Environment and Energy Receive Funding from Senate for 2022
Appropriators allocated the Energy-Water bill and the Interior-EPA a combined 22% of total earmark spending.
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Edited by Chris Pasion
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Environment and energy earmarks were a large focus of this year’s Senate fiscal 2022 bills, according to an article from E&E News. Under new earmarking rules, water and infrastructure projects are favored because they benefit state and local governments, rather than private entities.
Appropriators provided $6.28 billion for thousands of earmarks in nine spending bills. $785.7 million went to the Energy-Water bill and $599 million to the Interior-EPA measure.
E&E News found that in the Interior-EPA bill, 67% of the earmarks were for EPA waste and water infrastructure grant programs for local communities. Other earmarks in the bill went toward the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund, the Land and Water Conservation Fund and various Forest Service initiatives.
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