• Climate Change

Coastal Red States Apply For Millions in Adaptation Funding With No Mention of Climate Change

• climate change
• disaster relief
• Flooding
• Housing and Urban Development

Billions of dollars of disaster preparedness funding are up for grabs from the Trump Administration, but to improve their odds of getting some of it, states are going out of their way NOT to mention climate change, according to The New York Times.

Why This Matters:  Climate denials — explicit or implicit — don’t make its impacts or the need to adapt any less real.

• Politics

One Republican Lawmaker Blocks $19 billion in Disaster Aid

• disaster
• disaster relief
• floods
• Hurricanes
• Puerto Rico

Representative Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, blocked the $19.1 billion federal disaster package, which had passed the Senate last week and was zipping through the House by unanimous consent without a recorded vote because many members had already left D.C. for the district work week.

• Weather

Mississippi River: Great Flood of 2019

• climate change
• disaster relief
• extreme weather
• flood
• Mississippi River
• Missouri River

Flooding on the Mississippi River has now exceeded the “historic” 1993 flood, as Accuweather reported that the river officially crested at 22.70 feet at Rock Island, Illinois on Thursday night, which broke the previous record of 22.63 feet that was set on July 9, 1993, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) at the Quad Cities Office. 

• Week Ahead

The Week Ahead: May 6-10

• climate change
• Cyclone Fani
• disaster relief
• Flooding
• Puerto Rico
• Royal Baby
• wildfires

Happy Monday #FriendsofthePlanet!  We hope you had a great Cinco de Mayo and that you’ve recovered from Game of Thrones or the NBA or NHL Playoff excitement.  How about that quadruple overtime game in Portland on Friday night not to mention the controversial finish in the Kentucky Derby!  It is going to be another busy […]