Bidenâs climate team begins to take shape.
Gina McCarthy, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Barack Obama, is expected to be President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.âs pick as a senior adviser on climate change.Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
Published Dec. 16, 2020Updated March 10, 2021
In the coming days, Mr. Biden intends to name prominent leaders in the climate and clean-energy world to two senior positions: Gina McCarthy, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be his senior adviser on climate change, and Jennifer M. Granholm, a former governor of Michigan, will lead the Energy Department.
Bidenâs Climate Team Begins to Take Shape
The president-elect is expected to pick Gina McCarthy, a former E.P.A. chief, as White House climate coordinator. Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, is said to be his choice for the Energy Department.
Gina McCarthy led the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017 and helped design Obama-era climate regulations.Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
Dec. 15, 2020
WASHINGTON â President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to announce a significant part of his energy and environment team this week.
In the coming days, Mr. Biden intends to name prominent leaders in the climate and clean-energy world to two senior positions: Gina McCarthy, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be his senior adviser on climate change, and Jennifer M. Granholm, a former governor of Michigan, will lead the Department of Energy.
At the EPA, new names have been circulating in the last week. Michael Regan, the head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, and Richard Revesz, a professor and former dean at the New York University School of Law, are reportedly under consideration to lead the agency after opposition arose to front-runner Mary Nichols
Nichols, California’s top air regulator, was expected to face resistance from Senate Republicans, but a letter from a coalition of 70 environmental and social justice groups complaining she did not do enough to consider their voices when working to craft the state’s cap and trade program has reportedly diminished her prospects.
DEC s Basil Seggos could be headed for EPA
Said to be among Biden s top candidates
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DEC Commissioner is on President-elect Joseph Biden s shortlist of potential EPA administrators.Times Union file photoShow MoreShow Less
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Former Sierra Club leader Aaron Maire is one of meny New York activists supporting Seggos.Times Union file photoShow MoreShow Less
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ALBANY - New Yorkers of all stripes were lining up behind state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on Tuesday amid news that he’s on a short list of those who President-elect Joe Biden is considering to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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President-elect Joe Biden has picked former Obama officials and some policy experts from outside of Washington to enact his climate and energy agenda.
Biden s environmental picks include ex-Obama EPA boss Gina McCarthy, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and Rep. Deb Haaland, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress.