Rebecca Herscher
speaker
420 appearances
57 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 6d ago
Rebecca Herscher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The storm is expected to bring multiple feet of rain to some parts of Jamaica.
That's particularly dangerous because the island has hills and mountains.
When a large amount of rain falls in such an area, it can cause deadly flash flooding because the water picks up speed as it flows downhill.
Climate change makes large, rainy hurricanes like Melissa more likely.
Rebecca Herscher, NPR News.
Small businesses that rely on federal contracts, thousands of them across the country, have received stop work orders.
Thousands more who rely on federal workers as their customers are seeing their revenue dry up.
Staff in the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy were sent a list of words to avoid in an email obtained by NPR.
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The details of the email were first reported by Politico.
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That office is the largest federal funder of technology for wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power.
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The term clean energy is among the banned terms.
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The Energy Department denies its staff were told to avoid specific terms.
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The agency's press secretary, Ben Dietrich, wrote in an email to NPR, quote, There is no directive at the Energy Department instructing employees to avoid using phrases such as climate change.
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Rebecca Herscher, NPR News.
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In testimony before a House committee, acting FEMA administrator David Richardson said the agency needs to shrink and that states need to take more responsibility for disasters.
States are already in charge of the majority of disaster response.
Lawmakers from both parties asked Richardson to address long delays states face in getting federal reimbursements for disaster related work that states already do.
Richardson also defended FEMA's response to recent deadly floods in Texas.
Some types of federal assistance, including on the ground FEMA employees, took longer than usual to reach Texas after that disaster.
Rebecca Hirscher, NPR News.
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