Over the last week, Joe Biden has named his proposed “climate change” team. Former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm will be nominated as Secretary of Energy and would be the first woman in that position. Granholm was governor from 2003 to 2011 and served on Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008 to 2009. She called Biden’s climate change plan the “most robust ever.” As governor of Michigan, Granholm collaborated with Obama in trimming the wages and productivity of Michigan’s once dominant auto industry. During her tenure, Michigan’s industrial work force dropped from approximately 700,000 to 450,000 in 2009, and then increased to about 500,000 by the time she left office in 2011.
Michael Reagan, current Secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality and former activist of the Environmental Defense Fund, will be named as director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He would be the first African-American in that position. The North Carolina League of Conservation Voters supported the nomination.
Congresswoman Deb Halland of New Mexico will be named Secretary of the Interior. She would be the first Native American nominated to a cabinet position. She has been concerned with Native American rights as well as environmental and other issues in Congress.
These appointments follow that of Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation. All of these positions are relevant to the Malthusian climate change policies that Biden has pledged to adopt.