Pruitt Enlists Mayors To Bolster Budget Defense For Priority EPA Programs

March 2, 2017
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is asking the nation's mayors to provide him with “success stories” that would help bolster his efforts to protect his priorities -- including water infrastructure funds, Superfund cleanups, brownfields redevelopment and attainment of air quality standards -- from White House plans to slash the agency's budget. “I want to be able to share those [success stories] with the White House. I want to be able to share that the investment in that brownfields program needs to...


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