Cutting the EPA’s Budget Is Not Just Politics. It’s Life and Death

The Trump Administration’s 2018 budget proposal takes direct aim at the Environmental Protection Agency. If adopted, the budget would cut the EPA’s funding by 31%, with most of the reductions concentrated in programs that study pollution and environmental toxins, and write and enforce rules to protect public health. Those programs would see as much as a 42% reduction. It can be hard to understand the life-and-death impact this would have. The dollar values and percentages feel inhuman.