1 day ago · Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island called Zeldin the wrong man for the job. “We need an EPA administrator who will take climate change seriously, treat the science honestly and stand up where necessary to the political pressure that will be coming from the White House, where we have a president who actually thinks (climate change) is a hoax, and from the huge fossil fuel ...

1 day ago · The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection ... Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island called Zeldin the wrong man for the ...

1 day ago · The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. 538. ... Ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., speaks ...

1 day ago · Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday ... who has access to me and how I am ruling in my obligations under the law,” he told Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D ...

2 days ago · While Zeldin said “climate change is real” during his confirmation hearing, Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said it was necessary to have an EPA ...

1 day ago · Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island called Zeldin the wrong man for the job. “We need an EPA administrator who will take climate change seriously, treat the science honestly and ...

Washington, D.C.— U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke out forcefully against Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. At a Committee meeting this morning to vote on Zeldin’s nomination, Ranking Member Whitehouse ...

1 day ago · But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said he worried that Zeldin would not stand up to lobbying from the fossil fuel ...

1 day ago · The big picture: Zeldin sought to portray his record as bipartisan, touting his work with Democrats on PFAS chemicals, ocean cleanup, and the Great American Outdoors Act as well as his membership in the Climate Solutions Caucus while in the House. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, EPW's ranking Democrat, said he would be too beholden to Trump.

1 day ago · Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, warned earlier this month during a hearing that Zeldin would be "a rubber stamp for looters ...