Last month Trump
… rolled back rules regarding environmental reviews and restrictions on government-funded building projects in flood-prone areas as part of his proposal to spend $1 trillion to fix aging U.S. infrastructure.
[The executive order] would speed approvals of permits for highways, bridges, pipelines and other major building efforts. It revokes an Obama-era executive order aimed at reducing exposure to flooding, sea level rise and other consequences of climate change.
—Reuters
Rumor has it that now, after Harvey, Trump may be reconsidering those regulations. And, as this article points out, Congress can also act on the knowledge we’ve had for years. Fingers, and everything else, crossed that they come to their senses!
September 4, 2017
Politicians coming to their senses? That is a new one on me!!
If enough people realize the money that is wasted rebuilding again and again, something might eventually change. Politicians respond to public opinion, anything that will help them get re-elected.
LOL
Thanks for being an optimist, Jean! There is always reason to hope!
Actually I’m more of a cheerful pessimist, which means I’m often pleasantly surprised. 😀
Somebody better do some thinking.
Love the dog. Yours?
Tempi is my granddog, lives in Illinois with Kaitlin, Torben and sweet old Sammy. They send me pictures often and they come to visit a couple of times a year. 🙂
when someone gets rid of a piece of legislation that has been approved after careful consideration just because that legislation was supported and begun by an individual you are trying to undermine everything they did … strictly as a power play…
that is not ruling with your head.
i’m not even sure if it can be called ruling. it’s like a kid on the playground…
“na na na na na! I’ve got the ball now and you don’t! I’m gonna get rid of all the stuff you did! SO THERE!”
even the good stuff?
apparently. climate change go hang.
Actually the regulations were an executive order, not legislation. The Republicans in Congress opposed almost everything Obama proposed, so he resorted to executive orders instead. Unfortunately, those orders can be easily overturned by a new president.
crazy “kids” – adult ones are something that seems to fit with “we don’t want to use our brains…” – the ones situated in your heads/mind…