Trump struck down Obama's flood risk regulations two weeks before Harvey
Source: Raw Story
Donald Trump signed away Obama-era flood standards just weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in a bid to get infrastructure projects approved more quickly.
The rule signed by former president Barack Obama in 2015 had not yet come into effect but aimed to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and flooding.
Those who backed Obamas rules believed they would make people safer by putting roads, bridges and other infrastructure on safer ground, NPR reported, but Trump rescinded the rule several weeks ago in an attempt to speed up the time it takes for infrastructure projects to be approved.
Speaking from New York when he announced the rollback of the rules on Tuesday, August 15, Trump said: We're going to get infrastructure built quickly, inexpensively, relatively speaking, and the permitting process will go very, very quickly."
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trump-struck-down-obamas-flood-risk-regulations-two-weeks-before-harvey/
ananda
(28,877 posts)All he wants to do is say things that he thinks will make him look good.
He never, and I mean never, thinks of anyone else or the common good.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Americans are sick of what you and your republican cronies call "winning" and what the world recognizes is weakening America's ability to deal with climate change, and to ward of the Acts of War that the russians are perpetrating on our US democracy.
* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
NCjack
(10,279 posts)replacing shoddy crap instead of buying quality that pays for itself over its lifetime. Amazing that this fool came from the 5-star hotel industry. Or, did he come from the money washing machine industry?
BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)burrowowl
(17,652 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)so it must be what they want...
yardwork
(61,712 posts)Everybody talked about the appalling things he said later in that speech and ignored the appalling things he said on topic.