Trump Proposes Cuts To Climate And Clean Energy Programs

One of the deepest cuts would slash funding for the department.

Trump proposes cuts to climate and clean energy programs.

President donald trump s 2020 proposed budget calls for deep cuts in the agency as well as other climate and clean. A flag with the epa logo flies in front of the environmental protection agency. Under the trump proposal. The trump administration s latest budget proposal would radically reduce new spending on federal programs for advancing clean energy.

Trump s budget proposal seeks to eliminate nearly all international investments in climate change and clean energy cutting vital programs that protect the most vulnerable from climate impacts. Research and development in clean cars and renewable energy would be slashed more than 70 percent nasa climate programs would be cut and epa would lose 31 percent. How americans think about climate change in six maps. Trump who rejects the scientific consensus regarding climate change and repeatedly vowed to zero out federal spending on clean energy research and development r d as a candidate proposed similarly dramatic cuts to eere s budget in both his fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2019 proposals.

The republican controlled congress rejected both suggestions providing over three times more money. Trump s proposal envisions sweeping cuts that would neuter most of the agency s critical energy programs.