Queens Borough President Donovan Richards on Monday released the borough’s third-annual resiliency report, highlighting ongoing efforts to make Queens a “cleaner, greener” borough, while sharply criticizing the Trump Administration for slashing nearly $150 million in federal funding for local flood mitigation projects.
The report’s release coincided with a morning rally in East Elmhurst, where Richards called on former President Donald Trump to immediately restore funding for three climate resiliency projects in Elmhurst, Corona and Flushing that were defunded under FEMA’s recently terminated BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) program.
