Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
President Trump's plan to apply up to $45 billion in federal disaster aid to fund COVID-19 unemployment benefits could deplete the nation's primary disaster relief fund while providing only moderate relief for 16.3 million laid-off Americans, experts say.
Today's forecast for Houston is typical for early August: hot and steamy, with a heat index of a suffocating 103 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rising seas, storm surges and coastal flooding are displacing communities from Alaska to Louisiana to Maryland.
Withering heat could kill or sicken millions of people by 2050, yet the least visible offspring of climate change remains less understood, or feared, than hurricanes, fires and floods.
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