President-elect Trump on Monday tapped ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin to steer the Environmental Safety Company, one in every of two New York Republicans named for the incoming cupboard.
Zeldin, the previous Lengthy Island congressman who mounted an unexpectedly sturdy 2022 problem to Gov. Hochul, will presumably preside over rolling again rules that Trump says hamstring the oil and gasoline business and different companies.
“We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI,” Zeldin posted on X. “We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water.”
Lee Zeldin, a former Republican congressman from New York, speaks earlier than Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a marketing campaign rally at Ed Fry Area in Indiana, Pa., Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photograph/Rebecca Droke)
Trump stated Zeldin might be laser-focused on ending rules he says stifle American enterprise.
“He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards,” the incoming president stated.
Zeldin has been a daily fixture at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, resulting in hypothesis that he was jockeying for a spot within the cupboard.
The choice stunned some Trump-watchers who believed he would choose Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist and EPA chief within the first Trump time period, or another particular person from the oil and gasoline business, to steer the EPA.
Trump has repeatedly stated {that a} key objective of his second administration could be dismantling environmental and different rules.
He dramatically downplays or denies local weather change, typically joking that harmful rising sea ranges would convey “more waterfront property” to America.
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) speaks at a rally in Harmony, N.H., Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke, File)
One among his important assault traces at his MAGA marketing campaign rallies was accusing Democrats of colluding to implement what he branded a job-killing “Green New Scam,” a twist on the so-called Inexperienced New Deal proposal that liberal Democrats unsuccessfully pushed.
Trump additionally plans to tug the U.S. out of the Paris Local weather Accord, a world settlement that goals to scale back planet-warming greenhouse gasoline emissions.
Zeldin will be part of Rep. Elise Stefanik, who was nominated hours earlier as Trump’s subsequent UN ambassador, within the MAGA 2.0 cupboard. They served collectively within the GOP congressional delegation earlier than Zeldin stepped down from his East Finish seat to run in opposition to Hochul.
Initially Printed: November 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM EST
