A recent study by a NASA-led team has detailed the areas of California where land is sinking, or rising, the most. While NASA 's report said the changes seemed insignificant as they amounted to just ...

The state of California and local governments are welcome to test the soil on their own, Mr. Brown wrote in response, but FEMA would not reimburse them for such efforts. The agency, he wrote in ...

He verified that up until 2018 — after California’s historic and catastrophic Camp Fire — FEMA’s policy involved clearing 3 inches of soil and sampling it, prior to digging up another 3 ...