Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Worries Environmentalists
Vilsack represents a return to a status quo that doesn’t adequately address climate Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP Early last week, presidential transition officials announced that Joe Biden would select Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, a choice that suggests a straightforward—and to some, disappointing—continuation of the Obama years. Vilsack served as governor of Iowa from 1999 until 2007, made a brief run for president, and then became secretary of agriculture for Barack Obama, a job he held for Obama’s two terms until he began work as a lobbying executive for the dairy indu...
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