Lee Zeldin is Now the Head of the EPA: Here’s How That Spells Disaster for Public Health and Communities
By: Ranjani Prabhakar, Healthy Communities Legislative Director Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 It should be common sense that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes in protecting the public from environmental harm, right? Sadly, that’s not the case with Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s recently confirmed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,…
Read MoreChris Wright is Poised to Be the Next Secretary of Energy Under the Trump Administration: Here’s What That Means for the Future of Climate Action
By: Meg Slattery, PhD, Staff Scientist Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 If you watched President Trump’s Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright’s confirmation hearing, you might have been pleasantly surprised to hear several reasonable statements on climate change. In the typical back-and-forth with Senators, he repeatedly reaffirmed his belief in climate change with statements…
Read MoreUrge your senators to be strong on the environment during the confirmation process
Our Senators have the constitutional duty to hold these nominees accountable to ensure that they act in the best interest of people across this country, not corporations. We need you to make sure they ask tough questions.
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