May 15, 2000
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Forty-two billion dollars for conservation may soon be headed to the fifty states, if a controversial environmental protection package passes the Senate. Election-minded lawmakers -- including at least one hundred Republicans -- have piled onto the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, which allows them to bring federal funds to their states while appearing to help the environment.
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at least when a bit of the money makes it through the bureaucratic maze of federal and state paper pushers, some good might come of it
posted by crawdad at 1:05 PM on May 15, 2000