Climate Changed
Trump Seeks $12 Billion to Fight Flooding Tied to Climate Change
- The president has dismissed global warming as a hoax
- Environmental groups critical of Trump praise this request
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Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change.
While President Donald Trump has dismissed global warming as a hoax and his administration has moved to end efforts to curtail carbon emissions, the White House budget office is seeking $12 billion for a competition for flood-prone communities that scientists say are facing more numerous storms and greater flooding because of climate change.