Governor Bobby Jindal (R., La.) knocked President Obama for running an administration of “science deniers,” citing Obama’s energy policy and Environmental Protection Agency actions.

“The reality is, right now we’ve got an administration under the Obama administration that are science deniers when it comes to harnessing America’s energy resources and potential to create good-paying jobs for our economy and our people,” Jindal told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Jindal elaborated when asked by talking about the Keystone XL pipeline and the EPA, among other things.

“Their own State Department says there would me no material impact on the environment to approve it, yet they keep delaying, they keep denying approval . . . there is no scientific, there is no factual basis for this to continue to be delayed other than pure politics,” he said, before taking issue with EPA’s goal for Louisiana to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

“They couldn’t explain the rationale,” Jindal said.

Jindal’s answer when asked — apropos of his “science deniers” comment — if he believes that evolutionary theory “explains the presence of complex life on earth” is already moving around liberal blogs.

“The reality is, I was not an evolutionary biologist,” he said. “What I believe as a father and as a husband is that local school districts should make decisions on how they teach.”

“I want my kids to be taught about evolution in their schools,” Jindal added, a talking point he stuck to when pressed about his personal assessment of evolutionary theory.