The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, fac, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect frontline medical workers treating coronavirus patients.
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Five states and Washington, D.C., have received less than 10% of the critical personal protective equipment they requested from the federal government, according to records released Thursday by the House Oversight Committee.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reduce its $4 billion claim against Pacific Gas and Electric to $1 billion and not recover a dime from a limited $13.5 billion settlement fund until wildfire victims are paid in full under a deal announced in bankruptcy court Tuesday.
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California wildfire victims urged a bankruptcy judge Wednesday to block state and federal agencies from taking a $4 billion slice for emergency response costs out of Pacific Gas and Electric’s limited $13.5 billion settlement fund for fire victims.
Read moreThe Ecological Rights Foundation sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency in L.A. Federal Court, claiming its implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties harms threatened and endangered species and their habitat there.
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A Federal Emergency Management Agency official on Monday blamed wildfire victims’ lawyers for the potential clawback of $200 million from fire survivors who received emergency federal assistance.
Read moreNearly 40 federal lawmakers from California urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency to abandon its quest to extract $4 billion from Pacific Gas and Electric’s limited $13.5 settlement fund for wildfire victims.
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FEMA buys flood-prone homes more often in wealthy, populous counties than in poor, rural areas, even though lower-income rural areas may be more likely to flood frequently, a new study finds.
Read moreAfter Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s energy grid two years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency official in charge of planning and coordinating the recovery of the commonwealth’s energy sector oversaw two contracts that ballooned to more than $1.8 billion with a Delaware-based energy company that had formed less than a year earlier.
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The heating and air-conditioning in Carrie Johnson’s home, damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, still wasn’t fixed when Hurricane Florence flooded her house last September. Now her home of over 50 years is gutted, the floors and walls just bare wooden beams smelling faintly of river water.
Read moreRecords used to justify seizing more than $4.5 million in assets from a man suspected of bribery and fraud in a $1.8 billion Hurricane Maria recovery project will likely stay sealed for now, a federal judge said in court Tuesday.
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State and local governments have been overwhelmed by the cost of natural disaster cleanup unfolding across the U.S. over the last two years. With climate change further intensifying storms, experts told lawmakers Tuesday the time is now to equip agencies with the funding they need to plan for the worst.
Read moreThe Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing an unexpected challenge in meeting the needs of the tens of thousands of people affected by this spring’s widespread flooding and violent storms: a strong economy.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday to block the Federal Emergency Management Agency from moving forward with its plans to offer flood insurance to developers and property owners in 100-year flood zones in California, finding that the agency failed to consider effects development might have on endangered wildlife in those areas.
Read moreHaving taken nearly two weeks to marinate on the fraud committed by former New York assemblywoman Pamela Harris, a federal judge settled on a prison term Wednesday well short of the sentence sought by prosecutors.
Read moreA new law requiring that the Federal Emergency Management Agency investigate how it awarded lucrative contracts to a company which botched the delivery of emergency supplies to victims of Hurricane Maria, has passed.
Read moreThree concerned citizens could not stop President Donald Trump from testing out an emergency text alert that popped up on hundreds of millions of cellphones Wednesday afternoon.
Read moreThe official overseeing the federal response to Hurricane Florence is also reportedly the target of an ongoing investigation by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general over his alleged misuse of government vehicles for private use.
Read moreHurricane Maria evacuees who have been living out of hotels since the storm ravaged Puerto Rico won an extension Tuesday in their bid to stave off eviction by the U.S. government.
Read moreOn the verge of forcing thousands of Puerto Ricans into homelessness, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it will follow court orders to continue post-hurricane housing through the U.S. Independence Day.
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