"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a speech to Heartland Institute, a climate denial group, “It is a day to celebrate vindication.”"
"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin delivered the keynote speech at a Wednesday meeting of the Heartland Institute, a group that challenges the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change’s harmful impacts and the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions that cause it.
Zeldin — who is also seen as a candidate to be President Donald Trump’s next attorney general — praised the conservative group for its work in the 2000s to question the predicted impacts of climate change and oppose government action on climate change.
“It’s controversial that we won’t sign up for the script that the world is imminently about to end,” Zeldin said at the group’s 16th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington. “Today, all of you gathered here in D.C. is a moment to celebrate. It is a day to celebrate vindication.”"
Jake Spring reports for the Washington Post April 8, 2026.
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