The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Lee Zeldin as the nation’s 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Senate is expected to vote on whether to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump has moved to reinstate older standards for light bulbs, water-using appliances, and plastic straws, reversing Biden-era ...

Zeldin, 44, is from New York. He served eight years in Congress and lost a race for governor in 2022. He is expected to push ...

Trump posted Tuesday morning to his personal social media platform, Truth Social, that he was directing Environmental ...

Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting ...

Most notably Biden re-committed the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to keep global surface temperature rises below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, though Trump ...

During his second term, Trump is expected to ease regulations on water protections, agricultural emissions, and industrial pollution.

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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday moved to revert to older standards for light bulbs as well as toilets, showers and other ...

Lee Zeldin to head the government's leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously served as a congressman from New York's 1st ...