Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin to Become Next EPA Administrator

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the EPA, Lee Zeldin, who will play a key role in the administration’s efforts to boost energy production.

Zeldin takes over an agency charged with revamping various air and water regulations, rethinking the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding that authorized action on climate change, and reviewing or even withholding agency grant money.

The Senate voted 56-42 mostly along party lines to confirm Zeldin.

“As head of the EPA, Lee [Zeldin] will return the agency to its original mission of protecting america’s air, water, and land, without, as he ...