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Lee Zeldin: “Section 202 of the Clean Air act doesn't allow all of these…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:01

And the Supreme Court in recent cases have been very clear. So what I was just describing, with all the mental leaps used in the 2009 endangerment finding, Section 202 of the Clean Air act doesn't allow all of these different mental leaps, as the Supreme Court made clear in recent years. So I'm not going to get creative with the law. We're going to read the plain language. And if section 202 of the Clean Air act gets amended by Congress, then we'll follow that new law. (03:01–03:10)

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Asserts that Section 202 of the Clean Air Act does not permit broad interpretations, as clarified by the Supreme Court.

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