Word: budget
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...Waste Management Division, which has been unable to prevent some 80 billion pounds of dangerous industrial by-products from contaminating reservoirs, drinking wells and rivers. One reason for this colossal failure is the division's miniscule funding, which amounts to less than 1 per cent of the total EPA budget--and is being cut even more by the White House Office of Management and Budget...
...environment chief James Tozzi admits that the fledgling EPA program will remain a low priority and that "there'll be no big changes" in the hazardous waste budget until "all the various options are weighed." EPA official Hugh Kaufman observes, "The president wants to hold down the budget. It doesn't come cheap, saving people's lives...
Regional officials are not the only ones covering up the problem. According to Rep. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), EPA Assistant Administrator Thomas Jorling "more or less ordered the regional people to 'look the other way"' when they received complaints about chemical pollution. Hamstrung by a subsistence budget and reluctant to step on the sensitive toes of its regional offices, top administrators have quietly suspended all action on chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief...
Lawton M. Chiles, Florida Democratic Senator, assessing budget requests for protection and perks provided for former Presidents: "This year, for the first time, the amount we spend on former Presidents will be more than the appropriation for the White House...
...meeting ended, the Vatican issued a public financial communique, its first ever, revealing a 1979 budget deficit of around $20 million. The gap has been met by "Peter's pence," the aid offering from churches around the world, and other gifts. But the 1980 deficit will be worse and, the statement added, "within a few years the Holy See will find itself hard-pressed." Said one Cardinal, "The Vatican is certainly not Fort Knox." The meeting urged austerity at all levels. The balance sheet apparently did not cover the international mission office or the Vatican bank, and may exclude...