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Lee Zeldin: “The Biden administration did do a whole bunch of regulations…”

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

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FULL INTERVIEW: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Defends Move To Repeal Major Greenhouse Gas Regulation

Published | Video Starts at 10:13

… and trillions of dollars of regulation to strangulate out of existence entire sectors of our energy economy. You were posting earlier a whole bunch of photos of stationary sources. Well, The Biden administration did do a whole bunch of regulations to try to make, for example, the coal industry get regulated out of existence. There are people out there who like wind. I come from a state where the governor says that New York is a substitute for baseload power. It's not. (10:13–10:22)

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Asserts that the Biden administration implemented regulations aimed at phasing out the coal industry.

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