President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the EPA, Lee Zeldin, told a Senate panel on Thursday he believes climate change “is real,” and that the federal government must be addressing it.
That position cuts against Trump’s repeated allegation that climate science is a “hoax.” It also diverges from the position of Trump’s first EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, who questioned whether climate change is a serious threat and whether human activity is the primary driver behind climate change.
The confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee comes days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of Trump, who has promised ...