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Administration proposes massive cuts to EPA

Posted by Jon Elliott on Tue, Jul 08, 2025

The Trump Administration has issued its budget proposal for federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026), including a 54% cut in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget, from $9.1 billion in FY 2025, to $4.16 billion for FY 2026. Many of the cuts apply to grant programs, and the proposal would cut staffing by 9%, from 14,130 full-time-equivalent employees (FTE) to 12,856. Readers should note that these cuts are comparable to those proposed by President Trump during his first term; EPA’s actual annual budget depends on that adopted by Congress (or a continuing resolution in lieu of an adopted budget). The remainder of this note summarizes EPA’s proposed FY2026 budget, including proposed reductions, drawn from EPA’s “Budget in Brief” (68 pages) and “Justification of Appropriation Estimates” (736 pages). 

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Tags: EPA, RCRA, tsca, Clean Air Act, Environmental Policy, Climate, EPA Regulations, EPA Standards, Trump, Trump Administration, Climate Reporting

EPA delays deadline to report 2024 greenhouse gas emissions

Posted by Jon Elliott on Mon, Apr 28, 2025

Since 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has administered an extensive Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires thousands of facilities and organizations to report annual emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (40 CFR part 98). Although reports are usually due by March 31 of the following year, EPA has delayed the deadline for reporting year (RY) 2024 until May 30, 2025. EPA cites delays in making the new version of its Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting tool (e-GGRT) available.

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Tags: EPA, Greenhouse Gas, sustainability, GHGRP, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Regulations, Carbon Reporting, GHG Reporting, Climate Reporting, Compliance Update, Emission Reporting, eGGRT