Jake Levine, a longtime climate change official who worked in the Biden and Obama White Houses, just launched a congressional bid in California.
Levine returned to his home state in January after leaving his post as a senior climate and energy aide on the Biden White House’s National Security Council. He had seen wildfires ravage his childhood home in Los Angeles and it helped spur him into the race to unseat a fellow Democrat, 15-term incumbent Rep. Brad Sherman.
“We really need to revitalize the way that we’re thinking about what the Democratic Party stands for, how it’s showing up, what it’s fighting for,” Levine said in an interview Sunday.
Levine is among the host of former Biden climate officials launching new phases of their careers as the Trump administration works to obliterate much of what they did during the last administration, which considered climate and renewable energy work among its top priorities.
