EPA Suggests Climate As FY16 Budget Priority, Prompting States' Caution

摘要

EPA in a memo to top agency officials is suggesting that climate change policies such as its proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) rule for existing utilities will be a fiscal year 2016 budget priority, prompting caution from state air regulators who are warning against diverting core air program funds to pay for implementing GHG rules."EPA is setting its own priorities without consulting states, partially funding those priorities, then imposing them on states," says one state air regulator. "It's setting everyone up for failure," the source adds, because states could face inadequate funds to fully implement both core air programs and EPA's pending climate regulations.