Bipartisan legislation to put $14 billion toward conserving wildlife in the U.S. faced questions from Democrats over its funding mechanism during a Senate hearing Wednesday.The “Recovering America’s Wildlife Act” would establish dedicated, annual funding of $1.4 billion over 10 years for states, tribes, and territories to work on conservation projects for speciesrecovery and wildlife habitat. The money, disbursed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, would rely on revenue generated from penalties collected for environmental violations, rather thanthrough the annual congressional appropriations process.
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