{"id":1498,"date":"2025-06-26T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:33:18","slug":"federal-cuts-at-fema-and-noaa-threaten-disaster-response-ahead-of-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/2025\/06\/26\/federal-cuts-at-fema-and-noaa-threaten-disaster-response-ahead-of-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Cuts at FEMA and NOAA Threaten Disaster Response Ahead of Hurricane Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forecasters are predicting an &#8220;above-normal&#8221; hurricane season in the Atlantic for 2025, while workforce cuts driven by the Trump Administration at federal agencies FEMA and NOAA will affect disaster response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReducing the staff that are working to make weather forecasts more accurate and effective, while also making cuts to the agency charged with helping people recover in the advent of a disaster, is a recipe for a really tough hurricane season,\u201d says CCH Director <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/profile\/greg-wellenius\/\">Gregory Wellenius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Q&amp;A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2025\/loss-of-noaa-fema-expertise-will-be-really-difficult-to-rebuild\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forecasters are predicting an &#8220;above-normal&#8221; hurricane season in the Atlantic for 2025, while workforce cuts driven by the Trump Administration at federal agencies FEMA and NOAA will affect disaster response. \u201cReducing the staff that are working to make weather forecasts more accurate and effective, while also making cuts to the agency charged with helping people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12968,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}