A bill slashing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding and blocking several of its new regulations is scheduled to pass through the House Appropriations Committee.

Republicans are pushing an Interior and Environment funding bill that cuts $718 million, or 9 percent, from the EPA’s budget in fiscal 2016, on top of the 20 percent cut the agency has absorbed since Republicans took the House in 2011.

The bill also includes policy riders meant to block agency rulemaking that is key to President Obama’s environmental agenda."

Devin Henry reports for The Hill June 15, 2015. [2]