EPA Head Lee Zeldin's Moves So Far
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Ler on WNYC. And for those of you who have joined since the beginning of the show |
| 0:15.7 | 45 minutes ago, I'll say again that with so many things happening all at once in the new Trump |
| 0:21.2 | administration and the pushback to it, it's easy for things to fall through the cracks if they're |
| 0:26.0 | not the shiniest object at any given moment. |
| 0:29.0 | And so one thing we're doing is to continue a Health and Climate Tuesday series, a Health |
| 0:34.0 | and Climate Tuesday series. |
| 0:36.1 | Those stories like the RFK thing, was not one of the lead |
| 0:40.0 | headlines today through at least the first hundred days of the new administration. So now we'll |
| 0:45.7 | continue with our Tuesday Health and Climate Series by turning to the state of the Environmental |
| 0:50.5 | Protection Agency under President Trump. Earlier this month, on the 12th, to be exact, |
| 0:57.2 | Lee Zeldin, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that he had uncovered |
| 1:01.3 | evidence of a massive fraud perpetrated by the Biden administration. Here he is in a video |
| 1:07.9 | posted to his social media. The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash |
| 1:13.6 | to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over. |
| 1:19.6 | The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government |
| 1:24.6 | than what transpired these past four years. So, Zeldin, who some of you know is the |
| 1:30.7 | former member of Congress from Eastern Long Island, and he was the Republican nominee for governor |
| 1:36.6 | against Kathy Hokel last time out, Zeldon claims that Biden's EPA had, quote, parked roughly |
| 1:42.4 | $20 billion at a private bank, quote, rushing to get billions of |
| 1:47.4 | your tax dollars out the door before inauguration day. But the money's elder is trying to recover |
| 1:53.0 | was approved by Congress in 2022 for a program known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, |
| 2:00.6 | also known as the Green Bank Initiative. And it was a program known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, also known as the Green Bank Initiative, |
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