WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a Senate committee voted Thursday to ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was hit with a complaint of his own on Monday for backing two dozen pieces of legislation that have benefited the business of his wife’s environmental consulting company ...

I believe that climate change is real," Lee Zeldin told senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee. He added that ...

On Thursday we got a more detailed look at the Trump administration’s plans for the environment through two key nominees.

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to answer straightforward ... For one senator, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, this took the form of a science pop quiz—asking, ...