Summer of Storms Tests Energy Resilience
Trump’s executive order to cancel the flood planning standards irked even some in his own party, with the conservative R Street Institute calling the move “shortsighted and ill-considered” and warning it would put taxpayers on the hook for expensive costs associated with damage from floods.
“Cutting investments in effective disaster mitigation only serves to exacerbate that problem over the long term,” R Street senior fellow R.J. Lehmann said in an August news release.
