President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency comes in for praise and skepticism in a Senate confirmation hearing.

Tommy John Schiavoni was sworn in as the new assemblyman for the First District of New York on Friday night in Sag Harbor, with his wife, acting Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Andrea Harum Schiavoni, administering the oath of office. He became only the fourth person to hold that post since 1969.

“What’s happening in California is something that can happen every day here in New York,” said Chuck Hamilton, the founder of the New York Wildfire Incident Management Academy. The East End has what he called an “urban interface” — also present in Southern California — which means that houses touch right up against forested areas ripe with fuel.

After a difficult debate that ended in compromise, the East Hampton Town Board agreed at its work session Tuesday to bring an updated formula that links house size and lot size to a public hearing in early March. The board settled on a maximum house size of 7 percent of lot area plus 1,500 square feet. Right now, the formula is set at 10 percent of lot area plus 1,600 square feet.