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Biden’s choice of Buttigieg another win for progressive elites Michael Graham © Provided by Boston Herald Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be transportation secretary, speaks as Biden looks on during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP) At the Joe Biden presser announcing his pick as Transportation Secretary yesterday, Mayor Pete claimed he’s had “a personal love of transportation since childhood.” Seriously. He said that.  Out loud. Of ...

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president-elect has named several more officials whose job will include fighting climate change. This is an issue where the new administration has a very different approach from the old one. The Biden administration is setting goals for clean energy and arguing that the transition to new fuels will help the economy, and Biden aides talk of this as an issue to address all across the government. Energy use, after all, pretty much touches everything. NPR's Scott Detrow is covering the Biden transition. Scott, ...

Biden team deletes ad mocking Buttigieg after nominating him for DOT secretary Michael Lee © Provided by Washington Examiner President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team deleted a primary election ad that slammed Pete Buttigieg’s lack of experience now that the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor has been nominated to be Biden’s secretary for the Department of Transportation. "Both Vice President Biden and former Mayor Buttigieg have taken on tough fights. Under threat of a nuclear Iran, Joe Biden helped to negotiate the Iran deal," the deleted ad said. "And under the thr...

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...

The Energy 202: Biden's choice of ex-Michigan governor as energy secretary points to focus on electric cars Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary is a sign the president-elect’s team will try to spur automakers to sell cars that need little to no gasoline. The relationship that Granholm, the former two-term governor of Michigan, has with Detroit automakers may prove crucial to the incoming administration’s effort to cut climate-warming emissions spewing from the millions of cars and ...