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Climate reporting & other stuff for @NPR https://www.npr.org/people/384067907/rebecca-hersher

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  1. EXCLUSIVE: Funding for #FEMA call centers lapsed the day after the #Texas floods, and approximately 40,000 calls from survivors went unanswered, according to federal records.

    The records appear to contradict statements FEMA's leader made to Congress.

    Read more here: www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

    Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

    DHS took 5 days to fund Texas flooding hotline, federal records show

    Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

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  2. "In the week after floods tore through Texas Hill Country, most survivors were unable to get through to a federal aid hotline because the Department of Homeland Security let funding lapse" - from my @npr.org Climate Desk colleague @rhersher.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

    Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

    DHS took 5 days to fund Texas flooding hotline, federal records show

    Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

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  3. Plans are being made to shut down the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases -- new reporting from my colleague Rebecca Hersher ‪@rhersher.bsky.social‬ www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

    The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

    Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

    The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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    Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. By @rhersher.bsky.social

    The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

    Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

    The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

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