EPA BUDGET
February 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could see its financial resources shrink under the recent Bush Administration annual draft budget. If Congress passes the proposal currently being discussed, total federal investments in environmental protection would decrease by US$1.9 billion (GBPounds 920 million) or nearly six per cent, claims pressure group Environmental Media Services (EMS).
It says that the budget would cut US$827 million from water pollution projects and US$93 million - or 12 per cent - from the EPA science budget; there would ...
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