BUDGET CONCERNS MAY LIMIT EPA PLAN TO ADOPT SUSTAINABILITY APPROACH

August 11, 2006
As EPA's Office of Research & Development (ORD) launches a push to implement key sustainability goals -- which could lead to an overhaul of management and regulatory practices -- the agency will likely face budget shortfalls making it difficult to fully implement the strategy, agency staff and science advisers say. A subcommittee of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) appears poised to issue positive recommendations on ORD's Sustainability Research Strategy , which builds on and supports the agency's pollution prevention and...


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