Water & Oceans

"White House: Biden Imposes Flood Standard After Stumbling The First Time"

"When Biden issued an expansive day one executive order on climate change and public health, it included a little-noticed provision that intended to reinstate a flood-mitigation policy that President Obama had established in 2015 and President Trump revoked in 2017."

Source: E&E News, 05/25/2021
June 14, 2021 to June 18, 2021

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Biden Holds Firm On Climate Provisions In Infrastructure Counterproposal

"President Biden is holding firm on energy and climate provisions in the White House infrastructure proposal but has expressed a willingness to cut some research and development funds, according to a memo to Senate Environment Committee ranking member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) obtained by The Hill."

Source: The Hill, 05/24/2021

"White House, GOP Infrastructure Talks Hit Crucial Stage"

"Negotiations between the White House and Senate Republicans over President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan are hitting a crucial stage ahead of talks Friday after the latest GOP offer left some dismay in the administration that there wasn’t more movement off the Republicans’ initial $568 billion proposal."

Source: AP, 05/21/2021

NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Calls For 6th Straight Above-Average Season

"Just months after the conclusion of the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released its 2021 outlook, calling for another active season. The agency is the latest of several forecasting groups watching the upcoming hurricane season’s potential to overperform for the sixth year in a row."

Source: Washington Post, 05/21/2021

"Even Amid a Pandemic, More Than 40 Million People Fled Their Homes"

"Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020. It was the largest number in more than a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a nonprofit group based in Geneva that tracks displacement data annually."

Source: NYTimes, 05/21/2021

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