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Woodfin residents face FEMA denial for private property tree removal, town plans appeal

Woodfin residents have received letters from the Federal Emergency Management Agency saying that private property trees ...

Concerns about FEMA remain as Tropical Storm Erin gathers strength

In a statement, Cory Schwisow, interim director of Monroe County Emergency Management, said the county was recently qualified ...

FEMA joins other federal agencies in canceling union contracts

The cancellation of the contracts is part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to strip federal workers of union ...

FEMA begins preliminary damage assessments in Chicago after July floods

FEMA joined state, county, and city officials this week, going door-to-door in parts of Chicago hit hardest by flooding from ...
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Why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function

Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

$25 million taxpayer cash handed by DHS, FEMA to groups with extremist ties: report

The Department of Homeland Security gave out more than $25 million in grants to nonprofits affiliated with Hamas and al-Qaeda ...

FEMA abruptly disbands youth advisory council, but students say their climate advocacy won't stop

After a few frightening incidents seeing family and friends collapse in Phoenix's grueling heat, Ashton Dolce, 17, began to ...
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FEMA, USCIS become latest agencies to end collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is canceled, effective immediately, at both the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the ...