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GreenTreeClub posted...

Fake news...

The regulations were only there for NEW structures. It did not affect the Harvey victims one way or another, this is just political posturing in order to attack Trump on the backs of the victims.

Anyways, those regulation are dumb because they had to do with climate change, meaning, because of climate change fiction, new infrastructure is harder to be built. In order to build it, the regulations were removed. But Trump said the infrastructure would be built to the highest standards.

Obviously Trump's order didn't have any actual effect on Harvey's impact, given that that would be impossible, but the timing is rather fitting for demonstrating why it's a bad idea. The regulations he's repealed forced developers to consider how conditions would change in designing new infrastructure moving forward. If developers had better considered how conditions would change in designing Houston's infrastructure, there's a good chance a lot less of it would be underwater right now. There's a lesson to be learned from Houston, and Trump's order ignores that lesson entirely.

Quite simply, ignoring climate change in designing new infrastructure will only create more Houstons. Repealing regulations that demand that climate change be taken into account is an awful idea, as Harvey was kind enough to demonstrate mere days after Trump did so.
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