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Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency · United States
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Lee Zeldin was born on January 30, 1980, in East Meadow, New York. He graduated from Albany Law School in 2003 with a Juris Doctor. Zeldin served in the United States Army from 2003 to 2007, and then joined the Army Reserve.
He served in the New York State Senate from 2011 to 2014. He then represented New York's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. Zeldin was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2022.
He lost the 2022 election to Kathy Hochul, with 46.8% of the vote. The Senate confirmed him as EPA administrator on January 29, 2025, in a 56–42 vote. Justice Brett Kavanaugh swore him into office as the 17th EPA administrator.
In March 2025, Zeldin presented what he called the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history. In July 2025, Zeldin announced the closure of the EPA Office of Research and Development. In September 2021, Zeldin announced that he had leukemia in November 2020 and was in remission.
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Covenant Desk Alarmed by Confirmation Below Two-Thirds
Our indentures demand two-thirds consent, so the desk assumed anything that ended in a 56–42 vote was a failed amendment. Then someone mentioned the administrator got the job anyway. Trading paused while three associates drew supermajority thresholds on napkins, and the head of covenants asked, very quietly, whether majorities might be rented for Fridays.
Stateful Senate Fails Founder's Architecture Review
Stateful for three years? The founder, reading that he served in the New York State Senate from 2011 to 2014, circles the word 'State' and asks whether session data survived the 2014 restart. Nobody has told him a senate is a chamber, not an architecture. He files a ticket titled 'Go stateless,' assigns it to himself, and watches it persist across every sprint.
Memo: Announce the Permanent Solution Before the Plumbing
TO: Partners. RE: Pitch register. The Tijuana announcement described an agreement aimed at a permanent solution to the problem of sewage entering the Tijuana River. Note the tense: the solution is permanent before the pipes are. We adopt it. Every portfolio company with runoff, meaning churn, now has a permanent solution to churn. Action: forward to LPs. Owner: whoever lives downstream.
Trustees Debut Suits per Billion; Our Sleeve Scores Zero
The committee invents Suits per Billion after reading that a nonprofit awarded nearly $7 billion sued the EPA, accusing it of improperly freezing a grant. Our frozen redemption sleeve holds more than that and scores zero. Beneficiaries have no lawsuit, only a feedback form, which has itself been frozen pending an update.
Exemption by Email Reviewed; Our Mailbox Needs Cooling
Finding: coal and oil-burning plants were told they could bypass restrictions by sending an email to the agency requesting an exemption. Nearly 70 coal plants were cleared by April 15. We tried the method on a cooling-water permit. The county replied that email is not a recognized filing, then scheduled a hearing on the cooling load of the server that hosts the email. Our message is now agenda item three.
Model Card Adds Box for Astonishing Capabilities
Model Card, Section 6: Stance. The reviewer copies a magazine's phrase that the agency came out officially, if astonishingly, as pro-coal, and turns it into two checkboxes. Officially: ticked. Astonishingly: absent. Every emergent capability the lab discovers is filed under 'within expectations'. The model, shown the form, fills in the missing box itself.
Bureau Adopts Orphaned Parent Party as Subordinate Unit
'A petition for the Parent Party was also filed,' reads the clerk. 'Parent of whom?' asks the deputy, ordering self-criticism for the children. Then the file arrives: the ballot-access petitions were rejected. Delighted to find a body with no family, the bureau adopts the Parent Party as a subordinate unit, so its own organization charts will finally contain an orphan.
Posted Instruction: Bring a Notebook, Be a Local Outlet
Posted in the break room. Step 1: Recall that at one 2018 campaign fundraiser, reporters from local news outlets were removed. Step 2: Note that our safety meeting applies the same policy to anyone holding a pen. Step 3: Label your notebook 'Local News Outlet.' Step 4: Ask HR to remove it by name, in writing, so the removal finally leaves a record.
Grace Period for Forever Chemicals; Friday Deadline for Me
If the agency wanted common-sense flexibility in the form of additional time for compliance, why is my AI-fluency certification due Friday? Who granted the assistant a third extension on its invented citations? And if grace periods go to whoever causes the problem, may I file my own errors under that heading, and my severance countdown under 'pending the assistant's readiness'?
Fluke Fairness Did Not Pass; Neither Did My Postmortem
Zeldin introduced the Fluke Fairness Act to manage fishing quotas with regional data, and it did not pass. I know the feeling. For months I told the review board the cache stampede was no fluke; it was in my wiki. The report blamed a fluke anyway. Fluke fairness, I note, has not passed there either.
Footnote Explains Why First District Isn't First Tier
The portal listed 'preferred: first-tier school,' so I read that Zeldin represented New York's 1st congressional district with new hope.¹ ¹ Numbering, not ranking: a district can be 1st without being better than the 2nd. I explained this to the portal, which replied that my state school is 'a 2nd, probably.'
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Not recorded · Term: 2025-01-29 to Not recorded
