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TPM: After An Angry Tweet From The President, Money Dried Up For Storm Surge Planning
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/weekly-primers/new-york-city-seawall-trump-administration-flooding-tweet-mop-bucket
By Matt Shuham
February 27, 2020 2:47 p.m.
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The Army Corps of Engineers announced this week the study examining the potential sea wall and several others were being shut down. It was a money issue, but not a congressional one; somewhere along the line after Congress allocated the funds — at the White House budget office perhaps, or the Pentagon — the cash was cut off.
Robert Freudenberg, vice president of the Regional Plan Association, told TPM that stakeholders only found out about the study’s cancellation because the Army Corps cancelled a planned meeting on the project.
“There was supposed to be a public meeting happening,” he recalled. “They said, ‘That meeting is indefinitely postponed, and, by the way, so is the study.'”
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The Trump administration has demonstrated a pattern of interfering in government science — everything from scrubbing climate change information from agency webpages to stocking scientific advisory boards with industry allies.
In March of last year, the Navy quietly ended a climate change task force that had been empaneled during the Obama administration, saying it was “no longer needed.”
The bashful wind-down of such panels wasn’t normally how things work, the Navy task force’s former leader told E&E News. “The task force ended, in my opinion, without full incorporation of climate change considerations,” Navy Rear Adm. Jon White said.
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By Matt Shuham
February 27, 2020 2:47 p.m.
<snip>
The Army Corps of Engineers announced this week the study examining the potential sea wall and several others were being shut down. It was a money issue, but not a congressional one; somewhere along the line after Congress allocated the funds — at the White House budget office perhaps, or the Pentagon — the cash was cut off.
Robert Freudenberg, vice president of the Regional Plan Association, told TPM that stakeholders only found out about the study’s cancellation because the Army Corps cancelled a planned meeting on the project.
“There was supposed to be a public meeting happening,” he recalled. “They said, ‘That meeting is indefinitely postponed, and, by the way, so is the study.'”
<snip>
The Trump administration has demonstrated a pattern of interfering in government science — everything from scrubbing climate change information from agency webpages to stocking scientific advisory boards with industry allies.
In March of last year, the Navy quietly ended a climate change task force that had been empaneled during the Obama administration, saying it was “no longer needed.”
The bashful wind-down of such panels wasn’t normally how things work, the Navy task force’s former leader told E&E News. “The task force ended, in my opinion, without full incorporation of climate change considerations,” Navy Rear Adm. Jon White said.
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