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 ...

The Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-8 to advance Zeldin’s nomination to lead the agency. Sen. Mark Kelly of ...

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island): “Briefly and in layman terms—I know you’re not a scientific expert—what effect are carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion having in the ...

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on ... his “op-eds spouting Big Oil-approved talking points.” “Is Lee Zeldin capable of standing against that Big Oil political juggernaut?

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, says President Donald Trump’s blitz of executive orders to boost fossil fuels and stop the growth of ...

and everything to do with the fact that Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, while not “confirmed as voting for Kennedy” nevertheless “appears to be actively considering it.” Naturally, the ...

As Marshall reports: I’m told that there appear to be two reasons: One is that Whitehouse and Kennedy are personal friends. They were law school roommates at UVA and that seems to have been the ...

Zeldin has little experience heading an agency. Former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican and President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency ...