#zeldin — Public Fediverse posts

"Democrats say #EPA head’s budget cut proposal ‘reads like climate change deniers’ manifesto’."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/30/epa-budget-cut-proposal

Dems "slamm[ed] agency leadership over a proposal to cut its budget in half…The…proposed $4.2bn EPA budget would sharply reduce support for state environmental programs and state-administered loans for water projects. It also would halt what it calls 'radical climate research' and cut resources for enforcement and compliance."

#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Zeldin

Perfectly normal... perfectly natural... 🙄
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-discusses-mass-pardons-aides-wsj-report-11813455
#trump #epstein #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinfiles #trumpcrimefamily #fbi #dhs #ice #noem #bondo #hegseth #rubio #lutnick #burgum #rollins #rfkjr #turner #duffy #wright #mcmahon #collins #mullin #wiles #gabbard #ratcliffe #zeldin #loeffler #greer #vought #dos #dot #ag #doi #doa #doc #hud #hhs #dot #doe #va #chiefofstaff #nationalintelligence #epa #sba #traderepresentative #ombd

Perfectly normal... perfectly natural... 🙄
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-discusses-mass-pardons-aides-wsj-report-11813455
#trump #epstein #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinfiles #trumpcrimefamily #fbi #dhs #ice #noem #bondo #hegseth #rubio #lutnick #burgum #rollins #rfkjr #turner #duffy #wright #mcmahon #collins #mullin #wiles #gabbard #ratcliffe #zeldin #loeffler #greer #vought #dos #dot #ag #doi #doa #doc #hud #hhs #dot #doe #va #chiefofstaff #nationalintelligence #epa #sba #traderepresentative #ombd

Trump’s EPA chief #Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/epa-chief-zeldin-climate-denying-group-event #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenialism #ChromeTheEarthGang

If you care about who breathes clean air and who doesn’t, read this carefully. This isn’t just deregulation. It’s about shifting the cost of industrial pollution onto our children and our frontline communities. #trump #zeldin #epa #corruption #climate open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

M&A Alert: Trump/Zeldin Comple...

A huge "NO THANKS" to #Trump, #Zeldin, and #EPA for trying to Earth end sooner.

#EPA's #Zeldin starts efforts to poison you, raise fuel costs and harm #US industry
#LeeZeldin called his actions, mostly press releases, declaring rollbacks of money-saving and pollution reducing measures, “the greatest day of #deregulation in US history.”
Biden-Harris administration’s policy improvements would save over $250B/yr and 200k lives, all while making US industry more prepared for the global green transition that is happening now whether you like it or not.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/12/epas-zeldin-starts-efforts-to-poison-you-raise-fuel-costs-and-harm-us-industry/

Oh, joy. Lee Zeldin the new EPA head:

"I've been told the Endangerment Finding is considered the Holy Grail of the Climate Change religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

To start with, how are the two sentences linked?

"I have been told that a wooden cup, that used to be in a gilded metal box along with the shin bone of St Benedict, found in a field in Berkshire, is the Holy Grail of the Christian religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

Also, the snivelly little arse-nugget knows full well that Climate Change is a real, scientific fact, that people can see, smell, touch and taste but for now he's rich, and he will be dead in 30 years, so he doesn't give a toss when he kills potentially millions of people.

This takes us back to the whole idea that political decision-makers in his position who are deliberately spreading and trading in lies they know will kill people, should be charged with 2nd-degree murder for their deliberate actions.

#EPA #Zeldin #Arsenugget
#Murder #ClimateChange #Lies #Misinformation #Propaganda #USPol #Politics #Sorry #Greta #Trump #HolyGrail #Weaponised #Religion #GPT #AI

Oh, joy. Lee Zeldin the new EPA head:

"I've been told the Endangerment Finding is considered the Holy Grail of the Climate Change religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

To start with, how are the two sentences linked?

"I have been told that a wooden cup, that used to be in a gilded metal box along with the shin bone of St Benedict, found in a field in Berkshire, is the Holy Grail of the Christian religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

Also, the snivelly little arse-nugget knows full well that Climate Change is a real, scientific fact, that people can see, smell, touch and taste but for now he's rich, and he will be dead in 30 years, so he doesn't give a toss when he kills potentially millions of people.

This takes us back to the whole idea that political decision-makers in his position who are deliberately spreading and trading in lies they know will kill people, should be charged with 2nd-degree murder for their deliberate actions.

#EPA #Zeldin #Arsenugget
#Murder #ClimateChange #Lies #Misinformation #Propaganda #USPol #Politics #Sorry #Greta #Trump #HolyGrail #Weaponised #Religion #GPT #AI

Oh, joy. Lee Zeldin the new EPA head:

"I've been told the Endangerment Finding is considered the Holy Grail of the Climate Change religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

To start with, how are the two sentences linked?

"I have been told that a wooden cup, that used to be in a gilded metal box along with the shin bone of St Benedict, found in a field in Berkshire, is the Holy Grail of the Christian religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

Also, the snivelly little arse-nugget knows full well that Climate Change is a real, scientific fact, that people can see, smell, touch and taste but for now he's rich, and he will be dead in 30 years, so he doesn't give a toss when he kills potentially millions of people.

This takes us back to the whole idea that political decision-makers in his position who are deliberately spreading and trading in lies they know will kill people, should be charged with 2nd-degree murder for their deliberate actions.

#EPA #Zeldin #Arsenugget
#Murder #ClimateChange #Lies #Misinformation #Propaganda #USPol #Politics #Sorry #Greta #Trump #HolyGrail #Weaponised #Religion #GPT #AI

Oh, joy. Lee Zeldin the new EPA head:

"I've been told the Endangerment Finding is considered the Holy Grail of the Climate Change religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

To start with, how are the two sentences linked?

"I have been told that a wooden cup, that used to be in a gilded metal box along with the shin bone of St Benedict, found in a field in Berkshire, is the Holy Grail of the Christian religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

Also, the snivelly little arse-nugget knows full well that Climate Change is a real, scientific fact, that people can see, smell, touch and taste but for now he's rich, and he will be dead in 30 years, so he doesn't give a toss when he kills potentially millions of people.

This takes us back to the whole idea that political decision-makers in his position who are deliberately spreading and trading in lies they know will kill people, should be charged with 2nd-degree murder for their deliberate actions.

#EPA #Zeldin #Arsenugget
#Murder #ClimateChange #Lies #Misinformation #Propaganda #USPol #Politics #Sorry #Greta #Trump #HolyGrail #Weaponised #Religion #GPT #AI

Oh, joy. Lee Zeldin the new EPA head:

"I've been told the Endangerment Finding is considered the Holy Grail of the Climate Change religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

To start with, how are the two sentences linked?

"I have been told that a wooden cup, that used to be in a gilded metal box along with the shin bone of St Benedict, found in a field in Berkshire, is the Holy Grail of the Christian religion. For me, the US Constitution, and the laws of this nation will be strictly interpreted and followed. No exceptions".

Also, the snivelly little arse-nugget knows full well that Climate Change is a real, scientific fact, that people can see, smell, touch and taste but for now he's rich, and he will be dead in 30 years, so he doesn't give a toss when he kills potentially millions of people.

This takes us back to the whole idea that political decision-makers in his position who are deliberately spreading and trading in lies they know will kill people, should be charged with 2nd-degree murder for their deliberate actions.

#EPA #Zeldin #Arsenugget
#Murder #ClimateChange #Lies #Misinformation #Propaganda #USPol #Politics #Sorry #Greta #Trump #HolyGrail #Weaponised #Religion #GPT #AI

Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants

A federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars
told government lawyers they had to produce
“some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions.

Climate United, which coordinates investment in clean energy projects,
sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by #Lee #Zeldin,
the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Judge #Tanya #Chutkan asked lawyers for the EPA:
“Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal,
or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery
– that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr Zeldin doesn’t like it?”

#Marc #Sacks, a government lawyer, said:
“The determination is based on the information contained in the termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“That’s pretty circular,”
then asked if Climate United had violated federal regulations.

Sacks said:
“I think the agency cited both of those regulations within their termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“I can cite cases all day long, but you have to have some kind of evidence or proffer to back it up.”
She also said:
“You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is.”

There is plentiful evidence that Zeldin is implementing an assault on attempts to tackle the climate crisis.
The EPA issued a slew of rollbacks of rules to combat pollution on Wednesday.

Zeldin said he was “driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.
Climate groups reacted with horror.
#Jason #Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told the Guardian:
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.
This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”

Climate United is not the only group to have sued over access to grants.
In New York, the Coalition for Green Capital has sued over the cancellation of a $5bn grant,
an act it called “patently and plainly unlawful on its face”
and “arbitrary and pretextual”.
In Washington, lawyers for Climate United argued that the EPA had not followed the law,
meaning Chutkan could rule on the matter.
Lawyers for the government said it was a contract dispute, so she could not.
Chutkan said:
“The government didn’t decide who it wanted to contract with.
A new administration came in, didn’t like the contract any more.
That’s what new administrations do.
But there are procedures that have to be followed.
And it doesn’t appear, at least on the record before me, that those procedures have been followed.”

The hearing ended without Chutkan issuing a ruling or temporary restraining order,
but asking both sides to make
👉new filings by Monday evening:
Climate United to amend its lawsuit
and the government to provide information about alleged wrongdoing.
“I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required,” Chutkan said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/epa-grants-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Serving in an advisory role in a related founding organization, Stacey #Abrams is not directly a part of Power Forward Communities, the group that received the grant through the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Clean Investment fund, which awarded grant money for “greenhouse gas-and air pollution-reducing projects" across the U.S.” as part of the $27 billion allotted by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

/2 of 4 🧵

#USA #USPol #EPA #trump #zeldin #DOGE #EPA

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/2-billion-grant-stacey-abrams/

The weird mention #Trump made of Stacey #Abrams last night in his speech to Congress has to do with billions of wasted $ the Environmental Protection Agency (through its Trump-appointed leader, Lee #Zeldin ) claims to have recently found. The current EPA has dedicated much government website space to discussing this supposed fraud from Biden’s EPA.

Now Trump’s #EPA is trying to rescind grant contracts it doesn’t like & claw back the money.

/1 of 4 🧵🤿

#USPol #USGov

https://apnews.com/article/green-bank-epa-zeldin-climate-clean-energy-191b394cda251ef772867369f61f07b7

Lee Zeldin is an ambitious man.

The former congressman, who left office in 2022 to get routed by Kathy Hochul in the New York governor’s race, has only been head of the the Environmental Protection Agency for three weeks.
But he’s already looking to make a name for himself.

Luckily his former House colleague #Kristi #Noem,
currently the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has provided a template.

After a grossly misinformed tweet by #Elon #Musk accusing New York of misappropriating disaster relief funds to house illegal migrants in luxury hotels, Noem snatched $80 million from the city of New York’s bank account.

The money had been congressionally allocated and was being used exactly as intended.

But Noem took a victory lap, blustering on X,
“Mark my words: there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people.”

And #Lee #Zeldin said, CAN DO!

The babyfaced politician warned of “an extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ rushing to get billions of your dollars out the door before Inauguration Day.”

“The gold bars were your tax dollars!” he intoned indignantly, adding that “tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”

This leap of logic is sadly the least ridiculous part of this episode.

Because the “disturbing video” was made by #Project #Veritas, the rightwing smear factory that specializes in deceptively edited videos of Democrats.

In this case, the outfit appears to have secretly filmed a former EPA advisor in a bar talking about the rush to disburse clean energy funds before Trump took over and gutted the place.

The advisor’s fears were well-founded: Just hours after his inauguration,
👉Trump demanded that the government halt distribution of congressionally-allocated funds,
purporting to unilaterally cancel the grants and contracts that he didn’t like.
And he continues to do it despite multiple court orders instructing him to knock it off.

Zeldin was unbothered by the video’s sordid provenance.

He gleefully seized on the “gold bars” turn of phrase to raise his own profile,
while attempting to ingratiate himself with #Musk by crediting the #DOGE bros with the discovery.

In interviews with conservative outlets like #Newsmax and the Washington Free Beacon, he hyped the story, even concocting a stringboard theory to connect it to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams.

“ICYMI: Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds Gold Bars from EPA at Stacey Abrams’ Connected Group, Biden-Harris Ethical Red Flags,” an EPA press release trumpeted,
attaching Zeldin’s press clippings like a campaign webpage.

Unsurprisingly, Zeldin was also repeatedly given free rein to lie to his heart’s content on #Fox.

On Maria Bartiromo’s show, he went as far as to allege that the lawful distribution of congressionally appropriated funds is tantamount to a “criminal scheme.”

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/lee-zeldin-stacey-abrams-gold-bars?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

@aaron.rupar

#LeeZeldin

Wasn't he the #Trumper who found the #GoldBars that #Biden threw off the bow of the #Titanic?

Bet #Musk and #Trump paid #Zeldin a bonus for this month

"Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA], struggled to answer simple questions about science during his confirmation hearing Thursday.

Whitehouse asked if it was correct that the trapped heat is “heating up the oceans.”

“That is what the scientists tell me, Senator,” #Zeldin remarked. Always a good sign when someone is bothering to differentiate between what scientists tell you and what is “correct.”"

https://newrepublic.com/post/190315/trump-epa-lee-zeldin-science-quiz-confirmation-hearing

Near the top of Trump’s agenda next year is extending his 2017 tax cuts.

He will most likely need to reduce spending elsewhere to do that.

Clean energy tax credits
— worth about $350 billion over just the next three years, according to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation
— would be a tempting target.

The more those subsidies are pared, the more projects would no longer make financial sense.

Since the election, renewable energy backers have drawn some hope from the knowledge that funding leveraged by the 2022 law has disproportionately flowed toward Republican states,
potentially shielding it from cuts.

Energy demand has also started rising for the first time in a generation with the growth of electric vehicles, heat pumps, new factories and artificial intelligence, bolstering the case for an expansive approach to energy sources.

And solar energy, in particular, is now one of the cheapest forms of power available.

“Renewable energy has a certain bipartisan support,” said Nils Rode,
the chief investment officer of Schroders Capital,
a Swiss firm that manages $97 billion, including wind farms in the United States.

“Even though there might be risks, we don’t believe it will lead to major changes.”

Subsidies aren’t the only policy with the potential to affect the flow of money, however.

Mr. Trump and his team have made it clear they wish to ease the path of fossil fuel projects in ways that could make them more attractive to investors

His candidate for interior secretary, Doug #Burgum,
has promised to open up more federal lands to oil and gas drilling.

Chris #Wright, the fracking company chief executive whom Mr. Trump picked to lead the Energy Department, could redirect the agency’s vast research agenda and loan programs away from low-carbon electricity.

At the Environmental Protection Agency, the president-elect intends to nominate Lee #Zeldin, who has discussed rolling back rules on power plant emissions, which would weaken incentives for utilities to shift to cleaner sources of electricity.

All of those actions would increase the return on fossil fuel investments relative to renewable ones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/business/energy-environment/trump-clean-energy-finance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump's choice for the new head of the #EPA confirms a deregulatory shift at the federal level.

“Zeldin has very little environmental experience, but that also seems to be the reason he was chosen," Baykeeper executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh told KQED. "It looks like he’s going to be very pro-fossil fuels, pro-pollution and just trying to get rid of the regulations that protect human health across the country."
https://www.kqed.org/science/1995140/bay-area-environmentalists-criticize-trumps-pick-lead-epa #leezeldin #zeldin #trumpepa #environment

#Trump nimitti ympäristönsuojeluviraston johtoon republikaanien entisen edustajainhuoneen jäsenen Lee Zeldinin.

#Zeldin kertoo tavoitteenaan olevan "palauttaa Yhdysvaltain valta-asema energiamarkkinoilla, elvyttää autoteollisuutta ja tehdä maasta globaali johtaja tekoälyn saralla."

Todella ympäristöä suojelevaa - öljyä, bensalekkereitä ja tuhottomasti energiaa kuluttavaa tekoälyä.

#USpol #ympäristö #ympäristönsuojelu #USA #Yhdysvallat #LeeZeldin #politiikka

https://yle.fi/a/74-20123894

#USA #House
Risultati del primo scrutinio:

Presenti: 432

Hakeem #Jeffries (#D|Centro-sinistra): 212 voti
Jim #Jordan (#R|ECR): 200
Steve #Scalise (R): 7
Kevin #McCarthy (R): 6
Lee #Zeldin (R): 3
Mike #Garcia (R): 1
Tom #Emmer (R): 1
Thomas #Massie (R): 1
Tom #Cole (R): 1

Quorum: 217

❌Necessaria una seconda votazione❌

@OsservatorioEsteri

@mtsw
#FollowTheMoney
Serial liar #Santos in 2022 and Lee #Zeldin in 2020 had the same campaign treasurer: #Nancy #Cartiglia #Marks ....

Check out the fishy string of fake name $199.99 contributions, just under the reporting limit, to the Zeldin campaign.

@mjk_4mjk :
"the focus should be on the Devolder Santos campaign treasurer, Nancy Cartiglia Marks. Looking thru Lee Zeldin's 2019-2020 campaign filings last night"

Ronald Lauder, (#MoMa #museum) using his wealth to finance #GOP election denier #Zeldin against #Hochul in #NY
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/nyregion/ronald-lauder-zeldin-governor.html