Trump’s EPA nominee stays vague as senators press him on climate views
Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy,” Lee Zeldin said during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a department likely to play a central role in President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slash federal regulations and promote oil and gas development. “The American people elected President Trump last November in part due to serious concerns about upward economic mobility,” Zeldin said. “A big part of this will require building private sector collaboration to promote commonsense, smart regulation.” The hearing occasionally grew pointed when Democrats questioned Zeldin about climate change asking what, if anything, he thinks should be done about a problem that has worsened floods and raised sea levels but that Trump has dismissed.
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