Federal funding to combat man-made global warming, scrub pollution, and research energy and the Earths climate disappeared in a budget outline that the White House put forward on Thursday.

The budget proposed steep and sweeping cuts across the executive branch. But the Environmental Protection Agency suffered the biggest blow, losing 31 percent of its funding. The agency is seen as the spear tip of the administrative state President Donald Trump vowed to dismantle.

The Trump administrations preliminary skinny budget , released at 7 a.m. on Thursday, reduces the EPA funding from $8.2 billion to $5.7 billion and guts climate change programs across a slew of other federal agencies.

Were not spending money on that anymore, Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said of efforts to prevent climate change from worsening. We consider that to be a waste of your money.

The new budget eliminates funding for regional cleanup efforts in the Great Lakes, the Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay, for example, and defunds the Clean Power Plan, the federal governments only major effort to reduce carbon emissions from the utility sector. Trump is expected to sign an executive order further weakening the Clean Power Plan as early as this week. The order will reportedly instruct the EPA to begin rewriting the plan , which would have reduced the greenhouse gas emissions from the utility sector the biggest industry emitter in the U.S. by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The move essentially kneecaps U.S. participation Paris Agreement on climate change that 195 countries signed.