Biden Names Climate Change Cabinet Team
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Biden picks Regan for EPA nominee, Haaland for interior headPresident-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that he had chosen North Carolina regulator Michael S. Regan as his nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as his pick for interior secretary.
Biden said the selections round out what he said would be an experienced climate team ready from their first day in office to tackle the “undeniable, accelerating, punishing reality of climate change.” Biden is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s transportation and electrical systems to cut the oil, gas and coal emissions behind...
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Biden names cabinet officials tasked to fight climate changeU.S. president-elect Joe Biden named the team he wants to spearhead his response to climate change on Thursday, picking former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Gina McCarthy to lead a new office focused on global warming.
Biden also said he would nominate Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico to run the interior department, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to run the energy department and North Carolina environment official Michael Regan to run the EPA, among others, his transition team said in a statement.
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Deal-makers and fighters make up Biden’s new climate teamJoe Biden wrapped up a team heavy on deal-makers and fighters to lead his climate effort Thursday, tasking it with remaking and cleaning up the nation’s transportation and power-plant systems, and as fast as politically possible.
While the president-elect’s picks have the experience to do the heavy lifting required in a climate overhaul of the U.S. economy, they also seem to be reassuring skeptics that he won’t neglect the low-income, working class and minority communities hit hardest by fossil fuel pollution and climate change.
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