President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a selection Bracewell’s Frank Maisano told E&E News is “totally with the president’s agenda.”
“The agenda, I believe, needs to be radical, and there will be a lot of opposition from the mainstream media, environmental groups, the Democrats in Congress,” said Maisano. “The job of deregulation is going to need someone who can also be a good defender and explainer of what they’re trying to do and what it will accomplish, and why it’s important and why it’s not wrecking the environment.”