Homes destroyed and submerged in water after Hurricane Ida near Chauvin, Louisiana, on Sept. 1. Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg Homes destroyed and submerged in water after Hurricane Ida near Chauvin, Louisiana, on Sept. 1, 2021. (Photo: Mark Felix/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) — In April, Deanne Criswell, the first woman to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, took over a 20,000-person operation exhausted by managing responses to disasters linked to global warming: wildfires and the 2020 hurricane season, the most active on record.

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