“As a New Yorker, I’m not surprised. Zeldin built his political brand on putting polluters before people — trying to overturn the state’s fracking ban, pushing to defund the MTA, and racking up vote after vote against clean air and water. Over a decade ago, Environmental Advocates NY gave him our Oil Slick Award for the worst environmental record in the Legislature. He’s only gotten slicker since.”
— EANY’s Vanessa Fajans-Turner
Issue by issue, the Trump administration is tearing down protections most Americans believed were settled: voting rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, LGBTQ+ safety, the separation of church and state. Now they’re coming for clean water, clean air and public health….
The Journal News: https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2025/08/19/lee-zeldin-roll-back-pfas-limits-opinion/85666306007/
