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FEMA opens up $1B in hurricane protection funding

(The Center Square) — FEMA has made $1 billion available nationwide through a revived disaster-mitigation grant program that Louisiana has relied on for flood control, electrical hardening and evacuation infrastructure, says U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy.

The funding is available through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, known as BRIC, which reopened after Cassidy and other…

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