Author Topic: Christie cutting $65 million for global warming prevention  (Read 953 times)

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Offline bijou

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Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state's global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget, the state environmental protection commissioner said Monday.

In discussing the Department of Environmental Protection's proposed $380.6 million budget before the Assembly Budget Committee in Trenton, Commissioner Bob Martin said he hopes the loss of the $65 million, funding for the state's role in a regional effort to combat global warming, will only be for one year. He told the committee that DEP staff will continue to attempt to work against global warming and so-called greenhouses gasses despite the lack of money. ...
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Re: Christie cutting $65 million for global warming prevention
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 01:40:42 PM »
He's done the impossible: he's made New Jersey enviable.
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Re: Christie cutting $65 million for global warming prevention
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2010, 03:25:38 PM »
Wow.

I am in awe here.

Can he get these things through the legislature?