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Governor Paterson Raids New York's Environmental and Energy Funding

October 21, 2009

Posted by Richard Schrader in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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albany, environmentalprotectionfund, EPF, globalwarming, governorpaterson, newyork, newyorkstatebudget, raid, regionalgreenhousegasinitiative, RGGI

Last week, Gov. David Paterson unveiled a bruising budget deficit reduction plan that included grabbing $90 million generated by auctions under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) -  the nation's first-ever plan to reduce global warming pollution - and shoving...