EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Celebrates As Trump Declares Victory Over The Climate Apocalypse That Was Totally Going To Kill Us All, Probably

Lee Zelding and President Trump

WASHINGTON—In a stunning development that has coastal elites reaching for their reusable straws and therapy dogs, President Donald Trump took a victory lap Saturday after scientists quietly admitted that one of their favorite doomsday global warming scenarios was about as accurate as a Hillary Clinton email server.

"Good riddance! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

The president accused Democrats of using climate fears the way a used car salesman uses "low mileage" to scare people into buying something expensive and unreliable.

"For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs," he continued. "Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!"

Trump’s comments came after climate scientists finally started phasing out the IPCC’s most extreme emissions fairy tale, the one that predicted cities underwater, crops failing like a vegan barbecue, and basically a real-life dinosaur extinction event but with more Priuses. The scenario, known as RCP8.5 (or SSP5-8.5 for those who like their acronyms extra spicy), assumed humanity would keep burning coal like it was going out of style while ignoring every trend toward cheaper renewables and actual emissions data.

Researchers, writing in a journal that sounds like it was named by a thesaurus, basically said: "Yeah, this high-end nightmare fuel is now implausible."

"For the 21st century, this range will be smaller than assessed before: on the high-end of the range, the high emission levels (quantified by SSP5-8.5) have become implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends."This comes after Trump called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" at the U.N. last September.

"It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion," Trump said at the time. "All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong."

"They were made by stupid people that have cost their country's fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success," he continued.

Naturally, this triggered the usual suspects. 

Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, emerged from whatever wine cellar she was haunting to denounce the remarks as "total disinformation."

"You know yesterday at the U.N., President Trump said, ‘Climate change is a hoax,’ because it’s just total disinformation," Killery said during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. "It’s a statement that is just not true, and yet being propagated."

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, however, backed the president. 

"The president is absolutely right and we've seen it in the name of climate change, these left wing policies willing to cause extreme economic pain for people who can at least afford it," Zeldin said.

Sources close to the climate cult confirmed they are now working on a brand new, even scarier model that will definitely be right this time, guys. Just trust the science. 

And remember to recycle your guilt.

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DOGE Finds $2 B in Taxpayer Funds meant for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found out that $2,000,000,000 of taxpayer money was given to a new nonprofit connected to Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who keeps losing elections.

In April 2024, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Power Forward Communities the huge grant through a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This group got the money for green energy projects even though it was only started in late 2023 and had almost no experience. According to its latest tax records, it made a mere $100 in its first three months.

Power Forward Communities was one of eight groups that got a piece of the $20 billion the EPA handed out in April 2024. On February 13, 2025, EPA boss Lee Zeldin said his team, along with DOGE officials, discovered that Biden’s administration had moved that $20 billion to a private bank before leaving office. This made it harder for the government to keep an eye on how the money was being used.

Finding out that Power Forward Communities got some of this cash raises big questions about whether Biden’s team picked favorites when giving out these giant grants. Abrams strongly supported Biden’s green energy plans and campaigned for Kamala Harris, the former vice president.

 
Republicans have warned for years that Biden’s allies might create groups just to grab federal money from programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This program, started by the Democrats’ huge 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, was meant to act like a “green bank” to fund eco-friendly projects.

“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”

“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” Zeldin added. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Neither Power Forward Communities nor Abrams answered questions about this.

Power Forward Communities was set up in October 2023 by a number of groups, including Rewiring America, a left-leaning organization pushing for electric power over fossil fuels. Abrams, who works as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said she was “thrilled” to join the group. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she posted on X.

The group’s website says it’s the first big nationwide program to pay for energy-saving home upgrades. It wants to help homeowners, builders, and renters switch out gas appliances—like old stovetops—for electric ones, like induction stovetops.

In its only press release so far, Power Forward Communities said it would use the $2 billion from the EPA to install things like heat pumps, solar panels, home batteries, electric car chargers, and better insulation.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud,” said Daniel Turner from Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, in an interview with the Free Beacon.

Power Forward Communities lists a number of partners on its site, including two nonprofits Abrams started after losing the 2018 Georgia governor race: the Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count. The Southern Economic Advancement Project, which works on racial equity and economic power in the South, is backed by the Tides Center, a group that gives tons of money to left-wing causes.

Other partners include the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO, two big labor unions that support Democrats. The teachers’ union leader, Randi Weingarten, and Abrams both advise Climate Power, a group that spent $55 million on ads for Kamala Harris’s presidential run in September 2024.

“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said. “Those days are over.”

Right before Biden’s team left office, they put the $20 billion—now tracked down by Zeldin and DOGE—at Citibank. The eight groups that got the money, including Power Forward Communities, have only used a small amount of it thus far. But this setup makes it tough for Trump’s administration to take the money back, though Zeldin is working hard to do just that.

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Biden's EPA funneled money to Leftists

Lee Zelden with a blurry woman behind him

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Wednesday that his agency uncovered a plan where the Biden administration was funneling money to leftist activist groups as they were leaving office.

“An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,’ rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day,” Zeldin said in a video message. “The gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”

Zeldin mentioned that he had reached out to the Department of Justice and the inspector general to look into the $20,000,000,000 that was moved to an outside financial institution to distribute to hard left leaning groups just as Biden was physically leaving office--he had mentally left office as vice president.

“Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” Zeldin said. “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency.”

Zeldin insisted that the deal with the financial institution should be canceled right away and the money returned to the government, adding that “[T]he days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-Left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”

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Almost half of investigators fell sick studying East Palestine train derailment

The Norfolk Southern 100-car train derailment that created a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio is being studied by 15 U.S. government investigators and now 7 of them have experiencing illness symptoms even after the feds said the water is safe to drink, while not actually drinking it themselves. [H/T The Daily Wire]

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which includes members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service [an oxymoron if there ever was one] reported to CNN that almost half the crew felt sick while surveying homes of the town's residents near the contaminated areas.

Pete Buttigieg, our so called Transportation Secretary had visited East Palestine weeks after the disaster occurred and thought it was all clear, but now he says that he's concerned his chest milk might be contaminated and he doesn't know what to do about feeding his baby. 

“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours,” a CDC spokesperson told the network. “Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects.” No deaths of team members have been reported as of now.

Local and state authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the February 3 derailment and started a controlled burn of substances on the vehicle. It's as if the contamination knows that a mile is a safe distance, like 6 feet is a safe distance to prevent Covid from killing you.

Five of those train cars emitted vinyl chloride in huge plumes of black smoke visible throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Vinyl chloride is a human carcinogen that's used in the manufacturing of PVC. Residents in the town have since raised the alarm over health symptoms they experienced after the controlled burn in spite of the lies the government tried to pass off.

Before working from their hotels, some group members began experiencing sore throats, headaches, coughing, and nausea, basically the same symptoms reported by many of the town’s residents near the derailment site.

Federal officials did not disclose what caused investigators to experience such symptoms but again assured everyone that the water is safe to drink.

Two contractors from the Environmental Protection Agency out of 100 personnel working on the derailment also reported health symptoms after working in areas where the chemicals created strong odors.

The Ohio Department of Health published the results of surveys conducted at its East Palestine Health Assessment Clinic, plus door-to-door visits by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, four weeks after the chemical catastrophe permeated the town’s atmosphere.

The results showed more than half of the 168 After Chemical Exposure (ACE) community surveys reported headaches, anxiety, coughing, fatigue, and irritated skin after the derailment. However, the surveys did not indicate if the residents were exposed to harmful levels of chemicals or what caused their symptoms.

EPA officials, in conjunction with the Justice Department, announced a lawsuit on Friday against Norfolk Southern. They are seeking “penalties and injunctive relief for the unlawful discharge of pollutants, oil, and hazardous substances” under the Clean Water Act, [although they said the water is safe to drink] as well as “declaratory judgment on liability for past and future costs” related to the incident under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. 

The complaint from the EPA and Justice Department said materials released from the train cars, such as vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, Ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, isobutylene, and benzene residue, have been “associated variously” with impaired fetal development, organ damage, cancers, and other health conditions with a sufficiently high degree of exposure. 

Yet, state and federal officials have repeatedly claimed that the air and water supplies in East Palestine are safe for residents. In other words, the water is safe to drink. 

So why didn't the state and federal officials wet their whistles while in town?

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Obama EPA regs based on 'junk science' ?

"Scientific" studies used by the Obama administration to justify ridiculous environmental regulation are actually being examined for their veracity as critics question their merit while the Trump EPA reverses of delays some of those rules, Fox News reported.

In one case, the Environmental Protection Agency never complied with a congressional subpoena for the data used to justify most Obama administration air quality rules. And Congress sat on their collective hands and did nothing while the law was being laughed at.

In another case, it was determined that research supporting a ban on a particular pesticide was probably bogus, similar to the: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor . . . period," line of bull pucks.

"EPA regulations are based on secret data developed in the 1990s," said Steve Milloy, who served as President Trump's EPA transition team. "For the EPA, coming up with cherry-picked data is standard operating procedure," he told Fox News.

Milloy wrote: "Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA." He is an attorney and worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and is a critic who accuses federal agencies of selecting the research that fits their political agenda.

To deal with corruption, in October, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a directive to ensure that those who serve on EPA advisory committees aren't eligible for EPA grants and are free from potential conflicts of interest.

"Whatever sciences comes out of EPA, shouldn't be political science," Pruitt said in a statement. "From this day forward, EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the agency."

Gee, what a novel idea.

But of course, environmental groups blasted that decision based on their own self-interests.

For more on the EPA and how the Trump administration is changing the game, go to Fox News.  


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Health and Human Services? Priceless

U.S. health secretary Tom Price has been flying on the country's dime. He now agrees to pay back $51.887.31 for part of the accrued costs for private charter flights he has taken on government business and now has promised to fly commercial--"no exceptions."

Too little and too late.

The price of the almost $52K only covers the cost of Price's pricey seat but the overcall price may be north of a million simoleons. The case is currently under investigation and Democrats are livid and are acting morally superior over the issue because they don't have good ideas, only personal attacks.

President Trump publicly rebuked Price, and appeared to have been on the cusp of uttering his famous line from his hit TV show "The Apprentice," but he didn't and appears to have allowed Price to bow out gracefully with his resignation, which was tendered Friday morning.

A portion of the
booze bill

"I regret the concerns this has raised [meaning: I regret having been caught and now my screw up is being made public] regarding the use of taxpayer dollars," Price said in a statement. "I was not sensitive enough [meaning: I didn't give a fiddler's flatulence] for the taxpayer." His apology came a day after President Trump's attack on his behavior.

Price admitted Trump spoke with him about his displeasure over screwing the taxpayer, but he didn't put it that way.

But it isn't as if Price is the first politician to fly privately and bilk the taxpayer. 

Trips by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt have also come under fire, particularly by hypocrites on the left who forgot about Nancy Pelosi's booze and food parties where taxpayers footed the booze bill that came to about $101,000 over a two year period, or about $1,000 a week when she was House Speaker.

Pelosi provided her guests with top shelf booze such as Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac Bombay Sapphire gin and so on . . . hic. That was part of what was called "in-flight services" for her trips on Air Force jets paid for by us.

We have conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to thank when they obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2010. It proved Pelosi incurred expenses of about $2.1 million for her use of USAF aircraft for travel.

"Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said at the time. "And these documents suggest the Speaker's congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else."

Nancy Pelosi, however, paid nothing back and was never investigated.

But that isn't the whole story about the misuse of taxpayer money. Obama officials are also involved in taking pricey trips, including personal trips.

Then attorney generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, then-FBI director Robert Mueller and then-CIA director and defense secretary Leon "The Schnoz" Panetta were also guilty of the same personal use and abuse of taxpayer money.

The FBI convinced Congress at the time that two high-tech luxury jets were needed for the fight agains global terrorism [and better leg room]. As it turned out, global terrorism grew and the jets were used to haul Holder's and Mueller's butts around and Holder's predecessors.

The other officials beside Mueller and Holder were former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales. Between 2007 and 2011, the dynamic duo racked up almost 700 "nonmission" flights at a cost of only $11,400,000, according to the Government Accountability Office. 

Why nothing was reported at the time shows the Accountability Office should also be held accountable.

Those officials are required to use government aircraft, and in some cases, reimburse the government for part of the expenses. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at the cost incurred, Mukasey and Gonzales should have either cut back their miles or not use the expensive Gulfstream V jets.

"These luxury jets were supposedly needed for counterterrorism, but it turns out they were used almost two-thirds of the time for jet-setting executive travel," Grassley said.

The cost for the attorneys general travel was $5.8 million; the FBI director's was nearly as much. About 70 percent of the AG flights were for business and 28 percent for personal reasons. That leaves 2 percent, possibly for dive-bombing ISIS.

The point is, people in power tend to flaunt their power and don't see a problem with pissing away taxpayer money because it isn't theirs. This isn't only about Tom Price--it's a government thing--we wouldn't understand.


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New Report slams global warming: "Not reality ..."

World leaders, particularly those in the EU, have criticized President Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. The agreement would have saddled the US with many billions of dollars in debt and economic losses while other nations didn't need to do much more than shake hands and collect a bunch of money.

Now a new report that analyzed Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) has blown the doors off Al Gore's private polluting jet. The report, produced by NASA, the NOAA and HADLEY proves Trump was right on target with his refusal to be part of the farce.

According to the report, which was peer reviewed by the EPA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, several of America's leading universities, administrators and scientists, the data is nothing more than balderdash.

In this research report, the most important surface data adjustment issues are identified and past changes in previous historical data are quantified. It was found that each new version of GAST has nearly always shown a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history.

The conclusive findings are that the three GAST data sets are not a valid representation of reality. In fact, the magnitude of their historical data adjustments, that removed their cyclical temperature patterns, are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.

What this means is that it's impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that the recent years have been the warmest ever, despite the Al Gorean imbeciles claiming record setting warming.

Since GAST data set validity is a necessary condition for the EPA's GHG/CO2 Endangerment Finding, it's also invalidated by these findings, which only shows warming, never cooling as historical data shows. They conveniently left that out.

What this all means is that the data has been falsified and tampered with, but we all know the left will claim that some deniers just want to destroy the earth.

The real data looks a lot like this:










But you'll never get the left to admit it.

So the establishment will continue to push the need for huge, costly initiatives to reduce green house gases and global temperatures to "normal" levels. Even though there is no global warming according to the report.

The best part is that nobody supporting the Paris Climate Agreement and the other initiatives have a clue what their massive regulations will really do to curb climate change--just ask them and watch their eyes glaze over like donuts.

Like Al Jazeera Gore and Bill Nye "the Pseudoscience Guy," I'm not a meteorologist nor an expert on global warming/climate change. 

As a realist, however, I don't see an immediate problem here. In fact, I see global warming, if it even exists microscopically, as a good thing, particularly for third world countries where people use toxic materials like cow dung to keep warm.

And anyone who goes to see Gore's sequel to his first fake documentary is going to witness more balderdash.



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