California lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at holding large fossil fuel companies financially responsible ...

Emergency Programs Manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy shares lessons learned from the major storm events in December and January and how the department operates.

The FEMA Review Council recommends replacing the decades-old system for distributing money to states with a plan triggered by weather conditions, not ...

Investing in pre-disaster mitigation can save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing the cost of recovery from natural disasters, while also providing strong protections to vulnerable local ...

After two widespread flooding events hit communities in both southern and northern West Virginia last year, taking lives and wrecking numerous structures, the Legislature is eyeing changes to how ...

Instead of focusing primarily on riding the wave of economic uncertainty to a more stable time, a solution lies in accepting uncertainty and building the best possible business continuity plan to help ...

As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why staffing cuts at the federal level are so dangerous for states and local ...

The Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russia, would be crucial to powering Ukraine’s postwar recovery. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Every ...

The trading outage at CME Group on Thanksgiving evening at its Aurora data center exposed a vulnerability in the exchange operator’s backup plan that led to an hours-long wait for traders looking to ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Sangamon County Disaster Recovery Coalition is launching on December 11. The coalition is a countywide initiative with a goal of uniting nonprofits, faith-based groups, ...

NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (KTIV) - South Dakota was one of the states hit by the devastating 2024 floods, with the North Sioux City area seeing infrastructure and homes destroyed. The United States ...