'Everything is at risk': flood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance

The petition argues that the federal government's current flood insurance policies are ill-equipped for an era of climate crisisWith towns and cities across the US increasingly deluged by ferocious storms and rising sea levels, a group of disaster survivors has pleaded with the federal government to overhaul a flood insurance system they say is ill-equipped for an era of climate crisis.A petition of nearly 300 people who have been flooded, and their advocates, is set to be sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to call for a drastic overhaul of the government-run flood insurance system that underwrites most flood policies in the US. Continue reading...