What does this role do? Advises on climate and environmental issues and enforces environmental laws. Here's what happened at the hearing Zeldin declined to say how the Trump administration might try to change or roll back environmental regulations ...

Vice President of Government Affairs Ethan Lane issued a statement congratulating Lee Zeldin on his confirmation as Administrator of 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.

The U.S. Senate voted 56-42 on Wednesday to confirm former congressman Lee Zeldin of Shirley to serve as head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump’s administration. As EPA Administrator,

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. While many are rapidly gaining support for their confirmation, the remaining still have to go before the committees overseeing the agencies Trump wants them to run.

A PATH LAID FOR LEE ZELDIN: While Trump took aim at a number ... NUCLEAR REVIVAL REACHES SOUTH CAROLINA: South Carolina’s largest utility company, Santee Cooper, is the latest energy provider ...

Declaring climate change “real,” former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin faced questions Thursday ... The guy is smart as a whip,” South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said.

MSU has stopped its diversity, equity and inclusion programs and shut down the Office of Inclusive Engagement in accordance with Trump’s executive order. ( Springfield News-Leader) Cotton trailers can currently travel 40 mph but the bill proposes raising it to 65 mph to decrease the time spent between Missouri roads and market. ( Missourinet)

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's Cabinet nominees Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner ... a hedge fund billionaire from South Carolina, told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday ...

Lee Zeldin has an ambitious agenda for the Environmental Protection Agency, even beyond undoing years of damage from President Joe Biden and various states — but he’ll be consulting lawyers