The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee to head the US Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, to the delight of the fossil fuel industry.

Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.

Zeldin takes the helm of the federal agency tasked with regulating pesticides, pollution from agriculture and food processing plants, and greenhouse gas emissions that drive increasing climate challenges on farms.

She went on to ask Fetterman about his response to those “questioning your commitment to the Democratic party.” “I’ve been on record ... saying I am not going to become a Republican ...

The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Lee Zeldin as the nation’s 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Three Democrats ― Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.

Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday as President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator — earning bipartisan support.