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Biden doubles U.S. spending on preparations for extreme weather

Published 05/24/2021, 11:27 AM
Updated 05/24/2021, 06:07 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks before a ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas was to go into effect, during a brief appearance in the Cross Hall at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks before a ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas was to go into effect, during a brief appearance in the Cross Hall at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will double its spending to $1 billion on preparations for extreme weather and other natural disasters as part of the battle against climate change, the White House said on Monday.

It issued the statement just ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's planned visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be briefed on a 2021 hurricane season, which is expected to be above-normal along the Atlantic coast.

The $1 billion will help communities prepare for hurricanes, floods and wildfires, with a portion allotted specifically to disadvantaged communities, the White House said.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks before a ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas was to go into effect, during a brief appearance in the Cross Hall at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

It said the United States had 22 separate weather- and climate-related disasters in 2020 costing a total of nearly $100 billion in losses.

The administration said it would develop and deploy "next generation climate data systems" through NASA to help track the impact of climate change and help forecast and monitor natural disasters to help prepare for them.

Latest comments

what an embarrassing joke.
The preparations won’t help
It rained soooo hard at my house, i am a believer
For a guy who has spent more money than any other president in US history in his first hundred days despite this country being trillions in debt already, he sure has screwed up things more than any other president in US history in his first hundred days.
This is all due to global warming and Black communities are suffering due to white people and asians polluting due to greed.Hurricane katrina,sandy,irma,michael,florence all just in a span of around 15 years.Thank you mr.President for taking climate change seriously.
 the DNC and MSM have turned people's brains to mush
I'm a greedy polluter.
You forgot, India, Pakistan, and quite a few others. What a tard.
Biden gets 10% of that.
Get a b.rain. The money is accounted for.
I'm sure it is but things like the wildfires in California have been ramping up for decades.  Technically, the state should be performing maintenance on forests if they don't want them to go up in flames every year.  The trees there are extremely drought tolerant and quite literally need forest fires to proliferate and grow.  When either the forest grows too old without fire or the state/province/country/etc doesn't take care of the undergrowth, what would be a small fire spins out of control.  It's a good start, but the fires in California/Colorado aren't solely due to global warming - forest management is huge and it's only in the past 10 or so years we've realized that the trees there actually rely on fires to rejuvenate.
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