The House bill requires all Federal agencies to ignore indications of future accelerated sea level rise. The House wants all new Federal facilities to be built on the assumption that future flood risk will be the same as the flood risk of the last 100 years.
Rob Moore, head of the water and climate team at the Natural Resources Defense Council: "We thought a lot of these people were fiscal conservatives, but apparently they support the idea of building things so they can be knocked down and we can build them again." On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:36:42 AM UTC-7, Mike MacCracken wrote: > > And if you want to get a sense of how the US Congress is facing up to > climate change, I’ve attached a letter from the head of OMB back to the > chair of one of the Senate committees on their actions on the energy and > water parts of the budget. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
