"President-elect Trump’s pick for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Lee Zeldin, appears poised to be able to carry out the significant level of climate and environmental deregulation Trump has indicated he plans to pursue after a Thursday hearing moved him toward his likely confirmation.

During the confirmation hearing, Zeldin declined to say whether he believed the EPA had a responsibility to regulate climate change under the law.

“It was not a decision of the Supreme Court that if there was a fire in 2025 in California, that if that fire creates a danger to people … then that triggers the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide. There’s just more to that,” Zeldin said.

“It’s pretty simple, it says the EPA is supposed to be the environmental watchdog, and not a fossil fuel lapdog,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) responded."

Rachel Frazin reports for The Hill January 16, 2025. [2]

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