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FEMA: Caught Between Climate Change and Congress
2014-01-27 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Thanks to climate change, extreme weather disasters have hammered the United States with increasing frequency in recent years--from drought and wildfires to coastal storms and flooding. It is perhaps surprising, then, that the U.S. agency in charge of preparing for and responding to these disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), doesn't account for climate change in most of its budget planning and resource allocation or in the National Flood Insurance Program it administers....
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