{"id":2858,"date":"2025-01-29T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-lee-zeldin-to-head-e-p-a\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:37:21","slug":"senate-confirms-lee-zeldin-to-head-e-p-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-lee-zeldin-to-head-e-p-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin to Head E.P.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency, where he will be charged with executing President Trump\u2019s orders to dismantle major environmental regulations, and possibly parts of the 55-year-old agency itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Senate voted 56 to 42 to confirm Mr. Zeldin, a former House member with little experience in environmental regulation. He is expected to work to erase rules to fight climate change and chemical pollution, while shutting down programs designed to help poor and minority communities that are disproportionately affected by pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 16, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/16\/climate\/lee-zeldin-epa-confirmation.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Zeldin told lawmakers<\/a> that he would \u201centhusiastically uphold\u201d the agency\u2019s mission to protect human health and the environment, and that he grasped the basic science of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Zeldin has also been directed to dismantle <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/20\/climate\/biden-phase-out-gas-cars.html\" title=\"\">the largest climate rule ever enacted by the federal government.<\/a> The rule, finalized last year, would cut tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, the nation\u2019s largest source of planet-warming pollution, by compelling automakers to increase sales of hybrid and all-electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump incorrectly refers to the rule as the \u201cEV mandate\u201d; the rule does not ban gas-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLee Zeldin will continue President Trump\u2019s mission to roll back punishing, political regulations,\u201d said Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, a member of the Republican leadership, on the Senate floor ahead of the confirmation vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But at his confirmation hearing, Mr. Zeldin would not say how he intends to handle the tailpipe regulation, telling senators, \u201cI am not allowed to prejudge the outcomes going into rule-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary, released a memo just hours after he was confirmed announcing plans to weaken <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-fuel-economy-standards-rollback.html\" title=\"\">auto fuel economy standards<\/a>, which are a companion to the E.P.A. emissions limits. Under the Biden administration, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/07\/climate\/biden-mileage-electric-vehicles.html\" title=\"\">the pair of rules worked in tandem to reduce pollution<\/a> and were both aimed at the same goal of ensuring that more than half of new passenger vehicles sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The American Petroleum Institute, which represents large oil companies, sought the elimination of both rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the weeks since Mr. Trump won the presidential election, auto companies <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/climate\/gm-ford-electric-vehicles-trump.html\" title=\"\">asked him to maintain some form of the Biden rules<\/a> although with some adjustments, such as lowered penalties for noncompliance. While they have chafed at the requirements to rapidly increase sales of electric vehicles, automakers have also invested billions to transition to E.V.s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Automakers fear that if the rules are erased, they could be undercut by companies selling cheaper, gas-powered cars. They are also concerned that it could hurt American competitiveness with China, home to the world\u2019s largest E.V. manufacturer, and hurt an industry that is a backbone of American manufacturing and employs 1.1 million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents manufacturers of nearly all the new vehicles sold in the United States, said on Wednesday, \u201cIt\u2019s reasonable for the new leadership at the Transportation Department to review current fuel economy standards.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Drew Kodjak, an expert in vehicle technology and policy who served in the Biden White House pointed out that revising the tailpipe emissions limits requires a legal process that takes years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Additionally, the E.P.A. under Mr. Zeldin is also expected to try to revoke California\u2019s legal authority to set tailpipe limits that are stricter than the national standard. The state now requires that all new cars sold there must be zero-emissions by 2035 and more than a dozen other states have adopted the same rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Also on Tuesday, Jim Payne, the E.P.A.\u2019s acting administrator, announced that all members of two of the agency\u2019s major scientific advisory panels, the Scientific Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, will be dismissed, though members will be allowed to reapply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The move has echoes of steps taken in both the previous Trump administration and the Biden administration, as the role of scientists in shaping environmental policy became a political target. During the first Trump administration, in a then-unprecedented move, several <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/07\/us\/politics\/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html\" title=\"\">academic scientists were dismissed from another E.P.A. panel<\/a>, the Board of Science Counselors, and from the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. The Trump administration said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/31\/climate\/pruitt-epa-science-advisory-boards.html\" title=\"\">that any scientist on those panels whose research received funding by E.P.A. grants could not weigh in objectively<\/a> on E.P.A. regulations. The first Trump administration also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/11\/climate\/epa-disbands-pollution-science-panel.html\" title=\"\">disbanded another scientific<\/a> board, the Particulate Matter Review Panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In some cases, the administration replaced those scientists with representatives of polluting industries that the E.P.A. regulates. At the beginning of the Biden administration, E.P.A. administrator Michael S. Regan <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/31\/us\/epa-advisory-boards-trump.html\" title=\"\">fired<\/a> members of the Scientific Integrity Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and appointed new advisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Joseph Arvai, an oceanographer and psychologist who served on the E.P.A.\u2019s scientific advisory board from 2011 to 2017 and again from 2021 until he was fired on Tuesday, said that he does not intend to reapply for the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He recalled being fired along with other scientists by the first Trump administration. \u201cIn 2017, it felt like there was no plan, it was just intended to freak people out,\u201d he said. \u201cNow it feels like there\u2019s a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async 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