FEMA policy memo on sea level rise and Hazard Mitigation Assistance Programs

The EPA’s Green Infrastructure program is excited to release a new report that summarizes tools, strategies and lessons learned from green infrastructure projects across the country. The report, Tools, Strategies and Lessons Learned from EPA Green Infrastructure Technical Assistance Projects, summarizes results from EPA’s green infrastructure technical assistance program for communities looking for solutions to…

Since 2010, FEMA has annually conducted a nationwide survey on Risk Awareness of U.S local officials. Survey results, track trends and inform federal agencies and state and local communities how to most effectively engage and support communities toward advancing mitigation actions to reduce vulnerabilities to natural hazards. It is now time to take the 2013…

Thousands of dams, levees, hurricane barriers and flood walls built across the country by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be at risk from extreme weather and sea level rise driven by climate change, but the Corps has only just begun to assess how vulnerable they are and suffers from a lack of funding,…