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.

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken climate rules.

Lee Zeldin to head the government's leading agency on environmental rules and regulations. President Donald Trump tapped Zeldin, who previously served as a congressman from New York's 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023,

The Senate confirmed former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in a bipartisan vote, paving the way for the Trump administration’s de-regulatory agenda.

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.

U.S. Democratic lawmakers Friday sent letters to two federal agencies asking them to explain why they froze federal funds on clean energy and investments that lower energy costs for American consumers,

"It's important for the scientists to be empowered to do the science and the policymakers to do the policy, and for all of us to collaborate and work together," Zeldin said.

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.