NYT: ‘Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington’ – ‘The mood was triumphant’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/climate/climate-change-deniers-trump.html By Maxine Joselow – Reporting from Washington Excerpt: Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by “leftist politicians.” Fossil fuels are the greenest energy sources. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be harmless. These were some of the false claims made at a conference on Wednesday held by groups that reject the overwhelming scientific […]
POLITICO: At climate contrarian gathering, allies urge Trump to keep Zeldin at EPA – Morano: ‘We don’t want to lose him at EPA…He’s been the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history’
“We don’t want to lose him at EPA,” said Marc Morano, of the conservative think tank the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. “I think he’s been the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history.”
Losing its cool? Climate movement takes hits as Trump wages onslaught, leftists pivot – Morano: ‘Trump is gutting everything the climate movement has ever stood for’
Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, a project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, said that the administration has been “the most consequential dismantler of the entire climate agenda since its inception.”
“I have been on the climate beat for over 25 years, and I have never seen anything like this,” he told The Times. “Trump is gutting everything the climate movement has ever stood for. Billionaires are silent or reversing themselves on climate, and even Democrats in Congress have been mostly silent as Trump crushes the climate movement. There has been no pushback!”
He pointed out that “Lee Zeldin routinely labels climate a ’cult’, a ’scam’, and a ’religion’, and he doesn’t even get pushback from reporters,” Mr. Morano said.
Watch: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin defends ‘controversial’ record as head of EPA at Heartland Institute Climate Conference
Lee Zeldin defends ‘controversial’ record as head of EPA at Heartland Institute Climate Conference EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on April 8, 2026 was the opening keynote speaker at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC. He said climate “realism” is “rising, which is what the American people voted for in 2024. Zeldin […]
EPA Chief Zeldin tells climate skeptics to ‘celebrate vindication’ after repeal of baseline climate rule
https://apnews.com/article/zeldin-epa-heartland-climate-change-endangerment-e5b831bb200da83adbaa60a8d50f27f5 (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change, telling a gathering of climate change skeptics they should “celebrate vindication.” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made the remarks in the keynote address at […]
Trump EPA Ends Exorbitant Pay-Outs to Litigious Environmental Nonprofits
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/trump-epa-ends-exorbitant-pay-outs By OPENTHEBOOKS Since 2013, millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees have been awarded to entities, usually nonprofits, to resolve environmental law litigation against the federal government. New data collected via Freedom of Information Act shows that in the first year of the Trump administration, environmental attorney fee pay outs have seen record lows. As […]
NYT: EPA Chief Zeldin to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis! Heartland Institute forum in April will challenge the climate crisis ‘narrative’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/climate/zeldin-epa-heartland-institute.html By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington Excerpt: Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the organization has announced. The speech, critics said, risks bestowing the credibility […]
It’s Official! The U.S. has formally notified the UN that it is withdrawing from the 1992 RIO Earth Summit Treaty! (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Via CEI: The U.S. has formally notified the UN that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to the UN, the U.S. will officially be out of the UNFCCC on February 27, 2027. A withdrawal takes effect one year after the UN’s receipt of the notification of withdrawal (which […]
Morano on Trump’s State of Union: ‘The climate legacy of this admin can be described as nothing less than Triumphant Trump’
Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot – President Trump State of the Union comment: “The climate legacy of this administration can be described as nothing less than Triumphant Trump. From performing over 200 actions to dismantle the climate agenda and promote American energy… — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) February 25, 2026 Marc Morano, publisher of Climate […]
Listen: Morano on The Vince Show talking Trump 2.0: ‘Vacating the 1992 UN Earth Summit treaty gets the USA out of the International climate scam & repealing the Endangerment Finding topples the domestic side of the climate scam. The keyword is ‘permanence’
Morano: ‘It’s unprecedented for one issue like this (climate) to be gutted. The climate agenda has imposed ‘punishingly expensive costs on USA for no climate benefit’