From Name

From Email

To Name

To Email

Message

House Passes Sweeping Conservation Legislation with Bipartisan Support

from CNN, July 22, 2020

House Passes Sweeping Conservation Legislation with Bipartisan Support CNN, July 22, 2020 The House voted on Wednesday to approve a sweeping and historic conservation and public lands bill that President Donald Trump has pledged to sign into law. The measure — the Great American Outdoors Act — has already been passed by the Senate and will now go to the President's desk for his signature. The legislation would fully and permanently fund a conservation program known as the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which was set up by Congress in the 1960s and has been chronically underfunded. The measure will require mandatory funding of the program at a level of $900 million annually. READ MORE

more