Former EPA Officials Available Monday to Discuss Impacts of Potential Shutdown

MEDIA ADVISORY
September 26, 2025

Contact:  Aaron Bharucha, (509) 429-1699
epn-press@environmentalprotectionnetwork.org

WHAT:

As Congress weighs a short-term spending deal, experts from the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) will brief reporters on how the Trump Administration has already driven a serial shutdown of EPA.

Critical programs—including PFAS protections, greenhouse gas reporting, the Endangerment Finding, enforcement over polluters, and even EPA’s science office — have already been shuttered, weakened, or targeted (sometimes against the explicit direction of Congress), leaving American families’ health at risk.

EPN experts will explain the impact on the public—why a short-term continuing resolution (CR) won’t stop the damage. Only a long-term funding deal that reins in executive overreach and fully funds EPA can restore protections for Americans.

Why It Matters

• For the public: Many Americans worry about how a government shutdown will impact their daily lives—but families are already losing safeguards for clean air, safe water, and healthy communities. A shutdown only accelerates the risk to Americans’ health.
• For Congress and insiders: This fight is not just about keeping the lights on—it’s about whether Congress will reassert its role and ensure EPA has the resources and independence to do its job.
• For both parties: According to nationwide polling, voters overwhelmingly back a strong EPA—88% of all voters, including 81% of Trump voters, want Congress to increase or at least maintain EPA funding, 

WHO:

Dr Jeanne Briskin, former Director of EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP)

Vicki Arroyo, former EPA Associate Administrator for Policy 

Marc Boom, EPN Senior Advisor

Other speakers to be added

WHEN:

Monday September 29, 2025

1 pm ET 

Via Zoom: Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FwS-XAgzS1ewvIZEDO4ydA