The Republican-led Senate is proposing modest spending increases for environmental agencies compared to last year’s budget, diverging from proposed cuts that the Trump White House put forward earlier this year.
In its $38 billion Interior-environment spending bill for fiscal 2021, the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed giving about $13.6 billion to the Interior Department and about $9.09 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
That’s up from the $13.5 billion given to Interior last year and the about $9.06 billion appropriated for the EPA in the last fiscal year. The Senate has also proposed increasing the Energy Department’s budget to about $42 billion, an approximately $3.45 billion increase over last year. The push by Congress to increase funding for the agencies comes after the White House in February called for cutting the EPA’s budget by 26 percent, the Interior budget by 16 percent and the Energy Department budget by 8 percent.
The Senate legislation included increases for major agencies at Interior such as the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management...
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The final budget for these agencies, as always, will be negotiated between the House and the Senate. The House version of the bill contains
increased spending for each entity, so the Senate is guaranteeing there will be increases. Even if we were to have a flat budget, the Republicans should have proposed decreases.
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There better be billions more money for forest management
Once upon a time the USFS was a resource management agency. Not any more. It was taken over by the environmental crowd as soon as President Nixon signed the bill requiring environmental assessments of all activity involving natural resources. The environmentalists immediately saw this as the avenue to take over the USFS and none in congress did anything about it, except to mouth platitudes about multiple use. Multiple use became 6 people sitting around a picknick table which was 5 feet from a stream where they put their beer cans to cool. The stream became a favorite place to leave their empty beer cans, meadows became mud bogs for their 4x4 trucks, and abandoned campfires roared out of control. That was and is environmental management today.
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