[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
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Talk about what restore American Parts is and what the Pew Charitable trust is. The restoring parts campaign started three years ago at pew and we are focused on protecting National Park resources, cultural resources, Natural Resources by addressing the deferred maintenance backlog at plaguing our National Parks system. Currently there are 12 billion worth of repairs that needs to be done across our parts nationwide. Os have been underfunded the ks entire time or is it something that happened over the past few years suddenly . Its been happening over a number of years, the past edecade or more for another reason, our National Parks service is over 100 years old. And he is silly and infrastructure parks are deteriorating, a lot of the infrastructure is reached the end of its lifespan read you that over 300 million visitors come to our parks each year, that had some pressure and yet absolutely right, theres just not enough funding eachyear for the Parks Service to keep up with repairs. L
Bright upbeat music this property was originally part of the Mining Community, and was originally slated from idarado and was originally slated from idarado to be a tailings deposit. I got a job from the old telluride mines when i was 16. They hired as kids cause they couldnt get anybody else to work in the mines. There was over 600 guys that got drafted in world war ii. They didnt use to have tailings ponds until sometime in the late 40s, early 50s, otherwise theyd just let it go down the river. The miners around the turn of the century were basically dumping the waste rock into the river that was the conveyance away from the mills. Crushed rock that has other heavy metals and other byproducts from the leaching process such as arsenic and the soil is very nutrientdeprived, and so the plants that are able to grow have this chlorotic look to them. This was a Mining Community, it wasnt a community of conservation. I cant help but think back of the miners when they came and all these outc