President Biden will announce Monday after that he’s doubling the amount of funding the U.S. government will spend helping communities prepare to withstand extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to collect climate data. While the $1 billion in preparedness funding is a fraction of what taxpayers spend each year on disasters, it underscores a broader effort to account for the risks posed by climate change, and reduce their impact.
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An infographic from the NOAA’s 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook. (NOAA via Courthouse News)
WASHINGTON (CN) With the 2021 hurricane season bearing down on the U.S. and the most active one on record in American history in the rearview, President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration will direct $1 billion to states to prepare for disasters.
The figure is twice what was granted last year to the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities initiative but is still only a drop in the very large bucket of responding to weather and climate-related disasters. Last year, the country suffered a record 22 storms with loses each surpassing $1 billion, for a cumulative price tag of nearly $100 billion.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden announced Monday that he's doubling U.S. emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to better understand and track the impact of climate change.