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FEMA Targets Climate Change Skeptic Governors, Could Withhold Funding
Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is among the Republican governors who will face a difficult decision because of FEMA’s new guidelines. (Associated Press)
New rules put Rick Scott, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Pat McCrory, Greg Abbott in bind.
The Obama administration has issued new guidelines that could make it harder for governors who deny climate change to obtain federal disaster-preparedness funds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new rules could put some Republican governors in a bind. The rules say that states’ risk assessments must include “consideration of changing environmental or climate conditions that may affect and influence the long-term vulnerability from hazards in the state.”
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