Biden’s Green Team Takes Shape With Race, Gender Firsts
WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20 at noon, has nominated a team of seasoned environmental leaders to fill his Cabinet in positions that will impact the Earth’s unique places, people, and species, now more vulnerable than ever after the Trump administration. Climate will be a top priority of Biden’s core plan for a “clean energy revolution and environmental justice.”
Biden is aware that on January 20, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, only nine years will be left to stop the worst consequences of climate change.
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president-elect has named several more officials whose job will include fighting climate change. This is an issue where the new administration has a very different approach from the old one. The Biden administration is setting goals for clean energy and arguing that the transition to new fuels will help the economy, and Biden aides talk of this as an issue to address all across the government. Energy use, after all, pretty much touches everything. NPR s Scott Detrow is covering the Biden transition. Scott, good morning.
SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Morning, Steve.
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