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The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The Vice President of the United Cajun Navy, Brian Trascher, discusses effective disaster response and the problems with FEMA.
As hurricane damage mounts, the government is buying—and sometimes seizing—homes in flood-prone areas, sparking concerns over property rights and accusations of discrimination.
To give storm victims the best chance at recovery, let local knowledge and markets guide decisions.
How the National Flood Insurance Program subsidizes living in high-risk flood zones.
Weather and climate disaster losses as a percentage of U.S. GDP have not increased between 1990 and 2019, a new study finds.
Lawmakers can take small steps that are uncontroversial and bipartisan to jumpstart the fiscal stability process.
Your ideal bug-out bag depends on your needs. Here's what J.D. Tuccille puts in his.
Plus: A listener question concerning porn verification laws.
It's high time for Congress to end a program that routinely goes into debt providing subsidies to wealthy people living in high-risk areas.
Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
Plus: Libertarian lessons in the wake of the Maui wildfires
The doomsday consensus around climate change is "manufactured," says scientist Judith Curry.
Projections of huge savings are making the rounds. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
Politicians in Syria, Turkey, and the United States are getting in the way of relief efforts.
It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable.
The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.
He's fully licensed, but not in the right state.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
Plus: The editors unpack a philosophical question from a listener concerning foreign policy.
Plus: Gov. Ron DeSantis gets accused of fair-weather fiscal responsibility, warrantless drone searches might be illegal, and Lizzo's flute playing sparks a fake controversy.
It’s only one vessel, but the U.S. domestic shipping cartel, protected by the awful Jones Act, is screaming about it.
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The island is begging the Biden administration to allow foreign ships to bring fuel to help restore power. But entrenched maritime interests balk at competition.
After a Category 1 hurricane made landfall Sunday, a million Puerto Rican households are still without power.
A little readiness is a good hedge against the surprises the world just seems to keep throwing our way.
For years, experts warned that any given hurricane or heat wave cannot be attributed to long-term changes in average temperatures. But it turns out that climatologists and meteorologists sometimes can establish such causal relationships.
Increasing weather damage costs are not reliable evidence for climate change.
The senator's opposition to past disaster relief bills has always been on the grounds that congressional budgets should mean something.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
Why is the government encouraging people to live in dangerous, flood-prone areas?
An environmental law keeps public agencies from reducing wildfire fuel.
A new paper finds that the shortages produced by emergency price controls led to more social interactions as people searched for scarce goods. Additional COVID-19 deaths weren't far behind.
Texas officials' rush to enforce price gouging laws during that state's winter storms will only make residents worse off.
The last seven years have been the warmest seven years on record.
The state's insurance commissioner forbids the canceling of policies for homes in risky areas.
A government survey finds that prepping for hard times can have wide benefits.
And yet, fewer lives are being lost with no increase in proportional economic losses.
The state's wildfire conundrum: overgrown forests, climate change, and more people living in the woods
Nobody can read the rule book in the dark.
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
The more punitive the approach to public health, the fiercer the backlash.
The problems with the federal response to COVID-19 go far beyond Donald Trump and deep into bureaucratic inertia.
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Attempts to impose low prices on emergency supplies often do far more harm than good.