Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is flying out to San Diego Tuesday to address a “public health and environmental crisis” regarding sewage on the U.S.-Mexico border on Earth Day.
“There is nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California, dealing with this very important public health and environmental crisis,” Zeldin told reporters at a Monday morning news conference ahead of his flight.
“For decades, there has been raw sewage that’s been traveling across the border and Americans are very concerned with regard to beach closures, degradation of the Tijuana River Valley, concerns with public air, health quality,” Zeldin noted. “It’s been going on for too long, and we have to urgently and deliberately pursue and implement a solution that permanently ends this.”
Earlier this month, Mexico completed…
