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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Moves to clear massive Biden-era agency backlog to improve air quality faster
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Approved, Breitbart, National

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Moves to clear massive Biden-era agency backlog to improve air quality faster

By Sean Moran | Breitbart EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced he would move to clear the hundreds of backlogged cases to clean air, saying the Biden administration focused on “ideological pursuits” rather than the agency’s “core mission.” The agency said it would commit to working with states and tribes to resolve the hundreds of backlogged State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and Tribal Implementation Plans (TIPs) the Biden-Harris administration could not or would not resolve. At the end of the Biden administration, there were 685 unresolved SIPs with 322 considered overdue. “The Biden Administration’s focus on ideological pursuits instead of the agency’s core mission and statutory duties resulted in a delay of air quality improvement,” the EPA administrator wrote in...
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Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump
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Approved, National, The Western Journal

Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump

By Ben Zeisloft | The Western Journal EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that staffers for former President Joe Biden established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Donald Trump took office. Zeldin said in a video posted to X that an “extremely disturbing video” circulated two months ago showing a Biden appointee in the EPA admitting that the team was “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.” According to Zeldin, the “gold bars” were tax dollars moved out of the EPA as the Biden administration drew to a close. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WESTERN JOURNAL
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Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency
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Approved, Commentary, The Daily Signal

Bluey: Lee Zeldin hits the ground running at Environmental Protection Agency

By Rob Bluey | Commentary, Daily Signal Two years after a train derailment exposed residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to hazardous chemicals, the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is making the village his first official visit Monday. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman from Long Island, won his Senate confirmation vote Wednesday afternoon, spent Thursday and Friday meeting with agency employees, and now heads with Vice President JD Vance to the Ohio community still reeling from the catastrophic train crash on Feb. 3, 2023. Zeldin invited The Daily Signal and a half-dozen other reporters to the EPA’s headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue last week to preview his plans for the agency. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor’s note: Opinions e...
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EPA nominee Zeldin quizzed on ‘climate change,’ Trump’s stance on carbon emissions
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Approved, Fox News, National

EPA nominee Zeldin quizzed on ‘climate change,’ Trump’s stance on carbon emissions

By Charles Creitz | Fox News Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin sat for his confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, and was grilled by Democrats on his views of climate change. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member, questioned Zeldin on the effects of carbon dioxide and pollutants on the atmosphere. "Is carbon dioxide a pollutant?" the Rhode Island Democrat asked. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA — adding second NYer to cabinet
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Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA — adding second NYer to cabinet

By Steven Nelson | New York Post President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Rep. Lee Zeldin to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, The Post can exclusively report. Zeldin, 44, served four terms as a Republican congressman repping Long Island before losing the 2022 New York governor’s race to Kathy Hochul by a surprisingly close margin. “I am deeply honored to have been asked by President Trump to serve in his Cabinet. As EPA Administrator, we will restore American energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, make the United States the global leader of Artificial Intelligence advancement, and slash the red tape holding back American workers from upward economic mobility,” Zeldin said in a statement to The Post. READ...
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