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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Reports Completing Travel to All 50 States, Nov. 14, 2025

November 14, 2025 · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 0:03:23

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What happened

Administrator Lee Zeldin states that when he was confirmed earlier that year, he decided to visit all 50 states as soon as possible to hear directly from Americans, and reports that over the past nine and a half months he has participated in EPA activities in all 50 states. He says he solicited feedback from business owners, trade workers, elected officials and residents affected by environmental challenges on how, in his words, the Trump EPA can fix things.

Zeldin cites results he attributes to the travel: a historic MOU with Mexico to permanently end raw sewage flowing into Southern California, two years cut from the remediation timeline at the West Lake Landfill in St. Louis, rescinded Section 179(b) guidance on international air pollution, and new DEF guidance for farmers and truckers, as he stated them. He also describes wildfire and hurricane response travel to California, Western North Carolina, Maui and East Palestine, Ohio, as he recounted it.

Why it matters

The video is the Administrator’s completion report on a self-set 50-state pledge, with the results list stated as the evidence the travel produced.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: the all-50-states completion in nine and a half months and the two-year reduction in the West Lake Landfill remediation timeline, as the Administrator stated them. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no verdict given here.

Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Reports Completing Travel to All 50 States, Nov. 14, 2025”, 2025-11-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-11-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.