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Red Cross is in the Spotlight Again
Once again, ProPublica has an article dealing with the Red Cross: Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation
Despite public vows of transparency, CEO Gail McGovern lobbied a congressman to spike an inquiry by the Government Accountability Office.
Another Perspective on the King Gold Mine Spill
From US News and World Report: Colorado now faults EPA for mine spill after decades of pushing away federal Superfund help
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took full responsibility Tuesday for the mine waste spoiling rivers downstream from Silverton, Colorado, but people who live near the idled and leaking Gold King mine say local authorities and mining companies spent decades spurning federal cleanup help.
They feared the stigma of a Superfund label, which delivers federal money up-front for extensive cleanups. They worried that corporations would kill a hoped-for revival in the area’s mining industry rather than get stuck with cleanup costs. And some haven’t trusted the federal government, townspeople say.
The EPA pushed anyway, for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine, which has been leaching a smaller stream of arsenic, lead and other wildlife-killing heavy metals into Cement Creek. That water runs into the Animas and San Juan rivers before reaching Lake Powell and the lower Colorado River, a basin serving five states, Mexico and several sovereign Native American nations.
El Nino – good or bad for CA?
A huge El Niño could devastate Southern California
The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once-in-a-generation storms this winter to drought-parched California.
The importance of the El Niño storm of 1997-98 is now coming into focus as scientists say the weather pattern is returning to Southern California with a vengeance.
One more take on the potential power of the El Nino from the Washington Post.
Feds Are Not Doing a Good Job Managing Human Resources
This article will not come as a surprise to many of us, but the reasons given are interesting to note. See: Government Is Losing the War for the Best and Brightest.
Thanks to Elaine Sudanowicz for the citation.
Locals Take Action on Climate Change Matters
From the Christian Science Monitor: Climate change crusade goes local. While US leaders remain bogged down in debate over global warming, local communities are acting on their own to hold back rising seas. Witness Miami Beach’s elevated streets.
The Conflict at FEMA Between Rhetoric and Actions on Climate Change
First as tragedy, then as farce: FEMA still to adapt to climate change. Despite the agency’s attempts to account for bigger storms, its outdated rules leave communities unprepared for disaster.
An in depth look at recent disasters and the problems that FEMA has in dealing with recovery, highlighting needed changes in rules and regulations.
This article from Al Jazeera America relies on a recent report from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom based at Boston University and WGBH News that produces investigative reporting and trains the next generation of journalists. The Fund for Investigative Journalism helped fund this report.
Analysis of Risk Managment
The Art, Science and Technology of Conduct Risk Management. This article is not quite on topic for this blog, but as readers know I like to offer up other interesting items from time to time.
Thanks to Franklin McDonald for calling this article to my attention.
Social Media Tools for Preparedness – new report from the UK
New Report from the UK: Comparative Review of Social Media Analysis Tools for Preparedness. (69 pp)
“Leading in Disaster Recovery”
Leading in Disaster Recovery; A Companion Through the Chaos by E. McNaughton et al. NZ Red Cross. (42 pp) No date.
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