{"id":21144,"date":"2025-01-29T20:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T21:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21144"},"modified":"2025-01-29T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:23:30","slug":"senate-confirms-lee-zeldin-to-head-e-p-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21144","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin to Head E.P.A."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency, where he will be charged with executing President Trump\u2019s orders to dismantle major environmental regulations, and possibly parts of the 55-year-old agency itself.<\/p>\n

The Senate voted 56-42 to confirm Mr. Zeldin, a former House member with little experience in environmental regulation. He is expected to work to erase rules to fight climate change and chemical pollution, while shutting down programs designed to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution.<\/p>\n

In his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 16, Mr. Zeldin told lawmakers<\/a> that he would \u201centhusiastically uphold\u201d the agency\u2019s mission to protect human health and the environment, and that he grasped the basic science of climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Mr. Zeldin has also been directed to dismantle the largest climate rule ever enacted by the federal government.<\/a> The rule, finalized last year, would cut tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, the nation\u2019s largest source of planet-warming pollution, by compelling automakers to increase sales of hybrid and all-electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump incorrectly refers to the rule as the \u201cEV mandate\u201d; the rule does not ban gas-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n

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The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency, where he will be charged with executing President Trump\u2019s orders to dismantle major environmental regulations, and possibly parts of the 55-year-old agency itself.The Senate voted 56-42 to confirm Mr. Zeldin, a former House member with little experience in environmental regulation. He is expected to work to erase rules to fight climate change and chemical pollution, while shutting down programs designed to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution.In his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 16, Mr. Zeldin told lawmakers that he would \u201centhusiastically uphold\u201d the agency\u2019s mission to protect human health and the environment, and that he grasped the basic science of climate change.\u201cI strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come,\u201d he said.But Mr. Zeldin has also been directed to dismantle the largest climate rule ever enacted by the federal government. The rule, finalized last year, would cut tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, the nation\u2019s largest source of planet-warming pollution, by compelling automakers to increase sales of hybrid and all-electric vehicles.Mr. Trump incorrectly refers to the rule as the \u201cEV mandate\u201d; the rule does not ban gas-powered vehicles.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21146,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21147,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21144\/revisions\/21147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}