Lee Zeldin, the former New York congressman tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is set to face his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Lee Zeldin is making his visit as EPA administrator to East Palestine, Ohio, a community still reeling from the catastrophic ...

The Biden EPA, he claimed, had awarded the $20 billion to eight entities which used the funds with insufficient oversight.

Lee Zeldin on Thursday parried with senators over the incoming Trump administration’s plans for EPA as well as his own post-congressional finances. Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Republican former congressman Lee Zeldin to head the ... the US out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and opted against ...

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 ...

The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the government's leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously ...

WATCH: Sen. Lummis asks Zeldin if he’d follow the science or the law as EPA chief Zeldin responded that his "first obligation" would be to follow the law. WATCH: Lee Zeldin testifies at Senate ...

NEW YORK-- Ex-New York congressman Lee Zeldin got mixed reviews from Long Island environmentalists after his Senate confirmation hearing to become President-elect Donald Trump's Environmental ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lee Zeldin pledged during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to roll back federal directives while still guarding “human health and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin said he will not favor industry over the environment and declared that "climate change is real" at a Senate hearing Thursday on his ...