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Members warn cuts and grant cancellations strain state and local clean-up, resilience and drinking-water programs
Summary
Members and local officials told the subcommittee that EPA grant cancellations and proposed cuts to state revolving funds and categorical grants would disrupt brownfields cleanups, water infrastructure, resilience hubs and lead service-line replacements; EPA pledged case-by-case engagement.
Lawmakers from communities with contaminated sites, lead pipe networks, and disaster resilience projects pressed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on the agency’s recent terminations of competitively awarded grants and the proposed cuts to state categorical grants and revolving funds.
Representative Donald McEachin and others described projects in their districts — including a $500,000 brownfields grant pause, resilience hub funding for New Orleans (Stay Ready NOLA), and support for Dillard University — that were stopped by the agency’s review. Representative Nanette Barragán and Rep. Bob Menendez called attention to brownfields as a bipartisan program and described local examples where funding leveraged…
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