EPA Touts FY17 Plan To Expand 'E-Enterprise' But States See Challenges

EPA's proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 touts the agency's plans to expand its "E-Enterprise" initiative with states to streamline environmental policy workloads, but even though state environment agencies are welcoming the initiative some regulators are saying they will need more funding to achieve many of its goals. The congressional justification for President Obama's proposed $8.27 billion FY17 budget for EPA released Feb. 9 says the agency is planning to apply E-Enterprise principles in the water, air, waste, toxics and...