Amid global tensions running high, “energy dominance” is moving up to be at least as on par with environmental priorities for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

The longstanding core mission remains for Zeldin’s EPA, but his leadership is balancing a far more wide-ranging set of priorities than has historically been the focus for this position.

“Our core mission is protecting human health and the environment,” Zeldin said in a televised interview Tuesday night as hailed by President Donald Trump in a Trump social post Wednesday morning. “We want to power the great American comeback, which means, as President Trump has spoken about — clean air, land and water for all Americans — but we can also help unleash energy dominance, make America the AI capital of the world, advance federal corporatism, permitting reform, bringing back American auto jobs.

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