EPA head Lee Zeldin called climate change a threat before the Senate. Now he's turned the cold shoulder to it
EPA head Lee Zeldin called climate change a threat before the Senate. Now he's turned the cold shoulder to it
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The former Republican New York congressman had told senators the nation must address climate change issues ‘with urgency’. Zeldin questioned the legitimacy of current climate science, saying timelines of the world purportedly ending have “come and gone.” Should rates of global warming tied to fossil fuel industry emissions continue to rise, scientists have warned about major and devastating outcomes.
![[In a new interview, Zeldin blasted Biden administration policies, and said he didn’t want left-wing bias to be ‘inserted into science’ related to the auto industry]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/02/04/19/28/GettyImages-2194254243.jpeg)
“There has been talk through the years about how the world was imminently about to end because of climate change, and in the name of that threat there was a push to do some crazy things,” he said, accusing Democrats of wasting tax dollars related to climate change “in a way that was inexcusable, unjustifiable and illegitimate.”. He said, again, that when President Donald Trump would call climate change a “scam” or “hoax” he was concerned from an economic standpoint.
“What he expressed as a concern was, in the name of climate change, that politicians in Washington, D.C., were willing to bankrupt our economy and that people who were struggling to make ends meet would lose the ability to heat their homes, and that Americans who want to be able to go out and purchase a gas-powered vehicle would have that option denied to them by the government,” Zeldin remarked.
One of the EPA’s new goals is to “restore American energy dominance” in ways that Zeldin claims will be “best for the environment.”. The second prong is restoring what the EPA calls "energy dominance," which Zeldin says will cut heating costs for Americans. "This will also allow our nation to stop relying on energy sources from adversaries, while lowering costs for hardworking middle-income families, farmers, and small business owners," he said.
“It will be important for the EPA to work with our partners at the state and federal levels to ensure projects are being approved and companies can invest billions of dollars into our nation,” he said. “Couple things — one is there is a big research mission in Ann Arbor that is part of EPA. It is important that the science, data, research, coming from that important work doesn’t yield results that are skewed by ideology and being a zealot. We don’t want any left-wing bias to be inserted into science and research,” he said.
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