Rising Floods, Cuts To FEMA And Future Chaos : Fresh Air
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Rising Floods, Cuts To FEMA And Future Chaos : Fresh Air
ProPublica Editor-at-Large Abrahm Lustgarten says the deadly flooding in Central Texas — which has killed over 130 people — underscores the dangers of a more volatile climate. Despite clear scientific evidence, the federal government has made cuts to research and forecasting, even threatening to dismantle FEMA. "We could talk about the floods in Texas as being an early warning sign of policy degradation to come," he says. "And we can expect to b…
President Donald Trump’s defense of the federal reaction to the catastrophic floods that devastated Texas on July 4 has been continuous, effusive and, for those who remember his responses to natural disasters in the past, perhaps surprising. “I admire them and consider them heroes,” he told officials who guided him on his visit to Kerr County, the zero area of flooding that has left 134 dead and 101 missing for now. That same day he approved the…
Texas Floods are a Climate Crisis Warning
by Ben Jealous On the Fourth of July, Donald Trump signed his “megabill.” The law boosts the dying fossil fuel industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. It invites an additional 470 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2035 — that’s the equivalent annual emissions of more than 100 million gas-powered cars. And it aims to stop dead in its tracks the clean energy transition and the green manufacturing jobs boom th…
How Tulsa’s flood planning could help it withstand threat of federal cuts - The Oklahoma Eagle
LOCAL Kimberly Marsh, The Oklahoma Eagle Image, Adobe Images Following deadly floods in the 1980s, Tulsa reinvented its mitigation efforts Joe Kralicek’s job is to warn and protect Tulsans during times of natural disaster. These days, his agency is on high alert. An abnormal summer of heavy rains coupled with the persistent threat of federal cuts to weather warning systems has Kralicek facing an existential crisis. He’s the director of the Tulsa…
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