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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND politics AND United States AND US EPA
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Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins |
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20 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Don't Be a Hog
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17 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't Be a Hog Factory hog farms, as well as the cattle and poultry industries, are pressuring the U.S. Congress to pass a bill that would use taxpayer dollars to help the farms pay for cleaning up their environmental messes. The U.S. EPA is considering costly regulations to reduce pollution from the livestock operations -- and the industries don't want to get stuck with the bill ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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