Sara and Wayne Greier were drowning in medical debt when a miracle offer arrived: They could lease their land to a solar farm. The miracle became a curse. Their community banned solar — and they became social pariahs. This is the story of solar in Ohio.

“If the current owner of the line does the upgrade, then the cost would be put on the city customers, with an increase of around 60% on their electric bills, which the residents here will never be able to afford,” she said.

Falmouth, Kentucky has one rotting, ancient power line for 2200 people. It keeps causing bad outages. FEMA was going to pay for it, until Trump cut the grant. Today, the mayor told me she learned the money was cut the same week that the city badly flooded and lost power, again.

Last night, the flash floods came for New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Before that, New Mexico. Before that, the deadly floods in Texas over the July 4th weekend. ICYMI: Trump is systematically cutting flood preparedness, disaster prep

And here’s a description of the grants that the city likely would have received had FEMA not cancelled the program

here’s my reporting on the death of that program and other disaster prevention efforts:

NYC was a finalist for two $50 million FEMA grants to upgrade stormwater and sewer infrastructure for flooding. One grant was for Central + East Harlem, another for East Elmhurst. The program was killed by Trump in April, and funding for grants retracted.

RT @cfishman: 'Killer Train.'. In S. Florida, there's a shiny commuter train running from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale & West Palm, then up to O….

RT @BenNollWeather: Since the start of July, there have been a whopping 1200 reports of flooding across the United States. That's 75 perce….

RT @NOTUSreports: FEMA is pulling back funding for a flood alert system in Oklahoma. 📺: @anna_c_kramer joined @kfor to discuss what it co….

RT @donnabrazile: Trump Has Systematically Cut Access to Natural Disaster Prevention Resources #FEMA.

I’m reporting on Trump dismantling our already poor US disaster preparedness. If you know of a community that’s lost funding, an arm of FEMA that’s not working properly, or flaws in our fire, flood, and disaster prep, my Signal is annakramer.54.

RT @riley_rogerson: Dems AND Republicans are sounding the alarm about flood prevention funding that has been cut by the Trump admin. "We….

RT @JStein_WaPo:

RT @Mr_Berman: “I’m a super big fan of the president, but I’m going to challenge him any time he gets something wrong,” one mayor told Anna.

Norman, Oklahoma was ready to build the same kind of flood warning system that could have saved lives in Texas — until Trump took away the funding. I found a long list of places with similar stories👇.

RT @MargaretManto: Restorative reproductive medicine's relationship to the MAHA movement is like a "Venn diagram," according to one practit….

RT @OrianaBeLike: NEW: Trump admin has started using the SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling to warn judges against blocking any of Trump’….

Does anyone know whether the Sierra Club board of directors asked Ben Jealous to go on leave? Would love to get some concrete yes/no on the rumors floating around. My Signal: annakramer.54.

The executive director of the Sierra Club, Ben Jealous, is on leave. No answers yet as to why he's gone or if he's coming back. ICYMI: My story on managers telling the the board of directors they don't think Jealous is a good leader against Trump 👇.

Here's what the EPA has to say about chemtrails