Federal Government Is Failing on Climate Readiness, Watchdog Says
Posted on AllSides November 27th, 2019
From The Left
A nonpartisan federal watchdog agency assailed the Trump administration’s response to climate change in a damaging new report that criticized President Trump’s reversal of environmental policies imposed by President Obama.
The Government Accountability Office, which has warned since 2013 about the nation’s exposure to the impacts of climate change, says the federal government is now failing to make any progress on improving climate resilience.
The GAO puts climate change on its high-risk list of vulnerabilities and poorly run federal programs that pose a significant threat to the public.
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