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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Harvey, the Trump administration reconsiders flood rules it just rolled back
A couple of weeks ago President Trump scrapped Obama-era rules, intended to reduce the risks posed by flooding, that established new construction standards for roads, housing and other infrastructure projects that receive federal dollars.
Trump derided these restrictions, which were written in response to growing concerns over the impact of climate change, and other federal rules as useless red tape holding back the economy.
This overregulated permitting process is a massive, self-inflicted wound on our country its disgraceful denying our people much-needed investments in their community, he said in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York during an event to tout his infrastructure policies.
But now, in the wake of the massive flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey along the Gulf Coast, the Trump administration is considering whether to issue similar requirements to build higher in flood-prone areas as the government prepares to spend billions of dollars in response to the storm.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-harvey-the-trump-administration-reconsiders-flood-rules-it-just-rolled-back/2017/09/01/c3a051ea-8e56-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.c284eeb98e25
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After Harvey, the Trump administration reconsiders flood rules it just rolled back (Original Post)
HipChick
Sep 2017
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Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)1. Too Bad Obama Didn't Make A Law,,,
...Against Drinking Drano.
Thanks Obama!!
Warpy
(111,267 posts)3. Yeah, you stupid fucking assholes! Those regulations were there for a reason
and that reason was to protect the rest of us from stupid ideas that had already killed some of us because some rapacious, greedy SOB just like you wanted to cut some corners and get richer!