From Inside Climate News: One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick – Inside Climate News

Fortunately this extraordinary history of emergency management in the U.S. is now available at no cost. See this chapter: Catastrophe Is Not the End but the Beginning: Two Centuries of Evolution in US Disaster Law and Policy. from The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy. S. Kuo, J. Marshall and R. Rowberry, eds.

https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/somas_articles/13/

Thanks to Donovan Finn for the citation.

From the Wash Post: ‘They just can’t take this kind of beating’: California mansions on the brink,

From CNN: Nearly the entire population of California remains under flood alerts as people are urged to stay off the roads.

Quite a remarkable phenomenon.

New report from CNA: Impacts of Extreme Weather on Older Adults
Summary on this site. Links are provided to the full report (190 pp).
Thanks to Delilah Barton for this citation.

Another mention of this report is this item f is in the GovTech.com: article titled FEMA Lauds Historic Function for National Resilience Plans.

From the NYTimes, this Interesting interactive article: The East Coast Is Sinking.

New satellite-based research reveals how land along the coast is slumping into the ocean, compounding the danger from global sea level rise.

A major culprit: overpumping of groundwater.

From the GAO: Puerto Rico Disasters: Progress Made, but the Recovery Continues to Face Challenges. GAO-24-105557. The full report is 56 pages.

New report from the National Academy of Sciences:
Transportation for People with Disabilities and Older Adults During COVID-19: Lessons for Emergency Response.   It is a free download.

From U.S. News: After Maui Fires, Human Health Risks Linger.
Humans and wildlife in Hawaii face threats that will last beyond the immediate blazes.

From USAToday:Maui police release 98-page report on Lahaina wildfire response: Officers encountered ‘significant challenges’

Note that this is a report from only the police dept.;a fuller report on the response is still in the works.