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To Cut' Climate Money', First GOP Must Find Where Obama Stashed It 'Obama aides spread money across the government to elude cuts' Goal was to make 'programs hard to disentangle' Obama 'integrated climate programs into everything the federal government did' Bloomberg News Features Climate Depot: "The Trump Administration needs to defund the entire apparatus of the climate change federal funding gravy train," said Marc Morano, a former Republican staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "In order to dismantle the climate establishment, agencies and programs throughout the federal government need to be targeted." "The climate funding has spread to almost every aspect of the federal government with sometimes wacky results," said Morano, who doubts global warming and runs the website climatedepot.com. He cited one example of a Department of Transportation query about the link between climate change and fatal car crashes.

Key excerpts: At the National Science Foundation, the geosciences program almost doubled to $1.3 billion.

The budget for NASA’s Earth Science program increased 50 percent, to $1.8 billion.

Feds awarded $1 billion through its Community Development Block Grant program to projects protecting against climate change-related natural disasters.

In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration made climate-adaptation projects eligible for federal aid.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs created the Tribal Climate Resilience Program.

The range of climate programs is vast, stretching across the entire government.

The Congressional Research Service estimated total federal spending on climate was in 2013. It concluded 18 agencies have climate-related activities, and calculated $77 billion in spending from fiscal 2008 through 2013 alone. But that figure could well be too low.

Obama Administration goal was to make ‘programs hard to disentangle’

Obama ‘integrated climate programs into everything the federal government did’

Obama sought to integrate climate programs into everything the federal government did.

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Via: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-15/cutting-climate-spending-made-harder-by-obama-s-budget-tactics To Cut Climate Money, First GOP Must Find Where Obama Stashed It March 15, 2017, 5:00 AM EDT