The Biden administration’s energy agenda has been one of the most heavily debated policy shifts in recent U.S. history, and former EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is now laying out what he says are the long-term consequences of those decisions—along with how the Trump administration has moved to reverse course.
On Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, Zeldin directly criticized the energy strategy pursued under President Joe Biden, arguing it systematically weakened domestic production and reliability. At the center of that critique is the immediate cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline on Biden’s first day in office—a move that became symbolic of a broader shift in federal energy policy.
Zeldin framed the issue not as isolated decisions, but as a coordinated regulatory direction. He described a pattern in which pipelines were halted, power plants were pushed toward closure, and baseload generation—coal, nuclear, and natural gas facilities that provide constant electricity—was increasingly constrained through federal regulation.
“If we were building pipelines rather than killing them, instead of putting plants out of existence,” Zeldin said, “we would have more reliable, durable baseload power in this country.”
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