CNN’s “chief climate correspondent” Bill Weir has been humiliated after he embarrassingly attempted to “fact check” President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
On Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin turned the tables on Weir by exposing the error in his “fact check” of the agency.
The EPA announced it would repeal dozens of Biden-era environmental regulations.
The plan seeks to lower the cost to buy a car, run a business, and heat a home.
During a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” Weir sought to discredit the EPA’s press release titled, “Trump EPA Announces OOOO b/c Reconsideration of Biden-Harris Rules Strangling American Energy Producers,”
Weir claimed that the EPA’s press release consisted of “typos and placeholders.”
However, Zeldin said the release correctly referred to a federal regulation under the Clean Air Act regarding the oil and gas industry.
“[The EPA] was putting out press releases with such a flurry, about 31 different actions and rollbacks, that some of them had typos and placeholders at the top, we have one of them there. ‘Trump EPA Announces’ zero, zero, zero, zero, you can see there,” Weir said.
“It’s sort of shoot first, fill out the press release later.
“They’re, of course, as you mentioned, vehicle emissions, power plant pollution, mercury pollution that comes out of there.
“Coal, waste, water, oil and gas.”
The press release in question announced that the EPA was “reconsidering” oil and gas regulations under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
In a post on X, Zeldin said the press release consists of the letter “O” and not zeros, as Weir claimed.
The EPA chief accused Weir of not having “the slightest clue what he’s talking about.”
“Another media ‘fact check’ face plant where the fact checker doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s talking about,” Zeldin said.
“‘OOOO b/c’ is not a typo.
“40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO, or Quad O, is a federal reg under the Clean Air Act.
“Also, those aren’t zeroes, it’s the letter ‘O’.”
Another media “fact check” face plant where the fact checker doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s talking about. “OOOO b/c” is not a typo.
40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO, or Quad O, is a federal reg under the Clean Air Act.
Also, those aren’t zeroes, it’s the letter “O”. pic.twitter.com/adPkShbPHS
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) March 13, 2025
Zeldin intends to scrap several of Biden’s policies that placed strict regulations on power and coal plants in order to “unleash American energy.”
The EPA administrator announced in a Wednesday press release that the agency would reconsider regulations on power plants, mercury, and toxic standards that “improperly targeted coal-fired power plants.”
Zeldin noted that Biden’s “woke green agenda” policies, such as the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), “imposed significant costs on the American energy supply.”
The GHGRP requires about 8,000 facilities, including GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites, to report their emissions annually.
The Biden administration implemented a rule requiring existing coal plants to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to control 90% of their “carbon emissions” by 2032 if they wanted to stay running past 2039 as part of their climate agenda.
The move was part of the Biden admin’s effort to comply with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” targets.
However, cost and reliability problems caused by the power plant regulations led to power grid experts raising concerns.
Additionally, the EPA is reconsidering its Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule.
The RMP rule requires facilities that use extremely hazardous substances to develop a risk management plan, stating the rule made America’s oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities “less safe,” according to the press release.
The EPA will further be terminating any Biden-era wings of the agency related to “environmental justice” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI).
