The $7.8 billion budget request for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is up 6 per cent from this year's level, with much of the increase going to pay for clean water and air programmes. But the agency's overall funding for science and technology goes down 6 per cent, to $631 million, and the Office of Research and Development drops 9 per cent to $487 million.
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EPA to spend more on clean air and water. Nature 391, 522 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/35216
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