EPA Budget Proposal Details Cuts to State Grants, Enforcement

The EPA on Friday released additional details about how it seeks to trim 54.5% from its budget, one of the deepest reductions in the agency’s history.

The 68-page “Budget in Brief” document lays out the terms of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed 90.9% decrease in grants to states. Those potential cuts have raised sharp concerns among both Republican and Democratic lawmakers whose home states rely on that funding.

But the EPA “has invested hundreds of billions of dollars over several decades building state and local capacity and many programs are mature or have accomplished their purpose,” according to ...