The Biden administration’s proposed 2024 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would give a badly needed boost to efforts to rebuild the agency after years of declining resources and stagnant funding. Now, the Republican-controlled House is hell bent on bulldozing any gains, and pushing EPA backward, with a doomsday proposal to reduce the agency’s…
Author: David Coursen, opinion contributor
EPA needs to be rebuilt, not nickel and dimed to death with budget cuts
The Republican plan to raise the nation’s borrowing authority by cutting federal spending would cap the EPA budget at a level that would devastate the agency’s efforts to rebuild after decades of eroding resources and the attacks of the Trump years. EPA spending in real dollars in 2020 was less than half what it had…
2024 budget: It’s past time for Congress to appropriately fund the EPA
Without adequate funding, EPA will be forced to miss more deadlines and fall further behind in implementing the environmental laws.
EPA’s 2023 funding takes a baby step toward rebuilding the agency
The funding increase is only a modest 6 percent of the EPA budget —less than the current inflation rate.
Congress needs to stop short-changing EPA enforcement
Fair and effective enforcement of environmental laws is one of the linchpins of environmental protection. But the erosion of support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement program over the last two decades has been so severe that The Washington Post recently reported that a “lack of resources and workers” has undercut the EPA’s ability…
Congress needs to break the continuing pattern of inadequate EPA funding
The agency is operating off og half the budget it had 40 years ago, in real dollars.
This is the wrong time to cut environmental protection
Close the gaps in EPA’s ability to protect the environment.
The Department of Justice’s strategy to advance environmental justice
After a halting start, the Biden administration has recently taken several steps to advance environmental justice.