Environmentalists Urge FEMA To Favor Renewables In Resilience Funding

Environmental groups are pressuring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to use its disaster recovery funds to boost low-carbon energy rather than repairing fossil fuel-related infrastructure -- which they say would increase communities’ resilience -- though the agency is urging a district court to dismiss one lawsuit seeking to spur such an approach. Most recently, FEMA in an Oct. 30 filing urges the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss environmentalists’ case arguing the agency has failed...