America


Trump’s EPA Rolls Back $63 Billion Biden Fiasco


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he environmental protection agency gets a lot of attention for such a small agency. The New York Times and other liberal media constantly criticize actions its administrator, Lee


Zeldin, is taking, claiming that they will pollute the country, harm the poor, and raise tem- peratures, affecting the climate. In fact, none of this is true. What is true is that under


Zeldin, a former Republican con- gressman from New York, the EPA has been hard at work roll- ing back the excesses and abuses of the Biden administration. Former President Joe Biden,


and the Obama administration to a lesser extent, hijacked the agency’s mission. The EPA was set up in 1970


to fix real pollution across the country. It is arguable that they did such a good job overall of fixing pollution and preventing more, that there wasn’t much left to clean up by 2020. The Biden administration remade the mission. It turned


the agency into a funnel to send huge amounts of money to radical minority activist organizations and NGOs, under the


‘Environmental Justice’ Hurts Poor Americans


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ormer President Joe Biden’s environmental justice policy did a


lot of harm to Americans. Donna Jackson is an accountant and senior policy analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow who has testified on Environmental Protection Agency policy before Congress. She was outraged by what went on under the Biden administration with regard to “the race issue” in particular. She told Newsmax: “Environmental


justice is a tool used by activists to blackmail the American people, to stop


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people from scrutinizing policy. Mostly these policies just hurt our livelihoods. “Nothing has changed in these [poor] neighborhoods, despite hundreds of billions of dollars being spent. “The real harm isn’t dirty air, it’s


poverty,” she argued. “Liberals use environmental justice to deindustrialize America. They use it to create barriers for African Americans to reach the middle class. “Seventy to 80% of African


Americans come from single-parent homes. Kids need to work. When we deindustrialize, we get rid of good-


ZELDIN


Administrator Lee Zeldin ends policy of funneling cash to radical, minority activists. BY LISA SCHIFFREN


mission headline of “environmental justice.” In theory, that money was supposed to help low-income


minority citizens in poor, blighted neighborhoods. In prac- tice, it went to pure politics. Under its Green New Deal guise, the EPA blanketed the landscape with regulations that make U.S. energy production harder, sometimes impossible, and always much more expensive. Furthermore, they institut-


ed regulations to require that Americans buy electric vehicles and give up our beloved, eco- nomical, and easy-to-fuel gas- powered cars. In March, Zeldin released


a list of 31 actions the EPA is taking to turn all this around, and end the “Green New Scam” of the Biden-era legislation. The mission remains to pro- tect the air, land, and water of the U.S. from pollution, and to end expensive regulations that


impede energy development. According to Travis Voyles, the EPA’s assistant deputy administrator, “In the past four years, there was a dramatic expansion from a regulatory standpoint, going well beyond what we are authorized to do. All these other programs were


paying jobs.” Jackson is talking about much of the


$63 billion that went to the EPA through the Inflation Reduction Act and then out the door to political activist groups favored by the Biden administration. “None of the money for


environmental justice will hit the Black community. The Green New Deal is just a grift,” Jackson said. She notes that they spent $8 billion


for charging stations for electric vehicles. Only seven were built. “The money was used in Chicago


for migrants. Most grants given out for environmental justice had nothing to do with the environment. The NGOs handed out a few new refrigerators and kept the rest.”


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