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Merrick Garland could energize enviro issues at DOJ
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen as his top lawyer a jurist who legal experts say could bring environmental issues into the spotlight at the Justice Department.
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Pamela King, E&E News reporter
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen as his top lawyer a jurist who legal experts say could bring environmental issues into the spotlight at the Justice Department.
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