“He will, I think, grasp the challenge of moving the transportation sector toward a net-zero emissions profile by 2050,” Mr. Podesta added. Mr. Buttigieg now stands as the first major member of Mr. Biden’s domestic climate change team, which the president-elect had hoped to roll out in its entirety this week. Mr. Biden’s first choice to head the agency was Mary D. Nichols, California’s top climate change regulator. person to be confirmed to a cabinet-level position in the Biden administration, but the first confirmed in any cabinet, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group that last month pressed Mr. Biden to appoint L.G.B.T.Q. community in the cabinet room will help President-elect Biden build back our nation better, stronger and more equal than before,” said Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2020 00:56 UTC