On the Great Lakes, environmentalists were pleased by the president's request for Congress to fully fund the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which sends federal money to clean up the most-polluted sites in the waters. The White House noted the president is calling for $20 million more than in the 2006 budget.
But environmentalists said he didn't go far enough to address the range of threats to the Great Lakes that a presidential task force in December said would require $20 billion to reverse damage caused by sewage overruns, invasive species and wetlands loss in addition to toxic sediment sites.
"You can't fully fund one program and then hope the Great Lakes comprehensively will be brought back to health," said Cameron Davis, executive director of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, "On any given day, there are a number of threats, and the Legacy Act only addresses one of them The budget proposal is a betrayal of trust."
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Posted by Dave at February 7, 2006 07:45 AM