{"id":71194,"date":"2026-04-08T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-epa-chief-zeldin-gives-keynote-speech-at-climate-denying-groups-event\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:03:12","slug":"trumps-epa-chief-zeldin-gives-keynote-speech-at-climate-denying-groups-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-epa-chief-zeldin-gives-keynote-speech-at-climate-denying-groups-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group\u2019s event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/blog\/2012\/may\/04\/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder\">to the Unabomber<\/a> on billboard posters in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo longer are we going to rely on bad, flawed assumptions instead of accurate, present-day facts, without apology or regret,\u201d Zeldin said at the Heartland Institute\u2019s conference on climate change in Washington DC, referring to well-established climate science.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/epa-chief-zeldin-climate-denying-group-event\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Zeldin opens conference for Heartland Institute, which once compared climate advocates to the Unabomber Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group\u2019s event\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-epa-chief-zeldin-gives-keynote-speech-at-climate-denying-groups-event\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s EPA chief Zeldin gives keynote speech at climate-denying group\u2019s event\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}