Lee Zeldin

Deregulatory actions taken by the EPA with Zeldin at the helm, including eliminating vehicle emissions standards, harm rather than protect the environment and put human health at risk: lawsuit.

Putting America first shouldn’t require fantasy or sacrificing our children’s future. The EPA must restore Clean Air Act rules designed to protect public health. Editorial.

Following through on a pledge made in March, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday that the EPA proposes to repeal all greenhouse gas vehicle emissions standards and its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health.

The EPA will delay enforcement of drinking water standards for two PFAS chemicals until 2031 and will rescind and reconsider standards adopted last year for three others. Environmental advocates say the move puts public health at risk.

Many of the reversals EPA Administrator Zeldin announced yesterday would have direct consequences for the eastern Long Island congressional district that sent Zeldin to the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. 

The appointment of former Rep. Lee Zeldin as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was confirmed by the Senate yesterday in a largely party-line vote. Every Republican and three Democrats supported his nomination.

Former NY-01 Rep. Lee Zeldin will take the helm of a federal agency in the crosshairs of the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the "deep state" and kill regulations that the President-elect says impede economic growth.

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin has founded a new firm he says will “help individual and corporate clients expand, prosper, and maximize their full potential."

“New Yorkers of all walks of life are sick of the attacks on their wallets, their safety, their freedoms and the quality of their kids’ education and are hitting their breaking point, as proven by these results,” Rep. Lee Zeldin said in a statement conceding the governor's election to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Rep. Lee Zeldin today called for passage of a bill he sponsored in March to nationalize the New York State veteran peer-to-peer program, which grew out of a pilot program Zeldin spearheaded while a state senator in 2012.