Climate correspondent and man with more frequent flyer miles than you, Bill Weir, joined CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta on Thursday to discuss what President-elect Donald Trump and EPA Administrator nominee Lee Zeldin mean for the environment. Naturally, Weir was quite gloomy, warning “these are such vital years” and worrying if the agency will be “able to hold the line.”
Acosta began, “Bill, what can you tell us about this? Because, I mean, he could have picked a coal industry lobbyist or something like that, but Lee Zeldin?”
After recalling Trump’s previous EPA administrators, Weir dove into Zeldin’s environmental biography:
Lee Zeldin, like all of these picks, a true loyalist, of course voted against the 2020 election certification, sat with Trumps in the box many times. Former New York, from Long Island, put himself,…
