After Harvey, the Trump administration reconsiders flood rules it just rolled back

[applegrove]

By Juliet Eilperin at the Washington Post

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?utm_term=.2a5ba6cede31

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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, self­inflicted wound on our country — it’s 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.


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[uppityperson]

1. Eye roll or laugh for "Ohhhh, that's what those were for"?

[Beartracks]

4. Crazy that most people don't want their infrastructure investments to wash away. n/t

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. He wakes up every day in a new world

Diplomats have been horrified for a while now that he thinks nothing before 1/20/17 ever happened. And it's not even the scariest thing about him.

[elleng]

3. No sh*t, sherlock!

[Hekate]

5. Mad King of Moronic people