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Environmental groups line up behind Levin for Labor POLITICO 12/22/2020 By Zack Colman, Eleanor Mueller and Rebecca Rainey © Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo The slimming Democratic majority in the House could be working against Rep. Andy Levin. Progressive environmental groups are pushing President-elect Joe Biden to pick Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) for Labor Secretary as the incoming administration rounds out its Cabinet. Uniting the labor movement behind an aggressive push toward clean energy might be one of the more vexing political challenges for achieving Biden’s climate goa...

Published on December 19th, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to run the Department of Energy (DOE) and former Environmental Protection Administration Chief Gina McCarthy to run a new White House office on climate change. Both women have strong environmental records and can be expected to be assertive key figures in the Biden administration, which is making the climate crisis a top priority. Granholm must be confirmed by the Senate, but McCarthy does not. McCarthy will operate as a domestic counterpart to former Secretary of State...

Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, kassie [at] biologicaldiversity.org Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, dallas [at] ienearth.org Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability, joe [at] labor4sustability.org Biden Urged By Hundreds of Groups to Sign Climate Emergency Executive Order WASHINGTON — More than 380 groups today called on President-elect Joe Biden to sign an executive order to confront the climate emergency with the full power of the executive branch as soon as he takes office. The groups presented Biden with a draft executive order with a suite of ...

RandiSpivak,rspivak[at]biologicaldiversity.org Proposed Executive Order Could Be Implemented Immediately by New Interior Secretary WASHINGTON, DC — Over 500 climate, conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups today sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive order to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal public lands and waters. Biden promised during the campaign that he would stop new leasing and permitting activities on his first day in office. The executive order highlighted in