WATCH: Sen. Capito asks Zeldin how he’d address PFAS pollution at confirmation hearing
January 16, 2025
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1:32Now PlayingWATCH: Sen. Capito asks Zeldin how he’d address PFAS pollution at confirmation hearing
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as posted by the channelSen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., questioned Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Environmental Protection Agency, about toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS.
Moore Capito asked Zeldin how he planned to handle the “growing challenge” of PFAS pollution.
“The EPA has an important responsibility to make sure that our obligations are implemented correctly,” he said. “That is something that through our enforcement and compliance we have to ensure that we are moving the needle all across this entire country. There are cleanup projects, large and small across America where many American have been waiting decades and generations for that leadership and that action.”
Zeldin is a former congressman from New York. He left Congress in January 2023 and was among the Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. In his time in the House, he did not serve on committees that oversaw environmental policy.
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