Posted on 07/08/2025 4:48:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Zeldin says EPA's priorities include its mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
On Tuesday, Scripps News spoke with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin about speeding up environmental permitting, investments in American businesses and the EPA's mandate to reduce waste, fraud and abuse.
"I said that if confirmed, I would make it a high priority to ensure that we were getting to the bottom of where tens of billions of dollars were going before we got there," Zeldin said, referencing evidence that the EPA under President Joe Biden was improperly distributing funds.
"And now the Biden EPA — they were recorded talking about how they were 'tossing gold bars off the Titanic.' I was asked to find what they were talking about, to try to recover those tax dollars."
Zeldin says he thinks the American public wants the EPA to balance environmental and economic concerns at the agency.
"We want to fulfill all of our statutory obligations at the same time, on the policy front, trillions of dollars of regulations have gone out in a way that in many cases, we're purposefully targeting aspects of the economy to strangulate them out of existence. And that's not what the American public voted for last November. They want us to be cognizant of their economic pain. They want us to apply common sense. They want us to both protect the environment and grow the economy..."
Scripps News asked about reducing environmental permitting times for businesses, an important focus for the nation's top environmental regulator so far this year and one that will heavily impact the energy sector.
"At EPA, we are going to be an agency that is a member of the National Energy Dominance Council with a lot of equities in the approval process,...
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To engineers efficiency is everything.
Nice to see bureaucrats catching on. But the further you get from accountability the higher the entropy.
Let the owl and the snail darter fend for themselves. And we need more wolves why??
“But we NEED those EPA tote bags and coffee cups! They not only look good, they make us look more professional!”
"'Be efficient:' EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin lays out the agency's goals for the American public"
I know that PDJT47 is trying to do is best with the constitutionally undefined federal agencies that he inherited. And the EPA is an example of such an agency imo.
But here again is the post-17th Amendment ratification (popular voting for federal senators), politically correct version of the Constitution's vestment of legislative powers that misguided voters have unthinkingly trusted corrupt Congress with, career lawmakers actually looking the other way while these agencies run by non-popularly elected bureaucrats steal and exercise state powers.
"Article I, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives [and non-popularly-elected bureaucrats running Federal Reserve, IRS, EPA, BLM, NIH, CDC, FWS, DHS, DOL, USDA, FCC, FTA, FTC, DOE, ATF, DE, etc.]."
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Go Coolidge and just back the f**k off.
Zeldin should be bold and say: “This agency has gone WAY beyond its initial charter to control noxious, primary pollutants and to protect our air and water. Our work doing that is completed and the EPA has shifted to a maintenance mode to ensure those gains are not lost and our air and water stay clean. CO2 is a colorless, odorless, inert gas that is not a pollutant and we will end all programs to regulate it. We will terminate anything beyond our new maintenance remit.”
This American wants to see the EPA gutted like a fish.
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