Blumenauer Floats Broad Climate Adaptation Agenda Ahead Of Hill Debate

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) is floating a series of disaster management reforms aimed at adapting to climate change following heat waves, wildfires and other disasters in his state and across the West Coast, measures that Congress could debate as soon as next month when a short-term extension to the federal flood insurance program expires. Blumenauer, who has long sought to bolster climate adaptation efforts, released a report Nov. 15 that provides a “legislative roadmap of priorities and core tenets for...