WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a Senate committee voted Thursday to recommend that the full Senate approve his nomination.

The Democratic Party's left wing has warned for decades that America is moving toward an oligarchy in which a handful of billionaires controls much of the nation's wealth and political power.

WASHINGTON -- Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin denied that he will favor industry over the environment and declared he thinks climate change is real as he faced questions Thursday on his nomination to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

New York Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an “unconditional ... The Department of Justice indicated it’s still trying to release the report. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) urged the Department of Justice to release the report, before President ...

Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Zeldin will ... Zeldin was a representative of New York's first congressional district from 2015 to 2023. He left Congress to challenge New York Gov.

On Thursday we got a more detailed look at the Trump administration’s plans for the environment through two key nominees.

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. While many are rapidly gaining support for their confirmation, the remaining still have to go before the committees overseeing the agencies Trump wants them to run.

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's earlier showdowns.

Zeldin, a former House lawmaker from New York, is expected to be confirmed ... The committee’s ranking member, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, didn’t seem convinced he would put the ...

Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin will face tough questions from Democrats about his fitness to be the EPA administrator at a Senate hearing Thursday, but he appears to be on a path to confirmation.

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Whitehouse sat down this week with the POLITICO Energy podcast, where he predicted “there'll be some litigation” if Trump looks to stop offshore wind projects that “are already ongoing and which there's a vested defensible interest.