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Hi, everyone,

EPN member Dave Coursen published an op-ed in The Hill today about how EPA has been shortchanged by Congress during the appropriations process. Below is social media guidance so groups can amplify as appropriate.

Thank you!

Steve

EPN Tweet to Retweet: https://twitter.com/EnvProtectioNet/status/1519712342107467778?s=20&t=_78S2A-y_Fb1x2K3JTj1pw

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Option 1:

.@EnvProtectioNet member David Coursen breaks down Congress’ starvation of @EPA budget in his Op-Ed for @TheHillOpinion. #FundEPA https://bit.ly/39onfkN

Option 2:

Congress’ omnibus @EPA appropriation misses the mark, neglecting infrastructure. @EnvProtectioNet member David Coursen shares his thoughts in @TheHillOpinion. #FundEPA https://bit.ly/39onfkN

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“[Congress] missed the boat with an omnibus [TAG] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appropriation that neglects the most important environmental infrastructure, EPA’s core capacity to protect our nation’s health and environment. That infrastructure has been depleted by years of neglect and slow starvation, culminating last year with EPA funding that was scarcely half in real dollars what the agency received 40 years ago, and its smallest staff since 1987,” writes  [TAG] Environmental Protection Network member David Coursen for [TAG]The Hill. 

“The Biden administration’s EPA 2022 budget request aimed to reverse the decline in EPA resources with a down payment toward rebuilding the agency and restoring its environmental protection infrastructure, while also addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice. But despite its generous support for physical infrastructure in the bipartisan infrastructure law, when it came to funding EPA’s operations, Congress continued its long-standing pattern — neglecting EPA’s infrastructure, the staff and programs that enable the agency  to protect the environment.”

Read the full Op-Ed here: https://bit.ly/39onfkN