Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
While welcoming the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new rule to better protect U.S. infrastructure from flooding, one climate campaigner stressed Wednesday that
still desperately needs to transform into a modern disaster agency poised to tackle the deadly fossil fuel-driven heat decimating the whole country,' said Jean Su, energy justice director and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement. Extreme weather impacts of global heating—largely driven by humanity extracting and burning fossil fuels—include not only widespread flooding and stronger hurricanes but also record-smashing heatwaves and wildfires.
first proposed the rule, called the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, in 2016 during the Obama administration. The proposal generated intense opposition, particularly from homebuilders who warned that new restrictions would lead to higher construction costs, according to Roy Wright, who ran disaster mitigation programs for
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