FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

President Trump is considering eliminating FEMA citing inefficiency. States and climate advocates say FEMA needs a fix but it also needs to stay.

Trump wants to overhaul, and maybe disband, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Maybe we should focus on the root cause: Climate change.

Last week, while visiting areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene in my home state of North Carolina, President Donald Trump proposed “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then he signed an executive order establishing a task force to decide the agency's fate.

On Friday, while visiting victims of September’s Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Mr. Trump said he was considering “getting rid of FEMA.” He now reportedly plans to sign an executive order as a step toward reshaping FEMA, which could eliminate the agency.

FEMA provides funds to governments and individuals to rebuild after natural disasters, but Trump has criticized it for being too slow and costly.

"FEMA has turned out to be a disaster ... Administration to totally dismantled because of its work on climate change being "harmful to future U.S. prosperity." The group wants some functions ...

Boston and the MBTA will receive nearly $13 million from the from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to protect neighborhoods and infrastructure from the impacts of climate change.

The federal administration and recalcitrant state leaders must be convinced to pull their heads out of the dirt and face the change that is coming — whether they want to acknowledge it or not.

“Its day job is hard enough.” FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated ...

Trump wants to overhaul, and maybe disband, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Maybe we should focus on the root cause: Climate change.

On January 24, while visiting hurricane disaster areas in North Carolina, President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration would likely “recommend that FEMA go away” while letting “the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen.