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Biden s Energy Picks Put Climate Front And Center
Law360 (December 16, 2020, 10:07 PM EST) President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly picked a slate of experienced leaders with proven records for addressing climate change issues to lead the U.S. Department of Energy and serve in the White House, underscoring the new administration s stated commitment to clean energy and addressing climate issues.
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will be nominated energy secretary, and Natural Resources Defense Council President and CEO Gina McCarthy, who led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration, will be White House climate policy coordinator, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Energy 202: These are the top climate stories of 2020 Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Dino Grandoni A presidential election. A national reckoning over race and justice in America. A worldwide pandemic that ground economies to a halt. 2020 was a momentous year. Yet looming over each of those events is climate change, which has pushed global temperatures to about 1 degree Celsius above preindustrial levels, a threshold that has already led to rising seas, a thawing Arctic and devastating droughts. Here are some of the top stories on climate change in 2020: 1. With Joe Biden’s victory, the United States is set for an about-face on climate change policy.
Biden chooses Brenda Mallory to head White House Council on Environmental Quality
Brady Dennis, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Brenda Mallory, a longtime expert in environmental law and regulation, to head the White House s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), according to several people familiar with the decision who spoke anonymously because the appointment has not been publicly announced.
The nomination would place a veteran government official and conservation advocate in a key administration post, one that works closely with agencies to shape federal environmental and energy policy and to ensure that individual communities have a voice in the construction of pipelines, roads and other potentially polluting projects.
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With historic picks, Biden puts environmental justice front and center Juliet Eilperin, Dino Grandoni, Brady Dennis President-elect Joe Biden chose Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) Thursday to serve as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head the Interior Department, a historic pick that marks a turning point for the U.S. government’s relationship with the nation’s Indigenous peoples. With that selection and others this week, Biden sent a clear message that top officials charged with confronting the nation’s environmental problems will have a shared experience with the Americans who have disproportionately been affected by toxic air and polluted land.