Trump to scrap Obama-era rule to protect infrastructure from climate-change flooding

From the Huffington Post:

Eli Lehrer, president of the libertarian think tank R Street Institute, told HuffPost that weakening the flood standard will prove “extremely problematic for taxpayers,” resulting in more structures being built in places where they shouldn’t be.

“There’s obviously legitimate things to be done to speed up infrastructure, but saying that we’re not going to pay attention to flood risks is not the way to do it,” Lehrer said. “And while it’s possible more infrastructure will be built… it is also quite likely that a lot of what is built will be destroyed in relatively short order. So this does no good for anybody.”