This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready.
Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Trump Regime Is Making Disasters Worse
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sat atop millions of dollars in flood prevention grants while the West Coast was being inundated. Now she’s slashing FEMA disaster response staff.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Years of Living Dangerously
The Trump administration’s determination to force states to shoulder disaster funding burdens guarantees more deaths and destruction.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘Shin Godzilla’ Will Make You Nostalgic for a Working Government
Back in theaters, this clever sequel pits the radioactive reptile against a flawed (but functioning!) bureaucracy.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Saving FEMA
Actual natural disasters might provide a reprieve for the broken agency.
Posted inLaw and Justice
FEMA Withholds Homelessness Grants While Building Migrant Prison Camps
The resetting of priorities will have tragic consequences.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Meet the Disaster Capitalists Behind Alligator Alcatraz
Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.