FEMA’s Expert Committee Breathes a Sigh of Relief: They can now “Actually Say Climate Change.”
. These executive orders (EO) include a wealth of provisions that will upright the country’s direction on climate change.
A key question now on my mind is how quickly this clear signal on the urgency to act on climate change will trickle down to the federal agencies that need to implement the policy provisions.
Is climate change filtering down into FEMA under the new Administration?
This week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Technical Mapping Advisory Committee (TMAC) met for the first time under the Biden administration. (Actually, one could argue it was the second meeting as the last TMAC two-day meeting was held the day before and day of Biden’s inauguration). While TMAC may sound like an obscure committee and not relevant to the layperson, it is the science-based technical committee established by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, th
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MTSU Students Win Selective Insurance s College Competition Mar 01, 2021 at 10:27 am by WGNS
MURFREESBORO, Tenn., March 1, 2021 A dedicated group of Middle Tennessee State University students have been named this year’s winners of Selective Insurance’s College Competition.
The annual national contest allows future generations of insurance professionals to run virtual insurance agencies and experience many associated responsibilities and considerations. The MTSU team had the highest performing agency among the eight college teams competing in the monthlong competition, making complex business decisions while overcoming sales hurdles and managing their financial solvency.
The five-member MTSU team was comprised of juniors and seniors with majors in Risk Management and Insurance, Actuarial Science, and other business-related areas primarily within the Jennings A. Jones College of Business.
A report the group released last week envisions floodwaters reaching buildings they currently can’t and spreading farther into many houses that now only get damp.
The effect nationally will be that yearly financial losses from flooding may rise from about $20 billion today to $32.2 billion a 61 percent increase by 2051, according to projections from elaborate computer modeling.
Florida will be front and center for those impacts, with First Street’s models estimating the state has more than a fifth of the country’s flood-exposed homes already.
Local officials were already worrying about rising water on their own.
About 112,000 Duval County residents sought help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Irma rolled past the community in September 2017, and Councilman Michael Boylan reminded the committee that most of the damage came from water, not wind.