Pew Expresses Support for Flood-Ready Provisions in Infrastructure Bill (PDF)
Supporting Flood-Ready Provisions in Infrastructure Bill
The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Sept. 8, 2021, to U.S. House of Representatives leadership in support of the flood-readiness elements in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which passed the Senate on Aug. 10. The letter explains how the legislation’s proposed funding boost for pre-disaster mitigation, creation of a transportation resiliency program, and embrace of nature-based solutions to reduce risk can better prepare the nation’s infrastructure and communities for the growing threat of flooding and other disasters.
The $1 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill passed Aug. 10 by the Senate contains disaster and flood-resilience provisions of historic proportions. The once-in-a-generation investment would include billions of dollars in resilience measures that would help protect communities from flooding and other disasters at a time when people across the country, and around the world, are struggling to combat the increasing severity of deadly storms and rising seas.
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Losses from flood-related disasters across the United States have risen by more than $100 billion each decade since the 1980s, driven by increasingly severe weather, decay and neglect of infrastructure, and development in vulnerable areas.
