EPA Alumni Outline Multiyear Plan For Potential Agency Funding Boost

Former EPA administrators and staff are outlining a guide for the agency to work with Congress on securing a public declaration for rebuilding EPA’s budget to its 40-year average in “real dollars,” proposing a four-year goal of hiking the total annual spending to the equivalent of $11.4 billion in 2019 dollars. The EPA alumni, known as the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), floated the plan in a recent report backed by six former agency chiefs that also calls for bolstering the...