What does the Environmental Protection Agency spend its money on?
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Go to the website and search for Superfund sites. These are dangerously polluted areas that have been rejuvenated from the EPA superfund. One of them is near where I live, but it's been worked on for several years and isn't too bad anymore. That's what the EPA spends its money on.
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A whole bunch of things\n\n-National defense\n-International aid\n-Research on space, energy and other things\n-Natural resources, such as water\n-Agriculture\n-Post office\n-Transportation (roads, etc.)\n-Education\n-Social services\n-Health care/Medicare\n-Income support, such as Social Security\n-Administration of the general bureaucracy\n-Interest on the debt
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The NASA budget for fiscal year 2006 will able about $16.5 billion.  The Budget for the Department of Health & Human Services for 2005 was $67 billion plus whatever money was spent on other government social welfare programs, money spent by the states and money or programs offered by churches and other nonprofit organizations.  NASA's budget would not go very vary to change things for the homeless.\n\nMoney spent on space exploration creates knowledge, jobs, new businesses, and technologies, many of which have direct application to other activities. Space explorations inspires technological advances such as increased sophistication in solar-power generation, cryogenic technologies (cooling and storing liquefied gas), and human-robot interaction. These advances will benefit energy, environment, health care, and many other areas. Many of the capabilities required for human exploration will also help advance military defense technology.
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I don't think government agencies normally make profits.  If they are taking in more than they are spending, I would think that their federal funding would be reduced to make room for other agencies funding, or if they are making a "profit" just from their own operations they would likely reduce costs for those purchasing their services.  There are likely contractors for the GPO that make a lot of money, but the agency itself shouldn't be.
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It comes from government funds but not directly from the same department.
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You could contact your local EPA office.
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Presidential Executive 13101 was signed by President Clinton 14 September 1998. Its full text can be found at the following address:\nhttp://www.ofee.gov/eo/13101.htm\n\nIt begins with the following inclusive of the Preamble:\nBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act, Public Law 89-272, 79 Stat. 997, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Public Law 94-580, 90 Stat. 2795, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6901-6907), section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to improve the Federal Government's use of recycled products and environmentally preferable products and services, it is hereby ordered as follows:\nPART 1 - PREAMBLE\nSection 101. Consistent with the demands of efficiency and cost effectiveness, the head of each executive agency shall incorporate waste prevention and recycling in the agency's daily operations and work to increase and expand markets for recovered materials through greater Federal Government preference and demand for such products. It is the national policy to prefer pollution prevention, whenever feasible. Pollution that cannot be prevented should be recycled; pollution that cannot be prevented or recycled should be treated in an environmentally safe manner. Disposal should be employed only as a last resort.\nSec. 102. Consistent with policies established by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Policy Letter 92-4, agencies shall comply with executive branch policies for the acquisition and use of environmentally preferable products and services and implement cost-effective procurement preference programs favoring the purchase of these products and services.\nSec. 103. This order creates a Steering Committee, a Federal Environmental Executive (FEE), and a Task Force, and establishes Agency Environmental Executive (AEE) positions within each agency, to be responsible for ensuring the implementation of this order. The FEE, AEEs, and members of the Steering Committee and Task Force shall be full-time Federal Government employees.
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bikesamt, hi!\n\nyou must remember that every type of industry creates different kind of damage to the environment.  for example a company that uses lot of ground water (like coke, pepsi, kingfisher) causes problems with salinity in the water reservoir, and pollution seepage into the water system.\n\nthe following are common ways that companies create pollution:\n\n1. Power Consumption : large offices tend to use more power, and thus the State needs to generate more power to feed their power-hungry ways.  \n2. Traffic : with more and more employees in their premises, these people need to travel long distances, and every single vehicle creates a lot of pollution.\n3. Erosion of Green Belt : Industrial areas are often located in what used to be green cover, or green belts of forests or wasteland.  the plants and animal life are razed to make way for the corporates and their factories.\n4. Conspicuous Consumption : they make a lot of money, and pay their employees well.  these employees have a lot of money, and so spend it on other luxury goods that are not nature-friendly.  instead of man being at harmony with nature, he starts destroying it through his desire for luxury.  this is an indirect way to pollute.\n5. Sewage : large manufacturing units generate billions of litres of sewage and other pollutants that are either released into rivers, streams, lakes, oceans or the air.  this has a very adverse effect.\n6. Air-conditioning : the huge AC units required to cool offices, etc., need a lot of power, and they generate indirect pollution.  also, non-CFC based coolants are very expensive, and few companies make that investment.  CFC destroys the earth's ozone layer.\n7. Building Design : modern offices are designed with lot of glass and metal so that the buildings look "sexy".  but glass is a poor insulator, and air-conditioning needs to work for more time to maintain the temperature inside.  this creates indirect pollution.\n\nthese are the few things i could think of at the moment... \n\nhope it helped... if you need more ideas, drop me a line, and i could be able to help you out.\n\nenjoy!
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Perhaps the DEP is a sub-agency of the EPA.  It sounds like the DEP is more about enforcement but the EPA is so much more than that.
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The US NASA budget for 2005 is about 17 billion dollars. That is nothing much compared to the untold billions spent on such garbage as the current Iraq war in terms of return on investment.
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It's silly. I don't know that they create enough pollution to really make a difference, but it makes them look like they are trying to be environmental. They hope to pick up new fans that way.
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Appropriations Bills provide funding to the U.S. government.
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I used to volunteer for a non-profit.  If they are a legit organization then you can ask them directly how much is spent per each dept. by percentages.  Ours did but many keep that private.  If I was going to make a donation of a large sum I would have that info first.
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It gets sorted out. But that doesn't mean it is OK to do it intentionally. One person doing it won't cause any damage, but if one person does it, then 100 people, then 1000 people, the cost of sorting it out will go up. Then you get the snowball effect. It cost more to process it, then (if the city doesn't charge already), you start getting charged to recycle, and the charge keeps go up and up until it gets to a point that nobody wants to recycle anymore because it costs too much in their pocketbook. There are machines that can sort it all out automatically, but they cost money. With the budgets that most communities have to operate on, they just can't afford to purchase a good machine to do this. \n\nI know all about the arguement that the environment is more important, and should be saved at whatever cost. This is fine when the government pays for it (which really comes out of your paycheck, but you don't see it go for this directly), but when you have to write the check for it yourself, most people will rethink their position on that. Especially someone on a tight budget already.
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NASA's budget is currently about $16 billion a year.  That sounds like a lot, but out of the trillions of dollars the government makes yearly, it's not much at all.
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We have the best government money can buy.\n\nIt has been estimated that the combined total of money spent by the Republicans and Democrats for the 2006 election campaign is $2.6 billion.\n\nThe majority of this money comes from corporate interests that expect to get paid back in governmental favors. This is nothing more than legalized bribery.\n\nThat is not even addressing the problem with the lobbyists.
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You can find all of that information and more at epa.gov