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The Energy 202: Trump administration jams in environmental rollbacks in final days Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck Even as they re packing their bags, President Trump s team is jamming in more rollbacks to energy and environmental restrictions. As Juliet Eilperin and I report, the slew of new rules several of which will help the fossil fuel, logging and mining industries that have benefited from past Trump administration action sets up a clash with the incoming president. President-elect Joe Biden and his aides may spend months unwinding these policies as they gear up to cut greenhouse gas emissions unless congressional Democrats or federal judges step in to overturn them more quickly. Biden becomes president Wednesday. ....
In a move that signals the importance of science to the incoming administration, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday a plan to make the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy a Cabinet-level agency. ....
President-elect Joe Biden will elevate the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to a cabinet-level agency and picks world famous geneticist Eric Lander to run it. ....
Credits: Image: Lander photograph by David Fox, Zuber photograph by Bryce Vickmark Previous image Next image President-elect Joseph Biden has selected two MIT faculty leaders Broad Institute Director Eric Lander and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber for top science and technology posts in his administration. Lander has been named Presidential Science Advisor, a position he will assume soon after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. He has also been nominated as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a position that requires Senate confirmation. Biden intends to elevate the Presidential Science Advisor, for the first time in history, to be a member of his Cabinet. ....