Full Title: Green Scissors 2012: Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending
Author(s): Friends of the Earth
Publisher(s): Friends of the Earth
Publication Date: June 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
For more than 18 years the Green Scissors cam- paign has been a collaboration between budget and environmental groups aimed at eliminat- ing wasteful spending that is harmful to the environ- ment . This year’s report is a collaboration between environmental organization Friends of the Earth, budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, and free-market think tank R Street . While each group comes to the Green Scissors project with a unique mission, a diverse constituency, and different opinions on the role of government, we join together around one shared goal: exposing and eliminating wasteful and environmentally harmful spending .
Green Scissors is a consensus document; all of our groups believe making the cuts contained in this report would be beneficial, although we see them as only part of the solution . Making the cuts highlighted in Green Scissors 2012 would be an important first step to ending environmentally harmful spending, but even more could and should be done