Four congressional Democrats in senior positions on appropriations panels wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin Thursday calling the Trump administration’s freeze on pre-appropriated EPA funds an illegal “gross dereliction of duty.”

The letter is signed by top Senate Appropriations Committee Democrat Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and her House counterpart Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), as well as Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the ranking members of the panels’ Interior Department subcommittees.

The four members specifically........

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