The federal government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a generation of new roads, bridges and sewers — which could be overwhelmed by floodwaters the moment they are installed. That's because federal estimates about flood risk haven't kept up with climate change, according to a study published on Monday in the Journal of Hydrology. First Street Foundation was auditing the gold standard of government rainfall calculations: the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Atlas 14 model. These projections of future risks of catastrophic downpours are a current key determining factor in the engineering standards by which $1.3 trillion in new infrastr
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