Shitstain Dissolves DOC Group Designed To Help Cities Deal With Warming, Natural Disasters
The Trump administration has terminated a cross-agency group created to help local officials protect their residents against extreme weather and natural disasters.
The Community Resilience Panel for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems was created by the Obama administration in 2015 within the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. Its chairman, Jesse Keenan, told members at a meeting Monday that its charter was being dissolved that the meeting would be its last. “It was one of the last federal bodies that openly talked about climate change in public," Keenan said in an email to Bloomberg News. “I can say that we tried our best and we never self-censored!”
The group is the latest in a series of federal climate-related bodies to be altered or terminated since Trump took office. In June, the administration told scientists who sat on the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors that their terms weren’t being renewed. In August, Trump ended the advisory committee attached to the National Climate Assessment, the quadrennial review of climate science. Trump has called climate change a "hoax" designed to make the U.S. less competitive with China. The Department of Commerce didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
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The group advised local officials on making buildings, communications, energy systems, transportation and water more able to withstand severe weather and climate change. That mission made the group especially vulnerable, Keenan said. Since its creation in 2015, the group has identified potential improvements to building codes, worked on guides for reestablishing cell phone service, and advised municipal utilities on resuming operations after a disaster, among other things.
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