WASHINGTON â The White House is naming Tommy Beaudreau, a former Obama administration official, to be deputy secretary at the Interior Department after dropping plans for a more liberal nominee who faced key Senate opposition.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Beaudreau, a former chief of staff at the department who was the first director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The agency, created after the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, oversees offshore drilling and wind power.
Beaudreau grew up in Alaska and is politically close to Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a former chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee who holds great sway over oil drilling, endangered species and other department issues. Murkowski and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who now heads that committee, opposed Biden s plan to nominate former Interior Department official Elizabeth Klein as deputy secretary.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 15, 2021 12:56pm Conservative Party Leader Erin O Toole pictured in Ottawa in March 2017 unveiled his party s climate action plan in Ottawa on April 15, 2021.(iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood)
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Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole released his party’s climate plan on Thursday. The plan contrasts the Liberal carbon tax-and-rebate system by proposing to charge a levy on fuel purchases and divert revenues into a “Personal Low Carbon Savings Account,” which Canadians would use for environmentally friendly purchases. Essentially, Canadians would pay into their account every time they purchase hydrocarbon-based fuel, like gas, and then use that money to pay for green products like a bike or bus pass.
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