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Trump working on $800 million budget cuts for EPA
Posted on: January 23, 2017 at 11:12:07 CT
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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/315607-trump-team-plans-big-cuts-at-epa
The Trump administration’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning major budget cuts, as well as regulatory and scientific overhauls at the agency.
The team’s “Action Plan” for the EPA identifies more than $800 million in planned budget cuts, including to state and tribal assistance grants, climate programs and environmental programs and management, according to Axios.
The White House did not return a request for comment on the report.
The document was written by Myron Ebell, head of the environment program at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute and the leader of the EPA transition team, Axios said.
The plan devotes significant attention to reforming how the EPA uses science.
“EPA does not use science to guide regulatory policy as much as it uses regulatory policy to steer the science,” the document says, according to Axios. “This is an old problem at EPA. In 1992, a blue-ribbon panel of EPA science advisers that [sic] 'science should not be adjusted to fit policy.' But rather than heed this advice, EPA has greatly increased its science manipulation.”
The document says that the EPA should not fund scientific research, should make all science used for regulatory decisions public and should overhaul its scientific advisory board....
The Trump administration’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning major budget cuts, as well as regulatory and scientific overhauls at the agency.
The team’s “Action Plan” for the EPA identifies more than $800 million in planned budget cuts, including to state and tribal assistance grants, climate programs and environmental programs and management, according to Axios.
The White House did not return a request for comment on the report.
The document was written by Myron Ebell, head of the environment program at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute and the leader of the EPA transition team, Axios said.
The plan devotes significant attention to reforming how the EPA uses science.
“EPA does not use science to guide regulatory policy as much as it uses regulatory policy to steer the science,” the document says, according to Axios. “This is an old problem at EPA. In 1992, a blue-ribbon panel of EPA science advisers that [sic] 'science should not be adjusted to fit policy.' But rather than heed this advice, EPA has greatly increased its science manipulation.”
The document says that the EPA should not fund scientific research, should make all science used for regulatory decisions public and should overhaul its scientific advisory board....
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Trump working on $800 million budget cuts for EPA - SuperTone MU - 1/23 11:12:07