Lee Zeldin
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Signal Snafu & Soda Wars | 3.26.25
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Signal Snafu & Soda Wars | 3.26.25
The death of the Green New Scam is upon us. The people across this country who have seen a Green New Deal that if fully implemented would cost tens of trillions of dollars, and people who cannot afford to be able to heat their home, to purchase a car, small businesses that are struggling to operate, people have been put out of work, and it's gonna end.
Morning Wire
Signal Snafu & Soda Wars | 3.26.25
The EPA has now canceled over $22 billion worth of contracts. $2 billion going to this NGO that Stacey Abrams was tied to. They received only $100 in 2023. And then the Biden administration gave them $2 billion. The director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, saw his former employer get $5 billion. So $20 billion went to just eight NGOs, and they're all pass-throughs.
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Signal Snafu & Soda Wars | 3.26.25
What you have is all these extra middlemen, they're taking their cut, and the taxpayer ends up getting screwed.
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Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Hey, Georgia. Administrator Zeldin said Wednesday that the EPA would take 31 historic actions to shrink the scope of federal environmental policy and unleash American energy. Here's Zeldin.
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Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Alongside this announcement came an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Zeldin wrote that the Trump administration is driving a dagger through the heart of climate change religion, and he declared it the death of the green news scam.
Morning Wire
Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Not yet. There are still legal challenges to sort through and litigate. But Zeldin's announcement does give us an idea of how he plans to get that money back. It's not just that the money is what Zeldin calls a green slush fund. Here's him explaining that on Fox News.
Morning Wire
Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Essentially, he suspects that the Biden administration bent or broke laws to get that much money paid out that quickly. It's worth noting that these grants are part of the largest green fund that the EPA has ever controlled, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. And these grants that it gave out went to recipients who also had never handled that much money.
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Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
It's not hard to see why Trump officials are skeptical about how these grants were paid out.
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Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Right. This is how the Trump operation is moving right now. Outside of the EPA, there is a big shakeup going on at the IRS, where the Department of Government Efficiency has proposed cutting a fifth of the agency's workforce. Of course, this kind of major restructuring is facing roadblocks and legal challenges in the courts.
Morning Wire
Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
A Clinton-appointed federal judge on Thursday ordered the administration to hire back tens of thousands of probationary employees. The judge called their removals a sham that violated rules around terminating federal employees.
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Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
Thanks for having me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Thanks a lot, Charlie. It's great to be with you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Our Powering the Great American Comeback initiative focuses on five pillars. Number one is President Trump talks about we need to be focused on pursuing clean air, land and water for all Americans. That's pillar number one. first and foremost. But there are several other pillars that the American public voted for last November that we take close to heart.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
One is unleashing energy dominance, permitting reform, making America the AI capital of the world, bringing back American auto jobs. President Trump talks about ushering in a new golden age, a golden era of success, and that's something that we want to do our part. So this past Friday, President Trump at the Oval Office signed an executive order announcing his National Energy Dominance Council.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
I was there with Secretary Wright, Secretary Burgum, Secretary Duffy, and others. President Trump doesn't want to spend time just four years trying to get all of these goals accomplished. He wants to get this stuff done in a matter of weeks and months. So with that level of urgency, we're all in to do our part here at EPA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Hi, this is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
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 tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
There's been so many developments just over the course of the last few days since that video came out. I'll give you an example of one. Just earlier today, I was reading a grant agreement On page one of a grant agreement, it was saying that the grant for $2 billion of funds.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
On page six of that grant agreement, it says that the grantee has 90 days to complete a training called, you won't believe this, Charlie, it's called how to develop a budget. So 21 days to get out over $2 billion. 90 days to complete training on how to develop a budget. There is so much to this. I've read now the financial agent agreement, the account control agreements, the legal reviews.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
They were amending account control agreements just days before inauguration day. So that video where that Biden EPA political appointee was talking about tossing, throwing gold bars off the Titanic, They actually were, not to what is just a few hundred thousand or a few million. We're talking about tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions of tax dollars.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
I've been working with the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and others. We want to make sure that there's full accountability and oversight established here. There's zero tolerance for waste and abuse in the Trump administration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
So the way that this was designed, once Congress appropriated tens of billions of dollars here to pass through the EPA, eight entities as primary recipients would receive all 20 billion dollars as a pass through. And then once that money was passed through those eight primary recipients, they would go to a bunch of sub-grantees. And in many respects, those sub-grantees were also pass-throughs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And these were NGOs that were very well-connected and in some respects, extremely newly set up organizations where they have never handled anywhere close to this level of money to the point where you have to work into the grant agreement a training on how to develop a budget. So this is something that shouldn't have been set up from the get-go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
The entire scheme is something that is designed for waste and abuse. And get this, Charlie, once the money passes through those eight primary recipients and moves on to those sub-grantees, EPA isn't even a party to the account control agreement. EPA deliberately had stuff worded into the financial agent agreement and the original account control agreement to tie its hand behind its back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And the dates of this stuff is wild. The financial agent agreement, September 18th. The account control agreement is November 1st. The legal review on all of this is done on Election Day, November 5th. And as I pointed out earlier, they were still amending these things January 13th, just a few days before the inauguration. Last I'll say is this, if you don't mind.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Up front, the $20 billion was given out. It wasn't like they gave out some tranche of money and then over the course of time, the grantees coming back to the government and the government is signing off based on past performances and accountability and proposals for the future. The government gave out the $20 billion in the onset and said, here you go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
So the total amount of the EPA, the numbers were over 15,000. And one of the things that I asked when I first came in, it was three weeks ago today, I wanted to know what the numbers looked like as far as attendance inside of headquarters over the course of the last year or so. So since January of 2024, the average attendance rate on Mondays and Fridays was about five to 8%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
The most that the EPA headquarters had on any single day, like the record attendance was that there was one day where attendance hit 37%. President Trump came in, he signed an executive order, it's time to come back to work. And I believe that it's important for productivity, for collaboration. It's important for us to do everything in our power to make the American public proud.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
We're seeing it right now with EPA doing such a great job in California, completing a phase one hazardous material removal. President Trump gave us 30 days to get it done. We're going to hit that. We have over 1,500 workers on the ground. EPA is in Western North Carolina. We're in East Palestine, Ohio. We're in Maui and Flint.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And now after the flooding that just took place in Kentucky, we just received a FEMA mission assignment to help with that removal, and we are on it. So we have a lot of important work here at EPA. We want to make the American public proud.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Great point. President Trump in that executive order that he signed on Friday, created this National Energy Dominance Council where we had multiple agencies all standing there represented by myself, Secretaries Wright and Burgum and Duffy and other members of the cabinet there to announce this collaboration, this partnership.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
President Trump spoke about Constitution Pipeline, which was stopped by New York utilizing an EPA rule which needs to get looked at because this was a really important project. And as President Trump pointed out, can get done at this point in less than a year. So President Trump wants to green light it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
We need to ensure that we are not holding back that level of progress and that we are in touch with American innovation and that we understand that over the course of the last couple of decades, emissions have gone down here in the US, that we provide these forms of energy cleaner than so many other countries all around the world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And America sits on all of these important resources that we will tap into in a way that is better for the environment than so many other places around the world. So if you care about the environment, We shouldn't be relying on all these countries elsewhere. Let's do it here at home.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
And not only will we be doing a better job in protecting the environment, it's important for our national security, it's important for our economy, and we'll be delivering on what the American public demanded last November 5th.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
This is something that President Trump, he didn't waste any time on, and he wants EPA and the Department of Energy to work together. So at EPA, there are voluntary standards created through something called the WaterSense program, which we have already started working on overhauling.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
It could start as voluntary, but when government starts partnering with the private sector and these different companies start adopting these federal Biden-era standards, Then all of a sudden, the implementation with the product that American consumers are out there purchasing ends up being adapted to what the Biden EPA had set out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
So President Trump wants us to look at the standards, which is what we're doing. He wants us to overhaul them, which we are. And there are rules that the Department of Energy are looking to overhaul. Secretary Wright has already gotten his people cranking on all of that. So we're not wasting any time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
President Trump said this is a top priority for him because it's an important priority for you, the American people. And for us, Secretary Wright at DOE and for myself at EPA, we're all in to do our part.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Vance is Right: Germany Isn't Free
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
And Chairman Capito, that last part of your question is key for different agencies to be able to work with each other, collaborating with each other, and also for agencies to be able to collaborate with Congress on any opportunities that Congress sees to pursue permitting reform as well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
As far as EPA jurisdiction goes, we see a role of the EPA, for example, as it relates to environmental impact statements. There are different issues where there will be opportunities for the EPA to follow its obligations under the law. There's a possibility that Congress might choose to make changes to the law on items that are under EPA jurisdiction.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
I would look forward to doing my part to make sure that the EPA is not holding up any opportunities to be able to pursue sound applications that otherwise would be and should be approved.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Yes, Chairman Capito, I know how much of a priority this is. You've been outspoken on this issue. It's my commitment to work with you as soon as, if confirmed, as soon as I'm in that position, I'd welcome that opportunity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Senator Whitehouse, as I've stated earlier, my desire, if confirmed as EPA administrator, is to increase productivity of the EPA. I want to be able to help lead this agency in a way that all of you on both sides of the aisle can be proud of for us to be accountable and transparent. I want maximum collaboration, not just with Congress, but internally within the EPA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
I've been hugely impressed with the level of talent stepping up to serve at EPA. And that is the pressure that I am feeling at this moment, is to bring out the best of EPA to make sure that we are fulfilling our mission of protecting public health.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Senator, I don't need any extra time for reflection on that one. There is no person who has ever provided any level of support to me or anyone else who has any special influence with me. When I was in the Army, I wore around my dog tags, the seven Army values. The acronym is leadership, loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
It is important for me to have always been able to approach this position with a clear conscience to make decisions that I can live with for my entire life. There is no dollar, large or small, that can influence the decisions that I make who has access to me, and how I am ruling in my obligations under the law.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Senator, I'm happy to enthusiastically answer that question on any day on the spot, and I would never need any extra amount of time of reflection. Well, good luck standing up to these guys, because they're going to come at you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Oil and gas leases and explore for additional production of oil and gas. The EPA has written one size fits all solutions. We are not the majors and we are stripper well producers. And I just want your commitment to work with the industry, these small producers to find right-sized regulations for the circumstances that they're in.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Senator, I would welcome an opportunity to travel to your state to meet with them, whether it's at your office or elsewhere. I want to know about all of your priorities, including this one. but also to make sure that anyone who could provide any type of insight that can make me better informed to make better decisions, that I welcome any of those opportunities for conversations and collaboration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
I think that's a wonderful offer on your part, and I'm very grateful for it. I sometimes am reluctant to ask every nominee that comes before me, would you please come visit Kansas? And you volunteered. So I'm appreciative of that. And I would tell you, I can't imagine the...
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
the opportunity that people in that industry would see to have the capability of talking to somebody like you directly in a state like Kansas. So thank you. And we'll get on your schedule, although you have to say once confirmed. So I look forward to that. In a different vein of energy production, I've created with my colleague, Senator Bozeman and others, a sustainable aviation fuel caucus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
Kansas and Wichita in particular is the air capital of the world. We produce many more general aviation aircraft than anybody. We manufacture with thousands of employees working in aviation and aerospace. And I want to bring together the opportunity to bring the agricultural aspects of Kansas together with the aviation aspects and pursue the development of SAF, sustainable aviation fuel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Confirmation Continuum: Day 3
I wanted to know, I guess the question would be, we need your help in pursuing opportunities. Okay, let's go back. I was told it was really contentious.
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I believe that climate change is real, as I told you.
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I will foster a collaborative culture within the agency. supporting career staff who have dedicated themselves to this mission. I strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
The EPA is going to continue, no matter what, in doing environmental science. We have these core statutory obligations that we must fulfill. And the environmental science work that we do here, the applied science work that we do here, are very important and one that agency employees take great pride in.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Now, as I talk to individual offices, they have a desire to be able to do more science within their offices. So, by having someone who is a scientist in the Office of Research and Development get moved to the Office of Chemicals or the Office of Water, now some people who might be very simple-minded or just looking for a rhetorical edge in Congress, they might want to say,
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
that we are getting rid of science by moving a scientist from one office to another, even though they're still doing an environmental science mission. And we're gonna be more thoughtful. We're thinking past all of that rhetoric. We're gonna make sure we're fulfilling all of our statutory obligations.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And I got to tell you, quite frankly, some of our statutory obligations, we inherited some massive backlogs because we need to be doing more science faster. And we have great, talented scientists to help with that. But as far as what kind of moves might get made, we're going through the process of being very deliberate and thoughtful on it. And we have not yet reached any decisions.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
No, EPA has important core functions. We have the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act. So these historic landmark laws that have been passed over the course of the last few decades with strong bipartisan support have created statutory obligations on the part of the EPA to ensure that Americans have access to clean air, land, and water.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And our priority right now is to pursue our Powering Our Great American Comeback initiative, And we're not slowing down.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
I think it's very important to understand that protecting the environment is not a binary choice with growing the economy. And too often regulations have strangulated the economy and going after industries wholesale. Some people talk about moving power from some fossil fuel production of base load power to sources like wind.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And they'll talk about wind as if it's not an intermittent source of energy. They'll talk about wind as if it's a replacement for base load power. And when you look at the current grid, the current supply, the current demand, And you kind of play it out in your own mind as to what it looks like if you shut down all these other industries wholesale.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
The people who will suffer the most are the Americans who can least afford it. So what happens as you're going through 2024? There's a high stakes election that's approaching, which came up this past November 5th. And Americans decide what they want their priorities to be.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And the number one issue that Americans were talking about was a strong, intense desire for the federal government to do a better job in helping to grow the economy. What we need to do is to make sure that we are implementing the laws that are on the books, putting rules and regulations in place that are following the law.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
So the United States Supreme Court in the decision called Loper Bright said that these agencies like the EPA can't just create our own laws where there is vague language in statute. And where agencies do so, the Supreme Court, as we've seen, will overturn those actions.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
So for us, it's very important for us to honor the rule of law, to advance cooperative federalism, to follow our obligations under the law, and to understand, as the Supreme Court outlined in Loperbright, that we should not be as an agency going rogue and strangulating the economy just because we all have a desire to protect the environment.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Listen, what our priority here is clean air, land, and water for all Americans. Cleaner, safer, healthier land, air, and water across this country. It's a priority of President Trump. It's a priority of the American public. It has very strong bipartisan support across this country. And ultimately, the EPA should not be legislating what a modification of the Clean Air Act may look like.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
We have laws that are on the books. Our job is to implement those laws.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
That's a decision for Congress. The EPA is not lobbying Congress for changes to any laws right now. And when Congress changes a law, they could go in one direction or the other. It's our job to follow the law. But if the law gets changed, we stand by, ready to do our job to implement it.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
So this is part of a regulatory process that the agency is going to be going through. This is one of the announcements that you just referenced in looking at a 2009 decision called the endangerment finding.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And the endangerment finding was defined many years later as saying carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide endangers public health. But that's not exactly what the endangerment finding came to as a conclusion. What they said was that carbon dioxide, when mixed with these other five well-mixed gases called the greenhouse gases, that they contribute to climate change, not cause, contribute.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
How much? That's not defined. They just say that it's above a de minimis amount and that climate change endangers public health. So we will go through that process. And as we get further along in the process, then we start making conclusions and decisions as to how to go forward on this policy.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Yet this is something that the EPA has not engaged in a reconsideration of at all since 2009. And also, when they were going through the 2009 endangerment finding process, there was not a consideration of the impacts of what they were doing. And there has since been a reduction of emissions since 2009. There's also been advancements in American innovation since then, advancements in science.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And all of these developments since 2009 obviously were not factored in when that decision was made back then.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
This is the rulemaking process that I am not going to be able to prejudge. I do have opinions that I've shared publicly, and some I've just reiterated, actually, in my answer to your last question. But as far as what that decision will be of the agency and of the administrator formally, that's something that I'll have to wait until we get further along in the process before I'm allowed to
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
reach a conclusion and have a judgment and a decision.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
You know what's amazing about your great question is that when we made our announcement just over three weeks ago, there were people who were responding to the announcement showing pictures of you know, water quality in 1969 and saying that if you change these rules that, you know, America's land, air, and water are going to go back a half a century.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
We're talking about rules that were enacted over the course of the last year or two. So what we announced just over three weeks ago, almost every single regulation that we discussed having a reconsideration of are regulations that are not from the 70s. They're not from the 80s. They're from the last 12 to 24 months.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Well, I just signed off on one for the Delaware River Basin.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And this was a decision for me as the administrator to make, and I could have went one in a couple of different directions. What decision did I make? It was the one to have the stricter standards put on these plants to improve water quality. So that's an example. I'm about to go to South California,
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
where there's a big issue across boundary with Mexico, in Tijuana, where they are dumping raw sewage. It's a complicated issue. For decades, raw sewage has been coming across the border into Southern California.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Yes. I mean, you have a lot of people who are living just across the border. They have to see it. They have to smell it. They live with it. They don't want to have to live with it. And they've been looking for action for a long time. And I think now is the time. What can you do about it? There's a few different things.
The Journal.
The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
One is there's funding from the USMCA, $300 million as part of that agreement to build a treatment facility, which is right now going through the design phase. There is another pot of money that is doing infrastructure projects on both the US side and the Mexican side. While it is on the Mexican side, this is extraordinarily important for US impacts.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
This is something that I've heard from the president and others. There's a lot of concern for and making sure that Mexico stops participating in this activity. So, and by the way, that's just starting to scratch the surface.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
Well, this is not an issue that is tied up in a tariff negotiation. This is something that there actually are agreements right now. that we just need Mexico to follow through on their commitments. And that's not something that we are expecting them to go back on. As a matter of fact, what my hope is, is that we can get Mexico to do more. We need Mexico to do more.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
It's important for Americans on our side. And by the way, I was talking about going to visit Southern California, which is in Region 9 of the EPA. They did a fantastic job in the wildfire response. After the January wildfires, the president signed an executive order giving EPA 30 days to complete our phase one hazardous material removal of over 13,000 properties.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
And we ended up getting it done in under 30 days.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
I mean, I will tell you that there's a concern as it relates to forest management, prescribed burns, being prepared with water. I was just also in Maui where they dealt with the consequences of a wildfire that quickly went over Lahaina and some other communities.
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The Head of the EPA on the Future of the Agency
As it relates to being prepared for that, being able to mitigate for that next wildfire and the damage that it can cause, there's a lot of topics that are being discussed as far as what actually caused these particular wildfires, not just what gets lit, but how it spreads and what communities can do to be prepared.
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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.