It’s hard to believe that, despite a scientific consensus and mountains of verified evidence, climate change has become a global political football. And yet here we are. All the innovative climate tech in the world both current and emerging is not enough to turn the rising climate-crisis tide without one key ingredient: political […]
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President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate has wrapped up. The event saw world leaders highlighting their countries’ respective climate commitments, calling for collective action, and attending breakout sessions designed to foster dialogue around climate finance and technological innovation, among other topics. After Vice President Harris and President Biden opened the summit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered further introductory remarks before the trio joined Climate Envoy John Kerry at a horseshoe-shaped table to watch speeches from the world leaders in attendance. Then fifteen additional cabinet heads, political appointees, and special advisors spoke or moderated sessions during over the next two days. These U.S. officials comprise the core leadership team tasked with implementing the administration’s “whole of government” climate strategy. Below, we introduce these key members in the order in which they first appeared during the Summ
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The Senate confirmed former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the Energy Secretary for the Biden administration on February 25, 2021, by a 64–35 vote.
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Granholm was the first woman elected as a governor in Michigan in 2002 and served two terms in that capacity. Before that position, she was the first woman elected as Michigan’s attorney general in 1998.
Granholm is credited with diversifying Michigan’s economy, strengthening its automotive and manufacturing industries, and adding emerging clean energy sectors after the decline the state saw in its economy during the Great Recession.
Granholm, a former governor, now energy secretary oakridgetoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oakridgetoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jennifer M. Granholm Sworn in as 16th Secretary of Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jennifer M. Granholm was sworn in today as the 16th Secretary of Energy by Vice President Kamala Harris, following a broad bipartisan confirmation vote of 64-35 in the United States Senate. Secretary Granholm is only the second woman to lead the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“I am humbled by the faith President Biden has placed in me to lead this incredible team at the Department of Energy,” said
Secretary Granholm. “DOE is powered by brilliant scientists, engineers, and energy policy experts who are the very best for the job we’ve been tasked with: to develop and deploy new clean energy technologies that will achieve the Administration’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and secure our nation’s future. I am so ready to work alongside them as we kickstart America’s clean energy revolution, create millions of good-paying union jobs, and deliver benefits to American workers and c