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Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event

Trump’s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group’s event

Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the UnabomberLee Zeldin, the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), gave the keynote speech at a conference on Wednesday morning, one which was hosted by a prominent climate-denying thinktank that previously compared those concerned about the climate crisis on billboard posters in 2012.“No longer are we going to rely on bad, flawed assumptions instead of accurate, present-day facts, without apology or regret,” Zeldin said at the Heartland Institute’s conference on climate change in Washington DC, referring to well-established climate science.

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