Wheeler testify before House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencies 21 2021 budget request. Several asked the epas effort to police and regulate what our call forever chemicals. A subcommittee chair opened the hearing. Wi good morning this hearing will come to order. Today is the day that we are going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the president s fiscaleat year 2021 budget request for the admire Environmental Protection agency. Officer welc administrator andrew wheeler, with him is david bloom. Welcome to both of you. The fiscal year 2021, the president s request of 6. 66 billion dollars for the epa isy a 27 cut below f why 2020 and active level of 9. 06 billion dollars. This request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad we bipartisan basis in te fy 2020. For example, request eliminates the pro 39 million in new fundg we provided to the epa to address requests regarding climate and Energy Funding grants by 47
Wheeler testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencys 2021 budget request. Several members asked about the epas efforts to regulate what are called forever chemicals. Congresswoman Betty Mccollum opened the hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Today is the day that were going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the president s fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. Joining with us this morning is administrator Andrew Wheeler and david blum. Welcome to both of you. For fiscal year 2021, the president s request of 6. 66 billion for the epa is a 27 cut below fy 2020, an active level of 9. 06 billion. This request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad bipartisan basis in the fy 2020. For example, request eliminates the 39 million in new funding we provided to the epa to address pfas. Requests Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 . Thats a 409 million cu
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Thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or u
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