"The president canceled $4.5 billion in FEMA grants that helped communities prepare for rising disaster damage."
"SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — His house has been condemned for nearly two years, since the flood. The front yard where he played Wiffle ball as a kid is a wildland of weeds, caked mud and an overturned red pickup truck that the floodwaters carried 50 yards.
Since President Donald Trump canceled a popular disaster grant program in April, Dave Kozlansky is losing hope that the city will buy his property and demolish the home. The land would be left empty to absorb floodwater from an adjacent creek.
“Everything was in motion. Then I got a call from the city saying they nixed the program and applications were going to be shut down,” said Kozlansky, a local fishing guide, as he walked through the overgrowth in work pants and sneakers.
Hundreds of communities, including this old industrial city, are struggling in the aftermath of Trump’s cancellation of $4.5 billion for local projects that are designed to protect neighborhoods from flooding, hurricanes and other disasters."
Thomas Frank reports for E&E News June 23, 2025.
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