Source: Union of Concerned Scientists
by Derrick Z Jackson
“Lee Zeldin was full of pablum in his January Senate confirmation hearing to run the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA. A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to ‘defer to the research of the scientists’ on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. … Claiming there was ‘no dollar large or small that can influence the decisions that I make,’ Zeldin went so far as to say, ‘It is my job to stay up at night, to lose sleep at night, to make sure that we are making our air and our water cleaner.'” (03/08/25)