States Eye Reduced Environmental Programs To Absorb FY18 Budget Cuts

May 23, 2017
State officials are signaling openness to cutting or significantly scaling back their environmental programs in order to absorb EPA's proposed massive fiscal year 2018 cut to grants that help states implement federal environmental laws and rules, with some states even weighing returning delegated EPA programs back to the agency. Speaking to reporters after a May 23 hearing of the House Science Committee's environment panel, Arkansas environment head Becky Keogh said her state and others could make up for President Donald...


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