American Flag in Environmental Contexts

Images feature prominent displays of the American flag, set against various backdrops; from disaster recovery scenes to nature, symbolizing resilience and patriotism.

Tornado - Joplin, Mo. , May 21, 2012 An American flag waves one year after a deadly EF-5 tornado struck the city of Joplin on May 22, 2011. The tornado killed 161 residents of Joplin, destroyed 25%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of the town and generated $2. 2 billion in property damage. FEMA supports the recovery efforts of towns and communities like Joplin as they work to rebuild after a disaster. Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-25. Hurricane Katrina

Tornado - Joplin, Mo. , May 21, 2012 An American flag waves one year after a deadly EF-5 tornado struck the city of Joplin on May 22, 2011. The tornado killed 161 residents of Joplin, destroyed 25%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of the town and generated $2. 2 billion in property damage. FEMA supports the recovery efforts of towns and communities like Joplin as they work to rebuild after a disaster. Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Midway Atoll, U.S. Territory

Office of Air and Radiation - Clean Air Excellence Awards Ceremony , Environmental Protection Agency

Views of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, taken during visit by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides

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Office of the Administrator - President's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson in St. Louis , Environmental Protection Agency

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A mother osprey watches over her chicks in a nest near the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center. This is the third year the ospreys have raised a family at the site. Known as a fish hawk, ospreys select sites of opportunity, from trees and telephone poles to rocks or even flat ground. In the United States they are found from Alaska and Newfoundland to Florida and the Gulf Coast. Osprey nests are found throughout the Kennedy Space Center and nearby Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which shares a boundary with the Center.

Office of Research and Development - 2010 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) , Environmental Protection Agency

Colorado River Water Users Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Robert Johnson and other federal, state, local, and tribal officials in discussing developments related to the multi-state agreement on water use

Office of Air and Radiation - Clean Air Excellence Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

Tattered American flag destroyed by hurricane Rita, Holly Beach, Louisiana, USA

Press conference and related ceremonial activities, at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the official announcement of the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to remove the bald eagle from the list of threatened and endangered species, with remarks by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett,, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and other federal agency and conservation organization officials

Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention - Closing the Circle Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NEWS CONFERENCE WITH ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES MAHONEY

Office of Air and Radiation - Clean Air Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Joint Committee on Environmental Cooperation. Meeting between the U.S. EPA and the State Environemental Protection Administration of the People's Republic of China , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Air and Radiation - Clean Air Excellence Awards Ceremony , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - National Partnership of Environmental Technology Education (NPETE) Contract , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Air and Radiation - Clean Air Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

Meeting and press conference, hosted by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne at Main Interior, on inter-state water issues arising from the drought affecting the southeastern U.S., with the Secretary joined by Alabama Governor Bob Riley, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant General Robert Van Antwerp

Demonstrators participating in "Our City, Our Fight: Protect Migrants, Protect the Planet" protest, New York City, New York, April 19, 2025

Miscellaneous - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-431-168. Hurricane Katrina

Office of the Deputy Administrator - September 11th Remembrance , Environmental Protection Agency

United for Peace and Justice march against the Republican National Convention in

Hurricane Rita Calcasieu Parish, LA December 28, 2005 - The U.S. flag flys in front of a home that had roof damage due to Hurricane Rita three months ago. Reconstruction is ongoing throughout this southwest Louisiana Parish.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - EPA at 40: Speaker Series, Open House, Mellon Auditorium , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - EPA at 40: Speaker Series, Open House, Mellon Auditorium , Environmental Protection Agency

Reception event, on the Main Interior rooftop, following the official announcement of the final list of National Park Centennial Challenge projects to be funded in 2008, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and National Park Service Deputy Director Lyndi Harvey among the Interior speakers. The Centennial Challenge is the public-private fund matching element of the President's National Park Centennial Initiative, designed to prepare the National Park system for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.

Getting to Green , Environmental Protection Agency

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA African Embassy Event Disaster Brief

Signing ceremony for the Truckee River Operating Agreement in Reno, Nevada, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined Nevada Senator Harry Reid, Chairman Mervin Wright, Jr. of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, and other federal, state, and local dignitaries including Assistant Attorney General Ronald Tenpas of the Justice Department, California Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman, Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Director Allen Biaggi, Truckee Meadows Water Authority Board of Directors Chairman Mike Carrigan, and Reno Mayor Bob Cashell. The agreement fulfilled the requirements of the 1990 Settlement Act for the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, which directed the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate an operating agreement for the major federal and private reservoirs on the Truckee River upstream of Reno.

Office of Enforcement and Compliance - Global E-Waste Conference , Environmental Protection Agency

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work is underway to dismantle a water tower in the Launch Complex 39 area near the Vehicle Assembly Building.The effort is part of on-going efforts to upgrade and revitalize Kennedy's water and sewer systems to increase their reliability, sustainability and capabilities into the 21st century for current and future users.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NEWS CONFERENCE WITH ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES MAHONEY

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Cooperative Conservation , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Cooperative Conservation , Environmental Protection Agency

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, La., September 7, 2005 -- US Forest Service helps out at New Orleans airport where FEMA's D-MATs have set up operations.

Administrator Christine Todd Whitman at Regional Administrator Summit at Hotel Washington in DC , Environmental Protection Agency

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Coastal America Symposium

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Durango, Colorado, for participation in ceremonies marking the near completion of the main features of the Bureau of Reclamation's Animas-La Plata Project, including construction of the Ridges Basin Dam and Basin Creek drop structures, the Durango Pumping Plant, and Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit. Joining Secretary Kempthorne at the event were Interior Solicitor David Bernhardt, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Robert Johnson, Colorado Senator--and future Interior Secretary--Ken Salazar, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Chairman Clement Frost of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Chairman Ernest House of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and President Joe Shirley of the Navajo Nation, among other federal, state, and local officials.

Office of Research and Development - 2008 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) , Environmental Protection Agency

White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy at the Downtown Reno Ballroom, Reno, Nevada, where Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, and Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation President Jeff Crane among the many dignitaries delivering remarks

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson's Official Trip to China (The Fifth China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue) , Environmental Protection Agency

Liberty Island, N.Y., May 6, 2013 Statue of Liberty facilities were damaged during Hurricane Sandy with nearly 75%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of the island under water. Repairs are now underway to prepare the island for the July 4th reopening. K.C.Wilsey/FEMA. New York Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Groundbreaking ceremony for a new visitor center at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, and announcement of new funding for 49 projects under Round 8 of the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining Nevada Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign, Nevada Representatives Shelley Berkley and Jon Porter, and other federal, state, and National Landscape Conservation Foundation officials

Front of Main LA Eco-Village house on Bimini Place. Started in 1993, LA Eco-Village demonstrates the processes for creating a healthy neighborhood ecologically, socially and economically and to reduce environmental impacts while raising the quality of neighborhood life. .

Aftermath - Parishes - 26-HK-42-66. Hurricane Katrina

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Hurricane Isaac Hits Mississippi

Toronto, June 2021 - Canadian Flag flowing at half mast after the discovery of unmarked graves across three former residential schools site in Canada

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Archive Photo Projects. 35th Anniversary Support Material - History Portraits and Paintings , Environmental Protection Agency

Town Hall Meeting - 26-HK-271-82. Hurricane Katrina

A graphic to remember 9/11 in 2016, and encourage service opportunities... Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, MS, August 13, 2008 -- The Hurricane Camille Memorial in Biloxi was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. It was recently restored by the city of Biloxi. Jennifer Smits/FEMA.

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Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Environmental Council of States (ECOS) Meeting , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Deputy Administrator - Presidential Rank Awards , Environmental Protection Agency

Detroit, Michigan USA, 14 March 2019, A Trump 2020 Build the Wall float was displayed at a public meeting to promote construction of a wall along the Mexican border. The ""We Build the Wall"" event promoted an organization of the same name that is trying to raise individual contributions to fund wall construction.

Long Island Bush-Cheney election campaign fundraiser

Archive Photo Projects. 35th Anniversary Support Material - History Portraits, Postcard and Paintings , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, where he joined Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Idaho Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch, and other officials for meetings, tours of the facility and surrounding area, and press conference on fire season preparations

Office of the Deputy Administrator - Ducks Unlimited , Environmental Protection Agency

Signing event, at the National Geographic Society (NGS) headquarters in Washington, D.C., for Memorandum of Understanding promoting geotourism--tourism that helps sustain or enchance the environmental, cultural, aesthetic, historical character and well-being of a place and its residents--as a collaborative approach among government agencies and private partners. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined NGS President and Chief Executive Officer John Fahey, Jr., NGS Executive Vice President Terry Garcia, National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Rey, Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Jerold Gidner, Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director Henri Bisson, Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Kenneth Stansell, and Forest Service Associate Chief Sally Collins, among other dignitaries, at the gathering.

Moore, Okla., Aug. 30, 2013 A banner from students of Newtown, Connecticut to the students of Moore, Oklahoma still hangs in Moore City Hall. The City of Moore recently received a $26.3 million Community Development Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help recovery continue from an EF-5 tornado that ravaged the community in May 2012 with winds more than 200 miles per hour.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Deputy Administrator - Ducks Unlimited , Environmental Protection Agency

Cover from FEMA Region 6 Training and Exercise Plan... Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Flooding Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Hoosick Falls, N. Y. , October 3, 2011 Robert Stribling, Disaster Recovery Center Manager, oversees the Mobile Disaster Recovery Center operations to assist local residents. FEMA plays a vital role supporting State, Tribal and local governments as they respond to the impacts of remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) One Year Celebration , Environmental Protection Agency

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, where he toured, met with Yosemite Superintendent Mike Toillefson and other Yosemite staff, and joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.

220401-N-EJ241-1043DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory (April 1, 2022) - A cake showing the Navys call to action, Respect. Protect. Empower. during the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) observance. The Department of Defense observes SAAPM by focusing on creating the appropriate culture to eliminate sexual assault and requiring a personal commitment from all Service members.

Hurricane Katrina/Hurricane Rita, New Orleans, October 6, 2005 - A poster drawn by the children of a family member who received treatment aboard the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship now docked here that is providing backup medical services and facilities to assist the already strained hospitals in the city, graces the entry way onto the ship. City hospitals sustained crippling damages from the winds and floodwaters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Win Henderson / FEMA

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Yosemite National Park, California, where he toured, met with Yosemite Superintendent Mike Toillefson and other Yosemite staff, and joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar at a press conference announcing more than 200 proposed "ready to go" projects to be undertaken in National Parks around the country as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative. The Initiative, launched the previous August, is designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016.

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