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Hurricane Katrina is one of the nation's most significant environmental catastrophes in recent memory. Thousands of New Orleans residents were forced from their homes by the raging flood waters. These people had nothing to eat or a place to sleep, lost hope after several agonizing days of waiting for help to arrive. There was clearly a breakdown in disaster preparedness by the local, state, and national governments. The same government that was put in place to protect and serve us as citizens of the United States. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina has raised other, more general public policy issues about emergency management and environmental policy.

Katrina has created a health care crisis of unimaginable proportions. In the latest its approaches to getting housing aid to people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, FEMA has shifted its strategy from doling out incremental portions of housing assistance to cutting checks for up to $26,200 per household for......

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