“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

By tapping former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump opted to put his planned radical rollback of climate policy in the hands of a staunch ally who is skilled at projecting an image of a moderate conservationist.

Zeldin is a Trump loyalist, and Trump has already promised to gut any regulations that the oil industry doesn't like.