Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster (Just don’t call it climate change.)


Photograph courtesy of: © William Neal, Orrin Pilkey & Norma Longo.

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The Trump administration is about to distribute billions of dollars to coastal states mainly in the South to help steel them against natural disasters worsened by climate change…

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