States Push Key Programs In Talks With EPA Over FY08 Budget Request

State officials are pushing several key environmental programs as funding priorities in discussions with EPA as the agency develops its fiscal year 2008 budget proposal, highlighting the need to provide sufficient funding for programs such as air monitoring, underground storage tank (UST) inspection and the agency's clean water loan fund. EPA's Chief Financial Officer Lyons Gray has been meeting with the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) in ongoing discussions that state officials say could help avoid a repeat of...