Amid Overall Cut for EPA, Budget Requests More Funding for Climate Change Efforts

摘要

Despite a drop in overall funding for the Environmental Protection Agency in fiscal year 2012, President Obama's budget request released Feb. 14 would increase spending for programs to address climate change by more than 28 percent. In addition, the federal government's interagency Global Change Research Program would receive $2.6 billion, an increase of $446 million over fiscal year 2010, the most recent year for which Congress passed an appropriations bill covering EPA or other agencies.