Senate Floats Flat EPA Funding For Rest Of FY21 In Bid For House Talks

Senate appropriators are floating draft fiscal year 2021 spending legislation that would give EPA essentially flat funding of $9.085 billion, setting up potential negotiations with House lawmakers ahead of next month’s expiration of spending authority for multiple federal agencies. The Senate action comes after the House this summer approved its version of a FY21 funding bill for the Department of Interior (DOI), EPA and several related agencies that would boost EPA’s regular appropriations by around 3 percent -- before accounting...