Each year EPA is hit with massive proposed budget cuts. This decrease in funding virtually ensures the continued erosion of protections to human health and the environment – efforts that are essential for community well-being and long-term economic growth. EPN has created in-depth analyses of these proposals to provide a breakdown of funding cuts and staff reductions.
As appropriation negotiations between the House and Senate continued, EPN produced a table comparing the FY2020 enacted budget, the FY2021 House appropriations bill, and the…
Additional EPA and state resources are needed to adequately protect public health and the environment. As the budgets of EPA and states have shrunk, their…
EPN produced an analysis of the Trump administration's proposed FY2021 budget, which slashed EPA's budget by 27% and continued efforts to dismantle the agency program…
EPN produced analysis of the Trump Administration's proposed FY2020 budget, which slashed EPA's budget by 31% and continued the evisceration of the agency. [Read more]
On February 15, 2019, the president signed the FY2019 Appropriations Act, which saved EPA from the proposed 33.7% cuts originally proposed by the administration, allocating…
EPN shared information about the effects of a government shutdown on EPA’s ability to do its work before and during the shutdown. Shutdowns are disruptive,…
EPA joined the ongoing partial government shutdown at midnight, Friday, December 28. Over 13,000 employees were furloughed, and only national security and emergency staff remained.…
On December 22, 2018, a partial government shutdown began for nine executive departments, including EPA, due to an impasse over Trump's demands for $5.7 billion…
While the House and Senate rejected the severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump Administration for FY2019, their proposed appropriations for EPA were quite different,…
Dave Coursen, EPN member and former attorney, EPA Office of General Counsel, was quoted in this article about the Trump administration’s continued work on the…
Much of EPN member John Kennedy’s three decades at the EPA’s San Francisco office was spent protecting clean air. Along with his passions for community…
