[PCA] FW: NPCC ACTION ALERT: Trump 2018 Budget Request Generates Dismay and Concern Among Scientific Societies, Environmentalists – TAKE ACTION!

[Emily Roberson]

Native Plant Conservation Campaign Action Alert:  Take Action! Tell Congress to Resist Trump Budget Request, Fund Science

May 24, 2017

 

Yesterday, the Trump Administration released its budget request for fiscal year 2018. Most federal research programs are facing cuts on the order of 10 percent or more.

 

According to the journal Nature,

“The Trump budget would slash science programmes across government. Proposed cuts include

*	11% at the National Science Foundation,
*	18% at the National Institutes of Health, and
*	31% at the Environmental Protection Agency

Those cuts, along with deep reductions in programmes for the poor, are balanced by a proposed 10% increase in military spending.”

 

Scientific societies, including the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) have all expressed disappointment and concern about the budget request. 

 

FASEB was "appalled" by the budget request. The ESA and others have already called on Congress to reject the Trump proposal and to instead “support scientific research and agency missions that provide clean air, healthy lands, and climate change information for the public”.

 

TAKE ACTION!

Join Scientific Societies in asking Congress to support botany and other sciences! Contact your House and Senate Representatives <http://t.ymlp247.net/wuuagaebebsakayqhatabm/click.php> .

 

Tell your member of congress to reject the Trump budget because it would devastate science programs that help provide clean air and water, food and water security, fight climate change, and support the health of people and the planet.

 

You can access contact information for your federal elected representatives <http://t.ymlp247.net/wuuagaebebsakayqhatabm/click.php>  and more on the NPCC Speak Out for Plants Page <http://t.ymlp247.net/wueaxaebebsarayqhapabm/click.php> 

 

Speak with your elected representatives in person about plant science and conservation! Join the AIBS Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits Event <http://t.ymlp247.net/wumacaebebsafayqhaoabm/click.php> . Register by July 18, 2017. Event is free.

 

Additional Information

*	See the Trump 2018 budget analysis <http://t.ymlp247.net/wujakaebebsavayqhaxabm/click.php>  in the journal Nature
*	Follow the budget with the Ecological Society of America 2018 Budget Tracker <http://t.ymlp247.net/wubazaebebsalayqhalabm/click.php>   
*	Read the AIBS Statement on the Trump 2018 Budget Request <http://t.ymlp247.net/wuhanaebebsakayqhakabm/click.php> 

*	FASEB Statement Urges Congress to Immediately Reject the Trump Administration FY 2018 Budget <http://t.ymlp247.net/wuwanaebebsacayqhapabm/click.php> 

 

 

 

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Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.

Native Plant Conservation Campaign <http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/> 

415 531 4439

emilyr at plantsocieties.org

The mission of the Native Plant Conservation Campaign is to promote the conservation of native plants and their habitats through collaboration, research, education, and advocacy.

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