Trump Is Unraveling a Hard-Won Rule to Reduce Toxic Pollution From Chemical Plants – Mother Jones

“Everything that the Biden administration did to help protect us was pretty much just thrown in the garbage,” Tish Taylor said in July, and replaced by “a death sentence.” St. John the Baptist Parish, where her family lives, has the country’s highest risk of cancer from air pollution—nearly 50 times the national average. A disproportionate percentage of those exposed to the highest levels of pollution in the region are Black…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-zeldin-epa-rollback-rules-toxic-chemical-plant-pollution-emissions-cancer-alley/

WATCH: Trump, Zeldin announce looser rule on refrigerant greenhouse gases | PBS News

The move to relax the Biden-era rules on harmful pollutants known as HFCs emitted by refrigerators and other appliances was the latest attempt by the Trump administration to try to address rising voter concerns over the cost of living ahead of pivotal elections in November...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-zeldin-expected-to-announce-looser-rule-on-refrigerant-greenhouse-gases

Zeldin, Flustered by Elementary Math, Dodges Senator Whitehouse's Questions

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKh53Po8OXc

He Did Not Expect THIS!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NjgMR-IsOGQ

 

Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event

Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/epa-chief-zeldin-climate-denying-group-event

 

I don’t think it’s a big ask that the EPA Administrator take congressional oversight seriously

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5zBzS69u0pk

EPA’s Lee Zeldin offers an absurd defense of carbon dioxide on Fox Business

Zeldin went on to falsely suggest there's no scientific evidence showing carbon dioxide emissions contribute to negative public health outcomes — another demonstrable falsehood, one that is even contradicted by the department he now leads...

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/lee-zeldin-epa-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gas-climate-change-rcna225024

“I’m insisting on the facts.” Senator Whitehouse Catches EPA Administrator in a lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLXA3EN-6Y

 

SHOCK MOMENT: Zeldin Zings Schiff: 'I Understand That You Were An Aspiring fiction writer — I see why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG7HXheftqE

MUST-SEE: Star Democrat makes a FOOL out of Trump official at hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzVV3DiURr0

 

'Your Job Is To Follow The Law': Patty Murray Grills EPA Head Zeldin On freezing appropriated funds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMtB4BJJ9Hc

 

California Democrats invite EPA head to witness cross-border sewage crisis firsthand

"As you know, decades of underinvestment in cross-border wastewater infrastructure have led to the flow of untreated sewage into San Diego," the letter stated. "EPA served as an important advocate for this issue in the last Trump Administration and we hope the agency will continue to do so once again."…

https://thehill.com/homenews/5205415-california-dems-urge-epa/

 

EPA's Zeldin terminates $20B in Biden climate grants - POLITICO

"The only way we can reduce waste, increase oversight and meet the intent of the law as it was written is by terminating these grants."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/zeldin-terminates-greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund-grants-00225481

WATCH: Sen. Whitehouse questions Zeldin about Trump pressure to cut EPA workforce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoT0ycXnDoY

WATCH: Sen. Whitehouse questions Zeldin about climate change in confirmation hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKchNS7J0xM

WATCH: Sen. Sanders asks Zeldin whether he considers climate change an urgent threat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BqRD_jmWE

WATCH: Sen. Schiff questions Zeldin about lead contamination in confirmation hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMvXjSVYJ0

Trump names Lee Zeldin to EPA administrator role

Zeldin would be expected to look to roll back regulations on the environment as part of the Trump administration, something the president signaled in his statement...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4984481-trump-lee-zeldin-epa/

Trump picks former congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA - The Washington Post

But the League of Conservation Voters gave him a 14 percent lifetime score for his votes against numerous environmental bills. While he voted in 2020 to support greater regulation of "forever chemicals," also known as PFAS or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, he voted against closing a loophole in the Clean Water Act that allows companies to discharge unlimited amounts of PFAS into waterways. 

"A 14 percent lifetime score is not what you want from someone who could potentially be charged with protecting the air we breathe, protecting the water we drink and fighting the climate crisis," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president for government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/11/trump-epa-lee-zeldin/

Trump demands Republican surrogates call other people racist: Surrogates obey

Trump's openly racist attacks against the federal judge hearing the case against his alleged "University" continue to demonstrate just how debased the rest of the Republican Party has become. On Monday we learned that Donald Trump held a conference call with his surrogates in which he demanded those surrogates attack questioners of his racist remarks, telling them that the people questioning him "are the racists. I would go at 'em."

 And so today we are treated to the sight of his Republican supporters washing up on our television screens like so many dead crabs.....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1535627