EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin gave a liberal CNN host an epic schooling on the law and actual facts when she spread climate propaganda and tried to shame him for supposedly not doing enough to combat climate change.
On Sunday, Zeldin appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with guest host Kasie Hunt to discuss the Trump Administration’s proposal to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding by the Obama regime, which states that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.
Zeldin said instituting the proposal would be the largest deregulatory action in American history. The plan also allows companies to plan appropriately and gives the American people more affordable choices when deciding to buy a car.
Moreover, repealing the endangerment finding makes it far more difficult for future Democratic regimes to try to suffocate fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
Hunt attempted to ambush Zeldin and paint him as a climate denier while trying to make audiences believe the U.S. would soon be less livable. Zeldin quickly embarrassed her right off the bat.
WATCH:
WATCH: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just completely OBLITERATED CNN’s running propaganda.
CNN: “Thank you so much for being here….Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man made climate change?”… pic.twitter.com/S6y8uecwN7
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) August 3, 2025
HUNT: Thank you so much for being here. Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man-made climate change?
ZELDIN: Great to be on with you. First, it’s worth pointing out that all eight or so images that you just posted on the screen have nothing to do with this week’s announcement.
CNN has been using a lot of photos that show smokestacks from stationary sources like power plants, which is not what we proposed. Now, going back to 2009, the science they were reviewing included both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios to reach the 2009 endangerment finding. They relied on the most pessimistic views of science.
The great news is that a lot of the pessimistic views ended up not panning out. We can rely on 2025 facts instead of 2009 assumptions. At EPA, we also don’t get to just create the law to whatever we want it to be. The Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine; agencies like the EPA can’t just use vague language and statute and try to make it (the law) whatever we want it to be.
Later, Hunt tried to get Zeldin to admit that the federal government should regulate carbon emissions, which she says drive global warming. Instead, she got a brilliant explanation of how the American government and legal system work.
Hunt was left completely outwitted again.
NEW: Lee Zeldin just TORCHED CNN’s Kasie Hunt over radical climate mandates—“We are NOT going to regulate out of existence entire sectors of our economy.”
This is how it’s done.
EPA Administrator @epaleezeldin didn’t flinch when CNN’s Kasie Hunt tried to corner him on… pic.twitter.com/HpfEHcGrz5
— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) August 3, 2025
HUNT: Do you think the federal government should have a role in trying to combat climate change?
ZELDIN: It’s a great question, and I’m at the EPA and running an agency. The Supreme Court made it clear that I have to follow the law. You have to follow the plain language of the law, and I can’t get creative.
So, when you read through the 2009 endangerment finding, they say that where there’s silence in the law…That I should be interpreting at my own discretion. The Supreme Court has made it very clear that this is not a power that I have.
This is a decision that Congress needs to make.
HUNT: With all due respect, a power that you have is to rewrite a regulation. You are taking an action; you could just leave it alone.
ZELDIN: No, the power comes from the law! I don’t get to just make up (a regulation) just because a predecessor decided to fill in vague language in the law to do many mental leaps, to try to justify an electric vehicle mandate…To strangulate out of existence entire sectors of our energy economy.
You were posting earlier a whole bunch of photos of stationary sources. Well, the Biden Administration did do a whole bunch of regulations to try to make, for example, the coal industry get regulated out of existence.
I come from a state where the governor says New York is a substitute for baseload power. It’s not.
In order to unleash energy dominance… we are not going to regulate out of existence entire sectors of our economy.
The power comes from the law and from Congress, not from our own creativity.
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