FY2020 Budget Proposal: EPA Programs at Risk
State Environmental Programs Put at Risk
EPN Analysis of the Trump Administration’s 2020 Budget Proposal
The Administration’s FY20 Budget Proposal Puts EPA’s Mission and Core Programs in Jeopardy
EPN Fact Sheet: 2019 Appropriations Act Passes and What that Means for EPA
The Effects of a Government Shutdown at EPA
EPA Shutdown Procedures Begin as Deadline Passes with No Appropriations Bill
A Partial Government Shutdown Begins: How This Effects EPA
House and Senate Advance Sharply Different EPA FY2019 Budgets
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Budget
Bipartisan Former EPA Chiefs Say Trump Administration Has Abandoned Agency’s Mission
EPN is mentioned in this article about the historic hearing held by the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the future of EPA with a bipartisan group of former EPA Administrators. The hearing was in response to their joint letter offering lawmakers help on substantive Congressional oversight, as well as help of former EPA staff. Similar articles also ran in The Colorado Independent, Maryland Matters, and a second article in The Hill.
Advisers OK Shift From Kids’ Health Research to ‘Translation’
EPN member Lynn Goldman, former EPA Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, is quoted in this GreenWire article about a plan from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide $5 million in funding for five Children’s Environmental Health Translational Centers nationwide as a result of EPA’s refusal to commit to funding for Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers.
EPA Claims To Support ‘Clean And Safe Water,’ Cuts $1.4 Billion From Water Protection
David Coursen, EPN member and former EPA Office of General Counsel, wrote an op-ed published in Water Online about the EPA budget proposal’s staggering cuts to water protection and restoration programs, despite Administrator Wheeler’s claim that drinking water is the world’s greatest environmental challenge.
Trump Threatens to Cut EPA Budget Once Again
EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, EPA Office of Science and Technology in the Office of Water, was interviewed about her decision to leave EPA after 40 years due to Trump’s plan to gut the agency. She continues to speak out as the current administration proposes staggering budget cuts and regulatory rollbacks that endanger public health and the environment.