Before Hurricane Harvey, Trump canceled coastal flood protections

Shaye Wolf, The Hill August 30 2017

Whole neighborhoods are under water. Families trapped by rising floods. Exhausted rescue workers and heroic volunteers stretched to their limits by an unprecedented calamity.

Hurricane Harvey has unleashed heart-breaking devastation in South Texas. But the troubling truth is that even more damage is in store in the years ahead as climate change worsens — and our federal government is now on track to be less prepared.

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