EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month
Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the organization has announced.
President Trump routinely mocks climate change as a “hoax” and his administration has rolled back protections for air and water, and has tried to give up the power to regulate greenhouse gases. Yet scientists and one former Republican E.P.A. administrator still expressed alarm at the idea of the nation’s chief environmental official speaking at an event for a research organization that argues there is “no such thing” as climate-driven floods, hurricanes and extreme heat.
The speech, critics said, risks bestowing the credibility of the federal government on the fringe theories that the group espouses. “The choices that an administrator makes, where to go and who to talk to, is very significant,” said William K. Reilly, who served as administrator of the E.P.A. under the first President George Bush. “The only reason to talk to a group like this one he’s going to talk to is to call them out and correct them and remind them that E.P.A. is a science-based agency,” Mr. Reilly said.
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n 2023, the Heartland Institute sent copies of its book “Climate at a Glance” to thousands of science teachers across the nation to provide them with “the data to show the earth is not experiencing a climate crisis.” Those assertions contradict decades of established science. The evidence for climate change spans from the Keeling Curve, an upward-sweeping graph that documents the steep rise in carbon dioxide, to modern satellite data, which unequivocally show man-made emissions are driving rapid warming. In recent weeks, the Heartland Institute has applauded Mr. Zeldin for repealing a 2009 scientific conclusion that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. That determination, known as the endangerment finding, formed the legal basis for the E.P.A. to regulate emissions from cars and trucks, power plants and more. The move has already drawn legal challenges from states, cities and environmental groups.
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