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Biden Calls Climate Change ‘Existential Threat of Our Time’

  • Introduces nominees for Energy, Interior, EPA at event
  • Promises to rejoin Paris climate accord, restore EPA
President-elect Joe Biden 

President-elect Joe Biden 

Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images 

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President-elect Joe Biden introduced on Saturday key members of the team he is assembling to fulfill his pledge to combat climate change, calling them brilliant and qualified.

Climate change is “the existential threat of our time,” Biden said, and the people he was nominating to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the departments of Energy, and Interior will be “ready on day one.”