EPA Eyes Ways To Encourage Climate Resiliency After Early Challenges

EPA is exploring revamped approaches to encouraging water utilities to include climate change resiliency considerations into infrastructure and other planning activities after several agency efforts to integrate resiliency into water planning stalled last year due to reluctance from both the financial sector and some small utilities that remain skeptical about anything connected with climate change. Agency officials have suggested the need to modify their approach, emphasizing to communities the need to respond to drought and flooding without specifically tying it...