While discussing Hurricane Harvey with former FEMA Director of Public Affairs Rafael Lemaitre on Tuesday’s edition of CNN International’s “CNN Newsroom,” host John Vause stated that it’s “ironic” that President Trump rolled back a regulation put in during the Obama administration requiring government construction to account for future flood risk caused by climate change.
Vause said, “[T]wo weeks ago, President Trump signed an executive order rolling back an Obama era regulation which required all government construction to take into account the flood risk, which was being caused — and the future flood risk being caused by climate change and rising ocean temperatures and sea levels. The timing now seems almost ironic.”
Lemaitre responded, “It’s totally self-defeating. This was the strongest move by the federal government to protect Americans from the most and costly disaster we see in the United States, which is flooding. We can debate climate change all we want, but we know that the truth is that these floods are getting more common and more costly every year.”
(h/t Grabien)
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