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CLIMATE STAKES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE FIGHT: President
Joe Biden will introduce a $6 trillion budget today reiterating his interest in passing large new investments in clean energy and fighting climate change. But as we somehow are upon Memorial Day, it’s getting near crunch time for the administration to turn its priorities into law through its only real vehicle of doing it infrastructure legislation.
Biden yesterday said he is
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Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced on Wednesday that he is requesting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Harris County to receive a direct allocation of $750 million for mitigation efforts.
After getting hammered by Houston area officials, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced Wednesday night that he’d asked the federal government to send $750 million for flood mitigation directly to Harris County, days after his General Land Office iced-out the county and the city of Houston from receiving any funds at all from the latest round of Hurricane Harvey relief dollars.
Bush attempted to blame President Joe Biden for Houston and Harris County not getting any of the first $1 billion in federal flood relief cash the General Land Office distributed last week, despite the fact that before well before Biden’s presidency, Bush’s office was responsible for creating the formula for evaluating funding requests that disadvantaged large urban areas like Houston and Harris County in the competition for relief dollars.