EIP Sees Steep State Environment Cuts, Undermining ‘Cooperative’ Effort

December 5, 2019
Environmentalists have unveiled new findings showing steep staff and funding cuts to environmental agencies in most states over the past decade, arguing this undermines Trump EPA claims that the agency’s own resource limits are not degrading environmental protection but rather shifting responsibility to the states. “‘Cooperative federalism’ is a slogan that is often used to legitimize the transfer of more environmental authority from EPA to state governments,” the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) says in its Dec. 5 report on the...


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