EPA budget stripped to save coal country

Published July 12, 2016 11:17pm ET



The House approved an amendment to a $32.1 billion spending bill Tuesday evening that would take money away from the Environmental Protection Agency and put it into coal country.

The amendment, which passed by voice vote, was offered by Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., to the Interior-Environmental Protection Agency appropriations bill that is making its way toward a vote on the House floor Tuesday night.

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