FEMA Chief Says Agency Will Raise State Burden for Disasters to 50% May 15, 2025 By Leah Douglas and Nathan Layne David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future...
Acting FEMA Chief Is Ousted After Less Than 4 Months May 8, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Less than a month before the start of hurricane season, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has...
A Look at the $100B Disaster Relief in the Government Spending Bill December 27, 2024 By Rebecca Santana and Travis Loller Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this...
Biden Requests Funds to Rebuild Collapsed Baltimore Bridge November 21, 2024 By Lea Skene President Joe Biden’s pending request for nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid includes money to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott...
Virginia Seeks $4.4 Billion Additional Federal Aid for Hurricane Helene Recovery November 20, 2024 Citing the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene in southwest Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin submitted a request to President Joseph Biden,...
Biden Approves Disaster Declaration for Vermont for Late July Flooding September 30, 2024 President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the severe flooding that hit northeastern Vermont in late July....
Hurricanes Get the Headlines But Inland Flooding Tops the Disaster List July 25, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people...
Disaster Aid Approved for April Snowstorm’s Millions in Damages in Maine May 30, 2024 By Patrick Whittle A powerful late-season snowstorm that caused millions of dollars in damage in Maine was a major disaster, the federal government...
Massachusetts Appeals Denial of Federal Disaster Aid for Fall Flooding March 14, 2024 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is appealing a decision of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny the state’s request for...
37 Massachusetts Communities Qualify for State Disaster Aid for December Flooding January 22, 2024 Thirty-seven Massachusetts communities damaged by flooding last year will be getting a share of $10 million in disaster relief funding,...