Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to work with farmers to remove burdensome regulation during his confirmation hearing. And while Lee Zeldin's past positions raised initial concerns, his recent statements during the confirmation process suggest he may be open to working with the biofuels industry
On Capitol Hill, one of President Trump’s most consequential and controversial nominees made his case for the top job at the Department of Health and Human Services. In his first of two hearings, former environmental lawyer and presidential candidate Robert F.
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Senate confirms Zeldin to be EPA administrator
Senate confirms Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency
Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.
US Senate confirms Zeldin as EPA adminstrator
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 56-42 to confirm former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, tasked with rolling back climate rules from former President Joe Biden that were aimed at slashing emissions from vehicles,
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Sanders, the senior minority party member on the committee, pressed Kennedy to concede that health care was a human right, as his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncles, John F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, had done. Kennedy again did not give a definitive answer.
I strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come,’ Zeldin said.
President Donald Trump's choice to direct U.S. intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, faces a Senate panel that is divided over its position on her nomination in a confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted an online conversation on Wednesday with the Opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci and the Opinion writers David Wallace-Wells and Jessica Grose about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first of two confirmation hearings for secretary of health and human services.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental lawyer, author and political activist who has suspended his independent presidential campaign and thrown his support behind former President Donald J.
The Senate has confirmed former Long Island Republican Congressmember Lee Zeldin as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Three Democrats sided with Republicans in Wednesday’s vote to confirm Zeldin: Arizona Senators Rubén Gallego and Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.
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President grieved over the ‘terrible night’ as at least 30 bodies have reportedly been pulled the Potomac River’s icy waters
In a make-or-break hearing, Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before a second committee and it revealed Republican doubts about him. Lisa Desjardins reports on where lawmakers' support stands.
Hearings are under way for FBI pick Kash Patel and Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, along with a second round for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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