How the House’s Environmental Spending Bill Would Ruin Your Summer

The House of Representatives' environmental spending bill is a far-reaching assault on the nation's health and public lands.

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While millions of Americans are relaxing and unwinding at parks, on beaches, and in backyards across the country this summer, the House Appropriations Committee is launching a massive assault on their public health and summer vacations. The Fiscal Year 2014 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill is full of provisions to block the enforcement of clean-air and water safeguards, eliminate protection for America’s public lands, and make it easier for Big Oil and coal companies to pollute.

Any one of these special-interest provisions hidden in the annual spending bill is enough to wreck a vacation. Taken together, they are a far-reaching assault on your health and public lands. Here’s how these provisions would harm your summer vacation now and in the future.

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Top 10 Ways the House of Representatives’ Environmental Spending Bill Would Ruin Your Summer by Arpita Bhattacharyya, Daniel J. Weiss, Michael Conathan, and Matt Lee-Ashley

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