As southern states battered by natural disasters apply for HUD funding, they’re leaving out phrases related to climate change in order to stay on the Trump administration’s good side
A fuel pump in Houston, Texas, on August 2017. Hurricane Harvey caused the region around $125 billion in damage. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images As applications come in to access $16 billion in Department of Housing and Urban Development funding designed to protect vulnerable areas from “predictable damage from future events,” a pattern is forming among many conservative states.
“HUD is requiring them to be explicit about everything other than the concept that climate change is responsible,” said Marion McFadden, the former HUD head of disaster-recovery grants. She added that emphasizing language related to climate change may increase the risk “that they may walk away.
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