Trump's EPA Cuts Could Impact Brownfields Funding in Colorado

President Trump has proposed slashing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 30 percent. The nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund says that would be disastrous to Colorado. In a new report, the group says the EPA has provided close to $300 million to the state over the past five years. That included $106 million to the state health department, which manages a program to assess and clean up contaminated sites known as brownfields. Locally, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has received $5.1 million over five years.