As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why ...

To fill in these gaps, many charities launch campaigns to raise money and encourage action that helps others from people who ...

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week ...

Many home insurance policies don’t cover the full cost of rebuilding after a disaster, a problem that’s set to grow along ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Senator Steve Padilla on Tuesday announced new legislative reform aimed at speeding up disaster recovery for homeowners and ...

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 ...

DOUGLAS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — Georgia homeowners will soon be able to open catastrophe savings accounts to help cover disaster-related expenses as insurance deductibles keep rising. House Bill 511 ...

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FEMA rejected requests for federal assistance, twice, after devastating floods in western Maryland, part of a larger pattern of making communities pay for their own disaster recovery. FEMA rejected ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...