Hyma Moore

We want to have strong partnerships wherever we can overlap, work together, partner to get more investment in the United States, to create more jobs, to help our economy, to protect our environment.

I have signed off on a lot of primacy requests that states have given, sent in to the US EPA,

that we've approved over the course of the last year.

We are open for business in approving state implementation plans, granting these different primacy requests for states to take over certain aspects of regulating their environment from the federal government.

We believe that states know best on many of these environmental challenges that are faced within states rather than bureaucrats who sit inside of agencies in Washington, DC.

And actually with the California example, the best evidence of how to work together is to just look at what Governor Newsom was saying right after the wildfires.

I mean, I've posted a couple of the clips in recent days.

There's more clips.

where you have President Trump and the Trump administration receiving enormous praise by Governor Newsom for all of our response efforts.

And Governor Newsom was praising how historic it was, it was done in record time, how robust of a response effort we were up to, that we were busy with.

It was a partnership.

I mean, I remember having a phone call, President Trump called me, Governor Newsom was in the Oval Office,

And it was a long, productive, substantive conversation of how to work together.

And at some point, Governor Newsom decided instead of communicating publicly about that great effort behind the scenes to partner,

Instead, he started talking about how President Trump and the Trump administration haven't done anything at all.

And the claims that he was starting to lob were just so disgustingly not true that I had to speak up and just talk about the facts.

When President Trump came in, was given 30 days to complete our hazardous material phase one mission so that the Army Corps could come in with their phase two debris removal.

EPA completed our work in just under 30 days.

We ramped up the amount of bandwidth that we had, the workers that are on the ground.

We had over 13,000 buildings that we had to get through in surveying and green lighting.