Host Elizabeth MacDonald: Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano. Marc, we love having you on. What is your take on this fight? It was a good one.
Marc Morano:
I have the answer for you, Liz. I know why they were going after this Trump cabinet pick, Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA. They attacked him for one simple reason: Zeldin is the most consequential and the greatest EPA Chief in the history of EPA — since Richard Nixon created the agency. Zeldin is the most effective, and when these senators have a chance to go after Zeldin — and they went after him, you won’t see them go after any other cabinet member with this kind of visceral hatred.
Why? Because Zeldin has been unbelievable. Zelden has rolled back not only the 800 EPA grants, but he’s also done over 100 environmental actions. He’s dismantling the environmental justice agenda, he dismantled the EPA museum, he’s dismantling the EV mandate, and he’s dismantling the solar and wind mandates. He’s gone after the EPA, fraud, the gold bars of money, Stacey Abrams, and John Podesta; he has gone top to bottom of that agency with an eye on the permanent changes, unlike Trump 1.0, which was Ying Yang Obama Trump Biden. Now we’re looking at removing the CO2 endangerment finding, which is the holy Grail of the climate movement, and they’re going after the UN climate treaty process.
So they’re going after Lee Zeldin, with visceral hatred that you will not see with any other cabinet member, because he’s the most effective of all the Trump cabinet.
You can see why Zeldin is getting this flak from the Senators. He is dismantling their agenda, they are running scared, and you won’t see senators act like that
Host Elizabeth MacDonald: And Marc Morano, you never run scared. That’s why we love having you on, you’re so good, Marc.