President Biden's climate change plan for electric vehicles and renewable energy sources will harm the environment, warns Andrew Wheeler, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under former President Trump.
"[W]e don't know what we're going to do with the disposal of these windmills or solar panels," the latter of which "In particular, have hazardous materials in them," Wheeler told the John Solomon Reports podcast Thursday.
"Every single energy source has positives and negatives, and nobody ever looks at the negatives of renewable energy, and we have to have as a country if we're going to push what Joe Biden wants to do," Wheeler said.
"[H]e wants to have 50% electric vehicles by 2030." "Right now, when you trade in your old battery, most of them are just going to warehouses and sitting in warehouses until we perfect technology to dispose of them," Wheeler explained.
China, where some companies produce more pollution than entire nations, is "Not held accountable for anything that they do," Wheeler lamented.
Wheeler called for a conservative approach to environmentalism that focuses "On community-based environmentalism - where people live - getting the Superfund sites cleaned up where people live." Superfund sites are places that have been contaminated by hazardous waste that the EPA goes to to clean up.
It's "More working with people. People want a clean environment." When he was at the EPA, Wheeler recounted, he "Had the presence of all 50 farm bureaus from all 50 states at the EPA headquarters," most of whom "Had never been invited to the EPA before." "[T]hey're not just part of the solution, they are the solution," he said.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Biden electric vehicle plan creates environmental danger with discarded batteries, ex-EPA boss says
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