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EPA chief defends agency’s budget request before Senate Appropriations subcommittee
[/title][fusion_text]Wednesday, April 20th 2016
EPA chief Gina McCarthy went before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday to defend her agency’s budget request – as well as controversial plans to reduce pollution from existing power plants and to define which U.S. waters can be regulated under the Clean Water Act. EPA is requesting $8.3 billion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2017 – a $127 million bump from the 2016 enacted level, McCarthy told the panel. Almost 40 percent of that money ($3.23 billion) would go directly to states and tribal partners as grants for air and water protection. An additional $235 million of the budget would support the White House’s Climate Action Plan, McCarthy said, including the agency’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), which would establish carbon pollution reduction standards for existing power plants.
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