EPA Takes Major Beating in House Appropriations Committee Vote

[Jean]

In article http://ecowatch.org/2012/epa-takes-beating/
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> EPA Takes Major Beating in House Appropriations Committee Vote
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> On June 28 the House Appropriations Committee passed by a 26-19 vote
> the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill. The bill would slash
> the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyąs (EPA) budget by about a
> fifth for fiscal year 2013, the lowest it has been funded since 1998
> and deeply cut funding for other environmental programs including the
> Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program that provides critical
> resources for protecting national parks, wildlife refuges and local
> recreation areas.
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> In addition, the bill was riddled with anti-environmental riders,
> including ones that would block the Obama administration from
> finalizing and implementing proposed guidelines to restore Clean Water
> Act protections to many of Americaąs rivers, lakes, streams and
> wetlands; stop the administration from setting and enforcing clean car
> standards which are widely supported and would drastically cut global
> warming pollution; and prohibit funding for greenhouse gas standards
> for power plants, the largest stationary source of carbon pollution in
> the country.
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> Shelley Vinyard, clean water advocate for Environment America said:
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> łThis Dirty Water Bill is a disgraceful attempt to put polluters
> before clean water protections. Poll after poll shows that the
> American public overwhelmingly supports clean water protections, and
> yet this committee passed a bill that would block the biggest step
> forward for Americaąs waterways in more than a decade.
>
> łIn addition, cutting the Land and Water Conservation fund 80 percent
> to pre-1968 levels is a huge step backwards for preservation. This
> fund conserves irreplaceable lands, and we should be doing all we can
> to protect our treasured areas, rather than slashing programs that
> protect our most treasured places and encourage outdoor recreation.
>
> łWe applaud the members of Congress who stood up for clean water and
> preservation today by opposing this bill, and are disappointed with
> those who sided with big polluters by supporting the overall bill and
> the many anti-environmental riders that harm our environment and
> public health.˛

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breaks the news?

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