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January 18, 2021
RALEIGH, N.C. Better days for North Carolina are ahead if citizens take calculated risks and stand up to fight bigotry, poverty and racial injustice, a state Cabinet member said at Friday’s annual’s Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance by state employees.
Department of Administration Secretary Machelle Sanders cited words of the slain civil rights leader born 92 years ago on Friday in calling on fellow state workers to be “drum majors” for equality, justice and peace. She said the COVID-19 pandemic, police shootings and political divisiveness of the past year have shined the light on institutional racism nationally and in the state.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Better days for North Carolina are ahead if citizens take calculated risks and stand up to fight bigotry, poverty and racial injustice, a state Cabinet member said at Friday's.
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On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his climate team, signaling the administration would make energy and environmental policy a top priority. The event formally announced rumored nominees Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) for secretary of the Department of the Interior and former North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Additional appointments on the climate team include former Secretary of State John Kerry as National Security Climate Envoy, environmental attorney Brenda Mallory for chair of the Council of Environmental Quality, and former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) for Secretary of Energy.