Lee Zeldin is making his visit as EPA administrator to East Palestine, Ohio, a community still reeling from the catastrophic train crash.

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken climate rules.

President Trump’s first executive orders faced court challenges barely before the ink had dried. But the former Long Island congressman, a lawyer himself,

The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. It's a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations.

Learn about how Lee Zeldin was sworn in as the 17th administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator — earning bipartisan support.

The Senate is expected to vote on whether to confirm former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced Lee Zeldin was sworn in as the 17 th administrator of the agency. In the role, Zeldin will work closely with career officials at the agency to fulfill the agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment.

It’s important for the scientists to be empowered to do the science and the policymakers to do the policy, and for all of us to collaborate and work together,” Zeldin said.