EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin tells the Just the News, No Noise TV program that he is working on expediting the agency's permitting processes, include those for new energy projects, to improve domestic and overseas investment.  

“I came in here at EPA, started meeting with staff and the different offices we have here to see what they need, what opportunities exist to reduce timelines, to be able to get permits done. And the fact is, opportunities abound all across this agency to do our part,” Zeldin said. 

Zeldin explained that the EPA is focused on ensuring Americans have clean air, land and water, but those need to be balanced with costs. 

“We also have to be cognizant of how the American public spoke this past November, that they have economic concerns with their lives, that regardless of agency, regardless of mission, there's a demand of the American people on the federal government to be working hard to tackle so we want to unleash energy dominance, however possible, and bring back American auto jobs,” he said. 

Expediting the permitting process, Zeldin said, is part of the overall mission of reducing costs and furthering energy dominance. 

“You'll end up increasing investment from not just Americans, but also people outside of the country who want to come to America," he also said. "There is a fear that if you come, you spend maybe billions of dollars with an uncertain future, that your timeline might be granted or not years down the road. It's a deterrent that leads to that investment not being made in the first place."