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Natural Resources and Environment

Water projects, conservation, parks and public lands, pollution control and weather forecasting.

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$88.3B
spent in fiscal year 2025 (net)
1.3 cents
of every federal dollar, the 9th largest purpose
$258
for every person in the country
+159.8%
since fiscal year 2015, before inflation

In 2015 it was $34.0B, or $46.2B in 2025 dollars; after inflation it has changed by +91.3% since then.

Over time

Net outlays for Natural Resources and Environment in each fiscal year, from the Treasury’s September statements.

$0$25B$50B$75B$100BFY15 · Net outlays: $33,987,672,776FY15FY16 · Net outlays: $37,792,268,568FY16FY17 · Net outlays: $36,067,540,649FY17FY18 · Net outlays: $37,329,501,342FY18FY19 · Net outlays: $35,872,830,042FY19FY20 · Net outlays: $40,690,620,068FY20FY21 · Net outlays: $42,073,470,155FY21FY22 · Net outlays: $39,631,194,670FY22FY23 · Net outlays: $45,889,922,815FY23FY24 · Net outlays: $56,891,590,716FY24FY25 · Net outlays: $88,312,257,166FY25
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The figures
Fiscal yearNet outlaysIn 2025 dollarsShare of all spending
2025$88,312,257,166$88.3B1.3%
2024$56,891,590,716$58.4B0.8%
2023$45,889,922,815$48.5B0.7%
2022$39,631,194,670$43.6B0.6%
2021$42,073,470,155$50.0B0.6%
2020$40,690,620,068$50.6B0.6%
2019$35,872,830,042$45.2B0.8%
2018$37,329,501,342$47.9B0.9%
2017$36,067,540,649$47.4B0.9%
2016$37,792,268,568$50.7B1.0%
2015$33,987,672,776$46.2B0.9%

What is inside it

Its subfunctions, by the gross outlays of every agency account classified to each: before collections and transfers are netted, so they add to more than the Treasury’s figure above.

  • Water resources$41,078,615,955
  • Pollution control and abatement$38,855,389,860
  • Conservation and land management$28,055,058,144
  • Other natural resources$15,370,276,975
  • Recreational resources$7,098,150,765
  • Gross outlays$130,457,491,699
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Which agencies pay for each subfunction

Which agencies pay for it

Gross outlays from each agency’s accounts in this function. Open an agency to see everything else it spends on.

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The accounts it is paid from

Every federal account in the function, by the amount obligated (committed) in the year, which is what USAspending’s spending explorer reports by function; each account’s gross outlays are beside it where its agency reported them. Each opens on USAspending.gov.

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Net outlays are the Monthly Treasury Statement’s, table 9. The subfunctions and agencies are the gross outlays agencies reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal year 2025; the accounts are its spending explorer’s obligations. In 2025 dollars restates each year with the CPI-U annual average of the calendar year the fiscal year ends in.