with First Street data. To access the information, he said, First Street asked him to agree to put his face and name on the website. Read More