Trump Admin - EPA Sec Lee Zeldin
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News-9 ABC ran a curious story yesterday headlined, “EPA head Zeldin grills Stacey Abrams nonprofit accused of obscuring $2 Billion Biden admin grant.” In short, shortly before President Autopen departed the office, Democrat intellectual heavyweight Stacey Abrams started a brand-new NGO with $100 in the bank that immediately got $2 billion dollars in EPA funding for promoting “green appliances.”
Newly confirmed EPA chief Lee Zeldin is hunting down the money. On Sunday, he tweeted about Abrams’ charitable NGO:
I know what you’re thinking. But, as Greta would say, how dare you? This is the reason why progressives think we’re neanderthal-like deplorables, since we can’t grasp the complicated nuances of life in Washington that rewards power-thinkers like Stacey Abrams.
You were too stupid to come up with this amazing idea. You’re just jealous.
Abrams, getting ahead of the story, told MSNBC that, since she was a little (big) girl shaking down classmates for their lunch money, she has always felt personally convicted to do more to encourage low-income Americans to save money when using their appliances. “Let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans,” the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate and savvy grant-drafter circuitously exhorted.
Why “lowering the cost” is accomplished by paying Stacey to teach people how to lower costs, instead of just sending them the money, is complicated calculus your tender brain cannot compute. And it only cost $2 billion dollars. And she also took the budget class, so.
Stacey’s trail-blazing idea to run some social media ads about the benefits of Energy Star took Washington, DC by storm. Eureka! It was genius! Nobody has ever come up with an idea like it. “The EPA said, ‘OK, great, go for it,’” Abrams told MSNBC’s obsequious anchorman. “And they then granted those dollars to this coalition of organizations who came together, bringing 250 years and $100 billion worth of experience to doing this project.”
Republicans — who are apparently against poor people saving money when toasting hotdog buns — just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Late last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a story headlined, “Georgia Senate to investigate Stacey Abrams and New Georgia Project..” That is the same senatorial investigative committee that is also giving Fulton County District Attorney Fani “Gimme a G” Willis a proctological exam.
Apparently, some overly skeptical folks are complaining about Stacey’s ‘New Georgia Project’ NGO, which in January agreed to pay a whopping $300,000 fine, which was “the largest fine for campaign violations in Georgia history.” The group admitted to 16 violations of campaign finance laws, including that it raised and spent millions of dollars to support Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial campaign— without registering as a PAC and disclosing its activities as required under Georgia law.
Why not pay the fine? $300K is chump change when you’re swimming in billions. And laws, as they say, are for the little people. People littler than linebacker-shaped Stacey Abrams, that is, which includes nearly everyone not on an NFL team.
Maybe this time the investigation will result in more than just a fine. Straight to jail.
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Newly confirmed EPA chief Lee Zeldin is hunting down the money. On Sunday, he tweeted about Abrams’ charitable NGO:
I know what you’re thinking. But, as Greta would say, how dare you? This is the reason why progressives think we’re neanderthal-like deplorables, since we can’t grasp the complicated nuances of life in Washington that rewards power-thinkers like Stacey Abrams.
You were too stupid to come up with this amazing idea. You’re just jealous.
Abrams, getting ahead of the story, told MSNBC that, since she was a little (big) girl shaking down classmates for their lunch money, she has always felt personally convicted to do more to encourage low-income Americans to save money when using their appliances. “Let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans,” the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate and savvy grant-drafter circuitously exhorted.
Why “lowering the cost” is accomplished by paying Stacey to teach people how to lower costs, instead of just sending them the money, is complicated calculus your tender brain cannot compute. And it only cost $2 billion dollars. And she also took the budget class, so.
Stacey’s trail-blazing idea to run some social media ads about the benefits of Energy Star took Washington, DC by storm. Eureka! It was genius! Nobody has ever come up with an idea like it. “The EPA said, ‘OK, great, go for it,’” Abrams told MSNBC’s obsequious anchorman. “And they then granted those dollars to this coalition of organizations who came together, bringing 250 years and $100 billion worth of experience to doing this project.”
Republicans — who are apparently against poor people saving money when toasting hotdog buns — just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Late last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a story headlined, “Georgia Senate to investigate Stacey Abrams and New Georgia Project..” That is the same senatorial investigative committee that is also giving Fulton County District Attorney Fani “Gimme a G” Willis a proctological exam.
Apparently, some overly skeptical folks are complaining about Stacey’s ‘New Georgia Project’ NGO, which in January agreed to pay a whopping $300,000 fine, which was “the largest fine for campaign violations in Georgia history.” The group admitted to 16 violations of campaign finance laws, including that it raised and spent millions of dollars to support Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial campaign— without registering as a PAC and disclosing its activities as required under Georgia law.
Why not pay the fine? $300K is chump change when you’re swimming in billions. And laws, as they say, are for the little people. People littler than linebacker-shaped Stacey Abrams, that is, which includes nearly everyone not on an NFL team.
Maybe this time the investigation will result in more than just a fine. Straight to jail.
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oincidentally, like yesterday we’ll begin with another New York Times story complaining again about terrific new EPA Director Lee Zeldin, this article headlined “E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose.” The crabby sub-headline added, “the E.P.A. administrator said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses. (He did not mention protecting the environment.)”
Womp womp!
Yesterday, in what the Times called a “barrage” — a concentrated artillary bombardment over a wide area — Zeldin carpet-bombed “dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.”
It was already terrific news, especially if you know anything about those listed categories of environmental dictatorship that never make anyone healthier. But it got better.
The Times then mentioned Zeldin’s “two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X” — which it churlishly did not link,but here it is. In the short video, the director described taking a chainsaw to thirty-one major environmental regulations. “We at EPA will do our part,” Zeldin said, “to power the Great American Comeback.”
CLIP: EPA Director Lee Zeldin explains the end of the “Green New Scam” (2:18).
Director Zeldin called Wednesday’s batch of orders “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history,” and he is probably right. He added, “today, the green new scam ends, as the E.P.A. does its part to usher in a golden age of American success.”
One standout example of a target for Zeldin’s de-regulatory chainsaw is a 2009 legal opinion known as the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” that allows the EPA to regulate “carbon and greenhouse gases” whenever the agency decides some extra carbon somewhere might add to global warming and endanger “humanity.” Like when you breathe out, or when Jerry Nadler emits his carbon from other orifices.
Unlike yesterday’s hatchet job, this article did include quotes by people who favored Zeldin’s cutbacks, although in each case, it sneered at them as “lobbyists” and “climate change deniers.” But, at least, it did include opposing views. (So, it was heavily biased, and probably should’ve been an op-ed, but it wasn’t quite propaganda.)
For instance, the Times quoted radical Marty Durbin, a senior vice president at the Chamber of Commerce. Marty focused on prices. He said, “American businesses were crippled with an unprecedented regulatory onslaught during the previous Administration that contributed to higher costs felt by families around the country.” He said, “The Chamber supports a more balanced regulatory approach that will protect the environment and support greater economic growth.”
In other words, lifting these EPA regulations will not only lower costs for nearly everything, it will also unleash dormant business activities halted as it became increasingly expensive to do whatever that thing was and also comply with Biden’s climate rules. Zeldin, quoting Trump, called those regulations the ‘Green New Scam.’
The benefits won’t appear overnight. Changing EPA rules is not like flipping the lights back on in the massive federal buildings-slash-ghost towns to let workers come back to the office. Zeldin’s new rules must be formally proposed, published for public comment, and then carefully follow a laundry list of other administrative procedures to avoid lawsuits. Nevertheless, they remain part of deflationary pressure now, because business planners are starting to take things like this into account.
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Womp womp!
Yesterday, in what the Times called a “barrage” — a concentrated artillary bombardment over a wide area — Zeldin carpet-bombed “dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.”
It was already terrific news, especially if you know anything about those listed categories of environmental dictatorship that never make anyone healthier. But it got better.
The Times then mentioned Zeldin’s “two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X” — which it churlishly did not link,but here it is. In the short video, the director described taking a chainsaw to thirty-one major environmental regulations. “We at EPA will do our part,” Zeldin said, “to power the Great American Comeback.”
CLIP: EPA Director Lee Zeldin explains the end of the “Green New Scam” (2:18).
Director Zeldin called Wednesday’s batch of orders “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history,” and he is probably right. He added, “today, the green new scam ends, as the E.P.A. does its part to usher in a golden age of American success.”
One standout example of a target for Zeldin’s de-regulatory chainsaw is a 2009 legal opinion known as the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” that allows the EPA to regulate “carbon and greenhouse gases” whenever the agency decides some extra carbon somewhere might add to global warming and endanger “humanity.” Like when you breathe out, or when Jerry Nadler emits his carbon from other orifices.
Unlike yesterday’s hatchet job, this article did include quotes by people who favored Zeldin’s cutbacks, although in each case, it sneered at them as “lobbyists” and “climate change deniers.” But, at least, it did include opposing views. (So, it was heavily biased, and probably should’ve been an op-ed, but it wasn’t quite propaganda.)
For instance, the Times quoted radical Marty Durbin, a senior vice president at the Chamber of Commerce. Marty focused on prices. He said, “American businesses were crippled with an unprecedented regulatory onslaught during the previous Administration that contributed to higher costs felt by families around the country.” He said, “The Chamber supports a more balanced regulatory approach that will protect the environment and support greater economic growth.”In other words, lifting these EPA regulations will not only lower costs for nearly everything, it will also unleash dormant business activities halted as it became increasingly expensive to do whatever that thing was and also comply with Biden’s climate rules. Zeldin, quoting Trump, called those regulations the ‘Green New Scam.’
The benefits won’t appear overnight. Changing EPA rules is not like flipping the lights back on in the massive federal buildings-slash-ghost towns to let workers come back to the office. Zeldin’s new rules must be formally proposed, published for public comment, and then carefully follow a laundry list of other administrative procedures to avoid lawsuits. Nevertheless, they remain part of deflationary pressure now, because business planners are starting to take things like this into account.
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