Welcome back to Podforce One. I'm your host, Miranda Devine, and today I'm with the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldon. He's on a mission to, in his words, write the wrongs of the previous administration.

Lee Zeldon, thank you so much for speaking with us. It's great to be with you.

You've been incredibly busy.

You've hit the ground running and I think of you as one of the great warriors of the

Trump administration.

How's it been?

It's been great.

The Trump mandate is big here at EPA because the American public when they spoke last November, they were speaking about a lot

of economic pain they were having.

And they want an agency like the EPA to be cognizant of that economic pain, to do something

about it, to apply common sense.

And we inherited an agency that was choosing to suffocate the economy and regulate all sorts of industries out of existence.

We have chosen to both protect the environment and grow the economy.

We do not have to choose between the two and the American public demands it.

So being able to come in on the policy side to be able to deliver

on so much of the Trump mandate is an exciting opportunity to deliver for the American people.

On the operational side, we came into an agency that in 2024, on Mondays and Fridays

only averaged about 5 to 8% attendance inside of this

headquarters building.

Which is a beautiful, huge building.

It's five buildings across two square city blocks.

We are condensing our real estate footprint now to save taxpayer dollars and more, like eliminating

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