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Lawmakers today announced a $19.1 billion emergency aid package that would boost water, agricultural and environmental projects to help communities recover from natural disasters and prevent future ones.
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Interior Department reorganization developments in recent days suggest the once grandly ambitious proposal is still real but shrinking. What it ends up as may be anyone's guess, but it's losing its aura of being one Cabinet secretary's legacy project.
By Michael Doyle and Jennifer Yachnin in Greenwire
Lawmakers today announced a $19.1 billion emergency aid package that would boost water, agricultural and environmental projects to help communities recover from natural disasters and prevent future ones.
By George Cahlink in E&E News PM