August 13, 1999

Report Urges NSF to Increase Spending on Environmental Research and Education

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The National Science Foundation should increase its spending on research and education on environmental issues by $1-billion a year, and should make such work one of its top priorities, the National Science Board said in a report issued last month.

The report, however, does not endorse a proposal to create a National Institute for the Environment within the foundation to pursue those activities. Congress had ordered the N.S.F. to study

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