New Legislation Would Require Review of FEMA Buyout Efforts
A bi-partisan group of Senators and Members of House of Representatives have introduced legislation to determine why it so difficult for repeatedly flooded-home...
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States Need to Go Back to the Well and Leverage SRF Dollars
Over the next few decades, the United States is facing a $1 trillion shortfall in water infrastructure funding. To close this gap, more federal funding is neede...
Congress Is Messing with Disaster Programs (AGAIN!)
There's an old saying my grandfather used to say to me, "Bad ideas never die, they get endlessly attached to any piece of legislation that has a chance of...
Disaster Aid Is Part of Bi-Partisan Budget Bill
A Bi-Partisan budget bill includes some encouraging provisions that should improve rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. And it ...
Hurricane Aid Package Includes Poison Pills
The House's $81 billion hurricane disaster aid package includes some poison pills that would harm disaster mitigation programs and endangered species. The Senat...
Climate Change Literature that Made Waves in 2017
Here's my list of the climate change studies, news reports, and even fiction that made waves in 2017. It's been a tumultuous year for climate impacts ranging fr...