WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he will appoint Republican former Congressman Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
“He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.
Trump will likely look to reverse many rules administered by the EPA on the burning of fossil fuels including one curbing carbon emissions from power plants and another slashing such emissions from vehicles.
“We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI,” Zeldin said on the X social media platform, using the acronym for artificial intelligence.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Timothy Gardner; editing by Rami Ayyub and Alistair Bell)
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