The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

Sarah Labowitz is a senior fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for ...

This week, the office of Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation of a state of emergency back-dated to the end of January ...

Members of the Industrial CAER Team, Geismar Volunteer Fire Department, Gonzales Fire Department and Ascension Parish Fire ...

Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new ...

In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, ...

In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days. During Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency obligated roughly $7 billion ...

Kidd responded by explaining that, at the state level, his team acts as the “alarm bell” when receiving information from the ...

The federal government issued a Major Disaster Declaration for the New Mexico communities damaged by flooding.

But FEMA funds make up a huge proportion of the funding. In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days.