US flood standards: politics trump common sense

In early 2015, the White House issued an executive order establishing a new Federal Flood Risk Management Standard that would require all federal agencies to consider climate change and other flood risk associated with federal facilities, projects, financing activity, or water and land use decisions.
In recent appropriations bills for the funding of federal agencies, some members of Congress who disagree with the purported causes or impacts of climate change are actively working to defund any efforts to implement the new standard. The outcome of that remains uncertain but it is clear that the politics around climate change in the US remain highly charged.