FY2020 Budget Cuts

The Trump Administration’s 2020 fiscal year budget proposal, once again, dealt a hard financial hit to EPA, with a proposed 31% cut to the agency's budget. EPN responded with budget analyses and fact sheets to explain how these cuts continue the erosion of protections to human health and the environment.

March 15, 2019

Important EPA Programs Put at Risk by FY2020 Budget Proposal

EPN produced fact sheets on a number of EPA programs that were proposed to be eliminated or significantly threatened under the Administration's proposed FY2020 budget,…

Budget and Appropriations FY2020 Budget Cuts

March 15, 2019

State Environmental Programs Put at Risk

The proposed FY2020 EPA budget calls for massive cuts to state environmental programs, putting the first line of defense for the environment and public health…

Budget and Appropriations FY2020 Budget Cuts

March 15, 2019

EPN Analysis of the Trump Administration’s 2020 Budget Proposal

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]

Budget & Appropriations Analyses FY2020 Budget Cuts

March 13, 2019

EPA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

EPN created a fact sheet on EPA's Alternative Dispute Resolution program to provide awareness of how important this program is to reducing costly litigation and…

Budget and Appropriations FY2020 Budget Cuts

March 13, 2019

The Administration’s FY2020 Budget Proposal Puts EPA’s Mission and Core Programs in Jeopardy

In light of the Trump Administration's FY2020 budget proposal that included a 31% cut to EPA, EPN produced an overarching fact sheet on EPA's core…

Core Programs Fact Sheets FY2020 Budget Cuts

January 7, 2020

Amid Major Deregulation, Trump Pursues Limited Environment Pitches

Betsy Southerland, EPN member and former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water and fellow EPN member Bob Sussman, the former EPA…

In The News via Inside EPA

June 12, 2019

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…

In The News via The Hill

June 5, 2019

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…

In The News via Greenwire

May 21, 2019

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…

In The News via Water Online

May 21, 2019

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…

In The News via KBOO FM

March 22, 2019

The Chip Franklin Show

EPN member David Coursen, formerly at EPA’s Office of General Counsel, was interviewed about the Administration’s recent FY2020 budget proposal and its effects on EPA. …

In The News via KGO 810 Radio in San Francisco

March 20, 2019

It’s Your Turn

Bonnie Bellow, EPN member and former EPA Director of Public Affairs, Region 2, was interviewed about the Trump Administration’s recent FY2020 budget proposal, which cuts…

In The News via WISR AM

March 17, 2019

Conversations with Peter Solomon 3/17/19

Bonnie Bellow, EPN member and former EPA Director of Public Affairs, Region 2, was interviewed on the radio about the Trump Administration’s fiscal year 2020…

In The News via 94WIP SportsRadio

March 13, 2019

The Great Lakes Need Investment If We Want to Maintain Safe Drinking Water

Cameron Davis, EPN member, environmental policy expert and lawyer, having served in Washington, D.C., and Chicago as Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator, wrote this…

In The News via Chicago Tribune