Trump to repeal Obama executive order on sea level rise
Environmentalists were critical of Trump’s plan to rollback the 2015 order, as was the right-leaning R Street Institute.
“Taxpayers have been made to shell out hundreds of billions of dollars in disaster-related spending over the past decade, including more than $136 billion for just the two years from 2011 to 2013,” senior fellow R.J. Lehmann said in a statement.
“By contrast, evidence shows that every $1 spent on disaster mitigation can save $4 in post-disaster recovery and rebuilding costs,” Lehmann said.
