Good-bye salmon
The Trump administration has proposed cutting federal funding for restoring Puget Sound by 93 percent.
For the fiscal year ending this June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent $28 million on Puget Sound restoration and monitoring. It has channeled those funds through tribes, nonprofits and local governments, which carry out the on-the-ground work.
Next year, that would drop to $2 million under the White House proposal revealed this week.
I wonder how much salmon he and his wives and children and in-laws eat. I wonder where he thinks salmon comes from.
Many other EPA programs would be reduced or eliminated. Overall, the agency’s funding would drop from to $6.16 billion next year from $8.24 billion this fiscal year. (That’s down from a 2010 high of $10.3 billion).
One-fifth of the agency’s 15,000 jobs would be eliminated within a year.
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Programs to clean up major water bodies were hard hit: The Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay would also lose more than 90 percent of their EPA funding; cleanup funds for San Francisco Bay and Long Island Sound would be eliminated.
EPA’s environmental justice and climate protection programs would be cut by more than two-thirds.
While Trump gets richer every day.
Fortunately, it seems he’s likely to get pushback from his own party, from any member whose district has tourism or fishery interests in those bodies of water. At least, that’s what I heard w.r.t. the Great Lakes. Because this is seriously stupid — it’s not just bleeding heart hippy environmentalists being pissed off, it’s billion-dollar industries at stake. But hey, Trump is the best businessman, ever.
I know, it’s far from just bleeding heart hippies (not that there’s anything wrong with that). That was my point about the salmon consumption question.
I wonder how much tourism to the US will drop? The Mem Fox incident (which, given her own account of those who were detained at the same time, is probably just the tip of the iceberg) isn’t going to help. I wouldn’t want to be crossing from Canada into the US right now. It would’t take a rocket surgeon to link my posts here, for example, to my “real life” identity, and they might have orders to keep out anyone who has been critical of Trump (much like his cabinet selection criteria). I sure as hell wouldn’t cross over with a phone (which I don’t have anyway) or a laptop (which I night do, and have done in the past). http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/us-customs-block-canadian-man-reading-scruff-profile-215531
Has Trump gone all Ayatollah and issued a fatwa on salmon?