White House proposes EPA cuts, clean energy and conservation increases

President Obama moved more money into his climate-change priorities in his fiscal 2015 budget proposal, although the Environmental Protection Agency overall would receive less money.

The EPA would see spending bumps in areas key to implementing Obama’s climate agenda, which has involved a suite of executive actions such as proposed greenhouse gas emissions limits on power plants. Grants to states and native tribes, for example, would increase by $76 million, up to $1.1 billion, which includes a $20 million fund to help those entities comply with the president’s climate plan.