President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Gina McCarthy as his domestic climate czar, tasking the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency chief with overseeing the new administration’s sweeping plans to overhaul the nation’s energy, agriculture and transportation systems and prepare for the hotter world to come. Kim Raff via Getty Images Gina McCarthy, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council, had led the Environmental Protection Agency in the Obama administration. President Barack Obama named her EPA administrator in 2013, a position she held until President Donald Trump took office in 2017. Every department in the Biden administration should be centering climate action and clean energy in their federal policies and investments. https://t.co/8D3HDP2Flm — Gina McCarthy (@GinaNRDC) December 7, 2020By selecting McCarthy, Biden appears to be preparing to implement his climate agenda through executive fiat and regulations.

Source: Huffington Post December 16, 2020 00:20 UTC