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Contact: Jeff Gohringer, (202) 454-4573 or jeff_gohringer@lcv.org
Will severely impact EPA’s ability to protect water we drink and air we breathe
WASHINGTON, DC – Automatic budget cuts to environmental and conservation programs under the sequester could cost all 50 states and the District of Columbia a combined $200,000,000 and severely impact the EPA’s ability to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. The League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski released this statement ahead of budget cuts slated to begin being implemented tomorrow:
“The sequester takes a hatchet to environmental funding that’s keeping EPA scientists on the job protecting the air we breathe and the water we drink. Congress should find a balanced solution that ends Big Oil’s tax breaks instead of risking public health with these severe cuts,” said Karpinski.
The Obama administration has outlined how the automatic spending cuts will impact all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The potential cuts to federal funding ensuring clean air and water quality and protecting fish and wildlife are estimated to total a combined $200,000,000 nationwide.
A state-by-state breakdown is below:
| State | Potential loss of environmental funding to ensure clean water and air quality, prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste | Funds that states could lose in grants for fish and wildlife protection |
| Alabama | $2,000,000 | $1,000,000 |
| Alaska | $1,800,000 | $2,100,000 |
| Arizona | $2,100,000 | $1,100,000 |
| Arkansas | $1,600,000 | $842,000 |
| California | $12,400,000 | $1,900,000 |
| Colorado | $2,000,000 | $1,200,000 |
| Connecticut | $2,000,000 | $398,000 |
| Delaware | $1,100,000 | $359,000 |
| District of Columbia | $1,000,000 | $64,000 |
| Florida | $5,200,000 | $1,100,000 |
| Georgia | $3,500,000 | $979,000 |
| Hawaii | $1,300,000 | $359,000 |
| Idaho | $1,200,000 | $857,000 |
| Illinois | $6,400,000 | $974,000 |
| Indiana | $3,300,000 | $739,000 |
| Iowa | $2,400,000 | $661,000 |
| Kansas | $1,800,000 | $772,000 |
| Kentucky | $2,100,000 | $774,000 |
| Louisiana | $2,500,000 | $884,000 |
| Maine | $1,400,000 | $496,000 |
| Maryland | $3,100,000 | $467,000 |
| Massachusetts | $4,000,000 | $472,000 |
| Michigan | $5,900,000 | $1,500,000 |
| Minnesota | $3,000,000 | $1,600,000 |
| Mississippi | $1,758,000 | $606,000 |
| Miissouri | $3,745,000 | $1,184,000 |
| Montana | $1,237,000 | $1,186,000 |
| Nebraska | $1,294,000 | $686,000 |
| Nevada | $1,156,000 | $764,000 |
| New Hampshire | $1,500,000 | $359,000 |
| New Jersey | $4,891,000 | $472,000 |
| New Mexico | $1,260,000 | $877,000 |
| New York | $12,869,000 | $1,201,000 |
| North Carolina | $3,606,000 | $1,265,000 |
| North Dakota | $1,244,000 | $624,000 |
| Ohio | $6,865,000 | $981,000 |
| Oklahoma | $1,655,000 | $998,000 |
| Oregon | $1,882,000 | $1,052,000 |
| Pennsylvania | $5,705,000 | $1,448,000 |
| Rhode Island | $1,253,000 | $359,000 |
| South Carolina | $1,763,000 | $646,000 |
| South Dakota | $1,150,000 | $735,000 |
| Tennessee | $2,211,000 | $1,216,000 |
| Texas | $8,467,000 | $8,467,000 |
| Utah | $1,289,000 | $847,000 |
| Vermont | $1,068,000 | $359,000 |
| Virginia | $2,997,000 | $826,000 |
| Washington | $3,301,000 | $924,000 |
| West Virginia | $2,013,000 | $488,000 |
| Wisconsin | $3,875,000 | $1,479,000 |
| Wyoming | $1,107,000 | $787,000 |