President Biden took executive actions yesterday repealing the Keystone XL pipeline permit, rejoining the Paris climate accord and reviewing energy rules across federal agencies. What's next?
Republican senators yesterday grilled Transportation secretary-designate Pete Buttigieg on whether President Biden's climate agenda would kill jobs and hurt the pandemic-battered economy.
The Department of Energy unveiled a senior leadership team this morning, saying it will carry out President Biden's "vision for bold action on the climate crisis."
President Biden's climate team consists of veterans from past battles and fresh faces in the environmental movement.
There's still no timetable for Rep. Deb Haaland to be confirmed as the next Interior secretary, but the New Mexico Democrat's congressional chief of staff has already moved over to serve in the same capacity at the federal agency.
President Biden has chosen a former assistant special counsel for Robert Mueller to temporarily serve as the new administration's top Supreme Court advocate.
EPA has named a number of career officials to run its program and regional offices until the incoming Biden administration's appointees arrive at the agency.
Tarak Shah, an Obama-era chief of staff for the Department of Energy's undersecretary for science and energy, will be named Energy Secretary-designate Jennifer Granholm's chief of staff in the Biden administration, according to sources.
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to appoint Radhika Fox, CEO of the nonprofit U.S. Water Alliance and a former San Francisco utility official, to lead EPA's Office of Water, according to a source familiar with the decision.
Environmental attorney Elizabeth Klein brings bureaucratic experience and some decidedly green perspectives to bear as the Biden administration's nominee for Interior deputy secretary.
In picking Jewel Bronaugh for the No. 2 position at the Department of Agriculture, President-elect Joe Biden couldn't have taken a much sharper turn from the Trump administration.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped a highly qualified woman to serve as the No. 2 official at the Department of Transportation, filling in some gaps in Secretary-designate Pete Buttigieg's knowledge and experience.
Science won't just inform federal policymaking in the Biden administration. It'll also have a prominent seat in the White House.
President-elect Joe Biden demonstrated his intent to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency a major role in his administration by quickly nominating an agency leader and selecting a widely praised emergency manager who has dealt with hurricanes, wildfires and pandemics.
Melanie Nakagawa will become the top climate staffer on the White House National Security Council, working on everything from the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement to President-elect Joe Biden's objective of integrating climate change into all aspects of U.S. foreign policy.
President-elect Joe Biden this weekend tapped intended nominees to be the deputy secretaries of five Cabinet departments.
Newly released financial disclosure forms for Energy secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm depict a stock portfolio and work career deeply invested in the future of electric vehicles.
President-elect Joe Biden is rounding out his White House climate team with policy hands who've spent the Trump era defending climate regulations, engineering new policy and campaigning on the issue.
President-elect Joe Biden's expected pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is seen by progressives as a staunch Wall Street watchdog who would be well-prepared to tackle the threats that climate change poses to the U.S. economy.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee's new leaders are preaching a similar agenda that could portend more bipartisan energy partnerships this Congress.
Democrats regained control of the Senate yesterday, but negotiations over sharing power in the divided chamber and the upcoming impeachment trial are already straining President Biden's early legislative agenda.
When Democrat Alex Padilla is sworn in to the Senate today, it will mark a milestone in the Golden State's history.
Incoming Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden is vowing to press sweeping changes to the tax code to tackle climate change in the 117th Congress.
Even before Democrats won control of the Senate last week, experts said the next four years could be ripe for pushing financial regulators — and Wall Street giants — forward on climate change.
When Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper won his first statewide election in 2010, he added "governor" to an already robust stockpile of titles that included geologist, microbrewer and Denver mayor. But he's the first to admit he wasn't all that interested in the more formal options.
The newly elected Democratic Senate will have too narrow a margin to pass much of anything, meaning their best chance for action on President-elect Joe Biden's agenda may lie with a budget tool that allows them to move legislation with a simple majority vote.
Earlier this week many observers assumed Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) would take over the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the new top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, is signaling a potentially more bipartisan and less ideological push on energy and environmental issues.
Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats finalized their subcommittee rosters, with familiar faces set to lead the energy, environment and climate panels.
Climate change and environmental justice will be early priorities for the new Biden administration and Democratic Congress, House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chairwoman Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) said yesterday.
More than a dozen House Republican lawmakers were selected to fill coveted, open slots on the Energy & Commerce and Appropriations committees yesterday.
Rep. Bruce Westerman won the job of top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee with a promise to help rebrand the GOP as the party of environmentalists.
Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who will be the top Energy and Commerce Committee Republican next year, expects to promote her party's long-standing energy and environmental priorities but insists she is also eager to find ways to work with Democrats.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) spoke with President-elect Joe Biden's choice for EPA administrator, Michael Regan, about the importance of biofuel mandates as the renewable fuel faces one last potential showdown with the Trump administration.
President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Department of Energy leader for a high-ranking position in his National Security Council.
Joe Biden's appointee for deputy national security adviser may have more experience on international climate issues than anyone who has ever filled that position.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped William Burns, a diplomat who has argued for making climate change a top-tier foreign relations priority, to lead the CIA.
President-elect Joe Biden has laced his Cabinet with deep energy ties across the federal government as he prepares to take office and enact an ambitious green energy plan, facing a slim majority in the House and Senate and deep political polarization.
President-elect Joe Biden said Friday he will pick Caitlin Durkovich as senior director for resilience and response on the National Security Council, bringing a longtime grid security adviser to the White House.
President-elect Joe Biden named an additional 21 people to fill out his National Security Council staff, including an aide focused on energy and climate change, while Vice President-elect Kamala Harris added 12 aides to her staff.
A veteran Colorado River attorney and New Mexico native has emerged as a leading contender to become President-elect Joe Biden's top water manager in the West.
Contenders are lining up to lead EPA's air office, a traditionally powerful agency bailiwick whose influence is set to grow under an incoming president who has already declared a "climate emergency."
The impending power shift in the Senate means Congress will once again turn to the Congressional Review Act to scrap a bevy of regulations.
President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly chosen Merrick Garland to serve as attorney general.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a leading candidate to become Commerce secretary, thrust her state into a leading position on climate change by seeking to zero out power-sector emissions by 2030.
The top ranks of the Forest Service are sprinkled with familiar faces for the man who will help determine how many of them stay around for the Biden administration.
President-elect Joe Biden further filled out his intended White House staff today, with new appointments in political strategy and Cabinet affairs roles.
President-elect Joe Biden's picks for key climate change and energy policy positions held meetings yesterday with environmental justice and Native American leaders.
For a man who recently slapped a nearly $90,000 fine on a polluting hog farm in North Carolina, Michael Regan has managed to hold on to the goodwill of the industry behind the problem.
President-elect Joe Biden is adding six new members to his White House staff, including a longtime adviser as his deputy chief of staff.
President-elect Joe Biden yesterday added three members to his economic policy team who progressives say reflect his desire to push the nation's economy in a more equitable direction.
Rep. Deb Haaland has already mapped out what she might try to do as Interior secretary through the myriad bills she's introduced in Congress.
Skeptics calling for a more cautious approach to genetic engineering in agriculture may be disappointed in the Department of Agriculture's incoming leadership: Tom Vilsack has been looking to speed it up.
President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department will give tribes a seat at the table on water management, an area where Native American advocates say they have long been ignored.
Joe Biden's pick to lead the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, would hold two powerful tools to drive a 100% clean energy agenda if confirmed, analysts say.
Michael Regan on Saturday gave his first speech as the presumptive head of EPA, and his brief remarks were transformative — both for the 44-year-old Black man who grew up in the shadow of the 1950s-era H.F. Lee power plant in North Carolina, and for the battered federal agency he is poised to inherit.
Off Capitol Hill, news of Rep. Deb Haaland's selection to lead the Interior Department has energized the progressive base, mobilized tribal communities and thrilled politicos who want to see President-elect Joe Biden make history with his first round of Cabinet picks.
News of Michael Regan's forthcoming nomination to be President-elect Joe Biden's EPA chief was mostly welcomed by Democrats and liberal activists, though some had misgivings.
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland (D) to serve as Interior secretary, three sources tell E&E News.
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Michael Regan, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, as his nominee for EPA administrator.
President-elect Joe Biden is reorienting the chain of command on climate policy. Here's how it could affect his White House.
Brenda Mallory, an attorney who spent more than three decades fighting for environmental issues, is expected to be President-elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, according to two sources.
The top environmental regulator in North Carolina has been thrust into the national spotlight.
President-elect Joe Biden formally nominated Pete Buttigieg as secretary of Transportation today, citing the former mayor's credentials on climate change and infrastructure.
Now that Tom Vilsack is poised to become Agriculture secretary, progressives who preferred other candidates are turning attention to the jobs around him for redemption.
The former EPA administrator gave in to the president-elect's requests to be his top climate adviser after being drawn to the prospects of leading an aggressive fight against rising temperatures. "She's long been the person Biden wanted in that role," said a source.
President-elect Joe Biden's team has added new representatives to groups carrying out transition activities at federal agencies.
Tensions are flaring between President-elect Joe Biden and the young climate activists who hounded him on the campaign trail before helping to elect him.
Senate Democrats have adopted a change in caucus rules that will allow Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois to assume the top Democratic slot on the Judiciary Committee while remaining in the No. 2 leadership spot.
President-elect Joe Biden has picked Katherine Tai, a top trade lawyer on the House Ways and Means Committee, to serve as U.S. trade representative — a position that is likely to be key for the new administration's clean energy goals.
One of the transition team's top candidates to lead either NOAA or NASA doesn't want the job, and another contender for NOAA chief is married to President-elect Joe Biden's chief of staff.
Sustainable investing can include buying fossil fuel stocks, a top economic adviser to President-elect Joe Biden said this summer in a previously unaired interview.
President-elect Joe Biden's pick of Tom Vilsack for a second stint as Agriculture secretary gives the former USDA chief a possible chance to pick up where he left off four years ago.
President-elect Joe Biden chose retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin III yesterday to serve as secretary of Defense amid rising tensions with China and Iran and the growing threat of cyberattacks targeting U.S. energy infrastructure.
President-elect Joe Biden could move immediately to strengthen the nation's resilience to climate change by reinstating an Obama-era policy that would require new federally funded buildings, infrastructure and homes to be flood-proofed, experts say.
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 next EPA administrator will be asked to fulfill the soaring climate promises of President-elect Joe Biden. But first they'll have to rebuild the agency.
President-elect Joe Biden's choice of Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services is in line with Biden's pledge to confront climate change at every federal agency, supporters said.
During his four years in office, President Trump cheered critics of the federal estate by rarely deploying the Antiquities Act — and when he did, he used it to cull millions of acres of public lands from protected status.
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen the leading challenger of the Trump administration's environmental policies to serve as the next secretary of Health and Human Services.
Fuel refiners will still blend billions of gallons of corn-based ethanol into gasoline with President-elect Joe Biden in the White House — but the conversation may turn to alternative fuels.
President-elect Joe Biden made an off-script remark that suggested he's preparing for a fight over his financially ambitious climate proposals.
How the Biden administration will calculate the costs and benefits of environmental regulations is already causing a stir on the left, and the debate over the future of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs mirrors one that has been percolating among Democrats for years.
A top choice to become President-elect Joe Biden's domestic climate adviser is a former Republican and an immigrant from Pakistan who is currently driving New York's effort to be a national leader on renewable energy.
President-elect Joe Biden picked Brian Deese to lead the White House National Economic Council today, putting a climate change policy expert in the top rung of his circle of aides.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris named three key senior advisers today as she and President-elect Joe Biden prepare to take office next month.
Veteran Democratic appropriator Rosa DeLauro today easily won the race to lead the House Appropriations Committee next year.
President-elect Joe Biden has included proposals for a new generation of nuclear reactors in his clean energy platform and parted ways with "no-nuke" progressives on his left. What does his stance mean for the electricity mix and presidential politics?
Several former Obama EPA and Interior Department officials on President-elect Joe Biden's transition team bring with them water policy expertise that will help shape the incoming administration, from work crafting WOTUS to tackling the Flint, Mich., water crisis and efforts to restore the Everglades.
President-elect Joe Biden's senior economic team includes a carbon tax proponent as well as a senior Obama climate adviser whose support for the Obama administration's stances on fracking and Arctic drilling has roiled some green groups.
Brian Deese was at the center of Obama's climate efforts. His selection to lead economic policy under Biden expands the reach of environmentally focused advisers across the incoming administration.
President-elect Joe Biden's financial policy will be shaped — at least in part — by an economic adviser who believes fossil fuels are "severely underpriced" because they don't consider the harm caused by climate change.
President-elect Joe Biden this morning announced plans to nominate Neera Tanden to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, a choice that is causing bipartisan concern.
President-elect Joe Biden rolled out his senior economic policy team today, with plenty of familiar names in Democratic and Obama administration circles.
Oil and gas trade groups are gearing up for a new round of courtroom battles as they watch how far President-elect Joe Biden will go to regulate activities like hydraulic fracturing.
With less than 8 weeks until a new administration takes over in Washington, the clock is running out for the Energy Department to deliver one of President Trump's most public and far-reaching efforts to protect grid security.
As one of his biggest steps to tackle climate change, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to undo President Trump's rollback of clean car standards and set new auto emissions rules.
House Democrats and Republicans will pick committee leaders this week who will be crucial to shaping energy and environmental legislation in the next Congress.
Joe Biden was accused during the presidential campaign of planning for the end of oil, but some analysts say the president-elect may instead help the industry survive.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to tap Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary, a pick that could play a defining role in U.S. efforts to slash carbon emissions and prepare the economy for the realities of a warming world.
President-elect Joe Biden's team — and Democrats generally — have been eager to wrest control of the federal bureaucracy. But President Trump has an arsenal of tools at his disposal to hamstring the incoming administration's plans, including regulations, personnel moves and the permitting process.
President-elect Joe Biden's choices for Treasury secretary, secretary of State and executive branch positions yesterday signal a dramatic shift in U.S. energy and climate policy.
When she was a U.S. ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield found the Liberian government less capable of long-term planning than its state-owned oil company.
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate longtime adviser Antony Blinken to be secretary of State and name former Secretary of State John Kerry his special presidential envoy for climate — a pair of picks with massive implications for climate diplomacy.
President-elect Joe Biden today named a pair of aides with deep Capitol Hill roots to round out the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs in the new administration.
President-elect Joe Biden further filled out his roster today for senior staff once he enters the White House in two months.
Patrice Simms, a prominent environmental lawyer, will help lay the foundation for President-elect Joe Biden's more aggressive regulatory approach at EPA.
President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is searching for a long-term career official to lead the Bureau of Land Management on an acting basis through the first six months or more of next year.
While many say the Trump administration had a hands-off approach to regulating chemicals, experts expect a dramatic shift from President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration when it comes to toxic substances.
The incoming Biden administration is widely expected to undo President Trump's regulatory rollbacks on a range of water rules including stream and wetland protections, drinking water contamination, and the permitting of controversial energy and flood projects.
President-elect Joe Biden is filling out the top ranks of his White House staff, hiring a handful of longtime allies to be his top advisers.
President-elect Joe Biden may have to get creative if he wants his climate policies to survive — or avoid — scrutiny by a federal court system brimming with more than 200 Trump-appointed judges.
The last time President-elect Joe Biden was in the White House, many of the Obama administration's clean energy policies were derailed by a Republican Senate majority and lawsuits by a swath of red-state governors. Will it happen again?
President-elect Joe Biden's review teams at the Department of Energy and other agencies include a slew of clean energy and electric vehicle backers, as well as an occasional supporter of fossil fuel projects. How will they change energy policy?
Battles over President Trump's climate and energy actions could be stuck in legal limbo once President-elect Joe Biden steps into the Oval Office and begins paving the way for new standards on public land use and greenhouse gas emissions.
During his run for the White House, Joe Biden promised that on the first day of his presidency he would issue an executive order requiring that all public companies disclose both their climate risks and their output of greenhouse gas emissions.
Get ready for a sea change in the Justice Department's approach to environmental enforcement under the incoming Biden administration.
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged sweeping changes to the federal oil and gas program. But is his proposal feasible, and will it survive legal and political challenges?
With a new occupant in the White House, the National Park Service may get something it never had under President Trump: a permanent director.
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