4% Cut In EPA Budget: Fourth Annual Cut In A Row - Reuters

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Highlights of the EPA's 2007 budget include:

* Lowering funding for clean water programs by 13 percent to $2.7 billion.

* Nearly doubling the amount spent on researching nanotechnology to $8.6 million in order to understand how microscopic materials released into the environment might affect human health and ecosystems.

* Decreasing funding by about $8 million for the government's leaking underground storage tank program.

* Spending $50 million to reduce emissions from construction equipment and other diesel fueled machines that don't operate on the road.

* Requiring roughly 3 percent of the fuel used in U.S. passenger cars to be renewable, such as ethanol.

* Cutting clean air and global climate change research by $10.8 million to $118.7 million.

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1. the priorities of this adm. have devastated the country and the planet