As EPA czar, Lee Zeldin should scrap these three awful Biden rules FAST

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Rep.Lee Zeldin (R-NY) to serve as the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Once confirmed, he’ll have a big job ahead of him — starting with undoing four years of damage by the Biden EPA.The agency has now finalized a long list of rules that jeopardize the well-being of Americans and ignore the will of Congress.

Here are three Zeldin should repeal immediately:The de facto electric vehicle mandate.This is an attempt by the agency to kill off gas-powered cars and push Americans to buy EVs.Per the EPA, the rule will result in EVs accounting for about 70% of all new car sales by 2032.

Consumer freedom? That apparently doesn’t matter to the Biden EPA.Never mind, also, all the problems with EVs compared to gas-powered cars, including higher prices and reliability issues.That’s just a pill Americans will have to swallow if this rule survives.Indeed, the EPA apparently didn’t even care that Congress hadn’t authorized the rule.Yet if lawmakers wanted to take the unprecedented step of dictating what kind of cars Americans drive, they would’ve spoken up clearly.Actually, in effect, they did — by remaining silent.The power plant rule, also known as the Clean Power Plan 2.0.Its predecessor, the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, was shot down by the Supreme Court in the 2021 case West Virginia v.

EPA.Like with the Clean Power Plan, the EPA once again tried to play the role of national electric-grid manager, trying to shift electric generation from reliable sources like coal and natural gas to unreliable ones like wind and solar.To that end, it imposed infeasible technological requirements to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants that will effectively kill off coal and discourage new natural-gas plants.PJM Interconnection, which manages the grid for over 65 million people, warned, “The future demand for electricity cannot be met simply through renewables given thei...