INFRASTRUCTURE
White House to dump Obama-era flood standard
The White House will rescind an Obama-era policy that sought to prevent federal spending on infrastructure that could be damaged by floods, according to sources briefed on the plan.
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Camille von Kaenel and Zack Colman, E&E News reporters
The White House will rescind an Obama-era policy that sought to prevent federal spending on infrastructure that could be damaged by floods, according to sources briefed on the plan.
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in March 1989 in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it released a record-setting 11 million gallons of crude oil into a uniquely vulnerable environment, killing thousands of birds and animals and marring 1,300 miles of pristine coastline for decades. Thirty years later, its legacy can be seen across the oil and gas industry and in responses to other environmental disasters.
By Michael Doyle and Jeremy P. Jacobs in Greenwire
When Rep. Jared Huffman first ran for California State Assembly in 2006, he posted up outside the exit during a screening of the climate documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
By Nick Sobczyk and Maxine Joselow in Greenwire
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in March 1989 in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it released a record-setting 11 million gallons of crude oil into a uniquely vulnerable environment, killing thousands of birds and animals and marring 1,300 miles of pristine coastline for decades. Thirty years later, its legacy can be seen across the oil and gas industry and in responses to other environmental disasters.
By Michael Doyle and Jeremy P. Jacobs in Greenwire
When Rep. Jared Huffman first ran for California State Assembly in 2006, he posted up outside the exit during a screening of the climate documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
By Nick Sobczyk and Maxine Joselow in Greenwire