Zeldin to Newsmax: US Should Rely Less on Foreign Oil

Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told Newsmax on Thursday that turmoil in global oil markets should reinforce the case for expanding U.S. energy and mineral production, arguing that the United States has ample domestic resources and should depend less on foreign suppliers. The EPA administrator’s comments on “Greg Kelly Reports” came as the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday that member countries would make 400 million barrels of oil available from emergency reserves in the largest stock release in the agency’s history, in light of the war in Iran. After U.S.-Israeli strikes, Iran has threatened to target…