The Senate decided to confirm Lee Zeldin as the 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Bureau on Wednesday.
Three Democrats One-John Peter Bay (D-PA.) More plants and animal species are extinct, and the best environment control of the country faces the ecological and public health crisis. Cory Booker (DN.J.) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA.) Have not voted.
The 44 -year -old ZELDIN was widely seen as one of Donald Trump’s milder cabinet candidates, starting with Trump’s choice to lead the EPA during his first term.
In 2017, Trump led the EPA’s leaders in the Supreme Court on the power plant regulations of the Obama era. Devil quotation Theological The claim of conducting critical research and challenging basic scientific methods in institutions with limited political experiences outside of his hometown was lightning in the first Trump administration.
When Pruitt resigned in July 2018, he faced the eye of the alienated ethical scandal even by Trump’s enthusiastic allies in Congress. Trump is a former coal lobbyist who was promoted to Andrew Wheeler, and was a former Senate’s aide and demanded a past experience to promote the president’s deregulation agenda. Instead, instead of questioning the basic reality of climate change, Wheeler does not bear the long settlement requirements of EPA to control planetary gas according to clean air, and the new and weak power plant rules that relieve restrictions on coal and gas combustion stations without paying for the long settlement requirements of EPA. It has been enacted. action.
As with the Obama era regulations, the rules were never effective. Former President Cho Viden proposed a new and strict rules designed to withdraw this regulations and avoid legal traps that prevent the Obama administration’s so -called clean power plan.
Born and raised in the ACELA corridor in the suburbs of New York City, Jellen recognized the reality of climate change at the Senate Confirmation Hearing and promised to maintain the fossil fuel industry and independence. In 2022, he served as three terms in the US House of Representatives before appealing to sufficient Democrats in his deep -sea home in 2022 to compete for the New York Governor.
But in the parliament, Zeldin voted to cut funds to the institution he would like to repeat. The largest environmental group in this country opposed his name, but obtained the approval of Mandy Gunasekara, a former EPA civil servant, with the controversy of Trump’s first term, who wrote the main section of the institution in the Heritage Foundation project 2025 plan.
Mike Sommers, chief executive of American Petroleum Institute in the US Petroleum and Gas Robbie, said, “Administrator LEE ZELDIN has a demonstrated performance as a solution to the most urgent energy problem in the United States. “We look forward to developing US energy leadership so that we can select vehicles driving by consumers, not by developing wise and effective regulations in cooperation with him.”
ZELDIN vowed to develop Trump’s agenda and condemned the EPA of the Biden era at the Senate Hearing. It caused the crisis of the country’s survival cost.
“We must protect the valuable environment without choking the economy.” “The big part of these is to build a private sector cooperation to encourage US innovation to continue to lead the world.”
Jellen recognized the EPA’s authority to restrict greenhouse gases in accordance with the endangered crisis, which is a legal standard that contributed the regulations under the Clean Aviation Act because the Supreme Court on Earth had a risk of public health in 2007. But it’s not clear how much Trump’s loyalty will affect his boss.
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Trump issued an executive order in the office on the first day. Trump instructed the EPA to investigate how to oppose the results.
Evergreen Action, a climate policy group formed by all Democrats, called Zeldin “Trump Loyalty.”
Lena Moffitt, managing director of Evergreen Action, said, “It is very disappointing that some senators were not opposed to Zeldin’s nomination a few days after Trump attempted to block the funds that Americans depended on.” “American people are qualified for EPA administrators to fight for their health and safety. It is not an example of Trump’s breakthrough while breaking a billionaire donor and a pollutant ally.”
Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization that filed more than 100 lawsuits against the first Trump administration, expressed a prudent optimism that Zeldine could get angry with the more radical elements in the White House.
Trump’s next president said he had trafficked in climate rejection, but today, LEE ZELDIN has accepted a scientific agreement on the cause and reality of climate change, and the EPA has the legal authority to treat greenhouse gas as a contaminated substance. The Natural Resources Defense Commission said in a statement after the initial confirmation hearing of Zeldin. “This is an important beginning, but it’s just the beginning.”
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Despite his differences in PRUITT’s personality and politics, ZELDIN was able to face similar investigations on his personal ethics and finances.
This month, The rich man of the business reported Former Congressman earned $ 120,500 by writing OP-EDS from an unnamed customer. Financial disclosure showed Zeldin I received a consulting payment From Qatar entrepreneurs involved in the case of a serious criminal corruption case against former Senator Bob Menendez (DN.J.). At his confirmation hearing, the Democratic Party pressed Zeldine on the past campaign donations received from the fossil fuel industry.
ZELDIN said, “At any point, no one has donated to me, and it will affect this position or more decisions.”
