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David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told staff on Friday he will "run right over" ...
FEMA acting chief David Richardson has laid out the agency's intent for this upcoming hurricane season, cementing plans to ...
Pressed during a May 7 committee hearing about abolishing FEMA, acting administrator Cameron Hamilton said he opposes it. He ...
After the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned staffers not to get in his way, the federal ...
In an all-staff call, he warned those who might not like the changes — a group he estimated to be about 20% of any ...
President Donald Trump’s administration has replaced the acting administrator of the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management ...
Despite hurricane season quickly approaching, emergency officials in Escambia County are taking the firing of acting Federal ...
Experts say recent turmoil at FEMA will leave millions of people vulnerable as climate change-fueled disasters get worse in ...
Hurricane preparations at FEMA have slowed to a crawl. With hurricane season weeks away, a new assessment raises a number of ...
FEMA wasn’t designed to meet our changing climate. But Trump's plan to leave disaster response to states would be ...
David Richardson replaced acting FEMA head Cameron Hamilton, who was fired for telling Congress the emergency response agency ...
Richardson told FEMA staffers that all agency decisions would now go through him. "I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA," he said. Richardson warned FEMA staff not to oppose his changes.