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Lee Zeldin: “The major policy doctrine also says that when you're going…”

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 01:43

The Supreme Court ruled in Loperbrite overturning the Chevron doctrine, West Virginia vs EPA, Michigan vs EPA that agencies like the EPA can't just use vague language in statute and try to make it be whatever we want it to be. The major policy doctrine also says that when you're going to reach something like an endangerment finding and then have trillions of dollars of regulation, that's something that should be decided by our elected members of Congress in passing statute. And if you don't mind the 2009 endangerment finding, while it's simply summed up now as saying carbon dioxide endangers public health and welfare, that's not what they did back in 2009. (01:43–01:58)

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Asserts that major policy decisions, like an endangerment finding leading to significant regulation, should be decided by Congress.

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