WASHINGTON – Since getting confirmed by the United States Senate on January 29, 2025, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has now traveled to all fifty states across the country to hear directly from the American people about the challenges facing their communities, and better inform policy decisions to be made at EPA. Throughout his travels, Administrator Zeldin shared one goal with everyone he met, and that is to fix everything.
As a direct result, the Trump EPA made major progress for the American people from coast to coast. The agency signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Mexico to permanently and urgently end the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis in Southern California. Two years were removed off the remediation timeline at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site, where nuclear waste remains to be cleaned up. Section 179(b) guidance on international air pollution was rescinded to help states like Utah and Arizona. Guidance on Diesel Exhaust Fuel (DEF) was updated so farmers and truckers don’t have to deal with deratements putting them out of work, and many more steps have been taken to provide Americans relief nationwide.