Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA

President-elect Donald J. Trump is moving full speed ahead to fill his cabinet with allies who embrace his deregulatory agenda. On Nov. 11, less than a week after winning the US election, Trump announced that he will nominate former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin is a loyal Trump supporter with a legal background who pledged to roll back New York’s ambitious climate laws during an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2022. He is a proponent of fracking and building more natural gas pipelines to boost energy independence in the US, and he has spoken out against a New York law that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035. Nominating an EPA administrator so early in the transition process signals Trump’s seriousness about energy deregulation. Two of his priorities are to make the US the dominant energy producer in the world and