FY2018 Budget Cuts

The Administration’s budget blueprint, released on March 16, 2017, threatened severe damage to health and environmental programs that have protected Americans for decades. EPN produced in-depth analysis of the proposal, including cuts to programs, staffing and state support.

May 7, 2018

The Trump Administration Is Considering Consolidating Regional Offices and Reducing Regional Operations—Why We Should Care

In light of the Trump Administration's potential plan to consolidate and reduce regional operations, EPN created a Regional EPA Offices fact sheet to illustrate the…

Budget and Appropriations EPA's Strategic Plan, Regional EPA Offices, and Regulatory Reform

April 30, 2018

FY2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act Overview: EPA Escapes the Chopping Block, Remains at Inadequate but Level Funding

The FY2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act put an end to the Trump Administration's proposal to gut the EPA budget, but still left the agency with inadequate…

Budget & Appropriations Analyses Budget and Appropriations

December 29, 2017

Cleaning Up the Nation’s Worst Toxic Sites Threatened by Proposed Budget Cuts

Proposals to cut EPA's budget by the Trump Administration endangers many of the agency's most important programs, like Superfund, which cleans the country's most contaminated…

Budget and Appropriations FY2018 Budget Cuts

November 30, 2017

EPN’s Preliminary Analysis of the EPA FY2018 Senate Appropriations Bill

The Senate released its EPA FY2018 appropriations bill on November 20, 2017, and while it was an improvement over the House bill's proposed 8% budget…

Budget & Appropriations Analyses Budget and Appropriations

November 22, 2017

Comment of Former Commissioners, Secretaries, and Directors of State Environmental Agencies on HR 3354

On November 22, 2017, former Commissioners, Secretaries, and Directors of state environmental protection agencies came together to express their deep concern over the House’s approval…

Budget and Appropriations FY2018 Budget Cuts

October 18, 2017

EPN Fact Sheet: The EPA Budget—Why It Matters

The proposed FY2018 EPA budget cut core agency functions by 27%, which would greatly reduce the agency's ability to protect and preserve clean air, water,…

Budget and Appropriations Core Programs Fact Sheets

September 30, 2017

EPN Summarizes FY2018 House Appropriation for EPA, Cuts Core Programs 27%–Even More Deeply than Trump Requested

The EPA FY2018 House funding bill passed with significant cuts to core air, water and waste program funding, inflicting long-term damage to these vital programs.…

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July 31, 2017

EPN Analyzes Approved FY2018 House Appropriations Interior, EPA, and Related Agencies Bill

The House Appropriations Committee passed a bill for Interior, EPA, and Related Agencies that was an increase over the administration's severe FY2018 budget proposal, but…

Budget & Appropriations Analyses Budget and Appropriations

July 31, 2017

EPN Summary of Proposed FY2018 Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, EPA, and Related Agencies Bill

The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed FY2018 budget bill, which included a $528 million budget cut…

Budget & Appropriations Analyses Budget and Appropriations

January 12, 2019

How Trump is redefining the EPA

EPN member and former EPA Associate National Program Director, Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, Betsy Smith, is quoted in this article that takes a…

In The News via The Week

November 21, 2018

‘It’s Not a Happy Place’

EPN member and advisor Janet McCabe, former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in E&E’s article on the current climate at…

In The News via E&E News

December 26, 2017

WorkWeek Interview with Kathy Setian

EPN member Kathy Setian, who was a project manager at the EPA and is a delegate from IFPTE Local 20, is interviewed by WorkWeek Radio…

In The News via KPFA Pacifica Workweek Radio

December 22, 2017

E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves

EPN members Rob Kavlock, Ronnie Levin and Lynda Deshaumbault are quoted in this article which examines deteriorating morale at the EPA under Pruitt.

In The News via New York Times

December 18, 2017

Pruitt’s EPA Turns to ‘Lean Manufacturing’ to Speed Up Reviews

EPN member George Wyeth, a career EPA attorney who retired in 2017, is quoted in this article on Pruitt’s turn to “lean manufacturing” to revamp…

In The News via Bloomberg

December 7, 2017

Budget Deadline for Gutting the EPA Has Arrived

EPN members Carol Campbell and David Coursen are quoted in this article about President Trump’s sweeping 2018 budget cut proposal for the EPA. The Boulder…

In The News via Boulder Weekly

November 28, 2017

EPA Set to Mark Its 47th Anniversary

Interviewed by KJZZ in Phoenix, Ruth Greenspan Bell is a public policy scholar, former federal employee who managed EPA lawyers, and a founding member of…

In The News via KJZZ Radio

November 12, 2017

Scientists Speak out About What’s Going on Behind the Scenes at the EPA

Trish Koman, a former EPA scientist; Betsy Southerland, former director of science and technology at the Office of Water; and Mike Cox, a former EPA…

In The News via IFLScience

November 7, 2017

Amid ‘Nightmare’ Budget Cuts, EPA Closing Its Richmond Lab

EPN member Kathy Setian, who worked at EPA Region 9 as a Superfund project manager for more than 20 years before retiring in 2012, is…

In The News via Richmond Confidential