Author: David Coursen, opinion contributor

Environmental justice and EPA programs are roadkill in the House spending bill 

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…

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…