Nicole Silverio
Media Reporter
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin fired back at Democratic Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Monday while she tried to lecture him on climate change.
During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, DeLauro accused the EPA of “abandoning” its duty to protect Americans from climate change — which she alleged was “flooding our streets, poisoning our air”— though Zeldin challenged the premise that the agency is responsible for fighting global climate warming. When Zeldin challenged DeLauro to explain the significance of a major Supreme Court case and the major policies doctrine, she refused.
“Following the law, section 202 of the Clean Air Act, where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?” Zeldin asked. “Loper Bright [Enterprises v. Raimondo], Supreme Court case, you’re familiar with it? … But that’s really important. As a member of Congress, Loper Bright says that we as an agency don’t have the authority to get creative.”
“No, but you don’t have, excuse me, you do not have the right to say climate change does not exist, that it’s a hoax, and that’s where this administration is coming from,” DeLauro said.
“Do you know what Loper Bright is? Do you know what the major policies doctrine is? You know what the major policies doctrine is? You’re a member of Congress, you should know,” Zeldin said. (RELATED: ‘Tell Me What The Numbers Are!’: Dem Rep. Rosa DeLauro Repeatedly Shouts Down Pam Bondi At Hearing)
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Zeldin also challenged DeLauro to explain another Supreme Court ruling West Virginia v. EPA, which was released in June 2022. In this case, the Court limited the EPA’s ability to regulate power plants’ emissions of greenhouse gasses.
“You’re here because you need money from us, so halt for the second, and wait for the questions, and answer the questions,” DeLauro said, visibly angry.
“Well, I answered your question, and you didn’t like my answer because you don’t know what Loper Bright is, because you don’t know what the major policies doctrine is. Because you’re asking me about section 202 of the Clean Air Act, and you don’t read it,” Zeldin said. “You don’t know what it says. No, I actually read the law. I do my homework. You’re just somebody who likes to have the microphone on. You know what I have to do? I read the law. I read the Supreme Court cases.”
DeLauro accused Zeldin of making up “a whole lot of BS.”
“BS? You think I made up these cases?” Zeldin asked.
“Yeah, I think you have made up a whole lot of BS,” DeLauro said.
“I made up Loper Bright. I made up West Virginia v. EPA. I made up Michigan v. EPA,” Zeldin said sarcastically, referring to a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that also limited the agency’s power.
Zeldin stated on X that DeLauro was infuriated because she entered a debate with someone “who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent.”
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Rest assured, these freaks didn’t get into positions of authority and stayed there on their good looks alone. And for sure it’s not their intelligence.
It’s a good thing we were on the winning side of World War Eleven.
Not sure if talking about trump and his cabinet
You don’t get a reputation of being a Playboy when you are ugly
and you don’t rebound 6 times to high levels after bancruptcies when you lack intelligence .
Only idiots won’t understand that.
Trump gave you so much ammo to use against him , yet you try to pick a fight where no ammo is to be found.
You don’t call it “Playboy” when minors are involved
It’s called being a nepo baby and having friends in Russia. It takes a special kind of intelligence to not be able to sell steaks and gambling to Americans.
I’ll give him this: he’s a great con man and grifter.
I also like how you didn’t even try to defend his cabinet.
It doesn’t matter how well refuted the lie is, if the party tells him to believe it, LoserName believes it.
Mylosername probably beats off to pictures of Melania.
Dude: unnecessary.
Funny how this “grifter” refuses his tax payer funded salary.
… and is paying out of his own pocket for major upgrades to the White House.
If anyone but Trump was building the Grand Ballroom, the far-left would love it…
… that is how Trump deranged they are.
WRONG again… Biden was the one sniffing the hair of “minors”.
Trump prefers more mature women.. Something you would not understand.
Trump received a loan from his father when he started his first company. Something like $100K, Which he paid back in full, including interest.
No nepotism there.
Lots of restaurants go out of business every year, and the year that Trump’s casino went through re-structuring, all of the Atlantic City casinos were suffering and many went out of business.
Is there ANYTHING that you know that is actually true?
I think minus 80 might be a WATTS record? This shows how much easier it is to be infamous than famous.
Or DUMB vs intelligent !
His minuses are now triple digit, something his IQ has never come close to being.
It is now =-108, sort of like solar electric sales prices.
IIRC, the record is still held by Stokes who was at or close to -150 after a particularly inane comment.
You are right. Trumps cabinet is incapable of dicussing watering plants with Brawndo like the Biden cabinet.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_DeLauro ):
“She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, attended the London School of Economics, and earned a master of arts degree in international politics from Columbia University.
Before entering the House of Representatives, DeLauro worked as Senator Chris Dodd’s chief of staff and campaign manager, was the executive director of EMILY’s List, and coordinated 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis’s tristate area campaign.”
So, does anyone seriously believe that academic and work history qualifies her to lecture anyone on “climate change”???
Good grief!
Well, as Carl Sagan once said: Being smart is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
I greatly doubt she’s smart. She IS highly emotional, however.
Like Lord Kelvin……
Having an Arts degree is absolutely ZERO proof you have any intelligence.
True brice2000.
It is also true that having an Arts degree is absolutely ZERO proof a person is a raving idiot.
She did not need her degree to prove her idiocy. Her performance in the Committee Meeting was more than sufficient to that end.
“Arts degree is absolutely ZERO proof a person is a raving idiot.”
Let’s just file that in the “highly likely” category !! 😉
Good proxy. It may apply to me and my art degree.
“She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, attended the London School of Economics, and earned a master of arts degree in international politics from Columbia University.”
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As I have said before, having an education and having wisdom are not necessarily the same things. People like DeLauro and Michael Mann demonstrate this.
Arts degree.. qualifies you to be a barista at Starbucks. !
Qualifies one to apply to be a barista. It still takes dedication and hard work to actually be successful as a barista. Something which many arts majors haven’t mastered.
Never confuse being educated with being intelligent either.
To divert for a moment.
Having an excellent command of the language is too often confused with intelligence.
AI has a superior human language interface and many are convinced it is actually intelligent as if human.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
Richard P Feynman
These pontificating politicians, and their drooling adulators, know no bounds with their grifting. It is always about money.
Rest assured when WW Eleven breaks out, all 57 United States of America will unit to defeat the enemy.
There are 58 States. Obama had been to 57 with 1 to go.
Or more: “I think I have 1 left to go”, clearly he wasn’t sure of how many more there were. LOL
I was going to upvote you, but you already had +42.
Yet another example of why democrats can’t be allowed to be in control again – and another example of low IQ voters who elect people like this.
You got that right, and even Barney Frank knows it on his deathbed.
He’ll be coming to NOW soon.
Democrats have two modes of operation. Telling Fairy Tales and expressing unbridled anger when their Fairy Tales are exposed as bunk.
Does looking like death warmed over include a purple hair wig? My dad called morons like her piss ants.
I haven’t heard a similar term since my father died many years ago. His second word was “willy”. He was raised in Warren County, PA. 🙂
MUNR is her chief of staff ?
😉
I’m third generation Italian American. When I was a kid in the ’50s, I knew many elderly Italian ladies who came over on the boat and some could still barely speak English. They were always respectable looking despite mostly coming from poverty in “the old country”. This blue haired witch would certainly be an embarrassment for those old timers.
Rosa DeLauro is a Representative, elected by the people in Connecticut. One can only surmise that she is indeed representative of the majority of voters in her district – if so the voters have no common sense and little intelligence. That she is allowed to be on the Appropriations Committee is a sad indictment of how corrupt and broken our political system is.
I appreciate Lee Zeldin not only not kowtowing to this know-nothing blue-haired rhymes-with-witch, but bringing the fight directly to her by trying to set her straight and giving her all the minuscule amount of respect to which she is due…
The saddest part is that she may be the best that Connecticut has to offer to the national government. I look and listen to the others and none of them sound rational.
Zeldin is a national treasure. We need him to stay at EPA for the full duration of Trump’s term. There is still a lot of EPA regulatory nonsense that needs to be undone. Next up should be PM 10 and PM 2.5 NAAQS which are based of secret science and rigged models.
Zeldin would have been a NYS treasure in 2022, but for the Democrat’s highly successful campaigns after the Dobbs decision to terrify women into believing that Republicans would impede their access to post-birth abortions. The tragic irony, of course, is that the Democrats have since gone ‘full hijab’ in their opposition to Trump, so we’ll see how this eventually works out for the ladies.
The funny thing was that they were discussing a 52% cut in the EPA’s budget, requested by the EPA, and DeLauro tried to threaten him with a cut in his budget.
LOL, yeah. Not too bright is she. a real “I’ll threaten to give you with what you want” situation.
“serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district since 1991”
2026-1991 = 35 years since she made an effort
Connecticut is a mess. In addition to the obviously ignorant purple hair Congressperson, it has Senator ‘DaNang’ Dick Blumenthal of stolen valor infamy, and Senator Chris Murphy who just this month traitorously labeled an erroneous report onIranian tankers evading the US blockade as ‘awesome’.
I think here in New England it’s monkey see monkey do- with Boston being the Mecca of wokeism and the climate catastrophe. All those pretentious intellectuals in that city. Then the city and the state follows suit- then nearby states copy the policies.
I think the pretentious intellectuals in New Haven (DeLauro’s House district) would take umbrage at the accusation that they’re any less pretentious, or irrational, than those in Boston, or even Cambridge for that matter.
True, Yale is very pretentious, but slightly less than Hah-vid, the nation’s oldest and probably wealthiest college.
Dick Blumenthal… age 80.
Being old in not a disqualifier, but 15 years as a senator might have slowed him down some. Started as AG in 1991, so in theory he knows what a court case is.
Bluementhal lied about serving in Vietnam.
Everybody knows he lied.
Connecticut voters elected him anyway. Outrageous!
Personal integrity means absolutely nothing to the DNC, or whatever cabal directs the Democrat Party. What matters is total obedience to the party’s directives and electability. Any office holder or potential candidate who falters on either count will be expelled.
The EPA has lost its independence and is now just a tool for trump’s fossil fuel interests.
On December 7, 2009, the Administrator signed two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act:
https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do
Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/04/can-the-epa-survive-lee-zeldin
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding
https://apnews.com/article/green-energy-environment-trump-rollbacks-fact-check-208382e5fb17f9ec6831831f50f7232e
EPA leader Zeldin supports slashing agency budget by half at contentious congressional hearings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/29/epa-zeldin-budget-trump-congress/88b29ac4-43c0-11f1-b19d-32431046b5b4_story.html
NEW: Sierra Club Tool Shows Deadly Impact of Coal on Public Health Across the Country
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/28/new-sierra-club-tool-shows-deadly-impact-of-coal-on-public-health-across-the-country/
“Lost it’s independence???”…It’s not supposed to be independent. It’s part of the Administrative Branch. Its bureaucrats are subject to administration policies and oversight. The administration is then held responsible by the voters. That’s called representative democracy– a concept poorly understood by the authoritarian Left.
It seems . . .Reloaded needs a refresher lesson on the three branches of government.
In his mind, the three branches would be the Democrat party, the Socialist party and the Communist party.
Isn’t he/she/it a European? (Holland?) So, he wouldn’t understand the great concept of 3 branches of government and their roles. Though, if he has any education, he should be aware of it.
That’s Bally.
And a transplant surgery for critical thinking ability.
Best he not get that refresher from AOC. LOL
It is part of the Executive Branch of government, run by and responsible to the President, who heads the Executive Branch. Our little purple haired friend is a member of Congress, part of the Legislative Branch of our government. The Executive Branch is charged with executing the laws of the United States, which are passed by the Congress and signed by the President. I don’t understand why she thinks the Executive Branch should do what she says, if it is not enshrined in laws passed by Congress, of which she is a member.
So much appeal to authority here. Never forget that Obama and his cronies jammed through economy stifling regulations of a life giving gas because they claimed it is a pollutant. The cognitive gymnastics that one has to go through to agree with this silliness…
Not much cognitive gymnastics for those on the receiving end of the vast fortune of our tax money for ruinables. For them, it’s pure joy.
Let us not forget that the Dems and the courts also declared CO2 to be a life-threatening pollutant. If that isn’t stupid I don’t know what is? And these morons have power over the rest of us. Our founders were always worried about “factions” and one can read about it in the Federalist Papers. Sigh…
“The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.”
CO2 is not a threat to human health. “The Environment” doesn’t mean “global climate”, which cannot be controlled.
global climate cannot even be defined.
And CO2 never belonged on that list. It was only added to bolster Renewable/Green Interests. CO2 is, in fact, the gas that leads to Greening and Oasification especially in desert zones.
The most potent GHG isn’t even on the list…the dreaded DiHydrogen-Monoxide H2O … also released, like CO2, with each and every breath of ALL Animal Life on Earth.
Speaking of tools, who do you work for in the trolling biz?
He’ll never tell us. Maybe he’s totally fake, created by Anthony Watts with AI for the purpose of stimulating conversation- by creating a low IQ, highly pretentious, non gender, climatista. 🙂
That is my theory.
You don’t have to create one of those, plenty available and they work for cheap.
Independence is of course defined as doing what ever the far left wants done.
“The Administrator finds…”
And because an administrator finds something, you think it must be true?
It’s amazing how comfortable you are with repeatedly embarrassing yourself.
Sounds wonderful to me.
‘On December 7, 2009, the Administrator signed two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act:
These findings do not themselves impose any requirements on industry or other entities. However, this action was a prerequisite for implementing greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles and other sectors.’
Note, these findings, which did not ‘impose any requirements on industry or other entities’, were signed by a previous ‘Administrator’, but were not implemented into the CAA by act of Congress – Strike 1
While a ‘prerequisite for implementing greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles and other sectors’, such were never passed by act of Congress – Strike 2
And, finally, these findings, which again have never been implemented into the CAA by Congress, have been rescinded by the current ‘Administrator’ – Strike 3
You are one sorry climate poluter.
Stop exhaling CO2.
Not to mention MUNR’s totally dependency on fossil fuels and products made using fossil fuels.
““No, but you don’t have, excuse me, you do not have the right to say climate change does not exist, that it’s a hoax, and that’s where this administration is coming from,” DeLauro said.”
The administration said no such things in the finalized rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. That rescission was based on legal and statutory issues, not on the scientific matters.
This exchange should be a reminder that the core scientific claims of the 2009 Finding – that emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O and other IR-active trace gases cause climate harm – should be directly refuted, not conceded. We do not want a future Congress to pass a law to codify the misconception about what happens physically with the energy involved in the so-called “enhanced greenhouse effect.”
Skeptics of climate alarm would do well to sharpen their arguments to include the demonstration from the dynamics of the general circulation that the incremental concentrations of CO2 and the other IR-active trace gases are NOT CAPABLE of exerting a harmful influence – or even a perceptible influence – on “warming” or on any other climate variable.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PDJP3F3rteoP99lR53YKp2fzuaza7Niz?usp=drive_link
Thank you for listening.
“That rescission was based on legal and statutory issues, not on the scientific matters. ”
Then, didn’t the EPA add that paper by several scientists to back it up- though it wasn’t officially part of the rescission. I need to find that again. If anyone has an URL to it, reply with it- with me being too lazy to look through a government web site, given that they’re usually too busy for me.
It was the DOE that commissioned the “Critical Review” report by the Climate Working Group of scientists – Koonin, Curry, Spencer, Christy, and McKitrick. This report was initially referenced by Zeldin publicly, but later was not officially referenced in the EPA action to rescind, as far as I know. This is the DOE docket which put out that report for comment.
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/DOE-HQ-2025-0207/document
The critical review report wasn’t necessary for the endangerment finding repeal. The report argued ‘climate science’. The repeal used legally less assailable EPA process—the approach advocated by Francis Menton here at WUWT some months ago.
The repeal and the review are still barely mentioned in the MSM, apparently they are so horrified about it they have it repressed. The Nut Zero states certainly haven’t let it change their policies.
thanks!
‘Skeptics of climate alarm would do well to sharpen their arguments to include the demonstration from the dynamics of the general circulation that the incremental concentrations of CO2 and the other IR-active trace gases are NOT CAPABLE of exerting a harmful influence – or even a perceptible influence – on “warming” or on any other climate variable.’
Exactly right, David. And that means that ‘luke warmers’ need to take a serious look at their tacit agreement with the phenomenological physics of radiative transfer theory that greatly understates the role of convective energy transport in the troposphere.
Exactly right, Frank, but augment it with separation from the Trans-Reality Activist lexicon.
The list is too long to publish today.
There is no global climate.
Global mean temperatures is simply an exercise in arithmetic with not basis in reality.
Until “climate science” defines the optimum “global climate” in clear and concise metrics that are measurable and testable by anyone/everyone, we cannot know if we are departing an optimum or approaching an optimum. This is the number 1 flaw in the mis-named “climate science.”
‘The list is too long to publish today.’
Looking forward to seeing it in the future then.
There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.
Especially willful ignorance.
Especially if it has purple hair.
This world has truly gone absolutely bonkers:
Blue hair isn’t a cry for attention. It’s a bid for accuracy. “I already am this person. Now you can see it.” – Neurolaunch
For many, altering their hair color can boost self-esteem and provide a sense of renewal. However, there is a fine line between harmless fun and an indication of deeper issues. – Counsel & Heal
I rest my case.
Altering your hair color to something unnatural is a sign of narcissism. It screams “LOOK AT ME!!”
With the number of wrinkles on her face, I doubt the black hairs are an accurate representation of her current hair color either.
I wonder what color would her mustache be if she missed a day shaving?
Unkind comment, albeit true.
And in my opinion, really ugly. But now I’m being unkind.
I do have a dear friend who does green and/or violet and/or blonde in her jet-black hair. But then she is in her 30’s, quite pretty, smart, great personality – and can absolutely pull it off. The congresswoman missed that by a parsec in every category.
“And in my opinion, really ugly” And that is applicable to more than just her outer appearance.
Coloring hair might be cute on a young woman but not on an old hag. And not on men- I have seen some around my region. Even worse in my opinion is man buns. Everyone has a right to look anyway they want- but a man bun looks whacko. OK on person from another culture where it’s not uncommon.
Talking about hair …
What do you find under a ponytail ??
A big ass. (:-))
Good video! – Did You Notice How Climate Alarmism Just Stopped?
(Jordan Peterson)
This woman is a nut job and has been in congress since 1991. Maybe it is time to go. Term limits could really help in this case. And by case I mean mental.
Thankfully Nancy Lugosi won’t be running she’s supposed to be hanging up her Broom and retiring!
“At the start of the 119th Congress (2025–2026), the median age of U.S. senators was approximately 64 years old… The median age for both Democratic and Republican senators was 64.”
2026- about 64 years old + about 21 years to finish an undergrad = opinions from the early 1980s captured in amber.
Well, considering the opinions from post-1980s, having early 1980s opinions captured in amber isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Rather that than the deranged-woke opinions of the 2020s.
I live not far from Baraboo, WI, home of the Ringling Bros Circus Museum, and also in the Madison, WI TV market., so I’m regularly exposed to these sorts of Freak Shows….She still doesn’t know what Lee was talking about.
I don’t understand why people say “and also”.
Somebody better give her 50 cents so she can buy a clue.
Lee is excellent!!!!!
It’s a remake of the Wizard of Oz and her broom is behind her chair.
I’m reminded of the scene in the classic Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol when the spirit of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the two children clinging to him for protection. This boy is ignorance, this girl is want. Beware them both, but especially this boy.
Maybe Dickens had the genders mixed up.
it’s the 2020s now, gender-recasting is all the rage – but only when it’s a male character being recast as female. recasting a female as male is misogynistic. Ditto race recasting -celebrated when it’s white to POC (with bonus points when the white character was a ginger) but racist going the other way.
Lee Zeldin is a perfect example of the type of people We The People are supposed to have working for us and representing us. But no! We still mostly have unelected Administrative State bureaucrats establishing untenable terms, regulations, and dictates. As Lee Zeldin exemplified, we are a Constitutional Republic with laws, but the purple haired people eaters (1950s song reference) don’t want that – don’t even know what it is; they’ve been running rough shod over We The People for so long, they think it’s their right. God bless Lee Zeldin.
I love Zeldin, but is he not an “unelected Administrative State bureaucrat”?
Given 100 dictators, a handful will be benevolent.
Mr. M: Yeah, he’s a gov’t worker, alright. If we’re to have a government, there’s gonna need to be some people actually present, not all gov’t can be operated without people like some Somali Daycare.
I wonder if she’s paid by the rant or by the word. We know its not for insight.
She was no match for him, or anybody for that matter. She needs to go in the Witless Protection Program.
Her, and her ilk, can only read from prepared statements written by their staff. Why? Because they are as ignorant as any 3rd grade child. They are like monkeys; see nothing, hear nothing, but they sure can jabber.
The next day “Gold Bar Jr.” Menendez talked over him and looked just as unhinged and foolish….we as a nation have got to stop letting the stupidest and most corrupt in society gain positions of power in our government.
“Robert Menendez is an American former politician and lawyer who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2006 until his resignation in 2024.”
Not sure if I got the right one. The Senator Menendez I found is a spry and energetic man of 72 who served a brief 18 year senate tenure.
I’m not gonna say she is STUPID, but when it comes to thinking, she sure does have a string of bad luck.
My first view of the headline, without having read it was, that there is an article about Led Zeppelin and Purple Haze. Ok, than I read the headline
🤣 and the rest.
Well, Lee did put some “Smoke on the Water” in that exchange.
MyUsernameReloaded comments like the stooge Troll who comments at CFACT as “Ritard Greene”….did I misspell a word?…I had to block him because he was condescending, obnoxious and ignorant…the poster boy for Dunning-Kruger.
Here he commented as Richard Greene and disappeared later.
Same guy, I was using the modification of his name everyone at CFACT uses to address him. He claims to be a hippy from Michigan from the 1960s…must have gotten hold of some really bad drugs over all those years.
He is a worshiper of the EGH effect, so I used to mock him with this graphic.
I check the Climate Change Dispatch website a couple of times a week and a “Richard Greene” regularly posts there.
See, for example, the username of the commenter under the CCD version of the “Zeldin Stumps DeLauro On Landmark SCOTUS Rulings During Fiery Exchange” story.
They regularly get called out for making unsupported sweeping assertions under CCD articles, and various synonyms of “condescending” have been used in responses to their posts in the past.
I wondered what happened to Richard Greene.
I guess he could not stand the heat here at WUWT, so he moved on.
Mr. Pilot: Well, he does introduce himself as one who has changed his username, not a very clever disguise. I’m sure this is not that Mr. Greene, that guy wouldn’t go anonymous. This guy, on the other hand, is pure troll.