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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says his agency's ongoing deregulation efforts will not harm the
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environment. Zeldin made this comment during an appearance on CBS News Sunday, where he described
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the EPA's approach as balancing environmental protections with economic concerns from the
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American people. We have to both protect the environment and grow the economy. Under the
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Trump administration, the EPA has been reversing a number of Biden-era policies, including measures
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aimed at increasing electric vehicle production, phasing out coal use, and regulating air pollutants
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such as soot or mercury. Zeldin claims these initiatives added trillions of dollars in
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compliance costs to a number of U.S. industries and that eliminating them will reduce those
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increased expenses which are currently being passed down to consumers. Environmental groups
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have expressed concern over the EPA's rollbacks, with the Sierra Club calling them deadly
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dangerous and a wholesale attack on the American people. The organization says the Trump
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administration is undoing efforts which Biden's EPA had claimed would stop thousands of premature
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deaths and save tens of billions of dollars in public health costs. However, Zeldin maintains
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neither the environment nor U.S. citizens will be adversely impacted. He also noted there will be a
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process for public comments and encouraged Americans to use it as an opportunity to submit
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their feedback on the EPA's policy decisions. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Jack Elmer
