EPA budget cuts: Slouching toward days of the Copper Kings?

People who’ve spent years advocating for a thorough Superfund cleanup in Butte and Anaconda and along the Clark Fork River worry that EPA budget cuts could favor polluters.
Federal funding freeze leaves Montana businesses and restoration projects in limbo

Many of projects awarded federal money now find themselves in a strange holding pattern after the freezing from the Donald Trump administration and potential thawing from court decisions.