The Latest Breaking News from FEMA

Some House lawmakers who represent hurricane-prone districts want an emergency spending bill to ensure the government does not run out of money in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund, joining a small but growing Senate effort.

Bills by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and four Senate Republicans would add $11.5 billion to FEMA’s disaster relief fund.

Disasters often bring politicians, policymakers, researchers and the public to the discussion table. Due to their catastrophic impacts, disasters and emergencies prompt a large array of stakeholders to focus intently on the issues at hand, providing windows of opportunity for change.

With the ink barely dry on new budget caps in the debt ceiling law, lawmakers are already tied in knots over an emergency spending package.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it had issued show cause notices to the Indian arm of Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi, its chief financial officer and director Sameer B. Rao, former managing director Manu Kumar Jain and three foreign banks for alleged violations of the foreign exchange law…

The states — from the Gulf Coast, the West and Midwest — along with dozens of municipalities are trying to block rate hikes under the National Flood Insurance Program.

Louisiana and nine other states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over sharp increases in national flood insurance rates slated to be phased in over the coming years

An article in the New York Times published earlier this week predicted flood insurance rates in flood-prone areas will soon quadruple. Mark Friedlander, the Director of Corporate Communications at the Insurance Information Institute, said that will not happen ...

The High Court of Karnataka has upheld constitutional validity of Section 37A of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, which empowers the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to seize in India assets equivalent to any foreign exchange, foreign security or any immovable property held outside India in violation of FEMA.