Budget and Appropriations

Linda Birnbaum, former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), Tom Burke, former Science Advisor and Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), Dan Costa, Former National Program Director, EPA Air, Climate, and Energy Research Program, ORD, Chitra Kumar, former Director, EPA OEJECR, Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, EPA ORD, and Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice, OEJECR, were quoted in Science about how budget cuts and industry priorities will affect EPA.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Bob Sussman, former Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the Administrator, were quoted in The New York Times about how EPA has recovered from budget and staff cuts during the Trump administration, but, a second Trump term would still methodically restructure the agency.

Michelle Roos was quoted in this article about new House leadership’s anti-EPA agenda and the negative impacts it would have on the environment and human health.

Bob Perciasepe, former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding his past experience with government shutdowns and what federal workers can do to prepare for the next one.