The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those aimed at slowing climate change and encouraging use of electric vehicles. The vote was 56-42 in Zeldin's favor.

President Trump’s first executive orders faced court challenges barely before the ink had dried. But the former Long Island congressman, a lawyer himself,

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.

Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator — earning bipartisan support.

Two New York Republicans are headed to the Trump cabinet with Rep. Elise Stefanik as United Nations ambassador and Lee Zeldin as EPA administrator.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced Lee Zeldin was sworn in as the 17 th administrator of the agency. In the role, Zeldin will work closely with career officials at the agency to fulfill the agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment.

The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin’s nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, which he promised lawmakers to make more business friendly.

Vance will be joined by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, newly-sworn-in U.S. Senator Jon Husted, U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno and U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in his visit to the village.

WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin told The Post Friday that he plans to defer to scientists on the safety of two common herbicides with residential and commercial applications that Robert F.

Vice President JD Vance is planning to join several of Ohio’s most well-known elected leaders in East Palestine next week.