The threats of the climate change crisis and sea level rise to U S. infrastructure, military readiness, food security and the economy are most evident in America floodplains, where the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has worsened flooding and floodplain development by providing insurance policies that obscure risk and provide discounted coverage. Meanwhile, the United States contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, which fuels the climate change crisis and worsens flooding The disconnect between subsidizing development in floodplains and the fact that the United States has made those floodplains even more vulnerable to flooding by leasing federal fossil fuels that contribute to the climate change crisis and sea level rise has cost U S taxpayers billions of dollars and put millions of people and our nation most imperiled species at increased risk.

Flooding will only get more expensive and devastating especially if the United States continues in "business as usual" fossil fuel extraction and emissions, disproportionately putting vulnerable communities at risk Congress must immediately end federal fossil fuel leases and require that federal agencies that fund authorize, or permit fossil fuel activities analyze the indirect greenhouse gas emissions impacts of those activities. Congress must also require FEvL4 to use the best available climate change and sea level rise mapping to reflect actual flood risk provide a nationwide plan for flood disclosure and risk, analyze and avoid impacts to wildlife habitat, and pursue buyouts.