EPA Administrator Zeldin: Anti-Deregulation 'Fearmongers Don't Know What They're Talking About'

Name: "EPA Administrator Zeldin: Anti-Deregulation 'Fearmongers Don't Know What They're Talking About'"
Uploaded: 2026-06-02
Duration: 2 min 6 s
Description: "EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recounted the EPA's March 2025 day of deregulation — more than 30 initiatives announced at five-minute intervals — and argued that critics lecturing the public on the rules do not know what the rules are, as he stated it."

June 2, 2026 · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 0:02:06

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What happened

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described what the agency calls the greatest day of deregulation in the history of the United States: in March of 2025, he said, the EPA announced more than 30 different initiatives in a single day, and, as he stated it, released each announcement individually every five minutes into reporters’ inboxes for fun with the Washington, D.C., energy and environment press corps.

Zeldin recounted that CNN’s chief climate correspondent complained on air about how quickly the announcements were coming, and, as Zeldin told it, displayed one of the EPA’s own releases that still contained a placeholder — ‘000000B/C’ — because the correspondent had not proofread it. Zeldin said he took pleasure in pointing that out, and argued, as he stated it, that the American public is often lectured by people who do not have a clue what they are saying — an echo chamber of sound bites from people who want to lecture the public about rules like quad OBC without knowing what they are.

He closed by noting how many states were represented in the room and how much of the American economy, innovation, technology, and future sat in it, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The remarks are Zeldin’s media-criticism case for the EPA’s deregulatory program: the March 2025 announcement blitz is presented as both policy and proof that its loudest critics had not read the underlying rules.

Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Administrator Zeldin: Anti Deregulation Fearmongers Don\u2019t Know What They\u2019re Talking About”, 2026-06-02 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-06-02). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.

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