Budget Plan Severely Limits EPA Climate Work With No Sign Of Expansion

The Trump White House's fiscal year 2018 budget proposal calls for steep cuts to EPA's climate change policy and research, limiting the agency's climate work to greenhouse gas reporting and some existing GHG regulations while signaling that the agency does not intend to strengthen the climate programs it does maintain. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney acknowledged the administration's approach, noting during a May 23 press briefing that during the Obama administration, “the pendulum went too far to one side,...