FEMA’s New Director Prepares Agency for a Hot, Chaotic Future

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Deanne Criswell, the first woman to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in April took over a 20,000-person operation exhausted by managing responses to disasters linked to global warming: wildfires and the 2020 hurricane season, the most active on record. As if that weren’t enough, President Joe Biden asked FEMA to create and staff sites… Continue reading FEMA’s New Director Prepares Agency for a Hot, Chaotic Future