EPA budget to be cut 31%.

[Cattledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/22/epa-remains-top-target-with-trump-administration-proposing-31-percent-budget-cut/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_epabudget-0946pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.641b494b146e

Candidate Donald Trump vowed to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency “in almost every form,” leaving only “little tidbits” intact. President Trump is making good on his promise to take a sledgehammer to the agency.

When the White House releases its latest budget proposal on Tuesday, the EPA will fare worse than any other federal agency.

An advance copy of EPA’s budget for fiscal 2018, obtained by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, indicates the administration will proceed with its effort to reduce current funding by more than 31 percent, to $5.65 billion.

The plan would eliminate several major regional programs, including ones aimed at restoring the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, as well as EPA’s lead risk-reduction program. The White House also proposes nearly halving categorical grants, which support state and local efforts to address everything from pesticide exposure to air and water quality, to $597 million. It would slash funding for the Superfund cleanup program, which helps restore some of the nation’s most polluted sites, despite the fact that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt lists it as one of his priorities.

Dozens of other programs also would be zeroed out entirely, including funding for radon detection, lead risk reduction, projects along the U.S.-Mexico border and environmental justice initiatives. The agency would have significantly less money for enforcement of environmental crimes and for research into climate change and other issues.

[WinkyDink]

1. The better for corporate, farm, and industrial pollution of our air, water, and land.

[murielm99]

2. Fighting invasive species, like the Asian carp,

is vital to this area. Canada has a stake in this, too, and should say something to the trump administration.

I thought 45 was supposed to be pro-business. Invasive species and pollution in the Great Lakes will kill a lot of business.