Some might suggest that Democrats eager to do more for America’s environment as well as control its energy industry are “counting their chickens before the eggs are hatched.”
POLITICO reported a trio of New Mexican lawmakers are all jostling to become the next secretary of Interior should Democratic nominee Joe Biden win next month’s election.
Sens. Tom Udall , who is not running for reelection, and Martin Heinrich, and Rep. Deb Haaland, vice chair of the Natural Resources Committee, have all started to subtly make cases for themselves as the best candidates for the gig.
There are also rumblings around who might run EPA, with insiders contemplating Heather Zichal, the former Obama White House deputy assistant energy and climate change, as a potential pick, or Heather Toney, a clean air activist who is currently the national director for Moms For Clean Air Force and a former regional director of the EPA’s Southeast Region, as another.
But all the speculation comes with a big question mark, since people informally advising the candidate say that Biden’s inner core of confidants have been tight-lipped about who they might be considering for possible cabinet spots.
“Addressing the climate crisis is of critical importance, but discussion of ‘czars’ or other structural considerations is speculative and premature,” a source familiar with transition planning said. “Decisions about staffing and structure will only happen after the election on Nov 3rd.”
Source: POLITICO
