The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday opened applications for a major resilience grant program that the agency canceled last year, less than three weeks after a federal judge ordered FEMA to make the funding available.
FEMA will make $1 billion available for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helps states, local governments, territories and tribes take on preparedness projects to harden against natural hazards like fires, floods, earthquakes and hurricanes.
“When done correctly, mitigation activities save lives and reduce the cost of future disasters,” Karen S. Evans, FEMA’s acting leader, said in a statement announcing the resumption.
Seems like a lot of stories recently about government services quietly resuming after going through the court system. Maybe there’s hope for us yet.
Of course then there’s the offshore wind fiasco. After losing in court, the current administration want to pay $1B for the developer to not develop approved wind farms? How is that anything other than wasting our tax money for personal spite, just to make lives more difficult?