FY2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act Overview: EPA Escapes the Chopping Block, Remains at Inadequate but Level Funding
Cleaning Up the Nation’s Worst Toxic Sites Threatened by Proposed Budget Cuts
EPN’s Preliminary Analysis of the EPA FY2018 Senate Appropriations Bill
Comment of Former Commissioners, Secretaries, and Directors of State Environmental Agencies on HR 3354
EPN Fact Sheet: The EPA Budget—Why It Matters
EPN Summarizes FY2018 House Appropriation for EPA, Cuts Core Programs 27%–Even More Deeply than Trump Requested
EPN Analyzes Approved FY2018 House Appropriations Interior, EPA, and Related Agencies Bill
EPN Summary of Proposed FY2018 Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, EPA, and Related Agencies Bill
Trump’s Proposed 2018 Budget Would Decimate EPA Enforcement
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO FY2018 Budget Cuts
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 processes at the EPA and speed up regulatory approvals.
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 Weekly also cites EPN analysis on workforce reductions resulting from the proposed FY2018 budget.
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 EPN. Here she talks about Administrator Pruitt’s shakeup of the EPA by moving away from science and many of the core EPA values.
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 scientist who focused on water protection and greenhouse gas reductions, are current EPN members and are quoted in this article, which provides a behind-the-scenes perspective of the less-than-transparent Pruitt EPA.