"Legates arguably could directly or indirectly influence the direction the assessment takes," said Rick Spinrad, who was NOAA's chief scientist under Obama. In the letter shared with ME, Evergreen Action's political director Maggie Thomas, co-founders Sam Ricketts and Bracken Hendricks, and policy fellow Becca Ellison urge the lawmakers to amend the bill to include reforms that will deploy greater public clean energy financing to "jumpstart" a clean energy economy. 4447 (116), Democrats released this week. — Trump tapped Katherine Crytzer this week to serve as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. When he left the presidential race, Governor Jay Inslee made his climate plan open source. Sam Ricketts is the director of Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s Washington, DC office, where he serves as the governor’s chief liaison with Congress, the federal government, and the National and Western Governors Associations. . ’s US policy and was an Urban Fellow in the Commissioner’s Office of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She also has a pending nomination before the Senate to be inspector general of the Tennessee Valley Authority. — "As Sally's remnants soak Southeast, Hurricane Teddy and new storm in Gulf of Mexico pose new threats," via The Washington Post. — "EPA bails on mining case after Minn. balks," via E&E News. Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda, implement an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change and create millions of jobs in a clean energy economy. Julian Brave Noisecat is a member of the Evergreen Advisory Board and Vice President of Policy & Strategy at Data For Progress. See Photos. Find your friends on Facebook. Avoiding climate catastrophe will mean undoing not just the damage caused by deregulation by the Trump administration but also decades of bipartisan attacks on the administrative capacity of executive agencies, which could be the biggest drivers of decarbonization. During a natural gas event Thursday, Brouillette said he'd stick with the "all-of-the-above" energy approach, while also noting continued roadblocks to building new energy infrastructure. The five companies are: CarbonCure Technologies, a technology company that removes carbon dioxide from concrete; Pachama, a nature-based carbon markets tech company; Redwood Materials, which is developing tech for recycling end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries and e-waste; Turntide Technologies, an energy efficiency motors company; and electric-truck startup Rivian, from which Amazon previously announced it would buy 100,000 electric delivery vans. Sam Ricketts is a senior fellow for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress. BAD FOR THE BRAND: More than 250 Indigenous, conservation and faith organizations signed onto a letter urging Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Hilcorp not to pursue fossil fuel development in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to withhold from bidding on any lease parcels that are offered in the Arctic refuge. Filling thousands of posts with talented candidates serious about tackling today’s crises—whether in 2021 or beyond—requires making government jobs something to be proud of, where people can try, fail, and experiment. She was joined by a spokesperson for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) who said in a statement, "Why would money meant to support struggling farmers go to Big Oil? “There’s no secret Google document that, if you accessed it, would tell you what the Biden administration would look like in 2021,” Hauser says. For example, the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats have called for Biden to drop Larry Summers as an adviser. Learn more. Send your tips, energy gossip and comments to [email protected]. Reminder: The Climate Pledge Fund is separate from Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos' $10 billion global climate initiative, which he announced earlier this year to fund scientists, activists or NGOs.