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With just five weeks to go until the start of hurricane season, FEMA has made changes to better handle increasingly severe storms.
Being resilient to climate change requires addressing buildings that already exist in high-risk areas.
The risk of chemical exposure is likely to expand to other sites around the region.
Proposed changes may spur communities to better plan for extreme weather, but could drive up costs for some homeowners.
Flood insurance premiums could rise and property values fall under a plan to change the way risk is calculated.
Companies rebuilding storm-damaged homes say they haven't been paid and are threatening to place liens on the houses.
Long said he would leave March 8 and his deputy, Peter Gaynor, would serve as acting administrator.
Business interruption and property damage are just a couple of the results of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history.
New disclosures show that the country's largest companies are bracing for the effects of climate change.
The president threatened to halt the FEMA's assistance to victims unless the state changes its forest management practices.