The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to protect against floods, safe rooms to provide shelter from tornadoes, vegetation management to reduce damage from fires and seismic retrofitting to fortify buildings for earthquakes.

Pennsylvania is part of a coalition of 20 states that announced Wednesday it was suing the Trump administration for shutting down natural disaster funding through FEMA. Here's what we know.

The administration acted unlawfully in "unilaterally shutting down FEMA's flagship pre-disaster mitigation program," suit says.