We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We definitely shouldn’t replicate Restore, but Restore established a precedent and ...

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Ida, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm with some of the strongest winds ever to slam Louisiana, is estimated to have caused nearly $18 billion in damage, a modeling ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News, ...