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Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Acting heads for DOE, Interior, EPA named Source: By Timothy Cama, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2021 David Huizenga will serve as President Biden’s acting Energy secretary, the new administration announced yesterday. Partnership for Public Service President Biden yesterday named a slate of officials to be acting heads of federal agencies while his nominees await Senate confirmation. The officials are mostly senior career employees. They are meant to keep agencies running and carrying out their missions, and are un...

Are 13 Current Cabinet Members Unconstitutional? SHARE By the time Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president yesterday, every member of President Trump’s cabinet had resigned. That’s customary when a new president takes office. Because none of President Biden’s nominees to fill his cabinet have yet been confirmed by the Senate, all fifteen cabinet‐​level departments are currently being led by “acting secretaries.” These acting secretaries serve either by virtue of succession statutes specific to particular departments or by virtue of the “Vacancies Act,” a law ...

By Kate Sullivan and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a slate of acting agency heads after taking office without a single one of his Cabinet nominees in place and...

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If confirmed, Austin will face a host of other challenges, including a rising China and defense alliances strained by hostility from Trump.