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At home in the 🌏 and Houston. Associate Policy Director for Just Climate Resilience @ucsusa.bsky.social Friend and board member @weststreetrecovery Posts/likes are mine alone.

Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true. One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.

In other FEMA news, members of Congress re-introduced the bipartisan FEMA Independence Act yesterday, which would remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and make it a cabinet-level independent agency. Here's the full text: d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/moskowitz.ho...

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Colleen Hagerty@colleenhagerty.com · last yr.

Secretary Noem said today she is going to "eliminate FEMA" (just after 19 minutes), though she offered no clarifying details www.youtube.com/live/sUjrBqD...

This is a good article that does a nice job of explaining what local dispatch centers do. It's unfortunate that it had to be written under these circumstances. There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/

Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · last yr.

In case you missed it yesterday: Elon Musk's DOGE list of lease terminations contains an Albuquerque office that houses a "critical" dispatch center that handles wildfire emergencies, as drought and high winds this spring leave the state increasingly at-risk for wildfires.