What Slashing the EPA's Budget by One-Quarter Would Really Mean

Inside Climate News: The Trump Administration's proposed slashing of the Environmental Protection Agency's budget threatens to reduce the agency's resources to levels not seen since its formative days, long before demands from Congress and the public expanded the scope of the agency's missions.

Spending reductions of nearly 25 percent and layoffs of thousands of employees have been floated. Climate change-related programs have been targeted for outright elimination. But that's also enough to cripple some of the agency's core activities, according to experienced agency veterans and outside experts.

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