Lee Zeldin: “The Biden EPA was gone. The Trump EPA arrived.”

“What we don't want to do is be part of any type of a process to just close down all coal like hard stop. We came in and things changed. The Biden EPA was gone. The Trump EPA arrived. And instead of eliminating an entire sector of our energy economy, I mean, by the way, there are people who are in Congress right now. There are congressional Democrats, there are blue state governors.” (15:14–15:18)

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