FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood conferences ahead of disaster season because of Trump administration restrictions on travel for federal employees ...

The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...

A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish the ...

The state is already perennially near the bottom for receiving disaster-relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, largely because it isn’t at risk of hurricanes ...

The City of Ithaca is preparing to adopt new federal flood maps that could reshape insurance requirements and building ...

published an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times citing ways FEMA could be improved and warning against simply abolishing it. “Spreading the risk and cost of disaster around the country is good ...

Jennifer Smith, CommonWealth Beacon April 11, 2025 AT SOME POINT between February and early March, as seasonal wind and rain ...

California’s Public Advocate has been pressing for new utility fire maps since 2023. Utilities are on board — but regulators ...

Much of the money was to go toward flood mitigation in vulnerable areas of New York City that were struck hard by Hurricane Sandy and the remnants of Hurricane Ida. By Benjamin Oreskes Dana ...

The cancellation of the program comes as the Trump administration says it may scrap FEMA altogether and give funds directly to the states to deal with disaster response as they see fit.

whether it’s flood or wildfire… This level of risk is absolutely predictable.” Despite the well-predicted increase in disasters, Trump has expressed desire to close FEMA altogether, saying during a ...