WASHINGTON (March 11, 2024) – The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental organization, today thanked Democratic leaders and appropriators for ensuring that House Republicans’ new anti-environmental appropriations riders and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) recissions were kept out of the first package of Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) appropriations bills. The first appropriations package, consisting of six of the 12 appropriations bills, passed the Senate Friday and was signed by President Biden on Saturday.
“We are deeply appreciative that the hundreds of proposed anti-environmental policy riders and cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act were not included in the first appropriations package,” said Alexandra Adams, a senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund. “While the funding levels mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act are insufficient to meet the demands of protecting our environment and communities, we are relieved to have avoided the steep partisan cuts proposed by House Republicans. Together, they would have wreaked havoc on the environment and human health – preventing the establishment of new pollution standards while simultaneously weakening the ability to hold polluters accountable. We congratulate Leader Schumer, Leader Jeffries, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Murray, and House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member DeLauro for their hard work to reach a consensus appropriations package free of new anti-environmental policy riders and cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act.”
