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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dharna Noor

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

A middle-aged man in a suit looks ahead
The EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, in Washington DC last month. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/Reuters

Lee 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 to the Unabomber 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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