16 (UPI) --The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is questioning the nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency ... Ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said ...

WASHINGTON -- Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin denied that he will favor industry over the environment and declared ...

Sheldon Whitehouse ... the protection of the environment with economic goals, saying the United States "must do everything in our power to harness the greatness of American innovation with the ...

Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is promising to preserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy.” ...

Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, struggled to answer ... ranking member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said he intended to deliver on a promise to ...

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. While many are rapidly gaining support ...

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

Mr. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself. He faced ...

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's ...

Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin will face tough questions from Democrats about his fitness to be the EPA ...