Sarah Labowitz is a senior fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for ...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

President Donald Trump and Noem have vowed to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season, which ends on November 30, and plan to shift the burden of disaster relief to the states.

FEMA’s federal assistance supplements California’s own disaster response and mitigation resources like those allocated to the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which was allotted $4.4 ...

This week, the office of Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation of a state of emergency back-dated to the end of January ...

Members of the Industrial CAER Team, Geismar Volunteer Fire Department, Gonzales Fire Department and Ascension Parish Fire ...

By KOB Updated: June 19, 2025 - 11:01 AM Published: June 17, 2025 - 4:29 PM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issues emergency declaration in response to Trout Fire ...

But FEMA funds make up a huge proportion of the funding. In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days.

In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days. During Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency obligated roughly $7 billion ...