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Environmental advocates celebrated the creation of a chief resilience officer. Now they have doubts.
For almost seven months, Florida had a dedicated leader on climate change. Then she left for another job.
The state has now gone longer than that without a full-time replacement.
Environmental advocates celebrated Gov. Ron DeSantis’s hiring of Julia Nesheiwat for the newly created position of chief resilience officer in summer 2019. They saw the move as a declaration his office would accept, and try to address, the realities of climate change in a vulnerable state.
Now some wonder about that commitment.
“We were so excited about it because it acknowledged what we were doing,” said Hank Hodde, Pinellas County’s sustainability and resiliency coordinator. “If the position isn’t backfilled, it just seems like it’s business as usual, and it was for show.”
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President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Gina McCarthy, the former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, as his climate czar.
McCarthy is the next White House Climate Coordinator, a senior adviser to Biden. She will coordinate climate change policy throughout the federal government. She had been the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national environmental group that has sued the Trump administration dozens of times.
Before that, McCarthy was the former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Barack Obama and the mastermind of some of his most far-reaching regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Under Biden, she intends to make good on his campaign promise of putting the U.S. on track to reach carbon neutrality before 2050.
Out of the way, little people â big energy project coming through
Updated December 19, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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From Weymouth to East Boston to Minnesota, fossil fuel projects carry the day
Having spent many mornings, at the crack of dawn, standing with the good citizens that make up the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS, holding signs of protest on the bridge above the Weymouth compressor plant site, I was glad to see an investigative piece by Boston Globe Spotlight fellow Mike Stanton (âBrute lesson in power politics,â Page A1, Dec. 13). Sadly, we are seeing parallel investments in hazardous fossil fuel infrastructure as close as East Boston, another community that will bear the brunt of the hunger for and profits from gas, all the way to Minnesota, where the same company that FRRACS is fighting is building Pipeline 3.