by Jeff Childers
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Trump Chooses Lee Zeldin to Run E.P.A. as He Plans to Gut Climate Rules.” The sub-headline added, “The former congressman from New York is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and voted against certifying the 2020 election.” The Times is mostly terrified Zeldin will crush Biden’s mandates for electric cars, which are fun to drive but are mostly useless after hurricanes when the power is out.
Trump is learning. First, in a savvy political statement, President Trump said Zeldin would “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.”
Second, Zeldin —a former Army reserve officer— lacks any degree in environmental sciences. But he’s loyal. And, during his time in Congress, Zeldin earned a lifetime achievement score of 14% from the League of Conservation Voters, a puny score that might seem like it scraped the bottom of the climate barrel, but it was actually higher than most other conservative Republicans.
Zeldin scraped up his 14% mostly by voting to require the EPA to limit PFAS (plastics that constantly leach chemicals into drinking water) and by voting against offshore drilling (although he favors fracking).
New Yorkers will surely recall that, in 2022, Zeldin was the Republicans’ nominee for New York governor, barely losing to mandate-loving incumbent Kathy Hochul in the closest gubernatorial race in the state since before the Millennium.
On an aside, I was astonished that the lying New York Times, trying to slyly undermine Zeldin, finally admitted that Biden’s dumb Inflation Act was actually a climate change new deal dressed up as a terrible economic plan:
Not only are the Times’ reporters compulsive liars, they aren’t even very good ones. They only told the truth about Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to make Zeldin look goofy on the climate.
On to the next great pick.
Just like all the lies about Trump that people ignored so that he was easily re-elected, so, too, lies about “climate” issues are being exposed almost daily.
Like this one from UK:
I can remember the reaction from the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Eco-Freaks when Reagan chose James Watt to run the Dept of the Interior and now Trumps selection to run the EPA you can just imagine all the sounds from the Greens over this SEND US LOTS OF $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
This war agains carbon, either human or Carbon Dioxide is nonsense. The planet creates C02 of all of the C02 produced humans produce about 3%, of that we produce about 3% to 4% let’s say 4% so that is .0012% of THE TOTAL CO2 produced. That is NOTHING, the plants demand MORE.
You don’t need a degree to make up all the bs the libs have over the years.