The Messy Business of Disaster Clean-Up 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 ...

Crane-equipped service trucks can be extremely useful in post-disaster cleanup operations. When disaster strikes, recovery efforts become a massive, coordinated effort. It’s an all-hands-on-deck ...

Team Rubicon conducted an official service project in the Libby, Troy and Yaak areas at the beginning of April to help with debris and tree removal following the severe wind storms in December and ...

Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in Transylvania County, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She grew up there, and has tried to give back to ...

This guide was created in partnership with Blue Ridge Public Radio, so it focuses on western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. However, there is general information for ...

RestorePro Disaster Cleanup & Restoration has announced the continuation of its long-standing collaboration with the Greater Sandusky Partnership and the Seneca County Collaborative, reinforcing the ...

POLK COUNTY, North Carolina — The small section of forest before me looked as though it was clear-cut. The ground was flat and treeless, covered in a thin layer of jumbled sticks and leaves. This ...

The federal agency conducting the debris removal cleanup in the Eaton and Palisades fire zones has expanded the scope of its disaster cleanup in Los Angeles County, and extended a key deadline, giving ...

BENTON — The Franklin County government has issued a disaster declaration ahead of cleanup efforts from this week’s winter storm. The declaration is effective Friday, Jan. 10, and will expire one week ...

Economic, governmental, environmental, and community interests often end up just as tangled as debris in the wake of a storm. Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in ...