Biden is elevating the issue as a policy priority, appointing people to newly created positions and threading it through other agencies than those that have traditionally addressed it.
Biden is elevating the issue as a policy priority, appointing people to newly created positions and threading it through other agencies than those that have traditionally addressed it.
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden has begun nominating members of his Cabinet and White House team, working to fulfill his promise to build an administration that reflects the United ...
The president-elect selected another Obama administration alum—former EPA chief Gina McCarthy, who will be his climate czar—to join his environmental team.
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the transportation department
While Trump is still far from conceding the election, whose outcome is called not by the media, but by the Electoral College on Dec 14...
The president-elect has tasked the former ambassador to the United Nations with coordinating with federal agencies and mapping out his agenda on health care, energy and other issues.
But if he wants to appoint a Cabinet with the most people of color in history, he’ll need to surpass President BARACK OBAMA’s initial Cabinet, which included 10 people of color: four ...
The new appointees will be tasked with the president-elect's goal of moving the United States to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
The only pipeline that it mentions is the “diverse pipeline of talent” the government should help create to fill good clean energy jobs.
The pressure on the Democratic president-elect is intense, even as his efforts to ensure ethnic and gender diversity already go far beyond those of President Trump. And it’s coming from all ...
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to nominate Michael Regan of North Carolina to run the Environmental Protection Agency, two people familiar with the matter tell CNN.
President-elect Joe Biden's short list of candidates for domestic climate adviser is narrowing, with three names coming up the most, according to multiple sources.
Here’s what’s happening Wednesday in Election 2020 and President-elect Joe Biden's transition. TODAY’S TOP STORIES: ‘PRETTY MUCH OVER': For weeks, President Donald Trump has been on a...
Former Democratic presidential rivals Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have jointly chosen progressive and moderate members of a climate task force as part of a party unification effort. ...
Progressives applaud the former vice president’s embrace of Bernie Sanders’ climate advisors. One analyst called the panel “the Climate Dream Team for Democrats.”
Longtime Biden aides and former primary rivals Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are being considered.
Climate change is consistently polling as a top issue for Democrats, and candidates are going deep early.
Arnaud Koehl considers the extent of the role the new American administration can play in accelerating international action on climate and development.
The Biden administration’s energy and climate policy takes shape with top picks for key agencies.
Joe Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris has grown increasingly firm in her commitment to making sure that policy to slow man-made climate change emphasizes...
Biden’s climate efforts will face hurdles even if Democrats take back the Senate. Federal policymaking has multiple veto points. Courts could become an obstacle. Non-climate issues might ...