Day: August 13, 2025

FEMA Disaster Survivors Assistance team members canvas Martin County to register and assist disaster survivors after Hurricane Milton and the tornadoes that it caused. (Patrick Moore/FEMA via Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)

Commentary

History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function

August 13, 2025

The Trump administration is talking about dismantling FEMA, pushing more responsibility for disaster response to the states.

This 2022 photo shows an abandoned theater in Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the towns where local officials were told last year that Imola Automotive USA would be building an electric vehicle plant. “We never did get off the ground with that,” former Mayor Shirley Washington told Floodlight. (Kenneth C. Zirkel via Wikimedia)

News

A startup promised 45,000 EV jobs to struggling towns. They’re still waiting

August 13, 2025

Desperate for jobs, three communities embraced a bold electric vehicle promise. Now, they’re left with questions — and no jobs.

A living shoreline project on the Florida Panhandle (Florida Sea Grant/Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED, via flickr)

Commentary

Nature-based solutions are essential to advancing climate resilience

August 13, 2025

Nature-based solutions include repairing and protecting mangroves and wetlands to manage flooding, among others.

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