Cut environmentally damaging subsidies and save $36
billion doing it, urges a report targeting 57 wasteful federal
programs. The third annual Green Scissors describes how each
program costs both taxpayers and the environment. Ending below-cost
timber sales, the report says, could save $1 billion over five
years. Twenty-five taxpayer and nonprofit groups contributed to the
66-page Green Scissors: Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally
Harmful Spending and Subsidies. It’s available on the web at
www.foe.org or for $12 from CoPIRG (Colorado Public Interest
Research Group), 1530 Blake St., Suite 220, Denver, CO 80202
(303/573-7474).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Cut the fat out.
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