"President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget lays out a 24.1% boost to the EPA’s core rule-writing and enforcement programs and a 7.5% increase in staffing to get the work done, according to a detailed blueprint released on Friday.
The plan envisions a $3.4 billion request to implement the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other statutes, up from $2.8 billion in the current budget. That funding would cover a huge range of activities, such as creating ways to attain ambient air quality standards and overseeing states’ management of hazardous waste.
Agency-wide, Biden’s budget would raise EPA staffing to 15,206 full-time employees, up from 14,144.
The budget “makes sure all EPA offices have the operational budgets and workforces they need to deliver for the American people,” Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
Biden’s overall funding ask for the EPA is a 21.6% increase over what it currently receives. The request represents what would be the biggest budget the EPA has ever received."
SEE ALSO:
"Biden Climate Agenda Would Get Boost Under Interior Budget" (Bloomberg Environment)
"Biden's $6T Plan A 'Whole Of Government' Approach On Climate" (E&E News)
"Biden Seeks Big Increases For Science Budgets" (Science)
"Biden Seeks Major Funding Increases For Environmental Priorities" (Agri-Pulse)
"Biden Budget Seeks To Boost EVs, Great Lakes Cleanup But Cuts Army Corps" (Detroit News)
"Statement by Administrator Regan on the President’s FY 2022 Budget" (EPA release)
"FY 2022 Budget" (EPA release)
"Biden Budget Aims To Raise $35B From Cutting Fossil Fuel Tax Benefits" (The Hill)
