Under President Trump, the federal government has emphatically turned away from fighting climate change and other environmental problems, rolling back regulations and transforming federal agencies. But across the country, in red and blue states, local […]
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Lee Zeldin, E.P.A. Head, Shuts National Environmental Museum
A small museum dedicated to the nation’s environmental history is now history, too. On Monday, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said he had shuttered the museum, which was inside the agency’s […]
How Lee Zeldin Went From Environmental Moderate to Dismantling the E.P.A.
When President Trump’s cabinet secretaries clashed with Elon Musk this month over the billionaire’s chain saw approach to shrinking government, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, made it clear where he stood. […]