WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Sept. 24: U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and ...

Several homes in Harrison, Tenn., were completely destroyed or severely damaged in a March 2, 2018, tornado. (FEMA photo/Tim Burkitt) FEMA invites the public to comment on a reform for a new ...

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown and a multistate coalition recently secured a court order requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to take concrete steps to ...

AG Kwame Raoul wins court order forcing FEMA to reinstate BRIC disaster funding, protecting communities nationwide including Illinois against natural disasters.

The enforced compliance order comes nearly a year after FEMA terminated the program, calling it "wasteful" and "politicized." ...

As the FEMA senior executive responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and oversight of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) pre-disaster hazard mitigation ...

A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block what they say was an illegal termination of a program that provided federal funding for natural disaster mitigation ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit challenging the unlawful termination of the Federal ...

Federal disaster spending has become one of Washington’s fastest-growing budget obligations. The next decade will test America’s ability to withstand stronger storms, rising temperatures and more ...

A federal judge has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reinstate $200 million in grants to improve climate vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure across North Carolina. United ...