Critical disaster-response legislation is once again going ignored as part of a longer pattern of climate-reactive discussions at the Legislature in which #Republicans pull their collective fingers out of their ears only to offer piecemeal relief in the aftermath of deadly disaster. https://www.texasobserver.org/gop-flood-relief-what-not-pass-climate/

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Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

Republican lawmakers have for years refused to engage with precautionary climate resilience and disaster-response measures.

The Texas Observer