Lauren Lantry, lauren.lantry@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Thursday, FEMA released a strategic planning document for the next four years. This report, which comes on the heels of a historically disastrous hurricane season that communities have yet to recover from, eliminates all mentions of climate change.
In response, Sierra Club Florida Chapter Directors Frank Jackalone released the following statement:
"Communities across the country are still trying to recover from hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, yet Donald Trump’s FEMA seems more concerned with science denial then ensuring Americans safety and future. Omitting climate change in FEMA’s strategic planning documents is science denial at its worst. Instead of planning and preparing for future natural disasters FEMA is putting our lives at risk. It is unconscionable for FEMA to be ignoring the rising consequences that climate disruption will bring to our communities after hurricanes pounded the country from Texas and Florida to Puerto Rico. Rather than trying to score cheap political points, FEMA should return its attention to helping Americans still suffering.”
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