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Lee Zeldin, Senate and Environmental Protection Agency

Senate confirms Zeldin to lead Environmental Protection Agency as Trump vows to cut climate rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those aimed at slowing climate change and encouraging use of electric vehicles.

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Senate confirms Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency

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

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Senate confirms Lee Zeldin as EPA administrator

The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Zeldin grilled by Democrats on climate change, Trump’s stance on carbon emissions during EPA hearing

Sheldon Whitehouse, Senate Environment and Public ... leading Markey to suggest present-day Lee Zeldin doesn’t agree with 2016 Lee Zeldin. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., brought up ...

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Lee Zeldin's confirmation hearing for EPA administrator gets mixed response from Long Island environmentalists

NEW YORK-- Ex-New York congressman Lee Zeldin got mixed reviews from ... Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked. "Senator, while I am someone who believes strongly that we should work with ...

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Trump’s EPA Pick Flunks Basic Science Quiz at Confirmation Hearing

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to answer straightforward questions about science.

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Lee Zeldin Forgot to Study for His Science Quiz

Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s nominee to head ... ranking member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said he intended to deliver on a promise to Zeldin to ask “really basic no-tricks questions about ...

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Trump EPA pick Lee Zeldin says he’ll nix ‘suffocating’ regulations while guarding ‘human health and environment’

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lee Zeldin pledged during ... with Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pressing Zeldin to ensure that he would not “be merely a ...

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EPA dismisses clean air, science advisory boards

The Trump administration dismissed members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory ...

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Trump's EPA nominee stays vague on plans as senators press him on climate views

Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment ... sea levels but that Trump has dismissed. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, for example, asked about basic climate ...

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Will Sen. Whitehouse vote to confirm RFK Jr.? 'People just need to kind of chill on that.'

NORTH KINGSTOWN − Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse isn't tipping his hand on how he will vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

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