Trump’s plan to slash EPA, clean energy funding gets the cold shoulder from Congress

 The view from the enviro-left

...The spending bill generally keeps funding for environmental and energy programs at current levels. The legislation pushes back on many of Trump’s proposed spending cuts, including for environmental and clean energy programs.
The spending bill is mostly good news for the environment and clean energy research, although lawmakers added a few troublesome provisions to the legislation.
Environmental Protection Agency
The Good: The spending bill rejects Trump’s proposal to slash the EPA’s budget by 31 percent. Lawmakers negotiating the omnibus appropriations bill instead chose to give the agency $8.1 billion for fiscal year 2018, keeping it at the same level as 2017...
The Bad: The bill instructs the EPA to treat wood burning as a carbon-neutral and renewable electricity source, something the federal government has not done since 2010. Critics of biomass believe the rider would circumvent science and encourage the burning of biomass for electricity.
The bill contains a rider — an additional provision attached to the bill — that shields farmers and ranchers from animal-waste air-pollution reporting requirements under the Superfund law. It also prohibits the EPA from enforcing protections against particulate matter, lead, carbon monoxide, and mercury from certain incinerators... 
Department of Energy
The Good: The Department of Energy (DOE) gets $34.5 billion, an increase of nearly $4 billion over the FY’17 enacted level. DOE will see funding increases for many programs under the bill, including research efforts and energy efficiency programs that the Trump administration has tried to cut...
The Bad: The bill calls for $727 million for the Office of Fossil Energy, a $59 million increase above fiscal 2017 levels. The office is responsible for advanced coal, natural gas, and oil technologies... 
Department of the Interior
The Good: The Department of the Interior (DOI) gets a funding boost in the spending bill. About $3.2 billion would go to the National Park Service, $270 million more than the 2017 enacted level. The bill includes a roughly $150 million increase to address the National Park Service’s $11.6 billion maintenance backlog...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gets $1.6 billion, $75 million more than current spending. It includes a $53 million increase to address a maintenance backlog at wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries.
 The Bad: Although unrelated to Congress’ appropriation of funds, public lands remain under threat with Ryan Zinke staying on as Interior secretary...

 If there is no bad news for Interior except for Zinke, that really is bad news. What happened to all those ESA riders, for instance?

The enviros are happy:

The spending bill represents “a resounding victory for all of the activists who fought back,” Elgie Holstein, senior director of strategic planning for EDF Action, said Thursday in a statement.