APPROPRIATIONS BILL:
House Panel Boosts NSF, NASA, EPA
Andrew Lawler and Jeffrey Mervis
The first major science spending bill for 1998 to start moving through Congress contains good news for researchers. But federal officials and lobbyists are cautioning that funding levels approved last week by a House subcommittee for NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other agencies could be reduced as the bill grinds its way through the congressional mill.