Biden assembles team to enact ambitious climate agenda Rachel Frazin and Rebecca Beitsch © Getty Images Biden assembles team to enact ambitious climate agenda
President-elect Joe Biden has assembled his climate cabinet, the officials who will be responsible for enacting the most ambitious plan to fight global warming ever proposed by a U.S. administration.
The agency heads and Cabinet secretaries will be in charge of implementing Biden s proposal, which calls for reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 and a carbon neutral power sector by 2035, as well as incorporating union jobs and racial equality into the solutions.
To get that done, he s put former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) in charge of the Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) veteran Michael Regan in charge of that agency, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) in charge of public lands and former 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg in charge of transportation.
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Who Is Going to Help the Biden Administration Take on Climate Change? Slate 12/19/2020 Nitish Pahwa © Provided by Slate Pete Buttigieg listens as Joe Biden nominates him for transportation secretary at presidential transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday. Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
While centrist and progressive Democrats continue to bicker over their party’s underwhelming down-ballot performance this election cycle, one fact should not escape notice: Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump was an unabashed climate victory. The president-elect may not have endorsed the Green New Deal, but he nevertheless championed the most ambitious climate plan of any major-party nominee in history (albeit with some hedging on fracking). But thanks to a divided Congress and a hard-right Supreme Court, Biden’s executive team will likely have to play an outsize role in implementing his climate promises.
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