We thought reform was possible. We were wrong. We were brought to Puerto Rico to fix FEMA’s broken disaster recovery processes after Hurricane Maria struck in 2017. Our team of seven Lean Six ...

Since 2016, the U.S. has faced a relentless siege of deadly and costly hurricanes — 29 major storms in just nine years have ...

Lawyer Melissa Sims breaks down how she and a team of lawyers are trying to hold gas and oil companies accountable for the damages caused by climate-change-fueled storms like Hurricane Maria.

When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they’re typically ...

Starting in October 2016, the U.S. has been struck by 29 hurricanes and tropical storms that have each caused at least $1 ...

The memories of surviving Hurricane Maria still haunt people in Puerto Rico, four years after the storm wreaked havoc on the U.S. territory on Sept. 20, 2017. There are reminders of the ...

This time, the storm is taking aim at the U.S. Virgin Islands, particularly St. Croix, as well as Puerto Rico. It's difficult to overstate the danger that Hurricane Maria poses to Puerto Rico ...

Made landfall on the island of Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane and hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane ... The Puerto Rican government raised Maria’s death toll from 64 to 2,975 ...

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Under Biden, there was a push for more renewable energy projects in Puerto Rico, where crews are still rebuild the power grid after Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm ...

Flooding nearly twenty percent of the Big Apple... >> SULLIVAN: Hurricane Maria, that plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. >> Everywhere damaged infrastructure, blocked roads, and devastated homes.

2. Spread the word. Despite the widespread devastation, it's not clear that Americans fully understand how Hurricane Maria affected Puerto Rico, or that the island is a U.S. territory whose ...