The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
hurricanes
Posted inEconomic Policy
New Reforms, Same Old Florida Home Insurance Market
Inflated ratings, weak oversight, and bare-bones consumer protections continue to leave homeowners exposed to the worst of Florida’s fragile, undercapitalized insurance market.
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 inTAP
Why Would Trump Gut FEMA and NOAA?
Today on TAP: Destroying American weather science will create a perfect storm of disaster.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Republicans Break the Weather
The private sector can’t match the value proposition of the National Weather Service, but companies work to entice Americans to pay up anyway. What happens if they can’t?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Is Florida’s Migration Tide Turning?
Young people are leaving the state, and climate change’s impacts on the cost of living are contributing factors.
Posted inTAP
If Republicans Deny Disaster Aid on Political Grounds …
Today on TAP: How will the next Democratic House respond to the inevitable Florida hurricane?
Posted inPolitics
Sunrise Movement Targets Climate Voters—and the Dangers of Trump
The election has turned on other factors, but the climate justice organization sought to connect the lived experience of a changing environment with political outcomes.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Post-Helene Recovery Underlines Americans’ Uneasy Relationship With Appalachia
After the region’s latest climate disaster, local residents grapple with destruction and frustration.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Hurricanes Are a Profit Center for Insurers
To compensate for exaggerated expectations of claims, they jack up rates and hollow out coverage, giving themselves more profit than before.