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Don't block Obama's flood rule
2016-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Major flooding has become an increasingly critical problem across the United States due to urbanization and rising sea levels. Such flooding is now involved in 90 percent of all natural disasters in the U.S., with average damages nearly doubling over the past two decades to more than $10 billion per year in the 2000s. President Barack Obama took steps to address this matter head-on by issuing an executive order last year that would require federally owned or funded buildings and infrastructure...
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