Following the release of First Street Foundation’s recent Cost of Climate report, which ranks New Jersey number four in the country for residential properties at risk within Special Flood Hazard Areas, grassroots New Jersey Organizing Project sounded the alarm: The federal government needs to step up mitigation efforts in preparation for future storms.

NJOP is also asking Congress for flood insurance reform and clawback forgiveness for those devastated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, as well as…