Sentences with phrase «dollars from a clean water»
«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.
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Also could never figure out why 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year from simple causes like diarrhea in third world countries while archbishops are building 2 million dollar mansions and the Vatican has billions of dollars in art... think they could may get these kids some clean water and some vaccinations?
Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»
He robs half a billion dollars from an environmental fund that is used to clean up water, to safeguard and strengthen our waste water treatment plants, and he was rebuked by the federal government, who said it was the first time that's ever been requested and it was disallowed.»
Pete Seeger must have rolled over in his grave Monday when Governor Cuomo announced a half - billion dollars from a state clean water fund will be diverted to the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project.
The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up polluClean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up polluclean up pollution.