Gov. Bill Haslam is requesting a presidential disaster declaration for nine Tennessee counties affected by extreme winter weather last month. The federal assistance programs would provide access to a 75 percent reimbursement of the eligible costs to Carroll, Cheatham, Dickson, …
Colorado is getting an additional $199 million from the federal government to help communities devastated by September’s historic floods, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Friday. The funds from HUD will help with housing and infrastructure repairs …
Frustration is building in the Texas town where an April fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people, injured hundreds more and caused $100-plus million in damages. Residents of West desperate for cash to rebuild their lives have seen a foundation overseeing …
A new Ceres report documents rising taxpayer costs to federal programs that provide flood insurance, crop insurance, wildfire protection and disaster relief. Some extreme weather-prone states such as Florida and Texas are also facing more acute financial exposure. The report, …
Vermont is repeating something that proved popular with towns after Tropical Storm Irene of 2011: getting state disaster relief out early to flood-damaged communities while they await federal aid. Gov. Peter Shumlin and Treasurer Beth Pearce joined other officials on …
Farmers will be paid a record $16 billion in crop insurance claims for 2012 because of the widespread drought, a staggering amount that has critics calling for changes to what they say is an inefficient taxpayer subsidy the government cannot …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), has notified Congress that without the approval of additional borrowing authority, funds available to pay claims will be exhausted sometime around the week of January 7. …
How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out by the end of next year. Christopher Rasmussen, Ioannis Poulakakis and Herbert Tanner are part of a …
The GOP-controlled House is on track to pass $3.7 billion in disaster relief as part of a must-pass bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. House passage of the bill Wednesday would come over the …
The White House told Congress on Thursday there’s a need for more than $5 billion in additional disaster relief money, not even counting the billions that probably will be called for to help East Coast states hit by Hurricane Irene. …