The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics released the inaugural Vermont Climate Assessment report. This study, led by Dr. Gillain Galford, is the first in the nation state level climate assessment modeled after the National Climate Assessment. The report covers 9 sectors (policy, community development, water resources, forests, agriculture and food systems, recreation and tourism, human health, transportation, and education-outrach).
The 2014 Homeowners Flood Insurance Affordability Act (HFIAA) is described by Milly Archer in the June 2014 Newsletter of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns.
As HFIAA is implemented through the months ahead FEMA will post updated information and bulletins online.
Free webinars presented by Alex Sirotek of STARR, a FEMA service contractor. For more information see the full announcement on the Vermont Floodplain Management blog.
After many of the new provisions of Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (BW12) started going into effect, we had written about discussions and a US Senate bill that was working its way through Congress to roll back many of the BW12 provisions. While there were many issues that seemed to need some working out, chief among them affordability provisions for the new rates and increasing funding for mitigation projects, a final bill was sent from the House of Representatives to the
