New Trump Administration Flood Standards Mirror Obama-Era Rules

Yale e360
Feb 8, 2018, 1:16 pm100 pts
Six months after President Trump revoked an Obama-era rule mandating that federally funded projects account for future sea level rise and flooding, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced that recipients of $7.4 billion in disaster recovery grants must do just that — seemingly…

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