"President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead EPA lives in an area at high risk for flooding that gets federal support for climate mitigation."
"SHIRLEY, New York — As President-elect Donald Trump and his allies prepare to claw back policies to address climate change, an ambitious plan to fight worsening floods and storms on Long Island is coming to fruition.
Here in the region that Lee Zeldin — Trump’s pick to lead EPA — calls home, the federal government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to combat coastal flooding, rising tides and beach erosion.
The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to raise the elevations of as many as 4,400 homes along the island’s South Shore, with some eligible properties located in Zeldin’s flood-prone neighborhood in Shirley. Fully funded by federal dollars, the $2.4 billion Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point Project will also add sand and dunes to beaches that are being washed away."
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