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February 7, 2005 7:15 PM
Bush budget cuts environment funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has proposed cutting the fiscal 2006 budget for the
Environmental Protection Agency by nearly 6 percent to $7.57 billion (4.08 billion pounds).
The budget plan cuts contributions to a clean water fund used by states and includes more money to clean up toxic
waste sites.
Total EPA funding would decline from $8 billion that Congress allocated for the agency to protect the nation's air,
water and land in the current budget year. In 2004, the EPA had a budget of $8.4 billion.
Most of the EPA cut for 2006 is due to a reduction in government contributions to a revolving fund that states use to
upgrade sewage and septic systems and storm-water run-off projects. Funding for the fund fell by $361 million, or 33
percent, in the Bush administration budget proposal.
The lower request compensates for higher funds appropriated by Congress in 2004 and 2005, which will maintain
the total commitment of $6.8 billion through 2011, an EPA spokeswoman said.
"Federal funding of this program was never intended to be permanent," the spokeswoman said.
The administration's budget plan would hold steady a separate $850 million state fund for clean drinking water.
The EPA budget would also increase by $47 million funding to clean up 600 toxic "brownfield" sites and add $28
million to remove toxic sediments from the Great Lakes.
Funding for Superfund -- an industry program to clean up toxic waste sites -- would rise slightly to $1.28 billion.
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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.htm...143&sid=5522109
February 7, 2005 7:15 PM
Bush budget cuts environment funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has proposed cutting the fiscal 2006 budget for the
Environmental Protection Agency by nearly 6 percent to $7.57 billion (4.08 billion pounds).
The budget plan cuts contributions to a clean water fund used by states and includes more money to clean up toxic
waste sites.
Total EPA funding would decline from $8 billion that Congress allocated for the agency to protect the nation's air,
water and land in the current budget year. In 2004, the EPA had a budget of $8.4 billion.
Most of the EPA cut for 2006 is due to a reduction in government contributions to a revolving fund that states use to
upgrade sewage and septic systems and storm-water run-off projects. Funding for the fund fell by $361 million, or 33
percent, in the Bush administration budget proposal.
The lower request compensates for higher funds appropriated by Congress in 2004 and 2005, which will maintain
the total commitment of $6.8 billion through 2011, an EPA spokeswoman said.
"Federal funding of this program was never intended to be permanent," the spokeswoman said.
The administration's budget plan would hold steady a separate $850 million state fund for clean drinking water.
The EPA budget would also increase by $47 million funding to clean up 600 toxic "brownfield" sites and add $28
million to remove toxic sediments from the Great Lakes.
Funding for Superfund -- an industry program to clean up toxic waste sites -- would rise slightly to $1.28 billion.
February 7, 2005 7:15 PM
Bush budget cuts environment funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has proposed cutting the fiscal 2006 budget for the
Environmental Protection Agency by nearly 6 percent to $7.57 billion (4.08 billion pounds).
The budget plan cuts contributions to a clean water fund used by states and includes more money to clean up toxic
waste sites.
Total EPA funding would decline from $8 billion that Congress allocated for the agency to protect the nation's air,
water and land in the current budget year. In 2004, the EPA had a budget of $8.4 billion.
Most of the EPA cut for 2006 is due to a reduction in government contributions to a revolving fund that states use to
upgrade sewage and septic systems and storm-water run-off projects. Funding for the fund fell by $361 million, or 33
percent, in the Bush administration budget proposal.
The lower request compensates for higher funds appropriated by Congress in 2004 and 2005, which will maintain
the total commitment of $6.8 billion through 2011, an EPA spokeswoman said.
"Federal funding of this program was never intended to be permanent," the spokeswoman said.
The administration's budget plan would hold steady a separate $850 million state fund for clean drinking water.
The EPA budget would also increase by $47 million funding to clean up 600 toxic "brownfield" sites and add $28
million to remove toxic sediments from the Great Lakes.
Funding for Superfund -- an industry program to clean up toxic waste sites -- would rise slightly to $1.28 billion.
To be fair, the budget also cut a lot of pork-barrel pet projects of neoconservatives. As Rod Blagoyovich (IL Governor), "If this budget hasn't pissed everybody off, I haven't done my job."
Protection of people, property and the environment is a fundamental duty of government.
The Republicans are more concerned about protecting the profits of their campaign contributors.
The Republicans are more concerned about protecting the profits of their campaign contributors.
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