EPA Chief Lee Zeldin: ‘Today marks the death of the Green New Scam’

Understand that the global climate change hoax was jinned up by the UNncrowd to provide a global raison D'etre for implimenting a global regulatory system, then have no other rational.  when it just kept been propped up in the face of any known science, I chose to lauch this blog to introduce the opposition.

This was always a crock and ultimately meant weaponizing the weather. And warmer is no bad thing, until we have a volcanic blast in the wrong place.

The good news is that any such event is ultimately localized and our global tranport system is up to moving supplies fast.

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin: ‘Today marks the death of the Green New Scam’ – ‘We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion’ – ‘Overhauling massive rules on the (CO2) endangerment finding’

By Marc Morano

March 12, 2025

2:17 pm

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lee-zeldin-epa-ends-the-green-new-deal-aa81de06Image

We’re keeping people and the environment safe while overhauling rules that stifled our full potential.

By Lee Zeldin

Excerpt:

Today is the most consequential day of deregulation in American history. Alongside President Trump, we announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will take 31 actions to advance the president’s day-one executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.

By overhauling massive rules on the endangerment finding, the social cost of carbon and similar issues, we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age. These actions will roll back trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden taxes. As a result, the cost of living for American families will decrease, and essentials such as buying a car, heating your home and operating a business will become more affordable. Our actions will also reignite American manufacturing, spreading economic benefits to communities.

The EPA will continue to protect human health and the environment while unleashing America’s full potential. That means reconsidering the regulations that have restricted every sector of the economy, such as the illegal Clean Power Plan 2.0, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and Particulate Matter 2.5 levels. Under President Trump guidance, the EPA also has ended the electric-vehicle mandate that threatened to destroy America’s auto industry and made cars cost more. Instead of forcing Americans to buy expensive vehicles they neither want nor can keep powered up, we are restoring choice to consumers and bringing automaking jobs back home in line with our Great American Comeback initiative. This commitment to our manufacturing base contrasts with Biden administration policies that shipped jobs overseas.

Energy dominance stands at the center of America’s resurgence. By reconsidering rules that throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants, we are ensuring that American energy remains clean, affordable, and reliable. This isn’t about abandoning environmental protection—it’s about achieving it through innovation and not strangulation.

The EPA’s commitment to permit reform cannot be overstated. By cutting through red tape and resolving the backlog of state and tribal implementation plans, we are creating an environment where businesses can thrive and infrastructure can be built. This is how America will become the artificial-intelligence capital of the world—by removing barriers to ingenuity and investment and advancing cooperative federalism.

Our work to end Good Neighbor Plan emission requirements and work in partnership with the 19 states whose air-quality plans were rejected by the previous administration recognizes that states and communities know best how to address their environmental challenges.

Today marks the death of the Green New Scam. The EPA recognizes that environmental protection and economic prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive goals. Under President Trump’s leadership, we are recommitting to the core American values of innovation, growth, exceptionalism and opportunity.

Critics may claim that these changes signal a retreat from environmental protection. Nothing could be further from the truth. Under the Trump administration, the EPA’s core mission remains safeguarding human health and the environment. The difference lies in how we achieve these goals—through partnership rather than prescriptive bureaucracy, through collaboration rather than regulation.