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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made a simple but powerful case on Newsmax’s America Right Now: you do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a booming economy. He told viewers that the old Washington mantra — protect the planet by strangling jobs — was a false choice imposed by the Biden EPA, and that his team intends to prove common sense policy can deliver both.
Zeldin didn’t mince words about what he inherited from the previous administration, calling it a “really big mess” on the policy front and promising a sweeping rollback of chokehold regulations that have gummed up American industry. Conservatives should cheer an administration that recognizes overregulation is the real threat to everyday Americans — raising prices, killing jobs, and shipping work overseas — and is finally moving to reverse it.
The EPA boss explained how sensible deregulation can translate into tangible wins: more reliable base-load power, revived auto manufacturing, and a climate for American innovation that makes this country the global leader in AI and industry. These are not empty talking points — they are the pathway to restoring the manufacturing backbone and middle-class prosperity that Democrats took for granted while they chased ideology.
At the same time, Americans are right to worry about the damage a government shutdown does to core federal functions, including environmental protection work. When congressional gridlock forces agencies to furlough staff and pause inspections, vital tasks like Superfund cleanups, drinking-water oversight, and hazardous-site monitoring slow or stop entirely, leaving communities exposed and taxpayers footing larger bills down the road. The shutdown spectacle underlines why we need a lean, focused EPA that works with states and private partners — not a politicized behemoth that rations enforcement based on woke priorities.
Zeldin’s EPA is already taking decisive steps to roll back the most egregious regulatory overreach, aiming to unwind legal doctrines like the greenhouse gas endangerment finding that have been used as a cudgel against everyday Americans and industry. These moves will draw lawsuits and hysterics from the left, but conservatives know the truth: lawfare from ideological groups doesn’t clean up rivers or secure grids, it just keeps the hammer of Washington over our economy.
That practical, results-oriented approach was on display when Zeldin touted a binational agreement with Mexico to finally fix raw sewage flowing into the Tijuana River and pledged to cancel billions in grant money handed to dubious environmental grantees. Trump-era priorities at EPA — accountability, cooperation with local governments, and taxpayer stewardship — are the responsible way to protect air and water without bankrupting the nation.
Patriotic Americans should demand Congress stop playing games with government funding and instead back reforms that empower states, incent private cleanup, and prune pointless red tape. We can and must protect the environment while unleashing American industry — but that won’t happen if Washington keeps rewarding cronies and punishing workers with rules dreamed up by coastal elites. The Zeldin agenda is a fresh, common-sense road map for doing both, and Republicans should double down on it for the sake of jobs, families, and our homeland.
