EPA SEEKS TO RESTORE REDUCTIONS IN PM RESEARCH FUNDING FOR FY2005

EPA officials are working with Senate lawmakers to restore funding cuts to its particulate matter (PM) research program after the House cut $4.7 million from the Bush administration's roughly $59 million fiscal year 2005 budget request for the research. The move comes as the Senate Appropriations Committee Sept. 21 approved a bill that boosts EPA's science and technology account by $69 million above the administration's requested level, but it was not clear whether any of that increase could be applied...