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How Congress snuck changes to US environmental policy into new budget bill
2014-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: It took 1,603 pages of legalese to keep the U.S. government running for another year. That is the length of the 2015 Fiscal Year Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which was approved by the Senate on Saturday to appropriate $1.01 trillion dollars for most federal agencies and departments through September 2015. The bill is on Pres. Obama's desk waiting for his signature. It is not all about dollars. Congress also loaded the bill with special instructions, called policy riders, which dictate how government...
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