Do you know what programs EPA's budget really funds?  

Do you know how EPA staff really spend their time?

There’s been a lot of  "big picture" discussion around the Trump Administration's proposal to drastically cut EPA's budget.   But there is  less discussion around what those EPA budget dollars would “buy” - the programs and on-the-ground activities that the Trump Administration's budget would slash, ignore or outright eliminate. 

Did you know that the Trump Administration has proposed to:

Eliminate EPA's work on lead contamination in homes and schools?

Eliminate EPA funding for emission improvements on old diesel school buses?

Eliminate EPA funding for community groups working to restore local rivers and estuaries?

Slash funding and eliminate studies for programs that protect groundwater drinking water supplies?

Eliminate EPA's asthma programs (while simultaneously rolling back  air quality standards for pollutants that  trigger asthma)?

Reduce funding  the Children's Health Protection Program by 70%?

Cut funding for EPA, state and local communities to respond to environmental emergencies (like oil spills,  chemical accidents and hurricanes)?

The dollars in EPA’s proposed budget  are going to change as Congress works through the appropriations process. 

But the Trump Administration's anti-public health and anti-environmental agenda will not. 

Each year,  when EPA's proposes its budget, the agency includes a "Performance Plan," detailing  exactly how those budget dollars would be spent. Compare priorities between between the 2017 fiscal year and the Trump proposal for fiscal year 2018, and you see a radically different agenda.

EPA’s priorities are shifting away from helping communities, and towards helping select industry sectors (notably oil & gas, chemical manufacturing, and mining) avoid pollution controls and safety protections.

This Administration will boast about investing in “infrastructure,” while slashing funds for capital investment and eliminating EPA programs that support well-managed and resilient utility systems - including drinking water and wastewater treatment.

We’ll hear a lot about “cooperative federalism,” while - behind the scenes - Scott Pruitt will be dismantling the federal framework that enables States to protect public health and the environment.

Our colleagues at the Environmental Protection Network are
tracking EPA's budget as it moves through the House and Senate.

EDF has fact sheets on impacts to public health from proposed EPA budget cuts

by State.