The House passed a partisan appropriation bill Wednesday for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other related agencies. The measure, which passed 210 to 205, would impose a 20% cut to the EPA and includes several conservative provisions that are likely to doom it in the Senate.
The fiscal 2025 spending bill proposes $38.5 billion in discretionary funding, $72 million below fiscal 2024 funding levels, and includes steep cuts to various agencies. The measure would roll back a number of Biden administration regulatory efforts, such as the Department of Energy’s fuel economy standards and its rules curtailing emissions from power plants, as well as an EPA rule regulating industry emissions that affect downwind states.
