Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA nominee, is a danger to the planet, public health and climate experts warn.
’s most controversial cabinet picks, such as Kash Patel for FBI director or Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, the fossil fuel industry is surely celebrating a pick that has mostly flown under the radar. Trump has chosenZeldin isn’t a household name, but he’s known in New York, where he ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2022. As a member of Congress, Zeldin wasSlick Award” by a nonprofit environmental group called Environmental Advocates in 2011.
“They want to weaken Clean Air Act regulations by removing the part of the law that requires the EPA to set health-based air quality standards. That’s a very unique provision in federal law that the standards have to be based on protecting human health,” Enck says. “It’s been so effective over the years in reducing air pollution and all of the respiratory and cardiac disease that goes along with air pollution.
Trump was highly focused on rolling back regulations during his first term, and he’ll be doing much of the same the second time around. He rolled backenvironmental regulations during his presidency, and allowed the fossil fuel industry to increase not just carbon emissions but mercury and methane emissions.
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