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    2 Former Obama Officials Are Crucial To Biden's Sweeping Climate Plans

    The Biden administration will view climate change as an urgent crisis, and two former Obama Cabinet officials from Massachusetts will be key to taking on the challenge.
    by Scott Detrow Dec 18, 2020 6 minutes
    Then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks during a 2015 signing ceremony for an air quality agreement as then-Secretary of State John Kerry looks on. The two will be back together working on climate issues in the Biden administration.

    The fate of the Biden administration's ambitious climate goals — plans that, if fully implemented, would overhaul the United States' energy economy in the span of just 15 years — will largely rest in the hands of two longtime government officials who have obsessed on the topic for decades.

    President-elect Joe Biden this week named former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy as his national climate advisor. In that role, she'll be the stateside counterpart to former Secretary of State John Kerry, whom Biden tapped as his international climate envoy.

    The two Massachusetts natives spent the second term of the Obama administration pushing to change the trajectory of ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures. Both advanced or enacted unprecedented efforts to do just that, only to see the Trump administration swiftly disassemble their policies.

    McCarthy oversaw the first national standards for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court blocked those rules from going into effect, and then the Trump administration withdrew them.

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