Despite High Priority For Brownfields, Trump Administration Proposes Cuts

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly cut funding in fiscal year 2019 for the brownfields program, even as EPA lists accelerating the pace of cleanups at brownfields sites as one of the agency's priority goals. Under the FY19 budget request, the brownfields program would receive $16.1 million, a cut of $9.3 million, for activities that include awarding and managing cooperative agreements and providing technical assistance to grantees, according to the agency's FY19 budget justification to Congress. The reduction will...