Several of the proposed EPA budget cuts are directed at programs that protect low-income, minority and indigenous communities.
"If [the budget] was able to move forward in the form that it's currently in, it's just amazing the additional damage that it will do, because it guts the majority of any program inside of the EPA that even touches climate change and the impacts that are happening from the climate emergency," Ali toldAccording to the EPN, the proposed budget looks to eliminate funding for around 50 EPA environmental programs.
Notably, several of the proposed budget cuts are directed at programs that protect low-income, minority and indigenous communities, which are particularly vulnerable to environmental harms like polluted air, water and land. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House on February 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C."The [budget] does even more damage to our most vulnerable communities—communities of color, low-income communities and indigenous communities—because not only does [it] cut significant resources on the climate side, but then they also are cutting the work on the environmental justice side," Ali said."So it's really a double whammy for vulnerable communities.
"Along with proposing cuts in EPA science funding, the agency has been waging a virtual war on science, replacing independent scientists with energy industry employees on science review bodies, ignoring science findings in shaping rules and even proposing a rule requiring EPA to ignore reliable scientific evidence in rule-making," Caren Kagan Evans, a spokesperson for the EPN, toldThe EPN says that the proposed cuts to scientific research would be particularly felt at the state and...
Ali stressed that the worst impacts of climate change in the future would be felt by the vulnerable communities put at risk by the latest budget.
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