Climate Changed
Trump, Citing ‘Redundancies,’ Again Proposes Steep Cuts to EPA
- Administration makes second bid to cut ‘unnecessary’ programs
- Federal attention dips as heat, wildfires, sea levels rise
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Months after three major hurricanes devastated Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, the White House once again proposed slashing spending on government programs to combat climate change and protect communities from the flooding it could unleash.
The White House also suggests cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by at least a quarter, reducing the EPA to levels not seen since 1991, according to a budget blueprint proposed Monday. The budget request dovetails with an infrastructure plan also unveiled Monday that would pare federal environmental reviews and make it easier to put pipelines on federal land.