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Lee Zeldin

Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered

Widespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the reversal of the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public. That recommendation is, on the one hand, entirely predictable. President Donald Trump, who asked the E.P.A. for an opinion […]

Trump Admin Is Trying to Raid “Green Banks” Meant to Fund Local Climate Projects

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced last week that he had uncovered evidence of a massive fraud perpetrated by the Biden administration. In a video posted to social media, the former Republican congressman from New York said […]