http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-budget-idUSKBN1692XA Above, the new head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, told U.S. mayors on Thursday he would make a priority of cleanups of industrial and hazardous waste sites and improving water infrastructure, even as the White House proposed severe proposed cuts to those programs. Edward Scott Pruitt is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma who is currently the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Under Donald Trump's presidentency Pruitt was placed as head of the EPA which may in terms lead to a not so healthy envionrment. Trump plans to cut EPA's budget by twenty-five percent and cut all staffing by twenty percent. Under the proposal, which was sent to the EPA this week, grants to states for lead cleanup would be cut 30 percent to $9.8 million. The money being reduced from the EPA will be contributed to more military spending. Environmentalists urged to stop the proposed cuts, which must be approved by the Republican-led Congress. The White House has had no comment on the progression of these cuts so far. Donald Trump hopes to diminish the previous work President Obama had made towards bettering the environment. Trump still vows his plan to overhaul the green regulation will not jeopardize America's water and air quality.
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