Senate spending bill targeting EPA rules progresses

Published June 16, 2016 8:44pm ET



The Senate appropriations committee advanced a spending bill Thursday that would block a number of the Obama administration’s key environmental regulations.

The $32 billion spending bill approved by the full committee would fund key Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department programs, but cuts the agencies’ fiscal 2017 budgets by about $1 billion below what President Obama had requested.

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