Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin told reporters Tuesday that it is “very telling” that China would want to keep a “Biden EPA rule in place.” [emphasis, links added]
China is reportedly seeking to influence American energy policy by submitting public comments advocating for stricter Obama and Biden-era rules on power plants. This move has concerned several energy sector experts, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.
In response to a DCNF question on the issue, Zeldin told reporters Tuesday that his agency is proposing regulatory action that “makes America stronger” and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “weaker.”
“When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provides a public comment regarding one of our proposed rules, my first thought is that we should do the opposite of whatever they want us to do,” Zeldin told reporters Tuesday.
“It’s pretty striking that the Chinese Communist Party would want us to keep a Biden EPA rule in place. It’s very telling, and I would say it only provides me more clarity that we’re on the right track [and] that we’re proposing regulatory action that makes America stronger and the CCP weaker.”
The People’s Republic of China left at least three different public comments on EPA rule proposals that would cut or reform some aggressive Biden-era regulations that energy policy experts have previously told the DCNF could devastate America’s power grid.
Zeldin has proposed several deregulatory actions to boost American energy while safeguarding human health and the environment, including rules that drew China’s attention in August.
Specifically, China urged the EPA to preserve its emissions rules for coal- and oil-fired power plants, maintain existing greenhouse gas standards for fossil fuel plants, and refrain from imposing restrictions on foreign renewable fuel imports.
The EPA introduced the three proposed rules to roll back strict Obama and Biden-era emissions standards and to update renewable fuel standards as part of “reducing reliance on foreign sources of oil,” according to the agency.
Top: President Trump signs an executive action to support the coal industry as Lee Zeldin (far left) looks on. Photo by The White House, United States Government Work.
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Interesting that the country which has done more to increase CO2 emissions so that their economy can grow wants to hobble our economy with the worthless Biden administration regulations.