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One of President Biden’s top State Departmentclimate nominees touted the environmental benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic in an op-ed published while the pandemic was in full swing.
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wroteabout the environmental upside of the pandemic in March 2020 and called for the economy to be restructured around green jobs.
Medina is an Obama administration alum and also the wife of Biden s White House chief of staff, Ron Klain.
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Major powers are “rapidly militarizing space” to prepare for a prospective conflict that could have devastating effects in the absence of norms to restrict such weapons, according to a senior Democrat.
“I suspect the norm is ‘he who is strongest will win at the end of the process,’ and we ll all be dead,” California Rep. John Garamendi said during a congressional hearing on space policy.
A quartet of State Department and Pentagon officials appeared before members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Armed Services Committee for a discussion of “creating a framework for Rules-Based Order in Space.” Much of the conversation conceded the near-impossibility of establishing that framework, given Chinese and Russian disinterest in serious negotiations over such rules and their enthusiasm for developing capabilities that can threaten American satellites.