Apparently, President Donald Trump’s sole purpose is to obliterate all of former President Barack Obama’s directives. His recent executive order revokes Obama’s Federal Flood Risk Management standards.
From Business Insider’s Eliza Relman:
“Ten days before Hurricane Harvey descended upon Texas on Friday, wreaking havoc and causing widespread flooding, President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking a set of regulations that would have made federally funded infrastructure less vulnerable to flooding.
“The Obama-era rules, which had not yet gone into effect, would have required the federal government to take into account the risk of flooding and sea-level rise as a result of climate change when constructing new infrastructure and rebuilding after disasters.
“Experts are predicting that Harvey -- the most powerful storm to hit the US since 2004 -- will cost Texas between $30 billion and $100 billion in damage.
“And in the coming days, Congress will be called upon to send billions of federal dollars to help with the state's recovery and rebuilding efforts.
“But because of Trump's rollback of President Barack Obama's Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, experts across the political spectrum say much of the federal money sent to Texas is likely to be wasted on construction that will insufficiently protect against the next storm.”
