CALL IN THE REINFORVEMENTS, BUT FROM WHERE?

摘要

For more than 20 years, environment watchers, elected officials, and key staffers of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection—renamed as the; Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in 2011—have said that its funding has, atbest, remained flat, and at worst, that the department can't cover all of its obligations. Connecticut Woodlands has undertaken this review to shed more light on the complicated picture that is the DEEP budget. The department has grown from $8.1 millionand 580 staff when it was formed in 1972 to $182 million and more than 1,000 staff today in the agency now known as DEEP. At first glance, this rise in DEEP's budget and staff over the past 40 years might look like a normal, even impressive trajectory of growth.