Biden Picks Former EPA Chief McCarthy as Climate Policy Czar

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama’s former EPA chief, to run a special White House office on climate change that will coordinate policy and elevate global warming to a top place in the executive office, three people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

McCarthy, who led the Environmental Protection Agency for nearly four years during Obama’s second term, was the driving force behind combating climate change through regulation, including his signature Clean Power Plan, which took a novel approach to limit greenhouse gas emissions but the Supreme Court blocked from going into force while legal challenges played out. Ultimately, President Donald Trump’s EPA repealed the regulation before it got underway.