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Biden’s Green Team Takes Shape With Race, Gender Firsts   WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his Cabinet in positions that will impact the Earth’s unique places, people, and species, now more vulnerable than ever after the Trump administration. Climate will be a top priority of Biden’s core plan for a “clean energy revolution and environmental justice.” Biden is aware that on January 20, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,...

What you need to know about Biden's cabinet picks CNN 1/8/2021 By Kate Sullivan, CNN © David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images/FILE Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. TechCrunch Disrupt, the world's leading authority in debuting revolutionary startups, gathers the brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for on-stage interviews. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden has moved swiftly to build ou...

Austin is a retired Army general and is the former commander of the US Central Command. He has worked closely with Biden in the past. While Biden was vice president, Austin served as the vice chief of staff of the Army and commanding general of US forces in Iraq, and later the commander of CENTCOM. Biden and Austin had discussions on a range of issues, including those in the Middle East and Central and South Asia. Austin would need a congressional waiver to be confirmed for the civilian post because federal law requires seven years of retirement from active duty before taking on the role. Au...

December 17, 2020 President-elect Joseph Biden nominated Brenda Mallory, SELC's Director of Regulatory Policy, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.   (© SELC/Emily Richardson-Lorente) Brenda Mallory, Director of Regulatory Policy for the Southern Environmental Law Center, has been chosen to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where she will be the principal environmental policy advisor to President-elect Biden and charged with coordinating environmental policy across the federal government. “SELC’s lo...

Biden chooses Brenda Mallory to head White House Council on Environmental Quality Brady Dennis, The Washington Post Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 work...