3 Big Questions Facing FEMA With Kristi Noem Out March 9, 2026 By Zahra Hirji and Lauren Rosenthal President Donald Trump ousted Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security, a move that will also have...
Central Texas Floods Reveal Need to Improve Disaster Response in Unincorporated Areas September 30, 2025 By Laura Mallonee, Grist Rain was already coursing through the usually dry creek near Abraham Stallins’ home in the Texas Hill Country when a...
Flood Relief, THC Regulation in Limbo After House Democrats Leave Texas August 5, 2025 By Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune After dozens of Democratic Texas House members fled the state on Sunday to deny Republicans the quorum they need to...
FEMA Chief Calls Texas Floods Response ‘A Model’ For Dealing With Disaster July 25, 2025 By Gabriela Aoun Angueira The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to the...
After Huge Wildfires, Greece Creates Climate Crisis Ministry September 8, 2021 By Derek Gatopoulos Greece’s center-right government has created a new ministry to address the impact of climate change and named former European Union...
How Family-Work-Neighbor Networks May Make Things Worse in Disaster Response June 2, 2020 Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger...
FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season March 23, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman and Brian K. Sullivan It wasn’t until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Men and Women Respond Differently When Natural Disasters Strike, Researchers Say September 25, 2019 Women are quicker to take cover or prepare to evacuate during an emergency, but often have trouble convincing the men...
FEMA Chief Long to Leave Agency February 13, 2019 By Jennifer Jacobs and Christopher Flavelle Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long is leaving the agency he led through a record period of natural disasters...
Delaware DOI Working With FEMA to Fine-Tune Disaster Response May 4, 2018 The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the next two weeks...