Former EPA Officials Warn Climate Budget Cuts Might Hurt Other Programs

摘要

Former EPA officials are warning that President Donald Trump's proposed massive budget cuts for the agency's climate change activities in fiscal year 2018 would likely hurt unrelated EPA programs, because statutory mandates mean the government would eventually have to divert funds to global warming efforts in lieu of the other programs. Trump has proposed a 31 percent cut to EPA that would reduce its overall funding from $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion and the "pass back" - the preliminary exchange of budget proposals between the agency and the White House - would reduce overall funding for climate programs by 69 percent, says a new report from the former EPA and other federal and state officials known as the Environmental Protection Network (EPN). The report is available on InsideEPA.com. (Doc. ID: 200256)