Trump struck down Obama's flood risk regulations two weeks before Harvey

[Miles Archer]

Source: Raw Story

Donald Trump signed away Obama-era flood standards just weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in a bid to get infrastructure projects approved more quickly.

The rule signed by former president Barack Obama in 2015 had not yet come into effect but aimed to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and flooding.

Those who backed Obama’s rules believed they would make people safer by putting roads, bridges and other infrastructure on safer ground, NPR reported, but Trump rescinded the rule several weeks ago in an attempt to speed up the time it takes for infrastructure projects to be approved.

Speaking from New York when he announced the rollback of the rules on Tuesday, August 15, Trump said: “We're going to get infrastructure built quickly, inexpensively, relatively speaking, and the permitting process will go very, very quickly."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trump-struck-down-obamas-flood-risk-regulations-two-weeks-before-harvey/

[ananda]

1. 45 is such a self-serving asshole.

All he wants to do is say things that he thinks will make him look good.

He never, and I mean never, thinks of anyone else or the common good.

[Achilleaze]

2. Thank you Comrade Casino*

Americans are sick of what you and your republican cronies call "winning" and what the world recognizes is weakening America's ability to deal with climate change, and to ward of the Acts of War that the russians are perpetrating on our US democracy.

* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[NCjack]

3. His incompetence never sleeps. He is locking USA into a cycle of buying and

replacing shoddy crap instead of buying quality that pays for itself over its lifetime. Amazing that this fool came from the 5-star hotel industry. Or, did he come from the money washing machine industry?

[rurallib]

4. well said

[BeyondGeography]

5. Because Obama

[burrowowl]

6. Spread this wide and far!

[Blue_Tires]

7. This is what the working-class white folks voted for

so it must be what they want...

[yardwork]

8. That was the speech where Trump veered into praising Nazis.

Everybody talked about the appalling things he said later in that speech and ignored the appalling things he said on topic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Kick (nt)