Sentences with phrase «protection agency budget»

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While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

Since taking office, President Trump has pulled the country out of the Paris climate change accord, proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 26 percent, and placed tariffs on solar panels imported from countries like China and South Korea.

President Donald Trump's rumored pick to temporarily head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a conservative budget - cutter who once called the agency a «sick, sad» joke.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the House Appropriations Committee during a hearing on the 2019 fiscal year EPA budget at the Capitol on April 26.

Among other proposals, the budget would slash of one - third of Environmental Protection Agency's discretionary budget, totally eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, and end the grants that currently fund food assistance to the elderly via Meals on Wheels.

In the letter, the groups point to Schumer's opposition to cuts to the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency.

MPs also raised concerns that the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is having its budget cut by ten per cent over four years and warned that it could lose its focus when it is merged with the National Crime Agency.

The White House is seeking to cut more than $ 2.5 billion from the annual budget of the Environmental Protection Agency — an overall reduction of more than 23 percent.

The failure to incorporate consumer protection into the new banking and insurance agency marks one of the few concessions by Cuomo during the budget process.

«We are getting hints of what the E.P.A. budget is looking like,» he said, referring to the federal Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump.

They are a hangover from a failed 2011 budget agreement and have led to military readiness problems and caused hardship at domestic agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the IRS.

Tenant Protection Unit Cuomo: The governor's budget recommends $ 4.4 million in funding for the agency he credits with restoring 50,000 units to the affordable housing rolls.

The deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last night sued President Trump in order to block Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney from taking over as acting director of the agency.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protectionProtection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protectionprotection programs.

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

Rhodes is campaigning for an activist government that will promote prosperity while alleviating real social problems, and he accuses Faso of shortchanging local communities — from his vote on Trumpcare to his support for harsh budget cuts to agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.

U.S. Rep. John Katko said Monday that agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts and grants that fund Meals on Wheels may see their budgets trimmed, but Congress will not let them be eliminated.

The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

Update: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a draft rule on «Strengthening Transparency and Validity in Regulatory Science» to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House's Office of Managment and Budget on 19 April, reports E&E News.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

That might sound like a good deal to all kinds of American researchers and foreign scientists currently working in the U.S. in light of massive looming Trump budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and, of course, the Environmental Protection Agency.

The 2010 request for the Environmental Protection Agency is $ 10.5 billion, a whopping 38 % increase over last year's budget.

The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which Congress must approve, would sharply reduce and in some cases eliminate funding for science programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, climate - related science research programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and cut in half research and development programs at the Energy Department.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been targeted by the Trump Administration as well, with a proposed 25 per cent cut to the overall budget.

Science and technology spending at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would get a $ 34 million (or 4.6 %) boost over what Congress approved last year, to $ 769 million, under the president's fiscal year 2016 budget proposal.

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Appropriators trimmed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) budget by $ 81 million, or about 1 %, to $ 8.06 billion.

On March 10, 2011, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on the FY2012 budget requests for research and development activities at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2012 on the FY2013 budget requests for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Customs and Border Protection is now the largest, most well - funded law enforcement agency in the country with an annual budget of more than $ 13.56 billion, and it enjoys a breadth of function unlike any other organization in the U.S. government, with oversight of 44 other agencies.

The groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Association of American Universities, said the science adviser should have the same status in the cabinet as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Trade Representative.

For example, according to a 2010 United States Office of Budget and Management (OMB) Report, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued 30 major environmental regulations from 1999 to 2009 at an estimated cost of $ 25.8 billion to $ 29.2 billion.

That would be a lot easier if there was a Democrat majority in Senate, as it holds the power to set the budget for key departments like the Environmental Protection Agency and keep Obama's plan alive.

by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog President Donald Trump's proposal to cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 31 percent would mean an easing up on the EPA's notoriously heavy - handed enforcement and push environmental groups to reset their priorities.

His budget cuts Environmental Protection Agency funding by 30 percent, more than any other aAgency funding by 30 percent, more than any other agencyagency.

Eviscerating the budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency condemns millions of Americans to dirty water, unbreathable air, and the devastating impacts of climate change.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a «finding» to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will force the Obama administration to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies and programs relevant to the hydroelectric power sector all see funding cuts in the federal budget proposal released yesterday by President Donald Trump.

Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions from electrical facilities was viewed as an essential part of America's strategy for staying within its portion of the carbon budget.

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer said he's fighting the Environmental Protection Agency's 31 percent budget cut by the Trump Administration.

The Senate controls the government's budget, and is expected to attempt to withhold funding to the Environmental Protection Agency, the main body tasked with implementing the president's climate action plan.

The budget he presented earlier this month gutted the Environmental Protection Agency.

Seven structural features are traditionally associated with agency independence: removal protection, specified tenure, multimember structure, partisan balance requirements, litigation authority, budget and congressional communication authority, and adjudication authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday, April 6 sent to the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) its controversial regulation to redefine the extent of its authority over U.S. water bodies for final review and approval.