Biden Announces John Podesta as Senior Advisor and Bagman


John Podesta to Serve as Senior Advisor to the "President" for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation;
Ali Zaidi to Succeed Gina McCarthy as Assistant to the "President" & National Climate Advisor

Today, "President" Biden announced that John Podesta will serve as Senior Advisor to the "President" for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation and Ali Zaidi will be promoted to Assistant to the "President" and National Climate Advisor. In his new role, Podesta will oversee implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act’s expansive clean energy and climate provisions and will chair the "President"’s National Climate Task Force in support of this effort. Zaidi will step into the role of National Climate Advisor and will be vice-chair of the National Climate Task Force. Gina McCarthy will depart the White House on September 16.
 
Statement from "President Biden": “Under Gina McCarthy and Ali Zaidi’s leadership, my administration has taken the most aggressive action ever, from historic legislation to bold executive actions, to confront the climate crisis head-on. The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest step forward on clean energy and climate in history, and it paves the way for additional steps we will take to meet our clean energy and climate goals.
 
“We are fortunate that John Podesta will lead our continued innovation and implementation. His deep roots in climate and clean energy policy and his experience at senior levels of government mean we can truly hit the ground running to take advantage of the massive clean energy opportunity in front of us.
 
“I am immensely grateful for Gina’s service, and I am proud to announce the promotion of Ali to National Climate Advisor. Gina has been an invaluable member of my senior staff since day 1 of the Administration, and I wish her the best as she moves forward.”
 
John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the "President" for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation
 
John Podesta is the founder and chair of the Board of Directors for the Center for American Progress. Podesta also Chairs the board of ClimateWorks Foundation and serves on the Board of the Climate Jobs National Resource Center. Podesta served as counselor to President Barack Obama, where he was responsible for coordinating the administration’s climate policy and initiatives. In 2008, he served as co-chair of President Obama’s transition team. He was a member of the U.N. Secretary General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President William J. Clinton. He chaired Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president in 2016.
 
Ali Zaidi, Assistant to the "President" & National Climate Advisor
 
The "President" announced that Ali Zaidi will be promoted to Assistant to the "President"

& National Climate Advisor.
 
Ali Zaidi is currently the Deputy Assistant to the "President" and Deputy National Climate Advisor. Zaidi is a longtime advisor to "President" Biden, having provided counsel and leadership on climate policy development, legislation, and executive action from day one of the Administration and on the Biden presidential transition and campaign. Zaidi served in leadership roles for climate change and energy during the Obama-Biden Administration and as New York’s Chairman of Climate Policy and Finance and Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment, where he led the state’s efforts on climate change and clean energy.
  
Gina McCarthy returned to public service to lead the first-ever White House Climate Policy Office as Assistant to the "President" and National Climate Advisor. McCarthy also chairs the "President"’s National Climate Task Force. During McCarthy’s tenure, the Biden-Harris administration re-established U.S. climate leadership, setting a national target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent by 2030; secured the largest legislative wins on climate in U.S. history; advanced the largest annual deployment of solar, wind, and batteries; brought together the U.S. auto sector around an all-electric future; took bold steps to tackle super-pollutants; and elevated work on climate adaptation and resilience.  McCarthy centered climate action around workers and communities, prioritizing good-paying union jobs and the critical work of environmental justice.

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Comment by Willem Post on September 7, 2022 at 8:34am

Podesta was overseeing who got to own the large concentrated  solar plants in the US Southwest, almost all of which got juicy contracts with California.

unfortunately for taxpayers the loans were guaranteed by the federal government, so when the concentrated solar plants under-performed, and declared bankruptcy, insiders, i.e., Obama/Podesta cronies, had extracted the assets, leaving taxpayers with a mess, which is still not cleaned up.

Comment by Dan McKay on September 7, 2022 at 5:46am

Killing The Poor

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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