Lee Zeldin Rips CNN Reporter’s Total Face Plant Attempt To ‘Fact Check’ Climate Deregulation

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday turned the tables on CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir who attempted to “fact check” the agency.

The EPA announced it would repeal dozens of environmental regulations with the intent of lowering the cost to buy a car, run a business and heat a home. Weir claimed on “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” Wednesday that the EPA’s press release titled, “Trump EPA Announces OOOO b/c Reconsideration of Biden-Harris Rules Strangling American ⚡Energy Producers,” consisted of “typos and placeholders,” though Zeldin said the release correctly referred to a federal regulation under the Clean Air Act regarding the oil and gas industry.

“ was putting out press releases with such a flurry, about 31 different actions and rollbacks, that some of them had typos and placeholders at the top, we have one of them there. ‘Trump EPA Announces’ zero, zero, zero, zero, you can see there,” Weir said. “It’s sort of shoot first, fill out the press release later. They’re of course, as you mentioned, vehicle emissions, power plant pollution, mercury pollution that comes out of there. Coal, waste, water, oil and gas.”

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The press release in question announced that the EPA was “reconsidering” oil and gas regulations under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.

Zeldin said the press release consists of O’s, and not 0’s, and accused Weir of not having “the slightest clue what he’s talking about.”