President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency administrator signals a commitment to economic growth and levelheaded environmental management, a balance that has long been absent from previous Democratic administrations.
Despite the Left’s outlandish claims to the contrary, Lee Zeldin was a leading conservative voice for environmental stewardship during his time in Congress. A member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions and Conservative Climate Caucuses, he made it clear one of his “top priorities in Congress has been to safeguard our environment.”
He worked across the aisle to limit forever chemicals in drinking water and ensure polluters were held accountable for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. He advanced a bipartisan bill to create incentives for carbon capture and storage. He even led a bipartisan group of his colleagues to protect a critical habitat off the coast of his district.
Zeldin’s environmental record speaks for itself, and it makes him wholly qualified to lead the EPA.
Read more in the Washington Examiner here.
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