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Lee Zeldin: “We ended up seeing trillions of dollars worth of regulations…”

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

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Extended interview: EPA head Lee Zeldin on agency cuts, repealing endangerment finding

Published | Video Starts at 10:59

… last administration with regards to the amount of regulations that followed the 2009 endangerment finding, which was a finding specifically related to mobile sources. But to follow it ended up We ended up seeing trillions of dollars worth of regulations on mobile sources, on stationary sources and, and then that led to the electric vehicle mandate and more. And that's the trajectory that we've been on where regulations in some respects were seeking to strangulate out of existence entire sectors of our economy and specifically our energy economy. (10:59–11:11)

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Asserts that regulations following the 2009 endangerment finding led to trillions of dollars in regulations and an electric vehicle mandate.

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