{"id":26950,"date":"2016-07-27T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=26950"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:28:59","slug":"watch-environmental-agencies-struggling-with-tens-of-millions-in-state-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/07\/27\/watch-environmental-agencies-struggling-with-tens-of-millions-in-state-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Environmental Agencies Struggling With Tens of Millions in State Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTFSP03aHdY\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Oklahoma&#8217;s four primary <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/05\/26\/state-budget-agreement-brings-sharp-funding-cuts-to-agencies-overseeing-oklahomas-environment\/\">environmental agencies have lost<\/a> more than $15 million in state appropriations and tens of millions of dollars in legislatively directed reductions to revolving funds, OETA reports.<!--more--><\/p><p>The cuts are forcing the Corporation Commission, Conservation Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/jp\/state-budget-crisis-forces-deq-to-delay-cleanup-projects\/\">Department of Environmental Quality<\/a> and Water Resources Board to limit, delay or cancel <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/02\/04\/why-continued-state-funding-cuts-could-squeeze-programs-protecting-public-water\/\">programs or services<\/a> designed to regulate pollution and remove environmental dangers, according to the <em>Oklahoma News Report<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeta.tv\/programs\/onr\/\">piece<\/a> by Bob Sands and photojournalist Aaron Byrd.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Projects being impacted include <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/03\/03\/as-budgets-narrow-and-dedicated-funds-are-diverted-agency-slows-plugging-of-abandoned-wells\/\">plugging of long abandoned oil wells<\/a>, removal of thousands of tires from illegal dumping grounds, clean-up projects to remove hazardous chemicals and grants that help low income home owners improve their septic tank systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s four primary environmental agencies have lost more than $15 million in state appropriations and tens of millions of dollars in legislatively directed reductions to revolving funds, OETA reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":26953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[662,486,390,561,105,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26958,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions\/26958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}