November 26, 1999

Environmental-Research Group Meets Its Goal

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

An advocacy group that has dogged Congress to establish a new National Institute for the Environment has decided to drop that goal.

In a statement, leaders of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment endorsed a recent proposal by the National Science Foundation's governing body, the National Science Board, to increase spending and attention on environmental research. If that effort is successful -- it would require a major increase in the

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