Warming Seas And Super-Storms Raze The Cradle Of Aquatic Life…

… and harm the livelihoods of coastal dwellers.

by Simeon Tegel

Report Calls Out Charities For Sitting On Millions Donated After Hurricane Sandy

A report shows that five months after the hurricane hit, only 57 percent of the hundreds of millions in donations had been utilized.

Report Calls Out Charities For Sitting On Millions Donated After Hurricane Sandy

A report from the New York attorney general’s office found that 89 charities, with the American Red Cross coming in on top, raised more than a half a billion dollars in donations intended to aid Hurricane Sandy victims. Yet five months after the hurricane hit

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4 Ways The Government Subsidizes Coastal Rebuilding And Ignores Rising Sea Levels

Critics say paying to restore beaches year after year is one of a number of ways the government subsidizes less-than-smart development.

4 Ways The Government Subsidizes Coastal Rebuilding And Ignores Rising Sea Levels

Contractors with the Army Corps of Engineers last month finished pumping more than 1.8 million cubic yards of sand onto the beach in Ocean City, N.J., which had been damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Using a combination of Sandy aid and funds already

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FEMA To New Yorkers: It’s Payback Time

The $2,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency was supposed to pay for a room at the La Quinta Inn in Park Slope. Instead, a desperate Queens couple displaced by superstorm Sandy used the money for food and transportation. “They haven’t used their money the way they were supposed to,” conceded Janeth Bonilla of Good […]

The $2,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency was supposed to pay for a room at the La Quinta Inn in Park Slope. Instead, a desperate Queens couple displaced by superstorm Sandy used the money for food and transportation. “They haven’t used their money the way they were supposed to,” conceded Janeth Bonilla of Good Shepherd Services,

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Audit Says Katrina Aid May Have Been Misspent

Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have been misspent. A report by the Housing and Urban Development Department’s inspector general said some homeowners who got grants of up to $30,000 […]

Federal investigators said Wednesday that as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have been misspent. A report by the Housing and Urban Development Department's inspector general said some homeowners who got grants of up to $30,000

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After Sandy, Government Lends To Rebuild In Flood Zones

This story is being co-published with New York public radio’s WNYC. If Staten Island’s Great Kills Marina Café is able to reopen this spring after Sandy ripped apart its interior 2013 blowing out windows and punching through walls 2013 it will be thanks to assistance from the federal government. The Small Business Administration has approved […]

This story is being co-published with New York public radio's WNYC. If Staten Island's Great Kills Marina Café is able to reopen this spring after Sandy ripped apart its interior 2013 blowing out windows and punching through walls

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Rat Tales Abound In NYC After Superstorm Sandy

At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn’t help but wonder: What will become of all the rats? Four months later, that’s still a mystery. And experts aren’t so sure about stories of hordes of displaced rodents fleeing the flood zone and taking up residence in buildings […]

At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn't help but wonder: What will become of all the rats? Four months later, that's still a mystery. And experts aren't so sure about stories of hordes of displaced rodents fleeing the flood zone and taking up residence in buildings that were

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