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Meet the Biden cabinet’s science and tech leaders Erin Fennessy © Provided by Popular Science Xavier Becerra, the pick for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Deb Haaland, the pick for Secretary of the Interior President-elect Joseph R. Biden will have no choice but to rely on his new heads of science and technology in the Executive Branch as he begins his term facing down two dire crises: the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. So far he has embraced this ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a dig at the outgoing Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden introduced his slate of scientific advisers Saturday with the promise that they would summon “science

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The Energy 202: Trump administration jams in environmental rollbacks in final days Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck Even as theyre packing their bags, President Trumps team is jamming in more rollbacks to energy and environmental restrictions.  As Juliet Eilperin and I report, the slew of new rules — several of which will help the fossil fuel, logging and mining industries that have benefited from past Trump administration action — sets up a clash with the incoming...

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to make nominations to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the leader of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a source told CNN.

Eric Lander President-elect Joe Biden on Friday nominated Eric Lander to be his science adviser and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy -- and also elevated the role of science adviser so that it will have cabinet rank. Lander is president and founding director of the Broad Institute at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a speech introducing Lander, Biden outlined five priorities for science in his administration. "First, the pandemic and wh...

He has promised to 'manage the hell' out of the effort.

If confirmed, Lander will head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a position that President Donald Trump left vacant for 18 months at the beginning of his term.

China is reporting 109 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, two-thirds of them in a northern province that abuts Beijing

WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden introduced his team of scientific advisers on Saturday, saying they will lead with “science and truth. We believe in both.” Biden is elevating the position of science adviser to Cabinet level, a White House first. He called Eric Lander, a pioneer in mapping the human genome is in line to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, “one of the most brilliant guys I know.” Lander is the founding director of the Broad Institu...