Senate Appropriators Seek To Trim Biden EPA’s FY22 Budget Request

Senate appropriators are seeking to trim President Joe Biden’s budget request for EPA in fiscal year 2022, setting a lower overall funding level than House appropriators have approved, but also increasing spending for environmental justice (EJ), water quality and geographic programs, among others. In its FY22 spending bill for EPA, the Department of Interior (DOI) and related agencies, the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed to set overall spending for the agency at $10.541 billion, a $692 million cut compared to the...