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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Don Hurst who wrote (641235)1/6/2012 8:14:06 AM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1582841
 
How the EPA spends your money:

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the EPA has spent millions each year to promote its “environmental justice” vision to Americans by awarding cash grants to community-based activist groups.
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Federal dollars also paid a Utah dance company to teach children in 10 elementary schools how to dance for environmental justice. “Kinesthetic learning,” the EPA reports, “will be used to examine air quality issues and encourage youth and their families to adopt healthy living practices.”

The EPA funds “green jobs” projects in Hawaii, summer initiatives to teach middle-schoolers about global warming, and at least one push to create an “urban wetland” on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

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The EPA’s grants have gone beyond organic gardening projects and tree plantings. One financial award went to the Cleveland Tenants Organization for fighting bed-bug infestations. Another paid the Florida-based Institute for Community Collaboration train teenagers to become environmentalists.

The Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island received money in July 2010 to organize barn-raising events.

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Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/06/modern-dancers-bed-bug-battlers-earth-worshipers-get-epa-environmental-justice-grants/#ixzz1igNZ1156
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