By Kate Sullivan and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a slate of acting agency heads after taking office without a single one of his Cabinet nominees in place and.
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Alondra Nelson speaks in Wilmington, Delaware after being named Deputy Director for Science and Society in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Credit: Angela Weiss
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After winning the US presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden moved quickly to begin naming the experts who will advise him on a range of issues including science.
He immediately announced a task force of public-health specialists who will counsel him on a strategy to curtail the coronavirus pandemic, and he created a new position on the White House National Security Council devoted to climate change. Scientists have welcomed Biden’s swift actions in picking advisers with strong backgrounds in research and evidence-based policy. His predecessor, former Republican president Donald Trump, appointed multiple climate-change sceptics to
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Map shows the locations of wells around Colonial Pipeline s Huntersville spill. Orange dots are the 50 wells where gasoline has been recovered. The green and pink dots are monitoring wells.
The estimated size of the largest gasoline pipeline spill in North Carolina history keeps growing. Colonial Pipeline now estimates that nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline spilled when a pipeline ruptured in a Huntersville nature preserve last August.
That s more than double the previous estimate of 492,339 gallons as of Dec. 31, and far above the initial estimate of just 63,000 gallons last year. Colonial warned the number could go higher, as workers are still recovering 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of gasoline a day.
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