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Lee Zeldin: “If Congress wants the EPA to be regulating the heck out of…”

Featuring: Lee Zeldin, Republican | Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency | National

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Extended interview: EPA head Lee Zeldin on agency cuts, repealing endangerment finding

Published | Video Starts at 13:52

… statute, and then use that to create trillions of dollars of regulation and to get rid of entire sectors of the economy and put an EV mandate. Here's my message. If Congress wants the EPA to be regulating the heck out of carbon dioxide, well, they could put it inside of law. But even the endangerment finding itself in 2009 never individually studied carbon dioxide as an endangerment to public health and welfare. (13:52–14:01)

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Asserts that Congress has the power to legislate EPA regulation of carbon dioxide.

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