[Taxacom] US environment funding

[Donat Agosti]

Sounds like a dismal signal for future funding for biodiversity research in
the US, and overall for planet Earth. Sounds like an ambivalent attitude
towards abortion: Keep all humans, do all to abort their environment.

 

"The budget deal approved by Congress cuts $1.6 billion from the budget of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-a 16 percent decrease; reduces
funding for a planned climate desk within the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration; and eliminates the position of assistant to the
president for energy and climate change. Ever since taking control of the
House, Republican lawmakers have taken a number of steps to curtail the
Obama administration's efforts to deal with climate change."

 

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/15/as_congress_slashes_epa_climate_fundin
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This does not take into account what GW already did. How much Obama reduced
GW's impact I can't figure out. I just hope that the funding for systematics
doesn't go down as well with it.

 

Donat