EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler: Cleaning Up Old Industrial Sites Boosts Tax Revenue & Jobs [CPAC 2020]

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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March 4, 2020Updated: March 9, 2020

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In this episode of American Thought Leaders ??, we sat down with Administrator Andrew Wheeler of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at CPAC 2020 to discuss the EPA’s Brownfield and Land Revitalization Program, which cleans up contaminated sites to create jobs and economic opportunity, including in many opportunity zones. The program has significantly increased local tax revenue and local residential property values.

We also discuss the EPA’s investment into water infrastructure projects and the steps it’s taken to deregulate.

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