Showing posts with label emergency preparedness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergency preparedness. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2026

FEMA complies with court order to resume major disaster preparedness grant program | PBS News

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday opened applications for a major resilience grant program that the agency canceled last year, less than three weeks after a federal judge ordered FEMA to make the funding available. 

FEMA will make $1 billion available for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helps states, local governments, territories and tribes take on preparedness projects to harden against natural hazards like fires, floods, earthquakes and hurricanes...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fema-complies-with-court-order-to-resume-major-disaster-preparedness-grant-program 


 

Monday, January 5, 2026

‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say

Donald Trump has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, according to emergency management experts. 

The first year of his second term was marked by crackdowns on climate science that produced world-class weather forecasts and the gutting of frontline federal agencies - policies that have left the country, already struggling to keep pace with severe storms, even more at risk...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/donald-trump-disaster-response-preparedness


 








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