Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it ...

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

As climate disasters increase, the hamstrung agency’s response efforts will be impeded when they’re needed most.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, confirmed to POLITICO’s E&E News on Thursday that Richardson holds two presidential ...

Donald Trump likes an emergency, or to claim one, anyway. Such declarations have been a preferred move in his return stay at the White House. They have opened the way to cruel, chaotic and ...

States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

Lawmakers share frustrations with FEMA In response to Richardson’s commentary, lawmakers cited concern with previous FEMA restructuring efforts, as well as its leadership.

As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By In a government survey, state and local officials said they were overworked, underpaid and underappreciated.

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Since Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, FEMA has denied eight requests for disaster declarations. That does not include Maryland’s request that Trump denied on Wednesday.

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can ...