EPA Admin Lee Zeldin Touts Cancellation Of $22 Billion In Grants In Work With Elon Musk And DOGE

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During a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin spoke about the work he has accomplished since assuming his role.

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00:00The Biden EPA was strangulating the economy.

00:03The Trump EPA understands it's not a binary choice.

00:06We can protect the environment and grow the economy.

00:09Working with Doge and Elon Musk,

00:12we've now canceled $22 billion worth of grants,

00:16and we have launched what is the largest deregulatory action

00:19in the history of the country, just in one agency.

00:21That's how much of a mess the Biden EPA left us.

00:24It is going to end up reducing the cost of living.

00:27It's going to create jobs.

00:28It's going to make it easier to purchase a car.

00:30It will be easier to heat your home.

00:32We're proud of this effort.

00:35The effort that we have is fulfilling the mandate

00:39that you earned from the American public,

00:41clean air, land, and water for all Americans,

00:43unleashing energy dominance, permitting reform,

00:46advancing cooperative federalism,

00:48making America the AI capital of the world,

00:50and bringing back American auto jobs.

00:52When you called me that day asking for me to take this position,

00:56I was honored, and you were very specific and clear

00:59in what you wanted us to accomplish.

01:01We understand our mission, and at the Trump EPA,

01:05we're going to make you proud.

01:07Great job.

01:08You're doing a great job,

01:09and you have a lot of applications for approvals for power plants,

01:13which are going to really power the regular plants,

01:17and they're going to be right next to each other,

01:19because we can't rely on our grid.

01:21It's old, and it's tired,

01:23and it's, you know, very subject to being attacked,

01:28whether by rain or by bombs or by anything else,

01:32and we're letting people build their own power plants,

01:35and these are a lot of them being built,

01:38with the AI and beyond the AI, chips,

01:42and we're letting them build their own power,

01:44and never been done before,

01:46and we're going to get it done quickly and approved quickly.

01:48As part of a plant,

01:49they'll have a sort of be their own power company,

01:53and it's very exciting.

01:54They couldn't believe it when I told them that.

01:56I said, we're going to get you the approvals very fast.

01:58As part of your regular plant,

02:00you're going to build electric-producing plants,

02:03and it's very exciting,

02:05and they're able to do it very quickly and very well,

02:09and you made it possible.

02:10You have a lot of applications

02:12for some of the biggest plants

02:14that have ever been built in the world.

02:17These are serious plants, aren't they?

02:21Approved.

02:22Approved.

EPA Admin Lee Zeldin Touts Cancellation Of $22 Billion In Grants In Work With Elon Musk And DOGE

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