EPA Administrator Slams Climate Action As "Religion" While Dismantling Environmental Protections

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When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made a defiant reference to “climate change religion” in order to justify a plan to roll back environmental protections, American faith leaders and scholars reacted with confusion, sadness and anger. On March 12, the agency announced 31 actions to reconsider restrictions on air and water pollution and end the agency’s mandate to respond to climate change under the Clean Air Act.

“We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” Zeldin wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary promoting the plans. An EPA press release declared March 12 “the most consequential day of deregulation in American history” and claimed the actions would lead to savings of trillions of dollars in regulatory costs to businesses and “hidden taxes” on American families.

Fossil fuel interests such as the American Petroleum Institute praised EPA’s new deregulatory agenda, saying it would “secure American energy leadership and protect consumer choice.” But some faith leaders have had different reactions, starting with confusion about what Zeldin meant when he described a “climate change religion.” In recent interviews, they told Inside Climate News that Zeldin had displayed an ignorance of a growing global movement across nearly all faith traditions to voice concerns on climate change.

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“I don’t think [Zeldin] was trying to persuade anybody” with his climate change religion comments, said the Rev. Michael Malcom, founder and executive director of The People’s Justice Council and Alabama Interfaith Power and Light. “That was him speaking more to corporations and to those who are in favor of deregulating and taking advantage of and pillaging our communities,” Malcom said. It appeared to him that Zeldin was disparaging religious and moral concern about climate change and the environment, he added. “He made it feel that somehow those fighting for a better planet were part of a cult. But that’s hypocritical because that’s exactly what MAGA is—a cult,” he said, referencing Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31032025/faith-leaders-push-back-after-epa-disparages-climate-action/

[Brenda]

1. Climate Alarmism, Climate Change Religion, Eco Terrorists

It's too late to be confused, sad or angry with these people. I don't even think it's greed anymore that drives them to be so fucking evil. They are completely insane. Delusional and brain damaged people are running our country.

Straight to hell.