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Earthjustice Statement on FY26 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill

July 14, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on FY26 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill

"Instead of furthering Trump's deregulatory agenda, we urge Congress to focus on strong investments in these agencies that safeguard our environment and public health."

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Geoffrey Nolan, gnolan@earthjustice.org

Washington, D.C.-

Today, Republicans on the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee released new text for the Interior-Environment Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2026. The bill makes deep cuts to the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency-cutting the EPA's budget by approximately 23 percent. After appropriators released the text, Earthjustice Legislative Director for Lands, Wildlife, and Oceans Addie Haugheyissued the following statement:

"Republicans have cheered while the Trump administration and DOGE have illegally impounded funds and undermined the agencies that protect our climate, clean air and water, public lands, and wildlife. This bill would go even further and impose deep budget cuts on those critical agencies that we all depend on, along with policy riders that include industry handouts and a strange preoccupation with culture war issues that seek to divide us. Instead of furthering Trump's deregulatory agenda, we urge Congress to focus on strong investments in these agencies that safeguard our environment and public health."

(Architect of the Capitol)

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