WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a Senate committee voted Thursday to recommend that the full Senate approve his nomination.

Donald Trump has tapped former Republican Representative Lee Zeldin to head the US's Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist, is expected to undo dozens of environmental regulations.

Long Island environmentalists offered mixed reviews of Lee Zeldin's answers during his Senate confirmation hearing for EPA administrator.

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, cleared a hurdle Thursday on his way toward Senate confirmation. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-8 to ...

Zeldin has little experience heading an agency. Former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican and President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency ...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Republican former congressman Lee Zeldin to head the country's Environmental Protection Agency. A key appointment in Trump's climate agenda-- which includes boosting fossil fuel expansion and rolling back environmental regulation-- is Lee Zeldin,

Veterans of the first Trump administration are returning to EPA, joined by longtime aides to Lee Zeldin, the president’s nominee to be agency administrator. An Wednesday internal email obtained ...

Una encuesta federal sobre las condiciones en el valle del río Tijuana, donde las aguas residuales y productos químicos tóxicos se derraman desde México, confirmó lo que la gente ha informado durante años: sus vidas familiares se han visto alteradas y sus condiciones crónicas han empeorado.

Former U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm opened a warning cry of an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times with a look inside West Virginia. Granholm recalled a May 2023 trip to Weirton,

President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) as his nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on November 11, 2024. This presidential appointment requires Senate confirmation. The Senate Environment ...

The U.S. Senate has begun the process to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's picks for top spots in his upcoming administration this week. Committee hearings were supposed to kick off on Tuesday with Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Doug Collins,

A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent days for key hearings on their road to confirmation. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was the first to be confirmed,