USA: Money for green schools, not safe schools?

'Why isn’t Congress mulling whether the federal government should play a role in making American schools sturdier, as well as greener?' says Andrew Revkin in his New York Times blog Dot Earth. 'In Oregon alone, more than 1,000 schools have already been identified as rubble in waiting, very likely to collapse in a great earthquake that could come today or several generations from now but is inevitable.'