Climate science, policy, politics, and action
A subcommittee hearing entitled “A Decade Later: A Review of Congressional Action, Environmental Protection Agency Rules, and Beneficial Use Opportunities for Coal Ash.”
Full committee markup has been postponed.
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Program Name | $ Change from 2025 Enacted (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project | -609 | The Budget provides $1.2 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project. |
| Operation of the National Park System | -900 | The Budget would transfer most properties to State-level management. Achieving a $900 million cut to operations would require eliminating funding for roughly 350 park sites, 75 percent of the total. |
| NPS Historic Preservation Fund | -158 | The Budget eliminates almost all funding except for projects in partnership with HBCUs. |
| NPS Construction | -73 | This reduction complements the Administration’s goals transferring most parks to State and tribal governments. |
| NPS National Recreation and Preservation | -77 | |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs Programs that Support Tribal Self-Governance and Tribal Communities | -617 | The Budget eliminates the Indian Guaranteed Loan program for tribal business development. The Budget also terminates the Indian Land Consolidation Program. In addition, the Budget also reduces funding for programs that directly fund tribal operations such as roads, housing, and social services. |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Public Safety and Justice | -107 | The Budget cuts the tribal law enforcement program by 20 percent. |
| Bureau of Indian Education Construction | -187 | The Budget eliminates funding for construction of tribal schools. |
| U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Surveys, Investigations, and Research programs | -564 | USGS provides science information on natural hazards, ecosystems, water, energy and mineral resources, and mapping of Earth’s features. The Budget eliminates programs that provide grants to universities and crucial climate science initiatives and instead focuses on support for minerals and fossil fuel extraction. |
| Bureau of Land Management Conservation Programs | -198 | The Budget proposes deep reductions. The Budget also reduces the Wildlife and Aquatic Habitat Management program. |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) State, Tribal, and NGO Conservation Grant Programs | -170 | The Budget eliminates USFWS grant programs that fund conservation of species managed by States, Tribes, and other nations. |
| Renewable Energy Programs | -80 | The Budget proposes to eliminate support for renewable energy deployment. |
| USFWS Ecological Services | -37 | USFWS’ Ecological Services program and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources are jointly responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Budget consolidates these two programs into a single program housed within DOI with significantly reduced funding. |
| Federal Wildland Fire Service (consolidation of USDA and DOI Wildland Fire Management programs under a unified agency within DOI) | -- | Federal wildfire risk mitigation and suppression responsibilities currently are split across five agencies in two departments: the U.S. Forest Service in USDA and BIA, Bureau of Land Management, USFWS, and NPS in DOI. The Budget consolidates the Federal wildland fire responsibilities into a single new Federal Wildland Fire Service at DOI, including transferring USDA’s current wildland fire management responsibilities. |
| Department of Agriculture | ||
| Forest Service Operations | -391 | The Budget reduces funding for expenses including salaries and facility leases. |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | ||
| Program Name | $ Change Enacted from 2025 (in millions) | Brief Description of Program and Recommended Reduction or Increase |
| Increases | ||
| Drinking Water Programs | +9 | The Budget provides $124 million in funding for the drinking water mission at EPA. The $9 million increase from the 2025 enacted level is to equip EPA with funds to respond to drinking water disasters. |
| Indian Reservation Drinking Water Program | +27 | The Budget increases funding for Tribes to retain access to funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure on their lands, with a total level of $31 million for the grant program. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds | -2,460 | The Budget provides the decreased funding level of $305 million total. |
| Categorical Grants | -1,006 | The Budget includes the elimination of 16 categorical grants, and maintains funding at 2025 enacted levels for Tribes. |
| Hazardous Substance Superfund | -254 | The IIJA and the Inflation Reduction Act helped finance the Superfund program. |
| Office of Research and Development | -235 | The Budget puts an end to research grants, environmental justice work, climate research, and modeling that influences regulations. The Budget provides $281 million. |
| Environmental Justice | -100 | EPA’s environmental justice program is eliminated in line with the vision the President set forth in Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” and Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” |
| Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants | -90 | This program is eliminated. |
| Atmospheric Protection Program | -100 | The Atmospheric Protection Program imposes climate change regulations. This program is eliminated in the 2026 Budget. |
| Department of the Treasury | ||
| Increases | ||
| Rural Financial Award Program | +100 | The Budget creates a new $100 million award program that would require 60 percent of Community Development Financial Institutions’ (CDFIs’) loans and investments to go to rural areas. |
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | -2,488 | The Budget reflects a planned 40% cut in personnel. |
| CDFI Fund Discretionary Awards | -291 | The Budget recommends eliminating CDFI Fund discretionary awards. |
| Small Business Administration (SBA) | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| Entrepreneurial Development Programs (EDP) Consolidation | -167 | Therefore, the Budget ends 15 programs, leaving only the Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) program. Eliminated programs include Women’s Business Centers and SCORE. |
| Salaries and Expenses (S&E) | -111 | The Budget provides $250 million for SBA’s S&E. The reduced S&E request also reflects a reduction in staffing costs associated with consolidating the Agency’s EDP. |
| Small Agency Eliminations | ||
| Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations | ||
| -3,586 | The Budget includes the elimination of, or the elimination of Federal funding for, the following small agencies. Agencies in bold are in these appropriations bills. |
| The Budget eliminates six small regional commissions. The Budget continues funding for Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) operations at $14 million. | |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) | -2 | The budget closes this office. |
Full committee markup.
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On Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands will hold an oversight hearing titled “Fix Our Forests: Advancing Innovative Technologies to Improve Forest Management and Prevent Wildfires.”
Witnesses:
Nomination hearing.
Nominee:
William “Billy” Kirkland III, citizen of the Navajo Nation, was a part of the White House staff during Trump’s first term, serving as special assistant to the president. Kirkland led Republican Senate campaigns, including David Perdue in 2014 and Kelly Loeffler in 2020. He also served as a senior advisor to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign in Georgia and later worked on the White House Inauguration Committee before becoming a senior strategist for Vice President Mike Pence.
Subcommittee hearing entitled “Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance.”
Witnesses:
A full committee hearing to review Trump’s $9.4 billion rescission request.
Witness:
Subcommittee hearing.
Witnesses:
Full committee hearing.
Nominees:
Usha-Maria Turner is a longtime energy-industry lobbyist, most recently for Chesapeake Energy. She previously worked for OGE Energy and TXU Power.
On Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 10:15 a.m. in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills: