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FEMA Knows a Lot About Climate-Driven Flooding. But It's Not Pushing Homeowners Hard Enough to Buy Insurance


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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been collecting a lot of information about flood risks across America, including the increased risk of flooding linked to climate change. But the agency has not effectively used that new knowledge to persuade more Americans to buy flood insurance, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
As a result, homeowners are at increasing risk of costly damage from floods, and the government is facing rising costs for disaster relief assistance, the report found. The report called on Congress to consider requiring FEMA to evaluate how the agency can use the “comprehensive and up-to-date flood risk information” it has been collecting to determine which properties should be required to have flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program. ....

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MSNBC MSNBC Live September 2, 2019 12:12:00

Some other things. are they going to save the city, i doubt it. i don t know. cities in the pachlk dorian, what they ve done is basically built a pumping system. it works to a point. it is built to a 10-year design. it can pump out water when you have these heavy rain storms. but if they get whacked by hurricane 3 or 4 storm that will push huge amount ofs of water up into the city. it has been flooding like mad. epic storms, rising seas and ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170914:19:45:00

Very, very surprised because they thought it would be about 1.7 or 1.8. a lot of it has to do with all of the regulations i ve cut where people can actually now go out and build and farm and do all the things they want to do. at the same time being environmentally friendly and regulation friendly. so i just want to say, including growth, because it s a very fair question, a good question, if you want to include growth, because we re going to go like a rocket ship, we re going to more than make up the difference. mr. president, the severity of the storm, do you think there s climate change? we ve had bigger storms than this. if you go back into the 1930s and the 1940s and you take a look, we ve had storms over the years that have been bigger than this. if you go back into the teens you ll see storms that were as big or bigger. so we did have two horrific storms, epic storms, but if you go back into the 30s, the 40s, you go back into the teens, you ll see some storms that were ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20170914:19:50:00

Than make up the difference. [question inaudible] we ve had bigger storms than this. if you go back into the 1930s and the 1940s and you take a look, we ve had storms over the years that have been bigger than this. if you go back into the teens, you ll see storms that were as big or bigger. so we did have two horrific storm storms, epic storms. if you go to the 30s and 40s and the teens, you ll see some that were even bigger. are you thinking about the next chairman for the federal reserve? i do respect chairman yell len. i respect her. we haven t made that decision yet. the country is doing well. we got hurt by the two hurricanes. the stock market has hit a new high as you see. jobs are at a 17-year low. unemployment is at the highest ....

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