Biden to Pick Brenda Mallory to Run White House Environment Office
The office, the Council on Environmental Quality, is expected to have an expanded focus on environmental justice under Ms. Mallory, an environmental lawyer.
Brenda Mallory at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in 2018. She is currently director of regulatory policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center.Credit.via Brenda Mallory
Published Dec. 16, 2020Updated Dec. 21, 2020
WASHINGTON President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has chosen Brenda Mallory, an environmental lawyer who spent more than 15 years working in the federal government under both Republican and Democratic presidents, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, according to two people close to the Biden transition team.
Mexico, in Rebuke to U.S., Adopts Measure Restricting Foreign Agents
The legislation, which is likely to limit cooperation with U.S. drug agents, was approved after weeks of tension over the Americans’ short-lived arrest of a former Mexican official.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a news conference Tuesday. “There are rules, there are norms,” for all countries, he said last week.Credit.Sashenka Gutierrez/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Oscar Lopez
MEXICO CITY Lawmakers in Mexico approved legislation Tuesday that could sharply limit cooperation with American narcotics agents, delivering a stinging rebuke to the United States after its short-lived arrest of a former Mexican official brought tensions to a boil.
That calculus changed late Monday, after electors across the country cast their ballots for Mr. Biden, cementing his 306 to 232 Electoral College victory. By Tuesday morning, Mr. McConnell and his leadership team were openly acknowledging the results and creating the political space for other Republicans to begin belatedly recognizing Mr. Biden as the winner.
The Senate leader also spoke by phone with Mr. Biden, apparently for the first time since his former Senate colleague won the presidency more than five weeks ago. I called to thank him for the congratulations, told him although we disagree on a lot of things, there s things we can work together on, Mr. Biden told reporters, adding that it was a good conversation.
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âOne of the Smartest Peopleâ: Biden Nominates Buttigieg
On Wednesday, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. nominated Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., for secretary of the Transportation Department.
âFor secretary of Transportation, I nominate Mayor Pete Buttigieg. I got to know Pete on the campaign trail. Heâs one of the smartest people youâll ever meet, and one of the most humble. A mayor from the heartland, a management expert, a policy wonk with a big heart. A veteran, lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, an intelligence officer deployed to Afghanistan while he was mayor. A new voice with new ideas determined to move past old politics.â âMy hometown, South Bend, Ind., was built by the power of American transportation â from trade along the river whose bend gives our city its name to the rail lines that connected us to the rest of the country back when we were considered the West, to the livelihoods creat
Wall Street Journal editorial page responding to criticism of a piece he ran:
The editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal accused strategists for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. of instigating a coordinated response to an op-ed article published Friday evening that called on Jill Biden, Mr. Biden’s wife, to refrain from referring to herself as “Dr. Biden” because she is not a medical doctor, but rather holds a doctorate in education..
In the response, published Sunday evening and for Monday’s newspaper, Paul A. Gigot, the top editor for The Journal’s opinion section for nearly two decades, pointed to negative notes about [the] article posted to Twitter by two Biden staff members as well as Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Senator Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, as evidence of a campaign.