Ed Krell operates FEMA's Incident Response Vehicle (IRV) set up at the base of Lake LaMoure spillway during North Dakota flooding on March 24, 2010. (Michael Rieger/FEMA) There’s an old phrase: “Don’t ...

The agency waived a mandate that forced local disaster plans to address both climate impacts and the risk to disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration has ended a policy requiring cities, ...

New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, where hundreds of people died when Hurricane Katrina broke a levee in 2005, and Houston’s Kashmere Gardens, flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, are just two among many ...

Late last week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem issued a directive to all DHS agencies including FEMA to immediately stop all work connected to climate change and the ...

FEMA is experiencing layoffs, budget cuts, grant cancellations and other challenges at the start of wildfire and hurricane season. President Trump wants to shift disaster response responsibilities ...

While a presidentially appointed panel deliberates the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and as Donald Trump’s administration and Republican lawmakers both call for drastic cuts to the ...

Less than two weeks until the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator David Richardson has rescinded the agency's strategic plan, a ...