Climate Changed
Trump’s HUD Keeps Climate-Smart Rebuilding Guide Under Wraps
- Tool to help local officials still ‘under review’ months later
- HUD chief says climate assessment best left to scientists
A man walks through Hurricane Irma floodwaters in Bonita Springs, Florida.
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Just a few months before a pair of blockbuster hurricanes hit Florida and Texas, the Trump administration received detailed guidelines from consultants for factoring climate change into how federal aid is spent.
Yet the recommendations, developed to help local officials consider climate risk when they use Department of Housing and Urban Development grants, have stayed under wraps even as the government prepares to disburse billions of dollars to storm victims.