Senate Deal Includes Major Funding Boost For EPA GHG Initiatives

EPA would receive more than $40 billion in new resources to help finance greenhouse gas reductions by states and others under the Senate’s pending budget reconciliation package, a move that would represent a significant infusion of federal funds for climate work at the agency. The funding for grants and other programs would the biggest funding appropriation to the agency since last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, which provided over $50 billion for long-established water infrastructure programs. That statute also created a...