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Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Defense secretary is a military veteran with little record on climate policy. The move breaks Biden's streak of naming top officials with environmental credentials.
The Biden administration has yet to act on its campaign promise to bar oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, but the political battle and Republican opposition have already begun.
By Heather Richards and Emma Dumain in E&E Daily
Elon Musk, the eccentric billionaire and technology innovator, last week set off a flurry of interest in the potential to remove carbon from the atmosphere at an industrial scale.
By Corbin Hiar in Climatewire
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The Biden administration has yet to act on its campaign promise to bar oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, but the political battle and Republican opposition have already begun.
By Heather Richards and Emma Dumain in E&E Daily
Elon Musk, the eccentric billionaire and technology innovator, last week set off a flurry of interest in the potential to remove carbon from the atmosphere at an industrial scale.
By Corbin Hiar in Climatewire