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

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

Kidd responded by explaining that, at the state level, his team acts as the “alarm bell” when receiving information from the ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has responded to a record number of billion-dollar weather-related disasters so far in 2023. And in recent years, FEMA has been called on for duties beyond ...

While FEMA in the past could divert resources for different disaster “seasons” like wildfires and hurricanes, natural disasters happen more concurrently now, straining the response when ...

In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, ...

Critics of FEMA have long called for a better, less complicated disaster response system, pointing out that the agency often is tasked with doing too much, which hinders its ability to respond ...

Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting of a new ...

The federal government issued a Major Disaster Declaration for the New Mexico communities damaged by flooding.

In an emergency meeting Thursday afternoon, commissioners made the disaster declaration and got an update on ongoing efforts ...