Comments on: The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $1.4 billion cut in the budget of EPA, also including 31 additional riders limited the agency’s regulatory powers. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-house-appropriations-committee-has-approved-a-1-4-billion-cut-in-the-budget-of-epa-also-including-31-additional-riders-limited-the-agencys-regulatory-powers/ Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-house-appropriations-committee-has-approved-a-1-4-billion-cut-in-the-budget-of-epa-also-including-31-additional-riders-limited-the-agencys-regulatory-powers/#comment-54686 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:30:27 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=18302#comment-54686 This would be news if we had passed a budget sometime in the last 3 years.

]]> By: Tom Billings https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-house-appropriations-committee-has-approved-a-1-4-billion-cut-in-the-budget-of-epa-also-including-31-additional-riders-limited-the-agencys-regulatory-powers/#comment-54657 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:55:29 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=18302#comment-54657 The question of interest will be whether EPA is willing to cut their regulatory straitjacket to fit the new amount of financial cloth provided. They could cut the number of people, and just take longer to get through applications for projects. They could also scale back the internally written regulations so that the smaller number of people can get through their processes without delaying projects.

I’m hoping for the latter, and fearing the former.

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