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<p>Since President Trump has been in office he has made it a priority to get rid of as many Obama regulations as possible. That may sit well with a majority of his constituents but when he makes the visit down to south Texas on Tuesday, Trump might want to explain why just weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas he ended a rule aimed to make infrastructure more resilient to the effects of rising sea levels and flooding.</p><div class='code-block code-block-2' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'>
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<p>Trump signed the executive order mid-August, effectively getting rid of the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, saying it would allow the permitting process to go by much, much faster for important infrastructure projects.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We&#8217;re going to get infrastructure built quickly, inexpensively, relatively speaking, and the permitting process will go very, very quickly.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What he didn&#8217;t say was that safety and natural disaster checks are what was holding everything up. It wasn&#8217;t like some guy was just sitting in his office not signing the correct documents that Trump eliminated.</p>
<p>The former director of public affairs at the Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) Rafael Lemaitre <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-signed-away-obamas-flood-risk-rules-weeks-hurricane-harvey-hit-655712">tried</a> to warn everyone at the time that the program was one of &#8220;the most significant actions taken in a generation&#8221; that would ensure critical infrastructure was protected against unforeseen disasters. But, Trump didn&#8217;t listen.</p>
<p>&#8220;Eliminating this requirement is self-defeating; we can either build smarter now, or put taxpayers on the hook to pay exponentially more when it floods. And it will,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said at the time: &#8220;This is climate science denial at its most dangerous, as Trump is putting vulnerable communities, federal employees, and families at risk by throwing out any guarantee that our infrastructure will be safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>While Trump is taking some of the correct steps necessary to respond to Hurricane Harvey, such as giving Texas the full extent of federal resources needed, the impact of his executive order&#8217;s such as this can&#8217;t be overstated.</p>
<p>And &#8211; another thing &#8211; floods in the United States just aren&#8217;t rare events that only happen because of major Hurricanes or to coastal communities, they affect all 50 states.</p>
<p>Robert Moore of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Franklin Nutter of the Reinsurance Association of America &#8211; urged Trump to keep the Obama mandate, but Trump declined.</p>
<p>&#8220;While many Americans may think flooding is only a problem for coastal regions prone to hurricanes and tropical storms, it is far more widespread than that and can devastate any state or region across the country. In just the past five years, all 50 states have experienced flood damage.&#8221;</p>
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