US Mid Atlantic leaders are planning climate catastrophes because federal financing is exposed to

In 2024, Pennsylvania recorded a record number of billions of dollar weather disasters and prompted civil servants and experts to gather in Philadelphia in order to discuss emergency provision while the federal government threatens the funding cuts.

Kiley Bense reports for Inside climate news.

Consoling:

• Pennsylvania experienced 12 heavy weather disasters in 2024, which corresponded to the total of the entire 1980s, since climate change drives more extreme storms, heat waves and floods.
• Experts of an event at Drexel University emphasized the need for early warning systems, evacuation plans and improved public communication to protect population groups in need of protection.
• The proposed cuts of the Trump administration when financing the emergency management agency could have to deal with the states to prepare for future disasters and to recover from it.

Key quotation:

“The effects of the climate deteriorate and our federal politicians go in the wrong direction.”