Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin told Newsmax on Friday that the Trump administration is dismantling what he and President Donald Trump call the “green new scam,” a series of climate-driven energy policies they argue enrich elites while burdening ordinary Americans.
Zeldin’s comments to “The Chris Salcedo Show” came just days after Trump used his address to the U.N. General Assembly to denounce global climate initiatives.
The president declared that “windmills are pathetic,” called the notion of a carbon footprint “a hoax made up by people with evil intentions,” and warned that “if you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail.”
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