Mr. Zeldin

Mr. Zeldin.

Thank you.

Mr. Zeldin is here to talk about the EPA, not other matters.

At the same time...

If it's related to the EPA, and you certainly can ask, but he also has a right to answer the question.

So let's try to be a little more civil on all parts.

Decisions that the EPA made under your leadership was to repeal higher mercury and air toxic standards.

Tell me a little bit about why you did that and specifically why you left out the health impacts in that analysis.

To refocus, specifically, why did your analysis of the impacts of this repeal not include the health impacts to the populations that are going to bear this increased mercury pollution?

There was no quantified health impact in that analysis, am I mistaken?

But in the repeal, how much do you think it's actually going to... What are the health harms of this repeal?

Uh...

It could be zero.

You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution in the air is going to lead to zero health harms?

That's the impact of the repeal.

From 2024 to the 2020-12 standards.

You mentioned you're going back to the 2020-12 standards.

The standards from 2024 are 70% higher than the standards from 2020-12.

We're about to do this where your position is that we are doubling the amount of mercury that you are allowing 70 percent higher mercury standards.

Now I'm saying 70 percent of the standard that had 70 percent stricter standards, the 2024 standard.