Over 160 environmental groups Tuesday called for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to resign or be removed, saying he abandoned the agency’s core mission of protecting the environment and public health.
“Administrator Zeldin must go,” said the letter led by the Climate Action Campaign and Moms Clean Air Force and signed by environmental justice, climate and public health organizations.
In just over a year, Zeldin has slashed the environment agency’s funding and staff, denied science and “rigged the system” to give polluters leeway, the groups argued.
“The wreckage of Lee Zeldin’s EPA will be measured in lives lost, jobs destroyed, the costs of illnesses that could have been prevented, and communities devastated,” wrote Margie Alt, director of the Climate Action Campaign, in a news release. “Instead, he looked at the numbers and made a choice: He decided that corporate bottom lines matter more than our lives. He decided you and your family are expendable.”
