Congratulations to @RepDebHaaland for being named to lead @Interior, and for becoming the 1st Native American cabinet member in US history. An excellent choice for the department, which oversees our nation's vast public lands & plays a major role working alongside tribes (thread)
.@RepDebHaaland has been a leading advocate for New Mexicans’ health, climate and wellbeing through her support of rules to #CutMethane waste and pollution from oil and gas
Under her stewardship, @Interior will have an opportunity to tackle methane emissions on public lands and ensure our nation’s resources serve the public
She's well positioned to address the West’s water challenges for the rural economy and the environment in ways that also build ecosystem resilience. We stand ready to support @RepDebHaaland as she works toward these goals (/thread)
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Outstanding news: President-elect Biden has selected @Michael_S_Regan to serve as EPA administrator! If you know him, I'm sure you're as thrilled as I am. A few reasons this is so encouraging...(thread)
.@Michael_S_Regan took the helm as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality in North Carolina during a difficult time in the agency’s history, after years of budget cutting and turmoil
He quickly restored morale and then solved big problems by respecting science and bringing together people with different views. That's how he's been so effective protecting public health and the environment in North Carolina's divided government
McCarthy, Granholm, Buttigieg: These are brilliant choices. All have the stature, experience and vision that America needs. We can call breathe a little easier. Thoughts on each (thread)
It's been reported that President-elect Biden has chosen @GinaNRDC to be America’s domestic climate advisor. The fact that we’ll have a new position overseeing national climate policy demonstrates that the incoming admin will pursue ambitious action...
...while also creating jobs and strengthening our economy. The fact that @GinaNRDC has been tapped for the job means we’ll have a leader who can make it happen
The window of opportunity to combat climate change has not closed. A decade of extraordinary innovation has made the greening of the global economy not only feasible but also likely. But we're going to need negative emission technologies, or NETs, to make it happen...(thread)
To stabilize the total atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other GHGs, the world will have to reach net negative emissions, or taking more GHGs out of the atmosphere than are being pumped into it. Achieving that through emission reductions alone will be extremely difficult
Getting to net negative emissions requires tech that actually removes CO2 from the atmosphere. That’s where negative emission technologies (NETs) come in. Not as a substitute for aggressive efforts to reduce GHGs but as a complement. Not a Plan B, but a critical part of Plan A