The dismissal of a recent federal suit against FEMA undermines environmentalists’ goal of expanding renewable energy, even in seemingly easy situations like rebuilding storm-ravaged communities from scratch, attorneys say.
Broadly, the outcome in the case—which seeks to compel FEMA to define key climate terms—is a setback for the rollout of resilient energy nationwide, said Andrew Whitehurst, water program director at the environmental group Healthy Gulf, one of the litigants.
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been allowed to do less than Congress required it to do, and these statutory definitions could have been finalized years earlier,” Whitehurst said.
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