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The Biden-Harris Administration s Whole of Government Approach to Combating Climate Change: Who You Heard From at the Climate Leaders Summit | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[co-author: Shawn Whites] 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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POLITICS: Romney, Gina McCarthy once teamed on CO2 Will they again?

Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Gina McCarthy. Photo credit: Sipa USA/Newscom Gina McCarthy speaks to reporters at the White House last month. Sipa USA/Newscom Roughly one month into his tenure as Massachusetts governor in 2003, Mitt Romney held a press conference outside a coal plant near Boston. That plant kills people, the Republican governor declared. The plant known as the Salem Harbor Generating Station was seeking an extension to comply with new state air quality rules, which called for slashing nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and carbon dioxide. Romney made clear he had little appetite for granting it, to the dismay of utility workers who had been bused in for the event.

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Meet Gina McCarthy, Biden s pick to lead the White House agenda on climate

Meet Gina McCarthy, Biden s pick to lead the White House agenda on climate
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Mass exodus: A flurry of figures with Boston ties are heading to Washington Here s a look at who s been tapped

Mass. exodus: A flurry of figures with Boston ties are heading to Washington. Here’s a look at who’s been tapped Brittany Bowker © Eric Thayer A number of people with Massachusetts ties are headed to Washington to serve in the Biden-Harris administration. Thousands of people work in the White House under each administration, and with President Biden and Vice President Harris at the helm, many will hail from Massachusetts. It seems every day comes with news of another figure with ties to Massachusetts being tapped by the nation’s highest offices. In what can only be described as a Mass. exodus, here’s a look at some of the Bay Staters who are heading to Washington to work under the Biden-Harris administration.

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Meet Gina McCarthy, a Mass native who is set to serve as White House climate coordinator

Meet Gina McCarthy, a Mass. native who is set to serve as White House climate coordinator By Shannon Larson Globe Staff,Updated December 16, 2020, 9:15 a.m. Email to a Friend Then-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy signed a proposal under the Clean Air Act to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants during a news conference in Washington on June 2, 2014.REUTERS Another Massachusetts native â and former Obama administration member â is heading to the White House come January. President-elect Joe Biden is slated to announce several members of his energy and environment team this week and among them is the reported choice of Gina McCarthy, a former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as senior adviser on climate change.

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