Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Senate confirmed Lee Zeldin to serve as the 17th Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator by a vote of 56 to 42 today. U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after voting in favor of Zeldin’s nomination.
“Lee is primed and ready to slash the mountains of backwards regulations at the EPA to restore primacy of states and common sense,”said Cramer.“I look forward to working with him as he brings some sanity back to EPA and makes the bureaucracy work for the people it purportedly serves.”

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