“President Biden is scheduled to travel to the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Finland from July 9-13. Mr Biden will head to Lithuania and Finland after meeting Mr Sunak as part of an overseas trip from July 9 to 13. It will be their first meeting since Vladimir Putin faced an attempted coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner forces. It comes just a month after the Prime Minister travelled to Washington for talks with the US President with Russia and Ukraine likely to feature prominently in their discussions. Her position would not need Senate confirmation.Joe Biden is to make a “mini-state visit” to Britain next week when he will meet King Charles and Rishi Sunak, the White House announced. Gina McCarthy, the EPA administrator during fromer US President Barack Obama's second term, will lead a new White House Office of Climate Policy, and serve as national climate adviser. If confirmed, she too would be the first Black American to hold the position since it was created more than half a century ago. The office oversees environmental reviews for virtually all major infrastructure projects and advises the president on major environmental issues. If confirmed, he would be the first Black American to run the agency.īrenda Mallory, an environmental attorney, will be Biden's nominee to direct the Council on Environmental Quality. Regan made a name for himself by pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities significantly affected by pollution. Michael Regan, North Carolina's top environmental regulator, has been nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since stepping down as governor, she has often spoken about the need to boldly rethink energy policy in light of climate change. Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan, has been tapped to be the next energy secretary.
If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first Native American to hold a cabinet position. The department has also wielded influence over the nation's tribes for generations. Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico has been picked to lead the Interior Department, which oversees the US's natural resources that include national parks and wildlife refuges.
The incoming president's decision to appoint an environmental team is in sharp contrast to the incumbent. Most notably, Biden promised to rejoin the Paris climate accord, which President Donald Trump abandoned during his term.
The nominees, he said, will "lead my administration's ambitious plan to address an existential threat of our time - climate change."īiden has vowed to reverse many of the current Trump administration's initiatives that boosted oil and gas production and rolled back regulations intended to protect the environment. "We literally have no time to waste … Just like we need to be a unified nation to respond to COVID-19, we need a unified national response to climate change."
"Folks, we're in a crisis," Biden said at an event in Wilmington, Delaware. US President-elect Joe Biden has announced key members of his environmental team, saying that his administration would make a unified response to climate change a priority.
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