Tag: Puerto Rico

The Department of Housing and Urban Development told states receiving funding for hurricane recovery to "take into account" sea level rise when they build new structures in flood-prone areas, six months after President Trump rescinded similar standards. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Energy and Environment

HUD tells states to consider sea level rise when rebuilding from storms

Josh Siegel · February 7, 2018 10:08 pm

Afternoon Links: FEMA’s War Dogs, 12 Rules for Life, and a Wawa Shabbawa?

Jim Swift · February 6, 2018 10:00 pm

$FEMA granted the contract to Tribute Contracting LLC, owned by Atlanta entrepreneur Tiffany Brown, on Oct. 3. But the contract was terminated by FEMA 20 days later after the company delivered just 50,000 meals, a fraction of what it was supposed to provide, according to documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.$ News

FEMA awarded contract for 30 million meals for Puerto Rico to one-woman firm, which delivered 50K

Melissa Quinn · February 6, 2018 5:14 pm

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel moves past a cargo ship near the Isla Grande Port in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sept. 27. President Trump ordered the Jones Act to be waived for shipments to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico at the request of Gov. Ricardo Rossello. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)

The Jones Act, a century-old maritime law, proves tough to sink

Diana Stancy Correll · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, (pictured above, standing) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and several other people in Congress signed a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking it to do more about the shortage of IV saline fluid after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, a major manufacturer of the product. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lawmakers demand FDA fix IV shortage

Robert King · February 2, 2018 6:55 pm

Puerto Rico’s new revised fiscal plan is business as usual

Washington Examiner · February 2, 2018 5:01 am

The Illinois Democrat said the president failed to bring together lawmakers on both sides of the immigration debate, particularly regarding the future of Dreamers, and bemoaned that Trump and Congress will fail to reach an agreement enshrining into law legal protections for those who were brought to the United States as children. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Luis Gutierrez on State of the Union: Trump is an ‘outwardly, explicitly racist American president’

Melissa Quinn · January 31, 2018 4:51 am

Donnie Cardenas recovers from the flu at the Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. The San Diego County resident said he was battling a heavy cough for days before a spike in his temperature sent him into the emergency room on Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Congress looks to reauthorize pandemic program as flu cases swell

Kimberly Leonard · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz feuded with Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kirsten Gillibrand bringing San Juan mayor who feuded with Trump to State of the Union

Caitlin Yilek · January 29, 2018 2:48 pm

The CDC found that areas with local transmission of Zika saw a 21 percent increase in births with outcomes linked to the mosquito-borne virus in the last half of 2016 from the first half of 2016. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

CDC finds more birth defects in areas affected by Zika

Robert King · January 25, 2018 6:36 pm

Four months after Hurricane Maria rolled across the center of Puerto Rico, power is still out for nearly 30 percent of people as the work to restore miles of transmission and distribution lines grinds on. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Energy and Environment

Puerto Rico to privatize bankrupt power utility

Josh Siegel · January 22, 2018 10:55 pm

Puerto Rico authorities said that nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

National Security

Watch: Kids, teachers rejoice when power returns to Puerto Rico school after 112 days in the dark

Anna Giaritelli · January 17, 2018 2:23 pm