The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come under bipartisan criticism over his agency’s actions to cancel billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending to address chronic pollution in minority communities and jump-start clean energy programs.

Former EPA chief of staff Mandy Gunasekara evaluates EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s appearance before the Senate and more on ‘The Bottom Line.’

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the federal government is pulling the plug on a program that handed out incentives to automakers who install start/stop technology in their vehicles. The technology shuts off an engine when a car comes to a full stop.

On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The EPA is targeting stop-start vehicle technology that automatically turns off a car's engine when it is stopped at red lights to save fuel.

“I find many of them problematic,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, told EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin during a hearing on the White House’s fiscal 2026 budget blueprint.

The EPA is overhauling its staffing and offices to cut taxpayer funds going to the agency and to bring its workforce down to Reagan-era levels, Administrator Zeldin announced.

Mr. Zeldin has promised a rollback in regulations at the EPA. He has announced the biggest deregulatory action in American history, saying it will save trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden “taxes” on Americans.

EPA previously held a state-specific "water policy" event with West Virginia officials, which focused on carbon injection wells.

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