FEMA

Community Leaders in Florida Say Trump’s FEMA Pullback Leaves Them Struggling to Fill the Void

The president may have backed off killing the agency outright, but his FEMA Review Council clearly sees a much reduced emergency management role for the federal government.

By Amy Green, Charles Paullin

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen

FEMA Skips National Hurricane Conference Amid DHS Shutdown

By Amy Green

Disaster Survivors Want Kristi Noem Out of FEMA 

By Arcelia Martin

A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model

By Emilie Lounsberry

Nonprofit Center Works with Rural Maine Towns to Prepare for and Protect Against Extreme Weather

By Sydney Cromwell

A Long Wait for Flooding Help in Chicago May Be Nearing an End

By Leigh Giangreco

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer

White House Abruptly Cancels Meeting on FEMA’s Future After Leaked Report Revealed Plan to Gut the Agency

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

A Hurricane Season That Surprised With Record Storms and Notable Lulls

By Amy Green

Fearing Retaliation, Scientists Are Struggling to Share Impacts of Federal Cuts

By Kiley Price

As Opposition to an Alabama Medical Waste Treatment Facility Boils Over, a  Mysterious Facebook Page Weighs In

By Lee Hedgepeth

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Experts Fear Trump’s Cuts Will End in a Repeat Catastrophe

By Kiley Price

As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By

By Kiley Bense

What Trump’s Budget Cuts Mean for Disaster Preparedness

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

By Kiley Price

Before Tropical Depression Chantal Swamped Hillsborough, the Town Had Been Counting on FEMA

By Lisa Sorg

Severe Weather, Uncertain Funding: What’s It Like to be a Local Emergency Manager These Days?

By Alexia Underwood