Federal Partnership Aims to Build Infrastructural Resilience to Natural Disasters

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and federal partners — in coordination with experts across governmental agencies, academia and nongovernmental organizations – to announce the agency’s participation in the National Mitigation Investment Strategy (NMIS). The NMIS provides a national, whole-community approach to investments in mitigation activities and risk management across federal, state, local, and tribal and territorial government, along with the private and nonprofit sectors. “Investing in mitigation efforts will enable EPA to better protect human health and the environment in the face of natural disasters,” says EPA’s Acting Associate Administrator of