NRDC Presses FEMA To Update Flood Rules To Reflect Climate Risks

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and state flood managers are petitioning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to update its decades-old rules for development in floodplain areas, arguing stricter limits are needed because climate change is exacerbating flooding threats. The environmentalist and state officials’ Jan. 5 petition could set the basis for the incoming Biden administration to issue new flood standards as a climate adaptation measure, a step that some free-market groups in the past also have welcomed because...