The following information was released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): Across the United States, climate change is driving more intense and frequent flooding, putting millions of homes and ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to stop the Risk Rating 2.0 program. According to FEMA, Risk Rating 2.0 was ...
Flooding can happen to anyone. “All 50 states have experienced significant flooding,” said Ileana Ledet, senior vice president of Policy at Greater New Orleans Inc. Recently the Federal Emergency ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – Several U.S. senators, including Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, are asking for the Biden’s Risk Rating 2.0 to be repealed due to wanting more transparent flood risk assessment ...
A federal judge will hear testimony in New Orleans Thursday as the Louisiana Attorney General's Office tries to halt FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0. Attorney General Jeff Landry, Solicitor General Liz Murrill ...
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - U.S. Senators from Mississippi, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, are working to lower flood insurance rates by calling for the end of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
Recovery efforts in Washington underscore the need for alignment between NFIP's mandate framework and FEMA's modernized risk assessment model. Updating mortgage requirements to reflect individualized ...
After repeated flood insurance rate hikes, Jefferson Parish residents will soon see an extra 10% discount on the price of their policies, now that the parish has notched the best flood rating in the ...
After hearing nearly six hours of arguments for and against FEMA's flood insurance hikes, the judge hearing the case posed a question to the agency's attorneys. "Would you concede that homelessness is ...