Ahead of the November presidential election, Kristina Costa had her White House team prepare Plan A and Plan B scenarios depending on the outcome.
The day after the election, “I snapped awake at about 4 in the morning, looked at my phone, deleted the A scenario list and scheduled a meeting for that afternoon,” said Costa, who directed the White House office tasked with rolling out the Biden administration’s signature climate and clean energy law.
President Donald Trump’s win spelled doom for the Biden administration’s climate agenda, which Trump had derided on the campaign trail as the “Green New Scam.”
Costa was a key figure in John Podesta’s teamin the Biden White House charged with coordinating the government’s massive climate and energy spending under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
