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Lee Zeldin: “The Biden EPA treated [environmental protection and economic…”

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

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Governor Morrisey offers update following roundtable discussion with EPA Administrator Zeldin.

Published | Video Starts at 05:59

Are those mutually exclusive things or can you do both? Thank you. Well, our predecessor, The Biden EPA treated [environmental protection and economic growth] as a binary choice. You could protect, protect the environment or grow the economy. So in order to protect the environment, you'd have to strangulate the energy economy in West Virginia. (05:59–06:06)

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Asserts that the Biden EPA viewed environmental protection and economic growth as mutually exclusive.

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