Biden’s almost bullet-proof climate team

The president-elect is putting together a formidable group, partly subject to Senate approval, to spearhead top-priority policy area

After four years of backsliding by the Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden has announced an impressive team of veteran politicians, regulators and environmentalists in recent weeks to quickly revive US efforts to combat climate change, warning it is “the existential threat of our time”. Biden’s slate of nominees should be able to survive scrutiny by a Republican-controlled Senate, assuming the Democratic Party fails to win both seats in the Georgia runoff elections on 5 January, with his nominee for secretary of interior the probable exception. The two most controversial and likely most powerful members of his future climate team—former secretary of state John Kerry and former ad